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☆ Columbia’s administrators failed crisis management 101
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

There’s the day to day admin, the glad-handing of donors, and, crucially, keeping internal fires from becoming public, violent conflagrations. That last one is a public relations lesson, one on which Columbia’s president might need a refresher. In doing so, Columbia’s leadership threw out the playbook for managing protests that universities have honed for decades to keep students safe. To be sure, Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, knows her job could be on the line. Meanwhile, thousands of students, parents and alumni are about to descend on Columbia’s campus for commencement, adding more pressure to remove protesters.

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☆ A top mind at UBS Global Wealth Management explains why investors' meltdown over elevated interest rates is misguided — and shares a 5-part investing blueprint as stocks continue to rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Less than a month ago, analysts were calling for subdued earnings growth of just 3%. Although higher rates can be a headache, Lefkowitz said earnings growth matters most. Instead of obsessing over when interest rates will fall, Lefkowitz said investors should consider the reasoning behind the Fed's decisions. "If rates are rising and that's leading to more confidence in the earnings growth outlook, then that shouldn't be a headwind to markets," Lefkowitz said. Follow this 5-part investing game planHealthy earnings growth and a resilient economy have strategists at UBS GWM bullish about US stocks.

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☆ I moved back in with my mom after losing my job and my marriage at the same time. Healing was a slow process, but I finally feel like myself again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Ayan Said | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I lost my job, my home, and almost everything I owned along with deep formative relationships, my identity, and my entire sense of self. When we began the divorce process, I moved my daughter and myself to my mom's for support. I knew I needed time and space to allow myself to grieve, and it was a slow and agonizing process. I'm still living at home with my mom and slowly rebuilding a life for my daughter and me.

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☆ Americans were paid an additional $235 billion in interest in 2023, thanks to the Fed
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

High-yield savings accountsThe average interest rate on regular bank savings accounts is roughly 0.5% but can run as low as 0.01% at the biggest banks. By contrast, the average on high-yield savings accounts is well over 4%, according to DepositAccounts.com. If you leave it parked in a regular savings account at 0.5%, you’ll get $50 in interest for a year. As with any savings account, banks can lower the rate they offer — also known as the APY — at any time. Money market accounts and money market fundsAlthough money market deposit accounts and money market mutual funds are both generating yields competitive with the best high-yield savings accounts, there are important differences.

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☆ Trump Media insider trading trial begins with co-founder testifying, 'I've never been paid at all'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The first witness in the insider trading case against Bruce Garelick was Andy Litinsky, a co-founder of Trump Media. Garelick has decided to take his chances with a jury after his two co-defendants, the brothers Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman, pleaded guilty on April 3 to insider trading charges in the case. Garelick, Bach argued, "acted in good faith at all times." Shahabian repeatedly had Litinsky describe the confidentiality agreements in letters of intent that Trump Media signed with two prospective merger partners, DWAC and Bennessere Capital Acquisition Corp. Asked if he traded stock based on the confidential information, Litinsky likewise replied, "No," noting, "It would be against the rules."

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☆ Narendra Modi: On the campaign trail with India’s popular yet divisive leader
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Will Ripley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Narendra Modi, India’s hugely popular but deeply polarizing prime minister, has landed in the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh as he campaigns for a third consecutive term in power. A Modi supporter at his rally in Aligarh, India, on April 22, 2024. And here in Uttar Pradesh, a sense of pride is evident among the thousands gathered to hear the prime minister speak. Supporters wave the flag of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Aligarh, India, on April 22, 20224. John Mees/CNNModi is expected to remain on the campaign trail until India’s next prime minister is named in early June, traversing the huge country, visiting city after city and delivering his roaring speeches that attract the masses.

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☆ A teen was found buried in concrete in a New York City building. A ring helped police learn her identity two decades later
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But this week, investigators finally revealed her identity: Patricia Kathleen McGlone, a 16-year-old who lived in Brooklyn. NYPDInvestigators believe Patricia was killed in late 1969 or early 1970 and buried in the basement of the building. With advanced forensics, they determined her parents’ identity and where they lived in Brooklyn, and scoured through local public documents. Decades earlier, around the time Patricia was believed to have been killed, the building housed a nightclub called The Scene, Glas said. The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office determined in 2003 that the skeleton belonged to a teenage girl who stood 5-foot-2.

