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☆ I moved from the US to Ireland 8 years ago. It's has drawbacks, but my quality of life is exceptional and my education was way cheaper.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Isabella Ambrosio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Irish culture and people are unmatchedThe drinking culture in Ireland can be enjoyable. But, part of what makes the drinking and eating culture so vibrant in Ireland is the quality of the food and drink here. Plus, it's cheaper for me to shop for fresh produce in Ireland than it ever was in the US. At University College Dublin (UCD), I paid about €72,000, or about $78,000, for all four years of school and received a bachelor's degree in English. AdvertisementI wouldn't trade my decision to study at UCD for anything in the world regardless of how expensive living in Ireland is.

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☆ Luxury homebuyers can now get an art collection as part of the deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Los Angeles real estate company The Agency is selling homes complete with artwork and furniture. Lester, a partner at real estate firm The Agency, is currently selling several new-build luxury homes in Beverly Hills designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, and has a put together a "full collection" of art in a handful of them. Seen here is the interior of a home that is part of a collection known as The Houses at 8899 Beverly. Rather than simply being "staging" pieces brought in temporarily, the art and furniture is also available to purchase, Lester said. Artelier commissioned a collection of artwork for the public areas at One at Palm Jumeirah, Dorchester Collection, a residential building in Dubai.

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☆ Five Years After Virginia Beach Shooting, ‘No One Is Getting Better’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Campbell Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of the event, the site of a future memorial will be dedicated, where, eventually, the 12 names will be etched into the landscape of Virginia Beach. The children of Mary Louise Gayle, whose name will be among them, have no plans to be at the ceremony. Matthew Gayle, her son, is resuming a sailing trip he cut short exactly five years earlier when he learned of a shooting at his mother’s workplace. They could not bring themselves to join hands with a city that they, and members of some of other victims’ families, say let them down. What troubled her so much was that her mother, along with nearly all the other victims, had spent most of her career with the city.

Persons: Mary Louise Gayle, Sarah Leonard, Matthew Gayle, ” Ms, Leonard Locations: Virginia Beach

☆ Trump Can Proceed With Lawsuit Against His Niece, Court Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | More About Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump can proceed with a lawsuit against Mary L. Trump, his estranged niece, over her role as a source for a New York Times investigation into Mr. Trump’s finances, a New York State appeals court said on Thursday. The ruling, from the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court, was a victory for Mr. Trump, though it did not address the substance of his claim: that his niece should be held liable for breaching a confidentiality agreement when she provided financial documents to a team of Times journalists. Those documents became the basis of a series of news articles examining what The Times called Mr. Trump’s history of tax avoidance and “outright fraud.” The series received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2019. Mr. Trump sued The Times in 2021 over the articles, accusing the news organization of improperly inducing his niece to provide the documents. Last year, a New York judge dismissed Mr. Trump’s claims against The Times and its journalists; the judge also ordered the former president to pay the newspaper’s legal fees.

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☆ The women in my family are all connected by names. We have middles names from previous generations.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Anne Roderique-Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I am Anne Marie and she is Alice Marie, named after one of her mother's eight sisters, Anna Marie. The women in my family have been named after prior generationsThis long line of sisters kicked off what would be names linking generations of women in my family. The oldest daughter of Alice and Jack was named Anne Marie after the two beloved sisters, Phyllis Anne and Alice Marie. Mary Lou had a daughter named Shawn Marie, who would become my mother's cousin and best friend–and like a second mother to me. Her hair, a natural auburn not unlike her sister's, has always been dyed blonde, not unlike Aunt Mary Lou.

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☆ Trump’s new trade war would cost middle-class families at least $1,700 a year, report warns
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s trade agenda amounts to a tripling-down of the trade war he waged during his first term in office. That’s nearly five times the total cost as a share of GDP from the 2018-2019 US-China trade war. Trump’s tariff proposals would cost the typical middle-income household at least $1,700 a year, the researchers found. Those aren’t comparable numbers,” Clausing said, referring to the amount of imports targeted by Biden and by Trump tariffs. Likewise, the US International Trade Commission found in a 2023 study that US importers “bore nearly the full cost” of tariffs.

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☆ Republicans are divided on whether Kari Lake's Arizona Senate candidacy should be a top investment for the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewWhen Kari Lake jumped into the Arizona GOP Senate primary last October, many conservatives were thrilled with the decision, confident she'd energize base voters in the general election. It's still early in the campaign, but the numbers are a sign that she has so far not consolidated GOP support around her candidacy. "Ultimately, the Republican Senate committee is probably going to realize before too long that there's far better opportunities for victories in other parts of the country," he added. But in addition to Arizona, they're angling to flip seats in Montana, Ohio, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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☆ Why Ireland is the most pro-Palestinian nation in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Eoin Mcsweeney | Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

“But like Palestine, (Ireland) had direct and sustained experience of imperialism,” she said. Mousa Salem/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Palestinians transport bags of flour on the back of trucks as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza City on March 6. Omar Qattaa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Palestinians wait to receive food at a refugee camp in Rafah on January 27. AFP/Getty Images Palestinian boy Ahmed Qannan, suffering from malnutrition, receives treatment at a health-care center in Rafah on March 4. Yasser Qudih/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images People in a crowd struggle to buy bread from a bakery in Rafah on February 18.

