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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson shares why he will not endorse Biden in the 2024 election Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shares why he won’t be endorsing any presidential nominees in the 2024 election, saying his endorsement caused division.

Topline The number of annual prostate cancer diagnoses is expected to roughly double by 2040, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal, with the number of annual deaths attributable to the disease expected to rise by 85% in the same amount of time—an increase driven by lower-income countries. Key Facts Scientists at the London Institute of Cancer Research predict there will be 2.9 million annual cases of prostate cancer around the world by 2040, more than twice as many as the 1.4 million cases seen in 2020, with the increase expected to be most prominent among…

After his team cited hardship in securing funding, Trump’s civil fraud trial bond was cut to $175 million.ProPublica reported a billionaire businessman offered to post the original $464 million amount due.By failing to report the offer, Trump’s legal team may have violated ethics rules, ProPublica found. Donald Trump’s recent complaints about being unable to afford his civil fraud trial bond may have been misleading to the court, according to a new report from ProPublica.The outlet reported Friday that, despite Trump’s legal team calling the original $464 million an “impossible bond requirement” and claiming he’d been rejected by 30 firms he’d…

There’s clear interest in the upcoming token for the Saga layer-1 blockchain network, just days ahead of next week’s listing. In fact, Binance customers have already broken a record for the most cryptocurrency staked to earn SAGA token rewards via the crypto exchange’s Launchpool campaign platform. Binance users have staked more than $13.1 billion worth of Binance Coin (BNB) and the FDUSD stablecoin to earn a share of the 45 million SAGA tokens being offered up through the platform, or half of the token’s initial circulating supply. Saga declared the earlier $13 billion mark a record on Twitter Friday, and…

‘Kind of a serious motion’: Retired judge reacts to Trump’s claim about judge in hush money case Retired US district court judge for the Southern District of New York Shira Scheindlin says there are parts of former President Donald Trump’s legal team’s motion asking Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the New York hush money case that concern her.

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 771 Ukrainian air defenses shot down 11 of 20 Iranian-built Shahed drones fired by Russian forces, mostly towards the city of Kharkiv, on April 4. In all, 110 Ukrainian settlements have come under Russian artillery fire during the past 24 hours. Primary targets have been the regions of Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. Kharkiv. Some 350,000 residents of Kharkiv have lost electricity as a result of the Russian drone attack, which struck a power plant. Following the first barrage on Kharkiv, a team of rescuers and medics arrived at a site in Novobavarskyi district. A second…

Shares of protective clothing maker Lakeland Industries (LAKE) are bucking the current market weakness and are up more than 5% over the past three days even as the S&P 500 has gone nowhere. This relative strength comes on the back of the April 2, 2024 announcement by the company that it will be acquiring the fire and rescue business of LHD Group Deutschland of Germany and its Hong Kong and Australian subsidiaries for $16.7 million in cash. Consistent with LAKE’s long-term growth strategy, this acquisition expands its global presence in the fire service market, adding premium firefighter turnout gear and…

When a 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey, New York, and other East Coast states Friday morning, many people rushed for the nearest doorway.But standing in a doorway is based on an old earthquake myth that might put you in a risky position.”That’s not something you should do, because usually in a building wherever we have an opening, whether a window or a door, that’s a structural weakness in the building,” Lingsen Meng, professor in UCLA’s Department of Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences, told Business Insider. “So you should stay away from the doorway,” Meng added.Another earthquake of similar or greater…

Why did billionaire Leon Black pay Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for estate-planning advice?Black has an answer: He wasn’t keeping track of it; $158 million doesn’t mean much to him.Black is reportedly worth $14.4 billion. You know how when you’re feeling flush, you sometimes pay a little less attention to how much things cost?Turns out billionaires are like that, too. Or, at least, that’s what financier Leon Black says about his relationship with disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Black’s long-standing connection to Epstein — the billionaire has said he consulted with Epstein on estate planning — raised all kinds of questions and press…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was awarded a giant stock bonus on top of his more-than-a-million-dollar salary last year, despite overseeing a company that has been plagued by chronic losses and safety problems. Calhoun’s total compensation in 2023 was $32.8 million, a 45% increase from the $22.6 million he received for 2022. And it could have been a lot more: He declined to accept his annual incentive bonus of $2,800,000 – a request the board said he made after part of a Boeing 737 Max plane blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines flight in January, kicking off a series…