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ALDI is bringing back its Bluey toy range just in time for Christmas shopping. The bargain supermarket is relaunching the exclusive collection, inspired by the Aussie cartoon. Advertisement 5 Shoppers have been going wild for the new Bluey range Credit: Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK 5 The range includes all Bluey favourites Credit: Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK The products include the popular soft chairs featuring both Bluey and Bingo . Aldi has revealed that the range will be available in stores from November 28 for one week. But the German supermarket warned that shoppers will need to act fast if they want to grab the Specialbuys items. Shoppers have already begun to plan their shopping trips. Advertisement READ MORE ON BARGAINS FANCY A TIPPLE? Cheapest shop to buy Baileys this week as two supermarkets slash prices GIFTS FOR LESS Best Christmas gifts for under £5 including Lidl candle and Aldi hat One posted on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group sharing a photo of the Aldi magazine. They said: "For all the Bluey parents! Coming to Aldi 28th November 2024!" The post received over 2.7k comments and more than 560 likes. One shopper commented: "I like the Christmas Bluey! It’s getting there before they all go." Advertisement Most read in Money BEER WE GO Map reveals cheapest and most expensive pint at UK Christmas markets CASH IN Thousands can apply for cost of living payments from tomorrow - are you eligible? FESTIVE FEAST Domino's brings back fan favourite in festive menu shake-up with new dessert CHEERS! The best Scots island pubs revealed - from seaside bar to 230-year-old boozer A second wrote: "Omg I really hope I can get one this time." A third tagged their pal and posted: "If you see these in your Aldi I'll get them for Xmas." What are Aldi Specialbuys? While a fourth said: "Bet he would love a Bluey chair, it will be carnage trying to get one though." And a fifth declared: "Need the Gabby one for Christmas." Advertisement Another said: "Omg I’m sooo going hunting for the chairs." As always, remember to check elsewhere in case we missed a cheaper price - there's never a bad time to catch a bargain. Prices may vary day to day as well depending on what deals are on, and remember to look at delivery costs too if you're ordering online. The Latest Deals app also lets you search items and helps you compare prices at several supermarkets to see where it's cheaper. Advertisement Other chains also sell Bluey merchandise so it's definitely worth keeping an eye out for other deals. Mega Bluey Soft Toy 5 You can pick up a toy for £39.99 Credit: Aldi One of the toys hitting stores next Thursday is the Mega Bluey Soft Toy. Aldi says: "This soft toy from their favourite animation will become the best bedtime and travel companion. Advertisement "It's a great addition to their soft toy collection." It's approximately 35.5 x 33.7 x 81.2cm and weighs 1.6kg. You can pick it up for £39.99. Bluey Plush Chair 5 Aldi Specialbuys include the popular Bluey chairs Credit: Aldi Advertisement Aldi shoppers can choose from one of these Bingo, Muffin or Bluey chairs. They cost £24.99 each and are suitable for 18 plus months. Aldi says: "Take a seat on this Bluey Plush Chair. This comfortable and fun chair will be the perfect addition to your little one's room. "Add a piece of furniture that they'll absolutely love. Advertisement "Especially with it being based on one of their favourite characters!" It's approximately 52 x 50 x 55cm. Bluey Soft Toy 5 The toys come in 16 characters Credit: Aldi These soft, cuddly Bluey Plush Soft Toys come in a range of Bluey characters. Advertisement At 19cm tall these plush are just the "perfect" size for a child to cuddle and take anywhere. You can choose 16 characters: Playtime Bluey, Playtime Bingo, Snickers, Coco, Rusty, Muffin, Mackenzie, Lucky, Chloe , Honey, Socks, Winton, Lila, Chattermax, Bob Bilby, Christmas Hat Bluey, or Christmas Hat Bingo. Aldi says: "Made with deluxe fabrics and featuring embroidered details, this super-soft plush doubles as a cuddly toy for showtime or storytime. "Collect all of Bluey's plush friends so your kids can create their own Bluey adventures." Advertisement Read more on the Scottish Sun REST EASY Andy Murray flooded with messages as he shares heart-breaking family update COUGH UP Motorhome park owner shuts after guests leave without paying using shock trick How to bag a bargain SUN Savers Editor Lana Clements explains how to find a cut-price item and bag a bargain... Sign up to loyalty schemes of the brands that you regularly shop with. 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Readers' Favorite recognizes "Her Alibi" by Mary L Schmidt in its annual international book award contestA federal appeals court upheld a ruling Tuesday that allows a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member to play in this week’s Mountain West Conference tournament after a legal complaint said she should be ineligible on grounds that she is transgender and thus stronger, posing a safety risk to teammates and opponents. A two-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with U.S. Magistrate S. Kato Crews in Denver. On Monday he rejected the request for an emergency injunction, finding the players and others who challenged the league’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to participate should have filed the complaint earlier. The tournament starts Wednesday in Las Vegas, but