Trump's long-awaited capitulation was relatively muted. The demonstrations outside the courthouse ended peacefully, despite ongoing concerns about political violence following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The district attorney's office revealed a wide range in their indictments, accusing Trump of 'repeatedly and fraudulently' falsifying records. The indictment against former US President Donald Trump was unsealed in a Manhattan court on Tuesday, revealing 34 felonies against the Republican leader.

https://shepherdgazette.com/5-key-takeaways-from-the-indictment-against-donald-trump/

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World Bank President David Malpass on Thursday warned that the global economy was 'dangerously close' to recession and called for targeted support for the poor. 'The growth rate, we have lowered our growth forecast for 2023 from 3 percent to 1.9 percent for global growth. This is dangerously close to a global recession, which means – a global recession could occur under certain circumstances,' Malpass told reporters on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meeting here.

https://shepherdgazette.com/world-dangerously-close-to-recession-world-bank-president-warns/

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – Wynton Marsalis has done pretty much everything in the music world. One thing he hasn't done, however, is pair his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a college marching band — until now. 'I've never seen a jazz band like ours play with a marching band where the actual music we play is integrated into the music of the band,' Marsalis said at one of his many stops this week in Ann Arbor. where the Grammy and Pulitzer winner is taking part in a week-long residency at the University of Michigan.

https://shepherdgazette.com/wynton-marsalis-teams-up-with-michigan-marching-band-nation-world-news/

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Democrats, faced with relentless GOP attacks over high inflation, seem confined to defending programs like Social Security and Medicare as they — in the final weeks of the mid-term cycle — seek to bolster their standing with voters who say that they are more desperate about the economy. In recent days, President Joe Biden and top lawmakers have bragged on Capitol Hill that they will stifle any attempt to cut the programs, both by capitalizing on the rising likelihood that Republicans will take control of at least one next month Winning back the Chamber of Congress, as well as plans by some GOP lawmakers that could limit entitlement programs as part of broader government spending changes.

https://shepherdgazette.com/as-voters-fret-the-economy-dems-narrow-the-new-message-save-social-security-medicare-from-gop/

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By Sammy Edwards Last updated Nov 20, 2022 The current winner of the 'Golden Ball', striker of the French national football team Karim Benzema due to an injury, he left training earlier on Saturday, and after additional tests it was determined that he had renewed the thigh muscle injury and that he will miss World Cup in Qatar! Benzema injured his quadriceps while playing for Madrid Real in October and on Saturday he trained with the rest of the national team for the first time since the reunion, but he did not manage to complete the entire training session.

https://shepherdgazette.com/karim-benzema-was-injured-and-dropped-from-the-world-cup/

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A Connecticut police officer who belonged to an far-right group accused a civil rights activist who complained to his department of trying to 'silence conservative voices,' according to a letter obtained by The ƒ. In his letter, addressed to the East Hampton Police Commissioner, Officer Kevin Wilcox said he had been a dues-paying member of the Proud Boys for about eight months. But he said he left the group because he suspected its members were being targeted by 'far-left political organizations' and labeled fanatics because of their 'love' for President Donald Trump.

https://shepherdgazette.com/officer-i-left-proud-boys-because-i-fear-far-left-attacks/

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This Friday, after Argentina defeated the Netherlands on penalties to go to the World Cup quarterfinals in Qatar, coach Lionel Scaloni expressed his happiness and described Leo Messi as 'the best of all time.' In a post-game press conference, the Argentine coach claimed that Messi had 'shown that he is the finest of all time.' The '10' had once again been crucial for his team, having assisted the first goal and scoring the second. The coach also reviewed the play and noted that his team didn't merit being penalized.

https://shepherdgazette.com/messi-proved-that-he-is-the-best-of-all-time-said-lionel-scaloni/

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By Sammy Edwards Last updated Dec 30, 2022 To the Editor: Columnist Jonah Goldberg appears to be suffering from a case of selective amnesia about who President Nixon was and what he did. ('As 2022 closes, Trump has ousted Nixon as saddest figure in post-presidency politics,' Opinion, Dec. 27.) Goldberg wrote that after Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974, he had 'regained the reputation of a wise man.' Many would disagree with this assessment, but there are always those who will stand by their man no matter what.