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☆ Walgreens' biggest healthcare bet is floundering as it shutters 160 primary-care clinics
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's exiting 160 VillageMD primary-care clinics, up from the previously planned 60. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Walgreens' healthcare business reported an operating loss of $1.7 billion in 2023, and VillageMD makes up the bulk of that business. The move to close so many clinics has some analysts questioning whether Walgreens plans to ditch its healthcare bets altogether. A Walgreens spokesperson said VillageMD has exited or plans to exit Florida, Indiana, Chicago, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Nevada.

Persons: VillageMD, —, Tim Wentworth, Roz Brewer, Mary Langowski, John Driscoll, they've, Jack Slevin, Jefferies, Allen Lutz, Slevin, Cigna Organizations: Walgreens, Service, Express, Health, Summit Health, WBA, BofA Securities, Shields Health Solutions, Healthcare Locations: VillageMD, Chicago, Florida , Indiana, Chicago , Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nevada

☆ Leo Varadkar: What was behind Irish PM’s shock resignation?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Prime Minister Leo Varadkar sent shockwaves through Ireland when he candidly announced last week that he was “no longer the best person” to lead his country. Irish Times political correspondent Jennifer Bray was given less than an hour’s notice of the surprise statement from the taoiseach on Wednesday. His successor, largely tipped to be Higher Education Minister Simon Harris, will need to lead the center-right political party, Fine Gael, against a fired-up opposition. The 37-year-old who rose to prominence during his spell as health minister during the pandemic is considered by many to be a “mirror image” to Varadkar, Murphy said. Mary Lou McDonald, president of opposition party Sinn Fein, which has been making steady gains since 2020.

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☆ Nikki Haley received roughly 20,000 Election Day votes over Trump in the Georgia GOP primary after dropping her White House bid. Why it matters.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

With no major GOP opponents, ex-President Donald Trump easily won the Georgia primary on Tuesday. But Nikki Haley still won roughly 20,000 Election Day votes despite her exit from the WH race. Statewide, Haley won about 78,000 votes in the GOP primary. And roughly 20,000 of those votes were cast on Election day, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. AdvertisementThe ghost of the 2020 election still lingersIn the 2020 election, Biden won Georgia by a 0.23% margin, or roughly 12,000 votes out of roughly 5 million ballots cast.

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☆ The best Oscars bets: Who is expected to win at this year's Academy Awards
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe stars won't be the only people with something on the line at the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday. With betting more accessible — and legal — than ever before, movie fans and living-room gamblers will be trying their luck. AdvertisementThat said, this year's Oscars are expected to attract more speculators than recently thanks to box office hits "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer." Still, the Academy Awards can be harder to game than sports, which have a bevy of statistics for people to pore over.

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☆ ‘Rust’ Armorer Convicted of Manslaughter in Alec Baldwin Shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The armorer who put a live round into the gun that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021 when it went off, killing the cinematographer, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday. The conviction of the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, marks the first time a jury has weighed in at trial on the fatal shooting of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. After the verdict was read, prosecutors asked that Ms. Gutierrez-Reed be taken into custody and the judge, Mary L. Marlowe Sommer, agreed. A court officer led Ms. Gutierrez-Reed out of the courtroom, not in handcuffs. Mr. Baldwin is also facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter and is scheduled to stand trial in July.

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While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight. Those bills, along with the over 400 AI-related bills being debated this year, were largely aimed at regulating smaller slices of AI. The use of AI to make consequential decisions — what the bills call “automated decision tools” — is pervasive but largely hidden. The AI was trained to assess new resumes by learning from past resumes — largely male applicants. Requirements to routinely test an AI system aren’t in most of the legislative proposals, nearly all of which still have a long road ahead.

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☆ Why checked bag fees are at record highs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Checked bag fees are hitting record highs as airlines up the ante. So an airline can save $75 million in tax fees off its $1 billion revenue in domestic checked-bag fees. The introduction of bag fees was also a response to the rise of low-price carriers like Spirit in the United States and Ryanair in Europe. But airlines kept the bag fees in place and even raised them in an effort to make up for the lost revenue from change fees. Bag fees have been a political punching bag.

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☆ Nancy Mace says 'anybody would say yes' to being Trump's running mate, praises Tim Scott as a 'fantastic' potential choice
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementRep. Nancy Mace said in a recent interview that "anybody would say yes" to being former President Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, downplaying her own chances while praising Sen. Tim Scott, a fellow South Carolinian, as a "fantastic" potential choice. But when was the last time a House member became vice president?" And my focus has always been on South Carolina." When Mace was asked about her decision to back Trump over a female candidate, former South Carolina Gov. "She was a good governor," Mace told Politico.

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☆ South Carolina GOP primary called immediately for Trump as Nikki Haley loses in her own backyard
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump has defeated former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, a result that represents a significant blow to her campaign. CNN, AP, NBC, and others called the race for Trump immediately after polls closed at 7 pm ET. AdvertisementThe South Carolina primary is Haley's fourth consecutive loss in the early-voting states after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. (Trump won the Nevada caucuses; Haley lost the Nevada primary to "None of these candidates.") And after Saturday's primary loss, the path for Haley winning the nomination just got a lot more difficult.

