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☆ How Baked by Melissa's founder turned a tiny New York City apartment kitchen business into a cupcake empire
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Sara Lindsay | In Sara-Lindsay | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Count Baked by Melissa founder Melissa Ben-Ishay among the entrepreneurial success stories founded on getting out of the corporate rat race. Before starting her company, Ben-Ishay worked at an ad agency in New York City – a role she felt unfulfilled in. At the time, every cupcake came from her tiny New York City apartment kitchen. The cafe owner became a shareholder in Baked by Melissa, and the company was able to continue using the space for years. A year after it moved into the Cafe Bari space, Baked by Melissa opened its second location in Union Square.

Persons: Melissa, Melissa Ben, Ishay, Cafe, Ben Organizations: Ben, aha, CNBC Locations: New York City, Ben, Cafe Bari, Bergen County, Bari, Union Square

☆ ‘Oversight After Dark’: Lawmakers Hurl Insults at Hearing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Luke Broadwater | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Even by the rock-bottom standards of the 118th Congress, Thursday night’s three-hour voting session of the House Oversight Committee was perhaps a new low. The members of the Republican-led committee gathered after 8 p.m. in a Capitol Hill hearing room ready for a fight — some members of the audience were even said to have brought alcoholic beverages to enjoy the show. Back in Washington, lawmakers were ostensibly meeting for the most serious and somber of reasons: to debate whether to hold a cabinet official in contempt of Congress. Who better to instigate the chaos than Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Georgia Republican best known for her penchant for incendiary statements and stunts? Her first target was Representative Jasmine Crockett, the Democrat from Texas who frequently takes on Ms. Greene in the committee.

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☆ Biden cannot afford a boiling summer of protest
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —President Joe Biden can ill afford a long, hot summer of protest that comes to a boil in time for the Democratic National Convention in August and then bleeds into the final weeks of an already venomous clash with Donald Trump. The nationwide campus protests are not as pervasive as mass civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests that raged in the 1960s and 1970s. This has been especially testing for Biden — a staunch supporter of Israel dating back to 1970s Prime Minister Golda Meir. More than 3 million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. This may also help explain why Biden had not addressed the campus protests in detail before Thursday.

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☆ A Bystander to ’60s Protests, Biden Now Becomes a Target
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in April 1968, a young Joe Biden was studying law 250 miles away, just weeks from graduation. Protests and chanting and tie-dye shirts were not his style. “I was in law school,” he later recalled. Having traded up from sports coats in the Syracuse University law school library to suit coats in the Oval Office, however, Mr. Biden cannot simply shrug off the uproar on American college campuses as he once could. Mr. Biden has sought to walk a careful line in recent days as protests have mushroomed and in some cases led to suspensions and arrests.

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☆ A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Aimee Ortiz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Almost two years after a report warned that children were swallowing batteries at an alarming rate, Energizer is releasing a new battery designed to alert parents if their child has swallowed one. The new coin lithium battery features more secure packaging, a nontoxic bitter coating to discourage swallowing and “color alert technology” that activates a blue dye when the battery comes into contact with moisture, like saliva, so parents and caregivers know that medical attention could be required. The new battery was announced in a video last week by Energizer and Trista Hamsmith, whose 18-month-old daughter died after swallowing a button battery from a remote control. Ms. Hamsmith founded a nonprofit organization focused on children’s safety, successfully advocated for legislation, known as Reese’s Law, that requires a secure compartment of the batteries in products that use them as well as stronger warning labels on all packaging, and is now working to make the batteries themselves safer.

Persons: Energizer, Trista Hamsmith, Hamsmith

☆ I quit my job as a delivery driver to be a Henry VIII impersonator. This job is my whole life, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

David Smith dropped his career as a delivery driver and factory worker to become a Henry VIII impersonator. He earns a living by giving talks and performances as Henry VIII at schools and heritage sites. I was eight years old when I saw a portrait of Henry VIII in all his regalia. Everything changed when I found a Henry VIII outfit on Facebook Marketplace for £20 ($25) in 2021. Out of all the events I've attended, that was the one that made me feel most like Henry VIII.

