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☆ Burgum set to decide on massive pipeline project that’s pitting his rural constituents against GOP megadonors
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Allison Gordon | Casey Tolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Hamm also donated $50 million toward Burgum’s effort to build a presidential library honoring Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota. CNBC first reported on Burgum’s financial ties with Continental, and the Associated Press previously reported on the politics of the Summit pipeline debate. Gaylen Dewing and Marvin Abraham put up a sign opposing the Summit pipeline east of Bismarck, N.D. in August 2023. Supporters say it will be an economic driver for North Dakota and help reduce emissions across the Midwest. North Dakota landowner Kurt Swenson attends a court hearing related to the pipeline project.

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CNN —India’s T20 World Cup-winning cricket team will finally be able to fly home Tuesday after being stuck in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl, a powerful storm churning through the Caribbean. CNN has reached out to India’s Board of Control for Cricket for comment. The hurricane made landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island in the Caribbean Sea on Monday morning, causing extreme damage and one confirmed death. As of early Tuesday, Hurricane Beryl had winds of 165 miles (265 kilometers) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). India’s T20 World Cup victory – its first since winning the inaugural 2007 edition – sparked emotional celebrations after a year of heartbreak for many of its players, who lost to Australia in the finals of both the ODI Cricket World Cup and World Test Championship.

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☆ Skirt Steak, Long Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a famous New York City dream where you discover an extra room in your apartment and it changes your life, at least until you get used to having the space. I experienced a version of that in my waking life recently. I arose early, showered, got dressed and made to head off to work. What to make for dinner on such a charmed and unexpected day? Skirt steak with salsa verde salad (above), please, the meat grilled rare and the hearts of romaine just singed at the edges.

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☆ I was rejected from Google 7 times. Here's what I changed to finally land my dream job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Qingyue Annie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewMy journey to finally landing a job at Google was an emotional roller coaster. Looking up at the stars on my walk home, I'd remember why I was working for my goal, grit my teeth, and do one more round of practice. My final attemptWhile I valued my experience at Amazon, Google still felt like an elusive dream to me. Qingyue(Annie) WangI have the job of my dreamsIt's been two years since I got the news that I'd finally landed a job at my dream company. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to finally experience Google's culture and even become an internal career coach to support other Googlers in their career growth.

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☆ Pfizer struggles to claw back faith with Wall Street and its employees as it recovers from the Covid decline
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

But other current employees are dissatisfied with where the strategy shift has left them. In January 2023, Pfizer forecast a steep drop in annual revenue, to between $67 billion and $71 billion. Pfizer's 2023 revenue ultimately came in at $58.5 billion, including $11.22 billion from its Covid vaccine and $1.28 billion from Paxlovid. Faith in executive leadership also plunged among some workers, according to most of the current and former employees who spoke with CNBC. Some current workers said that hasn't appeared to change after the town hall on May 2.

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☆ Jonathan van Ness breaks silence over claims they were abusive on 'Queer Eye.' Here's a complete timeline of the drama surrounding Bobby Berk's exit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Olivia Singh | Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The reboot, which premiered on the streamer in 2018, was initially hosted by Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Antoni Porowski. November 13, 2023: Bobby Berk reveals he's exiting 'Queer Eye' after 8 seasonsBobby Berk announced his exit from "Queer Eye" in 2023. AdvertisementHis full statement read:"To the Queer Eye Community who have become family to me. It's with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 will be my final season on Queer Eye. According to one source, Van Ness' temper would hit a boiling point at least once a week.

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☆ 7 film franchises that stuck the landing – and 8 that definitely didn't
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Gabbi Shaw | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Instead, we got four more bad films, ending with "Terminator: Dark Fate." "Terminator: Dark Fate" Paramount"Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," both directed by James Cameron, are two of the best action movies of all time. "Judgment Day" also ends on a definitive note, with our heroes preventing the evil computer system known as Skynet from ever being invented. And "Terminator Genisys" fully ignores all the events of the previous films and is yet another reboot. "Dark Fate" is certainly better than the three previous films, but it was ultimately unnecessary and, according to Screen Rant, was a huge box-office bomb.

