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☆ ABC News president Kim Godwin in hot water as Disney-appointed boss conducts review
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —ABC News President Kim Godwin is skating on thinner and thinner ice. OConnell, according to people familiar with the matter, has been astonished by Godwin’s management — or lack thereof — at the network. “She has to take swift moves,” a person familiar with the inner workings of ABC News candidly told me of OConnell. Those lieutenants include Stacia Deshishku, executive editor and senior vice president; Derek Medina, executive vice president; and Jose Andino, vice president of the office of the president and process management. As OConnell’s not-so-subtle evaluation has played out at ABC News, Godwin has privately voiced displeasure about being layered away from Iger and bemoaned Disney’s micromanagement, CNN was told.

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☆ ‘Problemista’ actor Laith Nakli plays an immigration lawyer. In real life he’s fighting his own case
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Khalil, played by Laith Nakli, perks up and races to scribble on his notepad. And as he helps promote the film, he’s speaking out about a side of himself that few people have seen. Laith Nakli, actorThe crime could have led to his deportation. … That pressure is just completely unfair.”Actor Laith Nakli plays an earnest immigration lawyer in "Problemista." The cloud Nakli feels every day wasn’t literally depicted on-screen, but Nakli says he saw it clearly hovering over Alejandro’s every move.

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☆ Analysis: Trump can get away with skipping a debate but can't evade legal consequences
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Donald Trump will skip another Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night because no one will punish him for not being there. While getting away with it is the ex-president’s quintessential political skill, his talent for evading consequences is facing a grave challenge in another sphere – the courts. Since the first GOP debate last month in Wisconsin, Florida Gov. Yet it stirred barely a murmur from Trump’s GOP rivals. The ex-president’s political might within the GOP base means its leaders are loath to cross him.

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☆ The Fed likely won't cut rates this year. Why that's good news for markets
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Although a pause in interest rate hikes appears likely, cuts may be farther off than some believe. Still, investors have remained hyper-alert for signs that the central bank could let up its brisk clip of interest rate increases. The central bank also opened the door to a pause, accelerating bets that the Fed will hold rates steady at its next meeting in June and cut rates as soon as July. The Fed is unlikely to cut rates in JulyExperts say that the Fed won’t cut rates anytime soon for two key reasons: Inflation remains sticky, and the economy has stayed strong. that’s not to say that a Fed rate cut this year is completely out of the cards, says Nicole Webb, senior vice president at Wealth Enhancement Group.

☆ I want to know if I should quit my new job or wait until it gets better
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Even in your misery, experts say it's important to look for signals that the job might get better. I'm not sure if it's the job, or if it's me, or what, but I need some advice. Late last year, I got laid off late from a job I really liked and was good at. I'm glad my job is remote because I've cried so many times since I started. Years ago, when I was a few months into a new job, a friend asked me how I liked it.

Her comments were echoed by others who feel the narrative shared by three top central banks of relatively cost-free disinflation rests on shaky ground. Among the Fed, ECB and BoE, only the British central bank projects a recession will be needed to slow inflation - only a mild one at that. U.S. central bank officials have split the difference, projecting a modest one-percentage-point rise in the unemployment rate this year from its near-historic low of 3.5%, and slow, but continued, economic growth. Martins Kazaks, Latvia's central bank chief, said the risk of a recession was still "non-trivial," with a host of factors still putting pressure on prices. For the Fed, different policymakers offer different ideas about the forces that will lower inflation as high interest rates slowly cool demand.

☆ Sen. Joe Manchin says he hasn't ruled out a presidential bid in 2024: 'Everything is on the table'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Joe Manchin has not ruled out running for president in 2024, he told NBC News on Sunday. The moderate didn't endorse President Joe Biden, who has tepidly committed to running for reelection. I've got two years ahead of me now to do the best I can for the state and for my country," Manchin said. —Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 22, 2023Todd noted that Manchin wasn't denying the possibility of a presidential future, but he pivoted to asking whether the senator would support a reelection bid from President Joe Biden, who turned 80 years old in November. "He'll have to make that decision," Manchin said, withholding his immediate endorsement.

High interest rates, supply chain problems and recessionary fears were among the major challenges for the global automotive industry in 2022. Auto sales could still riseUnlike traditional downturns or past periods when demand was soft, most analysts expect global and U.S. auto sales to rise in 2023. Cox Automotive is forecasting U.S. new vehicle sales of 14.1 million in 2023, which Charlie Chesbrough, Cox's senior economist and senior director of industry insights, described as "tepidly optimistic." S&P Global Mobility expects new vehicle sales globally to reach nearly 83.6 million units in 2023, a 5.6% increase from the previous year. US consumers are hunkering down, and recovery towards pre-pandemic vehicle demand levels feels like a hard sell.

☆ A former economic advisor to the Russian government breaks down the telltale signs that a recent anti-America rally in Moscow was staged by Russian authorities
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Russia expert described what he said were telltale signs the rally was staged by the Kremlin. Russian media dubbed the rally "the March on Washington," highlighting the display of pro-war sentiment in Russia. Unlike at the recent rally, the Russian police previously arrested over a thousand people protesting Putin's mobilization of reservists. Previous demonstrations in Moscow in October also featured protesters clamoring for Sarmat strikes on the US. They paraded a black rocket on the streets, which appears to have been reused in the most recent staged rally.

☆ Wall Street backs Club holding Wynn Resorts as Macao tours from China get ready to reopen
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

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