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☆ Photos challenge misconceptions about what it means to be an American Muslim
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

These are some of the faces featured in “Muslims in America,” an ongoing photography series by British artist Mahtab Hussain. Mahtab HussainSo far, Hussain has documented subjects living in New York, LA, Baltimore and Toronto, Canada. I’ve met people from all over the world in the US who are Muslim: Palestinians, people from all over Africa. Not only do Hussain’s photographs visually challenge the way American Muslims have been portrayed, he has also offered space for his subjects to share their experiences. Mahtab HussainMany members of Dearborn’s Arab American and Muslim American communities have openly rejected Biden for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

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☆ CIA refutes whistleblower claim pushed by Republicans leading Biden impeachment inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Annie Grayer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim. But the CIA has refuted that claim in a letter obtained first by CNN that was sent to Jordan and Comer. House Republicans are pushing back on the refutation. “I’ve made a document production in conjunction with the grand jury investigation,” Morris testified in his closed-door interview with Republicans conducting the inquiry in January. Republicans have raised questions about why Morris lent the president’s son millions of dollars and have sought to connect him to their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

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☆ I'm a first-generation HBCU graduate. I'm now broke and lonelier than ever without my college friends for support.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Imani Herring | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now that I'm a broke, jobless graduate, I feel lonelier than ever without my Spelman sisterhood by my side. AdvertisementI'm feeling much lonelier now that I'm a graduateIt's been almost a year since I left Spelman with my degree, honors, and accomplishments. I cheer my college friends on from behind my phone screen and wish I were there with them, sharing in their celebrations like before. I'm trying to find happiness in my post-grad lifeI don't want my peak to be college, so I've looked to other avenues for community. So, for now, I'll stick to crocheting little lemon pouches and granny squares, hoping I can see my college friends again soon.

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☆ Americans are expected to spend $3.1 billion on Easter candy this year. These 10 shocking stats reveal the cost of the holiday.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Over 1.5 billion Marshmallow Peeps are consumed every Easter holiday. Marshmallow Easter Peeps. In April 2023, BI reported that a consumer group was warning the public about the presence of red dye No. Just Born told BI at the time that they comply with FDA regulations and that their packaging and websites help customers make informed decisions. In October 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported that two colors of Peeps will contain red dye No.

Persons: LI Cook, Shutterstock Organizations: Business, FDA, Los Angeles Times Locations: Bethlehem , Pennsylvania, California

☆ Why this artist is making ink from guns
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Nearly 43,000 people died from gun injuries across the US in 2023, according to the database Gun Violence Archive. Red, for example, requires roasting the iron sulfate; yellow, the more finnicky hue, is the result of mixing the iron sulfate with an alkali like baking soda. Because of the time and labor involved to make the pigments, Little only produces them in “special batches” for artists who seek them out. It’s like gun violence in that this small thing can do so much, and it’s so potent.”Little's large batch of ink for the artist Christina Kwan, who has been experimenting with his materials. Thomas LittleKwan says she has anxiety over gun violence in the US, particularly after the birth of her child.

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☆ Putin seen winning an expected landslide 88% of Russian election vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his grip on power. The election comes just over two years since Putin triggered the deadliest European conflict since World War Two by ordering the invasion of Ukraine. War has hung over the three-day election: Ukraine has repeatedly attacked oil refineries in Russia, shelled Russian regions, and sought to pierce Russian borders with proxy forces - a move Putin said would not be left unpunished. As noon arrived across Asia and Europe, hundreds of people gathered at polling stations at Russian diplomatic missions. Putin says the West is engaged in a hybrid war against Russia and that Western intelligence and Ukraine are trying to disrupt the elections.

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A CNN team at a polling station in Moscow said the line grew rapidly over a five to ten minute spell at around noon, and estimated 150 people had arrived. The CNN team said that police were letting people in batches through the gates to pass through security, with metal detectors and bags being checked inside the building. I think everybody in this queue knows why.”Voters queue at a polling station in St. Petersburg, Russia, at noon local time on Sunday. He posted a video of himself voting at a polling station near Moscow. The Navalny team also posted an image from the city of Novosibirsk with the caption: “Today is #noon.

