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☆ Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool, a Love Affair in Street Art and Silverware
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Thursday, he and his players shared one last barbecue at Liverpool’s training facility on the fringe of the city. There is still the looming specter of Sunday, when he will take charge of Liverpool one final time. They have moved him so much that, when asked by the club’s in-house television channel to read a handful, he demurred. Klopp does not pretend to understand, not fully, why there is such a depth of feeling toward him from Liverpool’s fans — the club’s “people,” as he calls them. “I know that if you are Liverpool manager, people like you,” he said.

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☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, IDF recovers another hostage
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Adrienne Vogt | Matt Meyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Former Israeli defense minister and war cabinet member Benny Gantz attends a meeting with the press in Ramot Naftali, Israel, on October 29. Amir Levy/Getty ImagesFormer Israeli defense minister and war cabinet member Benny Gantz is demanding that the cabinet lays out a plan for the war against Hamas by June 8. Gantz said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must choose between "victory and disaster" as he issued the ultimatum. Gantz said that to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Hamas cannot remain in Gaza and must be cleared from Rafah. He acknowledged the harmful impact the war is having on civilians but insisted that “decisiveness” is needed.

Persons: Benny Gantz, Ramot Naftali, Israel, Amir Levy, Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Organizations: Getty Locations: Ramat Gan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Rafah, Gaza

☆ Flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 68 people in Afghanistan
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Remainings of houses damaged by the flood are pictured in Firozkoh the capital city of Ghor Province, Afghanistan, May 18, 2024. REUTERS/StringerFlash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, Taliban officials said Saturday, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports. Afghanistan has been witnessing unusually heavy seasonal rains. In the hard-hit western province of Ghor, 50 people were reported dead, said Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesman for the provincial governor. The U.N. food agency posted on social media platform X, saying Ghor was the most affected by the floods where 2500 families were impacted.

Persons: Abdul Wahid Hamas, Feroz Koh, Esmatullah Moradi, Ghor Organizations: REUTERS, Stringer, WFP, World Food Organization Locations: Ghor Province, Afghanistan, Ghor, Farayab, Baghlan, Farah, Herat, Zabul, Kandahar

☆ Target's Pride looks a lot different after last year's backlash — and some LGBTQ+ insiders are disappointed
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewOn Tuesday, members of Target's LGBTQ+ employee resource group logged on for a much-anticipated virtual meeting to preview the 2024 Pride collection, two council members told Business Insider. Last year, Pride products had already been on sale online for weeks by mid-May, and each of the retailer's nearly 2,000 US stores was busy setting up displays near their front entrances. But late last May, conservative protesters took aim at Target's Pride collection, falsely claiming the merchandise was "Satanic" and sexualized minors. However, the two Pride Council members and multiple LGBTQ+ vendors who worked on past Pride collections told BI they feel the company hasn't done enough to rebuild its relationship with its LGBTQ+ partners over the past year. AdvertisementOne of the employees involved in the Pride Council told BI that a lot of LGBTQ+ people, herself included, joined Target specifically because of its stated support for trans and queer rights.

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☆ What life is like in the world’s happiest country, from a 28-year-old who left the U.S. for Finland
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Jade Ventoniemi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

I feel so fulfilled by my life in Finland. I was introduced to cross-country skiing when I moved to Finland five years ago, and now it is one my favorite hobbies." Finland is the first place I lived after college and the first place my husband and I lived together. You can follow her journey and life in Finland on Instagram or TikTok. Plus, sign up for CNBC Make It's newsletter to get tips and tricks for success at work, with money and in life.

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☆ Benedictine Sisters denounce Harrison Butker’s speech as his jersey sales rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( The Athletic Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementIn a statement released Friday, the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica said they “do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested. “Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation, and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. These women have made a tremendous difference in the world in their roles as wives and mothers and through their God-given gifts in leadership, scholarship, and their careers.”The Benedictine Sisters are a founding institution and sponsor of Benedictine College, according to the Mount St. Scholastica website. Butker’s jersey sales appear to be rising significantly since he delivered the 20-minute speech. (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)The NFL distanced itself from the ideas Butker expressed in his speech.

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☆ Afghanistan: 50 killed, dozens missing after flooding in Ghor province
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Masoud Popalzai | Ehsan Popalzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Fifty people were killed and dozens are missing after heavy rains and flooding in Afghanistan’s province of Ghor on Friday, according to the Afghan Ministry of Refugees. The Ministry said in a post on X on Saturday that 2,000 homes had been completely destroyed and up to 4,000 partially destroyed by recent flooding. Hundreds of people have been killed by flash flooding in Afghanistan over the past several weeks, according to the UN. Areas in northern Afghanistan have been ravaged by the heavy floods, including the provinces of Ghor, Badakhshan, Baghlan, and Herat. In April, unseasonal rainfall and floods killed more than 100 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to authorities.

