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☆ How to handle being the subject of a Taylor Swift diss track, according to PR experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

For a celebrity, being referenced in a Taylor Swift song can cause a PR crisis. Advertisement"He's showing due deference to the power of Taylor Swift," Nierman said. The Kim Kardashian method: Let anonymous sources do the talkingTaylor Swift and Kim Kardashian at the 2015 VMAs. "I don't think Taylor Swift really needs to negotiate with anyone. Advertisement"Everything is done for a reason and any person would be a fool to bet against or to cross Taylor Swift," Nierman said.

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CNN —For South Dakota Gov. A bipartisan group of members of Congress set up a Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus in a not so subtle dig to the South Dakota governor. Some Republicans came to her defense, like South Dakota Rep. As many questioned why she volunteered this story in her book, Noem said it demonstrates how she doesn’t run from the truth. As governor of South Dakota during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she resisted lockdowns.

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☆ Opinion: What conservatives don’t get about the protests roiling college campuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Opinion Jeremi Suri | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

These attacks have over the years undermined university leadership and provoked students, staff and faculty. University leaders responded positively, helping to build more dynamic and well-endowed centers for this work than on any other peer campus in the country. Many students, staff and faculty, especially those from minority backgrounds, feel that they have suffered setback after setback at the hands of hostile politicians and deferential administrators. Public and private university leaders have become more distant from their own campuses as they focus on fund-raising and testifying before hostile federal and state legislatures. There are, of course, good reasons why university leaders should not give in to protesters on these and other points.

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☆ Biden Administration Releases Revised Title IX Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Zach Montague | Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration issued new rules on Friday cementing protections for L.G.B.T.Q. students under federal law and updating the procedure schools must follow when investigating and adjudicating cases of alleged sexual misconduct on campus. The new rules, which take effect on Aug. 1, effectively broadened the scope of Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. They extend the law’s reach to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And the administration took steps to roll back some of the more rigid campus sexual assault policies issued during the Trump administration, which drew condemnation from Democrats, including Mr. Biden, for being overly deferential to students accused of sexual violence.

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☆ 'Our community has never had this much power': How Dearborn became the epicenter of Biden's 2024 headaches over Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"It might be the driving force behind the movement, but it's much bigger than Palestine," said Lexis Zeidan, another Uncommitted movement leader. Bryan MetzgerBut while the Arab American community is particularly concentrated in the Detroit area, with implications for 2024 in a closely-watched swing state, there are plenty of Arab American voters scattered in competitive states around the country. But the key to the movement's ongoing success has been coalition-building with other communities, including African American voters, young voters, and progressive Jewish voters. Organizers with the Listen to Michigan campaign following election results during a watch party in Dearborn, Michigan on February 27, 2024. After founding the Arab American Institute in Washington, DC in 1985, he and others worked in the intervening decades to build up Arab American power.

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“Queen!”It was a Friday night in January, and Snoop Dogg had just rolled into a cocktail party hosted by Donna Langley, NBCUniversal’s chief content officer and studios chairwoman. His shouted greeting, paired with a jaunty deferential dance, seemed to leave her a bit embarrassed. “We’re here to celebrate filmmakers and films,” Langley told the room a few minutes later. Like it or not, this moment in Hollywood history is very much about her. Nolan started his acceptance speech for best director by saying, “Donna Langley — thank you for seeing the potential in this.”

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A leading state television channel opened with its host railing against the West and NATO. THE KREMLIN MEDIA DIETThe Kremlin regularly meets with the heads of TV stations to give “special instructions on what can be said on air,” said Ovsyannikova. State television broadcasts dull debates between representatives of Putin's opponents. GRANULES OF TRUTHRussian propaganda is “sophisticated and multifaceted,” said Francis Scarr, a journalist who analyzes Russian television for BBC Monitoring. Even those soothed by the Kremlin’s propaganda also could long for a real choice at the polls.