https://shepherdgazette.com/trump-shouldnt-make-us-forget-how-terrible-richard-nixon-was/

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Jeff Economy in his home studio in Ruby. (Photo by Alanna Medlock) The internet is full of music from all over the world. You know it's just a click away, but how often do you get lost from your sound bladder? Fear not, Jeff Economy is here to connect your ears to music you didn't even know existed. His highly eclectic show Snackpoint Charlie on Wavefarm Radio features 'imaginary soundtracks to untold foreign films' broadcast live from Ulster County. A single episode transports you like a dream from Manchester street soul to Cambodian folk songs, from 1950s Japanese jazz to 1970s Persian underground rock.

https://shepherdgazette.com/independent-radio-rebel-jeff-economy-connects-listeners-to-a-larger-world-of-sound/

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WASHINGTON – The nation's capital has been two years since a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The rioters attacked police and broke into the complex to interrupt confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory, forcing lawmakers into hiding. Congress reconvened hours later to finalize confirmation of the election. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was injured while confronting the rioters, suffered a stroke the next day and died of natural causes, the Washington, DC Coroner's Office said.

https://shepherdgazette.com/the-nations-capital-marks-2-years-since-the-january-6-uprising/

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By Sammy Edwards Last updated Nov 27, 2022 The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Kosmos Tennis announced this Sunday that the teams from Italy and Spain have been invited to compete in the 2023 Davis Cup Finals and will go straight to the group stage in September. They also confirmed that 2022 champions Australia and Canada automatically qualify for the 2023 final's group stage. The seeds for the 2023 qualifications draw have also been revealed. The Davis Cup Steering Committee, which is made up of two ITF members and two Kosmos Tennis members, chose the invitees.

https://shepherdgazette.com/2023-davis-cup-finals-invites-are-sent-to-spain-and-italy/

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Donald Trump is reportedly not returning to Twitter, despite Elon Musk reinstating him on his newly acquired social media platform. In a poll by the new Twitter owner, a razor-thin majority of social media users voted to reinstate Donald Trump on the platform. But the former president appeared to dismiss Twitter, saying he will remain on his Truth Social platform. At the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas, Donald Trump said, 'Truth Social is through the roof. It's going phenomenally well.

https://shepherdgazette.com/trump-breaks-silence-as-he-rejoins-twitter-after-his-account-is-restored-united-states-news/

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BRUSSELS (AP) – Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco's surprise 2-0 win over Belgium on Sunday. Police arrested about a dozen people after using water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds in Brussels. Dozens of rioters have overturned and set fire to cars, set fire to electric scooters and pelted cars with bricks. Police moved in after one person suffered facial injuries, Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said. Brussels Mayor Philippe Close urged people to stay away from the city center and said authorities were doing their utmost to maintain order on the streets.

https://shepherdgazette.com/riots-in-belgium-and-the-netherlands-after-moroccos-world-cup-victory/

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Chris Bjurstrom hesitantly celebrates some wins as ABCD Daycare owner. 'For the first time since the onset of COVID-19, we are at full staff and capacity,' Bjurstrom said. 'But I'm afraid that in the next breath someone will stop and go somewhere else.' It has been a series of challenges for her and other local daycares. Bjurstrom decided to sell their Coeur d'Alene branch from ABCD to better manage the Hayden location and the challenges of 2020. And she's not alone, as 13 other daycare centers in Coeur d'Alene have closed since 2019, said Kelley Setters, deputy city clerk of Coeur d'Alene.

https://shepherdgazette.com/the-economy-depends-on-childcare/

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By Sammy Edwards Last updated Dec 5, 2022 On the morning of Sunday, December 4, the Israeli Ministry of Health published new data on the coronavirus epidemic. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,726,687 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in the country (about 11 thousand per week, 10% more than the week before last). 11866 patients with COVID-19 died (+38 in a week). Over the past day, 4189 tests have been carried out. Coronavirus was detected in 19% of cases. At the moment, 11270 people are infected (+1253 in a week).

