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☆ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says ‘US credibility is at stake’ when asked about Trump’s NATO comments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Haley Britzky | Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“I think we have a responsibility to uphold those alliances,” Brown told NBC’s Lester Holt in an interview airing Monday evening. “US credibility is at stake with each of our alliances, and US leadership is still needed, wanted, and watched.”“The US is committed,” Brown added. “We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” Milley said at the time, in a veiled reference to Trump. The Pentagon said Monday that those attacks have resulted in 186 wounded or killed in action — including 130 traumatic brain injuries.

Persons: CQ Brown, Donald Trump, ”, Brown, “, ” Brown, NBC’s Lester Holt, that’s, ” Brown’s, Trump, Mark Milley, ” Milley, Joe Biden, Milley, Robert Hur’s, Biden, “ He’s, — Brown Organizations: CNN, Joint Chiefs, Staff, NATO, “ NBC, Trump, Republican, South Carolina, NBC, White, America, Pentagon Locations: Russia, “, South, Milley, ” Iran, —, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, United States, Jordan

☆ Yale, Duke and Columbia Among Elite Schools to Settle in Price-Fixing Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they shared formulas to measure prospective students’ financial needs. But the provision included a crucial requirement: that the cooperating universities’ admissions processes be “need-blind,” meaning they could not factor in whether a prospective student was wealthy enough to pay. But a court filing on Tuesday night revealed that five of those universities — Brown, Columbia, Duke, Emory and Yale — have collectively agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of, in fact, weighing financial ability when they deliberated over the fates of some applicants. Although the universities did not admit wrongdoing and resisted accusations that their approach had hurt students, the settlements nevertheless call into question whether the schools, which spent years extolling the generosity of their financial aid, did as much as they could to lower tuition.

Persons: — Brown, Yale — Organizations: Duke, Emory, Yale Locations: Columbia

☆ I started DJing in my 70s. When my wife and I go to nightclubs people there say they want to be like us when they get older.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Melissa Noble | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My wife Christine and I started our business, Kinder Australia Pty Ltd (a supplier of mechanical conveyor parts), in 1985. AdvertisementI started DJing early in the pandemicWhen we all went into lockdown in 2020, I thought, "What's everyone going to do? When things opened up, we went to see a fair bit of live music. Then, I started to connect socially with some of the people who were doing live podcasts during the early pandemic. It went really well.

Persons: —, Neil Kinder, Christine, Neil, Christine Kinder, Nightingale Bros, Beauy, Australia — Brown Brothers —, Sam Miranda, Christine Kinder It's, I've, Goodness Organizations: Service, Business, DJ, Kinder Australia, Facebook, Spotify Locations: Melbourne, Beaumaris, Australia

☆ Across the Echo Chamber, a Quiet Conversation About War and Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Jennifer Medina | More About Jennifer Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The women agreed to meet at a school Ms. Oliver founded three years ago. When the pandemic hit, Ms. Oliver grew frustrated watching wealthy, largely white, parents pay teachers for private learning “pods,” exacerbating inequities. “I have a very strong affiliation with marginalized people — brown, displaced, refugees, Black,” Ms. Oliver recalled saying at the beginning of the conversation. The way Ms. Oliver described the Hamas attack read to Ms. Minkin like a justification for the murder of Jews. Israel, Ms. Minkin later thought, is a central part of her identity, a place that shaped her, a Jewish homeland she returns to frequently.

Persons: Oliver, Black, Minkin, “, Ms, ”, existentially, Yitzhak Rabin, Morgan, Morgan Oliver, —, Oliver nodded Organizations: West Bank, Army, Morgan Oliver School Locations: Israel, United States, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Afghanistan, America

☆ AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A recent article on the "Star Wars" films had numerous errors, The Washington Post reported. The story was one of five articles published using Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT technologies as the outlet pilots new AI initiatives, a representative of Gizmodo told Insider. These will all be designed to complement our journalism and give our editorial teams new tools to serve our audiences." Gizmodo reporters weren't the only ones angered at the flub — readers, too, expressed their dissatisfaction with the AI creation. At the same time, outlets — including Insider — have announced new initiatives to experiment with AI, with editorial procedures in place meant to prevent errors from being published.

