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☆ Manchester City takes huge step toward fourth consecutive English Premier League title with win against Tottenham
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The celebrations during Manchester City’s 2-0 win against Tottenham on Tuesday were testament to the importance of the high-stakes match as the reigning champion took a huge step towards a fourth straight English Premier League title. But, just as it looked as though City’s title hopes were about to be handed a major blow, Ortega stuck out a strong right leg to block the striker’s shot. Stefan Ortega makes an incredible save from Son Heung-Min to keep City's title hopes alive. However, if Arsenal drops points at home against Everton in its last game, City will win the league regardless of its result. No Premier League team has ever won four consecutive league titles, and the achievement would come after City’s treble-winning feat last season.

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☆ Tension with Israel represents only one of Biden’s immense election challenges
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

New York prosecutors claim he falsified business records to hide a payment to Stormy Daniels in an early act of election interference in 2016. Trump’s base voters have no problems either with his criminal trials or his false claims that he was cheated out of office. Israel may be far from the biggest worry for Trump’s campaignPolls consistently show that voters care most about the economy. And voters who say the economy is very important to their vote backed Trump over Biden 62% to 30%. It’s not clear that heated Republicans attacks on Biden over Israel Thursday will seriously wound him with his own voters.

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☆ Three presidents and one mission: Beat Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN’s MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny reported Wednesday that Obama was in the White House for a working visit just last week. Two Democratic presidents who won second terms are uniting to try to usher a successor, who is older than both of them, into the same rarified political air. And Clinton has been out of the White House for nearly a quarter of a century. But Biden was also a valuable ally for Clinton after the president’s impeachment over an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. And after he became vice president, Biden developed a friendly and cordial relationship with Hillary Clinton, maintained by regular breakfasts at the vice president’s official residence in Washington.

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☆ Some VCs are over the Sam Altman hype
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In late 2023, when OpenAI sought $300 million from investors, CEO Sam Altman chose a different approach. In some corners of this clubby world, over $7 coffee and artisanal cocktails, the meteoric rise of OpenAI and Sam Altman is giving way to an inevitable backlash. "He's a kingmaker," a Silicon Valley startup founder and angel investor who knows Altman. Sam Altman and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment. A certain somethingMany of the VCs who spoke with BI said Altman has a certain something.

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☆ I took my wife's last name when we got married. It shouldn't be a taboo for men.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Matt Poskitt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Before I got married, I had the same first and last name as a celebrity. When I got married, instead of my wife taking my name or hyphenating, I changed my name. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In a Pew survey from 2023, almost 80% of women in heterosexual marriages took their spouse's last name, but only 5% of men made that same choice. This is why hyphenating when we got married never felt right, either.

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☆ Netanyahu’s response to Schumer widens rift in US-Israeli relations
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But the gulf in trust and goals between Israel and Hamas has thwarted hopes for a breakthrough for weeks. He’s opposing the people of Israel,” Netanyahu said. Despite a fearsome onslaught in Gaza, Hamas is far from defeated. Latest developments also raise the question of whether Schumer’s stinging criticism augurs a shift to more pressure on Netanyahu from Biden. We support Israel.

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☆ FTC sues to block Kroger, Albertsons merger, arguing deal would raise grocery prices and hurt workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Essential grocery store workers would also suffer under this deal, facing the threat of their wages dwindling, benefits diminishing, and their working conditions deteriorating." Kroger said in a statement that blocking the deal "will actually harm the very people the FTC purports to serve: America's consumers and workers." The company also pledged $500 million to reduce prices for customers and $1 billion to raise employee wages and expand benefits. Two unions that represent Kroger and Albertsons employees, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the Teamsters union, opposed the deal. Higher grocery prices have irked consumers and become a hot topic on the campaign trail.

