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☆ Few patients continue weight loss drugs like Wegovy after a year — but health costs soar for all
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A selection of injector pens for the Wegovy weight loss drug are shown in this photo illustration in Chicago, Illinois, March 31, 2023. And a group of patients in the analysis who didn't take a weight loss drug saw their health-care costs decrease by 4% on average during the same time period. Weight loss drugs are also known as GLP-1 agonists, which mimic a hormone produced in the gut to suppress a person's appetite. Prime Therapeutics' analysis does not indicate why patients stopped taking weight loss drugs. But experts say the medicines may further perpetuate a dangerous diet culture that idealizes weight loss and thinness.

Persons: Joseph Leach, Eli Lilly, Elon Musk Organizations: Novo Nordisk, CNBC, Prime Therapeutics, Food and Drug Administration, Therapeutics, Reuters, Pfizer, National Institutes of Health Locations: Chicago , Illinois, U.S, Danish

☆ How much should you tip on a $20 food delivery? A DoorDasher went viral for saying a $5 isn't enough. We asked 10 drivers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

DoorDash recently fired a driver after he cursed at a woman for tipping $5 on a $20 order. It comes as more businesses are asking customers to tip at cash registers and even at self-checkout stations. In a blog post from 2019, Grubhub suggested customers tip 20% — and consider adding more if it's an extra-big order, or if there's bad weather. That means the woman who tipped $5 on her $20 DoorDash order — which is a 25% gratuity — actually gave quite a good tip, drivers said. "A $5 tip on a $20 order?

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☆ American Express is being investigated over sales practices. Salespeople say they have been made scapegoats.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In late May last year, some 250 salespeople at American Express learned they weren't going to get paid. In addition to earning commissions, the Premium Wire volumes helped them reach higher compensation tiers, known as kickers. For the first time, the Premium Wire product made economic sense. The presentation discussed shifting the sales focus toward Premium Wire and another product to "accelerate revenue growth and meet client's needs." Isserlis said Williams was fired because of misconduct unrelated to Premium Wire.

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☆ Danish mall shooter sentenced to indefinite psychiatric treatment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Nikolaj Skydsgaard | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

COPENHAGEN, July 5 (Reuters) - A Danish court sentenced a 23-year-old man on Wednesday to indefinite psychiatric treatment at a secure facility for the killing of three people during a shooting spree in a Copenhagen shopping mall a year ago. The man killed two 17-year-olds and a 46-year-old man on July 3 last year when he opened fire at the Field's mall in the capital's southern outskirts. He has admitted to the shootings but said he was mentally ill at the time. "It was a day that affected many people, many of whom are sadly still struggling with physical and psychological scars," prosecutor Soren Harbo said outside the Copenhagen court. But it declared that he was mentally ill at the time of the shootings, which meant he was sentenced to undergo psychiatric treatment at a secure facility for an indefinite amount of time rather than a regular prison sentence.

Persons: Soren Harbo, Luise Hoj, Nikolaj Skydsgaard, Helen Popper Our Organizations: DR, Reuters, Thomson Locations: COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen

☆ Helping investors buy thousands of run-down houses on the cheap was to be the specialty of this proptech. Not even Dr. Phil could save it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Stech told the wholesaler that the woman deserved some of that profit. "He looked me square in the eyes and said, 'That's all she said she needed,'" Stech told Dr. Phil. But Sundae, Stech said, marketed homes directly to investors, who would bid up the price in an effort to win the property. Two of the former Sundae employees told Insider that they often had to make determinations about the mental fitness of their elderly customers. When Insider asked Canavari about the layoffs in June, she told Insider that she was leaving the company herself.

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☆ T.J. Maxx's small presence on the web is giving Shein and Temu a big advantage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Analysts said that rivals like Shein and Temu pose "major threats" to brands like T.J. Maxx. Certain brands can't be searched for directly by name on T.J. Maxx's online store. E-commerce is just a small part of TJX's businessShein and T.J. Maxx share a similar customer base. A representative for TJX declined to comment when Insider asked about the growing competition from companies like Shein and Temu and whether TJX plans to expand its online presence. Customers said that they liked shopping at T.J. Maxx because the brand offers good value for money and a chance to hunt for good deals.

