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646-ph The concert of controversial American rapper Kanye West, who openly expressed his love for Russia and even called himself "young Putin," was canceled in Moscow. The fact is that Kremlin officials were afraid to authorize the event because they did not know what the artist was singing about. Russian media reports about this. It is noted that the celebrity's performance could have been the largest in Russia in recent decades, as almost 70,000 people were supposed to attend it, with West himself receiving a fee of $8 million. Several Russian companies were working on organizing the concert, negotiating with the rapper's team. The final approval of the event required the consent of the performer himself, producers, and local officials. It is ironic that even his dedication, loyalty, and support of the Kremlin's terrorist regime and the war in Ukraine did not help Kanye West to appear on Moscow stage. According to Russian media, since the rapper is a native of the "unfriendly country United States of America," Russian officials were afraid to take responsibility for the concert, because "who knows what he sings about in his tracks." We would like to remind you that rapper Kanye West openly supports Vladimir Putin and says he is very "pro-Russia." In addition, the scandalous performer said that in addition to the Russian dictator, he also respects the activities of Adolf Hitler, proudly calling himself a "Nazi." Earlier, West stepped out in a T-shirt with the inscription "I am Russian" during the celebration of the birthday of fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy. This act did not go unnoticed. London artists began offering to remove tattoos with the rapper's face for free. Interestingly, the open support of the aggressor country failed to protect Kanye West from Russians' disdain. The fact is that one of his tracks contains a line that humiliates Russian women and mentions Ukraine. Because of this, members of the Forty Forties movement sent an appeal to the police, "The Russian woman in the work of the said artist appears exclusively as a drug addicted prostitute with questionable values. We believe that Kanye West promotes the inferiority of a person based on their national and social groups." Only verified information is available on our Telegram channel OBOZ.UA and Viber . Do not fall for fakes!

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UC San Diego 73, James Madison 67In about 55 days, President Donald Trump will be sworn into office. On day one, he’ll fulfill one of his most important promises: Firing Gary Gensler, President Joe Biden’s handpicked chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Over the past four years, Gensler has led a body in charge of regulating a major source of America’s economic strength: our capital markets. When he is relieved of his duties next month, he will leave a legacy that should never be repeated. Let’s take a look back at Gensler’s time as SEC chairman — a chapter for America’s financial markets that was marked by chaos. Gensler’s work didn’t start in 2021 with this appointment. He’s a long-time Democrat political appointee who served in the Treasury Department in the Clinton administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the Obama years. After the 2020 election, President Biden appointed him to run the SEC. His time there has been marked by inconsistent, ill-conceived leadership that has stifled innovation. During his tenure he’s worked to incorporate environmental, social and governance measures into investing decisions, and he’s finalized the climate rule — which would require public companies to disclose emissions data that has no relationship to what investors care about most: The bottom line. He’s stood in the way of crypto, trying to quash the up-and-coming digital assets markets with failed enforcement actions and a hollow insistence that digital asset firms could simply “come in and register” their tokens with the hostile regulator. A prime example of this is his infamous Staff Accounting Bulletin 121. SAB 121, despite widespread opposition, works effectively as a regulation even though it never went through the normal Administrative Procedures Act process required for one. This specific bulletin effectively requires banks to put digital assets held in custody on their balance sheet. Simply put, that’s not how custody usually works. This bulletin upends custodial practice for banks, and it is effectively keeping banks out of this market entirely. That’s not good for consumers or for investors. Earlier this year, I led an effort to overturn SAB 121, which passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan support. President Biden ultimately sided with Gensler and vetoed it, leaving SAB 121 in place. I look forward to working with the next SEC chairperson to roll back SAB 121. It’s not just SAB 121. Right now, there is no federal regulatory framework guiding federal agencies on how to approach digital assets. Gensler has taken advantage of this, going rogue, using a regulation by enforcement tact that forces the industry and the SEC to battle it all out in court. Put simply: he could have avoided this by doing his job and providing regulatory clarity for an industry that needs it to survive. It should be no surprise that Gensler opposed the digital assets regulatory framework that passed the House earlier this year on a bipartisan basis. 