https://shepherdgazette.com/about-11300-infected-38-dead-from-covid-19-in-a-week/

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It's no longer a surprise that social media companies like Meta collect a lot of information about you. Tap or click here for 10 Facebook privacy and security settings you need to change now. When you create a Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter account, you'll be asked if you want to sync your contacts. It seems harmless, but it isn't. Here's why you need to stop doing it. Data collection goes far beyond social media. Every big tech company has at least some information about you. Apple, Google, Twitter and Meta all have profiles of you.

https://shepherdgazette.com/find-out-what-apple-google-facebook-twitter-know-about-you/

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NEW YORK (Staff) — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are demanding a DNA sample to determine if his genetic material is on a dress she allegedly wore during the encounter has worn. Lawyers for advisory columnist E. Jean Carroll told a Trump attorney on Thursday that Trump is scheduled to submit a sample to Washington on March 2 for 'analysis and comparison to unidentified male DNA on the dress.' Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation, saying he didn't know her and had never met her.

https://shepherdgazette.com/staff-exclusive-woman-who-says-trump-raped-her-is-looking-for-his-dna-2/

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Angutitsiaq Isbosethsen, 21, sits on a small hill close to Kangerluarsuk, a deep-frozen fjord in Kujalleq in South Greenland. His hometown, Narsaq, with 1,346 inhabitants, is 20 minutes away by boat. Isbosethsen works as a substitute teacher and a tour guide, taking foreigners around South Greenland's archipelago. And since April 2021, he has been a member of the municipal council of Kujalleq, the largest municipality in South Greenland, for the governing party, Inuit Ataqatigiit, or Community of the People.

https://shepherdgazette.com/greenland-is-the-next-superpower-battleground/

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When it comes to questions about health and longevity, many researchers turn to the gut microbiome — the community of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live in the human gut — for answers. Scientists are just beginning to understand how the microbiome affects our health in many ways, but early evidence suggests it may play a role in disease outcomes such as some types of cancer, long Covid and Parkinson's disease. Of particular interest is determining which foods are beneficial for the microbiome and ultimately for various aspects of one's health.

https://shepherdgazette.com/can-spicy-food-boost-our-gut-health-heres-what-the-science-says/

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International airline Flydubai on Friday blocked two transgender activists from boarding a flight because they are gender 'x'. Transgender activists Shahzadi Rai and Zehrish, who work for the Gender Interactive Alliance, had plane tickets canceled just before they were due to board a flight via the United Arab Emirates to Kathmandu, where they were en route to attend the annual meeting. After the incident, Shahzadi Rai took to social media to resolve the issues they were facing at Karachi Airport.

https://shepherdgazette.com/international-airline-flydubai-blocks-two-transgender-activists-from-boarding/

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A brave team of scientists has endured the inhospitable conditions of Antarctica's frozen desert to recover five new meteorites, including a nearly 17-pound space rock. The team of scientists included the Field Museum and University of Chicago researcher Maria Valdes, who estimated that of the 45,000 meteorites recovered so far from Antarctica's frigid wasteland, only about 100 were the size of the largest member of this new one transportation which weighs 16.7 pounds (7.6 kilograms). 'Size doesn't necessarily matter when it comes to meteorites, and even tiny micrometeorites can be incredibly valuable scientifically, but of course, finding a large meteorite like this is rare and really exciting,' Valdes said in a statement.

https://shepherdgazette.com/scientists-find-17-pound-meteorite-in-icy-antarctica/

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Approximately 5% of Parkinson's patients carry dominant mutations in the TMEM175 gene; these mutations would be implicated in a form of the disease that occurs after 50 years of age. This is what emerges from a research born from the collaboration between Irccs Neuromed of Pozzilli (Iss) and the ‘Adriano Buzzati Traverso' Institute of Genetics and Biophysics of the National Research Council of Naples (Cnr-Igb), financed by the Ministry of Health and whose results were published in the scientific journal Molecular Neurobiology.

