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☆ Who's winning the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar showdown? Here's what critics are saying
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewDrake and Kendrick Lamar were once considered collaborators, perhaps even friends. Over the years, however, Drake and Lamar came to represent very different versions of hip-hop greatness: the former is a commercial juggernaut, racking up No. Today, their separation is more apparent than ever: Drake and Lamar have become all-out foes. AdvertisementIn the former, Drake mocks Lamar's height with a reference to his latest Grammy-winning album, "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers." "I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress."

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☆ Google's 'fastest-growing' moonshot that spun out into an AI earbuds startup aims to ship its first product this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewA team inside X, Google's moonshot factory, was working on a revolutionary hearing device, Business Insider reported in 2021. A few months later, Wolverine's lead, Jason Rugolo, spun the project out of Alphabet and formed a startup named Iyo. Rugolo says the company plans to ship its first product by the end of this year. Rugolo told BI he hired Kraft for a stint at Google X to work on what would become Iyo. Iyo isn't the first X project to fly from Alphabet's nest, and it probably won't be the last.

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☆ Drake Bell Opens up to BI About Sexual Abuse, the Nickelodeon 'Factory,' and 'Quiet on Set'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

He acted out, showing up to the "Drake & Josh" set late and hungover. "If I'm going to tell my story, this is how it was supposed to be told," Drake Bell, pictured here at his studio in Mexico City, recently told BI. In the second season, Brian Peck (who is unrelated to Bell's "Drake & Josh" costar Josh Peck) joined as a dialogue coach. Bell told BI that Nickelodeon "was a factory," treating child actors like kings one day only to throw them to the curb the next. Bell told BI that, in some ways, his music and the docuseries serve the same purpose.

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☆ How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Steven Lee Myers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the attempt to overturn it. The Biden administration, Democrats in Congress and even some Republicans sought to do more to hold the companies accountable. Mr. Trump and his allies embarked instead on a counteroffensive, a coordinated effort to block what they viewed as a dangerous effort to censor conservatives. Waged in the courts, in Congress and in the seething precincts of the internet, that effort has eviscerated attempts to shield elections from disinformation in the social media era. It tapped into — and then, critics say, twisted — the fierce debate over free speech and the government’s role in policing content.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden Organizations: Social Locations: Jan, Washington, Congress

☆ Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and further delaying his federal trial. The high court on Wednesday ordered that a lower court ruling against Trump remain on hold until it decides the issue. As is common when granting a case, the court released only a short order and did not indicate how the justices voted. Trump had filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court on February 12 asking the justices to block a lower court ruling that he was not immune from Smith’s election subversion charges. Trump and Smith filed dueling briefs at the Supreme Court over whether the decision should be put on hold.

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☆ How Do You Teach Constitutional Law With This Supreme Court? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned the basics: the Supreme Court’s power to say what the Constitution means. Finally you studied how the court balances individual liberties against the government’s need to act in the public interest. They are more interested in upholding fundamental democratic principles and, perhaps most important, preserving the court’s integrity, than about imposing a partisan agenda. But now, the court’s hard-right supermajority, installed in recent years through a combination of hypocrisy and sheer partisan muscle, has eviscerated any consensus.

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☆ Trump’s crushing fraud trial defeat is a microcosm of a life defined by breaking all the rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Practically, Engoron’s decision will impose severe financial and personal strain on Trump as he’s emerging as the almost certain Republican presidential nominee. “He’s already said he’s going to spend most of this year in a courtroom, not on a campaign trail. Flouted rules, new realities and a busted legal strategyTrump’s belief that the rules are for others defines his business and political life. Yet this refusal to ever admit defeat also appears to be leading Trump into dangerous legal territory. His flawed philosophy that in business and life, it’s all about closing one more deal, means that even crushing defeats like the 2020 election and his fraud trial cannot change him.

