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☆ These are the top business-development execs competing to hire elite portfolio managers at hedge fund giants Citadel, Millennium, Point72, and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

Unlike business development in corporate America, which focuses on growing a company's prospects with partners and clients, hedge fund BD teams specialize in scouting, evaluating, and wooing investment talent. AdvertisementFew have been involved in hedge fund BD longer than Jennifer Blake, Balyasny's global head. The fund's BD department remains in close contact with PMs after they join as a resource and advisor. Vernon Yuen/Getty Images$61 billion AUM2,200+ employeesAdvertisementKen Griffin's Citadel has outperformed not just its immediate rivals but every other hedge fund. He runs a team of about 20 as head of business development in the Americas, the largest region of the largest player in this space.

Persons: —, Griffin's, Izzy Englander's, Goldman Sachs, Headcount, execs, Dmitry Balyasny, Brendan McDermid, Jennifer Blake, Balyasny's, Morgan Stanley, Dmitri Balyasny's, Blake, it's, Federico Chavarria, Balyasny, Dave Matz, Smith Hanley, Alistair Jacobs, Dave Black, Peter Appel, Federico Chavarria MD, Andrew McHugh, Jules Biolsi, Michael Platt, he's, BlueCrest, Michael Grad, Grad, Jake Lindsay, Mungo Strachan, BlueCrest's, Brevan Howard Brevan Howard, Alan Howard, Ringo Chiu, Brevan Howard, Alan Howard's, Aran Landy, Brevan, Abu, It's, Landy, Howard, Peter Hornick, David Abbou, Jonathan Candy, Gregoire Vidal, Vidal, Tim Williams, Andy Silver, Gautam, Ken Griffin, Vernon Yuen, Ken Griffin's, Griffin, Matt Giannini, Giannini, headhunter, Matt, I've, — Thomas DeAngelis, Lindsay Previdi, Rice, Dore, Eleanor Sharkey, Melinda Urban, Mark Hansen, Julian Ulmer, Mathur, Adam Sharkie, Michael Page, Eisler, Edward Eisler, Sam Wisnia, Chris Milner, Milner, Hilary Curran, Hilary Curran Global, Rebecca Zisser, Michael Gelband, Hornick, Jeff Gelband, Mike Tiano, Eric Han, Garrett Berg, Liu, APAC Blackstone, Euan Shand, Kevin Carroll, Emily, Needham, Ostendorf, Ben Levine, Stefan Renold, LMR, Marcus Fairhurst, He'd, LMR's, Izzy, Ronda, Singh, Mark Meskin, Justin Gmelich, Steve Keller, Benjamin Williams, Madhvani, Paritosh Singh, Ben Williams, Kristina Tully, Steven Cohen, Point72, Shayanne, Steve Cohen's, Harry Schwefel, Chandler, Steve Cohen, JT Shields, They're, Schwefel, Alyssa Friedman —, Chandler Bocklage, Reid Murphy, Jae Yang, Japan Goldman Sachs, Alyssa Friedman, Jackie Dai, Gabriel Sanders, Ajay, Steven Schonfeld, Michael Nagle, Steve Schonfeld's, Ryan Tolkin, Schonfeld, doesn't, Akshay Aggarwal, Alex Burns, Ryan McCort, Colin Lancaster, Mitesh, Sameer Buch, Brittany Lynch, DMFI, Goldman, Verition, Nicholas Maounis, Josh Goldstein, Brian Townes, Townes, Elizabeth Xiang MD, Vir, Steve Satenstein, Chris Svoboda, Will England, Thomas DeAngelis, DeAngelis, Jonathan Brenner, hasn't, Maureen Reed, John Sullivan, Brenner, Walleye's Organizations: Service, Management, Wall, Business, Balyasny, Balyasny Asset Management, Quadra Advisors, SAC, Macquarie, BD, UBS, Grad, Financial Times, Michael, Lascaux, Howard BD, Brevan, Argentum Advisors, BH Digital, McKinsey & Company, JPMorgan, Ken Griffin's Citadel, Citadel, Citadel's, decamping, Chicago, Citadel BD, Walleye Capital, of Surveyor, Millennium, Capital, Credit, Ashler, Rice, Deutsche Bank, LMR Partners, London, Dore Partnership, Soros, Soros Fund, Ronda Churchill, Bloomberg, Getty, Guggenheim, Industry, MLP, Americas Guggenheim, Americas Citadel, SAC Capital, SEC, Point72 Academy, Citigroup, BD Energi, Japan, EMEA, APAC BNP, Schonfeld, PAAMCO, KKR, DMC Partners, Topwater, LinkedIn, New, New Holland Capital, BD —, Walleye, Lehman Brothers, Hutchin, Putnam Investments, ~$ Locations: America, Asia, Balyasny, Blackstone, New Holland, Abu Dhabi, BlueCrest, Europe, Graticule, ExodusPoint, Hornick, Freestone, New York, Schonfeld, Brevan, he's, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, Zurich, Glasgow, Dubai, Americas, Point72, quant, Verition, London, Greenland, Minnesota, Citadel

