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☆ Nancy Pelosi says she respects Mike Johnson and hopes Trump isn't 'his puppeteer'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nancy Pelosi offered muted praise for Speaker Mike Johnson. Pelosi had a famously fraught relationship with fellow Californian and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. AdvertisementFormer Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she respects Speaker Mike Johnson even if she strongly disagrees with his politics, a sign that the top Republican holds some sway with congressional Democrats. AdvertisementThe former speaker told The Atlantic that she viewed Johnson as "a person of integrity," adding she was "not here to criticize him." The expectation is that if Greene follows through with her threat to force a vote on Johnson, standing Democrats will help protect him.

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☆ Are There Eclipse Glasses for the Election? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Gail Collins | Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The economy added just over 300,000 new jobs last month, which gives Joe Biden something to brag about. 1 concern for voters, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal, and in one February poll 65 percent of Americans disapproved of Biden’s handling of the border. Voters are going to have to pay attention, and that’s going to give Biden the election. But you have more faith in the wisdom of the American people than I do. Mencken on the presidency: “As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

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☆ Robert De Niro calls Donald Trump 'stupid' and 'dangerous' after the former president mocked him on social media
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump and De Niro have been feuding since 2016 when the actor said he wanted to punch him in the face. AdvertisementRobert De Niro called Donald Trump a "fucking moron" in his latest comments amid their public feud. De Niro responded to two of Trump's social media posts about him, where the former president said De Niro had a "low IQ" and his acting had "greatly diminished." AdvertisementDe Niro encouraged the audience to vote to make sure Trump is not re-elected as president later this year. Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesNear the end of the ceremony, Kimmel read Trump's post and said: "Thank you, President Trump.

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☆ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says ‘US credibility is at stake’ when asked about Trump’s NATO comments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Haley Britzky | Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“I think we have a responsibility to uphold those alliances,” Brown told NBC’s Lester Holt in an interview airing Monday evening. “US credibility is at stake with each of our alliances, and US leadership is still needed, wanted, and watched.”“The US is committed,” Brown added. “We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” Milley said at the time, in a veiled reference to Trump. The Pentagon said Monday that those attacks have resulted in 186 wounded or killed in action — including 130 traumatic brain injuries.

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☆ Mark Cuban says he'll be using Threads more after criticizing X as Elon Musk's 'echo chamber'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewRecently, Mark Cuban learned that if you're searching for enlightenment or, at the very least, a stimulating debate on hot-button topics of the day, you may think twice about relying on Elon Musk's X. Cuban told The Wall Street Journal that the reaction didn't come to him as a surprise. "Twitter isn't real life," Cuban told the Journal. AdvertisementIn an X post on Saturday, Cuban said he's still on X "because it's more fun and interesting to argue with people who disagree with me." Cuban didn't make any suggestions when asked if there were any changes he would want to see on the platform.

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☆ Moneyball-Plus: What Happens When Investors Treat Athletes Like Startups
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Joseph Bien-Kahn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

What if athletes could sell a percentage of their future earnings to investors, the same way tech entrepreneurs offer a stake in their promising new ideas in return for venture capital? "We look at the game very, very differently than everyone else," Schwimer tells the pitcher. Finlete is launching a fund that allows fans to buy shares in a prospect's future earnings. What if you could sell a share of your future earnings, he asked, for $10,000? Today, he says, more than 80% of the players BLA has invested in are outside the league's top 300 prospects.

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☆ 17 Trump Cabinet-Level Appointees Criticizing Trump - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Sarah Longwell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Mr. Trump churned through cabinet-level appointees so fast that at times it seemed like he was still on “The Apprentice” and had to fire one official every week. Not only are they people whom Mr. Trump chose — he claimed he would hire the “best people” — they are people who thought Mr. Trump was worth working for. Judging only by the words of many former high-level appointees, a second Trump term would be catastrophic for the country. BlamedTrump forJan. 6 CriticizedTrump duringhis term CriticizedTrump afterhis term HighlightedTrump’s legalissues Ruled outvoting Trumpin 2024 Moron,” Mr. Tillerson reportedly said of Mr. Trump. He wrote an op-ed published just after the 2020 election claiming that Mr. Trump would “concede gracefully” if he lost.

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☆ How old fishing nets could be part of the climate crisis solution
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

De Bouter’s company, Brikole, is a startup “circular business” that recycles discarded nets from the industrial tuna fishing industry. Kyle de Bouter holds board shorts made of recycled Nylon fishing nets similar to the kind he is recycling. Since the area is prime for fishing, especially tuna fishing, many in Seychelles believe those industries are a good place to start. He championed activity by “inventive young entrepreneurs” to improve society, mentioning recycled fishing nets as one example. “This is solving the problem of exhausted fishing nets,” said Julio Morón, a managing director of the Spanish tuna fishing organization called OPAGAC.