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He has a nickname for Senator Tim Scott: Senator Judas. (Ms. Haley appointed Mr. Scott to the Senate in 2012 when she was governor of South Carolina, and Mr. Scott is now a key surrogate in their home state for Mr. In the early months of his mother’s campaign, Mr. Haley was relatively neutral, largely re-sharing posts from or positive commentary about the Haley campaign. But Mr. Haley, a senior at Villanova University, has been game to engage, hitting back at her rivals on social media platforms with memes and quips. In Gilbert, he recalled how Ms. Haley, during her run for governor, used to offer him and his sister a quarter for every hand they shook.

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☆ One Haley Who Isn’t Afraid to Let Insults Fly
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Anjali Huynh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

While Nikki Haley has, until recently, run a fairly positive campaign, she has endured relentless criticism from Donald J. Trump and others in his orbit. Her 22-year-old son, Nalin Haley, is not so inclined to pull his punches. Mr. Haley, who has become a more familiar presence on the trail with his mother, introduced her at events over the weekend, taking some pointed jabs at her onetime Republican rivals. He has a nickname for Senator Tim Scott: Senator Judas. Another former rival who went full-bore for Mr. Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, draws Mr. Haley’s comparisons (derogatory) to Pennywise, the clown from “It.”Ms. Haley, for her part, has been deferential: At one event she ran through “thank you’s” for the other speakers before jokingly saying, “Nalin, I will deal with you later.”

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald J, Trump, Nalin Haley, Mr, Haley, Tim Scott, Judas, Vivek Ramaswamy, Pennywise, Ms, you’s ”, “ Nalin, ” Organizations: Republican

☆ Why America loves the NFL
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

One, sports fans will go to great lengths (including piracy) to find the content they're looking for. The NFL has done, I think, a really good job of continuing to evolve their product to make it as TV-friendly as it can be. Brian Fuhrer, senior vice president at NielsenThe NFL also benefits from the deference that networks show the league. Broadcast's core audience is typically older, so when NFL games come on in the fall it draws younger viewers back in. But even if things aren't as good for the NFL, they're still going to be pretty good — and a lot better, ratings-wise, than anything else.

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☆ What to Know About the Iowa GOP Presidential Caucuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Audience members listen as Nikki Haley speaks at an Ankeny, Iowa town hall last November, one of many visits by Republican presidential hopefuls to the state last year. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/Associated PressIowa’s presidential caucuses have for the past five decades awarded the small, mostly white state an oversize sway in the nation’s politics, providing everyday Iowans and the state’s elected leaders with access to powerful politicians, boosting profits for local television stations and helping secure deferential treatment for corn-based ethanol and other segments of its economy. News organizations from around the globe have descended on the state to cover the first-in-the nation event, which former President Donald Trump is heavily favored to win.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Charlie Neibergall, Donald Trump Organizations: Press Locations: Ankeny , Iowa

Gen. Warren Wells was removed from the job on Friday by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, just hours after she was given the email. Members of Congress have been frustrated for years with the military's prosecution of sexual assault cases and they pushed to remove commanders from the decision-making process on the cases. According to officials, the woman, now a civilian, then went to the defense advisory committee that was set up to make recommendations on the sexual assault prosecution overhaul and submitted additional records. Officials said the email from Wells to his staff was among the documents she provided to the committee. Wormuth received copies of the documents on Friday and after seeing the email fired Wells later that day.

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☆ Marvel actor Jonathan Majors wins fight to keep potentially reputation-damaging information hidden from the public ahead of his domestic violence trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Janon Fisher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jonathan Majors wins fight to keep potentially reputation-damaging information from the public. AdvertisementA Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that potentially reputation-damaging information about Marvel actor Jonathan Majors will remain under seal on the eve of his domestic violence trial. According to Jabbari, Majors pried back and broke her finger in an attempt to regain control of his phone. AdvertisementJonathan Majors and Meagan Good inside Manhattan Criminal Court on Nov. 29, 2023 to attend his domestic violence trial. Wednesday afternoon, the judge is expected to hear arguments on the potentially reputation-damaging information and decide on its admissibility.

