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☆ The Best Credit Cards With No Annual Fee
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +11 min

To help you pick the right option for your needs, Buy Side from WSJ has identified the five best no annual fee cards. (See all our Best Rewards Credit Card picks.) Best for travelDiscover it® Miles learn more Base rewards rate: 1.5xBonus rewards: NoneSign-up bonus: Unlimited miles match after first 12 monthsAnnual fee: NoneAPR: 16.74% to 27.74%, variableForeign transaction fee: 0%Many of the top travel rewards cards come with an annual fee (see our Best Travel Credit Cards picks for proof). How we pickedTo pick Buy Side from WSJ’s Best No Annual Fee Credit Cards we looked at personal and business cards that were free to swipe and that offered the most generous cash back or points rewards. To find out more about how we chose credit cards—and to meet our panel of experts—you can also check out Buy Side from WSJ’s full best credit cards methodology.

Middle-income households are less likely to have access to resources like Medicaid and food stamps. The report, by Drexel's Autism Institute, looked at the intersection of poverty, race, and health outcomes for autistic youth. Children with autism from middle-income households, or households at 200% to 399% of the federal poverty line, actually had the worst health outcomes out of all income classes. The first, Dr. Anderson pointed out, was that middle-income households are less likely to be eligible for Medicaid. While some states offer waivers for kids with autism from middle-income households, it's far from a universal practice.

☆ How to Read Your Pay Stub
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +14 min

So residents of these states may have to work a little harder to track their earnings if their employer elects to forgo sharing pay stub documents. Only residents of California, Hawaii, New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico will see this on their pay stub, according to Greene-Lewis. 10. pretax DeductionsDepending what workplace benefits are offered by your company and which ones you’ve elected to participate in, you may see pretax or before-tax deductions listed on your pay stub in addition to the various taxes you must pay. There is also another kind of common FSA you might be contributing to that could appear on your pay stub: the dependent-care FSA. Any after-tax withholding your employer makes should be noted on the pay stub.

☆ How to Read a Form 1098-E
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +10 min

By Kerri Anne RenzulliIf you have student loans, chances are you’ll encounter the IRS’s Form 1098-E. Those with multiple loans across multiple lenders will be sent a separate 1098-E form by each lending institution. But for those who do, this mark indicates that you took out your student loan before Sept. 1, 2004. Instead of relying on the Form 1098-E, you’ll need to request or download records of what you paid in interest and your payment history from your loan servicer, says Greene-Lewis. Who can claim the student loan interest deduction The $2,500 deduction phases out as your modified adjusted gross income rises.

☆ Marianne Mantell Helped Put the Voice Back in Poetry
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( James R. Hagerty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Marianne Mantell’s company paid Dylan Thomas a $500 advance to read his poetry on a record album. Marianne Roney struggled to make a living in the early 1950s by writing liner notes for record albums and translating opera libretti. Men who ran record companies often asked her for ideas about what they should record—but rejected all of her suggestions. One day, in exasperation, she blurted: Why not poetry?

☆ AMC Networks names a new CEO: Kristin Dolan, spouse of chairman James Dolan
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

AMC Networks , the company that owns TV channels like AMC and IFC, named Kristin Dolan its new CEO on Wednesday. She's an industry veteran, and most recently served as CEO of 605, a data analytics firm that measures audience numbers for TV networks. She is also the spouse, albeit separated, of James Dolan, the AMC Networks interim executive chairman James Dolan. The Dolan family has been considering the best way to move AMC Networks forward as it deals with cord-cutting and a tight ad market. For some time now, AMC Networks has been considered an acquisition target for larger media companies looking to bulk up their libraries.

However, Boiardi said an earlier proposal from the industry for totally single-pilot flying by 2030 was "absolutely not realistic", because automation had not advanced far enough and solo flying required a level of safety equivalent to existing operations. Solo flying, even in cruise, needs approval from the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization, individual airlines and their pilot unions. Even limited solo flying, however, is dividing airlines and raising public fears, while sparking a growing backlash among pilot groups like the European Cockpit Association. Airbus said in a statement it was studying the concept of a single pilot in the cruise phase but not wholly single-pilot flights. Consumer resistance, however, could result in single-pilot flying starting with cargo flights, industry officials said.

