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☆ 7 YouTubers share their takeaways and payouts from the first month of the Shorts ad revenue sharing program
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On February 1, YouTube began sharing advertising revenue from short-form videos with creators. With this program, revenue from ads is pooled and then shared with creators based on their views. In February, he made about $1,455 for 32.4 million views — about $0.04 for every 1,000 views. Here's how much seven creators made in February:To determine payments on Shorts, YouTube pools revenue from the ads shown on the Shorts feed. Creating short-form content isn't something I'm passionate enough about to dedicate the time it takes."

The plaintiffs accused Ocala of violating the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment "establishment clause," which restricts governmental involvement in religion. Ocala city officials helped organize and conduct the one-hour prayer vigil held in response to a series of shootings in which three children were struck by stray bullets. The city then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A federal district court will now weigh the plaintiffs' establishment clause claims in light of the football coach ruling. The conservative-majority Supreme Court in recent years has chipped away at the wall separating church and state, eroding American legal traditions aimed at barring government officials from promoting any particular faith.

☆ Atheists avoid — for now — Supreme Court review of Florida shooting prayer vigil lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the Florida case, the Ocala police chief organized and promoted a prayer vigil whose attendees included police chaplains. The judge, in his ruling, applied the so-called "Lemon test," named after a 1971 Supreme Court ruling. In that 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court effectively jettisoned the Lemon test in deciding that the coach had the right to pray with players and others on the field after games. The court's ruling said the Establishment Clause "must be interpreted by 'reference to historical practices and understandings.' A majority of the Supreme Court's justices on Monday declined to take the case on those grounds, without commenting on the decision.

☆ U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +23 min

Musk’s missed deadlines for FDA approval of Neuralink July 2019:Musk says Neuralink is aiming to receive regulatory approval for human trials of brain implants by the end of 2020. “Everybody in the industry was saying: ‘Oh my God, they’re going to run straight into a brick wall,’” Ludwig said of Musk’s bid for FDA approval. For example, NeuroPace, which makes the brain implant to treat epilepsy, received final FDA approval in 2013 – 16 years after the company’s launch. The FDA’s concerns about the battery are also potentially serious, experts in brain devices said. Still, that proposal disappointed Neuralink because it could delay progress toward final FDA approval, one of the sources said.

☆ Walmart says it's closing a store in Albuquerque because it's underperforming. Some shoppers say it was rampant with crime, and police visited hundreds of times last year.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The store has 287 workers who are eligible to transfer to another store, per a Walmart spokeswoman. It's "very sad," he told Insider, because there aren't many retailers with stores in that part of Albuquerque. The San Mateo Boulevard store is set to close on March 10 after opening in July 1985, according to Walmart spokeswoman Lauren Willis. Albuquerque city officials are now looking into buying and repurposing the closing Walmart store. The Walmart is one of at least eight stores closing soon across five states and the District of Columbia.

☆ Black real estate developers get rare access to big capital through Philadelphia program
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Black Americans represent less than 5% of residential real estate developers, largely because they can't get equal access to capital, according to a recent report by the Urban Land Institute. Institutional capital – real estate investment trusts and private equity in particular – are the dominant players. Philly Rise is designed to recruit, train, support and open up access to capital. That's why he's been working in real estate for 20 years, developing affordable housing first in Delaware and Maryland, and soon in Philadelphia. "Our goal with our participants is not to teach them how to rehab or build brand new houses, but how to build successful real estate businesses," said Webster.

☆ Infamous fake German heiress Anna Sorokin wins contempt case against ex-lawyer after landing guest speaking gig with Harvard MBA students
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Jordan Hart | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, reportedly spoke with a class of MBA students at Harvard University on Feb. 14. Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, confirmed to Insider that this semester she was set to make a virtual live appearance in front of MBA students at the top business school on February 14. In September, the 32-year-old spoke at an "Intro to Reporting" class for Columbia University students from her ICE detention facility. In September, the 32-year-old filed a lawsuit against Thomas for an alleged court order violation over transferring Sorokin's court files. In January, Harvard MBA students had the chance to hear from another unconventional source.

☆ Clarence Thomas was still making student loan payments when he joined the Supreme Court — and a fellow Yale law student suggested he declare bankruptcy to avoid the 'crushing weight' of payments: book
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Supreme Court will hear two challenges to Biden's student loan debt relief plan on Tuesday. In 2007, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote about the "crushing weight" of student debt in his own life. In his 2007 memoir "My Grandfather's Son," Thomas, the court's longest-serving justice, spoke of the "crushing weight" of student debt from his time at Yale Law School. In August, Biden announced plans to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers making under $125,000 a year. Biden's Education Department has begun reforming the process to make it easier, but right now, the main focus is the president's broad debt relief plan.

