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There’s been a whole lot of chatter on-line a couple of rumor between an sudden pairing – actress Jennifer Aniston and former President Barack Obama. Whereas we don’t have something official, how did this rumor even begin?

Final yr, the tabloid “In Contact” splashed its cowl with a headline claiming to disclose “The Reality About Jen and Barack.” The story shortly sparked rumors, fueling widespread discussions on-line.

“The Aniston ‘affair’ consideration was undesirable and Michelle felt let down by all of it. However the actuality is they’re extra like associates in the intervening time.” – In Contact

On Jimmy Kimmel Dwell final October, Aniston addressed the rumor, joking that she wasn’t mad on the rumor, however it’s completely not true. It is very important be aware that “In Contact” has a historical past of allegedly reporting sensationalized tales about celebrities that always lack verifiable sources.

In the meantime, latest feedback from Meghan McCain on her podcast Wednesday reignited the Obama rumor mill, this time centered on the previous president and first woman.

“I’m not speaking about TMZ. I’m not speaking about Perez Hilton… I’m speaking about like very critical journalists telling me that they’re listening to that the Obama divorce rumors are true.” – Meghan McCain

Hypothesis about Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage has additionally been gaining steam, partially due to Michelle’s absence from latest high-profile occasions.

The previous first woman was noticeably absent from each former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Trump’s inauguration, including to the rumors.

A spokesperson for Michelle did affirm she was not at President Carter’s funeral however didn’t present an evidence. CNN stories she had a scheduling battle.

Regardless of the chatter, Barack posted a loving birthday tribute to Michelle this month, writing, “You fill each room with heat, knowledge, humor, and style – and also you look good doing it. I’m so fortunate to have the ability to tackle life’s adventures with you. Love you!”

There was no concrete proof or official statements to assist both the Jennifer Aniston rumors or claims of a divorce between Michelle and Barack. For now, these tales seem like hypothesis unfold by means of social media and tabloid buzz.

Australian Open 2025 – Aryna Sabalenka vs Madison Keys head-to-head

The 2025 Australian Open ultimate would be the sixth assembly between Sabalenka and Keys, simply three months after Sabalenka was victorious on the Beijing Open spherical of 16.

Certainly, the Belarusian world primary has received 4 of their 5 encounters on the WTA tour, together with two Grand Slam victories in 2023 at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Keys’ sole victory in opposition to Sabalenka got here on the German Open in Berlin 4 years in the past, the place she got here by means of a decent three-set encounter to achieve the quarter-finals.

The standout conflict got here on the 2023 US Open semi-final: Keys started with a 6-0 first set bagel, earlier than Sabalenka got here again to win tiebreaks within the second and third units to achieve the ultimate at Flushing Meadows.

Police in Plymouth say they’re trying to find a suspect following a “critical assault” within the West Hoe space of the town.

Devon and Cornwall Police mentioned its officers had been known as at 20:55 GMT on Wednesday night after an individual was discovered significantly injured on West Hoe Highway. They had been handled by paramedics on the scene earlier than being taken to Derriford Hospital.

The sufferer and the attacker are believed to know one another, the power added.

On Thursday, police mentioned a scene guard remained in place on West Hoe Highway which has been closed.

Detectives are interesting for anybody with data to contact them.

Det Ch Insp Dave Pebworth mentioned there was a big police presence within the space and inquiries had been persevering with with officers finishing up a seek for the suspect.

“We imagine that is an remoted incident and there’s no rapid risk to the broader public,” he mentioned in a press release.

“We might ask members of the general public to please keep away from the West Hoe space of the town whereas we proceed our investigation,” he added.

With the New York Jets hiring Aaron Glenn to be their subsequent head coach, the Detroit Lions will obtain two additional draft picks, due to a 2020 modification to the NFL’s collective bargaining settlement because it pertains to the Rooney Rule.

The Lions get third-round draft picks within the 2025 and 2026 drafts beneath a rule that stipulates that if a group misplaced a minority govt or coach to a different group, that group receives compensatory picks. The 5-year-old rule was put in place to reward groups that develop minority coaches and entrance workplace personnel who go on to grow to be head coaches or common managers. For instance, when the Lions employed present common supervisor Brad Holmes from the Los Angeles Rams, the Rams obtained compensatory third-round picks within the 2021 and 2022 NFL drafts.

