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Rebekah Vardy has issued yet another swipe at Coleen Rooney as she competes on I'm A Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here! The WAG, who is married to Leicester footballer Jamie Vardy, hasn't held back her thoughts on Coleen following in her footsteps and taking part in the ITV show. Coleen famously accused Rebekah of leaking stories about her with an infamous social media post where she became dubbed Wagatha Christie. Rebekah has strongly denied all allegations. It emerged during the High Court libel trial her former agent, Caroline Watt, may have sold the stories as she had access to Rebekah's Instagram account. Rebekah, who appeared on I'm A Celebrity in 2017, kicked off high-profile libel battle but in July 2022 a judge at the High Court found the post was "substantially true". A judge decided last month that Rebekah would be slapped with an extra £100,000 cost on top of the £1.8 million she’s already been told to pay Coleen. Since this year's I'm A Celebrity started on Sunday, Rebekah has been giving a running commentary of her thoughts. She has already branded the campmates "dull and wet" and confessed her hopes of seeing Coleen eating "bull's penis and humble pie". When asked by the Sun who she wants to see do the next trial, Rebekah quipped: "Sorry it's going to have to be Coleen!" She also slammed BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough for "begging" for tickets to see McFly from campmate Danny Jones and predicted the camp niceties won't last much longer. Radio presenter Melvin Odoom faced the wrath of Rebekah as she banded him a "bore" when he confessed his crush on Carol Vorderman . "Melvin who? If Carol Vorderman has any sense then she will turning down that offer made of a date from the radio host," she told the publication. When Coleen entered camp, Rebekah posted a snap of herself bathing in a pink bikini with here eyes closed. Appearing relaxed in the photo, Rebekah teased: "The feeling when you are living rent free in people's heads." She added a laugh-crying emoji and a winking emoji to her post. After the first show of the series, Rebekah wrote in her column: “Coleen sank in the river twice. It's the gift that keeps on giving.” Rebekah has also given a harsh judgement on another campmate as she accused Dean McCullough of siding with Coleen. “Dean, Dean and his cosying up to Coleen. It’s so very obvious and, believe me, it is going to get tiresome. He absolutely loves to talk about Wagatha and when he does he knows he’s going to get airtime from it,” Rebekah raged in The Sun . Nicola McLean, who is friends with both of the women, thinks Rebekah would take every opportunity to watch Coleen and joyfully report on her failures in the show. "I admire strong women and both of these girls are strong in different ways. Can't wait to see Coleen in the jungle and can't wait to see what Rebekah Vardy has got to say about it,” she said. Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .O-Train service launch will be delayed on Dec. 1 for Stage 2 software integration workBrisbane news live: Man jailed for stabbing police officer who put gun away
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Donald Trump and his team have spent much of this year’s presidential transition gratuitously laughing at their vanquished Democratic foes, as the president-elect prepares to begin implementing his openly authoritarian platform next month. At Harvard University’s Campaign Managers Conference, a tradition in which top campaign aides review what happened in the presidential election, Team Trump got a chance to yuk it up and laugh at top Kamala Harris and Joe Biden aides right to their faces. During panel conversations held on Friday in a conference room on the fifth floor of a Harvard Kennedy School building, Trump campaign co-chief Chris LaCivita twice mocked the idea that Team Harris ran a “flawless” campaign — an idea floated the night prior by a top aide to Harris. “Flawless execution,” he replied after Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden-turned-Harris campaign chair, said she didn’t expect the first debate, between Trump and Biden, would greatly alter the race. (The debate went so badly, and Biden looked and sounded so frail, that he dropped out.) Speaking with Rolling Stone , LaCivita confirmed the “flawless” lines were specifically referencing comments made by the Harris campaign’s chief of staff, Sheila Nix, who said Thursday that Harris ran a “pretty flawless campaign” that “hit all our marks.” Nix made the comments to a gathering of students, political operatives, and reporters at a Thursday dinner hosted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics. The moment she made that remark at the dinner, numerous faces in the room — both Democratic and Republican — perked up in disbelief. Several were clearly suppressing uncomfortable laughter. “I thought it was humorous, so I’m