☆ Bearish bets on Asian FX return on renewed woes over Fed rate hikes - Reuters poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Tejaswi Marthi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] A Singapore dollar note is seen in this illustration photo May 31, 2017. However, recent comments from the Fed about hiking rates for longer dampened sentiment. They turned bearish on the Thai baht , Asia's best-performing currency this year, the Singapore dollar and the Malaysian ringgit for the first time in three months. The poll uses estimates of net long or short positions on a scale of minus 3 to plus 3. The survey findings are provided below (positions in U.S. dollar versus each currency):Reporting by Tejaswi Marthi in BengaluruOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. dollar strengthens as Fed minutes signal higher rates
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Laura Matthews | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The dollar index was up 0.40% at 104.57, easing off the high of 104.59 it reached earlier in the day. "The Fed minutes were just released indicating that a few officials could have supported a 50-bps hike in the last meeting, though most backed the 25bps outcome. "The theme throughout February has been a bias towards higher rates, and these minutes are consistent with that perspective." But Fed funds futures traders are now pricing the fed funds rate to reach 5.38% in July, and remaining above 5% all year. "Stronger-than-expected U.S. data releases since the start of this month have reinforced the Fed's messages about stronger for longer interest rates."

Survey data released on Tuesday showed U.S. business activity unexpectedly rebounded in February to reach its highest in eight months. He is the latest Fed official to signal that higher interest rates is likely needed to bring inflation back to desired levels. "Stronger-than-expected U.S. data releases since the start of this month have reinforced the Fed's messages about stronger for longer interest rates." The dollar index up 0.1% at 104.19, but off the high of 104.34 reached earlier in the day. A blockbuster U.S. employment report in early February sparked the rebound in the dollar, which has been helped along by a series of strong data releases.

☆ How Clarence Thomas went from a left-wing Black radical to one of the Supreme Court's most conservative judges
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( James Pasley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Thomas spent a year training to become a priest, but after the prejudice he encountered, he changed his mind. Clarence Thomas is seen looking at a textbook with another student in a high school yearbook photo, circa 1959. He protested against the Vietnam War and segregation. In a speech he made in 1993, he said he was told he wasn't "really Black" if he didn't have an Afro. Sources: Esquire, New Yorker , New Yorker, ABC

☆ Ron DeSantis styles himself a culture warrior for God. But his push to expand the death penalty is 'deeply concerning' to the Catholic Church.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Catholic Church is speaking out against a GOP push to expand the death penalty. Making it "easier to impose death is deeply concerning," Michael Sheedy of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops told Insider. 'Deeply concerning'Any effort to expand the death penalty in Florida will face obstacles: the state and US constitutions. "An execution represents a judgment by fallible human beings that a person is beyond redemption – a judgment the Catholic Church rejects," they said. Tony Argiz, right, recalled how the Catholic Church helped him when he came to the US from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor.

☆ The Paradox of Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( James Verini | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +52 min

The preventive approach to domestic terrorism goes back even further than the 1990s and it begins with the basic police work and surveillance of the joint terrorism task forces. In fact, there is no section of the U.S. Criminal Code that criminalizes domestic terrorism as such. The absence of clear law around domestic terrorism, and the imperatives of prevention, mean that investigators and prosecutors who work domestic terrorism cases must focus on more common charges: weapons violations, illegal drug possession, burglary, aiding and abetting and so forth. But this was not enough to overrule the fear of domestic terrorism that was gripping the nation and that hung in the courtroom. It reflected the legal paradoxes of the case and domestic terrorism law in general or, maybe more accurately, the absence of it.

☆ Japan confirms record interventions to support yen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Tetsushi Kajimoto | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A Japan Yen note is seen in this illustration photo taken June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/IllustrationTOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Japan confirmed on Tuesday that it made record interventions in the foreign exchange market in October, selling the dollar worth 6.35 trillion yen ($48 billion) to support the yen currency, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed. Japan spent a record 5.62 trillion yen ($42.5 billion) on a single day yen-buying intervention on Oct. 21 and further 730 billion yen on Oct. 24, having spent 2.84 trillion yen on Sept. 22 to stem the yen's sharp fall, which boosted living costs for resource-deficiant Japan. It was rare for Japan to conduct yen-buying, dollar-selling interventions given the country's past battle with a strong yen making Japanese goods less competitive overseas. Japan publishes monthly intervention records at the end of each month, and it issues daily results for the prior quarter.

☆ 3 ways TikTokers are changing their content strategies as they jump to YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It's one several reasons some TikTokers are posting on YouTube for the first time in 2023. Here are three ways TikTokers are repurposing their content to fit YouTube. The shift to YouTube comes as some TikTokers have been frustrated with efforts to monetize their content on the short-video app. And if Shorts grows, the amount creators earn grows too." Here are three ways TikTokers are trying to reposition their content for YouTube:

☆ How TikTokers are rethinking their content strategies as they jump to YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

☆ TikTokers who thought they'd never try YouTube are embracing it as it rolls out ad-revenue sharing on short videos
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

YouTube is set to start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators beginning February 1. Insider spoke to 10 TikTokers about why they're creating Shorts and longform content for YouTube. YouTube announced that it would start sharing advertising revenue with creators on Shorts, which is similar to TikTok's short-video style. This year, she and her team will also start posting long-form videos in addition to Shorts on her channel. "Like Google's search engine, search on YouTube strives to surface the most relevant results according to keyword queries," a video posted on the company-owned channel YouTube Creators says.

