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☆ Mike Lindell is hawking Wi-Fi filters called 'WMDs' that he claims will protect you — and voting machines — from the evil Chinese Communist Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mike Lindell says his new Wi-Fi monitoring device can protect voting machines against hacks. Lindell claimed the device could even filter out the evil Chinese Communist Party. Lindell claimed in an interview on Bannon's podcast that the monitoring device doubled up as a filter that could protect voting machines from hackers. Lindell told conference attendees that his plan was to fly the device near polling stations, with drones. Lindell told the audience.

Persons: Mike Lindell, Lindell, Steve Bannon's, Donald Trump's, he's, I've Organizations: Chinese Communist Party, Service, CCP, Lindell, Voting Systems Locations: Missouri, Wall, Silicon, Springfield , Missouri, Minnesota

☆ Berenice Abbott Captured Manhattan in the Throes of Heady Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Karen Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you were an American artist or writer in the 1920s, Paris was where you wanted to be. She had lived in New York once, just eight years before, but in her absence the city had been scaled up: new skyscrapers were rising, the population was exploding, and every block, it seemed, was abuzz with commerce and construction. (The market crash of October 1929 was still many months away). Suddenly, Paris was passé. The exhibition’s focus is a disbound scrapbook with seven to nine photographs per page, all taken over the course of that year, as Abbott paced the streets (and piers, bridges and train platforms) with a hand-held camera and a compulsion to capture New York’s unruly, cutthroat modernity.

Persons: Berenice Abbott, —, Man Ray, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, “ Bernice ”, Berenice, ”, Abbott, “, Berenice Abbott’s Organizations: Metropolitan Museum Locations: American, Paris, Springfield , Ohio, New York, “, Lower Manhattan, United States

☆ American Vu prevails over Hull to win Women's British Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Jun 22, 2023; Springfield, New Jersey, USA; Lilia Vu plays a shot from the fairway on the 18th hole during the first round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship golf tournament. This golf course really forces you to do that, it really tests you. "She's so great, so nice and a really great golfer - you guys watch out for her!" World number one Nelly Korda finished tied-11th, with Frenchwoman Celine Boutier, who won the Women's Scottish Open and Evian Championship in recent weeks, carding an error-free round of 68 to finish on one under par. Reporting by Rohith Nair and Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris and Pritha SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Lilia Vu, John Jones, Charley Hull, Vu, Hull, Charley, Jiyai Shin, Kim Hyo, Amy Yang, Nelly Korda, Celine Boutier, Rohith Nair, Aadi Nair, Ken Ferris, Pritha Organizations: KPMG Women's, USA, Walton Heath Golf Club, Chevron, Georgia, Scottish, Evian Championship, Thomson Locations: Springfield , New Jersey, USA, Surrey, England, Bengaluru

☆ Tyson is closing four plants as chicken sales slump
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Chicken prices are down. The company reported earnings for the quarter ending July 1 that showed chicken revenue fell about 3.5%. Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader/ImagnTyson CEO Donnie King pointed to these market conditions when discussing Tyson’s chicken sales decline during an analyst call Monday. “We’ve had a number of fits and starts from the breeder side to demand,” King said. “We’re on the right path.”Plant closuresIn March, the company announced the closure of one chicken processing plant in Glen Allen, Virginia, and another in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Persons: Nathan Papes, Imagn Tyson, Donnie King, ”, It’s, Tyson, “ We’ve, ” King, “ We’re, King, “ I’m, ” Tyson Organizations: New, New York CNN, Tyson Foods, Rabobank, Springfield News, CNN, TSN Locations: New York, United States, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, Noel , Missouri, hatchings, Glen Allen , Virginia, Van Buren , Arkansas

☆ John Cena slept in his car and ate free pizza as he racked up job rejections in LA: 'Every avenue of fitness failed'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Fame and fortune weren't exactly in the cards for actor and WWE superstar John Cena early on. Finding a job in the field, however, proved harder than he'd thought, Cena told comedian Kevin Hart on Peacock talk show "Hart to Heart." After "every avenue of fitness failed," and a last-ditch effort to become a highway patrol officer fell through, Cena was met with homelessness, sleeping in the back of his 1991 Lincoln Continental and living off free pizza from a local shop. "They had a deal where, if you could eat their whole pizza, you got it for free," Cena said, chuckling. It's a job Cena didn't even know was possible.