☆ Chris Pine on His Best Movie Roles: 'Wonder Woman,' 'Star Trek,' 'Unstoppable,'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Whether he's playing the handsome leading man in a rom-com or an intensely focused franchise star, Pine has the uncanny ability to adapt into the movie star that's needed at any particular moment. I learned more from that set about what it means to be a movie star than probably anything else. On turning down 'Wonder Woman' twice before director Patty Jenkins convinced him by bringing up 'Casablanca'"Wonder Woman." Warner Bros. PicturesBy the time you did the "Wonder Woman" franchise, you had done your fair share of blockbusters. Even think of "Wonder Woman 1984" — that's a blockbuster movie that is a hero's journey not about revenge.

Persons: Chris Pine, he's, Don Mattingly, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Gwynne Gilford, Robert Pine, Sergeant Getraer, Jack, Pine, Anne Hathaway, David Caruso, it's, Kirk —, Kirk, William Shatner, Karl Urban, McCoy, Karl, Spock, Zach, Quinto, Leonard, Nimoy, Abrams, Shatner, Denzel, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, Mark Bomback, I'm, you'd, Ben Foster, Taylor, Sheridan, David, Mackenzie, Jeff Bridges, Jeff, Ben, hadn't, Patty Jenkins, Patty, Steve Organizations: Business, Yankee, Washington, Walt Disney Pictures, CSI, Paramount Pictures, Denzel Washington, Denzel, Denzel Washington —, CBS, Warner Bros ., gonzo Locations: cardigan, Pine, Coast, heartthrob, Miami, Casablanca

☆ Chris Pine is 'stunned' the 'Wonder Woman' franchise is over
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIt's been four years since the last "Wonder Woman" movie debuted in theaters, and Chris Pine still can't believe the successful franchise has ended. In the movies, Pine played American spy Steve Trevor, the love interest of Gal Gadot's Diana Prince/Wonder Woman character. In 2017's "Wonder Woman," directed by Patty Jenkins, Trevor teams up with Prince to fight with the Allies in World War I, and eventually, the two fall in love. Chris Pine and Gal Gadot in "Wonder Woman." The rest is history, as the first "Wonder Woman" movie became a sensation.

Persons: —, Chris Pine, Pine, Steve Trevor, Gal Gadot's Diana Prince, Patty Jenkins, Trevor, Prince, Jenkins, James Gunn, Peter Safran, I'm, Patty, Steve, gonzo, Gal Gadot, Rebecca Blackwell Organizations: Service, Allies, Business, Warner Bros, DC, DC Comics, Galaxy, DC Studios Locations: American, Casablanca

☆ After dropping off my kids, I stay in the car alone for 5 minutes. It helps me reset from 'mom mode' so I can move on to the next task.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Jamie Davis Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When my kids were babies, if they fell asleep in the car I wouldn't try to transfer them. Now that they are all older, I still sit for five minutes alone in the car. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Even years into motherhood, I was inexperienced in the joys and frustrations of having a child fall asleep in the car. AdvertisementYet, even now, I linger in the car for a few moments, longer than I should.

