WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. George Santos positioned himself in a prime location for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address — an uncomfortably prominent place for the embattled new lawmaker who faces multiple investigations and has acknowledged embellishing and even lying about his life story.

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Santos’ presence at the center aisle to see and be seen with the arrivals was met with a stern rebuke from a fellow Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney.

“You don’t belong here,” the Utah Republican scolded Santos as he entered the House chamber and spotted the New York Republican on the aisle.

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Words were exchanged, it was reported, though Romney said later he did not hear it all.

“He shouldn’t be in Congress, and they are going to go through the process and hopefully get him out,” Romney told reporters afterward, his office confirmed. “But he shouldn’t be there, and if he had any shame at all he wouldn’t be there.”

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The exchange was an unusual lashing by the more reserved Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, but shows the discomfort Santos is bringing among traditional conservatives critical of the rightward drift of more extremist elements of the GOP.

Santos retorted with a tweet: “Hey @MittRomney just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT!”

The arrival of Santos has been a problem for the Republicans since he won a New York congressional seat, which helped to deliver the party a slim majority, once his personal story began to unravel.

Santos has acknowledged fabricating, and at times lying, about parts of his education, work experience and even his family’s own religion and history.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met privately with the congressman last week amid a swirl of potential investigations on and off Capitol Hill. Santos announced he would step aside from his committee assignments ahead of an expected House Ethics Committee probe.

McCarthy said Tuesday the situation with Santos would work its way through the House Ethics Committee. Fellow New York Republicans have called for Santos to resign from Congress. Santos faces other investigations beyond Congress.

Other Republicans heard the exchange and one Republican lawmaker who was told about it said there was widespread displeasure that Santos had situated himself in such a prominent spot. The lawmaker requested anonymity to discuss what others said about the subject.

The center aisle basically gave Santos the chance to seize the limelight by greeting the president and other prominent officials as they entered the House chamber and made their way down the aisle.

As senators entered the House in a line, it was then that Romney spotted Santos and delivered his message.

“I didn’t expect that he’d be standing there, trying to shake hands with every senator and the president of the United States,” Romney told reporters later.

Romney said that given the investigations, Santos “should be sitting the back row and staying quiet, instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room.”

But Santos, as is often the case, had his moment, becoming for a time the face of the GOP.

As expected, President Joe Biden made the economy a central element of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, when he celebrated how far the U.S. has come since inflation peaked last summer.

The first half of his speech focused primarily on what he called the nation’s economic progress, including a record 12 million jobs created in the first two years of his presidency and six months in a row of the U.S. inflation rate going down. Biden also boasted that the overall unemployment rate is at its lowest point since 1969, which he credited in large part to bipartisan bills he signed into law last year.

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“Jobs are coming back, pride is coming back because of the choices we made in the last several years,” Biden said, in what closely resembled a re-election campaign speech. “This is my view of a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives at home.”

Biden also pointed out that the unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers are at near-record lows, and he said that his Administration has created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs—the fastest growth in 40 years. A record 10 million Americans applied to start new businesses over the last two years, he added.

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But some of Biden’s allies and the nation’s top economists thought the President should have used more of his speech to try to reach Americans still anxious over their personal financial situations and the country’s future, rather than trumpet a list of accomplishments and take credit for steering the economy back on track.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday found that four in 10 Americans say they are financially worse off since Biden took office. That same poll found that 62% of Americans would be disappointed or angry if Biden won a second term.

During his speech, Biden did acknowledge Americans “watching at home” who lost their jobs and might feel forgotten by elected officials. “I get that,” Biden said. “That’s why we are building an economy where no one is left behind.”

As part of his Administration’s efforts to achieve a strong economic recovery, Biden said he would continue to bring manufacturing operations back to the U.S., ban junk fees, and expand the insulin price cap.

Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, told TIME ahead of the President’s address that Biden should avoid appearing out of touch with the many Americans who are facing intense stress from rising prices. “He needs to acknowledge that the economy is still not working for most people,” Reich said. Wages in terms of purchasing power are continuing to fall, and nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Many middle-class voters that TIME spoke to last month for a story on rising grocery prices expressed frustration with the nation’s economy, particularly over how some common household items are nearly double what they used to be.