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☆ Trump Media shares collapsed, rallied, and are collapsing again. No one knows why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump's social media stock collapsed a month ago, and people were happy to tell you why. AdvertisementRemember when Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, the company that operates Truth Social, Donald Trump's social network, turned into a publicly traded stock? AdvertisementSo how do we explain that over the course of the past two weeks, Trump Media shares had doubled again? Here is the reason that Trump shares collapse, or rally, or collapse again: There is no underlying reason. So go ahead and bet on, or against Trump Media — on any given day, you could be right?

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☆ The cancer-stricken winner of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon will get a $422 million lump-sum after taxes and says he'll keep playing the lottery
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe winner of Oregon's $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is a 46-year-old Laos-born immigrant who opted to take his winnings in a lump-sum payment — meaning he'll get $422 million. AdvertisementThe total amount to be received by Saephan, his wife, and Chao is $422,309,193.97 after taxes, per the Oregon Lottery. Previously, the biggest Oregon jackpot was announced in 2005 and worth $340 million. The Oregon Lottery said ticket sales have since 1985 earned some $15.5 billion that goes toward parks, schools, veteran services, and other state expenses. AdvertisementThe biggest-ever lottery jackpot in the US was $2.05 billion, won by Edwin Castro in California in November 2022.

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☆ Islamophobia and India’s election: Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Rhea Mogul | Will Ripley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Varanasi, India CNN —The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. The Gyanvapi mosque, left, and Kashiviswanath Temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, December 12, 2021. He believes Gyanvapi is not a mosque, but a Hindu temple, and wants to see his community worship inside the walls of the building. Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, the priest of a prominent Hindu temple in Varanasi, believes Modi’s stoking of religious tensions is ruining the fabric of Indian society. This is my country.”Read more from CNN’s India election coverage:Billions spent, jungle-trekking poll workers and voting at 15,000 feet.

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☆ For the vibrant springtime celebration Vaisakhi, Sikhs from near and far gathered to honor their faith and community
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Nimarta Narang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The April celebration Vaisakhi is a time when Sikhs gather for community worship, meals, and parades. Here I was in America about a century later trying to honor the community he helped build and, by extension, the Sikh faith. Anumeha Sinha for BINow in my late 20s, it's been 11 years since I've lived in a close-knit Sikh community. To feel closer to her community, Kaur said she's now making a personal effort to honor traditions she learned when she was younger. But outside the Sikh community — and increasingly after 9/11, like Singh mentioned — I saw people misunderstand our symbols of faith.

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☆ Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter sitter’ appeal over Tesla posts rejected by Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s request to back out of a settlement agreement he struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 over a series of tweets about the car maker that regulators alleged were fraudulent. To avoid enforcement, Musk agreed to a settlement that required him to have a company lawyer approve his social media posts about Tesla. Though he agreed to the “Twitter sitter” provision, Musk has subsequently challenged it as a violation of his First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court rejected Musk’s appeal without comment and there were no noted dissents. A US District Court and the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Musk’s request to declare the Twitter sitter provision unenforceable.

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☆ Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

O’SULLIVAN: So much of mainstream American politics now is being infected and affected by what is happening on what was once considered the real fringes — fringe platforms, fringe personalities. O’SULLIVAN: A lot of people got kicked off the major social media platforms after January 6. Because major social media platforms like Facebook have these rules. But I think just overall, in 2016, all the guards were down when it came to social media. And then in 2020 there was a big crackdown from the social media platforms, which got a huge amount of blowback from conservatives.

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☆ I was a single foster parent. I ended up adopting my first placement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Joyce Morse | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I became a licensed foster parent and four months later a 2-week-old baby was placed with me. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I learned about fostering and became a licensed foster parent. Just four months after being licensed, a two-week-old girl was placed in my home on a Friday afternoon in February. As the foster parent, I had the right to seek adoption.

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☆ How evangelical leader Jim Wallis uses the Bible to expose the ‘False White Gospel’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Some may already be tired of the debate over White Christian nationalism, whose followers blend sexism, racism and hostility to non-White immigrants in a quest to create a White Christian America. But Wallis has been warning people about the dangers of White Christian nationalist beliefs long before the term became popular. You write that White Christian nationalism is not new, and that it’s a form of heresy. This [White Christian nationalism] is an old idea from the Doctrine of Discovery, which says that this country was for people who were White Americans. Tom Brenner/ReutersWhat’s the difference between patriotism — believing that the US is an exceptional country — and White Christian nationalism?