top-seeded Colorado State and second-seeded San Jose State have byes into Friday’s semifinal matches. Judge Crews and the 10th Circuit noted the request for the emergency injunction was filed in mid-November, less than two weeks before the tournament was scheduled to start. The complaint could have been made weeks earlier, both courts said. The first conference forfeit happened Sept. 28. All the schools that canceled games against San Jose State acknowledged at the time that they would take a league loss, Crews noted. The players and others who sued are disappointed that the appeals court found it would be “too disruptive” to enter an injunction the day before the tournament is scheduled to start, said William Bock III, an attorney for the plaintiffs. The appeals court said the plaintiffs' "claims appear to present a substantial question and may have merit,” but they have not made a clear case for emergency relief. “Plaintiffs look forward to ultimately receiving justice in this case when they prove these legal violations in court and to the day when men are no longer allowed to harm women and wreak havoc in women’s sport," Bock said in a statement. The athlete has played for San Jose State since 2022, but her participation only became an issue this season. The conference policy regarding forfeiting for refusing to play against a team with a transgender player has also been in effect since 2022, the conference said. Injunctions are meant to preserve the status quo, Judge Crews said, and her playing is the status quo. The motions for an injunction also asked that the four teams that had conference losses for refusing to play against San Jose State during the regular season have those losses removed from their records and that the tournament be re-seeded based on the updated records. Crews denied that motion and the 10th Circuit did not address it. Neither San Jose State nor the forfeiting teams have confirmed the school has a trans woman volleyball player. The Associated Press is withholding the player’s name because she has not commented publicly on her gender identity. School officials also have declined an interview request with the player. Crews’ ruling referred to the athlete as an “alleged transgender” player and noted that no defendant disputed that the San Jose State roster includes a transgender woman player. San Jose State “maintains an unwavering commitment to the participation, safety and privacy of all students at San Jose State and ensuring they are able to compete in an inclusive, fair and respectful environment,” Athletics Director Jeff Konya told students Tuesday. He praised the resilience student-athletes, the athletic department and staff have shown while the court challenges played out over the past nearly two weeks. “The fact that they have come to this point of the season as a team standing together on the volleyball court is a testament to their strength and passion for their sport,” Konya said. The conference said Monday it was “satisfied” with the judge’s decision and would continue upholding policies established by its board of directors, which “directly align with NCAA and USA Volleyball.” An NCAA policy that subjects transgender participation to the rules of sports governing bodies took effect this academic year. USA Volleyball says a trans woman must suppress testosterone for 12 months before competing. The NCAA has not flagged any issues with San Jose State. In Friday's semifinals, San Jose State is scheduled to play the winner of Wednesday’s match between Utah State and Boise State — teams that forfeited matches to San Jose State during the regular season. Boise State associate athletic director Chris Kutz declined to comment Monday on whether the Broncos would play San Jose State if they won their first-round tournament game. Utah State associate athletic director Doug Hoffman said the university is reviewing the order and the team is preparing for Wednesday’s match. Wyoming and Utah State also forfeited matches against San Jose State. Some athletic associations, Republican legislatures and school districts have sought in recent years to restrict the ability of transgender athletes, in particular transgender girls and women, to compete in line with their gender identity. The Republican governors of Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have made public statements in support of the team cancellations, citing fairness in women’s sports. President-elect Donald Trump likewise has spoken out against allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Joe Biden ends his presidency with voters by a 30-point margin saying they have been hurt rather than helped by his economic policies. In addition, a new Fox News national survey finds that most voters not only have negative views of the economy (77% negative) and their personal financial situation (62% negative) — they also feel things are getting worse (64%). Three-quarters say inflation has caused them financial hardship over the last six months, including about one-third who call it a "serious" hardship, and those numbers have held steady for more than two years. Views on the economy are in negative territory by 54 points (23% positive, 77% negative). That is worse than at the beginning of Biden’s term by 14 points, and that increase in pessimism comes a touch more from Democrats (16 points) than Republicans (13) and independents (11). While few Democrats say Biden’s economic policies have hurt them (17%), only one-third say they helped (33%), with half saying his policies