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FIFA raised Gianni Infantino's base salary 33% last year to lift his total pay package to 4.13 million Swiss francs ($4.67 million), soccer’s governing body says in its financial report. FIFA has budgeted for total revenue of $11 billion in the four-year financial cycle from 2023 through 2026 with Saudi sponsors including state oil firm Aramco expected to join longtime partners Coca-Cola, Adidas and Visa. Most of FIFA’s commercial income is tied to the men’s
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Mikaela Shiffrin won by 54 hundredths of a second in Saturday's slalom in Saalbach, Austria, combining times from two runs. She is skipping the last three races of the season due to a lack of training in the disciplines coming back from a Jan. 26 downhill crash. There are a world championships, where she can break the all-time medals record of 15 if she makes two podiums.
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José Andrés, 54, is a Spanish-born chef who moved to the U.S. years ago to work in restaurants in New York City and Washington, D.C. He volunteered at DC Central Kitchen, which repurposes food in the city to provide for those in need. In April 2022, Andrés and his team were on the ground serving food out of a restaurant in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the wildfires, and to Japan following earthquakes.
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Long Covid has qualified as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) since July 2021, but resulting in around $200 billion in lost wages. In the past four years, it has cost us careers, sources of income, homes, relationships, and in some cases, our identity. Many of us are immunocompromised: some, for the first time, and others after years of living with other chronic conditions. It’s a return to the halcyon days of ignoring the possibility
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2 years ago Read more at Rolling Stone

Asteroids, Elite, Guitar Hero, Metroid, Myst, Neopets, Resident Evil, SimCity, Tokimeki Memorial, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and You Don’t Know Jack. Three or four of the finalists will be inducted in May. The Hall of Fame recognizes games for their longevity, geographic reach and influence on video game design and pop culture.
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Utah's carbon dioxide emissions average out to about 18 tons per person per year. That is about 312 tons more than the average American. The Beehive State’s ranking rises to 19th when compared on a per capita basis.
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2 years ago Read more at Salt Lake Tribune

India has kicked off its two and a half month long parliamentary election to decide who will rule the South Asian nation. On Saturday, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for a democratic exercise that is unmatched in scale globally, and in history. They will elect 543 politicians to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.
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2 years ago Read more at Al Jazeera English

The United States suffers the world’s second-highest toll from major weather disasters, according to a new analysis. Property damages from hurricanes, severe convective storms, flooding and winter storms cost nearly 0.4 percent of U.S. gross domestic product every year. The only country in the study identified as facing a bigger share of property damages was the Philippines.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

Nvidia has become a candidate to overtake Microsoft and Apple as the largest company in the world. It's still a sizable gap to close, but it may happen sooner than you think if the right circumstances occur. The GPU excels at crunching through arduous workloads, which often have over 1,000 GPUs. For the current quarter, that trend is expected to continue as management projects $24 billion in revenue.
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The Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue releases its annual message for the Islamic month of Ramadan. It urges all religious believers to extinguish "the fires of hatred, violence, and war, and instead light the gentle candle of peace. The Message of 'Id Al-Fitr addressed to our Muslim brothers and sisters.
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2 years ago Read more at Vatican News