The Rams and San Francisco 49ers every had compensatory picks within the 2024 draft for shedding Raheem Morris (present Atlanta Falcons head coach) and Ran Carthon (former Tennessee Titans GM), respectively. The Rams and 49ers can have extra compensatory picks within the 2025 draft as properly.

For Glenn, the Jets job represents his first head teaching gig. Glenn, who performed as a defensive again, was a first-round draft decide by the Jets in 1994. He went on to play 15 NFL seasons with six completely different groups and was a three-time Professional Bowl choice. Glenn, who began his NFL teaching profession in 2014 as an assistant defensive backs coach, was the Lions’ defensive coordinator for the earlier 4 seasons.

What are compensatory draft picks?

Compensatory draft picks are designed to assist stability the extent of competitors in a league that prides itself on parity. Compensatory choices are offered to groups that endure main losses of key veteran gamers in free company.

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Compensatory draft picks are also offered to groups that lose minority assistant coaches or entrance workplace personnel to go teaching or common supervisor positions with different groups.

The compensatory choices are positioned on the backside of Rounds 3-7 and a complete of 32 choices are offered. The announcement of the compensatory picks for the 2025 NFL draft will are available March.

Based on Over The Cap, the 49ers, Lions and Rams will obtain compensatory picks for minority hirings in 2025, whereas the Minnesota Vikings (Kirk Cousins) and Miami Dolphins (Robert Hunt) are projected to obtain compensatory choices for free-agent losses.

What’s the Rooney Rule?

In 2003, the NFL adopted a rule that every group should interview at the least one minority candidate previous to deciding on a brand new head coach. The rule was named for late Pittsburgh Steelers proprietor Dan Rooney, who led the league’s variety committee.

The Rooney Rule has advanced over time, with the aforementioned 2020 addition to reward groups for creating minority head teaching and common supervisor expertise. In 2021, the league required each group to interview at the least two exterior minority candidates for open head teaching and common supervisor positions and at the least one exterior minority candidate for a coordinator place. The rule additionally was expanded to guarantee at the least one minority and/or feminine candidate be interviewed for senior stage entrance workplace positions.

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It’s uncommon {that a} 25-year-old instantly emerges as a £59m signing, virtually from nowhere.

Whereas Omar Marmoush has been a comparatively profitable goalscorer within the German Bundesliga for just a few seasons, he has needed to patiently watch for his large break earlier than being introduced as Manchester Metropolis’ s third January signing on Thursday after a prolific begin to the season.

He arrived in Germany from the Egyptian second division as an 18-year-old, having been noticed by ex-Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, spending a few seasons within the youth aspect earlier than making his senior debut in Might 2020.

Giggs, then an analyst for Uefa, noticed Marmoush at an under-17s event in Dubai and informed an agent about him, who alerted Pierre Littbarski, head of scouting at Wolfsburg.

“Marmoush was actually quick at the moment, took a number of dangers, was technically robust and did some stunning issues.” Littbarski mentioned later. “He was an uncut diamond.”

Wolfsburg invited Marmoush, 17 on the time, to a trial session and subsequently signed him for the membership’s youth academy.

“Think about this, he goes from Cairo to Wolfsburg – that could be a utterly completely different world,” Littbarski added.

“He simply needed to play. It is a typical avenue footballer. When he comes into such a passing-oriented system, then it isn’t straightforward.”

Again in 2021, the versatile ahead was surplus to necessities and despatched out on mortgage by Wolfsburg.

He had mortgage spells at St Pauli and Stuttgart, solely displaying his skills in spurts however by no means over the course of a full season.

It was the transfer from Wolfsburg to Frankfurt on a free in 2023 that turned Marmoush right into a sought-after striker that has now seen Manchester Metropolis purchase his providers.

Regardless of the intense inflow of money, Frankfurt weren’t completely satisfied when the Blues first contacted them a couple of potential January switch, as a result of Marmoush has develop into their life insurance coverage, repeatedly scoring game-winning objectives proper till the very finish.

Frankfurt can really feel grateful for the 37 objectives and 20 assists which he delivered in 67 video games however, on the similar time, the Egyptian should be grateful to Frankfurt and notably supervisor Dino Toppmoller for bringing out the very best in him.

