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☆ Analysis: Biden’s disastrous debate pitches his reelection bid into crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. Austin Steele/CNN Trump and Biden were debating each other for the first time since 2020. Austin Steele/CNN Biden's campaign won a coin toss before the debate to choose which side he would stand on. Austin Steele/CNN Supporters of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. protest outside the White House on Thursday. Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024.

Persons: Joe Biden, stiffly, Donald Trump, Biden, John F, Kennedy, Richard Nixon, —, Ron Klain, “, Trump, didn’t, parry, Austin Steele, ” Biden, Will Lanzoni, Jill Biden, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, Adam Rose, CNN US Sen, Marco Rubio, CNN Trump, CNN Biden, Tristen Rouse, Tapper, CNN Tapper, Bash, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, CNN MJ Lee, Mandel Ngan, Megan Varner, Reuters Kennedy, Burk Stringfellow, Troublingly, ”, Van Jones, Kamala Harris, ” Harris, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Harris, Paul Ryan, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer —, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, CNN’s Kasie Organizations: CNN, Trump, Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention, Capitol, Atlanta, Voters, Democratic, White, CNN US, Biden, House, CNN Biden's, CNN Biden, White House, Getty, Reuters, Republican, Trump Organization, coalesces, Biden White, Michigan Locations: Atlanta, America, incoherence, Georgia, CNN's, Washington ,, AFP, United States, New York, California

☆ The Tesla Cybertruck is impressive and worrying
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Then, in 2019, Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Cybertruck, a bare metal box on wheels. Even when I parked a rented Tesla Cybertruck next to a hot-pink McLaren supercar in a shopping center parking lot in California, the people in the McLaren couldn’t stop talking about the Cybertruck. Peter Valdes-Dapena/CNNThe Tesla Cybertruck looks like nothing else on the road. There’s a lot to like about the Cybertruck, but it also embodies a disturbing level of individual arrogance in hard, unforgiving steel. The Tesla Cybertruck's simple interior is nice enough but, with hardly any switches or knobs, this is the easy part.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, who’d, Peter Valdes, Walter Isaacson’s, Musk, It’s, CNN Tesla, I’d, haven’t, there’s Organizations: Laguna Beach , California CNN, Ford, Chevrolet Silverado, GM, McLaren, CNN, Tesla, SpaceX, Goodyear, Lamborghini, Ferrari, General Motors, Silverado EV Locations: Laguna Beach , California, California, Turo

☆ Opinion: If only Trump’s Mandela comparison were the most outrageous thing he’s said
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —This week, at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump compared himself to Nelson Mandela. It doesn’t take a whole lot of historical knowledge to know that Trump is no Nelson Mandela. And anyone who has the gall and the gargantuan ego to compare themselves to Nelson Mandela is probably no Nelson Mandela. Trump made the Mandela comparison because he is facing so many criminal charges, which he says are politically motivated. “I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela, because I’m doing it for a reason,” he told his New Hampshire audience.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, Jill Filipovic, Trump, ”, Mandela, ” Michael Cohen, statesmanlike, stokes, Barack Obama, Obama, reasserting, Benjamin Netanyahu, wouldn’t, it’s Organizations: CNN, Trump, New, South Africa’s, America Locations: New Hampshire, South Africa, South, Gaza, Israel, America

☆ Putin says he hopes Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries 'didn't steal much' of the billions Russia spent on them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Putin revealed on Tuesday Russia spent billions on Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenaries. He then said that he hopes "no one stole anything — or, let's say, didn't steal much." Putin's comment seems to suggest some theft is expected, highlighting the state of corruption in Russia. He didn't call out his long-time ally Prigozhin by name though. "I hope that in the course of this work, no one stole anything — or, let's say, didn't steal much," the Russian president said, according to a translation from The Times.

Persons: Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, —, Vladimir Putin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, Alexei Navalny, Gleb Irisov Organizations: Russia, Service, Moscow, Russian Ministry of Defense, Wagner, The New York Times, The Times, Kremlin, Putin, Times Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Bakhmut, Concord, Russian

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Skim off the froth
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 01, 2023 in New York City. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Stock markets in Europe traded lower too. [PRO] Markets on an even footingMarkets may have declined last week, but CNBC Pro's Michael Santoli thinks there's still a "favorable underlying market trend."

