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☆ A family bakery's hilarious feud with John Oliver over a Red Lobster auction pays off
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

John Oliver bought the contents of a defunct Red Lobster at auction, beating out a local bakery. Oliver offered to buy the bakery new equipment if it created cakes in his likeness. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA small, family-owned bakery in the Hudson Valley is getting thousands of dollars worth of new kitchen equipment following a good-humored feud with John Oliver. On Sunday's episode of HBO's "Last Week Tonight," Oliver recounted how the viral back-and-forth stemmed from a stunt on his show where he purchased all of the kitchen equipment from a shuttered Red Lobster in Kingston, NY, at auction.

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☆ Joe Biden’s agonizing wait as a jury deliberates his son’s fate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The Hunter Biden and Trump cases are vastly different, as is the way the former and current first families have responded to the trials. This is especially significant since Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, although a sentence for a first-time offender is unlikely to be that severe. The Hunter Biden trial is the latest cruel twist in the story of a family that has endured more tragedies than most could bear. The infringements on the Biden family’s dignity and privacy cut deep during the trial, which saw discomforting testimony about Hunter Biden’s former cocaine addiction. Media organizations, meanwhile, played an excerpt from Hunter Biden’s audio book that chronicles his spiral into addiction that was used in the prosecution case.

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☆ 5 Takeaways From Hunter Biden’s Conviction in a Gun Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was found guilty on three felony counts related to buying a gun while he was in the throes of drug addiction. His lawyers argued that the special counsel who brought the case, David C. Weiss, had no evidence that Mr. Biden used drugs the day of his purchase or in the surrounding period. Before deciding to convict him on all three charges, the jury heard about Mr. Biden’s spiraling addiction to crack cocaine from women in his life, as well as in Mr. Biden’s own words, which the prosecution shared by using excerpts from the audiobook of his memoir. The verdict in Mr. Biden’s trial came just weeks after former President Donald J. Trump was convicted in a Manhattan courtroom of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star. Both trials were surrounded by partisan dynamics and questions about the criminal justice system’s ability to operate without regard to politics.

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☆ NICE CMO Einat Weiss on How Marketers Use AI to Make Faster Decisions
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Julia Hood | Will Wei | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Einat Weiss has been the CMO of NICE for the last four years, and she started her career on the tech and product side. So, she has a firm understanding of how the marketing space can utilize an emerging technology like AI. "One of the things that we see now that is becoming better and better is the ability to use AI to understand consumer intent," Weiss tells Business Insider. "This helps us as marketeers to have a much more outside-in view when we plan campaigns, when we think about messaging, when we think about what would resonate — this really helps to create it correctly based on what customers are looking for versus sometimes what we want to market to them."

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☆ Live Updates: Hunter Biden Convicted of 3 Felonies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“I don’t think the average American would have been charged with the gun thing,” Senator Lindsey Graham said. The prosecution in the Hunter Biden case is plunging into a day of wrenching testimony about his personal life — a day after airing damaging details of his addiction — to prove a legal pinpoint: that he improperly checked a single box on a federal gun application. “I don’t think the average American would have been charged with the gun thing,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, told reporters this week. Why are you pursuing this one?”Lawyers for Hunter Biden agree. “Nobody is above the law,” Derek Hines, a top deputy to Mr. Weiss, said on Monday, adding, “not even Hunter Biden.”

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☆ Hunter Biden was always doomed to lose his trial. His best bet is appealing a 'vindictive prosecution.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Related VideoIn his opening statement at the trial, Biden's lawyer Abbe Lowell urged jurors in the Wilmington, Delaware, federal court to acquit his client. "They know how to put on a tight gun case." Biden's trial was not necessarily a lost cause. Hunter Biden's lawyers have argued this arrangement has perversely allowed Weiss to politicize the proceedings unchecked. This story was updated following the jury verdict in Hunter Biden's gun trial.

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☆ Elon Musk seemed less than impressed with aspects of Apple's WWDC keynote
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk seemed less than impressed with Apple's WWDC presentation Monday. He responded to posts on X about the new iPhone home screen and iPad Calculator app. Musk has been taking jabs at Apple for the better part of a decade. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk seemed slightly underwhelmed by a handful of updates Apple announced Monday during its WWDC presentation.

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☆ See the private island outside NYC that a hedge-fund exec is listing for $35 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Bridgewater Associates' Greg Jensen has listed Rogers Island for a cool $35 million. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Greg Jensen, Bridgewater Associates' co-chief investment officer, has listed his Rogers Island property in Connecticut for $35 million, The Wall Street Journal first reported. The private island — which Jensen purchased for roughly $22 million in 2018, according to the Journal — is roughly 7.7 acres and has multiple houses, a tennis court, and a putting green.