71 Democrats joined House Republicans to pass this common sense framework. Even though the Democrat-led Senate has refused to take it up, it represents a breakthrough moment for cryptocurrency and is likely to inform the work of the unified Republican government as the next Congress begins in January. Whether the chairman leaves on his own or President Trump delivers his famous line on Jan. 20, 2025, there’s an incredible opportunity for the new administration to turn the page on the Gensler era. For America to lead the global financial world, the SEC needs to offer consistent, reliable regulations that foster both stability and growth. While Gensler’s tenure has done the opposite, I expect that President Trump will provide the regulatory clarity that fintech leaders, investors and consumers deserve.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Jared Isaacman, entrepreneur, pilot, and all-around space enthusiast, as the next NASA administrator, marking a major shift in the space agency’s leadership. Trump made the announcement through a post on Truth Social, writing that Isaacman would “drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration.” NASA’s last two appointed administrators have been former politicians, so putting the billionaire astronaut at the helm is rather unconventional for the space agency and a possible indication of the private industry playing a much larger role in the national space program. Fresh off of his first spacewalk, Isaacman stated that he was honored to receive the nomination. “Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history,” Isaacman wrote on X. Aside from being the founder and chief executive of payment services company Shift4, the billionaire was able to translate his personal passion for space into reality by commanding two private astronaut missions. Isaacman’s first stint in space, Inspiration4, launched in September 2021 with the first all-civilian crew to reach orbit. Earlier in September, Isaacman led a four-person crew on board a Dragon spacecraft for the Polaris Dawn mission, which reached higher altitudes than any other SpaceX crew capsule. The private spaceflight also saw two crew members hop out of the capsule, performing the first-ever commercial spacewalk and testing SpaceX-designed spacesuits in the vacuum of space. As far as commercial trips to space go, Polaris Dawn set the bar high and took on much more challenging tasks than the regular suborbital flights. “On my last mission to space, my crew and I traveled farther from Earth than anyone in over half a century,” Isaacman wrote on X. “I can confidently say this second space age has only just begun.” If we’re to read anything into this, it’s that this “second space” age is likely to see NASA outsourcing heavily to private companies, continuing what it already an ongoing trend. With a second Trump term looming, there has been speculation that the president-elect may seek to cancel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is poised to launch astronauts to the Moon as part of the space agency’s Artemis program. NASA’s massive Moon rocket is marred by delays and cost overruns , and may end up costing six times more than its original value. As a result, the space agency has been struggling with its planned return to the Moon, trying to manage a tight budget while sustaining its ambitious timeline to land humans on Mars. NASA’s 2024 budget was $24.875 billion, about half a billion less than what the space agency received in 2023 and some $2.31 billion short of what it was hoping to spend on its various programs this year. The agency needs more funding for its science endeavors, while the private industry is looking to make money from space. With Isaacman leading NASA, there might be more focus on profiting from the cosmos. “Space holds unparalleled potential for breakthroughs in manufacturing, biotechnology, mining, and perhaps even pathways to new sources of energy,” Isaacman wrote. “There will inevitably be a thriving space economy—one that will create opportunities for countless people to live and work in space.” Isaacman’s close association with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is also worrying (Isaacman’s missions rely on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and Crew Dragon capsule). Musk is already a