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☆ Portland Teachers’ Strike Ends After More Than Three Weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | More About Sarah Mervosh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The NewsThe union representing teachers, counselors and other school employees in Portland, Ore., reached a tentative deal with the city's public school district on Sunday, ending a strike that has kept nearly 45,000 students out of classes for more than three weeks in Oregon’s largest district. That is about in the middle of what the district had offered and what the union had asked for at the start of the strike. The strike has drawn attention to public school funding in Oregon. (Minneapolis students missed 14 school days during a strike last year.) The strike, which kept students out of school for nearly the entire month of November, could risk amplifying that message in Portland.

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Tester entered the Senate after selling Montana voters on his authenticity, and the former high school band teacher's message hasn’t changed much. Tester chairs the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. “I take my cues directly from the veterans of this state,” Tester told the assembly at Bigfork High School. There’s been an influx of newcomers from Arizona, Washington state, California and Texas. He currently ranks second with $407,000 in contributions from lobbyists, putting him just behind Washington state Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, according to the research group OpenSecrets.

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☆ Opinion: No one needed another Napoleon movie, but this one has something unexpected to say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Napoleon, played by Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, is a talented young officer whose military victories quickly vault him into influence and power. The fact that Napoleon can’t live up to his own larger-than-life image is part of what makes Napoleon larger than life. There are obvious differences between Trump and Napoleon — Trump avoided the draft and was not a successful general; Napoleon was never elected and conquered large parts of Europe; Trump’s coup attempt was unsuccessful. “Napoleon” suggests that our fascination with grotesque populist windbags is itself a source of their power. Napoleon might not love this movie, but he’d surely enjoy seeing his face blown up there on the big screen.

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☆ U.S. political violence driven by new breed of ‘grab-bag’ extremists
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +25 min

The incidents involve violence emanating from across the political spectrum, including dozens of cases of substantial property damage by leftists at political demonstrations. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump, didn’t respond to questions from Reuters about the former president’s remarks and the impact of his rhetoric. But those who study extremism say psychiatric problems alone rarely induce political violence. “How could I take care of a brother in arms if I couldn’t even take care of myself?” Aldrich told the court. In the summer of 2022, Aldrich told the group he wanted to build a website to “promote freedom of speech,” Arroyo said.

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☆ Opinion | Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship With the World Is Mostly Hate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Gail Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sometimes I miss the good old days when Donald Trump could be shocking. It’s really hard to imagine something he could say now that would throw us for a loop. You probably heard that on Veterans Day he celebrated the men and women who’ve fought for American democracy by promising to “root out” his liberal opponents. Don’t know if any other president has called people he disagreed with “vermin.” Maybe Warren Harding? C. Probably watched “I Led 3 Lives” while growing up in the 1950s.

Persons: Donald Trump, who’ve, Warren Harding, Warren, Franklin Pierce, Trump Organizations: Veterans

☆ Trump’s extreme rhetoric conjures the prospect of a presidency like no other
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Donald Trump is promising a second presidency that would be an aberration in American history. And Trump’s ambitions should be taken seriously because one year from the election, President Joe Biden’s reelection hopes are far from secure. He dehumanizes his political enemies, has discredited the legal, political and electoral system, has demonized the press and has targeted vulnerable members of society, minorities and immigrants, as scapegoats. With questionable historic comparisons, Trump’s critics only fuel his bid to provoke the outrage that is essential to his political appeal. Nikki Haley have only criticized Trump obliquely, understanding there’s no market in the modern Republican Party for confronting Trump’s lawlessness.

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☆ Biden campaign says Trump echoed Hitler with use of word 'vermin'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Nathan Layne | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, U.S., November 11, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team on Monday said former President Donald Trump had embraced the language of Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler by using the word "vermin" to refer to his political enemies. "Donald Trump thinks he can win by dividing our country. Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, rejected the comparisons to Hitler and Italy's Mussolini. White House spokesperson Andrew Bates also said Trump's use of the word "vermin" echoed Hitler and Mussolini.

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☆ Moody's just reignited concerns about the US debt mountain. Here's what that means for the troubled Treasury-bond market.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Moody's lowered its outlook for the US's credit rating to negative Friday. Negative credit outlookMoody's cut its outlook for the US's credit rating to negative Friday. The US's deficit: The US's debt pile is likely to "remain very large", per Moody's. The US's debt pile is likely to "remain very large", per Moody's. By stoking up worries about the government's massive debt pile, Moody's threatened to make a bad week worse – but the market reaction to it slashing its outlook has so far been muted.

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☆ Opinion: Trump’s mental gaffes can’t be ignored
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Opinion Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Longtime political analyst Larry Sabato was asked by CNN anchor Jim Acosta this weekend about former President Donald Trump’s increasingly frequent mental lapses. In response, Sabato told Acosta the truth: Trump’s supporters “don’t care” if he’s lost a step or two. They thought Bush because Bush supposedly was a military person — great.” He then added about Bush, “He got us into the Middle East. In that same speech, Trump also erred in telling the audience that Orban’s nation shared a border with Russia. Thank you very much.”The problem was that Trump was in Sioux City, Iowa — not in Sioux Falls, a city in South Dakota.