Persons: —, texted Organizations: Service Locations: walkable, Washington

☆ Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A severely ill 54-year-old woman earlier this month became the second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York announced on Wednesday. The patient, who had both heart failure and kidney failure, was given the organ on April 12, just eight days after receiving a mechanical heart pump. Surgical teams at NYU Langone carried out the two procedures over the course of nine days. The kidney came from a genetically engineered pig provided by United Therapeutics Corporation, a biotech company. The pig carried a gene for producing a sugar called alpha-gal that had been “knocked out,” or blocked.

Persons: NYU Langone, Lisa Pisano, “ Organizations: NYU Langone Health, NYU, United Therapeutics Corporation Locations: New York, New Jersey

☆ More people are working well past retirement age. It’s not easy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

So last October, at the age of 80, Murray ended her retirement and got a job giving out samples at Costco. Forecasters expect that cohort of older , working Americans to double over the next decade. “More people are working at desk jobs that don’t require much physical labor,” said Gal Wettstein, a senior research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. “That’s people who are changing jobs, younger workers and non-college educated workers.” Older workers tend not to change jobs, and they’re more likely to have a college degree. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older in the workplace.

Persons: Hope Murray, ”, Murray, she’ll, “, Murray isn’t, Gal Wettstein, Monique Morrissey, ” Morrissey, What’s, Heidi Brockway, Brockway, Morrissey, ageism, Bob Vaughn, Wettstein, Vaughn, Mary Susan, they’ve, Mary Susan’s, they’d, They’re, Diane Reiter, ” Reiter, she’s, I’d, She’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Gas, Costco, ”, Pew Research Center, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, Economic Policy Institute, Social, Social Security Agency, Social Security, Lawmakers, AARP, Retirement Research, Amazon, Economic, Worker, Brookings Locations: New York, Hollywood, San Diego, Los Angeles, Southeast Florida, Florida, United States, Charlotte , North Carolina, Asheville, Chicago

☆ Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Nicole Sperling | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Back in, say, 2019, if a filmmaker signed a deal with Netflix, it meant that he or she would be well paid and receive complete creative freedom. Dan Lin arrived as Netflix’s new film chief on April 1, and he has already started making changes. He laid off around 15 people in the creative film executive group, including one vice president and two directors. (Netflix’s entire film department is around 150 people.) He will also be changing the formulas for how talent is paid, meaning no more enormous upfront deals.

Persons: Dan Lin, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson, Rather Organizations: Netflix

☆ Gabrielle Union-Wade explains why she feels hotter at 51 than she did in her 20s
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Mia De Graaf | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gabrielle Union, 51, said she feels hotter now than she did at 26. She said her husband, Dwyane Wade, helps her to feel truly seen as more than a mom. AdvertisementEven Gabrielle Union feels invisible sometimes. And I think the more we talk about it, the more people can feel seen." Either way, I liked hearing Gabrielle Union passionately lament how we're supposed to accept feeling like we're past our prime.

Persons: Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, —, She's, it's, Anne Hathaway, she's, Nicholas Galitzine, That's, Hathaway, Jerritt Clark, Justin Timberlake, we're Organizations: Service, Time Magazine, Union, NBA Locations: PHM

Some 4,000 revelers gathered on the night of Oct. 6 at a field in southern Israel, mere miles from the Gaza border, for the Tribe of Nova music festival. At dawn, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed Israel’s defenses under the cover of a rocket barrage. About 1,200 people were killed that day, the deadliest in Israeli history according to the Israeli authorities, including 360 at the rave alone. Many of the ravers were under the influence of mind-altering substances like LSD, MDMA and ketamine as they witnessed the carnage or fled for their lives.

Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ 'Holes' in Earth's magnetic field could cause extra northern lights this month. Here's how to spot them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

March 2024 may be the best month in the best year to see the Northern Lights, aka aurora borealis. Here's everything you need to know to spot the northern lights. AdvertisementThis could be the best month, of the best year for two decades, to see the Northern Lights, in part, thanks to openings in Earth's magnetic field. The northern lights dance in the skies above Riverton, Wyoming. If you're lucky and you plan right, you might be able to see the Northern Lights this month.

Persons: —, Matt Owens, SANKA VIDANAGAMA, Rune Stoltz Bertinussen, we've, It's Organizations: Service, NASA, International Space Station, University of Reading, Getty, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Reuters, Weather, NWS, Royal Photographic Society Locations: Riverton , Wyoming, Riverton, Arizona, Florida, Australia, New Zealand, Phoenix , Arizona, Christchurch , New Zealand, AFP, Alaska, Norway, Tromso, Gaylor , Missouri

☆ Opinion | My Joe Biden Fantasy
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I slipped away from this nightmarish election campaign into a delicious dream the other evening. I dreamed that, when Joe Biden gets up to reset his beleaguered presidency at the State of the Union address, he gives this astonishing speech:Mr. Speaker. Man, Mike Johnson was a nobody just weeks ago — now he’s Neville Chamberlain. I remember how to lift people up, not tear them down and pit them against one another. Donald Trump wants to yank us back on women’s rights, the environment, mail-in voting — actually, all voting.

Persons: Joe Biden, Mike Johnson, Neville Chamberlain, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, yank, — Organizations: State, NATO Locations: United States, Vegas, L.A

☆ The New York Times stands by its reporting on the Hamas terror attack after questions are raised
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —The New York Times is facing questions about a sweeping investigative story it published on the Israel-Hamas war back in December. But key elements of The Times’ reporting in telling that larger story have since fallen under the microscope. “We weren’t aware of the rape initially; we were informed only when The New York Times’ journalist approached us,” her mother told the Israeli outlet YNet. we don’t know exactly what happened.”“It was only following the New York Times investigation that we learned from the journalists that my sister had been raped,” Abdush’s brother added to YNet. In this case, there is a large volume of evidence to indicate that Hamas carried out sexual assaults during the October 7 attack.

Persons: ‘, —, Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz, Adam Sella, Schwartz, “, Gal Abdush, ” Abdush, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, Daniel Boguslaw, ’, Abdush’s, ”, Gal, Boguslaw, Grim, Gray, Charlotte Klein Organizations: New York CNN, The New York Times, CNN, The, Pulitzer, Times, The Times, New York Times, YNet Locations: New York, Israel, Gaza

☆ This animation shows why leap years are necessary. Without them, December would eventually drift into summer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Leap Day is February 29. Without leap years, December would drift into summer in 400 years. We get a bonus day on Thursday — Leap Day, February 29 — to keep the seasons in check. O'Donoghue's animation reveals what would happen if we didn't have leap years — after 400 years, our calendar months would drift into new seasons. That extra quarter of a day, of course, adds up to one full day of drift every four years.

Persons: —, James O'Donoghue, O'Donoghue, Shayanne Organizations: Service, NASA, JAXA

☆ Kevin Costner on why he never gave up on his 35-year passion project 'Horizon: An American Saga': 'It's hard to fall out of love. I don't do that.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The full-length trailer for Kevin Costner's "Horizon: An American Saga" has been released. AdvertisementWarner Bros. has debuted the first full-length trailer for Kevin Costner's big-budget epic, "Horizon: An American Saga," a multi-film franchise that the actor has been developing on and off for most of his career. AdvertisementThe poster for "Horizon: An American Saga," directed by and starring Kevin Costner. Advertisement"I love women in cinema," he continued after singing the praises of Miller, Malone, and Hunt, who play prominent roles in the films. Asked about what he hopes audiences will take away from the films, Costner said: "I hope that people feel that were taken somewhere.

