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☆ When I stopped drinking, dating felt totally different. In sobriety, I had to be more vulnerable.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Evan Lambert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

When I went sober six years ago, dating and getting laid was the last thing on my mind. After all, I'd gone sober for a reason: to self-optimize, and I couldn't do that with a man snoring in my ear. It felt like alcohol and I had always been in an open relationship, but now it was time for me to fly solo. Don't obsess over small thingsThat said, I couldn't blame all my past failures on the men I'd dated. Talking to men sober felt like doing it for the first time.

Persons: I'd, I'd pined, —, pesky, I'm, Evan Lambert, he's, Evan Lambert Be Organizations: Service Locations: New York City

☆ Senegal goes to the polls as country’s once sturdy democracy looks shaky
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Senegalese voters will choose their next president on Sunday in a delayed and high-stakes election that poses a test for the country’s democracy. A long list of candidates are running, but two former tax inspectors - one representing the government, the other the main opposition coalition - are considered frontrunners. Just over seven million of Senegal’s 18 million people are registered to vote in this election, the country’s electoral body said. It shows how desperate these young people are due to the failure of President Sall to create employment,” Thior said. The ruling coalition candidate Ba kicked off his campaign promising “massive employment” for young people and improving the “purchasing power of households” by creating thousands of jobs.

Persons: Macky Sall, –, Sall, “, ”, Zohra Bensemra, Ousmane Sene, Mamadou Thior, Sall’s, Amadou Ba, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Ousmane Sonko, jeopardizing, Sonko, kickstart, Carmen Abd Ali, Faye, John Wessels, Thior, “ We’re, “ Thior, Idrissa Seck, ” Faye, Ba, Michele Cattani, ” Thior, ” Sene Organizations: CNN, Senegalese, BBC, ”, Reuters, West African Research Center, firebrand, president's Alliance, Republic, Getty, Sonko, International Organization for, International Monetary Fund Locations: West African, Senegal, ” Senegal, Dakar, Senegalese, Diourbel, AFP, Republic, Medina, Canary, Europe, Spain, Nicaragua, “

☆ Trump's lawyers are hunting for the identities of secret consultants who approved Russiagate Pulitzer Prizes
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

AdvertisementIn an overlooked lawsuit, Donald Trump's lawyers are exhibiting a habit from his White House days: Hunting for anonymous sources. At each turn, a lawyer for the Pulitzer Board members stopped their clients from answering. The journalists whom Trump's lawyers deposed did, however, offer some characterization of the "consultants" who conducted the reviews. The Pulitzer Prize Board is hosted by Columbia University, in Manhattan, which manages the small organization's payroll and offers institutional support. Chad Bowman, a Ballard Spahr attorney representing the Pulitzer board members, directed Business Insider to court filings.

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☆ ‘Mary Poppins’ gets a new age rating over discriminatory language
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A British film industry group has raised the age rating for the beloved children’s classic “Mary Poppins” over discriminatory language. “Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Even as “Mary Poppins” remains a treasured part of the cultural canon, the film has been criticized for trafficking in blackface. It’s partly in this context that the discriminatory language referenced by BBFC appears in the film. In recent years, the movie industry has grappled with how to handle racist or offensive content in classic films.

Persons: CNN —, Mary Poppins ”, “ Mary Poppins, ’ ”, “, Mary Poppins, ”, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Banks, Boom, hottentots, “ We’re, Shutterstock, Peter Pan ” Organizations: CNN, British, of, Disney, BBFC, US Library, Congress, National Film Registry, Banks Locations: British, Africa, South Africa, Namibia, Oxford

☆ China is learning to prepare for a drawn-out war after watching Russia struggle for years in Ukraine: think-tank
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

China is showing signs that it's thinking about a drawn-out war after watching Russia, the IISS said. It shows Beijing is considering how it might not achieve a "swift victory" if it goes to war, an IISS analyst said. AdvertisementBeijing's military leaders appear to be preparing China for the possibility of a long-drawn war after observing Russia's protracted conflict in Ukraine, according to an international think-tank. Heavy losses in Ukraine, coupled with reports of mistreatment of conscripts and contract soldiers on the battlefield, have been stumbling blocks for Russian military recruitment. AdvertisementThe IISS report said China has been gleaning other lessons from the war, though the think-tank said it's difficult to confirm what exactly Beijing is learning.

