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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHow olive oil startup Graza brings in $48 million a yearDuring a visit to Spain, Andrew Benin discovered his passion for high-quality olive oil. He went on to found Graza, a single varietal olive oil, in 2022. Graza is projected to bring in $48.4 million in 2024.

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☆ Biden to meet with Zelensky in Normandy and at next week’s G7, White House says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Sam Fossum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while he is in Normandy, France, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. CNN previously reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not extended an invitation, according to a French presidential source. Sullivan added that Biden is also expected to meet with Zelensky during the G7 in Italy next week. “In the course of a little more than a week, the president will have two substantive engagements with President Zelensky,” Sullivan said. The two leaders last met in person when Zelensky was in Washington, DC, in December 2023 to make an in-person plea for military and economic aid.

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He also warned that the death of any Filipino citizen at the hands of another country in the South China Sea would be “very close” to an act of war. It is also a rare opportunity to hear from, and pose questions to, senior Chinese military leaders. Robert Ward, IISS Japan chair, told CNN he felt Dong’s tone was “more shrill” than he’s seen in previous speeches by Chinese defense chiefs at the gathering. “The strategic environment in Asia has actually got more tense and I think we saw that in the Chinese defense minister’s speech today,” Ward said. “Every year for three years, a new Chinese defense minister has come to Shangri-La,” the official told CNN.

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Zelensky’s surprise attendance at the gathering is a stark illustration of Kyiv’s determination to keep the international community engaged in Ukraine’s defense – and its vision for peace – more than two years into Russia’s devastating invasion. A CNN team at the summit witnessed Zelensky and his delegation arriving. His attendance at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore provides a rare opportunity for Zelensky to potentially meet with defense chiefs from across the Asia-Pacific, including China which has deepened its relations with Moscow since the war. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and defense heads from US allies Australia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as China’s Defense Minster Dong Jun are expected to be in attendance for the three-day gathering. Announcing his arrival at the summit, Zelensky said in a statement on X that he would hold “a number of meetings,” in particular with Austin, Singapore’s president and prime minister, Timor-Leste’s president and Singaporean investors.

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☆ Early retirees and financially independent investors share 3 IRS rules they've used to avoid taxes and improve their finances
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Business Insider has spoken to financially independent real estate investors and early retirees who have used IRS rules to improve their financial situation. AdvertisementThough there are a lot of restrictions, it made sense for Cooper, who was fully committed to early retirement. "The longer it's sitting in there, the more money it's going to generate, the more taxes you're going to pay down the road. Zeona McIntyre uses 1031 exchanges to sidestep capital-gains taxes indefinitelyBoulder-based real estate investor and author of "30-Day Stay," Zeona McIntyre. There are ways to reduce your capital-gains tax liability, like deducting your property's depreciation.

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☆ Opinion | Election Security, Trump-Style
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Katherine Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

building — are dedicated to one cause: election integrity.”She was sitting between her husband, Eric, and Jason Simmons, who is the new North Carolina G.O.P. “Election integrity,” in Donald Trump’s telling, tends to be about the past; party co-chairs like Ms. Trump usually talk about the present. The three sat onstage, motionless, as Mr. Trump talked about the border, then eventually, came to North Carolina. Theoretically, that Mr. Trump won while a Democrat won the governorship offers the best proof of all that the election was not stolen. But perhaps because to concede his own success in one place would render his failure elsewhere unbearable, Mr. Trump must instead believe that fraud took place there as well, and that Michael Whatley defeated it.

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☆ 3 quick and easy anti-inflammatory recipes, backed by a nutritionist
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last year, Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she eats an anti-inflammatory diet after suffering from long COVID. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet — meaning mostly fresh or minimally processed foods and minimal highly processed foods — can help reduce inflammation, according to the Cleveland Clinic. "Mushrooms contain multiple natural anti-inflammatory compounds, including essential vitamins and minerals, as well as numerous anti-inflammatory metabolites," Kodamala said. "Turmeric contains the active ingredient curcumin, which is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, making it a real powerhouse to include in your diet," she said. Nuts may also have anti-inflammatory properties, according to a 2023 review, and so might ginger, according to a 2022 review — but more research is needed on both.

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☆ Fmr. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: Neither party wants to have a real discussion about spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | 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 EmailFmr. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: Neither party wants to have a real discussion about spendingEric Cantor, Moelis and Company vice chairman and managing director and former House Majority Leader, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the 2024 race, impact of former President Trump's criminal trials, M&A environment, and more.

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☆ The South Park jinx could be coming for high-flying weight-loss stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"One year after appearing on South Park, the median stock underperforms the S&P 500 by 7%," Spectra Markets said. South Park: The End of Obesity special released last week tackled the growing popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro as Eric Cartman tries to get his hands on the hugely popular weight-loss drugs. Advertisement"One year after appearing on South Park, the median stock underperforms the S&P 500 by 7%," Spectra Markets President Brent Donnelly said. "South Park has a 20+ year history of capturing the cultural zeitgeist and it's impossible to argue that anything that is lampooned on South Park is not priced in," Donnelly said. But not all those featured on South Park saw their stock prices peak shortly thereafter, with Microsoft, Yelp, and Netflix bucking the trend.

