Friday, February 28, 2025

#news - Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 28, 2025: Democracy Now

28 February 2025

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#investment #finance - Stocks Rise Ahead of PCE; China Vows Tariff Tête-à-Tête | Bloomberg Brief 02/28/2025

28 February 2025

Equity futures rise after a tumultuous week for risk amid tariff confusion and as Nvidia began to lose its shine for investors. China vows retaliation against President Trump's levies after he announced an additional 10% tariff on the nation.

Cayla Seder of State Street expects the turbulence to remain high, but thinks the foundations underlying the market are still strong.

Europe provides cheap options due to being less well served from a capital market standpoint, says Park Square's Robin Doumar. “Bloomberg Brief” delivers the market news, data and analysis you need to set your agenda.

#USA - Investigation launched after Gene Hackman and his wife found dead: ABC News

28 February 2025

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, was found deceased alongside her husband and their dog, with her body showing signs of decomposition.

#USA #AI - Amazon debuts AI-powered Alexa voice assistant after delays | REUTERS

27 February 2025

Amazon has launched an AI-powered version of its Alexa voice assistant after repeated development delays. Dubbed Alexa+, the new bot is free for Amazon Prime members, and $19.99 per month for others. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #amazon #alexavoiceassistant #artificialintelligence

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#F1 - Why the rain didn't dampen Sainz's parade - F1 Testing Day 2 Snapshot: Autosport

27 February 2025

Alex Kalinauckas and Ben Hunt return to report from Day 2 of F1’s 2025 test at the Bahrain International Circuit. Alex discusses the three teams that impressed him most, featuring McLaren’s eye-catching long-run pace, Aston Martin’s newfound consistency, and Williams topping the lap and timing sheets via Carlos Sainz.

There’s also a reaction to Max Verstappen’s response to the booing he faced at F175 and the top teams' lack of preparation when the rain fell on Thursday morning.

#f1 #sainz #bahrain


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#Russia #Trump #AI - Donald Trump Jr. is heard praising Russia in AI-generated audio clip • FRANCE 24 English

28 February 2025

A fabricated audio clip is going viral on social media, in which Donald Trump Jr. allegedly voices his support for Russia on his "Triggered with Don Jr." podcast. In the clip, 

US President Donald Trump's son appears to say that "the US should have sent weapons to Russia, not Ukraine". We debunk these claims in this edition of Truth or Fake.

#Trump Jr. #fakenews #Russia

#investment #finance - Tesla loses $1 trillion status as shares tank: TheStreet

26 February 2025

Elon Musk’s personal fortune has also taken a huge hit. Transcript: Conway Gittens: It’s been a rough start of the year for Tesla shareholders. The stock is down roughly 25 percent of year-to-date and it’s only the end of February. The selling has been so intense that the company’s stock has been kicked out of the rarified club of companies with $1 trillion or more in stock market value. As Tesla’s biggest individual shareholder, Elon Musk’s worth has taken a hit as well. He’s down $75 billion since the start of the year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tesla shares make up more than half of all his wealth. Nevertheless, Musk is still the world’s richest man. Tesla’s latest headaches are two-fold. Chinese customers are less than enthused with a limited self-driving function upgrade that they’ve been waiting for for a long time. Tesla drivers told Reuters that Musk’s latest upgrade isn’t living up to promises in moving the ball closer towards a fully autonomous driving system. That is a competitive problem for Tesla as China’s homegrown EV makers are offering partial self-driving functionality at a fraction of the cost - if any - when compared to Tesla. The other headache is coming from a different part of the world. All across Europe, Tesla just doesn’t have the cache it used to. Sales on the continent were down 45 percent in January - hitting a two-year low., Compare that to total industrywide EV sales, which jumped 37 percent. In Germany Tesla registrations slumped to their lowest in 3-1/2 years, while in France they hit 2-1/2 year low. In the UK. China’s BYD outsold Tesla for the first time ever. All of these are ominous signs for a company that posted disappointing global sales in the fourth quarter despite price cuts in some markets.