Persons: Goldman Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, Solomon, Moody's, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexander Lukashenko, Antony Blinken, Michael Santoli, there's Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, Siemens, Moody's Investors, Wagner Group, Belarusian, U.S Locations: New York City, Europe, GreenSky, U.S, Russia, Rostov, Moscow

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Skimming off the froth
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on May 31, 2023. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. But CNBC found it's more likely because large institutional investors are buying bitcoin as liquidity remains low. [PRO] Markets on an even footingMarkets may have declined last week, but CNBC Pro's Michael Santoli thinks there's still a "favorable underlying market trend."

Persons: Kospi, Wagner Group's, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Antony Blinken, Prigozhin, Ian Bremmer, Moody's, it's, Michael Santoli, there's Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, Wagner Group, U.S, Eurasia Group, Moody's Investors, BlackRock Locations: New York City, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Russia, Rostov, Moscow, U.S

☆ First Republic just got a $30 billion lifeline from JPMorgan and other Wall Street giants. Here's why its problems aren't over.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

JPMorgan and 10 other banks are depositing $30 billion in First Republic Bank. A white knight has arrived to First Republic Bank's rescue. A consortium of America's biggest banks including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs are depositing a collective $30 billion in First Republic. This $30 billion lifeline may not be enough to reassure investors and depositors, and it may be a stopgap measure before a sale. The $70 billion lifeline from JPMorgan announced on Sunday did little to quell investors' concerns, Dahiya noted.

☆ I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week, and I ping-ponged between euphoria and the depths of despair
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Sophie Kleeman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

My research found that Pelosi eats ice cream for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch, pasta, and chocolate. Chocolate ice cream for breakfast, rich and creamy pasta, and lots of snacking chocolate. She claims she does not exercise; her daughter once arrived home to find her mother eating chocolate ice cream while using a stationary bike. I save the ice cream for later to avoid a massive sugar crash and start out with a cup of black tea instead. However, I don't want to slack off after the ice cream episode, so I slather it on.

☆ A Manhattan judge is weighing new sanctions against Trump's lawyers — this time over 'frivolous litigation'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Manhattan judge is threatening to sanction Donald Trump's lawyers over 'frivolous litigation'. Justice Arthur Engoron is presiding over the NY attorney general's case against Trump's business. That rejection had come in November, in his denial of Trump's request for a preliminary injunction halting the attorney general's lawsuit. Engoron had asked the attorney general's office and Trump's defense lawyers to respond to his "frivolous litigation" accusation within one day. Engoron's email — subject-lined "POTENTIAL SANCTIONS FOR FRIVOLOUS LITIGATION — did not indicate when he will decide on whether to impose sanctions or detail what those sanctions might be.

☆ Breakingviews: FTX affords a turning point in venture governance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Liam Proud | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The new chief executive of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, insolvency veteran John Ray, uncovered giant financial gaps and signs of looting. Ray’s first in-depth account, submitted to the court on Thursday, reveals a brazen lack of controls and governance. Financial statements dated to Sept. 30, when founder Sam Bankman-Fried was in charge, contain no record of customer liabilities at either the U.S. subsidiary or the international division. Many of the FTX corporate entities never had board meetings. Ray also criticised his predecessor and FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried for making “erratic and misleading public statements”.

☆ FTX affords a turning point in venture governance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Liam Proud | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Life after monkeypox: Men describe an uncertain road to recovery
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Benjamin Ryan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +16 min

Following recovery from this skin lesion–causing virus, people often find themselves waiting anxiously over the course of months to see whether monkeypox will leave them with permanent scarring. The marks are also signals of an infection that because it largely transmits through sex between men, can be highly stigmatized. Gerald Febles points to a scar left from his monkeypox outbreak. He founded a Zoom-based monkeypox support group for people with the virus he met mainly through social media. “I need to get back to my normal life,” said Galaise, who works for a New York City governmental agency.

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