“I am not happy with the state of the U.S. economy right now,” said Bridgette Moore, a 40-year-old mom of five from Lake Park, Ga. “As a stay-at-home mom, I am worried about how I will provide for my family and it is difficult to see a way out. I hope that it will get better but with the current economic state, it is hard to say. We shouldn’t be struggling at this stage in life and we were not before.”

The main reason Americans are struggling financially is rising prices. Annualized inflation is starting to cool, but remains high at 6.5% in December, well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target. Grocery prices were also up 11.8% in December compared with a year earlier. But during the State of the Union address, Biden did not directly highlight his plans to help slow these rapid price gains. Instead, he touted that prices are starting to drop and called on Republicans to work with his administration to raise taxes on the wealthy—a policy proposal that is expected to be dead-on-arrival among Republicans.

In the GOP response to Biden’s speech, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “In the radical left’s America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire, but you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves.”

For Democrats, that underscores a key challenge party leaders are facing with the economy. As much as progress has been made, inflation is still painfully high, voters are unhappy, and the Federal Reserve’s long-standing approach to cooling price increases involves slowing down the economy and the labor market.

But for Reich, it’s not enough that Biden look backward and highlight his economic accomplishments, especially if he seeks to win re-election in 2024. “He needs to communicate a message of hope,” Reich says. “That he’s laying the foundation for the future, and an acknowledgment that much more needs to be done.”

When South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” during a 2009 speech President Barack Obama delivered to Congress, the breach of decorum quickly became the evening’s most notable moment. Members of both parties condemned the outburst, which was a response to the President’s claim that his health care plan would not apply to undocumented immigrants. After being booed by his colleagues, Wilson issued an apology and expressed contrition to Obama’s chief of staff.

Fourteen years later, heckling, booing, and yelling at the President has become the norm.

During this year’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Republicans shouted at President Joe Biden on-and-off throughout the address. Though they were occasionally met by shushing and calls for order, those efforts didn’t end the interruptions.

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At the beginning, things seemed to be going smoothly, with Democrats whooping, cheering, and applauding many of Biden’s points and Republicans clapping politely or, most of the time, remaining pointedly silent. But that changed when Biden moved on to the debt ceiling and accused Republicans of wanting to sunset Social Security and Medicare.

Biden’s suggestion led to one of the loudest reactions of the evening, with many Republicans booing and shouting “No!” in response. “Liar!” yelled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who sat in the back of the chamber wearing a white fur outfit almost as loud as her outcry. But rather than becoming the defining moment of the event, the remark just opened the floodgates.

As more Republicans like Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne hollered at him, Biden seemed to take the disapprobation in stride, even engaging in a quick back-and-forth with some members at one point. “Let me tell you, I enjoy conversion,” Biden said as GOP lawmakers continued to object to his characterization that their party opposed the popular welfare programs. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy could be seen behind Biden, smirking and shaking his head.

Biden did get Republicans to stand and cheer in agreement that Social Security and Medicare would be protected. Even McCarthy joined in. But not everyone was satisfied. When Biden said he wouldn’t let Social Security or Medicare be taken away, one Republican yelled, “Bullshit!”

Later in the evening, soon after Biden appealed to Republicans to help pass his “comprehensive immigration reform” plan, he prepared to move on to a discussion of abortion rights. But Republicans wouldn’t let him transition so easily, peppering him with shouts of “Secure the border!”

When Biden got to the portion of his speech devoted to China and didn’t mention the infamous Chinese balloon that dominated headlines last week, Greene interjected again.

“China’s spying on us!” she cried. Though she was promptly shushed by her colleagues, she continued speaking as Biden plowed on. Her mouth was still moving as Democrats drowned her out with applause and the President raised his voice.

Even when Biden got to his plan to reduce fentanyl trafficking and abuse, a section of the speech that began with the story of a young woman who died of an overdose, he could not have the floor to himself. He responded to more shouts about the border by pausing and saying, “You got it!”

But when an audience member yelled, “It’s your fault!” Biden just shook his head, smiled, and moved on.

—With reporting from Brian Bennett.

The historic number is not imprinted in the minds of sports fans, like the records of baseball: Roger Maris’ 61 home runs in one season, for example, or Hank Aaron’s 755, for his career. In basketball circles, Wilt Chamberlain’s single-game scoring mark—a tidy, round 100 points—is probably more cherished.

Which makes sense: 38,387, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s long-standing NBA record for career points scored is so astronomically high most humans can’t really relate to it.