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☆ Will Trump’s Barbs Land Him Behind Bars?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +9 min

It was a historic and jarring event when FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump's home last year to look for classified documents he was accused of hoarding. "Courts and prosecutors have to become normalized to the idea of detaining Trump – if he continues to violate gag orders and/or if he is convicted at trial," Signorelli says. Less-powerful defendants have been punished with time behind bars for being in contempt of court (including violating gag orders) or threatening authorities. Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto trader, was put behind bars in August weeks before his fraud trial after giving a media outlet private writings by a witness. While courts are sensitive to First Amendment protections – especially for someone running for president – Trump is pushing the legal envelope, Eisen says.

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☆ AI for cars: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Walter Isaacson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The "neural network planner" that Shroff and others were working on took a different approach. Faced with a situation, the neural network chooses a path based on what humans have done in thousands of similar situations. By early 2023, the neural network planner project had analyzed 10 million clips of video collected from the cars of Tesla customers. By mid-April 2023, it was time for Musk to try the new neural network planner. "Oh, wow," he said, "even my human neural network failed here, but the car did the right thing."

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☆ Vivek Ramaswamy Leans Into the Generation Gap
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Noreen Malone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vivek Ramaswamy wants voters to know he’s young, vigorous — and did he mention young? “You’re a blank slate — you’re 38 years old,” Mr. Ramaswamy, the first Republican millennial presidential candidate, imagined a viewer as saying about him. Chris Christie of New Jersey quickly pointed out, adding, “I’m afraid we’re dealing with the same kind of amateur.”But Mr. Ramaswamy made it clear that he wasn’t going to be deferential to the more experienced candidates onstage. He addressed former vice president Mike Pence as “Mike,” familiarly, and didn’t back down when Mr. Pence declared, “We don’t need to bring in a rookie.” Instead, he made his newcomer status a combative rallying cry. “I’m the only person on the stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this,” Mr. Ramaswamy said in response to a question about climate change policy.

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For Biden, Trump’s third indictment is undoubtedly the most personal. The White House declined to comment on Trump’s indictment Tuesday, referring questions to the Department of Justice. The White House learned of the indictment through media reports, a White House official said, as was the case with past indictments. After Trump was indicted in June, Biden was repeatedly pressed for comment on the historic first federal indictment of a former president. Ahead of Trump’s indictment Tuesday, a Biden campaign official said the campaign once again did not intend to fundraise off a Trump indictment, determining that the risks of fundraising off the indictment – which would feed Republican attacks of a politicized prosecution – outweighed the potential benefits.

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☆ Kamala Harris quickly dismissed Ron DeSantis' invite to discuss Florida's controversial education standards: 'There were no redeeming qualities of slavery'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis' invite to discuss Florida's education standards. Harris has slammed Florida for adopting standards that would teach middle schoolers that enslaved people derived some benefits from slavery. "There were no redeeming qualities of slavery," Harris said in Orlando. Ron DeSantis' invitation for her to discuss the state's controversial education standards, furthering a fight between the White House and the state. Harris was responding to DeSantis' invitation for Harris to discuss the standards with Dr. William Allen, who served on an advisory committee that came up with 215-page standards.

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☆ Uber CEO reveals the passenger behaviors that irked him when he became an undercover boss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was reportedly not thrilled by some of the passengers he drove around. The executive described in a Wired interview his insight into how drivers get treated and assessed. The CEO of Uber said he gained more insight into the experience of drivers on the ride-hailing service when he assumed an undercover identity and started taking fares himself. "As a CEO, the board gives me a performance rating at the end of year," he told Wired. Uber did not immediately respond to Insider's request for any additional comment ahead of publication.

