The Latest: Police believe gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York CityInvesting in Groq | How to Buy Pre-IPO SharesSquid Game Season 2 Trailer Shows New Games With New Stakes By has officially released a new , previewing the highly anticipated upcoming season and inviting fans back into the games. What happens in the new Squid Game Season 2 trailer? The latest trailer once again highlights the return of Seong Gi-hun, also known as Player 456 (played by Lee Jung-jae) to the Squid Game. The trailer shows off more of the action that fans can expect in the second season, and some of the new games as well. Squid Game Season 2 will be released on December 26, 2024, on Netflix. Check out the new Squid Game Season 2 teaser trailer and posters below ( ): The cast of the new season of Squid Game includes Gong Yoo, Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Won Ji-an. Hwang Dong-hyuk serves as the writer, director, and executive producer for the new season of the series. He said of Squid Game Season 2 when speaking to in 2022, “There’s definitely a lot of pressure on how to make [Season 2] even better. I know that a lot of the different fans and audiences have enjoyed the series very much, but, really, we’re focusing on how to make it even more joyful to the global audience.” The first season of Squid Game was released in September 2021. It quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time and then went on to win a number of different awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Lee Jung-jae), Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Hwang Dong-hyuk), and more. Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash. Share article
The family of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi says two suspicious Venmo payments she made to a man and woman around the time she vanished are being investigated by cops. Kobayashi, 30, made the payments on Nov. 9 — a day after she missed a connecting flight to New York and was left stranded in Los Angeles, her aunt Larie Pidgeon told the US Sun. One sent at 6:25 p.m. was to a woman named Veronica Almendarez and had a description of a bow-and-arrow emoji. The second payment was made less than an hour later — at 7:19 p.m. — to a man named Jonathan Taylor with the subject line “Reading,” which appeared to be for a tarot card reading, sources told the outlet. “We have been made aware and so have the LAPD. It’s in their hands,” Pidgeon told the Sun. “We are still focused on Downtown LA. Even though it’s been 15 [days] we still have hope,” she added. The distraught aunt also said the family was asking people “across the nation to keep an eye in case she has been taken outside of California.” “We are looking at all possibilities, hotels, metros, bus, train stations,” she added. It was not immediately clear how much money Kobayashi sent either of the recipients, who have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Taylor, who has since gone private on social media, did not respond to multiple requests for comment, the Sun said. There was no mention of Almendarez. The LAPD would only tell the Sun that it was still investigating the missing woman’s disappearance. Originally published as Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi’s family says Venmo payments to mystery duo - possibly for tarot reading - being probedSeahawks' defense dominates in low-scoring win over BearsFinance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Sunday identified agriculture and Information Technology (IT) as the twin engines to drive Pakistan towards a sustainable economic growth, stressing that the government did not have any magic wand to fix the country's plethora of problems at once. Talking to the media following a meeting with farmers and stakeholders in Kamalia in Toba Tek Singh district, the minister emphasised that the country did not run on charities but on taxes. In this regard, he added, efforts were afoot to eliminate corruption and plug the leakages. The minister reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting an export-led economic growth and hoped the country would be put on the path to a "sustainable" Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in the next year. "We are an import-based economy. Whenever imports increase, there comes a shortage of dollars, and then we have a balance of payments problem, then we run towards the IMF [International Monetary Fund]," the minister said. "We do not have a magic wand that this [problem] will go away at once. Therefore, we have to tackle it in such a way that there is growth, and the growth is on the basis of exports," he said. "We are very clear agriculture and IT have to lead this country as we move forward," he added. "We should find solution and promote these [IT and agriculture] sectors for sustainable economic development," the minister stressed. He expressed concern that despite numerous research institutions in the agriculture sector, the desired results of higher crop yields could not be achieved. In the last six months, the minister said, the government achieved macroeconomic stability – a crucial foundation for GDP growth. He highlighted the improvement in vital economic indicators, saying that inflation had fallen to a single digit while the interest rate had also come down and was heading towards a single digit. "As the interest rate comes down, it will come down further and go towards a single digit, because doing business at 23, 24% borrowing is one thing, and doing business at 10, 11% or 8, 9% borrowing is another thing," he told the media persons. Tax collection "I will be the last person to say that we have achieved what we had said but building on these achievements, Pakistan's economy is poised to transition towards sustainable growth from 2025 onwards," he added. Aurangzeb reiterated the government's commitment to bringing reforms in taxation, energy, and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) sectors. He also said that the government planned to simplify taxation process, ensure digitisation, and reduce human intervention. He stressed the need for improving the tax-to-GDP ratio, which currently stood at 9-10%, and aimed to increase it to 13.5%. "The country does not run on charity, the country runs on taxes. We will increase it [tax-to-GDP ratio]. Reforms are under way in this regard," he added. "We are bringing reforms in the institutions. Because of leakages in the tax system, the salaried class is burdened, now the salaried class has reached a point where we cannot go further. Therefore, other sectors will have to be brought into the tax net, everyone will have to pay taxes," he said. However, he warned that there were problems. "We are trying to control them. We are eliminating corruption and leakages," he added. He appealed for national unity for the sake of the country and for the sake of a charter of economy, saying that "we are because of Pakistan." As part of the reforms, the minister continued, the government should have a minimum role in running businesses. Instead, the minister stressed a more robust role of the private sector. He added that the government's role should be reduced to regulating them to prevent monopolies. "The more the government gets out of businesses, the better. The private sector should take the lead and we have to take care of regulation, so that it does not become a monopoly. He warned that government intervention was tantamount to a form of corruption because of licencing. Wherever we intervene, we commit corruption. It means licencing; it means that we do such things for you when you provide us with such things. "It will be better that the government gets out of everything [running businesses]," the minister stated. Aurangzeb expressed the hope that energy tariffs would come down, as efforts were afoot to plug leakages in the distribution companies (DISCOS). He said that the government was determined to go to the doorsteps of stakeholders instead of merely sitting in Islamabad. 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