Persons: —, IISS, Nouwens Organizations: Service, Kremlin, PLA Army, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Liberation Army, Nikkei Asia, Nikkei, PLA Locations: China, Russia, Beijing, Ukraine

☆ Opinion: How serious is Trump about pulling out of NATO? Very
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The idea that foreign countries are freeloading off the United States plays well with his base, but Trump either doesn’t understand how NATO works or chooses not to. Meanwhile, in 2014, all NATO countries agreed to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense by this year. Every US president since Barack Obama has pressed NATO countries to reach that expenditure level, but at the time of the agreement, only three NATO countries — the US, United Kingdom and Greece — were doing so. In 2017, NATO European countries and Canada spent around $270 billion on their defense, while the United States spent around $626 billion. No matter how wrong-headed it might be, according to his close advisers Trump seems quite serious about getting out of NATO.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Boysober’ comes with some baggage
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Are you sure you’re doing the right thing? Whereas “self-partnered’ connotes a vague but cheerful sense of romantic self-care, “boysober” very obviously comes with baggage. To get painfully literal about it: The existence of “boysober” implies the existence of “boydrunk.” Going boysober, one can therefore assume, isn’t just about celibacy or a break from dating. Woodard gets into this in a YouTube video she’s posted ahead of a podcast series on her boysober project. Even if you’re not wholly sure what you’re doing, claiming some agency over that process is reassuring.

Persons: Holly Thomas, Katie Couric, Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, we’ve, Hope Woodard, She’s, she’s, “, Woodard, Emma Watson, ”, she’d “, she’d, Watson, —, It’s, it’s, There’s, you’re Organizations: Katie Couric Media, CNN, New York Times, That’s Locations: London, Tennessee, ”

☆ Hang a picture of Jason Kelce shirtless in the Louvre? ArtButMakeItSports thinks so
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Callum Sutherland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Social media account ArtButMakeItSports connects the dots. He says: “I tend to see things through a sports lens, and I guess art is no different for me. Rebecca Blackwell/APSamson and Delilah, by Anthony van Dyck, 1628-30, 📸 by Rebecca Blackwell pic.twitter.com/jNJ6HNjNn5 — ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) December 24, 2023Are sport and art all that different? Since starting ArtButMakeItSports, Rader says the audience has been small for the most part. After all, wouldn’t we all love to see a roaring Jason Kelce matched with a renaissance painting on our social media feeds again?

Persons: –, ArtButMakeItSports, LJ Rader, Phillips de Koninck, haring, ake, eason, hy, ruth, ”, ike Organizations: CNN, ust

☆ Egypt is renovating one of its ancient pyramids using granite, and some experts are horrified
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Reem Makhoul | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Egypt's antiquities chief announced a project to restore an ancient pyramid's granite cladding. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA restoration project to cover one of Egypt's most iconic pyramids with granite cladding has produced a decidedly mixed reaction among heritage experts and social media users. The strong reactions have caused Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities to call for a pause to reexamine the project's feasibility, according to the Telegraph.

Persons: —, Mostafa Waziri, Khufu, Waziri, Khaled Desouki, Monica Hanna, Hanna, Hussein Bassir, Salima, Egypt's Organizations: Service, Egypt's, of Antiquities, Facebook, Independent, The Telegraph, Independent Arabia, Biblioteca, American University, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities Locations: Giza, Cairo, Independent Arabia, Suez, Pisa, France

☆ Artist Carl Andre, known for minimalist sculptures and a murder trial, dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Wallace Ludel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

American artist and sculptor Carl Andre pictured at London's Whitechapel Gallery in London on March 15, 1978. Andre’s work often consisted of industrially fabricated forms made from simple, raw material — such as metal, granite, wood, and brick — arranged in free-standing patterns. His death passing was confirmed on Wednesday by the Paula Cooper Gallery, with which the artist had worked since 1964. “My father always said, ‘I am old school and European, and my wife does not work,’” Andre told the magazine. Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesIn 1970, after just over a decade in New York, Andre received his first major museum survey, at the Guggenheim Museum.

