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wolf casino game Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No — it’s a drone! Or — no, wait, maybe it’s a plane. Actually, hang on ... The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security cast doubt Thursday on the reports of mysterious drones flying at night over New York and New Jersey in recent weeks. Federal authorities said many of the more than 3,000 drone reports received by the FBI were “actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.” So, how do you tell the difference between a drone and a plane? It can be challenging to differentiate between the two, experts say. Particularly from a distance or at night, a craft’s blinking lights are sometimes all that can be picked out as it moves across the night sky. And both drones and planes can appear to have similar lights. But there are ways to tell them apart, according to Ian Petchenik, communications director for the live flight tracker Flightradar24. NJ Advance Media spoke to Petchenik and Pramod Abichandani, an associate professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the director of its Advanced Air Mobility Lab, about how to tell a drone and a plane apart in the night sky. Here are their tips: Objects is the air may be larger than they appear. When it comes to aircraft, size matters. On the ground, it’s clear: Airplanes are larger than drones. “One thing we know is that humans, when they see something in the sky, they’re really bad at telling how far away it is,” Petchenik said. “Our depth perception is awful, particularly at night.” So what appears as a tiny, battery-powered drone a couple hundred feet up in the air might just be a commercial jet airliner cruising at 32,000 feet. “Widen your perspective, widen your field of view,” Petchenik advised. “Things you’re seeing are often further away than you think.” Listen closely. Many multi-rotor drones produce a distinct buzzing or humming noise that makes them distinguishable from the louder jet engines of planes. “Their propellers are directly connected to their motors, which is what produces the noise,” Abichandani said. Some unmanned aerial vehicles, such as fixed-wing drones, which are designed to fly longer distances and carry heavier loads, are generally quieter than multi-rotor drones. But based on the videos and eyewitness accounts he’s seen, Abichandani said many of the drones spotted are multi-rotor — and therefore distinctly noisy. Look closely at the lights. A drone will often have a simple set of anti-collision lights positioned around its body. These lights can be red, green or white, and are usually displayed in pairs. So, look for two, four or six lights close together, Abichandani said. Meanwhile, fixed-wing aircraft like airplanes have lights that are “more spaced out and a little more sophisticated,” he said. While they also sport anti-collision lights, planes will typically have uniform navigation lights: red on the left wing, green on the right wing, and white on the tail. These colors are the key to decoding a craft’s direction. For example, if you see a white light on the left and a green light on the right, that means the plane is moving from left to right from your perspective. If you see all three lights in a row, on the other hand, it means that the plane is moving directly away from you. Watch how the aircraft moves. Observing the way the unknown aircraft moves will help narrow down whether it’s a drone or a plane, according to both Petchenik and Abichandani. Multi-rotor drones can perform more aggressive maneuvers thanks to their propellers, often making tight controlled turns. They have what’s known as “six degrees of freedom,” a term that refers to an object that can move and rotate up, down, left, right, forward and backward. Fixed-wing airplanes do not have the same freedom of movement. A plane cannot hover, move sideways, or perform vertical takeoff and landing maneuvers, the way a drone can. “Planes have a non-zero turning radius,” Abichandani said. “If its nose is pointing in a certain direction, that is generally the direction it will move in.” Consider your proximity to an airport. Just because an object in the sky is far away from where you might usually see an airplane — miles away from the usual flight paths into Newark Liberty International Airport, for instance — doesn’t mean that it isn’t a plane up there. “There are all sorts of fairly benign reasons a plane might be outside of its usual environment,” Petchenik said. “Bad weather, holding patterns, loitering for traffic.” Use flight-tracking apps. Consult flight tracking websites and apps, including FlightAware or Flightradar24 , to determine whether you’re looking at an airplane. If you see the aircraft turn at any point, you can also compare that to any movement reflected on your screen, Petchenik suggested. Trust the experts. It’s entirely possible that the glut of drone sightings in more recent days is being boosted by confirmation bias, which is the human tendency to seek out information that confirms our existing views, experts say That’s why it’s so important to rely on those with expertise in aviation and drone technology, particularly those who have devoted years to studying them up close and from afar. Abichandani, who started working with drones around 2007, said he would love for members of the public, particularly those unfamiliar with the craft, to exercise caution and leave the identification work up to the specialists. “If you see something, don’t chase it or shoot it down to identify it,” he said. “Open-source it. Take good photos and videos, zoom in, post it online. 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Defense lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are using President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter to argue that Trump’s conviction in his Manhattan hush money case should be dismissed. “Yesterday in issuing a 10 year pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly prosecuted’ and ‘treated differently,’” Trump lawyers wrote in a motion filed Monday . Trump’s lawyers – Todd Blanche and Emil Bove – whom he has picked for top Justice Department posts in his new administration – argue these comments amount to a condemnation of Biden’s own Justice Department and that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg has engaged in the same kind of “political theater.” Bragg’s office successfully prosecuted Trump earlier this year for falsifying business records related to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponed Trump’s sentencing in the case after Trump won reelection. Trump’s lawyers also want the conviction dismissed, but the DA’s office says it will oppose any effort to toss the case. In addition to the pardon argument, Trump’s attorneys also told the judge that his case should be dismissed given his reelection last month. “President Trump’s status as President-elect and the soon-to-be sitting President is a ‘legal impediment’ to further criminal proceedings based on the Presidential immunity doctrine (established by the Supreme Court last summer) and the Supremacy Clause,” they wrote. They pointed to special counsel Jack Smith’s decision to end the two federal criminal cases he had brought against Trump last year – a decision Smith said was rooted in longstanding Justice Department policy barring the department from criminally pursuing a sitting president. “Even (Smith) has been forced to concede, by DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (‘OLC’ ), that President Trump’s status as President-elect mandates dismissal of the unjust prosecutions pending against him,” they wrote. Last month, Bragg’s office acknowledged to the court in New York that Trump is not likely to be sentenced “until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term,” but argued that Trump’s felony conviction should stand. A source close to the district attorney’s office said it is open to a four year pause of the case. “No current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution and that is based on official conduct for which the defendant is also not immune,” the district attorney’s office wrote. This story has been updated with additional details. CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this report.

