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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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☆ 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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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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☆ 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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☆ 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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☆ A Hollywood mega-merger for Paramount is going through: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Paramount and Skydance have agreed to terms on a merger, according to multiple reports. The deal is valued at $8 billion, according to CNBC, but has yet to be signed by Shari Redstone. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAfter weeks of negotiations, a Paramount and Skydance merger is happening, according to reports in CNBC and Deadline. The deal has yet to be signed by Shari Redstone, who owns a controlling stake in Paramount, but will be formally unveiled in days, according to CNBC.

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☆ AI-generated X-rated content is officially allowed on Musk's X
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

X is formally giving adult content the green light — with a few stipulations. But the content must be consensual, and must be labeled, X said. Elon Musk's X is formally giving X-rated content the green light, allowing adult images and video — with a few rules. Users can share nudity and sexual content — including AI-generated pornography — "provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed," the company's policy says. Content must be made and posted consensually and cannot be shared to "highly visible places" like profile photos or banners, X said.

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☆ Analysis: Another trial, this one of Biden’s son, will deepen the election’s legal entanglement
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Four days after presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts in his hush money trial in New York, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will be called to answer for federal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware. But a CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday showed that Americans believe 57% to 43% that the Manhattan jury reached the right verdict. His inflammatory remarks did not reflect the fact that his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his demagoguery are far more reflective of developing-world banana republics than a fair jury trial. Hunter Biden is entitled to the same presumption of innocence and a trial by a jury of his peers that Trump was. “I’d rather be on President Biden’s side of that contrast than on the extreme MAGA Republican side,” he said.

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☆ Opinion: Jerry Seinfeld’s nostalgia for the past has a dark side
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Opinion Nicole Hemmer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In fact, for him at least, one is not about the other; Seinfeld openly disdains politics. Like Seinfeld, Carolla imagines parts of the 20th century as a better time. Women got more jobs and power (despite, Carolla writes, being “better at home with the kids than in the workplace”) and men became metrosexuals. The masculinity they defend is adamantly heterosexual, threatened not just by women but also by gay men and gender non-confirming people. In fact, the call for a return to 1950s-style masculinity has found a number of high-profile political supporters in recent years.

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☆ Trump's guilty verdict isn't scaring off his donors
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump's conviction yesterday on falsifying business records hasn't dissuaded high-profile supporters on Wall Street — some of whom are newly energized by the historic verdict. "Bluntly, that's part of why I'm supporting him," Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, wrote on X about a potential conviction. AdvertisementTech investor David Sacks, who was reportedly in talks to hold a Trump campaign fundraiser at his San Francisco home, denounced the guilty verdict on X. "A sham trial designed for one purpose: to brand Donald Trump as a 'felon,'" Sacks wrote yesterday on X. AdvertisementIt wasn't only prominent business leaders on Wall Street circling their wagons.

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☆ Jerry Seinfeld is unfazed that 'Unfrosted' got terrible reviews: 'It doesn't matter what you think of me'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewJerry Seinfeld doesn't care that "Unfrosted," his directorial debut, got terrible reviews. I think it's funny that you hated it because you wanted to laugh and you didn't laugh." "Unfrosted" follows a handful of successful recent movies about the creation of popular products, including "Steve Jobs," "The Social Network," and "Tetris." Even though it failed to make waves, Netflix didn't lose as much money on "Unfrosted" as it could have.

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☆ 'The Apprentice' producer says Donald Trump used the n-word on set
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"The Apprentice" producer Bill Pruitt says Donald Trump used the n-word. Pruitt wrote in Slate that the moment was captured on tape, but will likely never surface. AdvertisementA producer on "The Apprentice" said Donald Trump used the n-word in a moment caught on tape that will likely never see the light of day. In an op-ed for Slate, Bill Pruitt writes that he was one of four producers on the show's first two seasons. Pruitt writes that off-camera deliberations about contestant firings were filmed in case the show was ever questioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which disallows fixing outcomes on game shows.

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☆ The era of ChatGPT-powered propaganda is upon us
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI said it disrupted five covert influence operations in the last three months. Groups in China, Russia, Iran, and Israel used its products, OpenAI said. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementChina, Iran, Russia, and others are using OpenAI tools for covert influence operations, according to the company. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ 'The Apprentice' producer says Donald Trump used the N-word on set
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The "Apprentice" producer Bill Pruitt said Donald Trump used the N-word on set. Pruitt wrote in Slate that the moment was captured on a tape that would likely never surface. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA producer on "The Apprentice" said Donald Trump used the N-word in a moment caught on tape that would likely never see the light of day. In an article he wrote for Slate, Bill Pruitt said he was one of four producers on the show's first two seasons.

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☆ Analysts defend Salesforce, saying the sell-off is overdone and AI impact is ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Even a sharp sell-off in Salesforce stock Thursday — down as much as 21% intraday — isn't keeping some analysts on Wall Street from sticking with their optimistic outlooks on the maker of customer relationship management software. Salesforce executives tied the disappointing results to elongated deal cycles throughout the first quarter that hit the company's booking schedule. Weiss reiterated an overweight rating on Salesforce, albeit with a $320 per share price target, down from $350. Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan reiterated a buy rating on Salesforce stock, but lowered his price target to $315 per share from $345. The analyst reiterated an overweight rating on the stock with a $300 per share price target, or about 10% upside from yesterday's close.