Persons: Maxx, —, John Klinger, Calvin Klein, Gucci —, Ernie Herrman, TJX's Herrman Organizations: Service, UBS, TJX's, Nike, TJX, Customers, Maxx Locations: Maxx, Sierra, COVID

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday to strike down President Joe Biden's student-loan-forgiveness plan. Republicans, who had said the plan was unfair and unconstitutional, immediately celebrated. Republican lawmakers — many of whom had been outspoken critics of the plan — were happy to see it. Rep. Virginia Foxx, the GOP chair of the Education and Workforce Committee and an outspoken opponent of Biden's plan, wished "good riddance" to Biden's "illegal, economically disastrous taxpayer-funded bailout for the wealthy." Other Republicans took aim at the plan's constitutionality and claims that the relief was unfair, talking points that the GOP seized upon after Biden first introduced the plan.

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Their tormentors have also called in false bomb threats to venues using their names in three states. To combat the growing problem, the FBI has begun taking formal measures to get a comprehensive picture of the problem on a national level. Chief Scott Schubert with the bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services headquarters in Clarksburg, West Virginia, told NBC News that the agency formed a national online database in May to facilitate information sharing between hundreds of police departments and law enforcement agencies across the country pertaining to swatting incidents. No central agency has tracked swatting incidents or suspects in the U.S., so official statistics are not available. The couple was mostly recently swatted at their home on Tuesday, bringing the total of swatting incidents to 43.

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☆ Special Report: US, Swedish prosecutors study graft complaint naming son of Turkey's Erdogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( David Gauthier-Villars | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

The proposed plan was detailed in communications and business documents seen by Reuters, as well as by a person familiar with the matter. A screengrab shows information about the AL-100K dashboard breathalyzer on the website of Swedish company Dignita Systems. Reuters was unable to confirm independently whether President Erdogan and his son Bilal were aware of, or had involvement in Dignita's alleged kickback scheme. Ibn Haldun University was founded by Turgev, a charity organization President Erdogan helped create in the 1990s, when he was mayor of Istanbul. In 2016, Italian prosecutors conducted a money-laundering probe into Bilal Erdogan on suspicion he had brought cash into the country without declaring it.

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☆ Some fans have turned on Lana Del Rey. Here's a complete timeline of how the singer soured her own reputation.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

May 2020: Del Rey posted an unprompted public statement about her own reputationIt all began on May 21, four months after she attended the 2020 Grammys, when Del Rey shared a lengthy open letter on Instagram. —Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021—Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021Hardly one to stifle momentum, Del Rey also responded to the Australian blog Tone Deaf, which had published an article criticizing the defense of her album cover. —Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021—Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021Del Rey continued tweeting about her BBC interview, clarifying that she meant to criticize Trump's "significant lack of empathy" and "the issue of sociopathy and narcissism in America." Advertisement—Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021—Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021She also expressed disdain for negative publicity, citing her "long term relationship" with magazines like Complex and Rolling Stone, calling the former "pathetic." June 24, 2023: Del Rey arrived 30 minutes late to the stage at Glastonbury, telling the crowd, 'My hair takes so long to do'Lana Del Rey performs at Glastonbury Festival.

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☆ Russian security services threatened the families of Wagner forces to get them to back down, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russian security services threatened the families of Wagner mutineers, The Telegraph reported. Wagner forces seized control of a city in Russia and were bearing down on Moscow. Wagner military column passes Russian city of Voronezh. It said that Wagner fighters who didn't take part in the mutiny would be absorbed into the Russian military. Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security services, told BBC News on Saturday that though Prigozhin's forces did not appear strong enough to topple Putin, they exposed serious limits to his power.

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☆ Hasbro is bringing back the Furby again. But this time they'll have an off switch.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hasbro is releasing a new Furby for the 25th anniversary of the toy's original release. Furbys were popular in the late '90s, selling 40 million toys in the first three years. Addressing the fears of those that remember, the Amazon listing confirms: Furby will have an off switch. Hasbro recently announced the 25-year anniversary redesign and return of the Furby, everyone's favorite (or least favorite) nonsense-spouting, fuzzy, chatterbox hamster-owl-creature-thing. Furbys were immensely popular when released in 1998, selling 40 million units in the first three years.

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☆ A vegan landlord in New York City has been banning tenants from cooking meat since 2007, sparking a discussion about quirky landlord requirements
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A vegan landlord required tenants not to cook meat in a Brooklyn apartment. Although an unusual ask, it's not illegal, an expert told The New York Times. One person familiar with the situation told Insider tenants had not been bothered by the rule in the past. However, the Times reported that the apartments, going for $4,500 and $5,750 monthly, could still accommodate meat eaters — they just can't cook meat there. If it doesn't, move on," the person told Insider.

