The case has also raised broader questions about the state of education in the country. The influence of money and connections in gaining access to quality education has long been a concern, and Zhong Moyan's arrest has highlighted the need for greater transparency and accountability in the school admissions process.
The opening of A shares saw a surge in trading volume surpassing 200 billion RMB within the first 10 minutes of trading today, setting a new record and signaling a strong start for the day's trading activities.The surge in sales activity is evident in both the new and resale property segments of the Beijing market. New property developments, including high-rise residential buildings, luxury condominiums, and mixed-use complexes, have been selling like hotcakes, with developers reporting record sales figures. At the same time, the resale market has also been bustling, with existing homeowners seeing their properties attract multiple offers and sell quickly.
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Over the past few seasons, Atlanta has been steadily climbing the ranks in their domestic league and making a name for themselves in international competitions. Their style of play, characterized by fast-paced attacks and solid defense, has caught the attention of football enthusiasts around the world. With Lukman leading the charge, the team has demonstrated time and time again that they have what it takes to compete with the top teams in Europe.By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MATTHEW BROWN Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way — a phenomenon known as “ mine subsidence ” that poses a threat to people and property. That’s what searchers in Westmoreland County, just southeast of Pittsburgh, fear led to the disappearance of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard . Pollard and a young granddaughter were looking for a lost cat when she went missing Monday evening. At about the same time, a sinkhole appeared roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from where she had parked her car, in an area above an old coal mine. The granddaughter was found safe inside the car hours later, while the difficult and potentially dangerous search for Pollard continues. Mine subsidence has caused billions of dollars in damage in areas of the U.S. where mining once took place. In Pennsylvania alone, coal was mined in nearly half of the state’s 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind hazards that officials say can arise at any time. The Marguerite Mine that authorities believe resulted in the sinkhole was last operated in 1952 by the H.C. Frick Coke Co., according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The coal seam in the area is about 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the surface. The state Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene when the search concludes to see if the sinkhole was indeed caused by mine subsidence, spokesperson Neil Shader said. There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines in the U.S. — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Related Articles National News | Two students wounded and gunman dead after shooting at Northern California elementary school National News | Dog food recalled in 7 states for salmonella risk after puppy litter gets sick, FDA says National News | White House says at least 8 US telecom firms, dozens of nations impacted by China hacking campaign National News | Powell: Fed’s independence from politics is vital to its interest rate decisions National News | United Healthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York In many cases their owners simply walked away from coal or precious metals mines when they became uneconomical to operate and declared bankruptcy, leaving behind safety hazards and costly pollution cleanups that public agencies must handle. Old mines pose myriad dangers , with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines. Mine shafts can extend hundreds of feet beneath the surface and often are unmarked. State and federal agencies have sealed off many old mines. But more are discovered every year and officials have yet to conduct basic risk analyses on most of the abandoned mines on federal land. Besides the safety hazards, millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flows daily from contaminated mine sites without being treated. Rubinkam reported form northeastern Pennsylvania and Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
Liverpool boss Arne Slot hailed “special” Mohamed Salah after seeing him fire the Premier League leaders to the brink of victory at Newcastle. The Reds ultimately left St James’ Park with only a point after Fabian Schar snatched a 3-3 draw at the end of a pulsating encounter, but Salah’s double – his 14th and 15th goals of the season – transformed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead before the Switzerland defender’s late intervention. The 32-year-old Egypt international’s future at Anfield remains a topic of debate with his current contract running down. Asked about Salah’s future, Slot said: “It’s difficult for me to predict the long-term future, but the only thing I can expect or predict is that he is in a very good place at the moment. Two goals and an assist for Mo tonight 👏 pic.twitter.com/tMXidgeA0P — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 4, 2024 “He plays in a very good team that provides him with good opportunities and then he is able to do special things. “And what makes him for me even more special is that in the first hour or before we scored to make it 1-1, you thought, ‘He’s not playing his best game today’, and to then come up with a half-hour or 45 minutes – I don’t know how long it was – afterwards with an assist, two goals, having a shot on the bar, being