Persons: Kevin Costner's, —, Costner, Danny Huston, Kevin Costner, Warner, cowritten, Jon Baird, Christine Baumgartner, mortgaging, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Rich Polk, Mike Marsland, John Shearer, Jamie Campbell Bower, Abbey Lee, Ella Hunt, Luke Wilson, Hayes Costner, Miller, Malone, Hunt Organizations: Service, Warner, Academy, Warner Bros, Paramount, Business, Getty Locations: America, American, California, Jena

☆ How Did Haley’s South Carolina Become Trump Country? Ask the Tea Party.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Charles Homans | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Nikki Haley ran for governor of South Carolina in 2010, one of her early campaign stops was the Aiken, S.C., living room of Claude and Sunny O’Donovan. “We fell in love with her,” Mr. O’Donovan, 85, said. “She was a dynamite gal.”A digital picture frame in the O’Donovans’ home still displays a photograph of Ms. Haley at the meeting. But on Feb. 24, when Ms. Haley faces Donald J. Trump in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, both of the O’Donovans plan to vote for Mr. Trump. “I think he has the values of the Tea Party,” Mrs. O’Donovan, 84, said.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Aiken, Claude, Sunny O’Donovan, O’Donovan, Haley, “, ” Mr, Donald J, Trump, ” Organizations: Tea Party, Trump, Republican, Mr Locations: South Carolina, S.C, Aiken County, South

☆ Negotiators race to secure Israel-Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal ahead of Ramadan
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Mj Lee | Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Looming over the hostage deal discussions is the threat by Israel to launch an offensive into Rafah in southern Gaza, where around 1.5 million displaced Gazans have fled. Israel appears dug inAs Israel appears dug in its position, negotiators expect Hamas to again respond in the coming days. The first hostage deal in late November saw the return of dozens of hostages taken captive by Hamas on October 7 and a week-long truce. Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have continued to argue that “complete victory” is needed over Hamas. Supporting Tuesday’s UN resolution, proposed by Algeria, in the middle of the ongoing hostage talks would have jeopardized the ceasefire talks, White House said.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, Ramadan, Israel, ”, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Joe Biden’s, Brett McGurk, Bill Burns ’, ” Gal Hirsch, Majed Al, Ansari, ” Al, Benny Gantz, White, “, John Kirby, – Organizations: CNN, Israel, CIA, Munich Security, Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “ Qatar, United Nations, UN, Senior, United Nations Security Locations: Israel, Gaza, Rafah, Qatar, Egypt, United States, Cairo, Doha, Algeria

Munich, Germany CNN —Hamas’s demands for a hostage deal are “delusional” and need to be “close to reality,” Israel’s Coordinator for the Captives and the Missing, Gal Hirsch, told CNN Saturday. But Hamas’s demands are disconnected from reality - delusional,” the former Israel Defense Forces commander said in an interview with CNN’s Alex Marquardt at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. He suggested that, though Israel and Hamas had previously agreed on a deal to supply medication to Israeli hostages, the hostages did not receive this medication. Hamas will be dismantled, but we would like very much to make a deal and to bring our hostages back home. “They wanted very much to break the potential deal just as they did in the previous one,” he suggested.

Persons: Germany CNN —, ”, Gal Hirsch, CNN’s Alex Marquardt, counteroffer, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Hirsch, ” Hirsch, Khan Younis, “, Martin Meissner, Marquardt, Deir al Balah Organizations: Germany CNN, CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Munich, Israeli, Minister’s, Hamas, Nasser, IDF, UN Locations: Munich, Germany, Gaza, Israel, Israel’s, Khan, The Hague, Netherlands, Rafah, Deir al

☆ How a new surveillance method is identifying more cases of Lyme disease in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

But this sharp increase “likely reflects changes in surveillance methods rather than change in disease risk,” according to the CDC. The vast majority of Lyme disease cases in the US are reported from just over a dozen jurisdictions in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and upper-Midwest where ticks are particularly prevalent. Despite the significant spike, the number Lyme disease cases that are reported to the CDC is just a fraction of the estimated number of total cases. There are about 476,000 estimated diagnoses of Lyme disease in the US each year – nearly eight times more than even the improved surveillance methods captured in 2022. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the US, along with Zika virus, West Nile virus, dengue, malaria, plague, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and alpha-gal syndrome.