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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMy Korean restaurant brings in $1.8 million a year—here's what it costs to runAt 27, Ji Hye Kim quit her job at a medical administration company to become a cheesemonger at Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Eight years later, she opened her own Korean restaurant, Miss Kim. Ji Hye is now a James Beard Award semifinalist. In 2023, her restaurant brought in $1.8 million in sales. Ji Hye passes much of that revenue on to her staff, paying them $12-$15 per hour and sharing the restaurant's profits with them.

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CNN —China’s military drills around Taiwan are designed to test its ability to “seize power” over the island, the People’s Liberation Army said Friday as its forces kicked off a second day of large-scale exercises encircling its democratic neighbor. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has condemned China’s military exercises as “irrational provocations” and dispatched its own sea, air and ground forces in response. A total of 19 Chinese warships and seven coast guard vessels were detected near the Taiwan Strait, according to the ministry. China Coast Guard drill near Taiwan. China Coast Guard/Weibo‘Blockading Taiwan’China’s military drills are often as much about playing to a domestic audience as signaling intentions internationally, and state media has ramped up coverage of the drills.

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Taipei CNN —Thousands of mostly young protesters surrounded Taiwan’s legislature late into the night on Tuesday, protesting a push by opposition parties to subject the island’s new leader and his administration to tighter scrutiny from a parliament controlled by lawmakers who favor closer ties to China. Meanwhile, the president would be required to deliver an annual address to the parliament on key policy issues. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, as the parliament resumed its meeting to discuss the bill, protesters gathered outside the Legislative Yuan – Taiwan’s unicameral parliament – from morning until midnight, braving downpours in the afternoon. Lai, 64, a former doctor and vice president, was inaugurated Monday alongside new Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, who recently served as Taiwan’s top envoy to the United States. Both leaders and their party are openly loathed by Beijing for championing Taiwan’s sovereignty.

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☆ An early retiree shares 3 money moves he made to save seven figures, quit work at 48, and still live comfortably: 'You don't have to live on ramen'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewFor most of his career, Eric Cooper wasn't pursuing early retirement or financial independence. He used most of his part-time job earnings to pay off the mortgages on his four rental properties. Here are three money moves he made in his 20s and 30s to retire by 48 while still living comfortably. "My net worth was really starting to take off with four rental properties and a nice paying job," he said. So those rental properties buffered that a bit because they allowed me to have that income coming in still and some extra peace of mind."

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☆ A 50-year-old retiree says his 'biggest mistake' was saving too much in his 401(k). He explains what he would do differently and his work-around for being illiquid when he retired.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewIn his early 20s, one of Eric Cooper's first bosses gave him some sound money advice: Contribute as much as you can to your 401(k). AdvertisementCooper maxed out his 401(k) for more than two decades and accumulated enough to retire in his late 40s. While there are a lot of restrictions, it made sense for Cooper, who was fully committed to early retirement. At some point, we're going to have to start spending that money, and the IRS is going to start taxing it," he said.

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Lai, 64, a former doctor, was inaugurated alongside new Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, who recently served as Taiwan’s top envoy to the United States. Both leaders and their party are openly loathed by Beijing for championing Taiwan’s sovereignty. Lai takes up the mantle from DPP predecessor Tsai Ing-wen, who bolstered the island’s international standing and recognition during her eight years in office. He is also expected to project goodwill to China with a message of pursuing peace and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait. That deliberately nuanced stance mimics his outgoing predecessor Tsai, Taiwan’s first female president, who was unable to stand again because of term limits.

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☆ An early retiree shares the advice he received in his early 20s that helped him retire at age 48 — and how he invested his money to build a seven-figure portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It aligned with the life-changing money advice he received from a boss in his early 20s. The stock market: from tech stocks to low-cost index fundsCooper's investment strategy has evolved over the years. AdvertisementTo lower his risk, "I am in the process of transitioning my portfolio to mostly low-cost index funds, which are very popular among the FI community." "They're all paid off and bring in about $65,000 a year in rent," he said, adding that they played an important role in his early retirement. Advertisement"I think the easier route is to invest in low-cost index funds," he said, noting that the playbook is much simpler.

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☆ An early retiree explains the IRS rule he uses to withdraw $20,000 a year of his retirement money penalty-free even though he hasn't reached age 59 ½
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Courtesy of Eric CooperThe idea of early retirement didn't start to percolate until 2019. "That's when I found the Mr. Money Mustache website and this article that explained the simple math behind early retirement and the 4% rule." According to the 4% rule, which helps retirees determine how much they can spend without running out of money, Cooper had a big enough portfolio to stop working. Using Rule 72(t) to access his retirement money without penaltyWhen you contribute to retirement accounts like a 401(k) and IRA, you can start taking penalty-free withdrawals after age 59½. He rolled over $300,000 because that's about how much money he'll need for a $20,000 annual distribution each year until he's 59 ½.