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☆ I'm a Nespresso guy, and I'm trying to make a latte that's as good as Starbucks. It's not going well.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Henry Blodget | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I love my Nespresso machine, but it makes me sad to throw all those pods away. I love the simplicity and speed of my Nespresso machine. AdvertisementMy marvelous Nespresso machine. So imagine my surprise when, separated from my Nespresso machine by a trip, I got a Starbucks latte and found it… delicious. AdvertisementAnd then she explained the difference — water vs. steam, drip vs. pressure, Italy vs. France, night vs. day, etc.

Persons: —, Henry Blodget, I'm Organizations: Service, milli Locations: Ethiopia, Italy, France

☆ What Tucker Carlson emailed his 'Tuckertroop' staff when Fox News fired him, according to a new book
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson sent an email to his staff after his ousting from Fox News, a new book says. "I've never worked with better people in my life," Carlson said, according to Brian Stelter's new book. In April, Fox made the bombshell announcement that the network and Carlson "agreed to part ways." In a text message to Insider on Wednesday when asked for comment on Stelter's book and the alleged farewell email he sent to his staff, Carlson said: "Ha! "For a moment, he thought about saying yes; maybe he did want the breakup to sound mutually beneficial," Stelter says in his book, according to the published excerpt.

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☆ Mitt Romney criticizes Fox News and right-wing media for warping Republican Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP. In another excerpt, Romney expressed alarm at how prominent storylines in the right-wing media space demonized people that he believed should have been celebrated, such as an Olympian struggling with mental health. The warped political environment made Romney, once the archetype of its traditional conservative values, an outcast to right-wing media figures, which after a brief civil war, wholly embraced Trump following his election. But the call didn’t go well, with Hannity scolding Romney and accusing him of making certain comments to appease the mainstream press. “You’re just doing this because you want to get praise on MSNBC!” Hannity told Romney, according to the book.

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☆ Elon Musk might be the internet's worst boyfriend. At least that's what it seems like in his new biography.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Elon and I were used to having big arguments in public," Musk's first wife, Justine Wilson, told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementWilson told Isaacson, the book's author, that Musk sometimes resorted to calling her "an idiot" or "moron" in arguments. Variety/Getty ImagesMeanwhile, Grimes told Isaacson that she feels the billionaire "associates love with being mean or abusive." "It was Elon's Asperger's coming out in full," Grimes told Isaacson. Musk's second wife, Talulah Riley, told Isaacson that when her close friend died, he flew to England to be with her.

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☆ 8 major takeaways from the explosive new book about Elon Musk that lifts the lid on the world's richest person
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Grace Dean | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gianliuigi Guercia/Getty ImagesOne character who appears frequently throughout the book is Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk. "It turned out to be a really bad idea," Elon Musk told Isaacson. "It was mental torture," Elon Musk told Isaacson. But the years that he spent with his father have somewhat shaped Elon Musk's personality, according to the book. Ex-wife Talulah Riley also told Isaacson that Errol Musk's treatment of his son "had a profound effect on how he operates."

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☆ Errol Musk denies berating his son after an attack at school put Elon Musk in hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

His father, Errol Musk, disputed this account in a statement to Insider. The story was recounted in Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, who's now the world's richest person . The Musk brothers said Errol Musk lashed out at his son. "No, I did not berate Elon," Errol Musk told Insider in an email. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson wrote that Errol Musk moved Elon Musk from a public school to a private academy, Pretoria Boys High School, after the attack.

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☆ Elon Musk whispered to his first wife, Justine, that he was 'the alpha in this relationship' during their first dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

During Elon Musk's first dance with Justine Musk, he told her he was the "alpha" in the relationship. Justine Musk was his first wife and the mother of five of Elon Musk's surviving children. "I am the alpha in this relationship," Elon Musk whispered to author Justine Musk, his first wife, as they danced following their ceremony on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Walter Isaacson wrote in "Elon Musk," his new biography of the tech mogul. Elon Musk met Justine Musk when he was a sophomore and she a freshman at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe told Isaacson that Elon Musk told her to dye her hair blonder and that she felt like she was being turned into a "trophy wife."

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☆ Elon Musk 'associates love with being mean or abusive,' Grimes told biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk "associates love with being mean or abusive" Grimes told Musk's new biographer. AdvertisementAdvertisement"When you're from a dysfunctional background or have a brain wired like his," Wilson told Isaacson, "intensity takes the place of intimacy." AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2017, Musk's mother, Maye Musk, told Rolling Stone that Errol Musk was "a terrible human being," and in 2019, she told Harper's Bazaar that their marriage was abusive. AdvertisementAdvertisement"He has numerous minds and many fairly distinct personalities," she told Isaacson, according to the book. "When we hang out, I make sure I'm with the right Elon," she told Isaacson.