not gonna let that go,” LaCivita told Rolling Stone on Friday afternoon, suggesting that Team Harris is “creating this perception that they couldn’t do anything to change the trajectory.” “I’m not here to rub anybody’s face in it,” he said, adding: “They raised $1.5 billion in 107 days, and they never had a message. They were running triple [or] quadruple the amount of creatives every week that we were.” Editor’s picks The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time And yet, it was indeed being rubbed in their faces. For much of Friday afternoon, five senior staffers of Trump 2024 were seated at tables, positioned just several yards away from a row of crimson-draped tables occupied by a similar number of Team Harris advisers. As an audience of journalists and political consultants looked on, the representatives of Team Trump and the Biden-then-Harris campaign stared directly at one another, as each side discussed the biggest chapters of the 2024 race: the debates, Biden’s exit, the assassination attempts on Trump’s life, and so much else. Eight years ago, when Harvard held this same event with veterans of the 2016 Hillary Clinton and Trump campaigns, the conference room quickly degenerated into a shouting match and “ goddamn food fight ” dominated by hurt feelings and accusations of white supremacy. This week, ahead of Friday’s panels, veterans of both presidential campaigns privately indicated that they were aware of the nasty anecdotes that emerged from the 2016 conference, and neither side wanted to give the press another “food fight” to cover. On the whole, 2024’s version was an exhibition of restraint and respectability compared to the melee of December 2016. Still, the Trump side of the room couldn’t help themselves from sporadically trolling, widely grinning, and laughing at their liberal counterparts — as well as the news media. To be fair, multiple Team Trump alums also spent time on Friday mocking former Trump opponent Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before a room full of reporters, just as President-elect Trump has actively considered making DeSantis his new pick for defense secretary. (One panel featured representatives from several GOP primary campaigns, but none from Team DeSantis.) Related Content Trump Laughs at ‘Thirsty’ Eric Adams for Kissing Up Trump Doubles Down on Hegseth as Nomination Hits the Skids Elon Musk Spent $239 Million on His Pro-Trump Super PAC — and Maybe More Elon Musk Bankrolled the Pro-Trump Troll Campaign RBG PAC “We all pay too much attention to national publications,” Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio said. “First of all, what percent of Americans get their news from newspapers these days?” Rolling Stone did not take it personally; we are a magazine. Meanwhile, the senior Harris and Biden officials had no choice but to sit there and take it, mostly alternating between stone-faced expressions, morose looks, and irritated demeanor. Throughout the event, the Trump campaign aides generally offered a more candid, comprehensive explanation of how their candidate targeted and assembled a winning coalition than Team Harris gave for why theirs lost. “We lost,” O’Malley Dillon punctuated, matter of factly, repeatedly over the course of the day’s events. She did not seem keen to relitigate some of Harris’ decisions — particularly the candidate’s disinterest in making a sharper break from Biden. Every once in a while, the opponents shared a lighthearted moment or friendly chuckle, such as when both camps laughed at the idea that Harris might win deep-red Iowa. At one moment during the panel, LaCivita joked that the Harris campaign aides were suggesting they personally believed that Biden could win the race — before he imploded and dropped out — while simultaneously arguing that Harris “never had a chance,” as he put it. “We are here because we think it’s important to, of course, be respectful, and we have a story to tell that is about what we saw, and we believe in who we work for,” O’Malley Dillon responded, adding that she wanted to send a message to “young people that work on all these campaigns” that it’s “good and honorable, and that you can lose and still believe in what you do.” It wasn’t quite as sad as when Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton 2016 communications director, exclaimed to Team Trump: “I would rather lose than win the way you guys did!” Is there an honorable way to lose to Donald Trump? As the final panel neared its conclusion in the late afternoon, Team Trump infuriated Team Harris by pointing out that Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance did many more interviews than Harris — with Trump campaign aide and incoming White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich putting an extremely fine point on it. “Donald Trump outworked her,” Budowich said. “The Trump campaign outworked the Harris campaign in every single way.” He added, “Why didn’t you put her out more? You said earlier that you couldn’t ever compete with the amount of attention Donald Trump got. You never gave her a shot.” Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for Harris, said the Trump campaign “had a better strategy” and “won,” but that “our candidate also worked hard.” He noted that anything they said, after losing this race, might sound like a defense: “We lost the race.” “I honestly respect that,” said Budowich, before adding: “Ron DeSantis’ team didn’t show up.”‘A Monumental Day’: Boys & Girls Clubs opens first Harker Heights locationSVPI airport’s innovative approach to energy efficiency wins NECA 2024