Persons: Carl Andre, — Carl Andre, Paula Cooper, Ana Mendieta, Andre, ” Andre, George Andre —, “, Margaret Johnson, ‘, ’ ” Andre, ”, Frank Stella, Stella —, “ They’re, They’re, Ken Hively, Peter Schjeldahl, “ Andre, Mendieta, Helen Molesworth, Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art —, “ Carl Andre, Melissa Kretschmer Organizations: The Art, CNN, Phillips Academy, Kenyon College, Army, Northeastern University —, Tate, Los Angeles Times, Guggenheim Museum, The New York Times, Dia Beacon, Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Artforum Locations: London, American, New York City, Quincy , Massachusetts, United States, Sweden, “ The, Andover , Massachusetts, Beverly Hills, New York, Greenwich Village

☆ The middle seat on an airplane is severely underrated
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Like yellow Starbursts, we all deal with the middle seat, but most of us don't prefer it. I now kneel at the altar of the middle seat, and you should, too. The stigma around middle seats has meant aisle and window passengers tend to give those stuck there more space. Middle seats are cheaperPerhaps you're still not sold on the middle. If you have a middle seat in a four-seater, may God have mercy on your soul.

Persons: —, you've, didn't, It's, they're Organizations: Service, Business, Alaska Airlines, LAX Locations: New York, Las Vegas

☆ Read the email Wayfair's CEO sent to staff announcing that it's laying off 13% of its workforce
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Wayfair said on Friday that it was cutting 13% of its global workforce, or around 1,650 workers. This came only weeks after CEO Niraj Shah sent a companywide email saying Wayfair was "back to winning" but also warning that staff should be careful with its money. AdvertisementNorth American staff would receive an email shortly letting them know whether their roles had been affected, while laid-off staff in Europe had already begun discussions with HR about the next steps, Shah said. Read the full email Shah sent to Wayfair staff below. First, I want to be clear that there are many things at the company that are going well.

Persons: Wayfair, Niraj Shah, Shah, we've, you'll, Covid, – Organizations: Talent, Covid Locations: Europe, North America, Wayfair

Gould is more bullish than many on Wall Street, as the average price target of analysts polled by LSEG is $484.42. Analyst Harold Antor downgraded the stock to hold from buy and slashed his price target by $4 to $8. Analyst Jeffrey Stantial upgrade the sports betting stock to buy from hold and raised his price target by $5 to $45. Stantial's new price target implies shares can jump 19.9% over the next year from Thursday's close. UBS raised its rating on Texas Instruments to buy and increased its price target to $195 from $170.

Persons: Chipmakers, Wells, Bernstein, PDD, Robin Zhu, Zhu, Temu, there's, Shein, — Alex Harring, Alan Gould, Gould, Jefferies, Hertz, Harold Antor, Antor, There's, Saul Martinez, Martinez, Alex Harring, Stifel, Jeffrey Stantial, Stantial, Wells Fargo, Aaron Rakers, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, TXN, Timothy Arcuri, FCF –, Fred Imbert Organizations: CNBC, UBS, Texas, Nvidia, Meta, PDD Holdings, Netflix, HBO, LSEG, Hertz, EV, Jefferies, HSBC, Discover, Facebook, Big Tech, Texas Instruments Locations: China, Thursday's

☆ Democrats in California want to clear homeless encampments in public areas. So they convinced the conservative US Supreme Court to take up the case.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Supreme Court will weigh in on a case that could upend homelessness policy across the US. Gavin Newsom asked the conservative-led Supreme Court to hear the case. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on the issue, a decision that was backed by California Gov. "The Supreme Court can now correct course and end the costly delays from lawsuits that have plagued our efforts to clear encampments and deliver services to those in need." AdvertisementThe Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in April, with a decision expected by the early summer.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, —, Johnson, they've, Newsom Organizations: Service, Supreme, California Gov, Democratic, Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Circuit, Arizona Republican Locations: California, Grants, Oregon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu

