Cameroonian pivot Joel Embiid crowned NBA MVP, making him second African player to do so
It’s no accident that Philadelphia has found its way back to the top thanks to the arrival of “JoJo” (one of his nicknames). The Yaoundé, Cameroon native embodies the franchise’s long-term strategy, the “Trust the Process” project launched at the dawn of the 2013-2014 season by then-GM Sam Hinkie.
US Federal Reserve expected to hike interest rates, hint at pause in 14-month tightening cycle
Inflation has been falling only slowly, leaving some Fed officials unconvinced that interest rates have moved high enough to truly control it; yet the economy itself appears to be weakening, a trio of recent bank failures has raised concern about broader trouble in the financial sector, and the unsettled nature of debt limit talks between Republicans in Congress and the Democratic-controlled White House could trigger an acute crisis if the US government is forced to stop paying its bills.
Vaccine genocide: ‘In public health, it’s important to be honest, Pfizer should have reported declining vaccine efficacy’
Pfizer contracted Acuitas Therapeutics to conduct animal studies, which found LNPs from Covid-19 shots rapidly travelled to other areas, including the brain, eyes, heart, ovaries and other organs… A number of neurological injuries have been reported following Covid-19 shots, including ischemic stroke, Bell’s palsy, tinnitus and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Beauty and the beast: How US and UK health officials promoted and hawked death wrapped in Covid vaccines
US and UK Secretly Agreed to Hide Vaccine Reactions. In the days leading up to the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, US and UK health officials entered into a “mutual confidentiality agreement” to keep vaccine adverse events under wraps.
How the AI ogres Hollywood writers and studios fed in science fiction have returned to eat them up
In Hollywood, AI is helping to erase wrinkles from an aging performer’s face, clean up an actor’s liberal use of f-bombs and draw animated short films with the aid of OpenAI’s Dall-E, which can create realistic images. Some writers are experimenting with creating scripts.
Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace as at least four incidents are recorded every week
The violence has erupted from coast to coast and has sparked by a range of motives. Murder-suicides and domestic violence; gang retaliation; school shootings; and workplace vendettas. All have taken the lives of four or more people at once since January 1.
Sudan’s warring military factions agree to new seven-day ceasefire as gunfire rocks capital Khartoum
South Sudan’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that mediation championed by its president, Salva Kiir, had led both sides to agree a weeklong truce from Thursday to May 11 and to name envoys for peace talks. The current ceasefire was due to expire on Wednesday.
