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Host country Qatar on Friday was eliminated from the World Cup after losing 3-1 in their match against Senegal.

Why it matters: The loss makes Qatar the earliest host nation team to depart the tournament in the 92-year history of the World Cup, per AP.

State of play: The match against Senegal was Qatar's second game of the World Cup. In the tournament's opening match last Sunday, Qatar lost 2-0 against Ecuador.

Even if Qatar beats the Netherlands in their match on Tuesday, they won't have enough points to advance to the next stage, per Yahoo Sports.

The big picture: Qatar's hosting of the World Cup has been shrouded in controversy on account of its human rights record and the environmental costs of holding the tournament in the region.

Qatar's hosting marks the first time the tournament has been held in the Middle East.

Qatar and South Africa are the only host nations to have been knocked out in the group stage during their respective tournaments, per Yahoo Sports.

Qatar eliminated from World Cup after losing 3-1 to Senegal

The loss makes Qatar the earliest host nation team to depart the tournament in the 92-year history of the World Cup.

Mohammed Muntari of Qatar shows dejection after Senegals third goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group A match between Qatar and Senegal

Mohammed Muntari of Qatar shows dejection after Senegal's third goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group A match at Al Thumama Stadium on Nov. 25. Photo:  Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Images

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Host country <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Qatar" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/23/world-cup-qatar-2022-stadiums-capacity" data-vars-content-id="1f1338bd-066a-4d32-a4d0-f12037e08113" data-vars-headline="Qatar eliminated from World Cup after losing 3-1 to Senegal" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/23/world-cup-qatar-2022-stadiums-capacity" target="_self">Qatar</a> on Friday was eliminated from the World Cup after losing 3-1 in their match against Senegal.Why it matters: The loss makes Qatar the earliest host nation team to depart the tournament in the 92-year history of the World Cup, per <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="AP" data-vars-click-url="https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-soccer-sports-qatar-senegal-be2ca8cff6fbfcb2df4f484106d68c09" data-vars-content-id="1f1338bd-066a-4d32-a4d0-f12037e08113" data-vars-headline="Qatar eliminated from World Cup after losing 3-1 to Senegal" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-soccer-sports-qatar-senegal-be2ca8cff6fbfcb2df4f484106d68c09" target="_blank">AP</a>.

Shifts in technology and media are changing the way we play, watch and understand sports. Business models are adapting and social change is forcing those in charge of teams and leagues to reconsider decades-old practices.

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China is becoming the most formidable rival America has faced, and the risk of confrontation with Russia, North Korea or Iran still looms. Authoritarians are rising, the chaotic Afghanistan exit revealed the limits of U.S. power, and the pandemic, climate change and other critical challenges continue to pose grave threats.

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Twitter will "tentatively" roll out a new verification service on Dec. 2, Elon Musk tweeted Friday, the latest revision to his checkmark system plans as the new owner of the social media platform.

Driving the news: The service will feature different colored "verified" checkmarks for different types of accounts, per Musk, which he's previously suggested.

Twitter will manually authenticate the accounts before the check activates, Musk added, calling the tactic "painful, but necessary."

"Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not)."

In another tweet, Musk said all individuals will have the same blue checkmark — citing the subjectiveness of determining who is considered "notable" — but that "individuals can have secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org if verified as such by that org."

"Longer explanation next week," he added.

State of play: Earlier this month, Twitter suspended the launch of the revamped $7.99 monthly subscription service that comes with a blue checkmark next to users' names, after a spate of newly-verified checkmark users embarked on fraudulent pranks.

Musk said then the relaunch would be on hold until Nov. 29.

Earlier this week, Musk said he was "holding off" on the relaunch of Twitter Blue Verified until "there is high confidence of stopping impersonation."

Musk had also previously launched a separate "official" label to verify an account's legitimacy outside of the blue checkmark, but later announced that he had "killed it."

The big picture: Musk has made establishing a new verification system a priority since taking over Twitter in October and firing thousands of staff members. The company no longer has a comms team.