Persons: Henry Liu, Kroger, Albertsons, Biden, Joe Biden, Rodney McMullen Organizations: U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Kroger, Albertsons, FTC, Washington D.C, Walmart, Amazon, Costco, White, United Food, Commercial Workers International Union, Teamsters Locations: Arizona , California, Washington, , Illinois, Maryland , Nevada , New Mexico , Oregon, Wyoming, FTC's

☆ 5 Takeaways From Trump’s Big Win Over Nikki Haley in South Carolina
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump lapped Nikki Haley in the Midwest. And now he has trounced the former two-term governor in her home state of South Carolina. The race was called the moment the polls closed, and within minutes an ebullient Mr. Trump took the stage, avoiding a mistake he made in New Hampshire when Ms. Haley spoke first and, even in defeat, gave a rousing speech that had irked him. “It’s an early evening,” Mr. Trump beamed. But Ms. Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, is still vowing to plow on, warning her party that sticking with Mr. Trump and the distractions of his four criminal indictments is a pathway to defeat in November.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Nikki Haley, Haley’s, Haley, “ It’s, ” Mr Organizations: United Nations Locations: South Carolina, New Hampshire

☆ Fanvue, an OnlyFans competitor, is betting big on AI-generated adult content. But some creators worry about its tactics.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These influencers, generated using AI, have amassed thousands, or sometimes hundreds of thousands of followers — like Sika Moon and Aitana. Unlike its competitors, which largely ban adult content generated with AI, Fanvue is bullish on it and is investing heavily in its community of AI influencers. But as Fanvue continues to build its user base and business model on AI-generated explicit content, some of its practices have prompted concerns among creators. For many creators behind these AI influencers, however, the hiccups and doubts about Fanvue don't outweigh the attention the company is giving them, and they continue to nurture their relationship with it. "The way they treat us AI creators is good," a third creator said.

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☆ Sergey Brin's ex-wife was the primary funder of an RFK Jr.-supporting Super Bowl ad panned by some in the Kennedy family
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -supporting Super Bowl ad that shook up the Kennedy family was backed by a tech-connected figure. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Advertisement"She's a very strong supporter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," Tony Lyons, a co-chairman of American Values 2024, told Business Insider on Tuesday. Kennedy, as Business Insider has previously reported, has made numerous false claims about vaccines and vaccine safety. Shanahan played a part in putting together the archival footage for the Kennedy ad.

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☆ Senate moves forward with Israel, Ukraine funding after vote on Super Bowl Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Senators on Sunday voted to move forward with a $95 billion aid package to fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, a positive sign that the long-awaited foreign aid could have the votes to pass after a weekend of slow-going negotiations. "I think we're going to pass this spending bill for Ukraine. Since Wednesday, lawmakers have been working the tedious Senate process of spending hours in negotiations, followed by procedural votes and more negotiation. On Sunday, Paul estimated that at the going pace, the final vote would likely take place late Tuesday or early Wednesday. A $118 billion version of the bill already failed on the Senate floor last Wednesday.

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☆ US lawmakers question the loyalties of McKinsey and other big American consulting firms over their work in Saudi Arabia
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

American consulting shops like McKinsey & Co., BCG, Teneo, and M. Klein & Co. are helping Saudi Arabia diversify its oil-dependent economy through its lucrative Public Investment Fund. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Saudi Arabia, though, has imposed strict rules on what information the American consulting companies can share with the US government, and that's irked some American lawmakers. AdvertisementSo much so that Congress forced the heads of McKinsey, BCG, Teneo, and M. Klein & Co. to testify this week about their failure to comply with subpoenas regarding their firms' work with Saudi Arabia . BCG, Teneo, and M. Klein & Co. did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: —, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sen, Richard Blumenthal, Bob Sternfels, Rich Lesser, Blumenthal, Michael Klein Organizations: Service, McKinsey & Co, Klein, Co, Public Investment Fund, Business, Saudi, Al, McKinsey, Investigations Locations: Saudi Arabia, United States, Saudi