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☆ What reset? DeSantis defiant while campaign braces for reality of his struggles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

DeSantis’ remarks Monday in Tega Cay, South Carolina, were a near carbon copy of the speech he has delivered at campaign stops for weeks. Over the weekend, a spokesperson for DeSantis’ campaign confirmed to CNN it let go of some staffers, after Politico reported that “fewer than 10 staffers” in event planning were cut on Thursday. Over six weeks, DeSantis had spent $686,000 on travel including expenses for private jets, according to campaign finance records, and his payroll topped $1 million. “In the second quarter, we were a candidate for about five and a half weeks, our campaign raised $20.1 million dollars. Lu Aiken, a member of Republican Women Rising in South Carolina, said she was undecided but DeSantis was at the top of her list.

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☆ Here are all the ways Judge Aileen Cannon can tip the scales in Trump's favor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The judge overseeing the DOJ's case against Trump has the power to tip the scales in Trump's favor. In this case, Cannon will also determine the schedule of the trial itself. Cannon could have enormous influence over what Trump's jury will look likeThe former president also lucked out with the location of the trial. Jury selection is one of the biggest ways in which Cannon can influence the case in Trump's favor. If Cannon grants Trump's request for a trial date after the 2024 general election, that order wouldn't be immediately appealable.

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☆ Mike Pence raked in $1.4 million for book divulging his pushback against Trump on January 6
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Simon & Schuster paid him a $1.4 million advance for the book, new documents show. In the Simon & Schuster-published book, "So Help Me God," Pence vividly described how Trump tried to pressure him against certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 victory. Hillary Clinton received an $8 million advance for her memoir "Living History," about her time as First Lady. CNN previously reported that the book advance was estimated at being somewhere between $3 million to $4 million, though that reportedly included a contract to write a second book. An Insider analysis of financial disclosures found that members of Congress together raked in $1.8 million in 2020 from book advances and royalties.

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☆ Obama privately met with AOC and other Democrats during a series of reported intimate chats with House Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

According to Politico's Jonathan Martin, Obama has recently hosted a series of "informal, but lengthy private meetings with groups of next-generation House Democrats." One of the topics of dinner conversation, per Martin, was how Democrats can avoid coming off as elitist. Before the 2022 midterms, Obama returned to the campaign trail where he tore into the Republican Party and Trump. It is likely that Obama will eventually take on a high-profile role as the 2024 campaign heats up. As president, Obama dubbed Clinton "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" for his campaign trail appearances.

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☆ Opinion | A President Governing From Behind Bars?!
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

First, it seems increasingly plausible that he will become the first former president to be convicted of a felony. Second, he also seems increasingly likely to win the Republican nomination for president, with the betting markets also giving him about a 22 percent chance of going on and actually being elected president. But some smart lawyers believe that for Trump, the “peril is extreme,” as one former federal prosecutor put it. Still, deference may end upon conviction, and defendants in less serious cases have ended up with substantial prison sentences. And during Trump’s presidency, Reality Winner leaked a single document and was sentenced to more than five years in prison.

Persons: Trump, William Barr, ” Trump, it’s Organizations: Republican, Trump, Air Force Locations: Florida

☆ Republican response to Trump indictment shows they're stitching their own straitjacket
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The roar of outrage from Republican leaders to that indictment restored Trump’s grip on the party after frustration over his role in the GOP’s disappointing 2022 midterm elections had loosened it. Repeating the pattern from other moments of maximum threat to Trump, the GOP response has been marked by a pronounced communications imbalance. (The poll was conducted after Trump’s indictment in Manhattan but before the recent federal charges.) At another point Trump insisted, “These criminals cannot be rewarded” – presumably by frightening Republican voters away from nominating him. Yet, Robinson believes, by echoing Trump’s claims of unfair treatment, the other candidates are encouraging Republican voters to accept his framing of the race.

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