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Mikel Arteta was left furious with referee John Brooks last night, despite Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Sunderland.
Before Bruno Guimarães gave Arsenal the lead in a tight match that Régis Le Bris’s team were arguably unlucky to lose, David Raya made a brilliant save to deny Enzo Le Fée from the penalty spot. Arteta, however, did not believe that Ezri Konsa had hauled Dan Ballard to the ground, instead blaming the Sunderland man for pulling down his opponent.
Continue reading...The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal
Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I felt myself bristle. Not because the toast wasn’t good – I didn’t taste it – but because I remember a time when “awesome” meant something that inspired awe: towering mountains, the vastness of the night sky, the haunting song of a humpback whale. Now it’s being used to describe breakfast.
“Fantastic” has met the same fate, shedding its fantastical origins to become a synonym for “great”. Meanwhile “literally” has been so thoroughly abused that it can now mean something that is, quite literally, not literal.
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America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that "the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money" also asked America's high court "to throw out a court order requiring him to pay $11 billion as part of his sentence."
Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after prosecutors said he directed billions of dollars from the crypto exchange FTX to a hedge fund he controlled called Alameda Research, where the funds were used for risky investments, political donations and his own personal benefit. The Supreme Court appeal, which was reviewed by CNN, raises a technical question about evidence that was submitted at his trial, and whether Bankman-Fried should have been permitted to demonstrate that his investments were ultimately sound and would have covered any losses by FTX customers.
He also argues that the $11 billion forfeiture violates the 8th Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines. "Where the government pursues a theory of fraud under which it doesn't matter whether any victims lost money, introducing evidence suggesting that people actually lost money is distracting and prejudicial," veteran Supreme Court attorney Jeffrey Fisher told CNN. "All the more so where the truth is the victims did not lose money, and the defendant is unable to make that clear."
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the arguments earlier this year.
Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after prosecutors said he directed billions of dollars from the crypto exchange FTX to a hedge fund he controlled called Alameda Research, where the funds were used for risky investments, political donations and his own personal benefit. The Supreme Court appeal, which was reviewed by CNN, raises a technical question about evidence that was submitted at his trial, and whether Bankman-Fried should have been permitted to demonstrate that his investments were ultimately sound and would have covered any losses by FTX customers.
He also argues that the $11 billion forfeiture violates the 8th Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines. "Where the government pursues a theory of fraud under which it doesn't matter whether any victims lost money, introducing evidence suggesting that people actually lost money is distracting and prejudicial," veteran Supreme Court attorney Jeffrey Fisher told CNN. "All the more so where the truth is the victims did not lose money, and the defendant is unable to make that clear."
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the arguments earlier this year.
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Deze zomer kende relatief weinig muggenoverlast, meldt de website Nature Today. Volgens onderzoekers van Wageningen University & Research (WUR) komt dit waarschijnlijk door de extreme droogte en hoge temperaturen van de afgelopen tijd.
De zogeheten muggenoverlastindex, die de onderzoekers bepalen op basis van meldingen via muggenradar.nl, lag deze zomer 16 procent lager dan het gemiddelde over de jaren 2020 tot en met 2025. Muggen hebben plekken nodig waar gedurende enkele weken achter elkaar water staat waarin larven zich kunnen ontwikkelen, zoals plantenpotten, emmers en schotels gevuld met water. Door de warme droge zomer waren er veel minder van dit soort broedplaatsen beschikbaar.
Op plekken waar het water wel lang genoeg bleef staan, konden muggen zich door de recordhoge zomertemperatuur sneller ontwikkelen. "Volgens ons muggenontwikkelingsmodel vliegt rond deze tijd al de zesde muggengeneratie rond. Niet eerder was dit zo vroeg in het jaar", zien de onderzoekers.
In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van zondag 13 september.
In het centrum van Rotterdam heeft in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag een dixi in brand gestaan, waarbij het vuur oversloeg op een bouwkeet. Op beelden van 112-fotografen is te zien dat de metershoge vlammen ook dichtbij huizen kwamen.
Bij een slagerij in Rotterdam-Noord is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag een explosie geweest. Daardoor barstte een ruit en raakte de gevel beschadigd. Dat melden 112-fotografen.
Voetbal is een spel van negentig minuten en aan het eind verlies je je tanden, want die zijn eruit geslagen door een doorgesnoven Jhon van Burgerking. Zo rond als een tonnetje was hij de clown van het Nederlandse profvoetbal en daarna ging hij in de hennepteelt, in mishandeling en in de striptenten. Kennelijk deed hij ook nog aan voetbalcoachen, want samen met zijn broer was hij 'werkzaam' bij GVVV. Daar ramde hij gisteren IN DE RUST de tanden uit de mond van een speler van de tegenstander. Die speler was eerder van GVVV naar IJsselmeervogels gegaan en blijkbaar is dat verboden. Van Burgerking is samen met die broer van 'm per direct weggejorist en opgerot. En dan hoeft de KNVB hem alleen nog maar een levenslange schorsing op te leggen - in het voetbal kunnen we deze lui missen als kiespijn.
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