Persons: Zabihullah Mojahid, Zabihullah Mujahid Organizations: CNN, Afghan Ministry of Refugees, UN Locations: Afghanistan’s province, Ghor, Afghanistan, Badakhshan, Baghlan, Herat, Pakistan

☆ Low-income Americans wait years to get housing vouchers that are often impossible to use. Fixing the system could mean more funding and less red tape.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The federal Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Section 8, is also the biggest, aiding about 5 million people in 2.3 million households. While it's illegal in some places to discriminate against voucher holders, the practice isn't outlawed everywhere. Fully funding housing vouchers would mean many more housing-insecure and unhoused people would get help. Related storiesIn its budget for fiscal year 2025, the Biden administration requested a $2.5 billion increase for voucher funding over 2023 levels. Researchers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have proposed piloting a direct cash transfer program for rent as an alternative to housing vouchers.

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☆ 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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☆ Millennials have a fresh take on the FIRE movement, and it's less about taking it easy in retirement
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

BI spoke to a dozen millennials who have achieved or are on track to achieve financial independence. Brad Barrett, the host of the "ChooseFI" podcast, said "vanishingly few" people with the wherewithal to reach financial independence are retiring early. AdvertisementHe argued that achieving financial independence and hitting a specific number is "the simplest part." Advertisement"I defined myself by the pursuit of financial independence," Sabatier, the author of "Financial Freedom," said. Don't delay figuring out what you really want, why you're pursuing financial independence, and what you want to do after."

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☆ Welcome to the club: You're middle class but still counting your pennies
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The middle class is more of a club than an income bracketThe ranks of middle-income earners have been shrinking, according to the Pew Research Center. A solid chunk of millionaires consider themselves middle class, despite accounting for just over 12% of American families. And there's good reasons," Lawrence R. Samuel, the author of the book "The American Middle Class: A Cultural History," told Business Insider. "Being middle class is almost like classless. Clinging to at least the mirage of the middle class might be important to upholding more core American ideals.

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☆ A Covid-19 memorial website, The WhoWeLost Project, offers pandemic mourners a digital safe space
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Ashley Williams | Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

A year ago, the World Health Organization declared an end to Covid-19 as a global public health emergency. On the fourth anniversary of Settle’s death – and driven by a need to mourn – Koenig wrote about his former partner on the Covid-19 remembrance website WhoWeLost. Greenwald expanded the website nationally after a 2021 story on the website from an NPR affiliate garnered widespread praise. “I think the need for the site, in a way, is larger because less people are paying attention (to Covid-19),” Greenwald told CNN. They can write those stories down here.”New York City resident Wiandy Santiago’s 65-year-old brother Wilmard Santiago died of Covid-19 in April 2020, a week after being placed on a ventilator.

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☆ AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton says he's 'very worried' about AI taking jobs and has advised the British government to adopt a universal basic income
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewSome say AI will be a great equalizer. And he believes a universal basic income might be the solution. "I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea." AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who's been racing to develop artificial general intelligence — is running his own experiment around a universal basic income, the results of which he expects to release soon. He also recently floated the idea of a "universal basic compute."

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With average credit card interest rates at 21.59% as of February 2024 per the Federal Reserve, carrying any amount of credit card debt can become costly in a hurry. Can a debt consolidation loan actually make debt worse? "Their credit score tanks, which means they can't get another debt consolidation loan or even a credit card," said Dvorkin. Debt consolidation doesn't solve spending issuesFinancial expert Andrea Woroch points out that debt consolidation may be nothing more than a Band-Aid if you don't identify and fix the poor money management habits that got you into debt in the first place. Some debt consolidation loans have additional risksFinally, remember that some types of loans you can use for debt consolidation have a unique set of risks.

Persons: Howard Dvorkin, they're, Andrea Woroch, Kendall Meade, SoFi, Meade, Anne Lester, Lester Organizations: Federal Reserve, Business, Solutions, Asset Management

☆ A millennial CEO launched a fully remote tech company. He says hybrid work is the worst of both worlds.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. "The point of it was to be silly and to put people in different environments and situations where they could create new networks and pathways to people in the company," Pitt said. 'It's easy to look busy'Another way the company tackles remote work for an employee base spread around the world is to cluster some functions. Rather than dwelling on where workers work, a big focus is on developing trust, Pitt said. AdvertisementAnd, Pitt said, if workers care about the mission, it doesn't matter whether they work in an office or from afar.

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But Nkenge's dream became a reality when she was selected for a one-bedroom apartment through the city's housing lottery in 2023. The New York City housing lottery program helps residents find affordable housing, including rent-stabilized apartments. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development defines affordable housing as housing costs no greater than 30 percent of a single person's or family's income. Nkenge applied to the NYC housing lottery for three years before she got her one-bedroom apartment in Flatiron. Before winning her housing lottery apartment, Nkenge lived in a small one-bedroom in Harlem.