This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here . 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are Winning week for markets Major U.S. indexes rose on Friday to end the week in the green , despite mega-cap stocks Nvidia and Alphabet dropping. Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose on Monday . Mainland China's CSI 300 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index were the exceptions, with the former falling around 0.7%. Trump nominates Treasury secretary U.S. President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Scott Bessent , founder of the hedge fund Key Square Group, as his Treasury secretary. Like Trump, Bessent is in favor of gradual tariffs and deregulation to support domestic business and address trade imbalances. Bessent was chosen over former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and private equity executive Marc Rowan. China's central bank maintains loan rate The People's Bank of China kept its medium-term lending facility rate unchanged at 2.0%, according to the bank's statement on Monday. The rate affects around 900 billion yuan ($124.26 billion) worth of one-year loans to some financial institutions. Economists had expected the move, and forecast the MLF to drop to 1.2% at the end of 2025. Climate deal at COP29 At the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, developed nations pledged to provide $300 billion annually to poorer countries to tackle climate change. This deal replaces an earlier commitment to provide $100 billion a year. Meanwhile, Sir Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin, said that "we can overcome climate change" if "everybody focused together." [PRO] Interest rates back in focus This week, the October personal consumption expenditures price index, out Wednesday, will dominate attention . "This might be one of the last big key pieces of data" for the U.S. Federal Reserve before its December meeting, said a fund manager. Minutes for the November meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, releasing a day prior, will give investors more insight into the pace of future rate cuts. Money Report UniCredit offers to buy rival Italian lender Banco BPM for $10.5 billion Can Saudi Arabia keep pace with its ambitious mega-project spending spree? Big-name tech and chip stocks faltered last week. Despite almost doubling its third-quarter revenue , compared with a year earlier, Nvidia shares fell 3.2% on Friday, capping off a bumpy week during which the stock fluctuated between the red and the green. Google-parent Alphabet , meanwhile, ended the week almost 5% lower after the U.S. Department of Justice recommended the company divest its Chrome browser as a remedy to its antitrust case. And Amazon , its Big Tech counterpart, retreated 3.4% during the week. That said, major indexes managed to reverse the previous week's dip. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 2% higher for the week and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both climbed around 1.7%. Even though other Magnificent Seven stocks did contribute to that, buoyant markets mostly have companies less in the spotlight, like Super Micro Company , to thank. Likewise, small-cap stocks, which have languished behind their bigger cousins for years, seem to be staging a comeback as interest rates fall and Trump is poised to reenter the White House. The Russell 2000 ended the week 4.5% higher, outperforming the above three indexes. "Investors are rotating out of the previous high flyers of large-cap communication services and technology and into other cyclical sectors of consumer discretionary, industrials, and financials, as well as mid- and small-cap stocks," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. And bitcoin , once dismissed by most mainstream investors and institutions as an esoteric plaything that did not seem to have any inherent value, is close to shattering the $100,000 ceiling. That said, this inversion isn't likely to last. "On the back of strong expected revenue growth in 2025, we maintain our positive view on the AI compute industry and NVIDIA in particular," UBS analyst Sundeep Gantori wrote in a Thursday note. Despite a temporary dip, the AI play will likely remain the main theme for the markets next year. — CNBC's Pia Singh, Alex Harring and Jesse Pound contributed to this report. Also on CNBC Small- and mid-caps stole the limelight last week Expectations can move shares in strange ways — just look at Nvidia Expectations can be an irrational thing. Just look at Nvidia