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☆ China, Xi Jinping Plan to Crush Elon Musk, Tesla, and the US EV Industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

If China EV Inc. were allowed to enter the US today or next year, the legacies would be gutted." The year Musk tittered at the idea of Chinese EVs overtaking Tesla, the country produced only 5,000 electric cars. It has more trade barrier protection from a China Auto Inc. onslaught, but it may not work forever. AdvertisementWe want to maintain an auto industry in the US — that's essential for jobs, national security, and for other sectors of the economy. Sure, Chinese EV makers are lean and mean, but they've never had to deal with international markets before.

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☆ Walgreens is closing all VillageMD primary-care clinics in Florida as the pharmacy giant slashes costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWalgreens-backed primary care company VillageMD is closing all its medical clinics in Florida, one of its largest markets. VillageMD confirmed the closures in an email to Business Insider on Wednesday. The closures are part of Walgreens' strategy to slash spending by $1 billion or more as the pharmacy giant's healthcare business struggles with losses. All of the VillageMD clinics in Florida are attached to Walgreens stores, according to Jefferies' January report. At the time of the acquisition, Walgreens had planned to open 1,000 VillageMD clinics located adjacent to its pharmacies by 2027.

Persons: —, VillageMD, Jefferies, Tim Wentworth, Brian Tanquilut, Jack Slevin, Tanquilut, Wentworth, Roz Brewer, John Driscoll, Mary Langowski, Driscoll Organizations: Service, Business, Walgreens, Jefferies, CVS Health, Summit, Solera, Shields Health Solutions, Pearl Health Locations: Florida, Texas, Arizona, VillageMD, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Shields

☆ Da’Vine Joy Randolph continues to dominate 2024 award season with emotional BAFTA win
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Oscar nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued her award season sweep when she won a supporting actress trophy for “The Holdovers” at the 2024 BAFTA Awards on Sunday. Randolph previously won a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for her performance in the 2023 dramedy. She is also nominated for an Oscar and Screen Actors Guild Award, the ceremonies of which will be held in the coming weeks. During her acceptance speech at the BAFTAs, Randolph got emotional while speaking about how meaningful it was to play her character Mary Lamb in the Alexander Payne-directed film. “I knew…that Mary was a character that was so much bigger than me,” Randolph said while on stage clutching her statuette.

Persons: CNN —, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Randolph, Mary Lamb, Alexander Payne, “, Mary, ” Randolph, Payne, Paul Giamatti, Giamatti, ”, Randolph’s, Chiwetel Ejiofor Organizations: CNN, Sunday, Globe, Screen, Hall, New Locations: London, ”, New England

☆ Donald Trump's niece says she thinks Jon Stewart's 'rhetoric' is a 'potential disaster for democracy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump's niece isn't a fan of Jon Stewart's jokes about her uncle and President Joe Biden. The former president's niece criticized Stewart's Monday episode where he slammed President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. AdvertisementNot only is Stewart’s “both sides are the same” rhetoric not funny, it’s a potential disaster for democracy. She also accused Stewart of "pretending" that Donald Trump could be "favorably compared to President Biden by any metric." Mary Trump's father, Fred Trump Jr., was the younger brother of Donald Trump.

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☆ Your next Tesla could be made by China
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk invited the suppliers to Mexico as part of plans for cheaper Teslas, Bloomberg reported. That move could be stoking concerns among US officials and EV makers over China's influence. China has a "highly organized, highly efficient supply chain," Venkatesh Prasad, chief innovation officer at the Center for Automotive Research, told Bloomberg. AdvertisementTesla, which also makes cars in the US, and other US-based EV makers may also be feeling the heat from competitors. Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Bloomberg.

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☆ Trump says Gavin Newsom would be an 'easy' presidential opponent after speculating that Biden may not be the Democratic nominee
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump slammed Gavin Newsom's stewardship of California during a recent Fox News interview. Trump argued that Newsom would be an "easy" opponent if President Biden somehow left the WH race. Biden easily won the South Carolina Democratic primary and has given no indications he'd reverse course on 2024. Gavin Newsom would be an "easy" presidential opponent after speculating that he might not face President Joe Biden in the November general election. Michelle Obama has previously panned the idea of running for president and Newsom last year said he was firmly behind Biden's candidacy.

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☆ Former Sen. Pat Toomey: LNG export pause is a 'blatant political move' by the Biden administration
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Sen. Pat Toomey: LNG export pause is a 'blatant political move' by the Biden administrationFormer U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the Biden administration's pls to pause LNG export approvals, impact on the energy sector and and economy at large, and more.

Persons: Former Sen, Pat Toomey, Mary Landrieu Organizations: Former, Biden, U.S

☆ Fmr. Sen. Mary Landrieu: LNG export delays 'completely contrary' to President Biden's climate goals
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFmr. Sen. Mary Landrieu: LNG export delays 'completely contrary' to President Biden's climate goalsHosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC.

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