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The One Wheel of Fortune player may have won a sparkling engagement ring instead of cash! Hosts Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White assisted a couple in commemorating their personal milestone as part of the show's 50th anniversary celebration. On October 9, 2023, previous participant Rhea Mathew made her final appearance on the renowned game show. When Mathew posted the news on Instagram, it was a dream come true for her, a longtime admirer of the show, to become one of its many candidates. "LOL anyone who s ever talked to me on a day-to-day basis knows that my family congregates every single day at 7:30pm to watch Wheel of Fortune for as long as I can remember." Mathew assumed she was just participating in the anniversary celebrations until she was asked to return to the show. She had no idea t...

Washington The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday over whether to reject a bill that would likely outlaw the social networking app TikTok in the US. Attorneys for TikTok, some of its users, and the Biden administration are presenting oral arguments to the court's nine justices, which has a conservative majority. A preliminary ruling is anticipated in the next days or hours. Enacted with widespread bipartisan support, the law mandates that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, which is based in China, sell out its stake in the company by January 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The platform that millions of Americans utilize would be prohibited if no sale occurred. TikTok and a few of its users filed a lawsuit to have the measure blocked, claiming it infrin...

Vince McMahon, a co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, will pay over $1.7 million to settle allegations that he concealed payment arrangements linked to sexual assault charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Friday. According to the SEC, McMahon made substantial misstatements in the company's 2018 and 2021 financial statements and evaded internal accounting controls at WWE. The SEC further stated that McMahon accepted the settlement without acknowledging or refuting its conclusions. He will reimburse WWE almost $1,331,000 and pay a $400,000 civil penalty. Executives of the company are not allowed to sign significant contracts on the firm's behalf and keep that information secret from the auditor and control functions. In a statement, the New York Regional Offic...

Grammy-nominated singer and former beauty queen Anita Bryant passed away on December 16. Bryant gained notoriety in the 1970s for her opposition to homosexual rights. She was eighty-four. According to an obituary published Thursday in Oklahoma City's The Oklahoman, Bryant passed away at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, surrounded by family and loved ones. Before winning the title of Miss Oklahoma at the age of 18, she had a promising musical career as a young girl. As an adult, Bryant's musical career took off, and she sang at the Super Bowl in 1971 as well as the 1968 Democratic and Republican national conventions. At the burial of President Lyndon B. Johnson, she performed the Battle Hymn of the Republic. In the 1970s, Bryant once more rose to national notoriety as the television face of Co...

NASA said Friday that global temperatures broke records for the second consecutive year, making last year the hottest on record. According to the agency's analysis, 2024 had the highest temperatures since at least 1880. 2023 was previously dubbed the warmest year on record for the world. The consecutive milestones are a part of a continuing warming trajectory that has been foreseen by many climate models and about which climate experts have long warned. The temperature record has been broken once more. According to a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, 2024 was the hottest year since records have been kept since 1880. Understanding our changing globe is more critical than ever, especially in light of the record-breaking heat and the ongoing wildfires that endanger our Califor...

Washington The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday over whether to reject a bill that would likely outlaw the social networking app TikTok in the US. Attorneys for TikTok, some of its users, and the Biden administration are presenting oral arguments to the court's nine justices, which has a conservative majority. A preliminary ruling is anticipated in the next days or hours. Enacted with widespread bipartisan support, the law mandates that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, which is based in China, sell out its stake in the company by January 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The platform that millions of Americans utilize would be prohibited if no sale occurred. TikTok and a few of its users filed a lawsuit to have the measure blocked, claiming it infrin...

Washington The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday over whether to reject a bill that would likely outlaw the social networking app TikTok in the US. Attorneys for TikTok, some of its users, and the Biden administration are presenting oral arguments to the court's nine justices, which has a conservative majority. A preliminary ruling is anticipated in the next days or hours. Enacted with widespread bipartisan support, the law mandates that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, which is based in China, sell out its stake in the company by January 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The platform that millions of Americans utilize would be prohibited if no sale occurred. TikTok and a few of its users filed a lawsuit to have the measure blocked, claiming it infrin...

The United States added a startling 256,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4.1%, meaning that President Joe Biden will leave office with a rather strong labor market. Both numbers, which were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, exceeded Wall Street projections and compare favorably to historical averages. The Dow Jones survey of analysts predicted that the unemployment rate would stay at 4.2% in December and that only 155,000 new jobs would be created. When taken separately, the most recent data show that the U.S. economy has mostly succeeded in achieving the "soft landing" scenario that Biden desired: comparatively low inflation and unemployment. Although hiring has significantly slowed over the previous year, layoffs are still very low...

The president-elect was sentenced to an unconditional discharge by the New York judge who heard Donald Trump's hush money case on Friday. This means that, although he is now a convicted felon under New York state law, he will not be subject to any additional punishments. A somber Trump stated, "This has been a very terrible experience," while addressing the judge virtually from his Florida residence. He claimed that it was done to harm my reputation in order to cause me to lose the race. "I am completely innocent. He insisted, "I didn't do anything wrong." Ten days before Trump is scheduled to take the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States, he was sentenced. Before imposing his sentence, Judge Juan Merchan stated, "This court has never before been presented with such a ...

The Summary Exceptionally dry conditions and strong Santa Ana winds have fueled the dangerous fires in Los Angeles. Southern California has been abnormally dry for months, even in what is typically the rainy season. Devastating blazes are expected to become more frequent as climate change amplifies the ingredients that help wildfires ignite and spread. A frightening triple combination of extreme conditions—a protracted drought, an extremely dry winter, and strong Santa Ana winds—has sparked multiple out-of-control wildfires in the Los Angeles area. As of Friday, 10 people have been killed and over 9,000 buildings had been burned by the fast-moving fires that had devoured the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, as well as portions of the Hollywood Hills, Pasadena, Altadena, Sy...