#teslastock #elonmusk #tesla

#F1 - Is this McLaren driver Lando Norris' year? The Inside Line

28 February 2025

McLaren’s Lando Norris strides into pre-season testing focused, with the Brit determined to build on a 2024 campaign that saw dominant wins and natural mistakes from a maiden title charge. But, for Norris, getting his head right was the most important element. Norris finished runner-up in 2024, his highest-ever placing, but 63 points behind Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen, who lifted a fourth-straight world title.

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#USA #WhiteHouse #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer - Lawrence: Trump humiliated again on the world stage by British PM Starmer after France's Macron: MSNBC

28 February 2025

During Donald Trump’s meeting and press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell says that Trump was “humiliated by his own ignorance.”

Lawrence dissects both events and shares why he hopes the White House press corps took “performance notes” after The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg and British journalist Robert Peston pressed Trump on his lies.

#WhiteHouse #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer

Thursday, February 27, 2025

#news - Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 27, 2025: Democracy Now

27 February 2025

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

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#Ukraine - Life in occupied Ukraine: Donbas - The Global Jigsaw podcast, BBC World Service

26 February 2025

Russia’s land grab playbook aimed at erasing local identity and russifying “liberated” territories. Three years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we ask what life is like in areas under Russian control. Part 1 looks at “ripe for russification” Crimea, which was annexed 11 years ago. Part 2 focuses on Moscow’s subsequent efforts to assert itself in the separatist East. And in Part 3 we explore the Kremlin’s challenges in subjugating the newly occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. As time passes, the uncertainty over the future of what Ukraine calls “temporarily occupied territories” grows bigger.

 Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea - The Global Jigsaw podcast: BBC World Service


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The War in Donbass (also known as the War in Ukraine or War in Eastern Ukraine) is an ongoing armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, together commonly called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government Prior to a change of the top leadership in August, the separatists were largely led by Russian citizensRussian paramilitaries are reported to make up from 15% to 80% of the combatants.


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Aug 7, 2021 — On August 8, 2008, Russian forces began the invasion of Georgia, marking the start of Europe's first twenty-first century war.


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#Russia - Russia and Belarus Flex Muscles | Eastern Express: TVP World

26 February 2025

On this episode of Eastern Express we look into the Union State of Russia and Belarus and their preparations for the Zapad 2025 drills. We explore the military drills and their geopolitical implications. Watch as we uncover the theatrical nature of this upcoming event.

#USA #DonaldTrump #Starmer - LIVE: Starmer and Trump meet at the White House: Times Radio

27 February 2025

Keir Starmer has arrived at the White House in Washington DC to speak about security guarantees for Ukraine with Donald Trump.

#movies #trailers - "Holland" - Official Trailer (2025) Nicole Kidman Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill

25 February 2025

Check out the Holland trailer for this upcoming thriller movie starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, and Gael García Bernal. In this wildly unpredictable thriller, Nicole Kidman is the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her friendly colleague (Gael García Bernal) become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems. Holland is produced by Kate Churchill, p.g.a., Peter Dealbert, Nicole Kidman, p.g.a., Per Saari, p.g.a. The film is written by Andrew Sodroski. Holland, directed by Mimi Cave, streams globally on Prime Video on March 27, 2025. #Holland #IGN #PrimeVideo

#investment #finance - UK's Rolls-Royce hits record high as mid-term goals raised | REUTERS

27 February 2025

Britain's Rolls-Royce lifted its mid-term targets to reflect its confidence in future profit growth after a plan to improve engines and cut costs helped its results beat expectations, pushing its shares up 15%.

#News #Reuters #Newsfeed #rollsroyce #transport #costcutting

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Rolls-Royce is to hand £1.2bn to shareholders after the engineering giant’s chief executive smashed his profit targets two years early.


Tufan Erginbilgic on Thursday said the business was moving “with pace and intensity” as he stormed past a milestone previously pegged for 2027.


#F1 - Did F1 75 LIVE deliver what it promised? The Inside Line

27 February 2025

London’s O2 arena was the centre of the motorsport world last week, with Formula One putting on a spectacular group launch event to celebrate its milestone 75th anniversary season in style. The show itself was a feast for the eyes, and ears, with sonic chameleon mgk up first - before British comedian Jack Whitehall took over as host, though he had no troubles roasting the sport.

Watch the video, and tell us what you think in the comments…

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