Musk says Twitter will "tentatively" launch new verification service next week

"Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals," Musk tweeted.

the Elon Musk Twitter account seen displayed on a smartphone and Twitter logo in the background. 

The Elon Musk Twitter account seen displayed on a smartphone and Twitter logo in the background. Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

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Twitter will &quot;tentatively&quot; roll out a new verification service on Dec. 2, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Elon Musk" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/economy-business/elon-musk" data-vars-content-id="80868c1c-1165-494c-afdb-5b36c924406a" data-vars-headline="Musk says Twitter will &quot;tentatively&quot; launch new verification service next week" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/economy-business/elon-musk" target="_self">Elon Musk</a> tweeted Friday, the latest revision to his checkmark system plans as the new owner of the social media platform.Driving the news: The service will feature different colored &quot;verified&quot; checkmarks for different types of accounts, per <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Musk" data-vars-click-url="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596053664338440192" data-vars-content-id="80868c1c-1165-494c-afdb-5b36c924406a" data-vars-headline="Musk says Twitter will &quot;tentatively&quot; launch new verification service next week" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596053664338440192" target="_blank">Musk</a>, which he&#x27;s previously suggested.

From the Valley to D.C., Big Tech players like Facebook, Google and Amazon are under more scrutiny than ever as new technology develops and privacy and antitrust concerns grow in lockstep with companies’ ambitions.

Technology

After a record economic expansion, the coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy into a recession as unemployment soared to staggering heights. The country now faces urgent questions about how much stimulus is needed for reeling consumers and businesses, and what a recovery might look like.

Economy & Business

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision earlier this year to invoke emergency powers to quell protests against the country's COVID-19 public health restrictions while testifying before a public inquiry on Friday.

Driving the news: The protests had began in Ottawa as opposition to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for truckers, but since expanded to include general opposition to public health restrictions and spread to other provinces.

Trudeau's invocation of the emergency powers in February was the first time Canada's Emergencies Act had ever been invoked. 

Trudeau revoked the powers less than two weeks later, after he said the situation was "no longer an emergency."

State of play: The emergency powers were invoked after Trudeau and his cabinet determined that the protests had met the threshold of constituting "threats of serious violence," CBC News reported.

The purpose of it was "to be able to give us in special temporary measures, as defined in the Public Order emergency act, that would put an end to this national emergency," he said. 

Asked what led to the conclusion that there were threats of serious violence, Trudeau cited the "weaponization of vehicles," with cars ramming into other cars and trucks with "unknown interiors." 

"There was the use of children as human shields, deliberately," he added, adding that there were weapons at some of the protests and that police enforcing laws were met with "active resistance."

What they're saying: “There wasn’t a sense that things were dissipating,” Trudeau said, Al Jazeera reported.

“We were seeing things escalate, not things get under control," he added.

The big picture: Friday marks the final day of the six-week inquiry by the Public Order Emergencies Commission.

Earlier this week, David Vigneault, the head of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the inquiry that he had believed invoking the Emergencies Act to be necessary and had advised Trudeau to do so, Global News reported.

Trudeau defends use of emergency powers to quell trucker protests

“We were seeing things escalate, not things get under control."

Justin Trudeau testifies before the Public Order Emergency Commission public inquiry on November 25. Photo: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

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Biden on Russian oil price cap negotiations: "It's in play"

Joe Biden visits with firefighters at a Nantucket, Massachusetts, fire station to thank first responders during the Thanksgiving Day holiday, on Nov. 24. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

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President Biden said Thursday that negotiations between the U.S. and its allies over imposing a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="price cap on Russian oil" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/02/g7-price-cap-russian-oil-ukraine-invasion" data-vars-content-id="e68c24cd-7a45-45ee-b104-4e8e59613116" data-vars-headline="Biden on Russian oil price cap negotiations: &quot;It&#x27;s in play&quot;" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/02/g7-price-cap-russian-oil-ukraine-invasion" target="_self">price cap on Russian oil</a> are ongoing and confirmed that he had spoken to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about the issue.What they&#x27;re saying: &quot;It&#x27;s in play,&quot; Biden told reporters while visiting a fire station in Nantucket, Massachusetts, per a White House pool report.