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☆ Prosecutors aren't going to take PGA star Scottie Scheffler to court
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kentucky prosecutors dropped charges against golf star Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler was arrested earlier this month just outside the PGA Championship. AdvertisementKentucky prosecutors dropped all charges against top golfer Scottie Scheffler after he was arrested while trying to get to the PGA Championship earlier this month. Police alleged that Scheffler drove past an officer who was directing traffic outside the PGA Championship before the second round began, dragging the cop. Scheffler was arrested and faced four charges, including assaulting a police officer.

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☆ North Korea launches an annoying tactic over the border: trash and manure balloons
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

North Korea floated hundreds of balloons filled with garbage and feces across the border south. North Korea had vowed retaliation after South Korean activists sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets. AdvertisementNorth Korea floated balloons carrying garbage and feces into South Korea last week, officials in Seoul said. The obnoxious floating orbs were an apparent retaliation against South Korean activists who'd previously flown anti-Pyongyang leaflets and USB drives containing K-pop music over the border. Days before the balloons landed in South Korea, a North Korean official vowed retaliation via "paper and filth," The Wall Street Journal reported.

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☆ Adam Neumann gives up on his plan to buy back WeWork
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Adam Neumann is giving up on plans to re-acquire WeWork. He called a different bankruptcy plan that cut him out "unrealistic and unlikely to succeed." AdvertisementAdam Neumann is abandoning his plans to re-acquire WeWork. Last month, the company announced a separate plan to emerge from bankruptcy that cut him out of its future. "Instead, the company looks to be emerging from bankruptcy with a plan that appears unrealistic and unlikely to succeed."

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☆ How Celtics’ clutch defense won Game 4 to sweep Pacers, advance to NBA Finals: 4 takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( The Athletic Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Jaylen Brown posted a game-high 29 points along with six rebounds, three steals and four 3-pointers to lead the Celtics. Game 1 of the NBA Finals will be played in Boston on June 6 against either the Dallas Mavericks or Minnesota Timberwolves. Celtics execute down the stretchThe longstanding question about the Celtics has been: How they will execute at the end of close games? The Pacers elevated their game in every way after losing Haliburton, forcing Boston to hone its end game execution and defensive effort. Down 3-0 in the series without Haliburton, the game could have easily turned into a blowout and the Celtics could have cruised to the NBA Finals.

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☆ When the crowd leaves Trump's hush-money trial, the judge spends his day in a very different kind of court
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

AdvertisementGetting accepted is just the startThe Manhattan mental health court is one path available to those who plead guilty to felonies. Related storiesMerchan is the sole judge of the mental health court in all of Manhattan, and has presided over it since its founding in 2011. If the office allows it, a mental health court treatment plan can become part of their plea agreement, which includes different consequences for failures. "It's really hard, a huge burden to even get so far as to be accepted into mental health court," said Orlins. If you fail the mental health court program in such a dramatic fashion, the next step can be a sentencing hearing.

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☆ Wells Fargo goes on quiet hiring spree to expand from lending. What it means for the stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

He added, "Wells Fargo could fetch a higher multiple in the market as a result." A Wells Fargo spokesperson declined to comment on the total number of CIB-related hires across all levels in the division. Wells Fargo and other banks have benefited in recent years as the Federal Reserve began hiking interest rates in March 2022. More recent data indicates that Wells Fargo's investment banking revenue share globally has jumped to No. A woman walks past Wells Fargo bank in New York City, U.S., March 17, 2020.

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☆ Boeing says its spacecraft is leaking, but it's still safe to launch US astronauts next week
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

NASA and Boeing are proceeding with a space launch after discovering a helium leak. Boeing VP Mark Nappi said the design vulnerability was "not a safety of flight issue." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementNASA and Boeing said a helium leak in its Starliner spacecraft is "stable" and won't prevent two astronauts from launching into space next week in a mission more than a decade in the making. NASA and Boeing execs said the cause of a leak in Starliner's propulsion system had been identified in a press conference on Friday, and it was safe to fly.

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☆ True believers in Spotify's Car Thing are furious it's getting bricked
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Spotify is bricking Car Thing, its first hardware launch. That's because as of December 9, the streaming platform's Car Thing is being discontinued and getting bricked. Car Thing is a small touchscreen device targeting owners of older cars without infotainment systems. It connects to smartphones and car speakers, enabling drivers to control Spotify with voice recognition and buttons. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Federal judge makes key rulings ahead of Hunter Biden’s trial on gun charges in June
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Marshall Cohen | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Wilmington, Delaware CNN —The judge in Hunter Biden’s gun case issued a series of pretrial rulings Friday, handing wins to both sides and setting the contours of the upcoming trial. Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika sided with prosecutors on a key question about what they need to prove about Biden’s drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. Prosecutors said in court that they only want to introduce a small slice of the laptop material at trial. Lawyers said the trial could last up to two weeks, including jury selection, with the potential to go longer. She also limited what references prosecutors could make at trial to his lavish spending habits at the time of the gun purchase, narrowing such evidence to spending connected to drug use.

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☆ Investor Paul Graham explains why it's better to take a job at a startup over a big company — even if it ends up failing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said you should work for startups, not big companies. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFamed entrepreneur and Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham says it's wise to work for startups over big companies — even if they're more likely to fail. Working for big companies might be "safer," the investor shared on X, but the connections forged with startup colleagues can cue up future success. "In ten years they'll be running everything," Graham wrote of startup employees, "even if the startup tanks."

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