Persons: Connor, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton Organizations: Hollywood

☆ Fact checking the CNN presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +69 min

CNN —President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off during CNN’s presidential debate in Atlanta Thursday night. From CNN’s Daniel DaleFormer President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. From CNN’s Daniel Dale and Ella NilsenFormer President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden take part in the CNN presidential debate on Thursday, June 27. From CNN’s Alicia WallaceFormer President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden debate at CNN's Atlanta studios on June 27, 2024. Kpler found that China imported about 511,000 barrels per day of Iranian crude in December 2020, Trump’s last full month in office.

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☆ How New York's biggest hospital network is tackling tough issues with Hollywood-style movies and series
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The project, from veteran filmmakers Alexandra Shiva and Lindsey Megrue, also had help from a Hollywood outsider: Northwell Health, New York's largest healthcare network. Ramon Soto, CMO, Northwell Health. "Lenox Hill" and "Emergency: NYC" followed, drawing on the popular hospital procedural format. Northwell's own research showed people who watched "Emergency: NYC" were 17% more likely to consider using Northwell services compared to those who hadn't seen it. Soto said the company has stuck to talking about mental health and other healthcare issues while avoiding being prescriptive in its messaging.

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☆ Donald Sutherland death: ‘Hunger Games’ movie actor dies at age 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Brian Lowry | Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Donald Sutherland, a veteran actor known for roles in “M*A*S*H,” “Klute” and “The Hunger Games,” has died, according to a statement from his agency CAA. “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland’s son, wrote in a post on Instagram Thursday. BeginningsBorn in Saint John, New Brunswick, Sutherland endured several bouts of ill health as a child, including polio. The 6’4” actor met his first wife, Lois Hardwick, in college, and the two married in 1959. He also discussed subtly altering his dialogue, as he put it, to “try to make the lines that I’ve been given fit my mouth.”Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland in 1978's "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers."

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☆ After CNN report, White House bringing back program for Gold Star families to honor service members buried abroad
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Jake Tapper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The White House is pushing to reestablish a program for Gold Star families to honor their loved ones buried in American military cemeteries overseas after the shuttered program was featured in a CNN report, a White House official exclusively tells CNN. Biden administration officials have worked with the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to restore the program, which allows Gold Star families to have flowers placed on their loved one’s grave at US military cemeteries abroad. “The White House worked with the ABMC and this program will now be re-established,” the official said. For years, Gold Star families who lost loved ones in battle could pay for flowers and have the ABMC deliver them to the grave of their fallen family members in, say, Normandy. Rondy Elliott, a Gold Star daughter, lost her father, Corporal Frank Elliott, during the Normandy invasion 80 years ago.

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☆ Virginia GOP primary between House caucus chair and Trump-backed challenger too early to call
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Arit John | Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Republican primary race between Virginia Rep. Bob Good, the House Freedom Caucus chair who angered allies of former President Donald Trump and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and state Sen. John McGuire was too early to call Tuesday night. The congressman from Virginia’s 5th Congressional District has faced a fierce effort to knock him out from a broad swath of the GOP in what became the most expensive House Republican primary of the cycle. Vindman’s role in Trump’s impeachment likely made a difference in his campaign. After spending most of his career in Illinois, Bondar moved to Texas in 2020, living outside Dallas – where he voted in this March’s Republican primary. State voting records show Bondar’s early in-person ballot in his primary race is the first time he has voted in Oklahoma.

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A car pulled up recently outside a modest restaurant in the state of Guárico in Venezuela’s sprawling savanna. The driver shouted from behind the wheel: “Are you the ones whose business was closed by the government? I want a picture with you!”Bounding out of the car, the man pulled close to Corina Hernández, 44, one of the owners of the restaurant. “We are all outraged,” he told her. Corina and her sister Elys Hernández have emerged as unlikely political folk heroes just as Venezuela is heading into its most competitive election in years.

Persons: Corina Hernández, ”, Corina, Elys Hernández Locations: Guárico, Venezuela

☆ Jennifer Lopez posts Father’s Day tribute to Ben Affleck
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Megan Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Jennifer Lopez is celebrating the dad heroes in her life. The “Atlas” star on Sunday paid tribute on social media to her husband Ben Affleck and her own dad, David Lopez. Happy Father’s Day,” Lopez wrote on a black-and-white photo of Affleck in a fighter plane, which appeared to be from his 2001 movie “Pearl Harbor.”The image was followed by a black-and-white photo of her father in a truck, on which she wrote, “Happy Father’s Day, Daddy.”The post follows reports Affleck and Lopez, who have been married almost two years, are currently living in separate homes. Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary,” Lopez wrote in a statement at the time. “He’s a wonderful, wonderful father,” Lopez said of Affleck in a 2023 interview with NBC.