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☆ Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene botches the explanation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —On the day after Republicans lost pivotal races in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene offered a diagnosis for her party’s ills. On Tuesday, Ohio voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that guarantees abortion rights. The disconnect may or may not cost Trump votes in 2024, but it’s hurting Republicans up and down the ballot. “Democrats will win in 2024 by making the election a choice, not just a referendum on Biden’s performance in office.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said America's veterans are “the steel spine of this nation” as he marked Veterans Day during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Not a place, not a person, not a president, but an idea, to defend an idea unlike any other in human history. That idea is the United States of America.”Nov. 11, once known as Armistice Day, is the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I in 1918. Biden said that was “unlike any war the world had ever seen before.”The ceremony was personal for Biden and first lady Jill Biden. “We come together today to once again honor the generations of Americans who stood on the front lines of freedom.

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☆ Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Michael Gold | More About Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He also promised to care for America’s veterans, reviving a hyperbolic claim that he made throughout his 2016 campaign that Democrats “treat the illegal aliens just pouring into our country better than they treat our veterans.”And he said he would divert money currently earmarked “for the shelter and transport of illegal aliens” to instead provide shelter and treatment for homeless military veterans. Here are some of the more notable elements of Mr. Trump’s Veterans Day speech. Courtroom CamerasMr. Trump, who is facing a civil fraud trial in New York and four criminal indictments, said in a radio interview earlier this week that he would welcome cameras in the courtroom. He went further on Saturday. “I want this trial to be seen by everybody in the world,” Mr. Trump said to a cheering crowd, referring to his federal election trial in Washington.

Persons: Trump’s, Trump, “, Mr, Biden, weaponizing Organizations: “, Justice Department Locations: New York, Washington

☆ What’s open and closed on Veterans Day 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Veterans Day honors active and former US service members. However, since that day falls on a Saturday this year, some will observe the holiday on Friday, November 10. Here’s what will be open and closed on Veterans Day 2023 and the day on which some will observe it. On Friday, the day before Veterans Day, FedEx will operate as normal except for modified service for FedEx Express and FedEx Ground Economy. On Saturday, FedEx will close FedEx Ground, FedEx Ground Economy and FedEx Freight.

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☆ Honoring our veterans: NYSE and Nasdaq observe moment of silence
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHonoring our veterans: NYSE and Nasdaq observe moment of silenceThe NYSE and Nasdaq observe a moment of silence in honor of our military servicemen and women ahead of Veterans Day.

Organizations: NYSE, Nasdaq, Veterans

☆ Morning Bid: Powell pushback puts cloud 9 beyond reach
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell answers a question during a press conference following a closed two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy at the Federal Reserve in Washington, U.S., November 1, 2023. Curiously, there was little change in that basic market pricing after Powell spoke - with end-2024 futures still pointing at a rate of 4.50-4.75% versus the current 5.25-5.50%. But the Treasury market did suffer a bigger jolt - as they were also undermined by poor demand at the latest long bond auction. But others pointed to a ransomware attack on the U.S. arm of The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which reportedly disrupted trades in the Treasury market on Thursday. Whatever the main cause, fresh bond market jitters were enough to knock the S&P500 out of its winning streak and close almost 1% lower.

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☆ Your New Co-Worker Is a Total Drill Sergeant. Literally.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Callum Borchers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Listen up, maggots. What this company needs is more effort and less whining, and I know just the person to set the tone: a drill sergeant or somebody who survived one. So goes the thinking at the companies that are lining up to hire the roughly 200,000 people who leave the military each year. The last jobs report before Veterans Day showed the unemployment rate for former service members is 2.9%, a full point lower than the overall U.S. rate.

Organizations: Veterans

☆ US Republicans expect no votes on stopgap this week as shutdown looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

One lawmaker said a Republican policy of waiting three days before voting on legislation left little time to act this week. House Republicans are due to focus the agenda for the week on passing their own partisan appropriations bills for 2024. The Senate has passed three appropriations bills in a package known as a minibus. While the Senate legislation enjoys strong bipartisan support, the House has passed only partisan Republican measures opposed by Democrats. Only one category of appropriations legislation, covering military construction and veterans benefits, has passed both chambers in markedly different forms.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Nathan Howard, Joe Biden, David Morgan, Stephen Coates Organizations: Republican, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Rights, . House, Representatives, Republicans, Democratic, Democrats, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Israel, Ukraine

☆ GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy calls Juneteenth a 'useless' holiday 2 months after he said the holiday should be a 'celebration of the American Dream'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Republican Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Juneteenth while speaking in Iowa, calling the holiday "useless." Black activists, notably 96-year-old Opal Lee, fought for decades for a federal Juneteenth holiday. "Single day voting, on Election Day. When NBC News pressed Ramaswamy on whether he thought Juneteenth was a "useless" holiday, he replied: "I basically do." But when asked by the network whether Memorial Day and Veterans Day were "useless" holidays, Ramaswamy took the opposite view.