☆ ‘Nobody wants to come this way’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Filed: February 1, 2023, 11 a.m. GMTTheir journey starts with a humanitarian visa for Brazil: one of the few remaining exit routes for Afghans fleeing Taliban rule. More than a year after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, the number of Afghans crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum in the United States has soared. Hundreds of people each month are risking their lives to get there on a human smuggling route notorious for kidnapping, robbery and assault. Eleven said they made it to the United States; Reuters has not been able to confirm the whereabouts of one person a reporter interviewed in Mexico. In recent weeks, Taliban spokesmen have said that Afghanistan is the “home of all Afghans” and that those who have left can come back.

☆ U.S.-China friction stokes concern among some top finance bosses
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Carmine Di Sibio, Global Chairman and CEO of EY, speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 2, 2022. Anne Richards, CEO of the $610 billion money manager Fidelity International, put her level of worry about a potential decoupling of the two economies at 6 out of 10 when asked during a panel discussion. EY global chair and CEO Carmine Di Sibio put his own level of concern at 9 out of 10. EY's Di Sibio told the event U.S. administration officials were "extremely aggressive" about the extent of business with China particularly in technology, adding this was the case across much of the West. But the politics are really in the way and I am worried that they're not getting better," Di Sibio said.

In TV, the top 10 list ranges from the indefinable second season of “The White Lotus” to laugh-out-loud comedies and smoldering fantasy shows. “Catch the Fair One” is available on Hulu and various video-on-demand platforms. “Paris, 13th District” is available on Amazon Prime Video and various video-on-demand platforms. “Peter Von Kant” is available on various video-on-demand platforms. “Tár” is available on various video-on-demand platforms.

AMC Networks told its employees Tuesday that it is planning significant layoffs, according to a memo obtained by CNBC and people familiar with the matter. In recent years, AMC Networks has been seen as an acquisition target for larger media companies. We have directed the executive leadership of AMC Networks to undergo significant cutbacks in operations. These will include a large-scale layoff as well as cuts to every operating area of AMC Networks. We are confident that AMC Networks will come through this even stronger.

☆ Florida is running out of homes people can actually afford
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She worries she won't be able to find an affordable home in Florida if hers can't be repaired. But with housing inventory levels falling in Florida and demand rising, she is having a difficult time finding a permanent home she can afford. Conditions continue to worsen as natural disasters destroy its limited supply of existing inventory and builders slow down their production of affordable housing. That will make it harder for residents like Ulrich, who plans to remain in Florida, to find safe and affordable housing. Ray says the pullback in affordable inventory has exacerbated the crisis, especially as transplants move into the market.

"Interview with the Vampire" is a new series based on the popular book by Anne Rice. You can watch new episodes on AMC Plus and the AMC cable channel every Sunday through November 13. "Interview with the Vampire'' is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by author Anne Rice. How to watch 'Interview with the Vampire' (2022)You can watch "Interview with the Vampire" season one every Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on AMC. You can watch "Interview with the Vampire" for free if you sign up for an AMC Plus trial.

☆ Shanghai bourse kicks off week-long conference to woo global investors
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SHANGHAI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) kicks off on Wednesday a week-long global conference to promote China's capital markets, according to an official agenda, the latest in a flurry of activities by regulators to woo international investors. Participants at the annual SSE Global Investor Conference, to be held Nov. 9-16, and closed to the media, include Chinese regulators, executives from global banks and asset managers such as abrdn, Deutsche Bank and PIMCO. At the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong last week, the country's senior financial regulators reaffirmed China's commitment to economic growth as a priority. Senior Chinese officials also sent similar messages at the China International Import Expo over the weekend. In the "fireside chat" section, senior officials from China's securities and foreign exchange regulators will talk about promoting the opening-up of China's capital market, and facilitating cross-border investment.

Nov 2 (Reuters) - A Florida judge was due to formally sentence Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a school in Parkland, to life in prison on Wednesday. A jury voted last month to spare Cruz, 24, the death penalty, instead choosing life in prison without possibility of parole for one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Cruz pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder, then faced the three-month penalty trial earlier this year. A number of victims' relatives castigated the jury's decision and criticized a state law requirement that all 12 jurors be unanimous in order to sentence a convicted person to be executed. Many victims' relatives directly addressed Cruz, who sat inscrutable behind large spectacles and a COVID-19 mask at a table alongside his public defenders.