But this all-time scoring record still means so much. To pound your body year after year, over a grueling 82-game regular-season schedule and postseason, and continue to pour in points against some of the best athletes in the world—who are all trying their best to thwart you—counts as a colossal sports achievement. And this majestic mark now belongs to a new NBA scoring king.

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On Tuesday night in Los Angeles, LeBron James hit a 14-foot fadeaway jump shot over Kenrich Williams of the Oklahoma City Thunder with 11 seconds left in the third quarter, to score his 36th point in the game and 38,388th point of his 20-year career, passing Abdul-Jabbar on the league’s all-time scoring list.

The game stopped. James hugged his mother, Gloria. A video tribute to James played on the Jumbotron at Crypto.com Arena. Commissioner Adam Silver and Abdul-Jabbar joined James at center court. Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers great, presented James with a ball. James started crying as the crowd cheered. He thanked his family, fans, and the NBA. “I would never, ever, in a million years, dreamt this [would be] even better than it is tonight,” he said. “F–k, man, thank you guys.”

The record-breaking moment was a reminder of all that James has accomplished. No basketball player in history came into the pros with more hype surrounding him. ESPN broadcast his high school games, for example, and Nike signed him to a $90 million contract when he was just 18. Unlike so many athletic prodigies who came before him, James exceeded expectations. He’s won four NBA titles with three different franchises, four league MVP awards, and will soon play in his 19th All-Star game.

AP; Getty Images (3)James has played for three teams since his 2003 debut, including two stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

And now, this record. Whether or not you believe he’s the best basketball player in history—the contender list is probably down to just James and Michael Jordan at this point—he’s inarguably one of the most influential athletes of this century. Besides his unmatched accomplishments on the court, he’s also succeeded as a corporate pitchman, businessman, movie producer, and social advocate.

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And he’s not done yet. Abdul-Jabbar scored his final NBA basket after he turned 42, in 1989. James just turned 38. On an age basis, LeBron got to the top of the points chart faster than the NBA’s other top-5 scorers. Abdul-Jabbar (2nd), Karl Malone (3rd), and Michael Jordan (5th), scored their final buckets at 42, 40, and 40, respectively. Like James, Kobe Bryant—the NBA’s fourth-leading scorer, with 33,643 points—skipped college basketball, entering the NBA straight from high school. He was 37 when he retired in 2016, slowed by Achilles and knee injuries at the end of his career. James looks as dominant as ever at 38, and reportedly invests more than $1 million every year on taking care of his body.

In an era in which sports science has enabled athletes to extend excellence into later and later stages of their careers—Tom Brady serving as the most prominent example—it’s quite reasonable to assume James can play at an All-Star level for years to come, if he so chooses.

James’ 2023 title hopes were likely dashed on Sunday, when the team failed to land Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving, who was traded to Dallas instead. James, who won a title with Irving in Cleveland back in 2016, wanted Irving back on his team, to make the Lakers a legit championship contender. Unfortunately, James is playing some of his best basketball for a pretty bad team: the Lakers were 25-29 going into Tuesday night’s game. His effort, in some senses, seems wasted. Even as he broke the record, the Lakers were still behind by 5 points on Tuesday night. The Lakers, however, can qualify for the play-in round if they finish in 10th—they’re just 1.5 games behind Utah for that slot. If LA can sneak into the postseason, you can’t count James out.

No matter how the Lakers finish this season, James has a more personal incentive to keep playing: his son, Bronny, is a high-school All-American, and may have a shot to make the NBA. He’ll likely spend at least a year in college playing basketball (Bronny has listed USC, Oregon, and Ohio State as options). James has vocalized his wish to play with Bronny in the NBA, which would make them the first active father-son combo in league history.

More than anything, James’ record is a testament to his love and respect for basketball. While he’s being compensated handsomely to continue playing—the Lakers are paying him north of $44 million this season—endorsement income and business interests would have continued to enrich him for years. Basketball has remained his core enterprise.

“You see it on his face,” says former NBA player Michael Cooper, who won five titles with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s. “Even though LeBron is a grown man, you can still see that kid in him when he makes a move or he does something special or makes a good pass. He may not look it — he’s bald and he’s got a beard now — but when he first came into the league and he wore that headband and was just jumping around, you can still see that. That’s the one thing I enjoyed watching him as he progressed through this march to breaking the record.”

