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☆ Scottie Scheffler was arrested, then came back to shoot 5-under par at the PGA Championship
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Ramon Sanchez | Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

John Mills enjoyed working security at Valhalla Golf Club, his family says. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was handcuffed by police Friday morning. When Scheffler exited the vehicle, the officer shoved Scheffler against the car and immediately placed him in handcuffs.”Darlington attempted unsuccessfully to intervene. “The police officers around the patrol car in which Scottie Scheffler was in had no idea he was even Scottie Scheffler,” Darlington said on air. He was proceeding as directed by another traffic officer and driving a marked player’s vehicle with credentials visible,” Romines said in a statement, referring to Scheffler.

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☆ ‘Diddy’ apology video: Sean Combs speaks out after surveillance tape shows him assaulting Cassie Ventura
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Almost 48 hours after being shown physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016 in a surveillance video obtained exclusively by CNN, Sean “Diddy” Combs has apologized. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Combs said in a video statement posted to Instagram. In the video, Ventura exits a hotel room and walks to a bank of elevators. Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura are seen in security video in 2016. Ventura, who reached an undisclosed settlement with Combs, declined to comment on the video obtained by CNN.

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☆ Meet WiFi Money: Wealthy Finance Influencers Who Infuriated Investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

The Texas couple were staring down more than $100,000 in debt, much of which they had poured into WiFi Money. Those who give their money to WiFi Money are often encouraged to sign up other people in return for a cut of their profits — and perhaps, one day, a chance to become part of the WiFi Money crew. As the money poured in, WiFi Money gained a patina of mainstream credibility. AdvertisementThrough WiFi Money, Moeller and Frederick had created a virtuous cycle of money and influence. The same month investors took WiFi Money to court over the stores, DBC announced it was closing down.

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☆ Top Wall Street analysts like these 3 dividend stocks for high yields
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Bearing that in mind, here are three attractive dividend stocks, according to Wall Street's top pros on TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. On May 1, the company announced its first-quarter results and declared a quarterly dividend of 48 cents per share, payable on June 28. Following the results, RBC Capital analyst Kenneth Lee reaffirmed a buy rating on ARCC stock with a price target of $22. The company recently announced its first-quarter results and declared a quarterly distribution of $0.405 per unit. Overall, based on the annualized dividend amount of $3.08 per share, the stock's dividend yield stands at 5.6%.

Persons: Wall, Capital, Kenneth Lee, Lee, TipRanks, Devin Dodge, Dodge, Income's, Brad Heffern, Heffern Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve, Ares, RBC Capital, Ares Credit, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Infrastructure, BMO Capital, Triton, Dodge, Brookfield Locations: New York City, Asia, Pacific, North America, Europe, U.S, TipRanks

☆ From Taylor Swift tickets to gasoline — these days everyone feels like they’re being price-gouged. Are they?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. At the core of the increasingly common accusation of price gouging is the sense that the consumer is being exploited. Price gouging is in the eye of the bidderGavin Roberts, chair of Weber State University’s economics department and who studies the effect of anti-price gouging laws, said the laws themselves often don’t define what price gouging is. Corporations charging as much as they can, as painful as it may be for consumers, doesn’t mean they’re necessarily price gouging, said Roberts. Steven Suranovic, an economics professor at George Washington University who has also published research on price gouging, sees it differently.

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☆ Here are the portfolio's top 5 performers in a record-setting week for stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

We trimmed our positions shares in Morgan Stanley and Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday and Thursay, respectively, after nice moves higher for both stocks. Here's a closer look at what drove the moves in the portfolio's top five stocks this week. PANW YTD mountain Palo Alto Networks (PANW) year-to-date performance Palo Alto Networks came in No. Palo Alto has been a sizable outperformer since early April, which factored into our trim Thursday. DHR YTD mountain Danaher (DHR) year-to-date performance Danaher advanced 4.9% in the week to secure a second-place finish.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Estee Lauder, Rainer Blair, OpenAI, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Brendan McDermid Organizations: Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Club, Palo Alto Networks, IBM, Palo Alto, Bank of America, Broadcom, Google, . Management, Wall Street, Apple, CNBC, Traders, New York Stock Exchange Locations: Thursay, China, Palo, Palo Alto, New York City, U.S

☆ A stock trader who's up nearly 200% this year shares the filter that finds high-conviction plays, and explains how he doubles down during earnings season using the same process
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This time, he stuck to the spot market, both day trading and swing trading. AdvertisementHis next filter is stocks trading above $1 to avoid any really volatile penny stocks. All this is done before the stock market opens. He doubles down with this filter by using it during earnings season as well. He determined that $2.48 was a resistance point based on where selling pressure appeared during the previous month's chart.

