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• Israel's invasion of Gaza could turn the war into a regional conflict, experts said.
• "Escalations have a way of taking life on their own," a retired US Army colonel told Insider.
• Dale Buckner said Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and the US could be sucked

• Neanderthals skillfully hunted giant cave lions, a study showed for the first time. 
• The findings suggest the animals were carefully pelted, maybe for some kind of ritualistic purpose.
• It adds to a body of evidence suggesting Neanderthals weren't the brutes we once thought they were. 

Neanderthals hunt

• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sounded the alarm on a series of risks looming over global markets.
• "This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades," he said.
• Dimon pointed to geopolitical turmoil, the Fed's quantitative tightening, and soaring debts.

As headwinds keep stacking up against global markets, investors might be operating in the most

Anybody who played Cyberpunk 2077 would immediately recognize the name Victor Vektor, the affable and surprisingly kind ripper doc who plays a pivotal role in the game’s opening segments. He’s also featured in CD Projekt Red’s new Phantom Liberty expansion, but those playing the Polish version of the DLC will find…

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• Execs at a healthcare conference debated whether employers should pay for workers' weight-loss drugs.
• A Blackstone exec warned that the costly GLP-1 drugs could put some employers out of business.
• Panelists agreed that companies covering the drugs should do so as part of a broader support program. 

As more people seek

President Joe Biden is reportedly considering a new measure that hopes to block the small number of American chips that still make their way to China, in spite of an export ban, according to Reuters Friday. A United States rule restricting the export of advanced chips to China was revised this week, and yesterday went…

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters wants to introduce some new Titans to Legendary’s Godzilla universe. Get a look at the return of the world of Orphan Black in Echoes’ new trailer. Plus, a new poster for Hunger Games prequel Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and updates on the future of Gen V. Spoilers, away!

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• The conflict in Israel is having repercussions in Michigan, putting two progressive Democrats at odds.
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib is accusing Rep. Shri Thanedar of being too "busy posting memes" to do his job.
• It came after Thanedar made a show of leaving the DSA and

Microsoft finalized its purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. for $69 billion after it received approval from UK regulators on Friday. The Xbox maker’s acquisition of the gaming company known for its Call of Duty franchise marks the end of a nearly two-year fight with regulators who attempted to block the deal.

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On Christmas Day 2021, a man took a crossbow to Windsor Castle with plans to kill Queen Elizabeth II. (He failed.) In court, the would-be assassin claimed he’d been egged on by a virtual companion named Sarai on the AI platform Replika. A virtual friend “always agrees

• US housing affordability has sharply eroded over the last several years. 
• High interest rates and home prices, as well as rising insurance costs, have spread to every state in the country.
• Moody's strategists broke down the repercussions of unaffordability and illustrated it in the chart below. 

Thanks to high mortgage rates, e