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Shares of Chinese shopping website Alibaba fell as much as 3% on Monday. The prolonged absence from the public view of its founder Jack Ma has raised eyebrows. According to Markets Insider, Ma has not been seen in public in more than two months. When he unexpectedly failed to show up, he was abruptly replaced as a judge on an African entrepreneurship TV show late last year. His companies Alibaba and Ant Group face increased regulatory pressure from the Chinese government. The crackdown coincides with Ma's remarks at a conference that Chinese financial regulators were an 'old people's club,' unable to keep up with technology.
At the end of the recent Marvel Studios movie "The Marvels," Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) sacrificed herself to close a rift between universes. She left herself on the other side, and when she woke up, she ran into someone she believed to be her mother, Maria (Lashana Lynch)... and Beast, a core member of the mutant team The X-Men. The excitement at seeing Beast on screen again was a lot. And, it was the Kelsey Grammer version of the mutant, an iteration we hadn’t seen since the 2006 film "X-Men: The Last Stand." That was many moons ago, and in a continuity that occurred long before the MCU even existed. Now that we know Grammer is willing to return to the X-Men universe, our managing editor has a question about something he said… and thinks it can be answered in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie "Deadpool & Wolverine." #xmen#deadpool #deadpool3 #deadpoolwolverine #fantheories #mcu #superhero
The Dutch government raises an Israeli flag in front of their headquarters in a statement of support for Israel, two days after Hamas launched a massive surprise attack, killing more than 700 Israelis according to the Israel Defence Forces. On Sunday, the Israeli government officially declared war on Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza. Israeli air strikes have hammered the impoverished and blockaded Gaza Strip, an enclave of 2.3 million people, with officials there reporting at least 413 Palestinian deaths. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Israel to prepare for a "long and difficult" conflict. IMAGES
The US Federal Reserve raises its benchmark lending rate to the highest level since 2001 to tackle above-target inflation, and signaled the possibility of further increases ahead. SOUNDBITE
Fed Chair Jerome Powell announces a quarter-point raise in the US Federal Reserve's benchmark lending rate, "in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to two percent over time." SOUNDBITE