Persons: James Hatzigiannis, William O'Neill, Hatzigiannis, Mark, Goverdhan Gajjala Organizations: Service, Nike, Business, BI, Photonics Corp, L3Harris Technologies, Rail, Systems Locations: Chicago

☆ Opinion | Loneliness Is a Problem That A.I. Won’t Solve
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.” The article goes on to breathlessly outline use cases for “A.I. companions,” suggesting that some future iteration of chatbots could stand in for mental health professionals, relationship coaches or chatty co-workers. This week, OpenAI released an update to its ChatGPT chatbot, an indication that the inhuman future foretold by the Andreessen Horowitz story is fast approaching. While some observers, including the Times Opinion contributing writer Julia Angwin, who called ChatGPT’s recent update “rather routine,” weren’t particularly impressed, there’s been plenty of hype about the potential for humanlike chatbots to ameliorate emotional challenges, particularly loneliness and social isolation.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, A.I, OpenAI, Horowitz, ”, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Angwin, weren’t, there’s Organizations: The Washington Post, omni

☆ 'Dow Theory' indicates the march to 40,000 could be short lived
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

However, as R.J. O'Brien's Tom Fitzpatrick points out, Dow theory signals this run may be short lived. While the Dow Industrials reached a fresh record high, Transports have not been as fortunate. Dow Transports in April suffered their worst month since September 2022, losing 8%. What's more, the actual 40,000 level is more symbolic than meaningful, he said. The Dow Industrials also have a history of pulling back after a 1,000-point increase .

Persons: O'Brien's Tom Fitzpatrick, Dow, Charles Dow, that's, Fitzpatrick, we're, Dow Industrials Organizations: Dow Jones, Dow, CNBC, Transports, Dow Transports, Southwest, FedEx Locations: United

☆ Take My Wife, Please: For Political Damage Control, Just Blame Your Spouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Rebecca Davis O Brien | Reid J. Epstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is a tale as old as Adam and Eve: A husband, faced with accusations of misconduct, blames the wife. It is also a time-honored, bipartisan political strategy. This week, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey pointed ringed fingers at their wives for episodes that have landed each man in political or legal trouble. The justice’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, was in a feud with neighbors at the time over an anti-Trump sign, The Times reported. In the case of Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, it was his lawyer who did the finger pointing.

Persons: Adam, Samuel A, Alito Jr, Bob Menendez, Alito, ”, Donald J, Trump’s, Biden’s, Martha, Ann Alito, Menendez, Avi Weitzman Organizations: Bob Menendez of New, New York Times, Times, Democrat Locations: Bob Menendez of, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | When ‘Stop the Steal’ Becomes Your Motto
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is a good chance that Donald Trump’s polling lead in the 2024 presidential election is more fragile than it looks. The most immediate problem for him is the fact that he’s on trial in a criminal case. There is also the issue of the campaign itself, which is a smaller affair than his 2020 effort, with fewer resources. Trump could very well hold his lead through the summer and into the fall but still fail to turn stated preferences into actual votes. What looks solid in the numbers could turn out to be ephemeral in the final tallies.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, G.O.P, ” Organizations: Trump, Republican National Committee, Washington Post Locations: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan

☆ Step aside, Ozempic — Zyn is the new (delusional) weight-loss quick fix
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Mia De Graaf | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Now, Zyn users are buzzing about another purported side effect: Some claim that their habit has triggered weight loss. Andrea Hernández, author of consumer trend newsletter Snaxshot, pointed out this craze this week, sharing a collection of social media posts about Zyn and weight loss. "I've used Zyn nicotine pouches occasionally over the past few years but have started to use them regularly because they help me focus and curb my hunger," a Reddit user wrote in r/intermittentfasting. While nicotine pouches circumvent the health effects of cigarettes that are caused by tobacco, they still do a number on your body. She worries that "we don't fully understand how nicotine works to regulate appetite in people, specifically with obesity."

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☆ Opinion: The latest version of ChatGPT is creepy — and appealing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Opinion Jeff Yang | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Jeff Yang CNNLike its predecessors, GPT-4o is trained on enormous quantities of data to process queries, recognize patterns and deliver helpful responses. Watching the reveal, I found myself involuntarily gasping as researchers Mark Chen and Barret Zoph showed off GPT-4o’s new chops. The freakout aspect of the reveal came from how it demonstrated that GPT-4o isn’t just a tool — it’s a tool with personality. On the one hand, having the option to interrupt your AI chatbot when it’s going astray saves time. On the other, watching dudes repeatedly talking over a female-reading chatbot made it abundantly clear why you can’t spell “mansplain” without AI.