☆ Puzzlingly massive planet found orbiting a small star
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The planet, about the mass of Neptune and more than 13 times as massive as Earth, was detected orbiting an ultracool M-dwarf star called LHS 3154 — which is nine times less massive than our sun. This graphic compares the sizes of our sun and Earth with the smaller, cooler LHS 3154 star and its orbiting planet, LHS 3154b. For example, small M dwarf stars are the most common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, and they typically have small, rocky planets orbiting them, rather than gas giant planets. “The planet-forming disk around the low-mass star LHS 3154 is not expected to have enough solid mass to make this planet,” Mahadevan said. A team of scientists led by Mahadevan built the HPF, which was designed to detect planets orbiting within the habitable zone of small, cool stars.

Persons: ”, Suvrath Mahadevan, Verne M, ” Mahadevan, Mahadevan, “, Megan Delamer, ” Delamer Organizations: CNN —, LHS, Penn, Penn State, McDonald Observatory Locations: Texas

“He was not only an outstanding hockey player but also a great teammate. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesThe game, which was broadcast free on YouTube, does not count in the Elite Ice Hockey League standings. Panthers players received a standing ovation when they came out for warmups and some waved and chatted with fans between shots. Nottingham's coaching staff stood arm-in-arm on the bench as players and fans looked up to the scoreboard to watch highlights of Johnson's career. Johnson had skated with the puck across the blue line — into Sheffield's defensive zone — when Petgrave collided with another Panthers player nearby.

Persons: Adam Johnson, Stef Litchfield, “, ”, Panthers haven’t, “ We’re, —, Margaret Cartwright, Johnson, Storm, Matt Petgrave, Petgrave, ” Cartwright, It’s, Adam, Robin Hood —, ___ Organizations: Nottingham Panthers, Manchester Storm, Motorpoint, Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, YouTube, Elite Ice Hockey League, South Yorkshire Police, Sheffield Steelers, Steelers, The Associated Press, Nottingham —, Penguins, Ice Hockey Association, Elite League, soccer's FA, Belfast Giants Locations: NOTTINGHAM, England, Sheffield, Minnesota, Germany, Nottingham, Britain

☆ What an isolated community in Africa may be able to teach about child care
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The children had a high degree of physical contact and care for most of time they were observed. Nikhil ChaudharyResponses to cryingWhat was notable, Chaudhary said, wasn’t necessarily the amount of care children received, but that mothers weren’t responsible for all of it. Other caregivers — fathers, older siblings and nonrelatives — were responsible for 38% to 46% of close care, according to the study. The mean number of caregivers other than a child’s mother was 14.4, but these weren’t all adults. “How representative would a day care center with 18 children in inner-city London be of childhood … anywhere?” he asked.

Persons: “, ”, Nikhil Chaudhary, ” Chaudhary, Chaudhary, ’, —, reexamine, wasn’t, nonrelatives —, …, Jennifer Lansford, Malcolm Gillis, ” Lansford, Carlo Schuengel, ” Schuengel, ” Marc Bornstein, we’re Organizations: CNN, Leverhulme, University of Cambridge, “, Central African, Center for Child, Duke University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Locations: Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, North Carolina, London

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the European Union for 10 more years after the 27 member countries again failed to find a common position for or against a prolongation. The Greens political group of the EU Parliament immediately urged the Commission to backpedal and ban the use of glyphosate. The 10-year extension proposed by the European Commission required a “qualified majority,” defined as 55% of the 27 members representing at least 65% of the total EU population of some 450 million people. Pascal Canfin, the chair of the Environment committee at the European Parliament, blamed the EU Commission president for moving forward despite the stalemate. EU member states are responsible for authorizing the use of products in their national markets, following a safety evaluation.