https://shepherdgazette.com/the-study/

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Layoff announcements fell one by one, accelerating in the second half of 2022. Amazon began laying off 18,000 employees. Lyft, the ride-sharing company, said it would lay off 700 of its workers, or 13 percent of its workforce. Tech giants Meta and Twitter announced they are laying off thousands of employees. The new year brought more bleeding in Silicon Valley: Google's parent company Alphabet announced last week it would lay off 12,000 of its employees, Microsoft said it would cut 10,000 employees, and on Monday Spotify said it would reduce its workforce by 6 percent, about 600 people.

https://shepherdgazette.com/tech-downsizing-the-new-york-times/

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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Public School District has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Friday. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products at children. It blames them for deteriorating mental health and behavioral disorders, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and cyberbullying; impeding the education of students; and forcing schools to take actions such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans on the impact of social media, and providing additional training for teachers.

https://shepherdgazette.com/seattle-schools-sue-tech-giants-for-social-media-harm-national-world-news/

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BAGHDAD (Staff) – Rocket fire hit a base owned by US and other coalition forces north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said, just days after a similar attack killed three soldiers, including two Americans. The US-led coalition said at least 25 107mm rockets hit Camp Taji just before 11am. Some hit the area where coalition forces are stationed, while others fell on air defense units, the Iraqi military said in a statement. According to US-led coalition spokesman Myles Caggins, five people were injured in the attack, including three coalition members and two Iraqi soldiers.

https://shepherdgazette.com/iraqi-officials-rocket-attack-hits-us-troop-base/

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In the 2023 election year, the Greek economy faces ten major challenges in a difficult environment. Inflation is expected to remain high for at least the first quarter and the European Central Bank is set to announce another rate hike in February, with a possibility of a sixth straight hike in March. It is also possible that most of the now 20 countries in the euro zone are going through a recession for the second quarter in a row. 1. The biggest challenge is to achieve real growth in 2023. It's expected to be slower than 2022 — 1.

https://shepherdgazette.com/10-challenges-for-the-economy-in-2023/

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Look up on January 6 for a glimpse of the first full moon of 2023: the wolf's 'micromoon.' January's full moon will be slightly smaller than average since the moon is furthest from Earth in its orbit. The orbit of the moon around the planet is elliptical. At its closest approach, called perigee, it is […] The post The full ‘Wolf micromoon' rises Jan. 6. Here's how to watch. first appeared on The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette.

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Most commodities are cheap today. But that won't last. Creating a sustainable world is an existential necessity. However, huge amounts of raw materials are required. These commodities can only be produced in sufficient quantities if prices are high enough to incentivize producers. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) estimates that copper prices would need to rise about 30% to meet future demand. The current economic slowdown has only shifted demand. A recession doesn't change how much copper is needed to build an electric fleet and the infrastructure that goes with it.

https://shepherdgazette.com/dont-expect-a-goldilocks-economy/

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If you're looking to grow your online presence as a creative, you have more tools at your disposal today than ever before. You can make your ideas come true as long as you have a good internet connection and you can do it without being tied to one place. However, being a creator takes a lot more work than many people think. If you decide to make photography, writing or another discipline your profession, this is even more true. Luckily, you can find many tools to help you achieve your dreams. This article covers some of the best tools you can use to succeed in the creator economy.

https://shepherdgazette.com/the-8-best-tools-to-help-you-succeed-in-the-creator-economy/

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By Sammy Edwards Last updated Dec 28, 2022 From war and gunfights to historic firsts, 2022 was a year of its own. While the first half of the year was marked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on world politics, Rishi Sunak, who is of Indian origin, was also appointed British Prime Minister this year as the first person of color. In neighboring Pakistan, the year 2022 was marked by one of the most devastating floods. Politically, the year witnessed the fall of cricketer and politician Imran Khan from the post of prime minister.

https://shepherdgazette.com/what-happened-in-2022-a-timeline-of-major-world-events/

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