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☆ Analysis: Biden’s fate is on the line in the most critical days of his 50-year political career
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The turmoil surrounding Biden’s future is creating a grim mood inside the White House, CNN’s MJ Lee reported. • If that happens, would senior party leaders be willing to go to the president and argue that his position is unsustainable? There is an almost surreal quality to the frenzied political debate as Biden digs in. There would be no guarantee that a new standard-bearer would do better than Biden, who has already beaten Trump once. Black Democratic voters helped to rescue Biden’s primary campaign in 2020 and to put him in the White House.

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☆ Stocks will struggle and a recession is on the table if the Fed fails to cut rates by September, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The rally in stocks could be endangered if the Fed doesn't cut rates soon, Jeremy Siegel warned. The Wharton professor made the case for the central bank to cut rates in September as data softens. AdvertisementThe rally in stocks and the strength of the economy is at risk if the Fed doesn't start cutting interest rates soon, according to Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel. No rate cut in September could put a recession on the table, Siegel warned, in addition to endangering the trajectory for stocks. Advertisement"So although I think stocks are still in an uptrend and the growth stocks are still certainly walloping the value stocks, I think Powell has to take note," Siegel said.

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☆ Media, tech titans head for Sun Valley with streaming alliances top of mind
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

In past years, media companies chased high subscriber numbers in an attempt to best each other. Nathaniel S. Butler | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesWith the NBA's media rights negotiations still ongoing, sports will remain a topic of conversation at this year's gathering. League commissioners, especially the NFL's Roger Goodell, are often attendees of the Sun Valley conference. Discovery has been weighing whether to match a competing offer for the media rights as the league looks to finalize smaller package deals. Sports remain the glue holding the traditional pay-TV bundle together, and has proven invaluable for streaming services, too.

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☆ Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images Merchandise featuring Beijing mascot Bing Dwen Dwen, the 2022 Winter Olympics mascot, has been extremely popular. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Rio 2016 Olympic mascot Vinicius was selected four years before the Games kicked off. Rudi Blaha/AP Syd the platypus, Millie the echidna and Olly the kookaburra, helped represent the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Amicar de Leon/AP The Albertville Olympic Games in 1992 was cheered on by a star-shaped gnome-looking character. International Olympic Committee In pictures: Olympic Mascot History Prev NextTo find a worthy representative, each host country will typically organize a submission call-out or contest.

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CNN —President Joe Biden told top donors on a video call Monday that he is still the best candidate to defeat former President Donald Trump as the Biden campaign and the White House sought to move beyond a crisis threatening to consume the Democratic Party. “It’s still a huge hole to climb out of,” the Democratic donor said, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the campaign. While the Biden campaign has pointed to a rush of small-dollar donations over the past week, a senior adviser said the falloff among high-dollar contributors was highly troubling. Morgan blamed Biden’s campaign team for his debate performance and argued that Vice President Kamala Harris is in place “if something happens” to Biden. And that’s what people need to be focusing on.”Phillips said anxious Democratic donors “need to get out of their feelings” and instead put their energy behind turning out those voters and selling them on the administration’s accomplishments.

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☆ I lost my wallet. Here's what experts say I should do to protect my identity and money
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Genna Contino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Eventually, tired from my frantic searching, I accepted defeat and contacted the bank to lock my cards. After losing my wallet, I decided to ask a few sources what course of action I should take to protect my money and identity. I then made a list of everything that was in my wallet ... and that was the easy part. Soon after requesting a replacement debit card, Bank of America sent me a virtual one that I was able to add to my Apple wallet and use immediately. Other tips and tricks to manage a lost wallet