Persons: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, David Lopez, “, ” Lopez, Affleck, ”, Lopez, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Garner Organizations: CNN, NBC

☆ Bryson DeChambeau wins U.S. Open, beating Rory McIlroy on a wild Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Gabherzig | Hugh Kellenberger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

McIlroy was shown on the NBC broadcast sitting in the scorer’s tent as DeChambeau won the golf tournament, turned and walked out. It is DeChambeau’s second U.S. Open win. @b_dechambeau has this putt left to win the U.S. Open! Advertisement“Probably every hole,” DeChambeau said Saturday night to Golf Channel, moments after shooting a 67 to open up a three-shot lead. Through three rounds at Pinehurst, DeChambeau was 17-for-19 from 4 to 8 feet, per The Athletic contributor Justin Ray.

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☆ A miraculous little plant proves life persists after deforestation
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Amanda Schupak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —On the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador, John L. Clark, a research botanist at Florida’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, happened upon what he calls a miracle. That he could see it at all, nestled there on a moss-covered rock in a remnant patch of untouched land, was impressive. Back in the lab, Clark and his team confirmed that the little plant was a species new to science, and he and his team named it Amalophyllon miraculum. That’s why we decided to call it miraculum,” research botanist John L. Clark said. To an untrained eye, it’s nearly impossible to see the plant about which he’s so excited.)

Persons: John L, Clark, ”, they’re, Clark “, Laurence Skog, Martin Schaefer, ” Schaefer, E.O, Wilson, “, ‘, ” Clark, Schaefer, Amanda Schupak Organizations: CNN, Marie, Marie Selby Botanical, Smithsonian Institution’s National, of, Jocotoco Conservation Foundation Locations: Ecuador, Marie Selby, Centinela, Washington , DC, Western Ecuador, New York City

☆ Ukraine's Azov Brigade, a unit with a controversial past, can now use American weapons to fight the Russians
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe US State Department announced Monday that it has lifted a ban on the Azov Brigade, a former Ukrainian militia group with an ultranationalist history, allowing the current National Guard unit to receive American weapon shipments and training. A State Department spokesperson told BBC on Tuesday that following a vetting of the brigade, there was "no evidence of gross violations of human rights." Related storiesNow known as the Azov Brigade, the unit became part of the Ukrainian National Guard in 2015. AdvertisementThe State Department has dismissed the congressional ban and said the Azov Brigade "passed Leahy vetting," referring to Leahy Law, which prevents the US from supporting foreign entities that have committed major human rights violations. The Azov Brigade has claimed that it has evolved from its problematic past and that its leadership has changed since its inception.

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☆ Louis Vuitton: The Olympics embody our ‘DNA’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

And at next month’s upcoming Games, Louis Vuitton are hoping they too will become a hallmark of the same grand occasion. The Olympic and Paralympic medals will be housed in a Louis Vuitton trunk. Annie Leibovitz/Courtesy Louis VuittonLVMH – the luxury conglomerate that owns Louis Vuitton – spent €150 million ($163 million) on its sponsorship deal with the Olympics, Vogue reported citing sources, though calculating the precise returns on this investment is “difficult,” said Beccari. “We are very close to sport,” Beccari said, recalling the slogan “Victory travels in Louis Vuitton,” the fashion house used when one of its trunks housed the FIFA World Cup in 2010. From Louis VuittonWhile Louis Vuitton posted record profits last year and LVMH outperformed other luxury brands, the current economic environment with rising inflation leaving consumers with less disposable income poses challenges ahead, though Beccari downplayed such difficulties.

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☆ Progressive Elites and Their Sins - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The center of progressive energy moved from the working class to the universities, and not just any universities, but the elite universities. By now we’re used to the fact that the elite universities are places that attract and produce progressives. Today, we’re used to the fact that elite places are shifting further and further to the left. “Opinions of student writers at elite universities” in 2000, he found, “weren’t all that more progressive than those at nonelite ones.” But by 2023, opinions at The Crimson had grown about two and a half times more progressive than they were in 2001. More generally, Berman concluded, “Opinion sections at elite universities have gotten significantly more progressive, and they’ve outrun their nonelite counterparts.”

