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Premier League
organizationMarc Cucurella has joined Chelsea on a six-year deal from Brighton. Chelsea willing to meet Leicester’s £85m asking price for Wesley Fofana. Shane Duffy has joined Fulham on a season long loan. Manchester United have had a £72m bid accepted by Barcelona.
Elon Musk
personElon Musk claims he was 'hoodwinked' into signing a deal to buy Twitter. Twitter has refuted such claims saying they are 'implausible and contrary to fact' The social media giant and the billionaire are set to go head-to-head in a trial.
Marc Cucurella
personMarc Cucurella is hours away from being confirmed as a Chelsea player. Chelsea beat off Manchester City to sign the left-back with a six-year contract. The fee for the Spaniard is understood to be £55m that could rise to £62m with add-ons.
Kyrsten Sinema
personSen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) signaled she would support the latest iteration of the legislation. The legislation is now on track for a final vote this weekend. The bill would tackle climate change, health care and tax reforms.
Twitter dismissed Elon Musk’s claims that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company. Musk made the claims in a countersuit that he filed under seal last Friday, which was made public on Thursday. Musk and Twitter will go to trial from October 17th to October 21st.
the Bank of England
organizationAverage price of a home was £293,221 last month, down 0.1% month on month. Economists predict job creation slowed in July, to 250,000 from 372,000. Average two-year fixed deal is now at 3.46 per cent, up from 1.35 per cent.
Crystal Palace
organizationArsenal beat Crystal Palace 2-0 in the Premier League season opener. Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko made their debuts for the Gunners. Patrick Vieira still hopes to get more players in before the transfer window closes.
the Bank of England
organizationConsumer Prices Index inflation will hit 13.3% in October. Bank of England has raised interest rates from 1.25% to 1.75%. It expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of this year. This would make it the longest downturn since the 2008 financial crisis.
Brittney Griner
personBrittney Griner found guilty of drug possession and smuggling by a Russian court. She was found with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in an airport in Moscow. The decision was swiftly condemned by U.S. President Joe Biden. The WNBA and NBA also issued a joint statement blasting the ruling.
WNBA
organizationRussian court finds WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty of deliberately smuggling drugs into the country. Attention now turns to the possibility of a high-stakes prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia. Justin Bieber, Mia Farrow, and Andy Cohen were among the celebrities expressing their displeasure.
Ron DeSantis
personFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren. Warren pledged not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender transition treatments for minors.
The Bank of England
organizationBank of England has increased its base rate by 0.5% to 1.75%. It is the biggest increase since the base rate was handed to the Bank in 1997. London's top index ended the day up 2.38 points, or 0.03%, at 7,448.06.
Alex Jones
personParents of slain child say Alex Jones led a "vile campaign of defamation" Jones was "patient zero" for the hoax theory, attorney says. Judge admonishes Jones for not being truthful during testimony. Jones said a $2 million penalty for defaming Sandy Hook families would "sink" Infowars.
Andrew Warren
personHillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren has been suspended. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Warren had “publicly put himself above the law’ Warren directed his office to let serious offenses slide and vowed not to enforce any laws regarding abortion.
Nancy Pelosi
personNancy Pelosi awarded the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon. The order is Taiwan’s highest civilian honour. China has vowed "consequences" and has said it will begin live fire drills close to Taiwan on Thursday.
HBO Max
organizationHBO Max, which has 73.8 million subscribers, likely to be gutted. Reports blame tax write-off strategy; HBO Max also quietly delists six films. Discovery+ focuses mainly on non-fiction productions and has 22 million subscribers.
House
organizationChina holds live-fire military drills in the air and sea around Taiwan. Move seen as retaliation toward US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi described Taiwan as "one of the freest societies in the world" China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that is part of mainland.
Chelsea
organizationChelsea are close to completing a £52.5m deal for Brighton defender Marc Cucurella. Brighton are understood to be pushing hard towards a separate deal for Chelsea’s highly-rated centre-back Levi Colwill. Chelsea are willing to offer Leicester City defender Wesley Fofana £200k-a-week. The Blues have agreed a deal for £15m Aston Villa wonderkid Carney Chukwuemeka.
Jackie Walorski
personRep. Jackie Walorski, 58, was riding in an SUV with her communications chief, Emma Thomson, and one of her district directors, Zachery Potts. Police say a northbound car travelled across the centre line and collided, head-on, with the congresswoman's vehicle, killing all three occupants. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff.
Vin Scully
personScully broadcast Dodgers games, first in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, starting in the spring of 1950. He began with the team as a 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University. He retired after 67 years behind the microphone, at the age of 88, in 2016.