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☆ Macklemore calls out President Joe Biden with viral pro-Palestine protest song called 'Hind's Hall'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rapper Macklemore has released a pro-Palestine protest song called "Hind's Hall." Elsewhere in the song, Macklemore takes aim at Biden and the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. AdvertisementMacklemore has called for a cease-fire in Gaza and condemned continuing US aid to Israel in his new song, "Hind's Hall." The song has gone viral on social media with 37 million views on X, 1.7 million views on YouTube, and 2.9 million likes on Instagram. AdvertisementIn the opening bars of his new song, Macklemore praises college students across the US who are protesting Israel's war in Gaza.

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(AP) — A Missouri abortion-rights campaign announced Thursday that it's throwing support behind an amendment that would enshrine access to the procedure in the state constitution while allowing restrictions in later stages of pregnancy. Supporters include the ACLU of Missouri, local Planned Parenthood affiliates and Abortion Action Missouri. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesAnd Missourians for Constitutional Freedom has funding difficulties, ending 2023 with no money in the bank. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom's announcement comes as abortion activists nationwide are divided over whether to support constitutional amendments that allow any regulation of abortion after viability. Current Missouri law includes an exception for medical emergencies, but not in cases of rape and incest.

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☆ The GOP blocked more US aid to Ukraine weeks after Republicans blasted Biden for not doing enough to help the country
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Republicans drafted a document blasting Biden for not doing enough to help Ukraine. Weeks later, the GOP blocked an emergency spending bill that would have provided additional aid. AdvertisementThree Republican-led congressional committees drafted a document late last year slamming President Joe Biden for his handling of the Ukraine war. Weeks after it was drafted, the GOP blocked an emergency spending bill that would have sent more US aid to Ukraine. On December 6, Republicans tanked a spending bill that would have provided $50 billion in additional aid to Ukraine and $14 billion in aid to Israel, The New York Times reported last month.

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☆ Insider Today: Financial freedom's reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, I'm exploring something equally mysterious to me: How people who have achieved financial freedom got there, and what their lifestyles are like. The big storyThe work behind financial freedomTyler Le/InsiderPassive income. The concept of financial freedom sounds like a dream come true. The Insider Today Saturday team: Diamond Naga Siu, senior reporter, in San Diego.

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☆ 'Sound of Freedom,' hit child-trafficking thriller endorsed by Trump, will stream on Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon Prime Video has secured the rights to one of the hottest box office releases of 2023 — Angel Studios' "Sound of Freedom." Angel Studios calls the model "pay it forward." Angel Studios, which has become known for its faith-based content, has a wide variety of projects on the docket going forward. The studio is set to release a sci-fi thriller called "The Shift" in December and biographical drama "Cabrini" in March. Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how many "pay it forward" tickets Angel Studios sold for "Sound of Freedom."

Persons: Jim Caviezel, Donald Trump, Cabrini Organizations: Amazon, Angel, Angel Studios, Century Fox, Walt Disney Co Locations: U.S, Colombia, Bedminster , New Jersey

☆ Kazakh fintech Freedom Holding is being investigated by DOJ, SEC, documents show
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The SEC's Boston regional office has been probing Freedom for months, according to documents seen by CNBC and people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts is also making preliminary inquiries into Freedom, documents seen by CNBC show. Nearly 115,000 Freedom shares changed hands in the first half hour of trading, 1.25 times the stock's 10-day average. Turlov and Freedom are aware of the SEC probe, which has been going on for months, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. An SEC spokesperson told CNBC that it doesn't comment on the existence or nonexistence of an investigation.

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☆ Hindenburg Research targets $4.6 billion Kazakh brokerage for allegedly helping Russian oligarchs evade sanctions
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Finance brokerage speaks to Reuters during the interview in the office in Moscow, Russia October 10, 2019. Freedom Holding Corp. was founded in Moscow in 2008, before later moving to Kazakhstan, and listed on the Nasdaq in 2019. After Russia invaded Ukraine early last year, U.S. sanctions essentially severed ties between American and Russian banks and companies. But according to a report from Hindenburg on Tuesday, those ties remain tight. One former senior executive alleged to Hindenburg that Russian money laundering was rampant.

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☆ Trump-endorsed 'Sound of Freedom' has outgrossed 'Mission: Impossible,' 'The Flash'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Over the last four weeks, Angel Studios' "Sound of Freedom," an indie film that has drawn the support of former President Donald Trump and other conservatives, has captured nearly $150 million in domestic ticket sales. "Sound of Freedom" is also on the heels of Disney's "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," which has generated around $167 million in box-office grosses in the U.S. and Canada. "'Sound of Freedom' is a summer movie success story that wasn't even on the radar just a few short weeks ago," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. "Sound of Freedom" wrapped filming in 2018. "'Sound of Freedom' benefitted not only from this but also by providing a non-typical summer style movie experience."

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☆ Antiabortion group says appeals court lacks authority to block Texas abortion pill ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Alliance Defending Freedom's lead attorney, Erik Baptist, argued in a new filing to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals late Tuesday that the court lacks authority to grant the Justice Department's request to block the decision. His decision is set to take effect a 12 a.m. central time on Saturday if the 5th Circuit does not block it. Baptist made a technical argument that Kacsmaryk's decision to suspend the approval date cannot be appealed to the 5th Circuit under federal law, in contrast to an injunction or a final court decision. He argued the case should continue to play out in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. They called on the 5th Circuit to immediately block the judge's order from going into effect early Saturday.

☆ Texas abortion pill case: Lawyers requesting mifepristone’s removal from market concede there’s no precedent
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Texas lawsuit has demanded that the judge revoke the FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The group alleged in their lawsuit that the FDA approved an "unsafe" drug back in 2000. During Wednesday's hearing, The Washington Post and Associated Press reported that all parties acknowledged the unprecedented nature of the Alliance Defending Freedom's demand. The attorney representing the Alliance Defending Freedom, Erik Baptist, responded, "No, I can't." Drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol have been thrown into the spotlight ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June.

☆ Mike Pence, possible Trump 2024 challenger, slams 'apologists for Putin' in the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible 2024 Republican presidential candidate, denounced his own party's "apologists" for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday while delivering a full-throated call for the U.S. to ramp up its support for Ukraine. "While some in my party have taken a somewhat different view, let me be clear: There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists for Putin," Pence said. Pence has openly said he's considering a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, potentially pitting him directly against Trump. Pence has said Trump was "wrong" to believe he could have reversed the election outcome by rejecting key Electoral College votes for Biden. In a CNBC interview on Wednesday, Pence said he believes there will be "better choices" than Trump in 2024.

☆ How a 34-year-old investor moved from Wall Street to psychedelics and raised $10.5 million for a new depression treatment
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Freedom Biosciences is a new startup focused on a ketamine treatment for depression. In 2021, Burkitbayeva founded a psychedelics company, Freedom Biosciences, with Dr. John Krystal, the chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. Freedom Biosciences, which focuses on ketamine and psychedelics as treatments for depression and other mental illnesses, announced on Tuesday that it had raised a $10.5 million seed round from investors. Burkitbayeva spoke with Insider about how she moved from Wall Street to psychedelics and went from angel investor to company CEO. Burkitbayeva used her background as an investor to help Freedom Biosciences raise its seed roundWith her background as both an investor and a founder, Burkitbayeva spearheaded the fundraising efforts for Freedom Biosciences.

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