☆ 4 reasons TikTok creators who never thought they'd try YouTube are suddenly embracing the platform
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Insider spoke to 10 TikTokers about why they're creating Shorts and longform content for YouTube. Then, last November, a change in the way YouTube pays creators shifted Taylor's thinking and pushed him to start posting on the platform. This year, she and her team will also start posting long-form videos in addition to Shorts on her channel. Creators are starting to fear that TikTok could get banned in the USFor some US creators, YouTube is the way to go because they worry that TikTok could be banned in the country. "Like Google's search engine, search on YouTube strives to surface the most relevant results according to keyword queries," a video posted on the company-owned channel YouTube Creators says.

☆ NHL roundup: Hot at home, Lightning stop Bruins' road run
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Blackhawks 5, Flames 1Boris Katchouk, Jason Dickinson and Sam Lafferty scored in the second period as visiting Chicago collected four unanswered goals and beat Calgary. Jaxson Stauber made 34 saves, 18 in the third period, in his second NHL start. Travis Boyd and Barrett Hayton also scored for the Coyotes, who won for just the third time in 15 games. St. Louis' Robert Thomas was knocked out of the game midway through the second period when he absorbed a slap shot in his midsection. Noah Cates and Tony DeAngelo each scored one goal for the Flyers, who dropped their third game in a row (0-1-2).

“She wouldn’t be able to walk up to medical without help,” the former staff member said, referring to the office where staff medical professionals worked. James Shirey Jr., 14, died of complications from congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a genetic disorder, while at Diamond Ranch Academy in 2009. Diamond Ranch Academy disputed some of the lawsuit’s allegations in a court filing, and denied wrongdoing, but paid his family a $750,000 settlement in 2017. Diamond Ranch Academy was founded in 1999 by Rob and Sherri Dias. Dean Goodridge wants to see accountability for Diamond Ranch Academy, and any other facilities where children have died.

☆ Race against the clock for Germany's top Nazi hunter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Tilman Blasshofer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] Nazi hunter Thomas Will, head of Germany's main agency responsible for the investigation of war crimes during Nazi rule looks into files at the Central Office of State Judicial Authorities for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg, Germany, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Timm ReichertLUDWIGSBURG, Germany, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Germany's top Nazi hunter, Thomas Will, is hopeful of securing further convictions over the Holocaust even as the remaining suspects, many now in their late 90s, die. So as long as perpetrators are still alive, we will pursue the cases," he said from his office outside Stuttgart in southwestern Germany. Will heads Germany's Central Office of State Judicial Authorities for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes. The conviction last month of a 97-year-old woman who worked as a concentration camp secretary "was certainly one of the last", Will said.

Mont-de-Marsan, FRANCE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron proposed on Friday boosting military spending by over a quarter in coming years, saying the hike would help ensure a transformation of the army to respond to multiple potential threats. The planned 2024-2030 budget would enable a "transformation" programme to adapt the military to the possibility of high-intensity conflicts, made all the more urgent since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Macron said. The budget for the period will stand at 413 billion euros ($446.99 billion), up from 295 billion euros in 2019-2025, Macron said in a New Year address to the army. This would imply on average a 28.5% increase in the annual military budget from 49.2 billion euros to 68.8 billion. He added France would invest massively in drones and military intelligence and said he was asking the military to pivot towards a strategy of high-intensity conflict.

[1/2] U.S. Supreme Court police officers stand on the front steps of the Supreme Court building prior to the official investiture ceremony for the court's newest Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the start of the court's 2022-2023 term in Washington, U.S. September 30, 2022. The report said the Supreme Court's information security environment was "built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information." But it called the court's information security policies "outdated" and recommended that it overhaul its platform for handling case-related documents and remedy "inadequate safeguards" for tracking who prints and copies documents. The Supreme Court's IT systems operate separately from the rest of the federal judiciary. U.S. judiciary officials have said the systems used by federal appellate and district courts also are outdated and need modernization.

☆ Fed's Mester says rates need to rise "a little bit" above 5%
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A U.S. Dollar note is seen in this June 22, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates a “little bit” above the 5.00% to 5.25% range in order to bring inflation to heel, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said on Wednesday, as she declined to disclose her preferred size of move at the upcoming policy meeting. “We’re not at 5% yet, we’re not above 5%, which I think is going to be needed given where my projections are for the economy,” Mester said in an interview with the Associated Press. “We’re beginning to see the kind of actions that we need to see,” Mester added. “Good signs that things are moving in the right direction ... That’s important input into how we’re thinking about where policy needs to go.”Fed Chair Jerome Powell tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the central bank said in a statement on Wednesday.

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