Persons: John Reed, Clifford Odets, Frances Perkins, Hubert Humphrey, Donald Trump, we’re, The Harvard Crimson, Julien Berman, Berman, they’ve Organizations: New, Pullman, Harvard, America’s, The Harvard, ” Locations: New Republic, Haymarket, Blair

☆ Biden’s D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Geopolitical empires like Russia and China are, meanwhile, resurgent and threatening to obliterate the global system dominated by Western values that has prevailed since World War II. Trump’s “America First” philosophy has taken deep root in the Republican Party that once prided itself on winning the Cold War. For many years after World War II, D-Day commemorations lacked the fanfare and high diplomatic and political significance they carry today. The speech came at a particularly contentious moment in the Cold War with tensions high between Washington and the Soviet Union. The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe’s democracies.

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☆ Opinion: How this very English sport found a home in America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Opinion Ashish Ravinran | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

India and Pakistan will take on each other in the Men’s T20 World Cup. But I soon realized that one of the unexpected pleasures of cricket in America was seeing the sport bloom between the cracks. Through their eyes, the New York cricket world continued to bloom in front of me. I discovered weekend leagues, a high school league and peculiarly, the NYPD Youth Cricket League — the subject of my upcoming feature documentary. This year there’s a second competition, the National Cricket League, headquartered in Dallas, home to a large South Asian community.

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☆ Video: See emotional moment presidents honor D-Day heroes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Ak Pohlers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Forty Years Later, Biden Seeks to Echo Reagan’s Legacy of American Leadership
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Forty years later, another aging president facing re-election plans to return to the same spot Friday to honor the same heroes and effectively align himself with Mr. Reagan’s legacy of leadership against tyranny. President Biden will not be the first president to try to walk in Mr. Reagan’s footsteps in Normandy, and it is a risky gamble. To many in both parties, Mr. Reagan’s speech remains the gold standard of presidential oratory and none have matched it at Normandy since. But like Mr. Reagan, Mr. Biden wants to use the inspiring story of the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc to make a case for American alliances in the face of Russian aggression — and, implicitly, for himself. If there is something audacious about Mr. Biden, a staunch Democrat who was no friend of Mr. Reagan’s in the 1980s, summoning the spirit of the Republican legend, it speaks to the up-is-down, black-is-white nature of politics in today’s America.

Persons: Ronald Reagan, Biden, Reagan, Mr, Reagan’s Organizations: Army Rangers, Rangers, Republican Party Locations: Normandy, France, Pointe du Hoc, today’s America

☆ Boys on the fringe of society aren’t so different from yours, this boy mom says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Shannon Carpenter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN: You start “BoyMom” with an interesting fact that baby boys are not nurtured as much as girls. Ruth Whippman: They’re about six weeks behind baby girls (in development), so a baby boy needs more help with self-regulating with emotions. So, boys need more, and they get less. The story is that boys get girls, and women generally tend to be these kinds of side characters that boys get as prizes for being heroes. CNN: How do we as individual men support the boys and men in our lives?

Persons: CNN —, Ruth Whippman, Laura Turbow That’s, “, ” Whippman, ”, influencers, Whippman, there’s, Ruth Whippman's, BoyMom, can’t, it’s, they’d, don’t, Shannon Carpenter, Dad ” Organizations: CNN, Penguin Random House CNN, Boys

☆ Sometimes to save the internet, you must eat glue
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The glue pizza search result was traced back to a comment from a Redditor who went by "fucksmith" making an obvious joke on the subreddit r/Pizza. Because I'm both brave and a genius, naturally, I had to try to make the glue pizza myself. Was Google's response to tamp down its big AI search ambitions just because a few jokesters on X made silly queries? The ridiculousness of those AI answers does call into question the entire concept of using AI for Google search results. And I like to convince myself that my eating glue pizza was part of the noise that prompted Google to act.

Persons: I'm, Barack Obama, Katie Notopoulos, Liz Reid, Reddit, Sundar Pichai, Max Read, John Herrman Organizations: Service, Google, Business, New York Magazine

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