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☆ Vladimir Putin set to win 2024 Russian presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Minutes after polls closed on Sunday, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) said Putin was in the lead with 87.9% of the vote, with 24.4% of the count in. More constitutional changes in 2020 removed presidential term limits, potentially allowing Putin to stay in power until 2036. Russia also held the presidential election in four Ukrainian regions it annexed during its full-scaled invasion. APThe election comes after more than two years of war which have exacted huge costs on the Russian population. After the election, Russia is set to continue to press home its growing advantage in Ukraine.

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☆ Biden and Irish Leader Use St. Patrick’s Day Visit to Address Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Zolan Kanno-Youngs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden on Sunday used what is normally a festive St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House to acknowledge the growing international concern, including among the Irish, over the humanitarian situation of Palestinians amid Israel’s military action in Gaza. “The taoiseach and I agree about the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid in Gaza and get the cease-fire deal,” Mr. Biden said alongside Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, or taoiseach, an outspoken critic of Israel’s war against Hamas in response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. But during his trip to the United States, Mr. Varadkar made clear that he would raise his concerns over the war in the Middle East with the American president. The prime minister in a way was speaking to a domestic audience back in Ireland, which, given its own history of resistance to British rule, is one of the more supportive European nations to Palestinians. Ireland was the first European Union nation to call for a Palestinian state and the last to permit the opening of a residential Israeli embassy.

Persons: Biden, “, ” Mr, Leo Varadkar, Varadkar Organizations: White, Irish American, shamrocks, Guinness, European Union Locations: Gaza, Israel, United States, Ireland, Palestinian

☆ A TikTok-famous hairstylist went viral for fixing bad dye jobs for free. It soon backfired.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Lewis, who has 1.4 million followers on TikTok, told Business Insider he enjoys having the "opportunity to positively impact how someone feels about themselves." Lewis said in the video they kept the length the same, rather than putting in extensions and suggested that was what Madison wanted. But things soured when Lewis responded to some comments under the video, saying they were "disappointed" and "underwhelming." Lewis told BI this was the first time he heard Madison wasn't entirely happy with her hair. In a follow-up video, Madison said she felt "used" by Lewis because he would make so much money from the TikToks she featured in.

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CNN —Several Russians poured dye into ballot boxes in protest as the three-day presidential vote got underway, near certain to extend Vladimir Putin’s long grip on power. But videos released Friday from several polling stations across Russia showed protesters pouring what authorities described as dye into ballot boxes to spoil the votes cast. CCTV video from a polling station in Moscow showed a young woman pouring what appeared to be green dye into a ballot box. She was immediately detained and faces criminal charges for obstructing the election, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti. In St. Petersburg, Putin’s hometown, a woman threw a Molotov cocktail at the signboard of a polling station in the Moskovsky district, RIA reported.

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☆ Len Sirowitz, Whose Bold, Offbeat Ads Captured an Era, Dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Len Sirowitz, an award-winning advertising art director whose creative work in the 1960s included memorable print ads for the Volkswagen Beetle — like one declaring, “Ugly is only skin-deep” — and a campaign for Mobil in which a car was dropped off a 10-story building to make a point about the perils of speeding, died on March 4 at his home in Manhattan. His daughter, Laura Sirowitz, confirmed the death. Mr. Sirowitz joined the influential Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency, known as DDB, in 1959, at 27, and spent the next 11 years at the firm conceiving the look of ads for numerous accounts with wit and passion. “It was quite early in my career that I began to realize that my message needed to not only be bold and daring, but it must stem from the truth … and touch people’s emotions,” he told Dave Dye, who runs the advertising blog From the Loft, in 2015.

Persons: Len Sirowitz, Laura Sirowitz, Sirowitz, Doyle Dane Bernbach, ”, Dave Dye Organizations: Volkswagen, Mobil Locations: Manhattan

☆ I listen to Taylor Swift while I get MRIs to screen for cancer. She helped me through my mastectomy and recovery.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Anna Sullivan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now, I listen to Taylor Swift when I get my twice-yearly MRIs as part of my cancer screening. When I told her I was in my Taylor Swift era, she laughed and said I was going to be a big hit with the radiologist on call. MRIs are never pleasant, but they're better when Taylor Swift is playingWe were sitting in the makeshift triage area, a small room with no windows. Then, as I slid into the machine, "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)" started playing through the speakers. I could barely hear "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)" over the noise of the MRI, which sounded like a back grader getting stuck on a dirt road.

