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- Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident 8 comments
- Colorado to become first state to provide public housing benefits regardless of immigration status, state officials say https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/30/public-housing-immigration-status-colorado-first-state/ 21 comments politics
- Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident 3 comments law
- [Decalspotters] Amazon Web Services will be the Title Partner of the CanadianGP in 2022, with F1 returning to Montreal for the first time since 2019. @F1 started using @awscloud back in 2018 as their Official Cloud and Machine Learning Provider. https://twitter.com/decalspotters/status/1532004971859804163 44 comments formula1
- [Official] UEFA has for the first time allocated €4.5m to a compensation scheme to European clubs that are providing players to the Women's Euro 2022. A similar "club benefits programme" is already in place for the men's Euro since 2008. https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/football-development/news/0276-15749f7c88a6-0734ba1ae63d-1000--q-a-women-s-euro-financial-distribution/ 5 comments soccer
- Chiliz CHZ and Socios.com, the leading global blockchain provider for the sports and entertainment industry, and the Philadelphia 76ers announced today an official team partnership. This is Socios.com’s first partnership with an NBA team. https://www.nba.com/sixers/2021/06/18/76ers-partner-with-socios 15 comments cryptocurrency
- [The PWHL] New threads incoming! As the first Official Jersey Partner of the PWHL, Bauer will become the league’s exclusive jersey provider with new designs unveiled prior to the 2024-25 season. https://twitter.com/thepwhlofficial/status/1788555253178106064 39 comments hockey
- Pennsylvania election officials sent a postcard to unregistered eligible voters in 2016 encouraging the recipients to register to vote, and providing instructions on how to do so. This increased registration and turnout by 1 percentage point, with the strongest impact on young, first-time voters. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-020-09625-2 405 comments science
- Reporter’s diary: in the seventh straight week of Shanghai’s lockdown, it feels like I’m living in a parallel universe 'As I enjoyed the dim sum, I watched a live television broadcast where local officials, for the first time, provided a timeline for a gradual return to normal life in this city' https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3178398/reporters-diary-seventh-straight-week-shanghais-lockdown-it-feels?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage 9 comments china
- The United States plans to increase non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, including deliveries of the first Humvee vehicles, having decided for now not to provide weapons, U.S. officials said. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-exclusive-iduskcn0j426u20141120 46 comments worldnews
- A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II. http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/07/27/breaking-news/newly-released-1941-memo-says-emperor-hirohito-at-ease-with-attack-on-pearl-harbor/ 6 comments worldnews
- For the first time, the @PLMatchCentre X account will provide near-live explainers and updates on operational and officiating matters for every Premier League match https://x.com/plmatchcentre?s=21&t=AN8F8KX1_pQw15-ZZq8rvQ 11 comments soccer
- "The first idea considered by US officials was to bomb the house using B2 stealth bombers, which could drop 2000lb Joint Direct Attack Munitions. President Obama, however, rejected this option, opting for a raid that would provide definitive proof bin Laden was inside and avoid civilian casualties." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/death_of_osama_bin_laden 6 comments politics