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☆ Biden faces a 'vital week' to convince voters he can beat Trump, Sen. Murphy says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic Party presidential candidate U.S. President Joe Biden speak during a presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 27, 2024 in a combination photo. President Joe Biden is entering a decisive week where he must assure voters that he can defeat President Donald Trump in the November election, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Sunday. "The clock is ticking," Murphy, a close ally of the president, said on CNN's "State of the Union." "This is going to be a really important and vital week for the country and for the President." On Sunday, Biden was in Pennsylvania holding several other campaign events, looking to quiet the Democratic panic.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Sen, Chris Murphy, Conn, Murphy, Biden Organizations: Democratic Party, U.S, Democratic, Trump, Five, Democrats, Capitol Hill, ABC News, Sunday Locations: Atlanta , Georgia, U.S, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania

☆ Job switchers hoping for a big raise are in for disappointment
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewHere's some less-than-great news if you're looking to job-hop because of your pay: People changing roles likely won't be getting as big of a wage bump as past job switchers. However, the report said that "median pay raises appear to have moderated to around 10%" as of this past May. The drops in the median pay raise for job-to-job movers from 2022 to 2024 were felt across workers in all income groups, the Bank of America Institute found. Still, the report noted that lower-income Bank of America customers — those making under $50,000 a year — had the highest median pay gains. AdvertisementThe report said that those middle- and upper-income job seekers may "have somewhat less leverage and bargaining power in negotiating a raise on taking a job."

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☆ A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Bryan Mena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Washington CNN —A vast swath of the US economy is showing signs of weakness as unemployment rises to its highest point in more than two years. “When you think of services, a lot of it is driven by the consumer, and consumers are key to where the US economy goes,” James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, told CNN. Consumer spending, which makes up about 70% of the US economy, has already moderated over the past few months, government statistics show, and retailers themselves have said they’ve noticed shoppers across the income spectrum change their purchasing behavior. The bottom 60% of households by income accounted for a larger proportion of spending on health care services. These firms have added 168,000 jobs a month, on average, from April through June, according to fresh Labor Department data released Friday.

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☆ Resilience Has Fueled Biden’s Career. But So Has Defiance.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Over the course of his long career, President Biden has overcome personal tragedy and political odds, and he has used his resilience to power his ambition. But now that he is in the fight of his political life, his irrepressible pursuit of the comeback risks looking like blind defiance in the face of a rising tide. “You’ve been wrong about everything so far,” Mr. Biden told a group of reporters who asked him on Friday why he still felt he was the best person to defeat former President Donald J. Trump, after a dismal debate performance in Atlanta plunged his campaign into crisis.

Persons: Biden, You’ve, Mr, Donald J, Trump Locations: Atlanta

☆ Analysis: Biden’s ABC interview does nothing to quell the existential crisis around his campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden’s struggle to prove he’s got the strength and cognitive capacity for a second term is becoming an excruciating personal and national ordeal. While his interview performance was far stronger than the president’s often incoherent showing at the CNN debate in Atlanta, that’s not saying much. He appeared more composed and fluent than at the CNN debate. But Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California told CNN that the president needed to do a prolonged and live television interview unlike the recorded one on ABC. But increasingly, it seems as though the fear of a Trump term may be overwhelming satisfaction with Biden’s achievements.

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☆ Judge Aileen Cannon grants Trump's request to pause some deadlines in classified documents case amid immunity questions
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Lisa Rubin | Megan Lebowitz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday granted former President Donald Trump's request for further briefing on the issue of presidential immunity in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and delayed certain deadlines. Smith's brief is now due on July 18, and a reply from Trump's team is due on July 21. There is no trial date in sight in the classified documents case. The latest development comes after Trump's attorneys on Friday asked Cannon to pause court proceedings and consider how the Supreme Court's ruling affects the case. Trump's team in February had also filed a motion to dismiss the indictment on immunity grounds.