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☆ Hunter Biden may be doomed to lose his trial. His best bet is appealing a 'vindictive prosecution.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"They know how to put on a tight gun case." Biden's trial is not necessarily a lost cause. This arrangement has perversely allowed Weiss to politicize the proceedings unchecked, Hunter Biden's lawyers argued. There's no evidence that Biden even loaded or used the gun before his brother's widow, Hallie Biden, threw it out. "Obviously, the conduct that the government ought to be addressing is whether somebody is on drugs and high while they're shooting a gun," Levin said.

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☆ Eric Schmidt is poaching from Apple, SpaceX, and Google for his secretive AI military drone project
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Eric Schmidt's AI drone company is poaching from Apple, SpaceX, and Google, according to Forbes. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementEric Schmidt's AI-powered military drone venture is quietly arming up. Forbes reports the ex-Google CEO's secretive company has poached roughly a dozen employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and more over the past several months. It's also sourced key candidates from the federal government and Schmidt's own nonprofit organization, Schmidt Futures, according to Forbes.

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Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives at the federal court on the opening day of his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 3, 2024. Top House Republicans on Wednesday sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress. In his prepared opening statement at the deposition, Hunter Biden pushed back at the basis of the committee's impeachment inquiry. NBC News has reached out to the Justice Department and a representative of James Biden for comment. Hunter Biden and his attorney were in court in Wilmington and could not immediately be reached.

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☆ Trump Media says 'manipulation' is hurting its stock — and it wants the Nasdaq to help investigate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The company wants Nasdaq's help to investigate the alleged "naked" short selling. AdvertisementDonald Trump's media company is doubling down on claims there's something fishy with its stock — and it wants the Nasdaq's help investigating. In another letter to Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on Tuesday, Devin Nunes — the president of Trump Media and Technology Group — raised concerns about potential "manipulation." Nunes wants to investigate whether "Wall Street insiders" are engaged in naked short selling the stock, which trades under the DJT ticker. As of Wednesday, Trump Media had a market capitalization of roughly $8 billion.

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☆ Judge Reshuffles Hearings in Trump Documents Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case abruptly changed the proceeding’s schedule on Wednesday, reshuffling the timing for hearings on an array of important legal issues. The move by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was unlikely to have much impact on the overall trajectory of the case, but it reflected the substantial number of unresolved legal motions she is juggling. Last month, Judge Cannon scrapped the case’s trial date, saying she could not yet pick a new one because of what she described at the time as “the myriad and interconnected” questions she had still not managed to consider. Judge Cannon kept in place a hearing she had set for June 21 to discuss a motion by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that Jack Smith, the special counsel named to oversee the prosecutions of Mr. Trump, was illegally appointed to his job. Similar motions have been rejected in cases involving other special counsels, including Robert S. Mueller III, who investigated connections between Russia and Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, and David C. Weiss, who has brought two criminal cases against Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son.

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☆ Live Updates: Hunter Biden’s Former Partners Describe the Toll of His Drug Abuse
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

forward — rose in a Delaware courtroom to declare that the Justice Department’s sweeping immunity deal with Hunter Biden was not nearly as sweeping as the defense believed. His transfer coincided with efforts by congressional Republicans to portray Mr. Weiss — a Trump appointee held over by President Biden’s aides — as offering “a sweetheart deal” to the Bidens. In early 2023, he published a memoir covering the police trial, describing himself as “the prosecutor who took down Baltimore’s most crooked cops.”Mr. But he was passed over because it was believed he might clash with prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, they said. Ms. Monaco eventually chose another prosecutor from Maryland, Thomas P. Windom, to run the team.

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☆ 13 pro-Palestine protesters arrested after occupying the office of Stanford's president
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

13 protesters were arrested after barricading themselves in the office of Stanford's president. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThirteen pro-Palestine protesters were arrested at Stanford University Wednesday after they barricaded themselves inside the school president's office building. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Live Updates: Hunter Biden’s Ex-Wife, a Key Witness, Is Expected to Testify
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Kathleen Buhle in 2023. She was married to Hunter Biden from 1993 to 2017. In 2015, two months after her husband’s brother, Beau Biden, died of cancer, Ms. Buhle asked Hunter Biden to move out of their house in Washington. Soon after, Mr. Biden entered a relationship with her sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, Beau Biden’s widow. The special counsel in the case, David C. Weiss, has also signaled he intends to call Ms. Biden.

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Two of Hunter Biden’s former romantic partners — his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend — provided vivid, at times gut-wrenching, testimony on Wednesday about the depths of his drug addiction, grief and unsustainable spending in 2018, when he claimed to be drug-free on a federal firearms form. In his effort to prove that Mr. Biden lied about his drug use, the special counsel in the case, David C. Weiss, called Mr. Biden’s former wife, Kathleen Buhle, who remains locked in a yearslong fight with him over alimony payments after a 24-year marriage that ended in 2017. The prosecutors have set out to use testimony from at least three women to establish that Mr. Biden was a chronic drug abuser when he applied for a handgun in 2018. Almost all the events at issue in the trial happened in 2018, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was out of office. Ms. Buhle’s testimony laid bare the painful personal toll of Mr. Biden’s addiction.