Persons: it's, —, Andrea Kelly, Kelly, Lucas A . Ferrara, Douglas Elliman Organizations: New York Times, Service, Times, Property Management Locations: Brooklyn, New York, New York State, Washington, Canada

☆ Ticketmaster issued more than 1 million queue numbers for Coldplay's Singapore concert. Rumbles of fury at the platform are rolling through Twitter as people say they got frozen out of purchases.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Amanda Goh | Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ticketmaster issued more than 1 million virtual queue numbers for Coldplay's "Music of the Spheres" concert in Singapore. This is not the first time Ticketmaster has fumbled the ticketing experience for a big concert. Pre-sales for the concert started on Monday at 10 a.m. SGT, per a tweet from the concert organizer, Live Nation Singapore. About 1 million virtual Ticketmaster queue numbers were issued in total, local newspaper The Straits Times reported. Coldplay and Ticketmaster Singapore did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

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☆ A former Florida GOP state lawmaker says many people in the state capital are 'terrified' of Ron DeSantis and his political enforcers: 'They just chop off heads and move on'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-Florida lawmaker told WaPo that many in Tallahassee are "terrified" of DeSantis and his team. "There's no inner circle because they just chop off heads and move on," the former lawmaker said. This year, boosted by a GOP supermajority, DeSantis ramped up his conservative policymaking agenda. DeSantis has earned the endorsements of 100 of the 113 Republican state lawmakers in Florida, with 12 remaining neutral and only one backing former President Donald Trump. A former Republican state lawmaker told The Post that people are "terrified" of DeSantis and his political operation.

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☆ 'Shark Tank' star Barbara Corcoran praises Donald Trump's selling skills, shrugs off recession fears, and warns of AI fallout in a new interview. Here are the 12 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Barbara Corcoran praised Donald Trump's selling skills and championed real-estate investing. The "Shark Tank" star advised young people to try employment before starting a company. (Corcoran said that besides her Shark Tank investments, she puts all of her money into real estate, and that's why she's become rich.) "Investing in real estate is a wonderful magic trick. "On 'Shark Tank,' I never invest in kids that have money.

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Ramsey asked Travis why he hadn't gotten on a "tight, tight, tight, tight budget" to get his debts down. Ramsey said Travis should meet his basic obligations then throw everything else at his "stupid credit card debt until it's gone." "But you're not going out to eat, and you're not going on vacation," Ramsey said. Ramsey said Travis had to look at his finances like "every dollar has a mission:" necessities or his debt. "You will go, 'Where is all this freaking money going?'"

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☆ After Pence bails, Kari Lake fires up Georgia crowd by saying Republicans have guns – and Trump's back
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lake said Trump's 75 million supporters would defend him, and most are "card-carrying NRA members." KARI LAKE: "If you want to get to President Trump, you're going to have to go through me, and 75 million Americans just like me. That's not a threat, that's a public service announcement" pic.twitter.com/rSVwEaK2rX — Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 10, 2023"That's not a threat. "We will not let you lay a finger on President Trump. "I really should also thank the man who didn't show up tonight: Mike Pence," Lake said.

Persons: Mike Pence, Kari Lake, Lake, —, Donald Trump, You'll, Trump, KARI LAKE, That's, Jack Poso 🇺🇸 ( Organizations: Georgia GOP, NRA, Service, Georgia Republicans, Trump, National Rifle Association Locations: Georgia

☆ Biden vetoed a GOP-led attempt to overturn his plan to forgive student-loan debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President Joe Biden vetoed a GOP-led effort to block his student debt relief. The Supreme Court is also due to consider the legality of Biden's plan by the end of June. "But when it comes to hard-working Americans trying to get ahead, dealing with student debt relief, that's where they drew the line," he said. Conservatives have argued that the debt-relief measure is unfair on people who didn't go to college but still have debts. But despite Biden's veto, the debt-relief measure is not home and dry.