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Grieving relatives of the 17 students and teachers killed in a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, confronted the killer, Nikolas Cruz, with tearful, angry words as his sentencing hearing began on Tuesday. The jury voted to spare Cruz from the death penalty for one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, a decision several survivors' relatives decried in court as injustice. [1/4] Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz enters the courtroom for the sentencing hearing in Cruz’s trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, U.S. on Monday, Nov. 1, 2022. Cruz was 19 at the time of his attack and had been expelled from the school. Florida law requires that Scherer must follow the jury's recommendation in formally sentencing Cruz.

☆ Halloween movies to get you into the spooky spirit
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Halloween entertainment is serving major nostalgia this year, with some of our favorite spooky classics being remade, or better yet, getting a sequel. “Hocus Pocus 2” brings back Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as your favorite witches to get you ready for Halloween. “Halloween Ends”Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween Ends" Ryan Green/Universal PicturesForty-four years and 13 movies later, “Halloween Ends” is back to give you a fright. The movie tells the story of a man named Michael Myers who escapes an insane asylum. “Beetlejuice”1988 Warner BrothersBeetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!!!

But France's BEA accident agency also revealed earlier discussions between Air France and Airbus about the reliability of the probes, and made dozens of safety recommendations from cockpit design to training and search-and-rescue. The relative roles of pilot or sensor error will be key to the trial, exposing differences that insiders say plunged Airbus and Air France into in-fighting behind the scenes for over a decade. We don't want Airbus or Air France to turn this trial into a conference of engineers," said lawyer Sebastien Busy. It is the first time French companies face trial for "involuntary manslaughter" following an air crash. It's their reputations...that's what's at stake for (Air France and Airbus)," said families lawyer Alain Jakubowicz.

But France's BEA accident agency also revealed earlier discussions between Air France and Airbus about growing problems with external "pitot probes" that generate the speed readings. We don't want Airbus or Air France to turn this trial into a conference of engineers," said lawyer Sebastien Busy. It is the first time French companies have gone on trial for "involuntary manslaughter" following an air crash. It's their reputations... that's what's at stake for (Air France and Airbus)," said families lawyer Alain Jakubowicz. Rigail expressed "the deepest compassion" after telling the court Air France would never forget its worst-ever accident.

Before Hurricane Ian caused billions of dollars in damage in Florida, Alaura Miller considered herself a part of the lower middle class. Miller, 60, a retired barber, is among Floridians on low or fixed incomes struggling to find affordable housing in one of the nation's most popular and expensive states to live. "Florida came into this hurricane season already having a shortage of affordable housing, particularly for people who are working in service jobs and other lower wage jobs," said Anne Ray, a researcher at the University of Florida's Shimberg Center for Housing Studies. "And so, people who have lost their homes are going to be competing with the people who are already trying to find affordable housing. She added: "I've never been put in a position before where I've had to worry about where I'm going to live or where I'm going to go."

☆ 'Interview With the Vampire' review: AMC pumps fresh blood into Anne Rice's story
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Desperate to replace “The Walking Dead,” AMC might have completed an improbable baton pass from zombies to another kind of undead. In that sense, this seems to have been produced at least as much with AMC+ in mind as the linear network AMC. Sam Reid as Lestat Du Lioncourt and Jacob Anderson as Louis De Pointe Du Lac in "Interview with the Vampire." “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire” premieres October 2 at 10 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+.

☆ Răspândirea rapidă a gripei aviare pune în alertă sectorul avicol din UE
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-27 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Boala a fost descoperită în Franţa, Olanda, Germania, Marea Britanie, Belgia, Danemarca, Irlanda, Suedia şi, recent, în Croaţia, Slovenia şi Polonia, după ce a lovit grav Rusia, Kazahstan şi Israel. La fel cum este cazul pentru alte boli animale, descoperirea unor focare de gripă aviară ar putea determina ţările importatoare să introducă restricţii comerciale. Cu toate acestea, decizia ţărilor importatoare de a limita restricţiile numai la regiunile afectate de virusul gripei aviare, a ajutat la limitarea impactului. De exemplu, China a suspendat importurile de carne de pasăre numai pentru produsele care provin din patru regiuni din Rusia, din cauza gripei aviare. Până acum nu există cazuri semnalate de transmitere a virusului gripei aviare de la păsări la oameni însă descoperirea unor astfel de focare a impus demararea unor campanii de sacrificare, iar fermierilor li s-a ordonat să ţină păsările închise.