Persons: unconclusive, ”, Bas Eickhout, unfiled, “, Pascal Canfin, Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron Organizations: European Commission, European Union, Greens, EU, Environment, Monsanto, Bayer, Agency for Research, Cancer, World Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, Greenpeace Locations: BRUSSELS, backpedal, California, France, U.S, Germany, Italy

☆ ‘In the Shadow of Fear’ Review: Partisan Rancor at Midcentury
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Mike Watson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In 2019, Henry Kissinger warned that the U.S. and China had entered the “foothills of a cold war,” and the Sino-American relationship has only worsened since. The prospect of a new cold war has induced some historians to reexamine the old one. Nick Bunker’s “In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950” is one such reexamination. But over the ensuing 10 months, Truman’s attempt to expand on FDR’s domestic legacy fell apart, and the Democratic coalition that had dominated American politics for two decades began to break up as well. Most perplexingly to Mr. Bunker, “American politics descended into strife at a moment when in so many ways the nation had little to fear.”

Persons: Henry Kissinger, Nick Bunker’s “, ”, Bunker, Harry Truman, Truman’s Organizations: Financial Times, Labor, Democratic Locations: China, British, American

Woodyard had pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with McClain’s death. The officer remains suspended from the department without pay, pending the outcome of the trial. Prosecutors initially declined to bring charges against the officers and paramedics involved in McClain’s death, but the case received renewed scrutiny following the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the spring of 2020. Jared Polis appointed a special prosecutor to reexamine the case, and in 2021 a grand jury indicted Woodyard, two other officers and two paramedics in McClain’s death. Two paramedics who treated McClain, Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, are set to go on trial in the coming weeks.

Persons: Nathan Woodyard, Elijah McClain, Woodyard, McClain, Philip Weiser, Weiser, Sheneen McClain, “, ” “, she’s, ”, I’ve, ” Sheneen McClain, MiDian Holmes, Prosecutors, Jared Polis, Woodyard’s, Roger Mitchell Jr, David Beuther, Randy Roedema, Jason Rosenblatt, Roedema, Rosenblatt, Jeremy Cooper, Peter Cichuniec Organizations: CNN, Aurora, Colorado, Colorado Gov, Prosecutors Locations: Colorado, Aurora

☆ This city never slept. Now with China tightening its grip, is the party over?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

China’s message at the time was that even if change was coming to Hong Kong, its spirit of “anything goes” would be staying put. People gather outside a restaurant on a near-empty street in the Soho area of Hong Kong. Officials say they were “fluorescent.”A Hong Kong government spokesman told CNN this week that the activities were “well-received by local residents and tourists”. Under Hong Kong’s pandemic restrictions, live music was all but banned in small venues for more than 650 days. Months before the virus emerged, China had been tightening its grip on Hong Kong in response to pro-democracy protests that had spread throughout the city.

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Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Reuters reported in June that the very AI chips barred by prior regulations could be purchased from vendors in China's Shenzhen. AI capabilities, aided by supercomputing and advanced chips, improve the speed and accuracy of military decision-making, planning and logistics, according to the regulations released Tuesday. LICENSING EXPANDEDThe new measures also expand licensing requirements for exports of advanced chips to more than 40 additional countries that present risks of diversion to China and are subject to U.S. arms embargoes. "We don’t think incremental semiconductor equipment restrictions are likely to have significant long term effects" on equipment suppliers, Wolfe Research said in a client note.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Gina Raimondo, Biren, ASML, Lam, Raimondo, Jake Sullivan, Janet Yellen, Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Stephen Nellis, David Shepardson, Max A, Chris Sanders, Jamie Freed, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, Beijing, Commerce, Reuters, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Xilinx, Intel, supercomputing, HIT, AMD, U.S, Lam, Applied Materials, Wolfe Research, Semiconductor Industry Association, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Iran, Russia, Beijing, China's Shenzhen, Georgetown, CHINA, Macau, Netherlands

☆ Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to pull funding if UPenn doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Even before the Palestine Writes Literature Festival started, UPenn leaders acknowledged it would include speakers with a history of making antisemitic remarks. “You are forcing me to reexamine my financial support absent satisfactory measures to address antisemitism at the university,” Lauder wrote. The Palestine Writes festival has created a backlash that prominent donors, including billionaire Marc Rowan and former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, who have vowed to cut off funding. “We know who they are and what they did.”Magill, UPenn’s president, conceded over the weekend that the response to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival was inadequate. Talk about resistance, talk about politics and power and culture and song and books and food and all of these things,” Susan Abulhawa, executive director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, told CNN.