Persons: Joe Biden, —, Biden, Donald Trump, Pell Grant, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Kevin Hern, Sens, Chuck Grassley, Bill Cassidy Organizations: GOP, Service, Twitter, Biden, Congressional, Office, Lawmakers

☆ Republicans are staunchly opposed to student-loan forgiveness, but Democrats think it goes 'hand in hand' with creating high-paying jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Ethan Dodd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Republicans and a few Democrats have voted to overturn Biden's student-loan forgiveness. Democrats defend Biden's student-loan forgiveness as part of a broader workforce development strategy to address the ongoing labor shortage and rebuild the middle class. "Student loan 'forgiveness' will benefit wealthy elites," Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted when Biden announced his student-loan forgiveness plan in August 2022. But Deluzio voted with all but two House Democrats to protect Biden's student-loan forgiveness. "Expansions of student debt forgiveness need to be matched dollar-for-dollar with investments in career & technical education.

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☆ Getting rich is only a swipe away
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, in his role as Jordan Belfort in the 2013 film, "The Wolf of Wall Street." Now a fraudster is only one swipe away from pitching you on how he or she can change your life with this simple strategy. But for a population that has grown accustomed to on-demand entertainment and instant results, getting rich apparently out of nowhere seems completely plausible. And if you'd like a rundown of how the big banks are thinking through their AI strategy, and the execs leading the charge, we've got you covered. We've got a rundown of the 10 most prestigious private middle and high schools in NYC, along with tips for getting in.

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☆ The spam and the scam: What's driving those incessant political fundraising email and text campaigns blowing up your inbox
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Each and every day, political campaigns send out fundraising requests via email and text messages. "It's an accepted part of fundraising that you're going to ruffle feathers," said one political consultant. Increasingly, consumers are drowning in a sea of spam messages and scams from political campaigns, and experts said it's not going to change anytime soon. And while they themselves said they get annoyed by the flood of spam messages, political campaigners said that annoying voters is simply part of the job. After the RNC repeatedly lobbied Google to drop its spam filter for political spam, the company briefly acquiesced before changing its mind after the 2022 midterm elections.

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☆ Reports of bombshell Trump recording suggests prosecutors may have grounds to charge him under the Espionage Act
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

CNN reported Trump was captured on audio in 2021 admitting he took a classified document. Federal prosecutors investigating Trump's handling of documents have the recording, CNN said. The recording included Trump saying he was not sure he was able to declassify records after leaving the presidency, two sources said. The sources said Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the Justice Department's investigations into Trump, has focused on the summer 2021 meeting in which the audio recording was taken. Legal experts respond to reports of the audio recording"This is absolutely blockbuster evidence," Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, wrote on Twitter of the reported audio.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump, Jack Smith, President Trump, Renato Mariotti, …, Peter Strzok, Ryan Goodman, Goodman, Richard W, Painter, George W, Bush Organizations: CNN, Service, The New York Times, CBS, Trump, FBI, Justice, Justice Department, Twitter, New York University, White, DOJ Locations: Iran, Lago

☆ The chief design officer of Strava shares how she found the courage to speak up as a woman of color working in a male-dominated field
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Beyond working on brand and marketing design, product design, and research and content design, Butler strives to make the fitness website and app something for everyone. Combining her background in advertising, marketing, creative, and product design, she's at the forefront of Strava's user experience. There's about [several] functions that report to me: product design, brand design, content and copywriting, also content design and copywriting, design operations and then research. My team really works on the product experience — so the Strava app, iOS and Android, as well as our web-app experiences, desktop and mobile web. At Strava, when you're not in tech — like not product management, engineering, or product design — it seems like we're much better balanced.

Persons: Anita Patwardhan Butler, Butler, —, Strava's, she's, we're, we've, you've, Sephora, It's, Zipporah Allen, Brian Bell, I've, Linh Le Organizations: Service, Meta, Twitter, Strava, Facebook, Walmart, Hotwire, Sephora Locations: Big Tech, America, Sephora, Taiwanese, Strava, Mumbai, India, Nairobi

☆ A Republican congressman says DeSantis threatened to primary some House reps if they didn't endorse him over Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Florida congressman bashed Ron DeSantis on Trump Jr.'s show. Steube also claimed DeSantis threatened to unseat those who won't endorse him. Ron DeSantis threatened to primary members of Congress if they endorsed former President Donald Trump over him. Adding to that on Trump Jr.'s podcast, Steube said he was excluded from briefings and press conferences with DeSantis whenever they were in his district. Adding to his list of grievances against DeSantis on the podcast, the congressman from Florida said he was miffed because DeSantis threatened to primary members of Congress who didn't endorse him.

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