• Sky News

    Three Macarthur FC players arrested for alleged illegal betting in Australia's A-League

    Three players for an Australian football club have been arrested for allegedly manipulating the number of yellow cards they received in several A-League matches last year. Investigations found a senior player at Macarthur FC was allegedly taking instructions from a man, believed to be in South America, to organise players taking yellow cards during the matches for money, New South Wales (NSW) state police said. Yellow cards were allegedly manipulated during games on 24 November 2023 and 9 December 2023.

  • The Daily Beast

    House Oversight Committee Hearing Goes Totally Off the Rails Thanks to MTG

    TwitterA House Oversight Committee hearing—which was supposed to be cover contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday night—quickly devolved into chaos after repeated interruptions from a certain far-right representative from Georgia.The meeting, originally intended to advance a measure to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over audio of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, quickly fell off the rails, with Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

  • AFP

    Chinese officials meet to mull support for developers: Bloomberg

    Chinese leaders are meeting Friday with top housing officials to discuss a possible plan for the government to buy millions of unsold homes in a bid to support the struggling property sector, Bloomberg reported.Among those plans could be a scheme by Beijing to have local governments purchase millions of unsold homes across the country, Bloomberg said.