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☆ Fierce pressure mounts on Biden ahead of critical television interview Friday
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The latest effort by the White House to quell the controversy is already disintegrating. His reasoning frustrated several governors who’d come to the White House to seek reassurance about Biden’s condition, sources said. “I’m not going anywhere,” Biden told military families gathered to watch July Fourth fireworks at the White House. And on Thursday, the presumptive GOP nominee offered to debate Biden one-on-one with without moderators. The increasingly unpromising state of the Biden campaign has many Democrats worried — one reason the ABC News interview and a scheduled press conference at the NATO summit in Washington next week will be so crucial.

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☆ I've applied for 493 jobs since I got laid off a year ago. Getting a remote job has become so hard.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Trevon Gripper, a 32-year-old job seeker in Texas. There's been a huge change from when I started applying a year ago, when I was like, "remote, remote, remote." Trevon Gripper in a Microsoft video interview in March 2024. Courtesy of Trevon GripperGetting a remote job has become so hardI started a spreadsheet to track my applications and stay organized. Trevon Gripper promoting training content at the company he worked for in March 2023.

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☆ Kamala Harris: Democrats start moving to VP as President Joe Biden digs in
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Amid the ongoing fallout from Joe Biden’s debate performance, talk in many top Democratic circles has already moved to who Kamala Harris’ running mate would be. A more open race, these top Democrats hope, would be for Harris’ running mate, with a focus on leading Democratic governors. “President Biden is our nominee, Vice President Harris is our running mate, and we will win this November,” he said. The anti-Trump coalition cannot afford to discount the strengths of the nominated Democratic running mate and current vice president. Harris’ answer: She’d turn around and say to him, “Why are you being so weird?”As vice president, Harris has tended to be known more for her word salads than sharp elbows like that.

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☆ Ron Insana: Why this jobs report should spur the Fed to cut rates in July
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Ron Insana | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

It's time for the Fed to cut rates at the end of July. Add to that the moderation in the consumer price index , the producer price index and the personal consumption expenditures price index – the Fed's preferred inflation gauge – and the need to wait for further signs of improvement seems like overkill. Also, if the Fed dials back policy later – rather than sooner – there will be claims of political interference if it cut rates immediately before the presidential election. The central bank has been dealing with an economy-crashing pandemic, a surge in prices and uncertainty over how its policies would affect the broad economy, inflation and consumer behavior over time. This is a factor that will likely drive inflation rates lower.

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☆ Heat waves: Here’s why your AC can’t save you anymore
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Then came the heat wave. But it is also a lifeline against increasingly brutal heat, the deadliest type of extreme weather. It allows people to live in places where temperatures push close to the limits of survivability and where extreme heat persists even at night. And many electrical grids are being pushed to a breaking point due to increasingly frequent extreme weather and soaring demand for cooling. Heat can affect vital organs and cause heat exhaustion, heat stroke and even death.

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Lauren read several articles about how Democrats reacted to Biden’s performance. What stood out most to David Carlson, the treasurer of the Georgia Young Republicans, was the mainstream media’s reaction to Mr. Biden’s performance. Jonathon saw memes on Facebook about Biden’s performance and Jill Biden’s response after the debate. Jonathon saw memes on Facebook about Biden’s performance and Jill Biden’s response after the debate. “I already had my mind set on Trump” before the debate, Mr. Ballard said.

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☆ 'We don't do God' and massive ad spends: How UK election races differ from American ones
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Here are a handful of them:1) CampaignsBy the time a presidential election takes place in the United States, the electorate will have already endured months of seemingly endless electioneering — with the entire election campaign process from candidacies and the campaign trail to the actual presidential election and inauguration taking up to two years. In the U.K., the time frame between a prime minister calling a general election to the actual vote is just six weeks. It sounds simple, and usually is, unless there's a "hung parliament" in which no political party wins a majority of seats. In the U.K., political advertising on TV and radio is not allowed, so U.K. voters are subjected to the somewhat quaint "party political broadcasts" during election campaigns. 6) 'Absurd' diversionsBritish political experts note that, unlike in the U.S., where broad political debates tend to remain the key focus, U.K. election campaigns can see more minor or fringe issues dominate the short election campaign.