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☆ Trump’s new Supreme Court gambit doesn’t even try to hide that it’s a delaying tactic
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. The coming days could decide when the first Trump trial takes placeThe text of Trump’s filing to the court at times feels somewhat frivolous. Trump’s legal team has a good reason to try to run out the clock. But it is not certain that the Supreme Court, which last week heard oral arguments on another Trump case — over his expulsion from Colorado’s ballot — will even agree to take his latest request. As with Smith’s Washington case, Trump’s team is seeking to delay the trial currently scheduled for May.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Yogi Berra, Jack Smith, Trump, Ty Cobb, CNN’s Erin Burnett, “, ”, Joe Biden, he’s, Elie Honig, Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, Honig, Norm Eisen, ” Eisen, Smith, Ankush, CNN’s Wolf, Smith’s, Stormy Daniels, —, Fani Willis, Willis, – Organizations: New York Yankees, White, NBC News, Trump, Biden, CNN, Justice Department, Trump Organization Locations: White, Florida, Smith’s Washington, Manhattan, Georgia, New York

Former President Donald Trump kicked off a last-ditch effort to preserve his claim of total immunity from criminal charges by asking the Supreme Court on Monday to intervene, filing an application for a stay of a lower-court ruling that he cannot use immunity as a defense. “President Trump is the leading candidate for President in the 2024 election,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the application. The Best Cartoons on Donald Trump View All 292 Images“For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,” the judges wrote. The request for a stay precedes an expected appeal to the high court and was not a surprise. Until the Supreme Court acts on the request for a stay, the appellate judges will delay formally sending their decision, or “mandate,” to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the election interference trial.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, ”, Biden –, President Trump, Trump’s, Tanya Chutkan, Chutkan, eviscerated, Fred Wertheimer, ” Wertheimer, “ Organizations: “, U.S ., Appeals, Capitol, Donald Trump View, Trump, Democracy Locations: U.S, Colorado

First, for a long-negotiated $118 billion package with border enforcement measures that collapsed this week after Republicans rejected it; then, for a modified package with the border portion stripped out. “We still believe Ukraine, Israel, humanitarian aid to the Middle East and helping Indo-China, as well as strengthening our military, is vitally important,” Schumer told reporters Wednesday. “First Republicans said they would only do Ukraine and Israel, humanitarian aid with border. House Republicans are still insisting on a border plan, even though they rejected the deal negotiated in the Senate as insufficient. It would invest in domestic defense manufacturing, send funding to allies in Asia, and provide $10 billion for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and other places.

Persons: Chuck Schumer, “, ” Schumer, Mitch McConnell, —, Republicans —, Mike Johnson, Mike Rogers, ”, Donald Trump, Johnson, Trump, Vladimir Putin, Hakeem Jeffries, Seung Min Kim Organizations: WASHINGTON, Ukraine, New York Democrat, Republicans, Republican, House Republicans, Armed Services, Israel, Democratic, Press Locations: Israel, Ukraine, East, China, Russia, America, Gaza, Asia

☆ Why Capitol Hill is a total failure right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Zachary Wolf | Analysis Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A plague on both these houses:The Senate seems to lack the political will for a bipartisan border deal. The House lacks an effective majority for a partisan impeachment effort as GOP leaders scramble for votes. Except, as the vote approached, they seemed to realize they might not have the votes to impeach Mayorkas after all. The only other time a Cabinet member was impeached, back in 1876, it was with a unanimous House vote. With hours to go before the Mayorkas impeachment vote is set to occur, there is a real possibility it could fail, and it can only pass by the slimmest of margins.

Persons: Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Mayorkas, Ken Buck, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tom McClintock of, “ Maladministration, ” Buck, ” McClintock, –, Donald Trump, CNN’s Dana Bash, Sen, James Lankford of, “, ”, “ I’m, ” Lankford, Mike Johnson doesn’t, ” Johnson, Biden Organizations: CNN, Republicans, Democratic, White, House Republicans, Homeland, Senate Democratic, US, Republican, Biden, MAGA Republican Locations: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, Mexico, Central, South America, Ken Buck of, Tom McClintock of California, James Lankford of Oklahoma, “

Trump has pledged to appeal and has until Monday to ask the Supreme Court to temporarily block the ruling. Perhaps to speed things along, the appeals court established a quick schedule for Trump to respond to Tuesday’s ruling, giving Trump until February 12 to file an emergency stay request with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, however, can take as long as it likes at each step. The cases are entirely separate – this is a criminal prosecution against Trump, and the upcoming Supreme Court case is a civil attempt to remove Trump from state ballots. Further, the appeals court’s findings and explanations in Tuesday’s ruling are not binding on the Supreme Court.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson took a strong stand Friday against a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid, sending a letter to colleagues that aligns him with hardline conservatives determined to sink the compromise on border and immigration policy. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said that the legislation would have been “dead on arrival in the House” if leaked reports about the legislation were true. He later clarified that he was still supportive of pairing border measures with Ukraine aid — an arrangement that Senate Republicans initially demanded to gain their votes for funding Ukraine's war. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hard-right Republican of Georgia, has threatened to initiate an effort to oust Johnson if he put the Senate deal on the House floor. “This bill represents Senate Republican leadership waging war on House Republican leadership,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican of Texas, at a news conference this week.

