Winds shred Southern Plains; California set to get more snow

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In California, the National Weather Service said winter storms will continue moving into the state through Wednesday after residents got a brief break from severe weather Sunday. Parts of the Northeast that have seen little snow this winter were under a winter storm warning. The weather service forecast strong winds Monday in Kansas and Missouri, with gusts topping 60 mph (96 kph). Initial reports suggested damage there was limited to fallen trees or shingles torn from buildings, said Rafal Ogorek, a meteorologist in the Chicago office of the National Weather Service. Boston could get 5 inches and a messy Tuesday morning commute, according to the weather service.
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Catching spies on Wikipedia

“Information Warfare and Wikipedia”, a recent report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Center for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM), analyzes how state-sponsored organizations can infiltrate and modify high-profile Wikipedia pages. Àlex Hinojo, an editor for the Catalan-language Wikipedia site, described a long-running argument over the place names used in the Spanish-language Wikipedia site for some Spanish municipalities in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. The Spanish-language Wikipedia site uses the place names established by the Royal Spanish Academy and the National Statistics Institute. The most sophisticated attacks have been launched on the English-language Wikipedia site, but other sites have been targeted as well, said Santiago de Viana, an editor for the Spanish-language site. Wikipedia and the invasion of UkraineThe “Information Warfare and Wikipedia” report used the English-language Wikipedia page for the invasion of Ukraine as a case study, and examined 86 accounts that edited the page and were subsequently blocked from editing.

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This is Casa Cruz, the most expensive restaurant in New York City

Most of these clubs charge between $4,000 and $5,000 for an annual membership, but Casa Cruz is different. According to restauranteur Juan Santa Cruz, Casa Cruz’s 51-year-old Chilean founder, the answer is yes, absolutely. Weston WellsIn 2004, he opened the first Casa Cruz in Buenos Aires. Now, Casa Cruz is one of London’s finest restaurants, and a favorite of celebrities like Elton John, Mick Jagger and Prince Harry. It’s still the most important city in the most important country in the world,” Cruz says.

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Ex-convict who abused college women gets 60 years in prison

Lawrence “Larry” Ray, 63, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Lewis J. Liman. “Through psychological terror and manipulation, he convinced them what they knew to be true was in fact false,” Liman said. Ray was convicted at trial last April of charges including racketeering, conspiracy, forced labor and sex trafficking. Another victim said in court that he fears Ray will find a way to harm him from prison. The judge said Ray’s attempt to “extinguish lives” had failed and the sentence he announced will ensure Ray will never again harm someone else.

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Evangelicals for Lula?

Evangelical supporters of Lula da Silva pray during a political rally on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, in September 2022. Agua Blanca is an oasis for believers who voted for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - popularly known as “Lula” - in the first round of Brazil’s elections. Lula da Silva receives a prayer from David Mikami, 9, during the presentation of a 'Letter to the Evangelicals', during a campaign event in São Paulo, on October 19, 2002. The evangelical vote for Lula is concentrated in the northeast of the country. When I vote, I don’t think only of myself.”Many young evangelicals such as Quintinho and Vilela were able to attend university thanks to the quotas that Lula established for disadvantaged youth during his presidency.

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Carl Bildt, ex-PM of Sweden: ‘I don’t think we should underestimate the desperation of Putin. A nuclear attack is not something we can exclude’

Until that happens, however, he warns that “I don’t think we should underestimate the desperation of Putin,” whom he sees as capable of ordering a nuclear attack imminently. But I don’t think we should underestimate the desperation of Putin. And since then, he has committed himself so heavily to this particular war that I don’t think the conflict will end until his regime collapses. They’ve had complaints against us that they don’t think that we have been sufficiently vigilant in fighting terrorism. This is an arrangement very much like what we’ve seen in other Nordic countries.

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Explainer: A practical guide to the US midterms

The midterm elections focus primarily on selecting candidates for seats in the Senate and House of Representatives. The distribution of the Senate and the House of RepresentativesThe vote will largely focus on the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives has 435 seats, of which 220 are held by Democrats and 212 by Republicans. Governorships Thirty-six US states are electing governors Currently Democratic governor Currently Republican governor EL PAÍS Gobernadores Thirty-six US states are electing governors. In Oklahoma, a historically Republican stronghold, the Democrat Joy Hofmeister has managed to inch close to Republican Governor Kevin Stitt.

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Big Tech companies to cut costs after $77 billion in profits evaporate

These are not companies that are doing poorly – Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook) and Amazon earned a combined $243 billion in 2022. From one year to the next, $77 billion in profits evaporated. Alphabet saw its advertising revenue decline for the second time in its history (the first was early in the Covid-19 pandemic). The company posted a loss of $12.7 billion in 2022 after four consecutive years of record profits and earnings of $11.8 billion in 2021. Due to this setback, Apple’s 2022 revenue grew by only 2.4%, and its profit fell by 5%.

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Jury: Musk didn’t defraud investors with 2018 Tesla tweets

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his security detail depart the company’s local office in Washington, U.S. January 27, 2023. A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unraveled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. The nine-member jury reached its verdict after less that two hours of deliberation following a three-week trial. It represents a major vindication for Musk, who spent about eight hours on the witness stand defending his motives for the August 2018 tweets at the center of the trial. Not long after the verdict came down, Musk took to Twitter — the bully pulpit he now owns — to celebrate.

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