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☆ No Religion? At These Faith-Based Retirement Communities, No Problem.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before Helen Leddy moved to Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers, Fla., last year, she got the lowdown on the place from her best friend, Judy Burget. Ms. Leddy, 86, wasn’t interested in leaving her condo if it meant adopting one part of the culture Shell Point emphasized on its website: “If you go online, you see they’re built around religion,” she said. As a Unitarian Universalist who grew up Jewish, Ms. Leddy was concerned that the denomination that founded Shell Point, the evangelical Christian and Missionary Alliance, might promote values that did not match hers, and that her new neighbors might proselytize. Ms. Burget, who has lived at Shell Point for six years, told her that wasn’t going to happen. Faith-based communities like Shell Point, which was established in 1968, generally don’t insist that residents subscribe to the religion that shaped the communities, according to Katie Smith Sloan, the president and chief executive of LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit providers of aging services.

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☆ Russell Brand announces he is getting baptized as a Christian, describing it as an 'opportunity to leave the past behind'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russell Brand is getting baptized after spending several months exploring the Christian faith. Brand, who was previously Buddhist, said he saw baptism as an opportunity "to die and be reborn." AdvertisementBritish comedian and actor turned political influencer Russell Brand has announced his plans to be baptized, culminating a monthslong journey exploring the Christian faith. "I'm getting baptized." He said that baptism had been explained to him as an "opportunity to die and be reborn."

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☆ Opinion: I’m a Jewish student at Yale. Here’s what everyone is getting wrong about the protests
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Opinion Ian Berlin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Last week, I sat in Yale University’s Beinecke Plaza leading around 50 classmates in nigunim — wordless melodies from the Jewish Hasidic tradition — and other Jewish songs and prayers. As a fourth-year Yale student, I find this characterization to be deeply frustrating, as it could not be further from the truth. Indeed, Yale Jews for Ceasefire exists because of — not in spite of — our Jewish values. Our present moment is a precarious one for the Jewish people, fraught with disagreement about what our Jewish values mean to us. At Yale, organizers of all faiths continue to build a community that is dedicated to moving forward in collaboration with, not opposition to, Jewish students.

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☆ How Justice Amy Coney Barrett drove the Supreme Court’s debate on abortion and Trump immunity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Barrett pins Trump down on his absolute immunity argumentsAs the second-least senior justice, Barrett sits at the far end of the Supreme Court’s mahogany bench. That was a notable break from earlier arguments Trump submitted that called for “absolute” immunity on a much wider scale of acts. A party turns to a private attorney, Barrett hypothesized, “who was willing to spread knowingly false claims of election fraud” to spearhead his challenges to an election. That appeared to be a reference to former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, identified by CNN as “co-conspirator 1” in Smith’s indictment. “This is where someone like Justice Barrett gets to pressure test an advocate’s points,” she said.

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☆ John Roberts isn’t happy with previous ruling against Trump – what happens now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But the cagey chief justice made some points abundantly clear. And whatever the staggering facts of the election subversion allegations against Trump, they are not his concern here. Further, when he is in the majority, Roberts has the power, as chief justice, to determine who writes the opinion. In past high-profile disputes involving Trump, Roberts has kept the pen for himself. Whenever Dreeben tried to return to allegations of fraud, obstruction and other crimes against Trump, conservative justices swept them away.

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Has South Africa Truly Defeated Apartheid? U.S.A., 2020 – 63% U.K., 2019 – 62% 60% 49% 40% 20% 1994 2004 2014 2019 Sources: Collette Schulz-Herzenberg, "The South African non-voter: An analysis"; Konrad Adenaur Stiftung, 2020 (South Africa); Pew Research (United States and U.K.)On a continent where coups, autocrats and flawed elections have become common, South Africa is a widely admired exception. −4% −6% Sources: Harvard Growth Lab analysis of World Economic Outlook (South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa) and World Development Indicators (upper-middle-income countries). 50% unemployment rate 40% Black unemployment rate 30% The unemployment gap between Black and white South Africans remains wide. In 2022, about 6 percent of South Africans aged 18 to 29 were enrolled in higher education, according to Statistics South Africa.