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☆ Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Hiring in the private sector rose at a faster-than-expected pace in December, closing out a strong 2023 for the resilient U.S. jobs market, ADP reported Thursday. Private payrolls increased by 164,000 for the month, a substantial rise from the downwardly revised 101,000 in November and better than the 130,000 estimate from the Dow Jones consensus, according to the payrolls processing firm. A rebound in leisure and hospitality led the way, as the sector added 59,000 positions, ADP reported. The sector also led in wage gains, with annual growth of 6.4%. Construction contributed 24,000 to the total, while the other services category, which includes dry cleaning and other support businesses, added 22,000.

Persons: payrolls, Dow Jones Organizations: ADP, Dow

Mendes' account is one of seven given to Reuters by first responders or others dealing with the dead that attest to alleged sexual violence. VICTIMS DEAD, TRAUMATIZEDIn Israeli criminal law, sexual violence includes rape, but also indecent acts, harrassment and sexually demeaning a person – including forced nudity – among other offences. Some of those purporting to show sexual violence could not be authenticated – one seen by Reuters appeared to date to 2021. The news agency verified the locations of two other videos that suggest sexual violence, shared on social media within a day of the attack. Israeli lawyers say its evidentiary requirements on sexual violence are less challenging than Israel's.

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☆ CNN Gaza reporter’s relatives killed and childhood home destroyed in two separate strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Helen Regan | Hamdi Alkhshali | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —For weeks, CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman reported from Gaza as Israeli airstrikes brought devastation and despair to the besieged strip in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7. His childhood home in Gaza City was obliterated in a separate strike on an adjacent building the same day. At least two other relatives are in critical condition, and still others are still buried under the rubble. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesVideo posted on social media shows the aftermath of the blast that killed Dahman’s relatives. Dahman had previously detailed his desperate flight south to Khan Younis with his wife and two young sons, from their home in Gaza City in October.

Persons: Ibrahim Dahman, CNN “, ”, ” Dahman, “, Menahem Kahana, Dahman’s, Sheik Zayed, CNN Dahman, —, Dahman, Khan Younis, I’ve Organizations: CNN, Getty, UN, Palestinian Ministry of Health, of Health, Sunday Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Gaza City, Beit Lahia, Israel, AFP, Sheikh Radwan, Ramallah, Cairo

☆ I was one of the lucky few to escape Gaza. Here’s how I fled for my life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | Ibrahim Dahman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Cairo, Egypt CNN —My wife woke me up early on Saturday, October 7, saying there were sounds of rocket fire outside. CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman is pictured with his wife, Rasha, and two children, Zeid and Khalil, in Khan Younis, Gaza on October 15. I found a car and headed towards Khan Younis, a city close to the Egyptian border in the south, hoping to stay at the Crescent Hotel there. A life of danger and exhaustionWe stayed in Khan Younis for three weeks. In Khan Younis, I was afraid to sleep, worried I would die in my sleep, unable to save myself or my family.

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GAZA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The Israeli air strike hit Mohammed Hamdan's Gaza home soon after Islam's evening prayer on Tuesday, he said, killing 35 members of his extended family across three generations from Kamal, aged 70, to Rasmi, aged seven. The Hamdan family is one of many in Gaza eviscerated by an unprecedented air and artillery bombardment that has killed more than 10,000 people according to health authorities in the tiny, crowded, Hamas-run enclave. Israel's military has entirely encircled northern Gaza under cover of a weeks-long barrage that has also pounded southern areas such as Khan Younis, where the Hamdan family lived. [1/3]Palestinian Mohammed Hamdan, who lost 35 family members of three generations in an Israeli air strike, stands on the rubble of his family home that was destroyed in the strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 7, 2023. Through those hard decades the Hamdan family expanded and its Khan Younis home was the centre of its life.

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☆ How 2020 election denialism greases the path to power in the Republican Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Johnson, who played a leading role in the effort to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, benefited in his ascent to the speakership last week from the approval of pro-Trump lawmakers. His tortured explanations of his constitutionality correct decision – that he lacked power to overturn Biden’s 2020 election win in Congress – failed to convince grassroots Republicans bought into the ex-president’s false claims that he won the election. An alternative lesson that the ex-president’s rivals might draw is that forceful condemnations of Trump’s 2020 election denialism are likely to be fatal to their campaigns. There was evidence last week that Johnson’s maneuvering after the 2020 election helped secure his rise to the speakership. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, said that Emmer’s vote to certify the 2020 election “played a big role” in her vote against him.