Cooper was on the court when Abdul-Jabbar passed Wilt Chamberlain in 1984 to set the new NBA all-time points record. Magic Johnson insisted that he be the player to deliver the historic assist to Abdul-Jabbar. “Listen,” Johnson told his teammates in the locker room before the game, according to Cooper. “When Kareem is getting ready to get it, I’ve got to have the f–king ball.” Johnson did indeed throw the ball to Abdul-Jabbar, who hit a sky hook over Utah’s Mark Eaton to give him 31,421 career points. (James needed no assist to secure his record).

Lennox McLendon—APLos Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar acknowledges the cheering fans after setting a new NBA regular season scoring record of 31,421 points during the game with the Utah Jazz in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 5, 1984.

James is likely to finish his career with more than 40,000 points, setting a ridiculously high new bar. Typically, recency bias kicks in when such sports records are broken. It’s an almost knee-jerk reaction to claim, “this is one record that will never be broken.” Here, that prediction is a bit more difficult to justify: given the modern basketball predilection for launching, and making, three-point shots, and the progressions in player health, it’s possible to imagine someone coming along and scoring at a LeBron James pace, for a sustained period of time (a 19-year-old phenom from France, 7-foot, 2-inch Victor Wembanyama, already has scouts salivating).

We can save, however, such prognosticating for another day. Now’s a moment to celebrate James. What makes him so unique, and perhaps what separates him from Jordan in the GOAT debate, is his all-around play. No one has combined the art of passing with the science of scoring quite like James, who also ranks fourth in all-time assists. He’s been an effective rebounder his whole career—James has averaged 8.5 boards per game—and his standout clutch moment was a blocked shot that helped the Akron, Ohio, native end a 52-year-championship drought for Cleveland.

The NBA’s all-time scoring record now belongs to a man for whom scoring was never his standout skill. That’s incredible. That’s LeBron James.

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• The Sao Paolo was once the largest warship in the Brazilian Navy. 
• On February 4, Brazil sank the ship into the Atlantic Ocean after failing to sell it for scrap.
• Built in the 1950s, the French-made ship is contaminated with asbestos, making it toxic.

The Sao Paolo was once the Brazilian Navy’s flagship warship. But as of February 4, it’s one of the biggest pieces of garbage in the ocean.Five of 12 Super Etandard fighter bombers carried aboard the French aircraft carrier Foch are silhouetted against the morning sun as the Foch makes its way out of Cape Town harbour on its way to Rio de Janeiro 27 March 2000.

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In March 2021, the Brazilian Navy sold the aircraft carrier as scrap to a shipyard in Turkey. But the ship was rejected by Turkish authorities as it had asbestos, a toxic material often found in 20th century ships.

After circling along Brazil’s coast for five months after it was rejected by Turkey, the warship was moved into international waters, Time reported.

On February 4, the Brazilian Navy sank the ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 217 miles off the coast of Brazil, per a press release from the Navy.

It was a controversial move: Several environmental rights organizations opposed the sinking of the ship because of the asbestos it contained. 

“The sinking of the aircraft carrier Sao Paulo throws tons of asbestos, mercury, lead and other highly toxic substances into the seabed,” Greenpeace said in a statement, per Reuters.

The Sao Paolo was the largest warship in the Brazilian Navy’s fleet.Super Etendard fighter planes are parked in the hull of French aircraft carrier “Foch” off the Italian coast, in the Adriatic Sea, 20 May 1999.

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The warship had a full load displacement of 32,800 tonnes. That made it the biggest ship in Brazil’s Navy, but still small compared to other modern-day aircraft carriers. For comparison, the USS Gerald R Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, has a displacement of 100,000 tonnes.

In total, the air carrier measured around 870 feet in length, per Global Security, an independent nonprofit that focuses on security research. The warship’s hangar deck (pictured above), where planes are stowed, measured 499 feet by 79 feet, per Global Security.

The Sao Paolo was the last surviving ship of the Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers, which were the first aircraft carriers France built after World War II.The Aircraft Carrier Foch During The 50th Anniversary Of The Provence Landings, August 14, 1994.

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The Clemenceau class was named after Georges Clemenceau, the former two-time prime minister of France. The first ship of the class — named Clemenceau — was dismantled in 2009.

