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☆ Fly like Iron Man. Join a battle in Wakanda. Here are the major theme park projects Disney has announced
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Natasha Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Artist concept for an attraction at a new “Cars”-themed area coming to Frontierland at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. To mark the occasion, the company will create the first-ever audio-animatronic version of Walt Disney, with a level of complexity of technology that has yet to be seen in a Disney park. Across the esplanade at Disney California Adventure park, Avenger’s Campus will more than double in size, with construction beginning in 2025. Artist concept of Disney’s first theme park ride based on “Coco,” which breaks ground in 2026. In Paris, Disney’s first-ever theme park attraction based on “The Lion King” will be built at the renamed Disney Adventure World park.

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“My cart looks ridiculous,” said Ms. Uhuru, 48, who supplements her hauls with vegetables grown in her garden. “People think I am a shift shopper.” Sylvia Jarrus for The New York Times, including previous image. Sawyer’s April Shopping Total shopping trips: 14 Impulse purchases: Castelvetrano olives ($5.99) and sparkling water (prices vary) Share of drinkable purchases: 70 percent What might a stranger notice if she peered into Sawyer Bonsib’s cart? “The old adage ‘Don’t go grocery shopping when you are hungry,’ applies triply during Ramadan,” he said. “Or my toddler will gnaw on a tortilla while I’m making dinner.” Jessica Attie for The New York Times, including previous image.

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☆ A crisis comms expert says now is Gavin Newsom's chance to get what he wants: the presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The high-stakes presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump wrapped up on Thursday night, and it went horribly for Biden. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. However, when asked later in September whether he intends to run for the presidency, Newsom's answer wasn't an outright "no." Representatives for Biden did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Tough-on-crime former NYC judges say even they wouldn't sentence Trump to prison in the hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

AdvertisementWill Merchan sentence Donald Trump to jail? Merchan will not sentence Trump to prison, the four agreed. Merchan could theoretically sentence Trump to as little as a single day in Rikers, said Kamins, now in private practice at Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins. But even in the unlikely event of a low-jail sentence, Trump's appeals would keep him at liberty for years, all four judges said. "I certainly don't know what the right decision is, or what Judge Merchan will do," Obus told BI.

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☆ The Battle for The Streets of New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

New York City streets and sidewalks have always been crowded, but it’s never been like this. But lately, New York City streets are teetering between lively and unlivable. Karsten Moran for The New York Times“I think this could be the catalyst for a streets renaissance in New York,” Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City’s former transportation commissioner, said in a recent interview. New York City’s population reached 8.8 million in 2020, and the New York region is now home to nearly 19 million people. Use this form to tell us what you think about the state of New York City’s streets.

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☆ Opinion: In Navalny’s death, echoes of Stalin
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —We don’t yet know the exact details of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny’s death, reported Friday by the Russian prison service — and we may never find the precise truth. When the Wall fell, Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in what was then East Germany. And the most dangerous thing a Russian leader can do is lose a war as the Romanovs did in World War I, which helped spark the Russian revolution in 1917. By contrast with Gorbachev, Stalin ruled with an iron fist and was critical to the Allies winning World War II. How will news of Navalny’s death be received in Russia?

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☆ Instagram and Threads will no longer promote ‘political’ content. No one knows what they define as ‘political’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —What constitutes “political” content? “Our goal is to preserve the ability for people to choose to interact with political content, while respecting each person’s appetite for it,” Mosseri explained. “Meta seems unable to define ‘political’ content,” Charlie Warzel, a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers the intersection of technology, politics, and culture, told me. According to Meta’s Ad Library, the company has raked in more than $4 billion in political and social issues ad spending since 2018. It’s not just limited to social issues.

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Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court rulings. Here's a look at how voting districts have changed — or could change — before the November elections and what affect that could have on the battle for control of Congress. Perhaps the most notable is Florida, where a trial judge in September ruled that U.S. House districts pushed by Republican Gov. Litigation over congressional districts also is lingering in Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin. The reshaping of voting districts matters, but doesn't necessarily pre-determine the outcome of elections.

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☆ Here are six important questions as Elon Musk faces an ever-deepening crisis over his unhinged behavior
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Elon Musk has an ever-deepening crisis on his hands. Days after the billionaire conspiracy theorist endorsed an antisemitic post on his hate-drenched platform, X, there is mounting pressure for others to take additional action against the unhinged businessman. Here are six questions about the calamity besieging X:What is Musk doing with his lawsuit against Media Matters? Earlier this year, the NFL expressed concern when a Media Matters report found its ads were appearing next to accounts belonging to racists. But it has not said a word since, even as X continued placing ads for NFL teams onto VDARE’s account.

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☆ Why NYC’s subway is struggling
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Shawn Baldwin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Hybrid work has meant fewer riders on New York City's subway and a drop in fare revenue for the system's operator, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The number of paying weekday subway riders averaged 3.6 million in June, according to the MTA, compared with daily ridership of almost 5.5 million in 2019. Inflation and transit crime have also impacted subway ridership. The MTA is the operator of New York's more than 6,400 subway cars, more than 5,700 buses, two of the country's busiest commuter trains, and multiple bridges and tunnels. So when will New York City subway riders return in greater numbers?