Persons: Jeff Yang, Bruce ”, “, Jeff Yang CNN, Mark Chen, Barret Zoph, Chen, Mira Murati, Parmy Olson, ”, Desi Lydic, …, Sam Altman, it’s, Siri, ” chuckling, Altman, Spike Jonze’s, Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Marc Benioff, Johansson, chatbot, mansplain Organizations: CNN, omni, Zoph . Media, Bloomberg, “, Twitter, Boston Dynamics Locations: Asian America, America, omnimodal

☆ A new mantra for AI models: 'good enough' is good enough
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In particular, it beat OpenAI's GPT 3.5, a model that was released two years earlier, an eternity in AI years. This new, leaner model will cost users only 35 cents per million tokens, compared with $7 per million for the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. But it remains to be seen if state-of-the-art is actually a good business model. said the founder and CEO of one seed-stage startup that's training new AI models, "but then, you know, as businesses, what you also want to do is what is good enough." As AI models get bigger and gobble up more money and computing resources, there are often diminishing returns in terms of performance.

Persons: —, Databricks, Ali Ghodsi, Ghodsi, Claude, it'll, Morgan Stanley, Martin Kon, Kon, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Business, Companies, Google, Gemini, Microsoft, Apple

Keep reading to learn how to stream Love Undercover. Where to watch Love Undercover in the USLove Undercover airs on Peacock in the US. Shop at ExpressVPNHow to watch Love Undercover with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't have one. Install it on the device you're using to watch Love Undercover. Love Undercover trailerPeacock released a trailer for Love Undercover in April.

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☆ How Google CEO Sundar Pichai shook up his leadership team for the AI era
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

It came almost 12 months after Google combined two key AI groups, DeepMind and Google Brain. Google's AI MVPGoogle DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis GoogleDemis Hassabis might be the most important person at Google right now. Then, in April last year, Pichai announced he would merge DeepMind with Google's in-house AI unit, known as Brain, into a supergroup named Google DeepMind. Reid reports directly to Raghavan, the ads and search senior vice president, and is shepherding a dramatic transition of Google Search. Fears of chatbots eating into Google's search dominance have yet to be realized, giving Google time to reinvent its most hallowed product.

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☆ The church of Warren Buffett: Why thousands of investors flock to Omaha to be near the investing genius
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024. A shopping extravaganzaFor many shareholders, the annual meeting is less about buy-and-hold investing and more about, well, buying. Judith Lieber clutches were among the items on sale at Borsheim's in Omaha, Nebraska. The CHI Health Center before the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. Warren Buffett poses with Martin, the Geico gecko, ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder's Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024.

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☆ Biden trolls Trump over his Manhattan trial while offering 2 presidential debates
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden's campaign is trolling Donald Trump over his Manhattan criminal trial while pushing the former president to agree to an unprecedented summer presidential debate. On Wednesday morning, Biden's campaign proposed two presidential debates outside the traditional nonpartisan organization that has scheduled such contests for decades. Their suggestion includes an unprecedented June debate, which would easily be the earliest major presidential debate. ;'"The biggest shake-up to presidential debates in decadesBiden's proposed debates would be in June and early September. The organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates, has faced criticism in recent years, especially from Republicans, over its selection of moderators.

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Google I/O 2024 "should assuage fears over [Alphabet's] AI competitive position," analysts at Oppenheimer wrote in a research note to clients on Wednesday. Here's the full list of Alphabet's AI updates. "I was using Google Search versus using ChatGPT … [and] ChatGPT was so much more thorough than Google without ads. The next big question in AI: Who will Apple choose to partner with for its own AI features? Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O developer conference.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Oppenheimer, Bard, Jim Cramer, Siri, Alexa —, Sundar Pichai, ChatGPT, Jim, Goldman, Jim Cramer's, Andrej Sokolow Organizations: Citi, Google, Wednesday, ChatGPT, Microsoft, Gmail, Gemini, Apple, Developers, CNBC, Getty

☆ Live Updates: Inflation Expected to Cool Slightly
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Ben Casselman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Housing Inflation Remains Stubbornly High Economists had expected two measures of rental inflation to fade in 2023 and 2024, but that process is taking time to play out. There are two main measures of inflation in America, the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures index. Consumer Price Index Inflation Remains Hotter The Consumer Price Index is climbing faster than the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, in large part because it weights housing more heavily. With housing, Consumer Price Index inflation totaled 3.5 percent in March. But the convergence between new and existing rent inflation is taking a lot longer than expected.