Persons: Ronald Lauder, Lauder, UPenn, “, ” Lauder, Liz Magill, Marc Rowan, Jon Huntsman, Rowan, Magill, Vahan Gureghian, ”, ” Magill, Susan Abulhawa Organizations: New, New York CNN, University of Pennsylvania, CNN, Daily, Forbes, World Jewish Congress, UPenn, Lauder Institute, Wharton, Department of Arts and Sciences, The Lauder Institute, UPenn’s, Penn, “, University Locations: New York, Palestinian, Israel, Palestine, Austria, Philadelphia, American

Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. The rules restrict a broader swathe of advanced chips and chipmaking tools to a greater number of countries including Iran and Russia, and blacklist Chinese chip designers Moore Threads and Biren. Nvidia's business has soared since the imposition of last year's rules because its China-only chips are still better than alternatives. LICENSING EXPANDEDThe new measures also expand licensing requirements for exports of advanced chips to more than 40 additional countries that present risks of diversion to China and are subject to U.S. arms embargoes. The Biden administration also hit 21 countries outside China with a licensing requirement for chipmaking tools.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Gina Raimondo, " Raimondo, Biren, ASML, Raimondo, Jake Sullivan, Janet Yellen, Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Stephen Nellis, David Shepardson, Max A, Chris Sanders, Jamie Freed, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, Commerce, HIT, AMD, Intel, U.S, Lam Research, Materials, Embassy, Semiconductor Industry Association, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Beijing, Iran, Russia, United States, CHINA, Macau, Netherlands, Washington

☆ Kentucky Innocence Project wages new fight to free Quincy Cross
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Jacque Smith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

But Cross has always expressed his innocence, and Currin’s father, Joe Currin, has come to believe Cross was wrongfully convicted. CNN will be following the team of the “Wrongful Conviction” podcast as it reports on KIP’s efforts to overturn Cross’ conviction. Stubblefield testified at Cross’ trial that when the gathering wrapped up, Currin left to walk home. Perkins also testified Cross kept pulling up his pants because he wasn’t wearing a belt. Pages of newly discovered emails between Mangold and Galbreath are a part of KIP’s motion to vacate Cross’ conviction.

Persons: Jessica Currin, Quincy Omar Cross, Joe Currin, Cross, “ We’ve, ” Joe Currin, you’ve, Miranda Hellman, KIP, Joshua Lott, Maggie Freleng, Currin, Vinisha Stubblefield, Stubblefield, Jeffrey Burton, Tamara Caldwell, Victoria Caldwell, Burton, Caldwell, Chris, Mike Perkins, Perkins, Stephen Lance Dennee, AP Burton, Victoria Caldwell’s, Alford, Carlos “ Lolo ” Saxton, Jeremy Adams, Saxton, Adams, Jeffrey Burton’s, Stubblefield recanting, wasn’t, “, ”, –, Nathan Kent, Jeff don’t, Victoria Caldwell's, Jessica Currin's, KIP that’s, Hellman, Adams ’, Mayfield, Susan Galbreath, Galbreath, Tom Mangold, Mangold, Currin “, Susan Galbreath gestured, AP Galbreath, Quincy Coss, I’d, She’s Organizations: CNN, Mayfield Middle School, Kentucky Innocence, Washington Post, Paducah Sun, Graves, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Quincy Cross, AP, Cross, Caldwell, Facebook, Kentucky Attorney General’s, Kentucky State Police, Mayfield Police, Mayfield Police Department, Kentucky, Investigation, Quincy, Kentucky Bureau, Gatorade, General’s Locations: Kentucky, Graves, Mayfield, Mayfield , Kentucky, Stubblefield, Caldwell, Union City , Tennessee, Graves County

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