Persons: Friedrich, Anne Richard, Denis Lambert Organizations: Autoritatea Europeană Locations: Franţa, Olanda, Germania, Britanie, Belgia, Danemarca, Irlanda, Suedia, Croaţia, Slovenia, Polonia, Rusia, Kazahstan, Israel, Europa, China

☆ Răspândirea foarte rapidă a gripei aviare pune în pericol sectorul avicol din UE
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +4 min

O tulpină foarte contagioasă şi periculoasă a gripei aviare se răspândeşte rapid în Europa, punând în stare de alertă sectorul avicol, având în vedere că precedentele episoade au obligat sacrificarea a zeci de mii de păsări şi au provocat pierderi economice importante, transmite Reuters.Boala a fost descoperită în Franţa, Olanda, Germania, Marea Britanie, Belgia, Danemarca, Irlanda, Suedia şi, recent, în Croaţia, Slovenia şi Polonia, după ce a lovit grav Rusia, Kazahstan şi Israel.Marea majoritate a cazurilor de gripă aviară sunt descoperite în rândul păsărilor migratoare însă au fost raportate şi cazuri de infecţie în rândul păsărilor din ferme, ceea ce a condus, până acum, la eutanasierea a cel puţin 1,6 milioane de pui şi raţe în întreaga regiune, scrie agerpres.ro În Olanda, cel mai mare exportator european de carne de pasăre şi ouă, aproape 500.000 de pui au murit sau au fost sacrificaţi din cauza virusului în toamna acestui an, şi peste 900.000 de găini au murit săptămâna aceasta la o singură fermă din Polonia, au precizat autorităţile din cele două ţări. "Am lucrat din greu pentru a îmbunătăţi siguranţa, să îi pregătim pe crescători şi să îmbunătăţim trasabilitatea şi sperăm că dacă vor apărea cazuri vom reuşi să le ţinem sub control", a spus Anne Richard, preşedintele Asociaţiei crescătorilor de păsări din Franţa (ANVOL).Majoritatea ţărilor au ridicat gradul de alertă la "ridicat", ceea ce înseamnă că toate tipurile de păsări trebuie ţinute în spaţii închise sau protejate astfel încât să evite contactul cu păsările sălbatice.La fel cum este cazul pentru alte boli animale, descoperirea unor focare de gripă aviară ar putea determina ţările importatoare să introducă restricţii comerciale. Aceste restricţii s-ar adăuga izolărilor decise din cauza coronavirusului, care riscă să afecteze vânzările în perioada importantă a sărbătorilor de sfârşit de an. "Este deja dificil să exporţi cu COVID, ar fi şi mai greu", a spus Denis Lambert, directorul general de la LDC, cel mai mare producător de carne de pasăre din Franţa.Cu toate acestea, decizia ţărilor importatoare de a limita restricţiile numai la regiunile afectate de virusul gripei aviare, a ajutat la limitarea impactului. De exemplu, China a suspendat importurile de carne de pasăre numai pentru produsele care provin din patru regiuni din Rusia, din cauza gripei aviare.Până acum nu există cazuri semnalate de transmitere a virusului gripei aviare de la păsări la oameni însă descoperirea unor astfel de focare a impus demararea unor campanii de sacrificare, iar fermierilor li s-a ordonat să ţină păsările închise.

Persons: Friedrich, Anne Richard, Denis Lambert Locations: Europa, Franţa, Olanda, Germania, Britanie, Belgia, Danemarca, Irlanda, Suedia, Croaţia, Slovenia, Polonia, Rusia, Kazahstan, China

☆ 50% of people have quit because of a bad manager—here are the 10 boss behaviors workers hate most
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-07 | by ( Kerri Anne Renzulli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

It's a common adage that people leave managers, not companies. The same study found that for most workers, managers fall somewhat short when it comes to developing their employees' strengths, providing consistent feedback and establishing clear performance goals. But workers also often deal with far more toxic behavior from their bosses than those three issues — and when that happens, it sends them running to job sites immediately. So what manager behaviors provoke the ire of employees most? That's according to a survey of more than 800 employees conducted by Signs.com, a company that creates customized signage and presentation materials.

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