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2022 was a year of long-awaited triumphs: Lionel Messi. Matthew Stafford. Georgia football. It was a year of goodbyes: Serena Williams. Roger Federer. Coach K. And it was a year of highlights: Aaron Judge. Ja Morant. The Butt Punt. With the calendar turning to 2023, The Ringer is looking back at the most iconic sports moments of the past 12 months. Here, in no particular order, are the 52 that stood out most: Lionel Messi Kisses the World Cup Trophy Before He Has Actually Been Awarded the World Cup Trophy Brian Phillips: The cheekiness of it. The sheer impish mischief of it. My God, the audacity of it. Lionel Messi, 35 years old, a grown-ass adult, a father, an occasional if not enthusiastic taxpayer, a man with responsibilities, a businessman, a role model, wins his first World Cup, and what does he do? Does he wait? Does he follow the carefully choreographed ceremony that was planned months in advance to ensure that the trophy presentation made the maximum brand impact for FIFA and Qatar possessed the proper gravitas?  » Read More

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Attila Kisbenedek/Getty Images Recently, Human Rights Watch released a scathing report detailing the exploitation of personal data by the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party. As a Hungarian digital rights researcher, I was not surprised by the findings. But I was pleased to see them finally made public. While the Orbán government’s overreach into the media and judiciary has been well documented, its disregard of privacy rights in pursuit of new voters has been largely overlooked. The report found that the Fidesz party had accessed data collected to administer public services, from COVID vaccines to tax benefits, and used it to generate campaign messages, creating an unequal playing field for the opposition and undermining democracy. This troubling environment for privacy and digital rights in my home country explains why I was so alarmed in August when the U.K.-headquartered telecom company Vodafone announced it had agreed to nonbinding terms for the sale of Vodafone Hungary. The buyer is the Hungarian state,  » Read More

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STREETS WHEN A DRIVER HIT THEM---ON PURPOSE---BEFORE TAKING OFF. THE VICTIMS...WERE NOT SERIOUSLY HURT. POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER.. AND HAVE NOT RELEASED A DESCRIPTION OF THE VEHICLE. TONIGHT A 19-YEAR-OLD IS IN CUSTODY IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. POLICE SAY THE LAUREL MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER SEVERAL INCIDENTS TODAY IN GAMBRILLS. THE SUSPECT ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO SPRAY SOME TYPE OF LOTION ON EIGHT WOMEN AT TARGET PETCO AND SAFEWAY. OFFICERS SPOTTED THE SUSPECT AND SAY HE TOOK OFF WHEN THEY TRIE Police: Man who sprayed lotion on women in stores in Gambrills tried to flee from officers A 19-year-old man is in custody after spraying some sort of lotion on women inside stores in Gambrills and trying to flee from police, Anne Arundel County police told 11 News on Tuesday.Jamir Madden, 19, of Laurel, faces numerous charges of assault and other charges associated with fleeing and assaulting police officers, county police told 11 News.Police said Madden sprayed some sort of lotion on as many as eight women in the Target store at the Waugh Chapel Towne Centre,  » Read More

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — A man was severely injured in a hit-and-run while wrapping up a Facebook Live of a vigil to remember a Boynton Beach teen killed riding a motor bike one year ago.Witnessses identified the victim as Bishop Bernard Wright, who was a mayoral candidate this year.The incident occurred at 6:39 p.m. on the 800 block of North Federal, according to police spokeswoman Officer Holly Picciano. The vigil for Stanley Davis III had begun at 6 p.m.The victim was crossing the street and was struck by a white Camero. The driver left the scene and hasn't been found, according to Picciano. Wright was transported to Delray Medical Center but was expected to survive injuries, Picciano said.The vigil took place where Davis, 13, crashed his dirt bike after an attempted traffic stop by Boynton Beach police on Dec. 26, 2021. The teen was traveling 85 mph on a dirt bike at the time of the crash.Although a Florida Highway Patrol investigation found in March that Mark Sohn did not act improperly while pursuing Davis and should not face any charges,  » Read More

