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☆ Here's what a Kamala Harris administration could mean for your wallet
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Cnbc.Com Personal Finance Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Harris' visit, following the attempted assassination of former President Trump, makes this her fourth trip to Michigan this year and seventh visit since taking office. However, Harris voiced some distinctions from Biden before becoming vice president, Watson noted. The vice president plans to bring more relief to borrowers, they said. Harris proposed repealing the Trump tax cuts to pay for it. — Jessica DicklerHousingHarris has been a proponent for affordable housing policies both during her tenure as vice president and as senator.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Trump, Olivia Troye, Amanda Stratton, Harris, Chris duMond, Chris Dumond, Biden, Garrett Watson, Watson, — Kate Dore, Drew Altman, Altman, She'd, Fatima Goss Graves, Roe, Wade —, Greg Iacurci, Pell Grant, Joe Biden, Miguel Cardona, Annie, Laura Veldkamp, Veldkamp, — Jessica Dickler, May, — Ana Teresa Solá Organizations: Getty, Tax, Tax Foundation, Biden, — Kate Dore Health, Affordable, Medicaid, National Women's Law, CNBC, Current U.S . Department of Education, Corinthian Colleges, U.S . Department, Corinthian, Columbia University Business School, U.S . Department of Housing, Urban Locations: KALAMAZOO , MICHIGAN, Kalamazoo , Michigan, Michigan, North Carolina, California, U.S

☆ Adobe's misfortune may be a windfall for these 2 up-and-coming art apps
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementLinearity, a vector-based app similar to Adobe's Illustrator, did not disguise its intention to get customers to switch apps. Inkscape, a free, open-source software similar in function to Illustrator, took a subtle swipe at Adobe in a June 9 X post. And some users seem desperate to make the switch, with creatives on TikTok and X sharing extensive lists of alternatives to Adobe's apps. Representatives for Adobe, Linearity and Affinity didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: —, — Jessica Plowman Organizations: Service, Federal Trade Commission, Adobe, Business, Canva, MRC, Photoshop

☆ The Chiefs kicker who told women to be 'homemakers' rather than have careers has a physicist mother
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewKansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave some controversial advice to young women during his commencement address at Benedictine College's graduation ceremony on Saturday. Some critics zeroed in on the fact that Butker's mother is a career woman. Several users on X pointed out that Butker's mother, Elizabeth Keller Butker, is a physicist. According to a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to Butker's mother, she earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College and has worked at Emory since June 1988. AdvertisementButker, his wife, or his mom haven't spoken out publicly about Butker's graduation speech comments.

Persons: —, Harrison Butker, Taylor Swift, wasn't, Elizabeth Keller Butker, Harrison, — Jessica Valenti, @JessicaValenti, Elizabeth Keller Butker's, Butker, they're Organizations: Service, Kansas City Chiefs, Catholic, NFL, Business, Emory, Benedictine College, Benedictine, Emory University School, Medicine's Radiation Oncology, Smith College, Business Insider

☆ Players Championship: Adam Hadwin hurled his club into the water in disgust. His wife saw the funny side
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Golfer Adam Hadwin had built a superb reputation for staying dry at The Players Championship. On Thursday, the water took its long-awaited revenge by claiming two of his balls – and even a club. Across more than four decades, hundreds of the PGA Tour’s finest players have watched in horror as their tee shot splashed into the lake at TPC Sawgrass’ iconic par-three 17th hole. Yet on all of his 28 previous visits to the penultimate tee at the ‘fifth major’, Canada’s Hadwin had safely found the island green. Ten players had found the lake from the tee during the first round, though New Zealand’s Ryan Fox aced the hole, becoming the 14th golfer in Players history to do so.