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☆ ‘A Calculating Killer or a Damsel in Distress?’: The Trial Transfixing Boston
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jenna Russell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022, as a snowstorm raged, a 46-year-old Boston police officer, John O’Keefe, was discovered unresponsive outside the home of a fellow officer in Canton, Mass. Officer O’Keefe had severe head injuries and hypothermia and was pronounced dead that morning. Ms. Read was arrested three days later, and the case has transfixed Boston ever since. Ms. Read, 44, is now on trial in a Massachusetts courtroom, accused of killing Officer O’Keefe by backing into him with her sport utility vehicle after an argument and then leaving the scene. Her lawyers, along with a vocal and devoted squad of defenders, say she is innocent, alleging a sweeping conspiracy and cover-up by law enforcement officials to hide the truth about the murder.

Persons: John O’Keefe, Karen Read, O’Keefe, Read Organizations: Boston Locations: Canton , Mass, Massachusetts

☆ Election Updates: Biden and Trump are aiming to have two debates, the first in June.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jonathan Swan | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Mr. Biden recently indicated he would debate Mr. Trump, but had until now declined to give any firm commitment or specific details. In a video announcing his offer, Mr. Biden taunted Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump leads Mr. Biden in most polls of battleground states, including the recent surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Significantly more voters trust Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden to handle the economy. Mr. Biden, exasperated, famously said to Mr. Trump, “Will you shut up, man?

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☆ Michael Cohen and Rosie O’Donnell: A Love Story
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jacob Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The text came through on Michael D. Cohen’s iPhone on Monday morning, shortly before he took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom as the star witness in the criminal case against his former boss, Donald J. Trump: “breathe - relax - tell the truth - u got this - i love u.”An hour later, another text came in from the same person: “Ur doing great.”“Thank you and truly love you,” Mr. Cohen wrote back to the sender, who was not his wife, either of his children or another family member, but the comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell. Politics, the cliché goes, makes strange bedfellows. But few relationships seem as unlikely as the intense bond that has developed between Mr. Cohen and Ms. O’Donnell, two Long Island natives of the same generation who were pulled into Mr. Trump’s force field in vastly different ways years ago, and who connected as they surveyed the damage afterward. It is not lost on Ms. O’Donnell, 62, that Mr. Cohen, 57, once helped carry out Mr. Trump’s campaign of insults against her, tormenting her for her looks and her weight and calling her “wacko.”

Persons: Michael D, Donald J, “, Mr, Cohen, Rosie O’Donnell, O’Donnell, Trump’s, ” Organizations: Trump, Mr Locations: Manhattan, Long

Six Flags stock has ticked up nearly 7% in 2024. The analyst reiterated an overweight rating on the stock as well as a $1,200 per share price target, implying more than 31% upside from Tuesday's close. The analyst has a buy rating on Nvidia with a $1,150 per share price target, or about 26% upside ahead. He also raised his price target on U.S.-listed shares to $5.40 per share from $4.80, though the new forecast calls for a 6% decline over the next year. NIO YTD mountain NIO YTD Lai had downgraded Nio to underweight in February due to slowing sales momentum.

Persons: Chris Woronka, Woronka, Brian Evans, John Vinh doesn't, NVDA, Vinh, Timothy Arcuri, Arcuri, — Brian Evans, Goldman Sachs, Alphabet's, Eric Sheridan, Sheridan, Oppenheimer, Jason Helfstein, GOOG, Helfstein, Brent Thill, Jefferies, Nick Lai, YTD Lai, Fred Imbert, ~$ ( ~$) Organizations: CNBC, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank downgrades, Flags Entertainment, Deutsche Bank, Fair, Nvidia, Blackwell, UBS, Google, Gemini

☆ Inside the Rent Inflation Measure That Economics Nerds Love to Hate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jeanna Smialek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a three-letter abbreviation that economists have started pronouncing with the energy of a four-letter word: “O.E.R.”It stands for owner’s equivalent rent, and it has been used to measure American housing inflation since the 1980s. As its name suggests, it uses a combination of surveys and market data to estimate how much it would cost homeowners to rent the house they live in. But three years into America’s price pop, it has become almost cliché for economists to hate on the housing measure. The most intense haters insist that it is giving a false impression about where inflation stands. “It’s just not adding anything to our understanding of inflation,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics and a frequent adviser to the Biden administration.

Persons: There’s, “ It’s, ”, Mark Zandi, Biden, Zandi, grousing, “ Organizations: New York Times

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