Via Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports, Brady had a direct role in helping Michigan secure quarterback Bryce Underwood. While a reported commitment of $12 million might have helped, Brady got involved. “A FaceTime conversation between Brady and Underwood a few weeks ago marked the beginning of their relationship, which grew over multiple conversations,” Zenitz reports. That’s fine, in isolation. But now that Brady has a vested interested in boosting the Raiders, he’ll need to tread lightly in his work as a Michigan booster. From the NFL’s tampering policy, as it relates to college players: “No club, nor any person employed by or otherwise affiliated with a club or the League (including a player), is permitted to tamper with college players who are ineligible for selection or participation in the League. Direct or indirect attempts to induce underclassmen to petition the League for special eligibility or to declare to the League their desire to enter the League under the early-graduation rule are prohibited. Club personnel who make public comments about the football ability or NFL potential of underclassmen who have not yet been officially declared eligible for the draft will be subject to discipline by the Commissioner.” In his role as a supporter of the Michigan program, Brady’s motivation would be to advice Underwood to stay put. But if the Raiders need a quarterback and would be in position to draft Underwood, Brady would be prohibited for directly or indirectly trying to persuade Underwood to go to the NFL early. As written, the rule doesn’t prohibit other things that Brady could do to help the Raiders while also ostensibly helping Underwood. If, for example, Underwood is thinking about leaving Michigan (and possibly being drafted by a team with which the Raiders regularly compete), Brady would be permitted to persuade Underwood to stay in school. Likewise, Brady would be permitted to try to persuade Underwood to refuse to play for certain teams. Still, there has to be a limit to what Brady can do for Underwood, if the friendship grows and Brady becomes an unofficial adviser. Ultimately, the league might need to come up with a set of rules aimed at keeping Brady from using situations like this to the benefit of the Raiders. The league has already done that regarding Brady’s job as a broadcaster. Given his name and reputation and accomplishments, the league might need to consider ways to ensure that Brady won’t try to put his thumb on the scale for the Raiders under the guise of mentoring young players at Michigan or elsewhere.
Wealth creation initially began to hedge against bad times. But as society got complex, wealth creation has become an end in itself for people. Free markets and technology enhanced the ability of businesses to make money by several thousand times, bringing in the need for regulation to keep capitalism in sync with the larger welfare of the society. In one of such actions, the US department of justice plans to force Alphabet, the holding company of search giant Google and mobile operating system Android, to sell its popular web browser Chrome. It also plans to order Alphabet to sell the Android software that runs most smartphones or stop making Google services mandatory for running Android software. The proposals are most appropriate and would go a long way in democratising technology and economy. It augurs well for the US economy as well as the global economy. In the past, America had invoked these provisions to break the stranglehold of companies that have almost become monopolies in their market. In 1911, the US government broke Standard Oil, an oil monopoly in the US which produced its first billionaire John Davison Rockefeller Sr, into 36 new entities. In 1999, it ordered the splitting of Microsoft to break its hold on browser Internet Explorer. Though Microsoft escaped the split, it stopped making Internet Explorer the default web browser in the Windows operating system. This later on resulted in Google Chrome displacing Internet Explorer and offering cloud-based programmes. It is generally believed that as an organisation grows it becomes bureaucratic and status quoist. If such an organisation is allowed to acquire a monopoly on business, it will not only stop the emergence of new companies, but also hinder the growth of new ideas and entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, companies question the fairness in antitrust action against companies which spend millions of dollars and years of efforts to create a successful product. However, the overall welfare of a society will have precedence over the interests of an organisation. Therefore, no company can be allowed to milk its invention in perpetuity.