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☆ 'Bridgerton' fans are praising the disability representation in season 3, including an 'autistic-coded' character
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewWarning: Spoilers ahead for "Bridgerton" season three, part one. Fans are lauding season 3 for its representation of people with disabilitiesZak Ford-Williams as Lord Remington on season three of "Bridgerton." — Michelle Birkby (@michelleeb) May 16, 2024Today is Global Accessibility Awareness day and @bridgerton season 3 premier day. Francesca Bridgerton is autistic. Francesca isn't explicitly stated as being on the autism spectrum in Julia Quinn's 'Bridgerton' novels or on the TV seriesHannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton on season three, episode two of "Bridgerton."

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☆ Britain’s election campaign hasn’t started yet, but the mudslinging is well underway
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Luke Mcgee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

He lost two general elections as Labour leader in campaigns that focused heavily on his views regarding national security. The context for Sunak’s attack on Starmer is that the UK will vote in a general election at some point this year. “Of course Rishi doesn’t believe that Starmer himself is a threat to national security,” a senior Conservative told CNN. It’s just ridiculous and it clearly winds him up when we point it out.”No one knows for sure when the election campaign proper will start. Until then, Britain is braced for months of mudslinging between Sunak and Starmer.

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☆ I'm a Canadian who's lived in the US for over 30 years. I don't get why so many Americans want to move to Canada.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Our money was worth more back then, so we got more value for our Canadian dollar when we went shopping in the States. She was an American living in Atlanta and said, "Hey, why don't you come and spend the winter with me?" It almost seemed like Canada was 10 or 20 years behind, progressive-wise — and I don't mean politically. The amenities, the shopping, the food, and the restaurants in Canada are way behind if you're outside Vancouver or Toronto. I don't see why Canada is so appealing to AmericansCanada used to be an admired country worldwide, and now it's horrible.

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☆ Financial companies are getting creative about annuities
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

It’s fueling a huge rollout of new retirement products — but they’re not all golden tickets. “We didn’t really save much of anything.”However, jobs offering pension plans are harder to come by compared to previous decades. Over the past 40 years, defined contribution plans, also known as 401(k) plans, have taken their place. Americans currently hold over $7 trillion in 401(k) plans, according to data from the Investment Company Institute, a trade association. These types of retirement plans put the job of saving and investing on the employee.

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☆ I live in a Texas city that's one of the fastest-growing in America. I see why so many Californians are moving here — and the impact they have on home prices and traffic.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Newland, a 56-year-old retired Medical Service Corps officer who is now a real-estate agent in New Braunfels, Texas. The city is about 32 miles northeast of San Antonio and roughly 40 miles southwest of Austin, within the Texas Triangle." The city is growing but retaining its identityDespite its growth, the city maintains its small-town charm, with quaint shops and restaurants. Moving towards San Antonio and Austin, the city begins to feel like a larger town with several strip malls and new homes. An upside is that there have been a lot of new businesses, more income to the city, and even live music.

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☆ Senior Google engineer's top career tips include 'do it, then do it right, then do it better'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAddy Osmani, a senior Google engineer, recently celebrated his 12th anniversary at the search giant and used the occasion to share his top career tips in a blog post. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Related storiesOsmani also encourages people to start by sharing the manta: "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." One CEO previously told Business Insider that communication was the most important skill that employees lacked. It can have drastic consequences: one HR VP previously told BI that burnout got so bad that she ended up being taken out of the office on a stretcher.

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☆ Robots and AI are being used to help women get pregnant. Is this the future of IVF?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

There, a startup called Conceivable Life Sciences is automating the IVF lab from start to finish. Conceivable Life SciencesEleven women so far have become pregnant with help from one or more of these Conceivable robots. Conceivable Life Sciences"No baby, no fee"Today, IVF demand is surging, despite the treatment being slow, uncertain, and expensive. Conceivable's future IVF lab. Conceivable Life SciencesFrom prayer to AIHalf a continent away, a physician was growing frustrated by the constraints of his job.

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☆ Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but disappeared in a mere 14 months. “I don’t use the term ‘reverse.’ I don’t know what reverse means when it comes to the field of Alzheimer’s,” Isaacson said. ‘It was time to turn to my brain’Slowly, Nicholls’ heart condition began to improve, but the bad news didn’t end there. A brain scan found telltale signs of vascular damage in Nicholls’ brain, which occurs when the tiniest blood vessels are starved of oxygen. Not only was Nicholls blood negative for amyloid and tau, the test suggested that his brain amyloid might be normal, with no distinguishable signs of the disease.

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☆ I flew from LA to Paris to see Taylor Swift. I was only in the city for 48 hours but it was worth it and easier than I expected.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AdvertisementFlying nonstop from LA to Paris on Air France was a breezeI flew from LA to Paris on Thursday, May 9, and only had to take two days off work — not bad for a trip to Europe. Free wine on Air France with dinner and "Lord of the Rings" made the flight to Paris easy. AdvertisementParis was full of Taylor Swift fansThe scaffolding in the forefront of the photos is part of the Olympics set up. We took an Uber to La Defense Arena, located northwest of the city center and about 15 minutes from our hotel. When the countdown appeared on the screen for Swift, we went to our actual seats, which were right outside the lounge, stage left.

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