Persons: Lyme, –, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, ” Organizations: CNN, US Centers for Disease Control, CDC, of State, Territorial, Get CNN, CNN Health, US Department of Health, Human Services, HHS Locations: United States, Northeast, Lyme

☆ Galentine’s Day: How to love yourself
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Allison Hope | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

This is the perfect year to ditch Valentine’s Day and lean into a less pressure-filled holiday. Born from the ancient, mystic sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” the “Galentine’s Day” episode first aired on February 11, 2010. She rebels against the traditional slog of Valentine’s Day and invents a day to rejoice with her girlfriends and celebrate herself. Galentine’s Day, which falls on the day before Valentine’s Day, is for you. “Just as you may give another person a Valentine’s day gift, write a heartfelt card, or spend quality time together, take these practices inward,” she said via email.

Persons: CNN —, “, Amy Poehler’s, Leslie, —, aren’t, it’s, ”, Rachel DeAlto, Lauren Cook, Damon L, Jacobs, ” Jacobs, there’s, Allison Hope Organizations: CNN, Recreation, New Yorker Locations: New York, Los Angeles

☆ This startup wants to find cancer faster with AI-powered full-body scans. See the 22-slide pitch deck that got Ezra $21 million.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewLast August, Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram that she'd gotten a full-body MRI scan from the startup Prenuvo, which sparked a national conversation about the merits of preventive imaging. With Kardashian's help, the scans were finally making headlines — and healthtech startup Ezra felt their impact. "The day that Kim Kardashian got a scan, even though it wasn't an Ezra scan, our day-over-day revenue spiked," Ezra CEO and cofounder Emi Gal told Business Insider. Those tailwinds have propelled growth for Ezra, which partners with radiology clinics to perform full-body MRI scans. And, with Ezra's scans, that startup has "helped hundreds of people find cancer," he added.

Persons: —, Kim Kardashian, she'd, Ezra, Emi Gal, Amir Dan Rubin, Anne Wojcicki, Vlad Tenev, David Prior, Esther Dyson, — Gal, Ezra Flash, radiologists, Gal, We've Organizations: Service, Business, VC, FirstMark, Firms, Allianz Life Ventures, Mana Ventures, Ventures, Seedcamp, LDV Locations: Gaingels, Republic

☆ Ayo Edebiri said J.Lo's entire career is a 'scam' and the internet is on the young actor's side
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe troops are rallying behind their favorite "Irish" actor, "The Bear" star Ayo Edebiri, after a clip of her talking about Jennifer Lopez's decadeslong singing career resurfaced. Edebiri said that Lopez "thinks" she's singing in on many of her songs, but "it's not her" — echoing claims that Lopez uses ghost singers on her tracks. In a recently released "SNL" promo clip , the pair seemed friendly, with Edebiri telling Lopez , "I love your everything." AdvertisementRepresentatives for Edebiri and Lopez did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: —, Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez's decadeslong, Lopez, TMZ, it's, she's, cohost Laci Mosely, Ayo, J.Lo, Christina Milian, JLo, Gal, Jenny Organizations: Service, Business, Edebiri Locations: Republic of Ireland

☆ Three people indicted in $400 million FTX crypto hack conspiracy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Three people were indicted for an identity theft conspiracy that allegedly included the $400 million hack from FTX on the same day in November 2022 that the doomed cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy protection, court records show. A source familiar with the case confirmed that FTX was the victim mentioned in the indictment. Later on Nov. 11 and continuing into the next day, "co-conspirators transferred over $400 million in virtual currency from [FTX's] virtual currency walls to virtual currency wallets controlled by the co-conspirators. The indictment says that several weeks before the FTX hack, the scheme looted $293,000 in virtual currency from one victim, and days later, stole more than $1 million in crypto from another person. A day after the FTX hack, the conspirators stole about $590,000 in crypto from an individual's virtual wallet.