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CNN —Three US Marines who died when their Osprey aircraft crashed during a military exercise in Australia have been identified by their unit. Air Force CV-22 Ospreys take off from Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, for a training mission. April 8, 2010: US Air Force Osprey crashes in southern Afghanistan, killing three US service members and one civilian employee. August 5, 2017: An MV-22B Osprey crashes off the coast of Australia, leaving three Marines dead. June 8, 2022: Five US Marines die after an MV-22 Osprey crashes during a training mission Wednesday near Glamis, California.

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☆ Donald Trump is facing 4 criminal cases. Photos of documents piled beside a toilet could be the most damaging to his election chances.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Donald Trump is facing a number of legal problems that may have an impact on his electoral chances. AdvertisementAdvertisementSo eh, they all do that is the lens that will define the public perception of the Trump indictments. Ipsos has polled Americans on their thoughts following each of the indictments Trump has faces, and the apples-to-apples comparison here is very compelling. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn all but one case, most independents think he should be charged with a crime. Independents think it's bad, but not that bad, and it truly depends on how persuadable voters are when it comes to eh, they all do that.

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☆ The world's biggest stock investor says if you don't see opportunities in AI, then you are a 'complete moron'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Jason Ma | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"If you don't think there are opportunities with AI, then in my mind you are a complete moron." That comes from the head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which is the world's biggest stock investor. "If you don't think there are opportunities with AI, then in my mind you are a complete moron," Nicolai Tangen, the fund's chief executive, told the Financial Times. Meanwhile, he warned that regulating AI will be difficult because the US-China rivalry has made the technology critical to the "weapons race, medical race, self-driving race, financial race." "We are always conscious and worried about the biggest exposures of the fund," Tangen told Reuters separately.

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☆ A Russian oligarch who slammed Putin's invasion of Ukraine got taken off UK's sanctions list after he got Richard Branson to back him
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The UK on Wednesday lifted sanctions against Russian oligarch Oleg Tinkov. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson endorsed Tinkov's appeal against the sanctions. The UK on Wednesday lifted sanctions against Russian oligarch Oleg Tinkov, the British foreign office announced Thursday. The Russian businessman has been an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Tinkov's appeal against the UK's sanctions was endorsed by Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group empire, The Times media outlet reported on Monday.

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☆ Putin's military supply routes are being blocked by Russian tourists after he encouraged them to go on holiday in Crimea, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russian tourists are snarling up military supply routes near Crimea, a report said. The Institute for the Study of War described the Kerch bridge as one of two supply routes for Russian forces in southern Ukraine battling to resist a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian tourists in the resort town of Alushta on the Crimean peninsula on June 18, 2023. Despite this, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered Russian military vehicles to help ferry tourists to the location, it said. In the wake of Sunday's attack, Putin urged tourists to avoid the Kerch bridge and instead take the route through occupied east Ukraine.

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☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: Ferrari is a 'true juggernaut'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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To be sure, the April inflation data hit the UK debt market like a thunderbolt. While the headline consumer price inflation rate dropped to 8.7% from 10.1% in March, as energy prices ebbed, that was still far higher than forecast and core inflation rates hit their highest in 31 years at just under 7%. And a chief concern for many households is ongoing annual food price inflation still near 20%. Sterling and real yield spreadsNew UK gilt shock? Using 5-year real yields from the index-linked bond market, that premium jumped almost 40bp this week to its highest since last October.

☆ A clothing designer was at the checkout line of a Joann fabric store when he learned his ex-girlfriend was wanted by the FBI. They called it quits after he learned she was reading 'Mein Kampf.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

—FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) April 27, 2023"I stopped dead in my tracks," the designer told NBC News. Months later, Vargas began to reveal her more far-right politics and her interest in Hitler's "Mein Kampf," the designer told the outlet. "I was just instantly turned off, like, 'Yo, I don't think this is going to work out,'" he told NBC News. The designer told the outlet his "heart hurts" for Vargas but also found humor in the situation. "It's just going to be one of those things for me," the designer told NBC News.

☆ Actress Eva Green wins London court case over fee for failed film
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - (Please note obscene language in penultimate three paragraphs)Hollywood actress Eva Green on Friday won a legal fight with financiers whom she had sued in London's High Court for her fee for a failed film in which she was to star. Judge Michael Green said in a written ruling that Eva Green was entitled to payment of the $1 million fee. Green, 42, appeared in court in January to say she had become concerned the film's production team had been cutting corners, citing how her stunt training had been reduced from four weeks to five days. White Lantern's lawyers said Green, also an executive producer on the project, had made unreasonable demands about crew, locations and equipment. "I fought tooth and nail to defend the beautiful film that I loved and had signed on for," Green said in a statement.

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