Persons: Adam Hadwin, Canada’s Hadwin, Hadwin, Sam Greenwood, Hadwin –, Jessica, ” Hadwin, Mike Carlson, Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy –, Maddox, day, a, Ze Organizations: CNN, PGA Locations: eled by

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Jessica Pegula finished round-robin singles play at the WTA Finals with a 3-0 record a year after going 0-3 at the season-ending championship, heading to the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Maria Sakkari on Thursday night. The fifth-seeded Pegula extended her overall winning streak to eight matches, including a title at the Korean Open last month. The 29-year-old American has won all six sets she's played in Cancun so far and will play in the semifinals on Saturday. Sabalenka won that matchup in January for her first Grand Slam title. Sabalenka was ahead 5-1 in the first set Thursday when play was being delayed because of a storm.

Persons: — Jessica Pegula, Maria Sakkari, Pegula, she's, ” Pegula, ” Sakkari, Karolina Muchova, “, Coco Gauff, Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Marketa Vondrousova, Iga Swiatek, ___ Organizations: WTA, Korean, American, Sabalenka, U.S, Wimbledon Locations: CANCUN, Mexico, Cancun

SEOUL (AP) — Jessica Pegula beat Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Korea Open on Sunday for the fourth title of her career. The top-seeded Pegula dropped only one set through the tournament and becomes the first American since Venus Williams in 2007 to win the title in Seoul. “My mom is Korean and she was adopted from here so it’s really special to be able to win here,” Pegula said. So it’s really special.”Playing in her first career final, 128th-ranked Yuan showed no signs of nerves and earned a break point in Pegula's opening service game, which the American saved with a forehand winner. 4-ranked player then won eight consecutive games to take the first set and build a 3-0 lead in the second as a quick victory looked likely.

Persons: — Jessica Pegula, Yuan Yue, Pegula, Venus Williams, “, ” Pegula, I’ve, it’s, Yuan, ___ Organizations: Korea Locations: SEOUL, Seoul, Montreal, North America

☆ Should I Wear a Fleece to the Office?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Currently, I wear a charcoal fleece with a nice fit, but I can’t help but feel the look is starting to feel tired. Fleece is an easy solution and was, for a while, the favorite office uniform of shadow banker bros everywhere, for a variety for reasons. Second, it provided a direct visual contrast to the navy-suit establishment, suggesting that your hedge fund or private equity firm had a different, cooler set of values (especially if said firm was ESG-Patagonia aligned). I knew one private equity titan who deliberately kept his office temperature frigid and always wore a fleece quarter-zip under his jacket, the better to put visitors, who were not expecting the chill, at a disadvantage. The problem is, at that point — or the I-don’t-want-to-look-like-an-extra-in- “Billions” point — fleece at work becomes a cliché.

Persons: — Jessica, Paul Locations: San Diego, Davos, Patagonia

“A thousand people, in a room, quiet, sometimes the quietest room I’ve ever been in, and we have a real experience with each other, audience and performers. It’s magic. There’s nothing like it.” — Arian Moayed“My grandmother took me, when I was 7, to go see a production of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ in Sacramento. I was a little bit of a troubled kid, so she was trying to find an outlet for me. And then the play started, and there was a little girl onstage narrating, and it was just this aha moment of like, ‘Oh, this is what I am.’” — Jessica Chastain

Persons: ”, “, ‘ Joseph, Jessica Chastain Locations: Sacramento

A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll. "They're trying to take parts of Donald Trump you dislike and stretch it over Ms. Carroll's story," Tacopina said. Carroll's lawyers, for their part, said their willingness to bring the case to court only made them more believable. "There wasn't even a 'he said,' because Donald Trump never even looked you in the eye and said she was a liar," Ferrara said. "You heard from Donald Trump himself — this is just how he treats women," Ferrara said.

A jury on Monday convicted four members of the extremist group the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy. The trial, which started Dec. 12, included testimony from Brian Ulrich, a member of the Oath Keepers’ Georgia chapter who had pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding. ... I’m not afraid and I’m ready to f---ing go.”The four defendants were charged as part of the same seditious conspiracy case involving Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes that went to trial in October. Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, the leader of the group’s Florida chapter, were convicted of seditious conspiracy in November. The maximum sentence for seditious conspiracy — a rarely used Civil War era statute — is 20 years in federal prison.

