Blue Beetle aims to make all feel 'welcome to our Latino heritage stories', says director
The director of 'Blue Beetle' has insisted it's not just a movie for Latinos.
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Madonna unveils rescheduled Celebration Tour dates
Madonna has had to cancel five North American tour dates and changed some venues.
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Utah man arrested for posing as doctor and selling fake Covid cure after three years on the run
A man in Utah has been arrested after allegedly posing as a doctor and making at least $2m by selling a fake cure for Covid-19. He evaded arrest for almost three years. Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, who lives in Cedar Hills, Utah, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he was charged in 2020 with seven felonies, including mail and wire fraud, selling of misbranded drugs with intent to defraud and mislead, the US attorney’s office in the state said on Monday. He allegedly sold a "structural alkaline silver" online and claimed that the drug "resonates or vibrates at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the (COVID-19) virus, making the virus incapable" of infecting humans, court documents said. He posed to his customers as an "anti-ageing medical doctor" with PhD degrees in immunology and naturopathic medicine, it said. A warrant for Mr Padersen was issued in August 2020 when he failed to appear in a court for the indictment, leading to a three-year manhunt. The arrest in the case comes a month after he was spotted on surveillance camera footage at a gas station around 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. Mr Padersen promoted his fake cure through YouTube videos, Facebook posts, podcasts and websites, wearing a white lab coat with “Dr” monogrammed on it. “There is no drug that man has made that can do the same,” he said in his podcast interview in March 2020. “If you have the silver in you, when the virus arrives, the silver can isolate and eliminate the virus,” he added. He maintained that his silver product can destroy Covid-19 virus in an interview with federal agents but acknowledged that his credentials were exaggerated. He had been promoting a cure for diseases such as arthritis, diabetes and pneumonia, since 2014. But he substantially profited between January and April 2020 when he made approximately $2m in sales from the company he co-owned, My Doctor Suggests, according to court records. The US District Court for Utah filed a restraining order against Mr Pedersen to stop him from selling the products by labelling them cure-alls, the Justice Department said at that time. Following three years of evading authorities, Mr Pedersen was identified by a Food and Drug Administration special agent on 5 July, while he was in a vehicle registered under his wife’s name, Julia Currey, according to prosecutors. The agent tracked the vehicle to a gas station, where Mr Pedersen was captured on a surveillance camera, as stated by prosecutors. His indictment was part of a task force created by attorney general Merric Garland in 2021 to prosecute businesses and entities that tried to “profit unlawfully from the pandemic. His lawyer is yet to comment on the development. Read More Marjorie Taylor Greene addresses online conspiracy theory linking her to Jan 6 pipe bomber Trump claims mystery press conference report clears him of Georgia election charges – live updates Trump shares moody new video with poem voiceover about ‘suffering to win’
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Carlsberg Profit Shows Drinkers Willing to Swill Pricier Beers
Carlsberg A/S reported better-than-expected half-year profit after consumers shelled out more money for premium beers even after unprecedented
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Column-Bonds, emerging stocks eye 'geo-investment' switches: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON August has been rough so far for emerging market stocks and western government bonds,
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Tesla Cuts China Prices For the Second Time in Three Days
Tesla Inc. made its second round of price cuts in China this week, further fueling concerns of reigniting
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Vietnam's VinFast faces stern EV sales test to retain eye-popping valuation
By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio HANOI Vietnam's EV champion VinFast has managed to sell Wall Street on
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UK inflation rate slows to 6.8% in July
LONDON British annual consumer price inflation slowed to 6.8% in July, figures from the Office for National Statistics
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Germany's Cabinet is set to approve a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis possession and sale
Germany’s Cabinet is set to approve a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, setting the scene for the European Union’s most populous member to decriminalize possession of limited amounts and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy the substance for recreational purposes
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Stock market today: Asia shares decline as faltering Chinese economy sets off global slide
Asian shares have declined amid worries over discouraging data on China, as well as over the future of the U.S. economy
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Philippines risks investment grade rating if it can't reform military pensions - finance chief
MANILA The Philippines risks losing its investment grade rating if it fails to reform an "unsustainable" military and
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Intel to Call Off $5.4 Billion Tower Deal Without Chinese Approval
Intel Corp. is expected to call off its planned $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. as time
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