A man was severely injured in a hit-and-run while wrapping up a Facebook Live of a vigil to remember a Boynton Beach teen killed riding a motor bike one year ago.Witnessses identified the victim as Bishop Bernard Wright, who was a mayoral candidate this year.The incident occurred at 6:39 p.m. on the 800 block of North Federal, according to police spokeswoman Officer Holly Picciano. The vigil for Stanley Davis III had begun at 6 p.m.The victim was crossing the street and was struck by a white Camero. The driver left the scene and hasn't been found, according to Picciano.Wright was transported to Delray Medical Center but was expected to survive injuries, Picciano said.The vigil took place where Davis, 13, crashed his dirt bike after an attempted traffic stop by Boynton Beach police on Dec. 26, 2021. The teen was traveling 85 mph on a dirt bike at the time of the crash.Although a Florida Highway Patrol investigation found in March that Mark Sohn did not act improperly while pursuing Davis and should not face any charges,  » Read More

“Facebook’s role in censoring free speech and enabling the rise of authoritarian regimes all over the world has been well-documented.” By DANIEL ASIDO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Rural Women Advocates (RUWA) denounced the recent moves of social media giant Facebook, when the latter unpublished their page over tributes to the late Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines. In a statement over the weekend, RUWA said it received a notification that its page reportedly violated Facebook’s community standards on violence and hate speech. Their post honoring Sison has since been taken down from the platform. Sison died on Dec. 16 in Utrecht, The Netherlands after being hospitalized for two weeks. He has been in exile since 1987. “Facebook’s role in censoring free speech and enabling the rise of authoritarian regimes all over the world has been well-documented,” RUWA, a network of volunteers that advocate for women’s rights and genuine land reform. As of writing, RUWA’s Facebook page cannot be searched or accessed.  » Read More

​China’s foreign minister signaled in a speech Sunday that Beijing would bolster its ties with Russia in the coming year, while defending the communist country’s impartiality on the war in Ukraine. ​ Wang Yi​, ​speaking by video to a conference in the Chinese capital, ​said China would ​​“deepen strategic mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation” with Russia. ​ “With regard to the Ukraine crisis, we have consistently upheld the fundamental principles of objectivity and impartiality, without favoring one side or the other, or adding fuel to the fire, still less seeking selfish gains from the situation,” Wang said, the Associated Press reported, citing an official text of his remarks. Last week, Chinese and Russian warships held joint naval drills in the East China Sea.  In his address, Wang also blamed the US for the deteriorating relations between the world’s two largest economies, saying China has “firmly rejected the United States’ erroneous China policy.” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.AP Washington has criticized Beijing’s stand on trade and technology,  » Read More

Claire McArthur / Tahoe Daily Tribune A spot with a beautiful view, like this one at Heavenly Mountain Resort, is a must for the full charcuteski experience. Provided/@charcuteski Picture this: You’re at your favorite Tahoe resort, and there’s bluebird skies above and views of the lake in the distance as you clip out of your skis, wedge them into the snow, and start layering on stacks of salami, cheese wedges, heaps of crackers and punchy pickled vegetables. This, my friends, is charcuteski.  It’s a noun. It’s a verb. It’s the subject of the 15K-strong Instagram account, @charcuteski, which features enviable cheese plates on skis and snowboards at resorts all over the country, including Lake Tahoe.  In a stroke of weed-fueled genius two years ago, Kera Pezzuti and her friends decided to use a ski for their spread of fromage and cured meats. The photos were a hit on their personal accounts, so they decided the idea deserved a platform of its own. Before long, the trend had taken off and the group began sharing photos from their followers in addition to their own charcuteski setups.   » Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016. Terms of the settlement reached by Meta Platforms, the holding company for Facebook and Instagram, were disclosed in court documents filed late Thursday. It will still need to be approved by a judge in a San Francisco federal court hearing set for March. Facebook’s Meta logo sign is seen at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File) The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.  » Read More