After a 2-0 win over Dortmund final Friday, Marmoush, who didn’t play within the recreation, mentioned goodbye to the followers after which was celebrated by his team-mates.

A team-mate of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah for his nation, Marmoush has develop into one of many breakout stars in Europe this season with 20 objectives in 26 video games for Frankfurt – 15 within the Bundesliga.

German soccer professional Raphael Honigstein informed BBC Sport: “He’s actually dynamic, a large ahead who can play by way of the center.

“Some individuals have in contrast him to Mohamed Salah, maybe not as tough or as explosive however his ending is unbelievable.”

Birmingham are unbeaten of their final 14 video games in all competitions since dropping to Shrewsbury in late November, and are nicely on observe to sealing an immediate return to the Championship.

The Blues had been with out a variety of key gamers for final Saturday’s 1-0 victory in opposition to Exeter Metropolis, wherein they averted conceding a shot, and the likes of Park Seung-ho, Tomoki Iwata, Willum Willumsson and Keshi Anderson are more likely to miss out as soon as once more.

Birmingham ahead Jay Stansfield was on the double as they claimed all three factors from the primary assembly of the season between the 2 groups at St Andrew’s final September.

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Wrexham v Birmingham will happen on Thursday twenty third January 2025.

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Wrexham v Birmingham kick-off time

Wrexham v Birmingham will kick off at 8pm.

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You may watch the sport stay on Sky Sports activities Principal Occasion and Soccer from 7pm.

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ChatGPT is offline, leaving customers unable to speak to the AI chat app.

Guests to the web site noticed an error web page fairly than the standard chat choices, and official apps and different integrations with ChatGPT additionally gave the impression to be damaged.

The official standing web page of OpenAI, which makes the service, mentioned that it was seeing “elevated error charges” and that it was investigating the problem.

Monitoring web site Down Detector noticed an enormous surge in complaints about issues at round midday UK time, or 7am japanese. The timing meant that many took to different platforms to complain that that they had been left unable to make use of a software that was central to their work or examine.

“chatgpt down in the course of the workday i’m about to get fired pray for me,” wrote on consumer on X, alongside different complaints from individuals who mentioned they have been in the course of coding or writing essays and now needed to do the work themselves.

ChatGPT now has greater than 300 million folks utilizing it every week, OpenAI’s chief government Sam Altman introduced late final yr. Customers ship greater than a billion messages every day to the system, he mentioned.

The app was initially launched in 2022, and really shortly went onto turn into the fastest-growing launch ever. Since then, OpenAI has added new options and programs in addition to seeking to monetise it with paid entry to raised capabilities.

ChatGPT has additionally been built-in into a variety of different programs via its API, and OpenAI says that greater than 1.3 million builders have constructed on the system within the US. The outage additionally appeared to take down these third-party integrations.

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ChatGPT is working once more after an outage noticed the world’s best-known synthetic intelligence (AI) instrument taken offline.

Downdetector, which tracks web site outages, confirmed greater than 10,000 folks reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday.

Customers trying to entry it had been met with a message studying “the net server reported a foul gateway error”.

OpenAI mentioned on its standing web page a repair was carried out at 15:09 GMT, and the agency was “monitoring the outcomes”.

It has not but publicly commented on the reason for the outage, which started at round 11:00 GMT on Thursday.

Nevertheless, many individuals took to social media to spotlight the issue and the disruption it brought about them.

A few of these posting on X concerning the outage had been capable of see the humorous facet of the state of affairs, nevertheless.

“ChatGPT is down once more? Through the work day? So that you’re telling me I’ve to… THINK?!”, joked one person.

ChatGPT’s standing web page mentioned on the time the app had been “experiencing elevated error charges” and the agency was “investigating”.

Because it exploded onto the scene in November 2022, ChatGPT sparked monumental international curiosity – and funding – in generative AI instruments.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman mentioned that, by December 2024, ChatGPT was used weekly by greater than 300 million folks worldwide.

Although many individuals use the free model of the chatbot, the agency prices as much as $200 monthly for its varied membership tiers.

It comes after tech companies together with OpenAI pledged a $500bn (£405bn) funding into AI infrastructure within the US.