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☆ The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The new video for the country singer Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” takes place outside a courthouse in Tennessee where, nearly a century ago, an 18-year-old Black man was attacked by a mob and lynched. Mr. Aldean was criticized after releasing the video, which included violent news footage of looting and unrest during protests in American cities. Country Music Television pulled the video this week after accusations surfaced on social media that its lyrics and message were offensive. “I think there is a lack of sensitivity using that courthouse as a prop,” said Cheryl L. Keyes, chair of the department of African American studies and a professor of ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. The teenager who was lynched, Henry Choate, had traveled from his home in Coffee County, Tenn., where he worked in road construction, to visit his grandfather in nearby Maury County on Nov. 11, 1927 — Armistice Day, as it was known at the time, or Veterans Day today.

Persons: Jason Aldean’s, Aldean, ”, Cheryl L, Keyes, Henry Choate Organizations: Country Music Television Locations: Tennessee, U.C.L.A, Coffee County, Tenn, Maury County

☆ Fact Check-The US honors service members during Military Appreciation Month in May
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Congress designated the month of May as Military Appreciation Month in 1999, contrary to claims that military members have only Memorial Day as a time to honor them while the LGBTQ community has the entire month of June for Pride. There are additional non-federal military holidays throughout the year. However, the month of May was designated by U.S. Congress as National Military Appreciation Month in 1999, as explained (here). The U.S. also has Veterans Day observed on November 11 each year, which honors members who served (here). The U.S. observes two federal holidays, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, for military members who served or lost their lives in service, and May is officially designated as National Military Appreciation Month.

Persons: “, Read Organizations: U.S, Congress, Armed Forces, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Veterans, Reuters Locations: U.S

☆ VA says it exceeded goal for housing homeless veterans last year
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Aaron Gilchrist | Aaron Gilchrist Is An Anchor For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it surpassed its 2022 goals for housing veterans experiencing homelessness. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough set a goal of housing 38,000 veterans by the end of last year. The number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the U.S. has decreased by 11% since January 2020 and by more than 55% since 2010, according to the VA. The method prioritizes getting veterans into housing, then providing support services, including health care and job training, as well as any needed mental health or substance dependency interventions to help veterans stay in housing. Veterans experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness can call the National Center for Homeless Veterans at 877-4AID-VET (877-424-3838).

☆ Buzz Aldrin shoots the moon with 93rd birthday wedding
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin participates in the Veterans Day parade in New York U.S., November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the second human being to walk on the moon more than half a century ago, got married on his 93rd birthday, saying he and his bride were "as excited as eloping teenagers." Faur, who has a doctoral degree in chemical engineering, has served as executive vice present of Buzz Aldrin Ventures for the past four years, according to her LinkedIn page. "We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles & are as excited as eloping teenagers," Aldrin said on Twitter. The intense fame generated by the Apollo 11 mission 54 years ago overwhelmed Aldrin after he returned to Earth.

While stock market holidays also apply to the bond market, the bond market's early closures differ. We've included a list of holidays that the stock market and bond market are closed, as well as a list of days each market has early closures. Editor's Rating 3.9/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Editor's Rating 4.65/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Editor's Rating 4.34/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Learn more On Acorns' website Learn more On SoFi's website Learn more On Wealthfront's websiteIs the stock market open on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? ET) May 26, 2023 Memorial Day May 29, 2023 Juneteenth Holiday June 19, 2023 Day before Independence Day (closes at 2 p.m. ET) July 3, 2023 Independence Day July 4, 2023 Labor Day September 4, 2023 Indigenous Peoples' Day/Columbus Day October 9, 2023 Veterans Day November 10, 2023 Thanksgiving Day November 23, 2023 Black Friday (closes at 2 p.m.

If you're part of an online bank, transactions aren't processed on holidays. We've included a list of holidays when most banks close, plus alternatives for accessing cash if you need money quickly. Others, like TD Bank and Regions Bank, have separate pages with bank holiday schedules. Customer service availability will usually stay the same with online banks, but there are some exceptions. Most banking transactions don't process on bank holidays, regardless of whether you use an online or brick-and-mortar bank.

☆ With Philippines visit VP Harris seeks to reset relations
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Trevor Hunnicutt | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

REBUILDING TIESThe visit by Harris will be the highest-level trip to the Philippines by an administration official and marks a sharp turnaround in relations. With Marcos in office, the Biden administration is attempting a reset. China claims 90% of the South China Sea as its sovereign territory, but is opposed by five Southeast Asian states and Taiwan. Arsenio Andolong, a Philippine defense department spokesman, told Reuters there is no reason for China to fear Harris' visit. A senior Biden administration official offered a different summary.

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