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Georgia has "made great strides since 1965 towards equality in voting," the judge wrote, referring to the year the Voting Rights Act was enacted to ensure Black voter power was not diluted through racially gerrymandered congressional and state legislative maps. Once the maps are drawn, litigants can still sue under the Voting Rights Act to demand the drawing of districts that are not designed to dilute minority voting power. The state is expected to appeal, but in a similar case in Alabama, the high court ruled for voting rights activists. "I applaud the district court's decision ordering Georgia to draw maps compliant with the Voting Rights Act," Georgia state Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler, a Democrat, said in a statement responding to the ruling. A similar case is going on in Louisiana, which was also ordered to draw another majority-Black district.

Persons: Steve Jones, Georgia –, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Jones, – Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff –, Holder, Gloria Butler Organizations: U.S, District, Black, Supreme, Democrats, Louisiana Republican, Donald Trump View, GOP, Republican, Democrat, Georgia's, Supreme Court Locations: Georgia, Atlanta, Louisiana, Alabama, County, Black

☆ Clams Ruled This Town Until the Crabs Moved In
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Jason Horowitz | More About Jason Horowitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wearing waders, he boarded his boat and motored to the lagoon with scores of other fishermen to rake the clam gardens that for decades have transformed this sleepy Italian village off the Po River Delta into a bivalve boomtown. As the sun rose, Mr. Genari, a leader of the local fishing cooperative, poured his first haul of clams into the basin of a metal sorting machine. “Opened, opened, opened,” Mr. Genari said, as he sifted through shells and avoided the murderous crabs snapping at his fingers. The killers had, he said, laid waste to the baby clams. The clams will be gone.”

Persons: Massimo Genari, Genari, “, ” Mr, ” Locations: Goro

☆ Deion Sanders’ ‘audacious Blackness’ makes him the hero African Americans want right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable. He has entered one of the Whitest and most conservative institutions in America — college football — and excelled. It’s no secret the league has had a poor record of hiring Black coaches. Ron Jenkins/Getty ImagesHe’s brought an “audacious Blackness” to college football that’s revolutionary, one commentator says. In many ways, the profession at this level has become welfare for white coaches.

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☆ Goldman Sachs is having an identity crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

I never thought I'd write this but … I miss the old Goldman Sachs. That was the voice of Goldman Sachs 2009 — the adamantine firm that managed to make its way through the crisis relatively unscathed. This sort of dry humor worked back then, but for today's Goldman Sachs, the joke just doesn't hit the same way. Van Praag — who was once dubbed "Goldman Sachs' Rococo PR prince" by The Observer — left the firm in 2012. It would be nice to see the old Goldman Sachs ferocity is still out there somewhere, even if it's not on Wall Street.

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☆ Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Dream Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Willa Paskin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Someone more cynical than Gerwig might have been less moved by Mattel’s corporate epiphany, 60 years into existence, that Barbie could sustain being a size 6, but cynicism is clearly not Gerwig’s way. The movie sidesteps whatever role Barbie might play in perpetuating a narrow, idealized femininity; instead it gives this particular Barbie a crash course in modern misogyny. After decades of fretting about girls’ wanting to be as perfect as Barbie, Gerwig serves up a Barbie struggling to be as resilient as us. This woman is played by the 91-year-old, Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth, a friend of Gerwig’s. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

Persons: Barbie, ”, “, Gerwig, Ruth Handler, Rhea Perlman, Ariana Greenblatt, Ann Roth, Gerwig’s, —, ‘, ” Gerwig Organizations: Mattel Locations: Barbieland, Los Angeles

Two years into their marriage, Talia and Malissa Williams were working diligently to lay the groundwork for the rest of their lives together. The couple had talked about settling permanently in Rolling Fork, the tiny Mississippi Delta hometown that Malissa had followed Talia back to a few years earlier. But the medical billing and coding jobs they’d been studying for weren’t likely to be found within an hour’s drive. Their older wooden house — essentially their least worst option in a town with a limited supply of rental housing — gave them nothing but problems. “My heart is in Rolling Fork, it will always be there,” Talia, 42, said as she stood outside the motel room, 45 minutes’ drive away, that is serving as the couple’s temporary home.

Persons: Talia, Malissa Williams, Malissa, —, ” Talia, ” Organizations: Mississippi Delta Locations: Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Rolling

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