Persons: Robert Powell, Carter Rohn, Emily Hernandez, Gal Pissetzky, FTX, Sam Bankman, Fried, Powell, Hernandez Organizations: Washington , D.C, U.S, Attorney's, FTX, CNBC PRO Locations: Krakow, Poland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Colorado, Washington ,, Washington, Manhattan, Texas

☆ An Israeli Charity for Palestinians Grapples With Oct. 7 Attacks
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Gal Koplewitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly every week for a decade, Iri Kassel picked up sick Palestinian children at Israel’s Erez border crossing with Gaza and drove them with their guardians to Israeli hospitals for treatment. But on Oct. 7, the crossing was raided by Palestinian militants who blasted the passport control booths and magnetic scanners as they stormed into southern Israel. The deadly attacks plunged Israel into all-out war in Gaza and disrupted the work of Road to Recovery, the Israeli nonprofit organization that Mr. Kassel volunteers for, which has ferried more than 1,500 Palestinian patients a year to Israeli hospitals. Several of the group’s volunteers died in the Hamas-led attack, including Vivian Silver, a prominent peace activist who was killed in her home at Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. The group helps Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank access medical treatment in Israel, where health services are among the most advanced in the region.

Persons: Vivian Silver, Yocheved, Nir Oz, Mr, Yuval Roth Organizations: Iri Kassel, Palestinian, Mr, Kibbutz, Hamas, West Bank Locations: Israel’s Erez, Gaza, Israel, Kassel, Kibbutz Be’eri

☆ Opinion: Why Megyn Kelly’s fake feminism is so chilling
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Jane Carr | Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The unsubstantiated, misleading misogyny of former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s tirade about the harm plastic surgery does to women. Throughout her segment on Moriarty, Kelly latched onto what might, in other hands, under other circumstances, have been sympathetic and important themes. She flagged mental health, the pressures put on women by social media and the beauty industry and the struggle to remain authentic in an increasingly “fake,” AI-dominated world. Moriarty said she would be taking “an extensive if not permanent break” from social media and in her words, she experienced “one of the most challenging weeks” of her life. So much for Kelly’s concerns about her mental health.

Persons: Holly Thomas, Katie Couric, CNN —, Jonathan Rauch, Steve Bannon’s, Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, Rauch, that’s, It’s, Donald Trump, George Floyd’s, Megyn, Kelly, Erin Moriarty, Moriarty, —, ” Kelly, “, Kim Kardashian, ”, Michael Knowles, ” Knowles, Knowles, “ I’ve, she’d “, wasn’t, Naomi Klein, Megyn Kelly Organizations: Katie Couric Media, CNN, America, White House, Fox News, YouTube Locations: London, Hollywood

The Israeli war cabinet member and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, as he attended the funeral of his son Gal Meir Eisenkot in December. General Eisenkot has also paid a devastating personal price in the war: His 25-year-old son, Master Sgt. In the televised interview, which was prerecorded, General Eisenkot said Mr. Netanyahu carries “sharp and clear” responsibility for the country’s failure to protect its citizens on Oct. 7. Early in the war, Israeli officials weighed whether to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah — risking a two-front war that deeply concerned U.S. and Israeli military planners. The Israeli public must head to the polls “within months,” General Eisenkot said.

Persons: Gadi Eisenkot, Gal Meir Eisenkot, Israel, Uvda, ”, Eisenkot, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Mr, Netanyahu —, —, “, Israel’s, General Eisenkot, Yahya Sinwar, Netanyahu’s Organizations: Mr, Hamas, ” Locations: Gaza, Israel, Entebbe, —, Uganda, Iran, Lebanon

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