a constant threat, that is something not many players can do if they’ve played the first hour like he did. “That is also what makes him special. If you just look at the goals, his finish is so clinical. He’s a special player, but that’s what we all know.” Salah did indeed endure a quiet opening 45 minutes by his standards and it was the Magpies who went in at the break a goal to the good after Alexander Isak’s stunning 35th-minute finish. Slot said: “The shot from Isak, I don’t even know if Caoimh (keeper Caoimhin Kelleher) saw that ball, as hard as it was.” Salah set up Curtis Jones to level five minutes into the second half and after Anthony Gordon has restored the hosts’ lead, levelled himself from substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 68th-minute cross. He looked to have won it with a fine turn and finish – his ninth goal in seven league games – seven minutes from time, only for Schar to pounce from a tight angle in the 90th minute. Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe was delighted with the way his team took the game to the Reds four days after their disappointing 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace. Howe, who admitted his surprise that VAR official Stuart Attwell had not taken a dimmer view of a Virgil van Dijk shoulder barge on Gordon, said: “It’s mixed emotions. “Part of me feels we should have won it – a big part of me – but part of me is pleased we didn’t lose either because it was such a late goal for us. “Generally, I’m just pleased with the performance. There was much more attacking output, a much better feel about the team. “There was much better energy, and it was a really good performance against, for me, the best team we’ve played so far this season in the Premier League, so it was a big jump forward for us.”Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . getty Both cybercriminals and digital spies sponsored by nation states are using artificial intelligence to add “volume and impact” to their attacks , according to a British government minister. On Tuesday, in an annual review issued by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) , an arm of U.K. signals intelligence agency GCHQ , minister for intergovernmental relations Pat McFadden warned that AI was “transforming the cyber threat” facing the western world . The NCSC went on to warn that generative AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT models or Meta’s Llama “will make it harder for defenders to identify social engineering attacks without the development of new mitigations.” Already, cybercriminals have been using generative AI to write phishing emails . The same technology can be used as a reconnaissance tool to quickly identify vulnerable computers and help hackers exploit them, the agency added. There is another side to AI technology, however, in defense. In recent months, Google has shown how its AI can now find software vulnerabilities , helping defenders patch apps and protect users. In one recent example, Google said AI helped find 26 vulnerabilities in the widely-used website encryption code library known as OpenSSL. It represented “a milestone for automated vulnerability finding,” Google’s open source security team wrote. The future looks set to be an AI vs. AI world , with humans pushing the buttons of their digital helpers. Got a tip on surveillance or cybercrime? Get me on Signal at +1 929-512-7964 . FBI Is Investigating Exxon Lobbyist Over Hack Of Environmentalist Emails, Sources Say Getty Images Reuters reports on an FBI investigation into whether or not a lobbyist firm working for Exxon Mobil was involved in a hack-and-leak operation targeting hundreds of the oil company’s critics . Per the report, citing one of three sources familiar with the matter, U.S. authorities believe the DCI Group , a public affairs and lobbying company working for Exxon back in 2015, had compiled a list of targets and provided them to an Israeli private detective, who then outsourced the hacking. DCI later leaked some of the hacked materials to the media , according to Reuters. Stories You Have To Read Today As first reported by Wired , the Biden administration has imposed new controls designed to prevent China getting ahead in the AI race . The new rules prohibit sales of certain kinds of chips to China , while adding more than 100 Chinese companies to a restricted trade list. The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against Evolv Technologies, saying the company made false claims about how effective its AI screening tech was at detecting weapons on a person. The company has sold to thousands of schools, some of whom may now be able to cancel their contracts because of Evolv’s settlement with the FTC. Per the FTC, among various overstatements about its ability to uncover weapons being brought onto customer premises, “Evolv’s Express scanners reportedly failed to detect a seven-inch knife brought into a school in October 2022 that was used to stab a student . Afterwards, school officials increased the system’s sensitivity settings, prompting a 50% false alarm rate.” Winner of the Week Sixgen , a government contractor for offensive and defensive cyber services, has announced its fourth acquisition in a year, confirming plans to merge with competing company Kyrus Tech . The deal follows hot on the footsteps of its previous acquisition of Boldend , a Founders Fund-backed startup which had made headlines for developing hacks to spy on WhatsApp . “Kyrus brings highly specialized capabilities that align with Sixgen’s vision of building a formidable ecosystem of solutions for the modern digital warrior,” said Jack Wilmer, CEO of Sixgen. