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A report released on Thursday by the InfluenceMap think tank found that the U.S. oil company topped the list, which features 50 of the most influential companies and industry associations blocking climate policy action globally. InfluenceMap compiled the list out of 350 of the largest industrial companies that influence climate change. The climate policy footprint runs from -100 (highly and negatively influencing climate policy) to +100 (highly and positively influencing climate policy) and intends to allow investors and other stakeholders to focus efforts on the few companies having the largest absolute impact globally....

The sophomore candidate reached back into his bag Thursday and shot his shot with pop sensation Taylor Swift. Swift is set to make a tour stop in Columbus. So, Elliott, ever the hospitable gentleman, reached out to her on Twitter, and offered to entertain her over a meal, following the show. MORE: College Football Week 3 picks | Ohio State, Michigan on-pace for showdown Swift has yet to respond to his inquiry, but you have to respect his moxy for trying....

But Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones stood by the decision Wednesday as the move became official. He took a shot at those representing players in the process. “I have a lot of respect for, you know, most agents,” Jones told reporters, per The Athletic. “I really do. I think they’re trying to do their job for these players. But I do think sometimes they don’t have the end game that maybe the players should and we do....

Elliott on Friday told reporters, including Clarence E. Hill Jr. of the (Fort Worth) Star-Telegran, that he, like Prescott, is on board with Jones’ insistence that players stand for the anthem rather than kneel or sit. DEZ SOUNDS OFF: Former WR reacts to out-of-context Stephen Jones quote Prescott told reporters Friday morning that the playing of the anthem prior to NFL games isn’t “the time or the venue” to make a statement against police brutality and social injustice....

It all came down to the wire as Leclerc led during the opening flying laps in Q3 before Verstappen produced a sublime drive at just the right time to claim back-to-back pole positions at home racetrack Zandvoort. It’s also the seventh time this year that Verstappen and Leclerc have shared the front row as, again, there was little to separate the pair. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz rounded out the top three ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in P4 whilst Red Bull’s Sergio Perez finished in P5 despite crashing during his final lap of qualifying....

After the coronavirus shortened the 2020 race schedule, F1 racing is back in a furious way, with a record slate of 23 races in 2021 — a drastic increase from the 17-race sprint that took place in 2020. Sakhir plays host to the 2021 season debut, with the Bahrain Grand Prix opening the season. Imola will make a return to the schedule in 2021 in Round 2, less than a year after five drivers did not finish because of a swath of technical failures and an accident that sidelined racers....

The Blues have all but secured Champions League football for next season, but the fact they headed into the weekend without it mathematically guaranteed underlines how far they have fallen from the Premier League title race. There are numerous reasons for Manchester City and Liverpool — 19 and 16 points ahead of Thomas Tuchel’s side, respectively —tearing off into the distance. From Romelu Lukaku’s patchy first season back in England to the turbulence of Roman Abramovich’s sale of the club, Chelsea have had plenty to contend with, especially since the turn of the year....

This season, however, has been a stark contrast of the previous campaign. Granted, the Blues are back at the Home of Football for another semi-final in the oldest cup competition in the world, this time against Southampton, but the torturous year surely wouldn’t be etched in the fans’ memories for years to come. Barring their league position, many would argue this year hasn’t been too dissimilar to two years ago when all seemed to collapse after winning the league as the Stamford Bridge club unwantedly secured a tenth-placed finish....

Lilias Adie—who lived in the village of Torryburn—was jailed in her sixties after confessing to her alleged crimes, which included supposedly having sex with Satan. She later died in prison in 1704 before she could be burned at the stake, possibly as the result of suicide. Forensic artist Christopher Rynn from the University of Dundee in Scotland has now recreated her face for a BBC program. He used a state-of-the-art 3D virtual modeling software, basing the look on old photographs of Adie’s skull....

The president, the treasury secretary, and the Federal Reserve chairman have all voiced concerns about Libra, and lawmakers have questioned how the cryptocurrency will be adequately regulated. Brown, a Democrat, focused much of his critique during Tuesday’s hearingon the company’s record of scandals. Mentioning Facebook’s destructive impact on the news industry and how it was used toincite genocide against Myanmar’sRohingya ethnic minority, Brown offered a stinging rebuke of the company during the hearing, held by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs....

Wall Street Journal reporter Deepa Seetharaman posted a screenshot of a prompt that she said popped up as a notification on Facebook encouraging her to check out Trump’s post. “There’s a popular post you may have missed from Donald J. Trump,” the prompt said. It included a link to one of Trump’s Sunday posts, which read, “I WON THE ELECTION!” On Trump’s Facebook page, the post appears with a flag attached from Facebook, which reads, “Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election....

The social network announced in a business blog post in August that it was making changes to “multicultural affinity” segments to help streamline the ad targeting options available to buyers—who funnel in the majority of its annual revenue. The post, which largely flew under the radar apart from Bloomberg coverage, detailed updates made to a tool that critics have linked to discriminatory ad practices. Investigations by ProPublica found the tool could be exploited by advertisers to exclude Black or Hispanic users, for example, from seeing certain types of marketing....

The lawsuit, filed in the federal court of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, claims that Facebook failed to remove pages and accounts posting violent “call to arms” and conspiracy theories which resulted in the deadly shootings on August 25 in Kenosha. The suit also alleges that Facebook and the right-wing groups were in violation of a 19th century law brought in during the reconstruction era which aimed to protect Black people against the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, including allowing them the constitutional right to protest....

And while most of the time they’re pretty spot on with such predictions—such as Trump’s presidency and the ebola outbreak—predicting Donald Trump’s catching coronavirus is not one of these times. As news spread of the President’s positive coronavirus diagnosis so too did memes, hot takes, well-wishes and schadenfreude. An image of Trump drawn in the style of The Simpsons began doing the rounds on Twitter, it’s an image many fans of the long-running animated series will be familiar with, however, this time it showed the incumbent lying deceased in a coffin....

Walker, who has denied the allegations, has made his opposition to abortion a major part of his campaign as he faces a close race against Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia. Accused of “lying” by his son and parodied on SNL for other claims he made about how to solve air pollution, it’s now been suggested the ex-NFL star can’t recall when he stopped playing football either. The Claim...

Solovyov, the host of the Russian State TV show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, is one of the most prominent public figures in the country and has previously called for mass mobilization amid the Russian army’s failures in Ukraine. More recently, amid reports of drunk, disabled, aging or otherwise unfit men getting called up into the army, the tone of state media coverage of mobilization has shifted, with guests and presenters voicing concerns about the process....

Whether it was allegations that former president Donald Trump sat and watched TV of the riots unfold, or his lunging at a secret service agent, it has often felt as much or more engrossing than traditional entertainment. The lines between fantasy and reality seemed to blur even further this week as tapes of Donald Trump Jr unexpectedly invoked rich, mafioso culture into proceedings…well, sort of. The Claim A number of tweets, published in July 2022, claim Donald Trump Jr used the phrase “go to the mattresses” in messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the January 6 riots....

TikTok user and Avon representative Dee Graham, or @deegraham43, shared a video that included a clip of a woman talking about being a victim of domestic abuse before Graham told her viewers to contact their local Avon representative for help. The TikTok video seems to have been removed from Graham’s page but is still circulating on Twitter. The Claim In her video, Dee Graham claimed that Avon will relocate victims of domestic abuse....

Much research has been conducted to reassure people that vaccines have no effect on fertility or pregnancy in women. There have also been studies into whether vaccines affect sperm quality in men, one of which has been widely shared online recently. The Claim On June 17, a study was published in the journal Andrology titled ‘COVID-19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors’....