☆ How to Hunt the Sasquatch
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Virginia Heffernan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE SECRET HISTORY OF BIGFOOT: Field Notes on a North American Monster, by John O’ConnorWhy do Americans need Bigfoot? This question propels John O’Connor’s “Secret History of Bigfoot,” a farrago of participatory journalism, anthropological speculation, pop-culture parentheticals and broadsides against Donald Trump that often seems stuck together by sap and tar. Officially O’Connor was seeking Bigfoot — or at least the enduring wellspring of faith in Bigfoot, which struck him as just as elusive. Like a forty-niner cutting ties with the uptight Victorians, O’Connor sought instead “wild places” where men are men, go unmasked and hope for moral redemption by Sasquatch. A stay-at-home dad in Cambridge, Mass., he became, during lockdown, a literal stay-at-home dad.

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☆ Israeli Hostage Families Gain Clout as Political Landscape Shifts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +6 min

Some respondents did not mention names but wrote variants of "hostage families", reflecting the impact of the Forum itself and its "Bring them home now" campaign. Political scientist Tamar Hermann of the IDI said solidarity with the hostage families was blending with broader anti-government sentiment, partly rooted in a huge pre-war protest movement against Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the judiciary. New or existing left-wing parties could be a natural fit for any hostage relatives who did decide to go into politics. Conversely, the hostage families are seen as opponents by some on the right, and especially on the ultra-nationalist far right, which has sway over Netanyahu because it is part of his fragile coalition. Some of Netanyahu's hard-right supporters in politics and media portray the hostage families as leftists abusing public sympathy to further their anti-government agenda, said political scientist Gideon Rahat of the Hebrew University.

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☆ Trump is being accused of angrily throwing things — again
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump is being accused of throwing documents in a fit of rage during a deposition. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson also said Trump has angrily launched items. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementDonald Trump is once again being accused of throwing things in a fit of rage, but this time it's by attorney Roberta Kaplan. According to Kaplan, Trump asked her, "'Well, you're here in Mar-a-Lago.

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☆ GOP senator says it's 'unfortunate' the extent to which some Republicans defer to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump's influence over congressional Republicans is only growing as he nears a third straight GOP presidential nomination. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is frustrated that so many of his GOP colleagues appear to defer their views on major issues to former President Donald Trump. According to Politico, Cramer is part of a growing number of GOP lawmakers in the Capitol who are irked about Trump's influence on Capitol Hill. "When former President Trump says something, everybody listens," Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, told the publication.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs for his second civil trial after E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, outside a Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 26, 2024. "The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom," said Judge Lewis Kaplan. Trump's comments have sparked death threats and vicious emails and tweets directed at Carroll, the lawyer said. "You are not going to use a slide to represent how many tweets there were, you are not using that slide, period," Judge Kaplan said. Carroll's lawyers have complained during the trial about Trump making comments that were audible to jurors while sitting with his attorneys at the defense table.

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☆ Nikki Haley has clearly gotten under Trump's skin despite his stranglehold on the race
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump is clearly miffed that Nikki Haley won't drop out of the race. Maggie Haberman described his New Hampshire speech as "the most scorched earth victory speech that I have ever seen." "I don't get too angry, I get even," he said during his victory speech on Tuesday. "It was the most scorched earth victory speech that I have ever seen," New York Times reporter and Trump biographer Maggie Haberman said on CNN. Trump is clearly irked over how Haley relied on non-Republican voters in New Hampshire, something he did in 2016.

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☆ Trump makes history again as he powers toward Republican nomination
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Nothing seems to be stopping Donald Trump as he surges toward his third consecutive Republican nomination. And yet, Trump spent Tuesday night seething, sources told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, because his sole remaining GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov. Trump criticized Haley publicly and privately and urged his political aides to up their attacks on her, Collins reported. But even while in office, Trump never lost sight of his core political formula — his reputation as an insurgent outsider. With 88% of the vote in from the primary, Haley trailed Trump by about 11 points.