Persons: Gizmodo, James Whitbrook, George Lucas, Whitbrook, Google's Bard, Merrill Brown, Brown, Slack, Claire Lower, LifeHacker, — Brown, Jim Spanfeller, Lea Goldman —, — Organizations: Washington Post, Intelligence, GMG Union, Gizmodo, Twitter, NPR

☆ Opinion | The John Roberts Two-Step
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin,” the chief justice wrote in Parents Involved. “Brown did not raise the issue of whether states could use race-conscious classifications to integrate schools,” wrote the legal scholar Joel K. Goldstein in a 2008 analysis and critique of Roberts’ opinion in Parents Involved. This, you might say, is the Roberts two-step. What’s left is the mark of racism, that is, race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy — Brown v. Board of Education — becomes, in Roberts’s hands, a case about the use of race in school placement.

Persons: Brown, Roberts, “ Brown, ”, Joel K, Goldstein, Roberts’s, “, Karen, Barbara Fields, —, What’s, — Brown, Education — Organizations: Fair, of Education, Education Locations: Brown, America

☆ Opinion: This TV mom changed everything
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Opinion Raakhee Mirchandani | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Raakhee Mirchandani Kim Lorraine PhotographyI never searched for either of us on TV. I’m grateful NHIE gave Indian moms — Brown moms, Desi moms, South Asian moms — the crown we deserve. (L to R) Poorna Jagannathan as Nalini Vishwakumar, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi in episode 410 of "Never Have I Ever." But now, among the cohort of timeless TV mothers, there’s Devi’s mom — and let me tell you: Nalini, as realized by the inimitable Jagannathan, certainly has got it going on. (And anyone with a Brown mom knows the eyes; one look is all it takes.)

Persons: Kalpana Chawla, ”, Brady, Roseanne, Angela Bower, Clair Huxtable, Aunt Viv, Raakhee Mirchandani Kim Lorraine, Desi, Vishwakumar, Poorna Jagannathan, I’m, NHIE, — Brown, Mindy Kaling, Lang Fisher, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Jessica Brooks, —, Brown, there’s, Devi, Nalini, wasn’t, Will, Jamie Ryan, Niecy Nash, let’s, She’s, she’s Organizations: CNN, Netflix, Princeton, Twitter, Facebook

☆ Congress’ lame duck session leaves 'unfinished business' on issues that address Americans' everyday financial needs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChild tax credit enhancementA year ago last December, millions of families received their last monthly child tax credit checks. Legislation to help parents cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic made the child tax credit more generous for the 2021 calendar year. The maximum child tax credit sums went up from $2,000 per child to $3,600 per child under age 6 and $3,000 per child ages 6 through 17. On the bright side, the same compromise to re-up the child tax credit alongside corporate tax breaks may come up again in 2023, he said. Some lawmakers have insisted the child tax credit gets included in any new tax legislation.

☆ All the best products we’ve tested in 2021 (so far)
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-03 | by ( Cnn Underscored Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +62 min

Best coffee subscription: Blue Bottle (starting at $11 per shipment; bluebottle.com)Blue BottleBlue Bottle’s coffee subscription hit all of our marks during the testing process. This mask, though, formed the best seal around the edges, blocking out more light than any other mask we tested. Not only does it keep your drinks hot or cold for many hours, it’s solidly durable and has the best lid we’ve ever tested. Best smart display: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($99.99, originally $129.99; amazon.com)AmazonThe Echo Show 8 is the best smart display we tested, with a versatile 8-inch screen in a build that really fits anywhere. Best smart thermostat: Nest Learning Thermostat ($223, originally $229; amazon.com)GoogleThe Nest Learning Thermostat studies your habits and controls the temperature in your home automatically.

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