didn’t make a difference either way (50%). Overall, nearly three times as many say the president’s economic policies have hurt (47%) rather than helped them (17%), while one-third say no difference (35%). FOX NEWS VOTER ANALYSIS: HOW TRUMP REGAINED THE WHITE HOUSE Big picture, 68% are unhappy with the direction of the country (up 3 points since August). That small increase comes mainly from a 20-point jump in dissatisfaction among Democrats, which is mostly offset by fewer Republicans being dissatisfied by 15-points — presumably both shifts can be attributed to Trump’s re-election. On the whole, only 1 in 4 think history will consider Biden an above-average president. One in 3 says he will be remembered as one of the country’s worst presidents, which is a touch better than the 4 in 10 who said the same about Trump at the end of his first term. Yet, in 2020, three times as many said Trump (22%) would be remembered as "one of the country’s greatest presidents" as feel that way about Biden today (7%). Looking ahead, 39% think the economy will get better in 2025. That’s up from 22% who felt that way a year ago. There is a significant partisan gap in views on the economy’s future, as Republicans (63%) are more than three times as likely as Democrats (17%) to say it will be better next year. "The election post-mortems have emphasized the role of the economy in shaping the outcome, and it’s obvious that bad economic vibes hurt the incumbent party," says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who helps run the Fox News Poll along with Democrat Chris Anderson. "What we’re seeing is a predictable shift toward optimism among Republicans and independents. We’ll see if Trump can sustain and perhaps even expand on that momentum with policies that lower prices and decrease taxes." Biden leaves office with a 41% job approval rating, just one point above his record low. Fifty-eight percent disapprove, including about 1 in 5 Democrats and most independents (76%). Disapproval is at all-time highs among voters under age 45, Hispanics and urban voters. Biden’s 41% approval is lower than Trump’s 47% approval at the end of his first term, former President Barack Obama’s 57% when he left office and former President Bill Clinton’s 62% approval in 2000, but higher than former President George W. Bush’s 34% approval at the end of his presidency. Overall, the president received his record high of 56% approval in June 2021 — one of only five times more voters than not rated him positively. His approval rating hit a record low of 40% in July 2022, November 2023 and October 2024. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS FEEL HOPEFUL POST-ELECTION, WANT TRUMP TO FOCUS ON INFLATION Biden ends his term with lopsided negative ratings on some key issues, as only about one-third approve of the job he’s doing on border security (31% approve-67% disapprove) and inflation (34%-64%). His marks on foreign policy are a bit better (37%-60%), but that is a record low, and he is still underwater by 23 points. Poll-pourri After repeatedly promising not to, Biden granted a presidential pardon to his son, Hunter, on Dec. 1 for multiple felony convictions. Sixty-three percent of voters disapprove of the pardon — about double the share who approve (32%). Six in 10 Democrats approve, while 7 in 10 independents and 9 in 10 Republicans disapprove. Overall, views are the same when voters are asked about Trump’s commitment to pardon people convicted for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: 62% disapprove, 34% approve. The partisan dynamic here flips, as 9 in 10 Democrats and 7 in 10 Independents disapprove, while 6 in 10 Republicans approve. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Conducted Dec. 6-9 under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,015 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (125) and cellphones (699) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (191). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error associated with results among subgroup is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education and area variables to ensure the demographics of respondents are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis and voter file data. CLICK HERE FOR TOPLINES AND CROSSTABS Fox News’ Victoria Balara contributed to this report. As head of the polling unit, Dana Blanton runs the Fox News Poll and oversees the Fox News Voter Analysis election survey.AAP MLA Naresh Balyan arrested in 2023 extortion case, party terms charges ‘baseless’
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Amid concerns about the return of AI winter, when funding and advancements slow down, neural-network golden child Anthropic reports the doubling of Amazon's already substantial financial backing. It was only back in March that Amazon finished shoveling $4 billion into Anthropic, maker of the Claude family of generative models. Now comes word of another $4 billion, bringing the e-commerce and cloud giant's total investment to – check the math – $8 billion. In the face of so much cash – no cloud credits were involved, Amazon told us previously – Anthropic has declared Amazon Web Services to be its "primary cloud and training partner." That represents an expansion of the previously declared relationship in which AWS was described only as the "primary cloud partner." Presumably Google, which committed to investing a mere $2 billion in Anthropic last year, must accept some lesser form of relationship. Tie-ups like these piqued the interest of