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☆ New York’s Budget Is Really Late. What’s Taking So Long?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Grace Ashford | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But lawmakers have seemingly agreed to leave intact most of the 2019 changes to the state bail law that made the vast majority of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies ineligible for bail. Why It MattersMs. Hochul has repeatedly said that a good budget is better than an on-time budget. On April 26, New York City’s executive budget plan is due — which will be a challenge, given the uncertainty in Albany. And the budget clock is not the only one that is ticking: The 2023 legislative session runs only until June 8. The longer lawmakers spend on the budget, the less time they will have to address anything else.

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Growing recession fears
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Jihye Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

(Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)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. "Any crisis that damages Americans' trust in their banks damages all banks," he said – calling on regulators to keep better taps on banks' risk management. If the jobs market proves more resilient than that, the Federal Reserve has room to hike even further. Subscribe here to get this report sent directly to your inbox each morning before markets open.

☆ Can Costco maintain its edge over Sam’s Club?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Shawn Baldwin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. warehouse club industry, which includes Costco , Sam's Club and B.J. With over 65 million paying members, Costco controls the lion's share of the market. But Walmart-owned Sam's Club is tweaking the formula, betting that investments in robotics and technology can help it better engage with budget-conscious shoppers and take on its competitors. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon called Sam's Club an "innovation engine for the company" during an August 2021 earnings call. So how do warehouse clubs like Sam's get members to pay to shop?

☆ Meet China's latest AI news anchor, a young woman who runs virtual Q&A sessions to teach people propaganda
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chinese state media outlet People's Daily has unveiled its digital news anchor, who'll be online 24/7. The anchor, a virtual young woman called Ren Xiaorong, introduced herself to Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in a video published on Sunday by state media People's Daily. Sporting a black jacket and shoulder-length hair tucked behind her ears, Ren claims to harness the professional skills of "thousands of news anchors." So far, however, the virtual anchor is no rival to ChatGPT. Ren now joins a small crowd of digital AI news anchors in China, the first of which debuted on state agency Xinhua in 2018.

☆ 3 big questions about the state of Goldman Sachs heading into its second-ever investor day
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

All eyes are on 200 West Street in lower Manhattan today, the global headquarters of Goldman Sachs and site of the bank's second-ever investor day. Goldman's first investor day, in 2020, included plenty of discussion about the importance of building out its consumer bank. Will new details emerge regarding the asset and wealth management division that show the business is heading in the right direction? Goldman's asset and wealth management division will likely get plenty of attention today. Speaking of David Solomon... Goldman's CEO appeared on a recent episode of the bank's podcast, "Exchanges at Goldman Sachs."

☆ Will AI Kill the Radio Star?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Spencer Jakab | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Whether it is musicians or talking heads such as Joe Rogan, yesterday’s radio stars have mostly become streaming and podcast stars. Video didn’t kill the radio star—it just wounded him. MTV launched its service in 1981 with The Buggles’ prophetic hit. Young people were soon glued to the cable sensation as VHF dials gathered dust, hastening the decline of over-the-air TV. More than 40 years later, video streamers such as Netflix are now choking cable to death with penetration soon expected to drop below half of U.S. households.

☆ "Yellowstone" prequel “1923” bring white grievances to Paramount Plus
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Ani Bundel | Ani Bundel Is A Cultural Critic Who Has Been Writing Regularly Since Her Work Can Also Be Found At Elite Daily | Weta'S Telly Visions | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

It’s a grimmer chapter of an ongoing story, and one that is plagued by an inability to articulate why these white men murdering their way across the landscape are heroes worth rooting for. Cultural critics love prestige series. Few celebrated the end of the toxically misogynist “The Big Bang Theory,” or have seemed eager to discuss the resurgence of seemingly endless police procedurals starring white men. But the series has gained viewership year over year, with subsequent spinoffs debuting on new flagship streaming service, Paramount+. Like so many white male grievances, to question the logic is to side with the enemy.

☆ Musk Censors the Press
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk is no free speech warrior. Will news and media organizations remain on the platform, while Musk hastily bans their reporters without explanation? Musk has touted that he is a free speech maximalist and repeatedly said he would like to permit all legal speech. “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” Musk once tweeted. As Harwell told me, “Elon says he is a free speech champion and he is banning journalists for exercising free speech.

☆ New subvariants, family gatherings may bring more Covid-19 after holiday, but experts don’t expect severe surge
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Experts expect that Thanksgiving gatherings will stir up social networks and give new coronavirus subvariants fresh pockets of vulnerable people to infect. And we are concerned that after holiday gathering, lots of people coming together, that we may see increases in Covid-19 cases as well,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday on CNN. For the week ending Nov. 19, the CDC estimates that BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 were causing about half of all new Covid-19 cases in the US. Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have remained flat for the past four weeks. “It’s probably got a bit more of a fitness advantage, so what we’re seeing is gradual replacement without a massive change in the total number of Covid-19 cases,” he said.

☆ What to watch on Monday at COP27
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Hugo Dixon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

But their messages will likely differ a lot on key points, and their soaring rhetoric will at times clash with performances that have lagged past promises. U.S. President Joe Biden will arrive next week, as will newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Chinese President Xi Jinping is not scheduled to attend COP27, but he will have an envoy at the conference. Other things to watch will include a World Trade Organization report expected Monday about the role of trade policy in climate change, and some expected announcements about forests as climate sinks. Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Will New York City's salary transparency law actually make a difference?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Jon Fortt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWill New York City's salary transparency law actually make a difference? New York City began enforcing its new salary transparency law requiring most job postings to include a salary range. Will the rule boost fairness in the job market? CNBC's Jon Fortt joins 'Squawk Box' with both sides of the issue.

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