The second ship of the class, now known as the Sao Paolo, was built in France in the 1950s. The French Navy originally named it Foch. It served several decades under the French Navy: It was commissioned in 1963 and decommissioned in 2000.

Under the French Navy, the warship was an active part of the country’s fleet. The aircraft carrier took part in France’s nuclear tests in the 1960s — the very first test by the European power in the Pacific, per the Guardian. It was also deployed in France’s military missions in Africa and the Middle East through the 1980s.

The Brazilian Navy bought the Sao Paolo from France in September 2000 for $12 million.Two Brazilian women wave a national flag as former French “Foch” aircraft carrier, renamed “Sao Paulo” leaves Brest harbour, 01 February 2001, western France.

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The Brazilian Navy commissioned the Sao Paolo in November 2000 and used it until February 2017, when it was officially declared out of service. It was eventually decommissioned in November 2018. Its pennant number was A12.

The Sao Paolo was used to train pilots for flying aircraft during carrier missions.Aerial view of the French aircraft carrier “Foch”, off the Italian coast, in the Adriatic Sea, 20 May 1999.

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Henrique Cardoso, who served as the president of Brazil from January 1995 to December 2002, said the Sao Paolo was purchased to “operate with efficiency in the high seas” and to strengthen its naval power to protect its 4,350-mile coastline.

The Sao Paolo was extensively refitted from 2005 to 2009. The warship was powered by six boilers and four steam turbines. Despite the refitting, the warship still contained asbestos and heavy metals.

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The Sao Paolo had the capacity to carry up to 39 aircraft at sea.A personnel member guides a Super Etendard 4P reconnaissance plane before its lift-off from the French aircraft carrier ‘Foch’ in the Adriatic sea on 4 February.

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The ship had capacity for 1,920 people — 64 officers, 1,274 sailors, and 582 airmen.

The warship could carry 22 jets and 17 helicopters.

It was also fitted with armament including 100 milimeter turrets, 12.7 milimeter machine guns, and dual Simbad launchers.

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• Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine comes with ChatGPT powers. 
• I tested it out by asking it to write me a cover letter for a job. But it refused, saying it would be “unethical” to do so.
• But gave me tips for writing one and even added a “Good luck! 😊”

The rise of artificial intelligence powered chatbots such as ChatGPT have raised questions about the ethics of using such platforms for job searches and exams, but Microsoft’s new AI-enabled Bing search engine seems to have certain built-in controls.

On Tuesday, The tech giant announced the integration of an AI language model into its Bing search engine, and it says the AI tool is “more powerful than ChatGPT.” Microsoft has invested more than $11 billion into OpenAI, ChatGPT’s creator, since 2019.

Insider previously put ChatGPT to the test in various scenarios including writing cover letters that are realistic enough to get the attention of recruiters — although, several recruiters told Insider’s Beatrice Nolan said the letters lacked personality.

So, we tried the new Bing to see if we can get it to generate letters with more punch.

Can the new Bing write a cover letter?

In the test, I asked the new Bing — now available in a trial format — to write a cover letter for the position of social media content producer at Insider’s bureau in Singapore. It flat out refused to do so.

“I’m sorry, but I cannot write a cover letter for you. That would be unethical and unfair to other applicants,” the new Bing told me.

However, it did provide me with a few tips and links to several cover-letter writing resources including Zippia, a career-building platform.

Some of the tips Bing gave me include “research the company and the role, and tailor your cover letter to show how you fit their needs and values” and “use a clear and professional tone, and avoid spelling and grammar errors.”

Its human-like touch was also apparent when it wished me luck at the end of its response — with a smiley emoji: “I hope this helps you to write a cover letter that stands out. Good luck! 😊 .”

ChatGPT vs Bing: Which is better at writing cover letters?

In comparison, ChatGPT generated a 270-word cover letter based on the job description.

ChatGPT’s cover letter started with a boilerplate introduction, stating the person writing the letter (me) wants to express “strong interest” in the open role. It went on to say generic things like: “As a highly motivated individual with a passion for digital and social media, I am confident that I have the skills and experience necessary to excel in this role.”

It also generated a few sentences that seemed to fulfill requirements of the job listing.

It’s not surprising that Microsoft’s new Bing exhibits more human-like traits than ChatGPT.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday at the presentation of the new Bing that it’s important to develop AI “that are more aligned with human values, more aligned with what our preferences are — both individually and as a society.”

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