close ally to Trump, and with Isaacman at NASA, the SpaceX billionaire may have an unfair advantage to securing more contracts from the space agency, leading to a full-on monopoly of the industry. Of course, the U.S. Senate still needs to approve Trump’s nomination of Isaacman as the space agency’s administrator. That’s not to say that Isaacman wouldn’t bring a much-needed fresh approach to NASA, with the space agency being weighed down by bureaucracy at times and not taking as many risks as the private industry. For better or worse, Isaaman’s appointment will mark a new era for NASA and spaceflight as a whole.Upstox wins interim order from Delhi High Court against trademark, copyright infringements by unknown entitiesMy love of movie scoundrels has been sorely tested this year. When I was young, I daydreamed of exotic heists, slick con artists and lovable crooks I’d seen on screen. For most of my moviegoing life, I’ve been a sucker for larceny done well. Most of us are, probably. But now it’s late 2024. Mood is wrong. In the real world, in America, it’s scoundrel time all the time. Maybe Charles Dickens was right. In “American Notes for General Circulation” (1842), the English literary superstar chronicled his travels and detected a widespread, peculiarly American “love of ‘smart’ dealing” across the land. In business and in politics, Dickens observed, slavish admiration of the con men among them “gilds over many a swindle and gross breach of trust.” And here we are. It’ll pass, this scoundrel reprieve of mine. In fact it just did. All it took was thinking about the conspicuous, roguish outlier on my best-of-2024 list: “Challengers.” It’s what this year needed and didn’t know it: a tricky story of lying, duplicitous weasels on and off the court. The best films this year showed me things I hadn’t seen, following familiar character dynamics into fresh territory. Some were more visually distinctive than others; all made eloquent cases for how, and where, their stories unfolded. “All We Imagine as Light,” recently at the Gene Siskel Film Center, works like a poem, or a sustained exhalation of breath, in its simply designed narrative of three Mumbai hospital workers. Fluid, subtly political, filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s achievement is very nearly perfect. So is cowriter-director RaMell Ross’ adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel “The Nickel Boys,” arriving in Chicago-area theaters on Jan. 3, 2025. “Nickel Boys,” the film, loses the “the” in Whitehead’s title but gains an astonishingly realized visual perspective. If Ross never makes another movie, he’ll have an American masterpiece to his credit. The following top 10 movies of 2024 are in alphabetical order. Both a mosaic of urban ebb and flow, and a delicate revelation of character, director and writer Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai story is hypnotic, patient and in its more traditional story progression, a second feature every bit as good as Kapadia’s first, 2021’s “A Night of Knowing Nothing.” Mikey Madison gives one of the year’s funniest, saddest, truest performances as a Brooklyn exotic dancer who takes a shine to the gangly son of a Russian oligarch, and he to her. Their transactional courtship and dizzying Vegas marriage, followed by violently escalating complications, add up to filmmaker Sean Baker’s triumph, capped by an ending full of exquisite mysteries of the human heart. As played by Adrien Brody, the title character is a visionary architect and Hungarian Jewish emigre arriving in America in 1947 after the Holocaust. (That said, the title refers to more than one character.) His patron, and his nemesis, is the Philadelphia blueblood industrialist played by Guy Pearce. Director/co-writer Brady Corbet’s thrillingly ambitious epic, imperfect but loaded with rewarding risks, was shot mostly in widescreen VistaVision. Worth seeing on the biggest screen you can find. Opens in Chicago-area theaters on Jan. 10, 2025. Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor play games with each other, on the tennis court and in beds, while director Luca Guadagnino builds to a match-point climax that can’t possibly work, and doesn’t quite — but I saw the thing twice anyway. In Bucharest, production assistant Angela zigzags around the city interviewing people for her employer’s workplace safety video. If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one. llinca Manolache is terrific as Angela. Like “Do Not Expect Too Much,” director Agnieszka Holland’s harrowing slice of recent history was a 2023 release, making it to Chicago in early 2024. Set along the densely forested Poland/Belarus border, this is a model of well-dramatized fiction honoring what refugees have always known: the fully justified, ever-present fear of the unknown. A quiet marvel of a feature debut from writer-director Annie Baker, this is a