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☆ Apple, Zuck, Elon, and the lesson of Microsoft Windows
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

However, this person has been investing for more than 2 decades and sold a startup to a big tech company in the first dot-com boom. "The lesson of Microsoft Windows"Then this hedge funder schooled me on the "lesson of Microsoft Windows." He also pointed out that if you don't own a big platform, your life kinda sucks. AdvertisementThe biggest betsThis is why big tech companies are investing 100s of billions of dollars to find the next big platforms. Big Tech is all about winning our attention and being the first "funnel" that sends us out into the world.

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☆ Fed’s Barkin: March rate cut isn’t out of the picture. ‘You make the call when you get to the meeting’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The positive economic developments as well as Fed officials’ forecasts for at least three rate cuts this year had investors eying a March pivot. Meanwhile, Barkin — who will also be voting on Fed policy decisions at meetings this year — isn’t ruling March out entirely. For Barkin, “the breadth of inflation settling” and “the consistency of inflation settling” matter in his evaluation of whether the inflation rate is approaching the Fed’s target. Unlike many Fed officials, Barkin does not have a PhD in economics but has an MBA and a law degree. Investors will be paying close attention to any hints of the timing of rate cuts in the central bank’s latest statement and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference.

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☆ It looks like Elon Musk is a bit envious of Mark Zuckerberg's control over Meta
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Musk appeared to give Tesla's board an ultimatum on Monday, saying he wants 25% voting control at Tesla or he'll stop growing AI development at the electric-car maker. One way of getting that would be via a dual-class stock structure. This isn't uncommon and could mean Musk wouldn't necessarily get more shares but that the ones he held would deliver more voting power. The company's dual-class stock structure provides Zuckerberg and select executive managers and directors with them. "Zuckerberg probably wouldn't have gone public without a dual-class structure," White said.

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Johnson is peddling the stop-gap spending measure by emphasizing how the package buys time for Congress to complete its 12 appropriations bills. The Best Political Cartoons on Congress View All 127 Images“Everyone understands the reality of where we are,” Johnson said at a press conference Wednesday morning. Johnson cut a deal with Schumer to back a top-line funding total key to preventing a government shutdown. “A small group of hard-right extremists seem dead set on making a shutdown a reality,” Schumer said Tuesday. “House and Senate negotiators worked hard to reach an agreement on top-line funding levels for the current fiscal year.

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☆ Jamie Dimon: Trump was right about key issues and bashing MAGA will hurt Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Jamie Dimon has a warning for Democrats: Don’t dismiss Trump supporters as people who are exclusively attracted to his personality. Former President Donald Trump was right about some critical issues, the JPMorgan CEO says. “I wish the Democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about MAGA,” Dimon told CNBC on Wednesday from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Dimon, who has clashed with Trump in the past and previously described himself as “barely a Democrat,” said that people are “basically scape-goating” Trump supporters. “I don’t think they are voting for Trump because of his family values,” Dimon said.

Persons: Jamie Dimon, Don’t, Donald Trump, “, MAGA, ” Dimon, ”, ” Trump, Trump, Trump’s, Dimon, Bloomberg Television it’s, Nikki Haley, “ I’ve, Hillary Clinton’s, Barack Obama’s, Biden’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Trump, CNBC, Economic, NATO, Republican, JPMorgan, Bloomberg Television, JPMORGAN, Wednesday Locations: New York, Davos, Dimon, China, Mexico, United States

☆ After a rough run, North Korea could at last find itself 'sitting pretty' in the new year with both Russia and China courting it, Korea watcher says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The result could be a very fortunate 2024 for North Korea, one in which Russia and China are both chasing after its attention. In that case, North Korea could be "sitting pretty," a top Korea watcher said last week. North Korea leader Kim Jong Un observes artillery fire competition in North Korea. North Korean military cadets hold a North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's flag during a perform of the Arirang festival which is a part of commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of North Korea on October 6, 2005, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea, on the other hand, has criticized, sometimes openly, China's disapproval of its testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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