President Biden has made the COVID-19 crisis and a post-Trump return to national unity and traditional democratic ideals his top priorities. From vaccinations to stimulus to schools, Biden is seeking bipartisan compromise while showing a willingness to use executive authority and bare Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate to implement his policies. Republican leaders are navigating deep party divisions over if and how to move beyond former President Trump.

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Ominous forecasts about the impact of climate change serve as the backdrop for the world — led by U.S. lawmakers and companies — to debate big action on the problem, which could upend energy systems and our way of life.

Energy & Environment

E. Jean Carroll, a writer who has alleged former President Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, filed an upgraded lawsuit against him on Thursday, AP reports.

Why it matters: The new lawsuit was filed minutes after the Adult Survivors Act, a law that allows adult survivors of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago, went into effect.

Carroll has been in the middle of a high-profile defamation suit against Trump, for which the former president sat for a deposition in October and a trial is set to begin next year.

Until now, however, she had been unable to pursue legal action for the actual alleged assault due to the state's statute of limitations.

The new law changes that, giving adult survivors of sexual misconduct a one-year window to sue their abusers regardless of when the incident occurred.

The big picture: In the new lawsuit, Carroll is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for psychological harms, dignity loss, pain and suffering, and reputation damage, AP reports.

It's possible the presiding judge in the defamation case will decide to include the new claims in the trial beginning next year, per AP.

At least hundreds of lawsuits are expected to be lodged by sexual assault victims under the new Adult Survivors Act.

What they're saying: "As we have been saying since last summer when the Adult Survivors Act was passed, E. Jean Carroll intends to hold Donald Trump accountable not only for defaming her, but also for sexually assaulting her, which he did years ago in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told Axios in a statement.

"Thanksgiving Day was the very first day Ms. Carroll could file under New York law so our complaint was filed with the court shortly after midnight," Kaplan added.

In a statement last week, Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said the expected new filing was "completely inappropriate and we will take up this issue with the court," the New York Times reported.

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from Carroll's attorney.

E. Jean Carroll files new lawsuit against Trump

It was filed minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago.

E. Jean Carroll is seen outside state Supreme Court in March 2020 in New York. Photo: Alec Tabak for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

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<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="E. Jean Carroll" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/trump-seeks-to-delay-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-defamation-suit" data-vars-content-id="ed99485c-d180-4c2c-b001-68b5a288a6b3" data-vars-headline="E. Jean Carroll files new lawsuit against Trump" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/trump-seeks-to-delay-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-defamation-suit" target="_self">E. Jean Carroll</a>, a writer who has alleged former President Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, filed an upgraded lawsuit against him on Thursday, <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="AP" data-vars-click-url="https://apnews.com/article/new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-legislature-sexual-assault-f94c39cb0fd983445d084ba30b58891a" data-vars-content-id="ed99485c-d180-4c2c-b001-68b5a288a6b3" data-vars-headline="E. Jean Carroll files new lawsuit against Trump" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://apnews.com/article/new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-legislature-sexual-assault-f94c39cb0fd983445d084ba30b58891a" target="_blank">AP</a> reports.Why it matters: The new lawsuit was filed minutes after the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Adult Survivors Act" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/trump-rape-lawsuit-carroll" data-vars-content-id="ed99485c-d180-4c2c-b001-68b5a288a6b3" data-vars-headline="E. Jean Carroll files new lawsuit against Trump" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/trump-rape-lawsuit-carroll" target="_self">Adult Survivors Act</a>, a law that allows adult survivors of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago, went into effect.

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Qatar eliminated from World Cup after losing 3-1 to Senegal

Trudeau defends use of emergency powers to quell trucker protests

Musk says Twitter will "tentatively" launch new verification service next week

Biden on Russian oil price cap negotiations: "It's in play"

E. Jean Carroll files new lawsuit against Trump