mother/daughter tale rich in ambiguities and wry humor, set in a lovely, slightly forlorn corner of rural Massachusetts. Julianne Nicholson, never better; Zoe Ziegler as young, hawk-eyed Lacy, equally memorable. I love this year’s nicest surprise. The premise: A teenager’s future 39-year-old self appears to her, magically, via a strong dose of mushrooms. The surprise: Writer-director Megan Park gradually deepens her scenario and sticks a powerfully emotional landing. Wonderful work from Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella, Maria Dizzia and everybody, really. From the horrific true story of a Florida reform school and its decades of abuse, neglect and enraging injustice toward its Black residents, novelist Colson Whitehead’s fictionalized novel makes a remarkable jump to the screen thanks to co-writer/director RaMell Ross’s feature debut. Cousins, not as close as they once were, reunite for a Holocaust heritage tour in Poland and their own search for their late grandmother’s childhood home. They’re the rootless Benji (Kieran Culkin) and tightly sprung David (Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote and directed). Small but very sure, this movie’s themes of genocidal trauma and Jewish legacy support the narrative every step of the way. Culkin is marvelous; so is the perpetually undervalued Eisenberg. To the above, I’ll add 10 more runners-up, again in alphabetical order: “Blink Twice,” directed by Zoe Kravitz. “Conclave,” directed by Edward Berger. “Dune: Part Two ,” directed by Denis Villeneuve. “Good One ,” directed by India Donaldson. “Hit Man,” directed by Richard Linklater. “Joker: Folie a Deux,” directed by Todd Phillips. “Nosferatu,” directed by Robert Eggers, opens in Chicago-area theaters on Dec. 25. “The Outrun,” directed by Nora Fingscheidt. “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” directed by Johan Grimonprez. “Tuesday,” directed by Daina O. Pusić. Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.

UConn announced a two-year contract extension for head football coach Jim Mora on Saturday, just before the team took the field for the Fenway Bowl against North Carolina. Mora’s contract extension will run through 2028 and will pay him $10 million through the remaining four years, with the opportunity to earn more in incentives. The 63-year-old coach is set to make $1.7 million next season, $1.9 million in 2026 and $2.3 and $2.4 million in 2027 and 2028, respectively. UConn then went out and thrashed North Carolina, 27-14, in a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicated. “I am forever grateful. I’m grateful to (athletic director) David (Benedict) and (school president) Radenka (Maric) and the Board of Trustees, but this is about what the (UConn players) did today,” Mora said when asked about the extension in the postgame press conference. People are also reading... In a statement released by UConn ahead of the game, Mora said: “I’d like to thank David Benedict, Radenka Maric and the University of Connecticut leadership for their trust in me and their commitment to our football program. When I first got here, I talked about where we wanted this program to go and we have shown great progress but we still have plenty of work to do. The commitment and dedication from the university and the athletic department has me excited about the future for our football team.” “Three years ago, I tasked Jim Mora with the challenge of leading our football team back to success and through his experience, energy and leadership he has done just that,” UConn athletic director David Benedict said in a statement. “He has taken our program to post season bowl games twice and just guided our team to one of the best seasons in UConn football history, building a momentum to keep this program moving forward. I look forward to his leadership of our football team in the years ahead.” Mora is coming off one of the most successful seasons in UConn football history, having led the team to an 8-4 record and an appearance in the Fenway Bowl. It’s the Huskies’ second bowl appearance in three years. UConn’s eight wins is the most for the program since 2010, and the Huskies had their first winning season since that year, too. A win Saturday would give UConn nine wins for just the third time in program history, with the last two such seasons coming in 2003 and 2007. Robbins heading to Tulsa UConn quarterbacks coach Brad Robbins is heading to Tulsa as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, according to a report from CBS Sports. Robbins was part of a coaching staff that helped the offense produce its most prolific attack since the 2009 season and fifth-most in program history (32.3 points per game). Robbins worked at FCS Tennessee Tech and Division II North Greenville before joining Jim Mora’s staff in spring 2023. Be the first to know

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