Persons: Taylor, Taylor Swift, —, I'd, I've, Swift, Max, Joe Alwyn, There's, It's Organizations: Service, SiriusXM Symphony Locations: Santa Fe , New Mexico, Australia

☆ Why Framing Art, Posters, and Photos Is so Expensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

AdvertisementTake a spin around the internet, and it's clear that I'm not the only one with some questions about framing. For preservation purposes, framers will suggest acid-free, lignin-free materials so the art won't get damaged, which adds to the cost. "Glass is incredibly expensive, and part of it is because it's made specifically for picture framing. The day after I spoke with a manager at a midsize framing shop in Brooklyn, I followed up to ask about general price ranges on moldings and mats. How much did the thing you want to frame cost?

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☆ A stripper and escort who caters to Wall Street clients says she has invested more than $57K in cosmetic treatments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Julia Naftulin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Mia Lee, a stripper and professional escort, has optimized her beauty routine so she can jam-pack her schedule with work. She doesn't worry about makeup, skincare, or her period due to procedures she's gotten over the years. She shared the beauty treatments, cosmetic procedures, and other products she's purchased over the past decade or so, which she views as career investments. Lee left her job as a forensic accountant on Wall Street making six figures to pursue working for herself as a professional escort and stripper. Lee said that the $8 purchase is meant to preserve her youthful visage and prolong the other facial treatments she's done.

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☆ Mads Mikkelsen on His Movie & TV Roles: 'Hannibal,' 'the Promised Land' & 'Indiana Jones'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

On his ever-growing collection of billion-dollar franchise roles, and playing with dinosaurs nextMikkelsen as Kaecilius in "Doctor Strange." Did you have that issue at all while filming "Doctor Strange"? We did have that in "Doctor Strange," to a degree. And that there's a very good reason for that because "Doctor Strange" is born from a psychedelic graphic novel, which was very different from the other ones. The most fun must've been "Doctor Strange" because I got to do two things I love: doing magic and flying Kung Fu.

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☆ A bride says she was told she'd have to pay extra for dress fabric that matched her skin tone even though white and 'nude' options were free
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tookes told BI it was an ivory fit-and-flare gown with a sweetheart necklace and a sheer bodice. "I was super excited they had brown," she said, as the darker shade would be a better fit for her skin tone. "You're telling me that it's free to be white, but if my bride has a different skin tone than white, she has to pay extra money to get an undergarment to match her skin tone?" How fucked is that that in 2024, the 'standard,' which is free, is a 'nude skin tone?'" "I really don't want to wear a dress that stands for charging someone more off the basis of their skin tone," Tookes said.

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☆ 10 African Businesses Making the World's Most Expensive Products
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Sarah Elkasaby | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

In Tunisia, Mohamed cracks and scrapes at snails to make authentic Tyrian purple dye. Farther south in Uganda, Akello pounds and grinds nuts by hand to make silky, luxurious East African shea butter. Across Africa, small businesses and artisans are making some of the world's most expensive products. Our first stop is Fez, Morocco, where clay bars have been molded and transformed into colorful, handmade Zellige tiles for centuries.

Persons: Mohamed, shea Organizations: East Locations: Tunisia, Uganda, Africa, Fez, Morocco

☆ Scotland’s oldest tartan, found in a peat bog, has been recreated and is now available to buy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history. Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during forestry work and donated to the Scottish Tartans Authority in the 1980s, dated back to around 1500-1600. The "Glen Affric" tartan dates from 1500-1600. Alan Richardson/House of Edgar/V&A/PAThis, they said, makes it the oldest “true tartan” specimen in Scotland. Now, the pattern has been recreated for the modern wardrobe by tartan fabric creator and weaver House of Edgar.

Persons: Alan Richardson, Edgar, Peter Eslea MacDonald, ” MacDonald, ”, Emma Wilkinson Organizations: London CNN —, Scottish Tartans Authority, CNN Locations: Highlands, Scotland

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