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☆ Watch CNBC’s full interview with Branch Global's Greg Branch, American Century’s Rich Weiss and Hightower’s Stephanie Link
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC’s full interview with Branch Global's Greg Branch, American Century’s Rich Weiss and Hightower’s Stephanie LinkBranch Global's Greg Branch, American Century's Rich Weiss, and Hightower's Stephanie Link join 'Closing Bell' to discuss markets, the Fed, and their market sentiment.

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☆ Judge Cannon expands hearing on Trump’s request to declare special counsel’s appointment invalid
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Dan Berman | Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Trump’s request to declare Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling she could be more willing than any other trial judge to veto the special prosecutor’s authority. Wednesday, Cannon went further, adding a hearing on a gag order request from prosecutors to limit Trump’s rhetoric about law enforcement and allotting more time to hear arguments on the special counsel issue. Cannon’s signal of willingness to entertain challenges to the special counsel comes in the same week Republicans are bearing down on Attorney General Merrick Garland for his use of special counsels. A third group says the Department of Justice’s use of a special counsel should be upheld. Cannon still agreed to the hearing Trump wanted.

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☆ IKEA will pay you real, honest-to-god money to work in its virtual Roblox store
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

IKEA is launching a game inside Roblox — and paying some players an hourly wage to work there. Ten players will get about $17 per hour to serve up virtual meatballs and more. IKEA is looking for employees to staff a virtual store inside the popular gaming platform Roblox. The Swedish furnishings giant is launching a game called The Co-Worker — and 10 people will actually get paid to play, the company said. They'll get IKEA's hourly wage in London of £13.15 — roughly $17 — to serve up virtual versions of the retailer's famed meatballs inside the game or redesign its showroom floors.

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☆ Seafood restaurant admits it passed off frozen fish as fresh-caught for years
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Mississippi restaurant pleaded guilty to misbranding its fish. It mislabeled species, and advertised imported fish as local. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. AdvertisementAn iconic Mississippi restaurant pled guilty to misbranding the species of seafood on its menu, according to the Justice Department, and passing off imported fish as locally caught.

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☆ How AI could supercharge the Vision Pro
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It could also boost sales of the pricey Vision Pro, which has reportedly and unexpectedly received a production cut. During its most recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said more than half of the Fortune 100 companies have already bought an Apple Vision Pro. But while it’s unclear when generative AI will come to the Vision Pro, Nygugen said: “It’s only a matter of time.”That’s because the Vision Pro is merely just another interface – much like a tablet, laptop, or watch, that touches Apple’s ecosystem. The Vision Pro, the tech giant's $3,499 headset, is its first major release since the Apple Watch nine years ago. “Vision Pro just came out a few months ago and it needs to get its feet under it before it really starts to take off,” Llamas said.

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☆ 5 killed after floods engulf southern Germany
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Billy Stockwell | Inke Kappeler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Five people have died and thousands were evacuated in southern Germany after heavy rainfall hit the region and caused vast floods, prompting warnings from senior officials that the climate crisis was set to worsen extreme weather in the country. After heavy rainfall, the German Armed Forces has sent 800 personnel to the region to help with rescue efforts. Record floods occur every few years … record rainfall every few years,” Habeck, of the Greens Party, told broadcaster n-tv. Deadly floods hit Western Europe in 2021, with at least 220 people killed between July 12 and 15, mostly in Germany. Other areas of Europe have also been affected by heavy rainfall in recent days.

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☆ Hunter Biden’s Ex-Wife, a Key Witness, Is Expected to Testify in Gun Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As the government deepens its argument against Hunter Biden, prosecutors are expected to start calling his former partners to the stand on Wednesday, inviting them to air sordid details of his life and the depths of his addiction to crack cocaine. On Tuesday, prosecutors presented texts that showed Hunter Biden’s desperate scramble to obtain crack cocaine in the spring and summer of 2018. A day later, in his cross-examination, Mr. Lowell was able to get an F.B.I. agent to admit that none of the material covered his activity in the fall. The two divorced in 2017 after nearly a quarter-century of marriage and have three daughters.

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The first day of testimony in Hunter Biden’s trial on gun-related charges kicked off Tuesday with the surreal sound of the defendant’s own voice ringing through the courtroom, narrating his descent into drug addiction, when prosecutors played the audiobook of his memoir. It ended with bitter written words: expletive-laced, panicked texts to Hallie Biden, his brother’s widow and his onetime girlfriend, berating her for disposing of a handgun and warning, presciently, that it might set off a federal investigation. The government’s case against President Biden’s son — for all the drama, media swirl and complex political dynamics — is pretty straightforward legally: proving that Mr. Biden was abusing drugs when he filled out a federal firearms application claiming he was not an “unlawful user” of controlled substances. Prosecutors stressed that point in their 15-minute opening argument before a packed courtroom that included Jill Biden, the first lady. Lying on a federal gun application is illegal and “nobody is allowed to lie, not even Hunter Biden,” said Derek Hines, a top deputy to the special counsel, David C. Weiss.

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