☆ Why we’re so bad at forming new habits—and how to be better
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

My younger, more disciplined sister hates resolutions: "Why wait for a calendar date to do something that's good for you? Make the decision to be better now," she says, as I eat Christmas cookie dough and promise to give up sugar starting Jan. 1. We need to better understand how habits are formed. So, how do you implement healthier habits without thinking too hard? When it's hard to exercise or eat perfectly or if you just really, really crave takeout from a single-use plastic container, forgive yourself.

Military veteran Richard Fierro's selfless response when a gunman opened fire in a Colorado gay club is being lauded by the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization. He said he did what he was trained to do as a 15-year Army veteran who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fierro and Jessica, who live in Colorado Springs, own a brewery called Atrevida, which in Spanish means brazen. 'Leaped into the breach'The nation's string of mass shootings in recent years have claimed the lives of many Latino victims. He said LULAC invited Fierro and his family to Washington, D.C., to receive the award or it would give it to him in a ceremony in Colorado Springs.

☆ Conquer inflation and rake in income by following this investing playbook, says the mind behind a top-performing $4 billion fund
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A peaceful early expansion environment with growth, low inflation, and falling rates starts to sour in the early overheating stage, when red-hot growth and low rates spark high inflation. How to invest in a low inflation economic cycleEarly expansion: Expansion, low inflation, falling ratesWhat works: Stocks broadly outperform, followed by income stocks and real estate investment trusts (REITs). How to invest in a high inflation economic cycleEarly expansion: Expansion, low inflation, falling ratesWhat works: Stocks broadly work best, followed by income stocks and REITs. Late overheating: Expansion, high inflation, rising ratesWhat works: Income stocks, commodities, and stocks tied to real assets outperform with growth, inflation, and rates high. Early stagflation: Contraction, high inflation, rising ratesWhat works: TIPS outperform as growth weakens and inflation stays high while income stocks do fine with inflation high.

☆ An Oath Keeper thought the Electoral College was a place where politicians 'went to get educated,' defense lawyer says at trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Defense lawyers argued at trial the Oath Keepers were a community-minded service group. In their month-long case, federal prosecutors presented text messages and other evidence detailing the Oath Keepers' planning ahead of January 6. Rhodes is standing trial alongside Harrelson and three other Oath Keepers members — Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs, and Thomas Caldwell — on charges related to January 6. In another opening statement Thursday, a defense lawyer for Oath Keepers member Kelly Meggs argued that the group was providing security on January 6. "The testimony in this case will show the Oath Keepers chose community involvement, disaster recovery, security, personal security," Woodward said.

☆ Incident aerian în SUA: Avion deviat după ce un pasager a încercat să intre în cabina piloţilor
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: captură videoIncident aerian în SUA: Avion deviat după ce un pasager a încercat să intre în cabina piloţilorUn pasager aflat la bordul unui avion din SUA a încercat să intre în cabina piloţilor. Zborul a fost deviat către New Mexico, vineri după-amiază, după ce un pasager a încercat să intre în cabina piloţilor, transmite dw.com, citată de Mediafax. Ulterior, avionul a fost deviat către Albuquerque International Sunport, unde a aterizat în jurul orei locale 14:20. „Mulţumim echipajului şi pasagerilor zborului Delta 386... care au ajutat la reţinerea unui pasager neascultător în timp ce zborul a fost deviat către Albuquerque”, a transmis linia aeriană printr-un comunicat, scrie digi24.ro. Pasagerul a fost luat în custodia poliţiei şi a FBI.

Persons: Mediafax ., Jessica Robertson, June, . Pasagerul Organizations: FBI, Mediafax, Air, Albuquerque International Locations: SUA, New Mexico, Los Angeles, Nashville, and, Albuquerque

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