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Loser of the Week A suspected ransomware coder Mikhail Matveev , who also goes by the online moniker Wazawaka , has been arrested in Russia . Wazawaka had previously been linked to some of the most notorious ransomware crews including LockBit and Conti. It’s claimed he also once published his FBI Most Wanted poster on a t-shirt. More On Forbes Editorial Standards Forbes Accolades Join The Conversation One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. 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All three major US indices scored records, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing above 45,000 for the first time. "The market at this point is looking for excuses to go up, and there's not really anything that might work against that narrative," said Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers. "Over the last couple of days, it's managed to ignore all sorts of inconvenient things and decided that the situation in France doesn't matter for them," Sosnick said of the stock market. "The situation in Korea doesn't matter." South Korea's stock market fell less than feared and the won rebounded from earlier losses after President Yoon Suk Yeol swiftly reversed a decision to impose martial law. In Europe, Paris stocks managed to advance as France's government faced looming no-confidence votes. Late Wednesday in Paris, French lawmakers voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, pushing the country further into political uncertainty. For the first time in over sixty years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the incumbent government, approving a no-confidence motion that had been proposed by the hard left but which crucially was backed by the far-right headed by Marine Le Pen. "Political turmoil in both France and South Korea provide a uncertain backdrop for global markets, with the likely removal of both Barnier and Yoon bringing the potential for both countries to find a fresh direction," said Joshua Mahony, chief market analyst at Scope Markets. Thomas Mathews, head of Asia-Pacific markets at Capital Economics, said the losses in Seoul could have been "much worse" had the president not aborted his plan. "Rarely does a combined sell-off in a country's stocks, bonds and currency feel like a relief rally," he said. Oil prices turned lower after surging around 2.5 percent Tuesday, mainly after the United States sanctioned 35 companies and ships it accused of involvement with Iran's "shadow fleet" illicitly selling Iranian oil to foreign markets. Major producers at the OPEC+ grouping led by Saudi Arabia and Russia were set to meet Thursday to discuss extending output limits. Back in New York, major indices were led by the Nasdaq, which piled on 1.3 percent to finish at a third straight record. Wednesday's gains came after payroll firm ADP said US private-sector hiring in November came in at a lower-than-expected 146,000 jobs, while a survey from the Institute for Supply Management showed weaker sentiment than expected in the services sector. But the lackluster data boosts expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this month. At a New York conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell refrained from tipping his hand, but he "didn't say anything that would scare the market," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare. O'Hare noted that Wednesday's gains were led by large tech names such as Nvidia and Microsoft, which are major AI players. The boost followed strong results from Salesforce, which was the biggest gainer in the Dow with an 11 percent jump. - Key figures around 2150 GMT - New York - Dow: UP 0.7 percent at 45,014.04 (close) New York - S&P 500: UP 0.6 percent at 6,086.49 (close) New York - Nasdaq Composite: UP 1.3 percent at 19,735.12 (close) London - FTSE 100: DOWN 0.3 percent at 8,335.81 (close) Paris - CAC 40: UP 0.7 percent at 7,303.28 (close) Frankfurt - DAX: UP 1.1 percent at 20,232.14 (close) Seoul - Kospi Index: DOWN 1.4 percent at 2,464.00 (close) Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 0.1 percent at 39,276.39 (close) Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: FLAT at 19,742.46 (close) Shanghai - Composite: DOWN 0.4 percent at 3,364.65 (close) Euro/dollar: UP at $1.0510 from $1.0509 on Tuesday Pound/dollar: UP at $1.2702 from $1.2673 Dollar/yen: UP at 150.56 yen from 149.60 yen Euro/pound: DOWN at 82.71 from 82.92 pence Brent North Sea Crude: DOWN 1.8 percent at $72.31 per barrel West Texas Intermediate: DOWN 2.0 percent at $68.54 per barrel burs-jmb/jgc
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As the sun began to set on the military training camp, casting a warm glow over the scene, the echoes of the ceremony lingered in the air, a reminder of the solemn and powerful moment that had taken place. The new recruits, now officially recognized as soldiers of their country, stood tall and proud, ready to embrace the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead on their journey to becoming true defenders of freedom and integrity.With rumors suggesting that Kojima Productions may have been working on a sequel to "Death Stranding," fans have been eagerly awaiting an official announcement to confirm their hopes. If the predictions hold true, TGA could very well be the stage for the grand reveal of "Death Stranding 2," much to the delight of fans worldwide. The potential for a continuation of the mysterious and enigmatic universe established in the first game has sparked a great deal of excitement and speculation within the gaming community.Known as "Baby Doc," Duvalier ruled Haiti with an iron fist before being ousted in 1986. He lived in exile in France for 25 years before returning to Haiti in 2011. Despite facing charges of corruption and human rights abuses, Duvalier managed to evade significant punishment and lived out the rest of his days in relative obscurity before passing away in 2014.
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