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☆ The Key to Winning the White House: Math
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +6 min

So the Biden campaign is casting its eyes farther afield: South, to be specific, with North Carolina as a primary target and Florida part of the mix as well. That makes North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes a tantalizing prospect for the Biden campaign. But if the Democrat also picked up North Carolina, he'd win, 276 electoral votes to 262 for Trump. Biden and Harris also made a rare joint appearance in North Carolina earlier this week. Former President Barack Obama did win North Carolina in 2008 – but that was a somewhat fluky situation, says North Carolina Republican operative Jonathan Felts, who worked in the George W. Bush White House, noting Obama's unusually aggressive push in the state.

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Pebble Beach became a signature event for the elite on the PGA Tour and delivered what was expected. Scottie Scheffler and a host of big names are contending going into the weekend and the amateurs are headed home. Rory McIlroy is having a rough time and shot 74 at Pebble Beach, leaving him at 145 and 12 shots behind. Now the amateurs — already reduced in number from 156 to 80 because Pebble Beach is now a signature event — leave the course and turn it over to the PGA Tour players. The leading nine players going into the weekend all played Friday at Pebble Beach, an advantage when the wind was down and the conditions were soft.

Persons: Scottie Scheffler, Ludvig Aberg, Thomas Detry, Scheffler, ” Aberg, “, Detry, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, “ I’ve, ” Detry, Dustin Johnson, Payne Stewart, ” Cantlay, Rory McIlroy, McIlroy, Jeff Rhodes, —, Collin Morikawa, Nick Dunlap, ___ Organizations: PGA Tour, TGL Capital, U.S, Amateur, American Express Locations: Calif, Monterey, Pebble, Europe, Japan, Spyglass

☆ Jim Cramer says to watch for market anomalies and take advantage of them
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday said the market hasn't been playing by usual Wall Street rules over the past few years, telling investors to find anomalies and use them to their advantage. "Nothing we've ever learned about the market has played out like it was supposed to for the last two years," he said. When the market no longer reflects the playbook, you've got to throw out the playbook and write a new one." The company is facing heavy scrutiny after a piece of its 737 Max 9 aircraft blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight. Cramer said investors may expect sell-offs in a narrow market, but this hasn't been the case.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, you've, Cramer, they'd Organizations: Federal, Toll, Boeing, Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, Federal Aviation Administration, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla Locations: Alaska

☆ Harris tells CNN that she and Biden will ‘have to earn our reelect’ as president struggles with younger and Black voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Vice President Kamala Harris, confronted with those same polls, is much less dismissive. Overall, Biden and Harris hold similar approval ratings, but Harris’ ratings among these key subgroups have varied, suggesting views of the vice president are not as deeply entrenched. Austin Davis, a 34-year-old African American in one of the target demographics the Biden campaign is desperate to improve with, in a state the president needs to carry. “I think we’d be having a way different conversation if it were two White males as president and vice president,” Henson said. “President Biden is wise, knowledgeable, tested – she’s passionate and seasoned,” said Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, who just won a second term in the second largest city in battleground Arizona.

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☆ China's Yin Ruoning collects maiden major title at Women's PGA Championship
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Jun 25, 2023; Springfield, New Jersey, USA; Ruoning Yin tees off on the 4th hole during the final round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-USA TODAY SportsNEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - China's Yin Ruoning produced a flawless final round with four birdies to win the Women's PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club on Sunday and claim her first major title. The 20-year-old Yin, who collected her maiden LPGA Tour title at the DIO Implant LA Open earlier this year, is only the second Chinese woman to win a golf major after Shanshan Feng. "I would say she's definitely the goal that I'm chasing," said Yin, who was nine years old when Feng won the Women's PGA Championship in 2012. "I was on the 18th tee and I saw the leaderboard, and I know I have a one-shot lead," said Yin.

Persons: John Jones, Yin Ruoning, Yin, Japan's Yuka Saso, Shanshan Feng, Feng, Yuka, I'm, Carlota Ciganda, Sweden's Anna Nordqvist, Megan Khang, China's Lin Xiyu, Stephanie Meadow, Rose Zhang, It's, Amy Tennery, Toby Davis, Hugh Lawson, Chris Reese Organizations: KPMG Women's, USA, YORK, Baltusrol, LPGA, Thomson Locations: Springfield , New Jersey, USA, Northern Ireland, New York

☆ Max Homa Takes His Star Turn at the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For a decade now, Max Homa has had regrets. A gettable birdie on the Los Angeles Country Club’s sixth hole had eluded him. In his mind, his scorecard could have read — should have read — 59. If he can ratchet down his internal insistence on flawlessness when he plays golf’s most formidable tests. “I am good enough to win whatever I want — I’ve decided that,” Homa, who finished Thursday with a two-under-par 68, said in a recent interview.

Persons: Max Homa, “, — I’ve, ” Homa, ” Organizations: Los Angeles Country, U.S Locations: Los Angeles County, Valencia, ”

WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - The bipartisan debt-ceiling deal that could clear Congress as soon as Thursday would stave off an imminent U.S. default, but might deliver less budget savings than Republicans have hoped for, according to nonpartisan budget analysts. The agreement ensures that President Joe Biden will not have to grapple with another debt-ceiling showdown until after the November 2024 election. That is less than the $4.8 trillion Republicans had initially sought, but still the largest deficit-reduction package since a 2011 deal that emerged from a similar debt-ceiling showdown. That would put more $1 trillion of the deal's anticipated savings at risk, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a research group. The deal increases spending on defense and veterans' care, even as it aims to clamp down on other discretionary programs.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy, MacGuineas, Biden, Veronique de Rugy, George Mason University's, Penn Wharton, McCarthy, Emily Gee, Andy Sullivan, Scott Malone, Alistair Bell Organizations: Penn Wharton Budget, White, Internal, Service, Office, Republican, SNAP, Social Security, Center for American, Thomson Locations: U.S, Washington

“I’ll get 218,” McCarthy told CNN, referring to the votes he’d need to become House speaker. Video Ad Feedback Bash asks Pelosi if McCarthy has what it takes to be House Speaker. “I’m not going to talk about hypotheticals,” said Biggs, who lost his conference’s nomination to become speaker last month after securing 31 votes. But McCarthy’s detractors said it’s an issue very much still on the table and think he may end up needing to embrace it if he still doesn’t have the speaker votes by January 3. But he refused to rule out a scenario where his caucus would help elect the next speaker if McCarthy couldn’t get the votes.

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