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A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) took off from London on a flight to New York on Tuesday, as the aviation world seeks to showcase the potential of low-carbon options to secure its future. As the world de-carbonizes, airlines are banking on fuel made from waste to reduce their emissions by up to 70%, enabling them to keep operating before electric and hydrogen-powered air travel becomes a reality in the future. Aviation accounts for an estimated 2-3% of global carbon emissions. SAF is key toward reducing those emissions, but it’s costly, at about three to…

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an Upper Peninsula teenager in a dispute over a school threat and the right to remain silent when questioned by police in the principal’s office.Authorities in Alger County can’t use the boy’s incriminating statements against him because he wasn’t given a Miranda warning, the court said in a 3-0 opinion last week.The court said the case broke new ground in Michigan: It could not find a legal precedent that “substantively addressed the situation” in Munising.WHAT IS THE FIFTH AMENDMENT? THE FIVE ESSENTIAL RIGHTS IT PROTECTSIn 2021, a 13-year-old boy was pulled…

U.S. consumer confidence rose in November after three straight monthly declines, with Americans planning big-ticket purchases like motor vehicles and houses over the next six months even as they continued to fret over higher prices and interest rates. Despite the rebound in morale, which was driven by an improvement in expectations, about two-thirds of consumers surveyed this month still perceived a recession to be “somewhat” or “very likely” to happen over the next year, the survey from the Conference Board showed on Tuesday. Most economists are, however, not forecasting a recession, but rather a period of very slow growth. Those…

A former high-ranking guard at a federal prison in Virginia has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to help an inmate who suffered a medical emergency and later died, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.Michael Anderson, 52, was a lieutenant at a medium-security prison in Petersburg. He was the second-highest ranking officer there during several hours when the inmate’s health crisis took place in 2021.The inmate, identified only as W.W., exhibited sudden symptoms that included incoherence and the inability to stand, according to court filings by federal prosecutors. He continuously fell inside his cell and later in a…

Charlie Munger, the longtime vice chairman and second-in-command to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, died on Tuesday morning at a California hospital. Munger was 99, and would have turned 100 on Jan. 1. He died peacefully, Berkshire said. No cause was given. “Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its present status without Charlie’s inspiration, wisdom and participation,” Buffett, Berkshire’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. Munger had been a Berkshire vice chairman since 1978, working closely with Buffett on allocating the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate’s capital, and being quick to tell him when he was making a…

For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some, if not all, of what he won for many of them. Those clients got to look Murdaugh in the eye Tuesday and tell him how he had destroyed their trust, as the disgraced lawyer was sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing about $12 million. “I’m not crying for what he stole from me. I’m crying for what he did to everybody,” said Jordan Jinks, a…

A Florida woman was arrested after allegedly attempting to use counterfeit bills at a Walmart, trying to sneak out of the store with more than $800 worth of items she did not pay for and, while being detained by police, trying to eat the fake cash.Zipporah Abraham, 38, was charged with third-degree grand theft and uttering forged bills after the incident at a Walmart store in North Miami Beach on Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit, FOX 35 Orlando reported.A Walmart loss prevention officer was alerted that a customer was attempting to use counterfeit money to pay for items, the…

A woman who was shocked in the back with a Taser while lying on the ground in Pueblo, Colorado, last year is suing the police officer who stunned her and the city’s police chief, accusing the police department of failing to report excessive force by the officer to state regulators.The federal lawsuit filed Sunday by Cristy Gonzales, who was suspected of stealing a vehicle, says the police department found Cpl. Bennie Villanueva used excessive force against Gonzales and another person several weeks later. However, it says the agency withheld the information from a state board which oversees who is qualified…

Get all the essential market news and expert opinions in one place with our daily newsletter. Receive a comprehensive recap of the day’s top stories directly to your inbox. Sign up here! (Kitco News) – Digital IDs linked to a social credit score and a programmable digital currency could be a reality by 2030, based on the UN’s agenda for the next decade. Mandatory digital identification and centralized control are also on the agenda of the group of billionaire elites called “Controligarchs,” according to Seamus Bruner, best-selling author, investigative journalist, and Director of Research at…

Overweight or obese adults lost more weight and shed pounds faster using Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro than those taking Novo Nordisk’s popular rival weight loss drug, according to an analysis of health records and other data. Within one year of starting treatment, 42.3% of those taking tirzepatide – the active ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound – had lost at least 15% of their weight, compared with 19.3% among patients taking semaglutide – the main ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, the study published on medRxiv in advance of peer review found. After accounting for individual risk factors, patients taking Mounjaro were 76%…