the US Federal Trade Commission in January, based on concerns that deals between tech giants and AI firms may limit competition . The watchdog agency hasn't announced any action since then beyond issuing a joint statement in July with EU and UK regulators about the need to promote competition among AI firms. So far, nothing has come of the regulatory concern. In August, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened an investigation into Amazon's arrangement with Anthropic. A month later, the competition watchdog dropped its investigation . In October, the CMA began sniffing around Google's investment in Anthropic . Anthropic says it expects to work with Annapurna Labs at AWS to develop and refine AWS' Trainium accelerators, which help speed up machine learning workloads. "Through deep technical collaboration, we’re writing low-level kernels that allow us to directly interface with the Trainium silicon, and contributing to the AWS Neuron software stack to strengthen Trainium," Anthropic said . "Our engineers work closely with Annapurna’s chip design team to extract maximum computational efficiency from the hardware, which we plan to leverage to train our most advanced foundation models." Part of the rationale for the deal is that business customers – as opposed to more reticent consumers – appear to be enthusiastic about AI services. Anthropic notes that Pfizer is using Claude models in the model management service Amazon Bedrock to accelerate medical research and reduce operational costs. Other customers include Intuit, Perplexity, and the European Parliament, which is said to use Claude in its Archibot document search and analysis service. "The response from AWS customers who are developing generative AI applications powered by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock has been remarkable," AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a statement . "By continuing to deploy Anthropic models in Amazon Bedrock and collaborating with Anthropic on the development of our custom Trainium chips, we’ll keep pushing the boundaries of what customers can achieve with generative AI technologies." ®A number of high-profile American business leaders are in China this week for the country's second annual international supply chain expo, including Apple's Tim Cook. "We're very committed to China, that's the reason I have been here three times," Cook said in a video interview with Chinese state media, adding that he expects the relationship to "only get better." Amid his trip, Trump said Tuesday Asia time that he would raise tariffs by an additional 10% on all Chinese goods coming into the U.S. American business leaders are in China this week for meetings with officials and a high-profile supply chain expo as trade threats from a second Donald Trump presidency mount. 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are Among them is Apple CEO Tim Cook, who will be in attendance for the second annual ' China International Supply Chain Expo ,' which kicked off Tuesday. The trip marks his third visit to the country this year and his first time attending the expo, underscoring the importance of the market to Apple's sales and supply chains. "We're very committed to China, that's the reason I have been here three times," Cook said in a video interview with Chinese state media on Monday, adding that he expects the relationship to "only get better." Ahead of the expo, the CEO met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang alongside other top executives from global companies, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said in a social media post. CNBC has reached out to Apple representatives for comment. The meeting, focused on strengthening economic and trade collaboration, reportedly included representatives from American multinational technology company Corning ; Rio Tinto , the world's second-largest miner; and Chinese computer maker Lenovo . Organized by the China International Exhibition Center Group, the second CISCE expo will focus on key supply chains, such as advanced manufacturing, green and digital technology as well as supply chain services. Money Report CNBC Daily Open: Investors endorse Trump's Treasury secretary pick Europe markets head for lower open as global rally stutters; investors digest Trump tariff implications The expo comes two months ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who pledged during the campaign trail to increase tariffs on goods from China by between 60% and 100%. Trump said Tuesday Asia time that he would raise tariffs by an additional 10% on all Chinese goods coming into the U.S., according to a post on his social media platform Truth Social . Such tariffs pose high risks to international companies such as Apple, which rely on China as a major manufacturing base. In recent years, the company has been shifting more of its global supply chain away from China to countries like India as part of diversification efforts. Heightened trade tensions with the U.S. could complicate Beijing's efforts to attract more foreign direct investment and slow the economy's GDP growth . On Monday, at the meeting attended by top executives, China's premier issued a statement against decoupling and in support of upholding and strengthening global industrial and supply chains. Also on CNBC Trump vows to raise tariffs on all goods from China, Canada and Mexico China's central bank keeps medium-term loan rate unchanged amid yuan weakness Fund managers at Fidelity share how they’re playing China’s stimulus plans