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☆ Why this campus turmoil story is so complex
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( David Goldman | Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Brian Snyder/Reuters House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the media on the campus of Columbia University after meeting with Jewish students on April 24. Alex Kent/AFP/Getty Images People watch from a window as New York University students set up a tent encampment on April 22. Stefan Jeremiah/AP Israeli flags are reflected in the sunglasses of a demonstrator in front of Columbia University on April 22. The White House and multiple governors have voiced support for Jewish students and urged protesters and universities to exercise restraint. Yet hundreds of protesters have been arrested for trespassing and for violating school rules, including blocking access to campus buildings or other disruptions on campus.

Persons: Jay Janner, Mike Stewart, Sarah Reingewirtz, Brandon Bell, Brian Snyder, Mike Johnson, Timothy A, Clary, Alex Kent, Matthew Hatcher, Nuri Vallbona, Jordan Vonderhaar, Zaydee Sanchez, Caitlin Ochs, Cameron Jones, Stephanie Keith, Andres Kudacki, Tayfun, Joe Buglewicz, Fatih Aktas, Michael M, Mary Altaffer, Scott Eisen, Columbia's, David Dee Delgado, Stefan Jeremiah, Selcuk, Kena Betancur, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, University of Texas, Austin Statesman, USA, Network, Reuters, Reuters Georgia State Patrol, Emory University, University of Southern, MediaNews, Los Angeles Daily News, Getty, Austin, University, Emerson College, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, Bloomberg, Getty Images Police, Reuters New York, Reuters Columbia, Columbia, CNN, New York University, New York Times, University of California, Sproul Hall, Yale University, University police, Monday, York University, The New School, AP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Library, Getty Images, CAIR, Defamation, Jewish, Israel Locations: New York, United States, Gaza, Gaza . Texas, Austin, Reuters Georgia, Atlanta, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Boston, AFP, Swarthmore , Pennsylvania, Texas, Columbia, New, Berkeley, Sproul, Anadolu, New Haven , Connecticut, Cambridge, Israel

☆ Starbucks, Workers United made 'significant progress' in this week's contract talks
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Starbucks worker boards the Starbucks union bus after Starbucks workers stood on the picket line with striking SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America (WGA) members in solidarity outside Netflix studios on July 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Starbucks and Workers United, which represents roughly 500 of its cafes, said Friday in a joint release that they made "significant progress" in their contract talks this week. The two-day session marked the first time in nearly a year that Starbucks and Workers United came to the bargaining table. Workers United has broadly pushed for higher wages and more consistent scheduling, among a range of other priorities. After a year, workers who lose faith in the union can petition to decertify, putting a ticking clock on negotiations.

Persons: there's Organizations: SAG, Guild of America, Netflix, Starbucks, Workers United, Service Employees International Union, SEIU . Workers United Locations: Los Angeles , California, Atlanta

☆ How a Pirate-Clad Pastor Helped Ignite Trump Media’s Market Frenzy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( David Yaffe-Bellany | Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

One afternoon last month, Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor and die-hard supporter of Donald J. Trump, put on a pirate costume, set up his microphone and recited a prayer. Mr. Nedohin was opening his latest livestream on the right-wing video site Rumble, where he has about 1,400 followers who share a devotion to Trump Media & Technology Group, the former president’s social media company. “Faith comes from hearing — that is, hearing the good news about Christ,” said Mr. Nedohin, 40, his face framed by fake dreadlocks under a pirate-style hat. Mr. Nedohin and his viewers were waiting for the results of a merger vote that would determine whether Mr. Trump’s company could start selling stock on Wall Street. Soon the news about Trump Media arrived via an audio feed: It was going public.

Persons: Chad Nedohin, Donald J, Trump, Nedohin, Faith, ” Organizations: Trump Media & Technology Group, Trump Media

☆ Harvey Weinstein sex crime conviction overturned and new trial ordered
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the sex crimes conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer whose downfall stood as a symbol of the #MeToo movement. Douglas H. Wigdor, an attorney who has represented eight of Weinstein’s accusers, including two of the “prior bad acts” witnesses at his New York criminal trial, criticized the ruling. In addition, three other women testified during the trial as “prior bad acts” witnesses as prosecutors sought to show Weinstein had a pattern of abuse. The use of “prior bad acts” witnesses has increased in recent years with the rise of the #MeToo movement. “Prior bad acts” evidence is one exception to this rule.

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