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☆ Argentina wins penalty shootout to reach semifinals, Messi misses from spot
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Felipe Cardenas | Paul Tenorio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Messi missed Argentina’s opener but penalty king Emiliano Martinez saved Argentina’s blushes, stopping Ecuador twice to see his side progress to the last four. Every time Messi floated wide to try to get on the ball in space, Ecuador closed down with multiple defenders. Lisando Martinez, unmarked at the far post, calmly headed the ball into the net to score his first goal for Argentina. Through the first 30 minutes, Ecuador had fairly good control of the game. On the ball, Ecuador was pushing quickly up the field, especially through the left side and Jeremy Sarmiento.

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☆ Biden tries but fails to turn back rising tide threatening to swamp his reelection bid
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

I’m not leaving,” Biden declared to spooked campaign staff on a phone call on Wednesday as he searched for an elusive comeback. And even a far more competent damage control effort than the White House and the Biden campaign have mounted so far would have struggled to erase that impression. On Wednesday for instance, the White House picked up Biden’s line that he was jet lagged after two trips to Europe in early June. And Biden had the Democratic governors to the White House. The White House and the campaign said the reports were false.

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☆ The America trade: These stocks highly exposed to the U.S. are primed to outperform
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A handful of stocks partial to the U.S. market could see strong gains ahead. MGM YTD mountain MGM Resorts stock. Delta Airlines , which also made the cut, has become the most profitable U.S. airline thanks to its reputation as a luxury option. DAL YTD mountain Delta Airlines stock. Other stocks on the list include Axon Enterprise , which makes Taser stun guns and police body cameras, and ConocoPhillips .

Persons: Hope, BTIG, Clark Lampen, Ed Bastian, DAL, John F Organizations: Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Traders, Nvidia, Federal Reserve, CNBC Pro, U.S, MGM Resorts, MGM, Delta Airlines, Delta, CNBC, Kennedy International Airport, United Airlines, ConocoPhillips Locations: U.S, Las Vegas, Vegas, China, Atlanta

☆ Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Katie Rogers | More About Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. The president, who the ally emphasized is still deeply in the fight for re-election, understands that his next few appearances heading into the holiday weekend — including an interview scheduled for Friday with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News and campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — must go well. “He knows if he has two more events like that, we’re in a different place” by the end of the weekend, said the ally, referring to Mr. Biden’s halting and unfocused performance in the debate. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Concerns are mounting about his viability as a candidate and whether he could serve as president for another four years.

Persons: Biden, George Stephanopoulos, Biden’s, Andrew Bates Organizations: ABC News Locations: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Atlanta

☆ Is inflation Biden's or Trump's fault? The answer isn't so simple, economists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

"He caused the inflation," Trump said of Biden during the June 27 debate. "He decimated the economy, absolutely decimated the economy," Biden said. 'Neither Trump nor Biden is to blame'Global events beyond Trump's or Biden's control wreaked havoc on supply-and-demand dynamics in the U.S. economy, fueling higher prices, economists said. "In my view, neither Trump nor Biden is to blame for the high inflation," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. For example, Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel, aluminum and several goods from China, which Biden largely kept intact.

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☆ Jamie Foxx shares new details about health crisis that left him ‘gone for 20 days’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Jamie Foxx still hasn’t publicly disclosed what caused his hospitalization last year but has shared more details during an encounter captured on video. The Oscar-winning actor was hospitalized in April 2023 for a health crisis while he was filming the Netflix film“Back in Action” in Atlanta. In a video posted to TikTok this week, Foxx tells an unidentified group of people that he had a “bad headache” on April 11, 2023. Foxx went on to explain in the footage that he was told his sister and his daughter took him to a doctor, who gave him a cortisone shot. “You’re lookin at a man who is thankful… finally startin to feel like myself…” he wrote at the time.

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