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☆ Developing Taiwan’s own ‘Starlink’ crucial for island-wide emergency, space agency says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Eric Cheung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“The communication satellite is very important for our communication resilience during urgent periods,” Wu said, calling it his agency’s most sensitive project. Taiwanese authorities previously announced the space agency would develop two communication satellites, the first of which could be launched by 2026. Wu Jong-shinn, director general of the Taiwan Space Agency, speaks to CNN on March 5, 2024 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. In the future, Taiwan’s satellite system could replace third-party deals, but Wu, the space agency director, declined to provide more specific details about the project’s timeline. A rocket model in development at the Taiwan Space Agency on March 5, 2024 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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☆ Trump’s bombardment of dishonesty: Fact-checking 32 of his false claims to Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +43 min

We’re paying for close to 100% of NATO.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. They don’t pay their bills.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. (It rose to about $314 billion in 2020, Trump’s last full year in office.) Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Facts First: Trump’s claim that “nobody died other than Ashli” is false.

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☆ Trump gives his strongman’s ambitions free rein on a day off from court
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Donald Trump used his day off from a criminal trial related to a past election to cast a dark, familiar shadow over the next one. Trump cut an unrecognizable figure from the grim ex-president who bleats a daily dirge of complaints about his hush money trial outside Judge Juan Merchan’s court. On specific issues, surveys show Trump leading Biden on most issues including the economy, immigration, and the Israel-Hamas war. “A chilling glimpse into Trump’s second term plansSix months before the election, Trump’s searing campaign rhetoric is becoming less an exercise in performative demagoguery than a blueprint for a potential second term. In the Time interview, Trump comes across as confident and determined to learn the lessons of his first term in which he claims he was let down by “bad” officials.

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☆ Exploring Pittsburgh’s Legacy of Steel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Leslie Wayne | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. If there is one word that defines Pittsburgh, it is steel. Steel is in Pittsburgh’s DNA. It’s embedded in the name of the city’s football team and is the source of the industrial wealth that put Pittsburgh on the map. This month, steel is being celebrated in a different way at the city’s Carnegie Museum of Art.

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☆ WADA to launch independent review into its handling of doping case involving Chinese swimming
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has commissioned an independent review into its handling of a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers after the organization said that it had been the subject of “damaging and baseless allegations.”The development comes after WADA was criticized by members of the anti-doping community, sparking a dispute which looks set to overshadow events in the pool at this year’s Olympics in Paris. “We have no evidence of any sort of skullduggery or planting of trimetazidine,” Wenzel told reporters on Monday. “In the past few days, WADA has been unfairly accused of bias in favor of China by not appealing the CHINADA [China Anti-Doping Agency] case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport,” added Bańka. Trimetazidine has the potential to boost endurance and has been banned by WADA since 2014. WADA said that Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier, attorney general of Vaud in Switzerland for 17 years until his retirement in 2022, will lead the review into the handling of the case.

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☆ WADA Appoints Special Prosecutor in Chinese Doping Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Michael S. Schmidt | Tariq Panja | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The World Anti-Doping Agency on Thursday appointed a special prosecutor to review how 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned drug were allowed to avoid public scrutiny and compete at the 2021 Olympics, where they won gold medals and set records. The decision to appoint the special prosecutor, Eric Cottier of Switzerland, came amid an outcry from top government officials, antidoping experts and authorities, and athletes over the way Chinese antidoping officials and the global regulator, known as WADA, handled the positives. “WADA’s integrity and reputation is under attack,” the WADA president, Witold Banka, said in a statement. “In the past few days, WADA has been unfairly accused of bias in favor of China by not appealing the Chinada case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. We continue to reject the false accusations and we are pleased to be able to put these questions into the hands of an experienced, respected and independent prosecutor.”

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☆ Lenford Crawford was found guilty of conspiring with Jennifer Pan to kill her parents. Here's where he is today.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jennifer Pan is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, "What Jennifer Did." Prior to planning her parents' murder with Wong and Crawford, Pan had previously asked a former classmate to kill her parents for her, but that classmate refused, Toronto Life reported. Toronto Life reported that Crawford gave Pan a discounted rate — $10,000 vs. a standard $20,000 — to kill her parents since she was a friend of Wong's. Through analyzing phone calls and text messages, police identified Crawford, Wong, Mylvaganam, and Carty, and arrested them in early 2011. If they don't, then Crawford, Pan, Wong, and Mylvaganam can seek parole on the attempted murder charge.

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☆ Ancient skeletons unearthed in France reveal Mafia-style killings
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Alain BeechingThe researchers also reviewed skeletons found at other archaeological sites across Europe and identified 20 other probable instances of similar sacrificial killings. The practice may have been relatively widespread in Neolithic, or late Stone Age, Europe, according to the study, published in the journal Science Advances last week. The study said the actual number was probably higher but there was insufficient information about skeletons at other archaeological sites to draw firm conclusions. The three skeletons were buried in a grave built in the style of a silo, where grain is typically stored, inside a wooden structure and surrounded by a trench. At the other sites across Europe, men and children as well as women were also found sacrificed in this way, the study said.

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