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Byers said he kept the gun for self-defense and only fired it on New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times

“There is no smoking gun for today’s move, it just happens that the market is chasing the strongest earnings revisions possible, and in the midst of that, short term performance technicals got too extreme,” said the Goldman team.

From MarketWatch

Pretti, who was active in protests after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in 2020, had carried a gun for several years, according to his ex-wife.

From The Wall Street Journal

That equates to one gun for every seven Australians, the report says.

From BBC

OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 was the starting gun for the artificial-intelligence arms race that has lifted up the stock market and unleashed billions of dollars of investment.

From MarketWatch