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CNN  —  Armed assailants tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss in Paris, police said, in a brazen daytime attack that was caught on camera. Tuesday morning’s attack in Paris’s 11th district is the latest in a string of violent incidents targeting figures in France’s burgeoning crypto industry. Four masked men attacked the daughter, her partner and their child in the French capital, police sources told French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Video footage shows three masked men jump out of a white van. The woman and her partner fight the attackers and loud screams…

CNN  —  No one knows the dangers of playing in the NFL more than former quarterback Alex Smith. In 2018, while playing for the Washington Commanders, the veteran signal-caller suffered a gruesome leg injury which would turn his entire life upside down. The severity of the injury was such that he underwent multiple surgeries to treat a spiral and compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula. But then came the real battle. Smith subsequently contracted sepsis – a life-threatening response by the body to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death – and nearly had…

The keffiyeh and watermelons are antisemitic symbols.  That’s according to training that the New York Police Department received in January from outfits closely associated with the pro-Israel community. The US magazine Jewish Currents, which obtained details about the training, questioned the focus of the presentation.  “They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights – and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself – with antisemitism,” Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that battles antisemitism and its weaponisation, told Jewish Currents. “None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.”  Barely a week goes…

May 14, 2025, 01:52 AM ETAngel City defender Savy King was recovering from heart surgery following her collapse on the field during a National Women’s Soccer League match on Friday night.King was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following the medical event in the second half of Angel City’s match against the Utah Royals. Doctors who evaluated King discovered a heart abnormality, and she underwent surgery Tuesday.”She is now resting and recovering surrounded by her family, and her prognosis is excellent,” the team said in a statement.King’s family released a joint statement thanking the team’s medical staff, King’s…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the mayor on Wednesday rejected accusations that the vandals have won.Statues and monuments to the 18th century naval officer are common in Australia and are often defaced by opponents of Britain’s settlement of the country without a treaty with its Indigenous people. In 1770, then Lt. Cook charted the Australian east coast where Sydney would become the first British colony on the continent.The granite and bronze monument to the master navigator and…

The Sony Group Corp. logo displayed on a screen at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (Ceatec) in Chiba, Japan, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSony Group shares rose over 2% on Wednesday in volatile trading after the Japanese conglomerate announced a share buyback of up to 250 billion yen ($1.7 billion) and operating income beat estimates.   Operating income for the last three months of the financial year came in at 203.6 billion yen, beating mean analyst estimates from LSEG of 192.2 billion yen, though it was down 11% from the same period last year. In the…

A court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization and sentenced him to five years in prison.Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, has rejected the charges as politically motivated. The case against him is part of the monthslong crackdown on Kremlin critics and rights activists that the government ratcheted up after invading Ukraine in 2022. After a judge of the Basmanny District Court delivered the verdict, Melkonyants, 44, told several dozen supporters and journalists from the glass defendant’s…

Facebook Tweet Email Link You may recognize 2024’s 20 most popular baby names — nearly all of them have appeared in the rankings before. Liam and Olivia were the most popular baby names in 2024, a position both names have held since 2019, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA), which releases the yearly name rankings. Since 2019, both the top 10 boys’ and girls’ rankings have remained fairly steady — Noah reliably comes in second for boys, and Emma hovers around the top three for girls. The order varies slightly from year to year, but no new names appeared…

Immigration officers at Gatwick’s border control. Stefan Rousseau – PA Images | PA Images | Getty Images British businesses are warning the U.K. government that plans to tighten immigration rules on foreign workers — and to instead train and recruit more British personnel — will lead to labor shortages in key sectors.The British government on Monday announced plans to cut migration to the U.K., tightening the rules on who can come to work, study and live in the country.The proposals raise English-language requirements for migrants, as well as the skills and level of education they need to obtain work visas.…

IMOLA, Italy (AP) — Here’s a guide that tells you what you need to know about Sunday’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. It’s the seventh round of the 2025 Formula 1 season.How to watch the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on TV— In the U.S., on ESPN.— Other countries are listed here. What is the Emilia-Romagna GP schedule?— Friday: First and second practice sessions.— Saturday: Third practice and qualifying.— Sunday: Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, 63 laps on the 4.91-kilometer (3.05-mile) Imola circuit. Starts at 9 a.m. ET (1300 GMT).Where is the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix taking place?The Imola circuit — officially the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e…