A business associate of an alleged Chinese spy is a major Tory donor who was handed key roles at Government departments, including the Ministry of Defence by the last Conservative government. Former racing tycoon Sir Ron Dennis is the sole director of an investment firm he jointly owns with Yang Tengbo. Yang is the alleged spy barred from the UK on national security grounds after becoming a close confidant of Prince Andrew . He insists the allegations against him are “entirely untrue”. 50-year-old Yang became co-owner with Sir Ron in May 2017 of Coeus International Limited, a fund management firm founded by Dennis two years earlier. This was shortly after Dennis became Co-Chair of the Defence Innovation Advisory Panel for the Ministry of Defence. This panel was set up to “challenge” the MoD on how it is adapting to the changing threats, including cyber, from countries like China . Rheian Davies, Good Law Project’s legal director, said: “The proximity of this alleged spy to a Tory government insider who likely had access to sensitive information, is a case in point of how the rich and powerful in our country may leave themselves and our political system exposed to potentially malign influence to the detriment of us all.” Dennis went on to be appointed non-executive director of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for a year from 2023 to 2024. He was in this role when the Intelligence and Security Committee published a bombshell report on China, which found the Far East state “targets the UK and its interests prolifically and aggressively”. The Department has a key role in protecting British research interests and advising UK academics on joint projects with other countries including China. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Dennis or Coeus International. Yang came to the UK in 2002 to study and founded his first business here in 2005. He was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2013. He started a number of businesses, including consultancy firm Hampton Group International, and split his time between the UK and China. Yang said Hampton helped British firms gain a foothold in China. One client was McLaren, run at the time by Dennis. But in November 2021, Yang was stopped at the UK border and surrendered his digital devices, which were later returned. In 2023, then Home Secretary Suella Braverman excluded him from the UK. Sir Ron Dennis is best known for nearly four decades at the helm of McLaren, the car and racing brand, where he ran their Formula One team. He was forced out after he backed a Chinese takeover of McLaren in 2016. He was a British Business Ambassador for the UK between 2010 and 2019 and was knighted last year. Dennis has donated £579,000 to the Conservatives since 2005, including £250,000 in May. In a statement issued after the High Court agreed to his request for him to be named, Yang Tengbo said: “I have done nothing wrong or unlawful and the concerns raised by the Home Office against me are ill-founded. The widespread description of me as a ‘spy’ is entirely untrue. I have dedicated my professional life in the UK to building links between British and Chinese businesses. My activities have played a part in bringing hundreds of millions of pounds of investment into the UK.” A Conservative party spokesman said: "All reportable donations are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with the law." Sir Ron Dennis was not available for comment.

Amazon.com Inc. is asking online shoppers to provide information about product testimonials they’ve posted on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, suggesting the e-commerce giant is more aggressively targeting paid reviews that merchants can use to gain a competitive edge. In a questionnaire sent to a reviewer and seen by Bloomberg, a member of the company’s product review team wrote: “We are researching reviews and would like to talk to you about the interaction you had with the seller on this product.” Eleven questions followed, including one that asked: “Can you describe the work you’ve done for this seller as an influencer (eg posted videos on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram etc)?” Amazon’s campaign coincides with a government clampdown on paid product reviews. In August, the Federal Trade Commission announced a new rule prohibiting businesses from paying for consumer reviews and giving the agency authority to seek civil penalties against violators. Before announcing the rule, the FTC notified 700 companies, including Amazon, Facebook and Google, about its plans to curb a scourge that has become more prevalent in recent years. While paid reviews date back to the early days of e-commerce, millions of people have since become influencers who earn money to tout products but sometimes fail to disclose their brand affiliations. It’s unclear how Amazon determines who should receive questionnaires or what it intends to do with the responses. It’s also unclear how effective the campaign will be since reviewers can simply ignore the questions. “We have robust and long-standing policies that prohibit review abuse, and we suspend, ban, and take legal action against those who violate these policies,” Amazon spokesperson Juliana Karber said. “We consistently monitor and enforce our policies so customers can shop in our store with confidence.” She declined to answer questions about the questionnaires. Amazon has automated systems designed to detect paid reviews and other signs of unusual behavior, and employs fraud-detection investigators, Karber said. Such efforts prevented more than 250 million suspect reviews from appearing on Amazon in 2023, she said. The company has filed multiple lawsuits against paid review farms, only for new ones to emerge. Representatives from TikTok and YouTube parent Alphabet Inc. declined to comment. Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. didn’t respond to requests for comment. Paying for reviews is especially tempting during the competitive holiday shopping season, when online merchants often generate most of their sales and profit. A successful paid review campaign during the busy holiday period can boost sales of obscure products before the paid testimonials can be detected and eliminated. Chris McCabe, a former Amazon executive who runs a consulting business for online merchants, said he has never seen the company send a questionnaire to social-media influencers before. He recently heard from multiple Amazon merchants worried the company would suspend them after influencers they worked with received the questionnaire. “Amazon sellers will all have to be very careful how they interact with TikTok influencers and social-media influencers in general,” McCabe said. “Amazon is starting to investigate the reviewer side of the problem and sellers are going to get suspended if they choose influencers poorly.”

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