Persons: John Cena, Cena, Kevin Hart, Peacock, Hart, —, Cena didn't, you've Organizations: WWE, Springfield College, Continental, Pro Wrestling, Ultimate University, Furious, CNBC Locations: West Newbury , Massachusetts, Los Angeles , California, LA

☆ Domino’s is still struggling with delivery. One solution? More cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Domino’s is still suffering declines in its delivery business. But Domino’s (DPZ) still doesn’t want to use outside delivery drivers. Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader/USA Today Network/ImagnWeiner said that Domino’s is getting more applications for delivery drivers now than it did in 2019, an encouraging sign. In addition to the electric vehicles, Domino’s has more than 1,000 non-EV cars in its fleet, Weiner said on Monday. By using its own drivers, Domino’s has more control over the delivery experience.

Persons: New York CNN — Domino’s, Uber, Russell Weiner, Nathan Papes, Imagn Weiner, Domino’s, ”, Weiner, Sandeep Reddy, ” Reddy, Reddy, Christopher Carril, ” Weiner Organizations: New, New York CNN, Chevy, Springfield News, USA, RBC Capital Markets Locations: New York, “

☆ Elon Musk's brother's 'smart farm' startup is shutting down most of its locations and gutting its workforce
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Square Roots told staff it was closing most of its locations and cutting jobs, two former staff said. Square Roots told local news it plans to reconfigure some locations and may eventually re-open them. Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal, cofounded Square Roots alongside CEO Tobias Peggs in 2016. "It was just a normal day," the former Grand Rapids employee said of the latest layoffs and farm closures announced Tuesday. "It was quite abrupt and has been very devastating to this wonderful team of people," the former Grand Rapids employee said.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Elon Musk, David Sack's, Tobias Peggs, Kimbal Musk, WDRB, couldn't, Kimbal, Bauer, Griffin, Slack, Peggs, Getty, DON EMMERT, that's, we've Organizations: Roots, Morning, Gordon Food Service, David Sack's Craft Ventures, Kenosha News, Grand, Axelle, Grand Rapids, Gordon Food Services, Employees Locations: Grand Rapids, Pitchbook, Springfield , Ohio, Shepherdsville , Kentucky, Kenosha , Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Brooklyn, Kenosha, New York, Michigan

☆ China's Yin Ruoning collects maiden major title at Women's PGA Championship
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Jun 25, 2023; Springfield, New Jersey, USA; Ruoning Yin tees off on the 4th hole during the final round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-USA TODAY SportsNEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - China's Yin Ruoning produced a flawless final round with four birdies to win the Women's PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club on Sunday and claim her first major title. The 20-year-old Yin, who collected her maiden LPGA Tour title at the DIO Implant LA Open earlier this year, is only the second Chinese woman to win a golf major after Shanshan Feng. "I would say she's definitely the goal that I'm chasing," said Yin, who was nine years old when Feng won the Women's PGA Championship in 2012. "I was on the 18th tee and I saw the leaderboard, and I know I have a one-shot lead," said Yin.

Persons: John Jones, Yin Ruoning, Yin, Japan's Yuka Saso, Shanshan Feng, Feng, Yuka, I'm, Carlota Ciganda, Sweden's Anna Nordqvist, Megan Khang, China's Lin Xiyu, Stephanie Meadow, Rose Zhang, It's, Amy Tennery, Toby Davis, Hugh Lawson, Chris Reese Organizations: KPMG Women's, USA, YORK, Baltusrol, LPGA, Thomson Locations: Springfield , New Jersey, USA, Northern Ireland, New York

☆ Injury layoff leaves Korda 'hungry' ahead of Women's PGA Championship
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Korda, who won her only major title at the event in 2021, last played at the Founders Cup in mid-May, where she missed the cut. The 24-year-old has not won on the LPGA Tour since retaining her Pelican Women's Championship title last November. Before the Founders Cup in New Jersey, Korda had six top-six finishes in seven LPGA events and regained the top ranking before being overtaken by South Korea's Ko Jin-young. "When I got back from New Jersey, it didn't feel right," Korda told reporters on Tuesday. "It's sometimes nice to reset after playing," said Korda, whose sister Jessica also plays on the LPGA Tour.

Persons: Nelly Korda, raring, Korda, Korea's Ko Jin, Jessica, Lydia Ko, Hritika Sharma, Peter Rutherford Organizations: LPGA, Thomson Locations: Springfield , New Jersey, New Jersey, New Zealand, Hyderabad

☆ What Tesla’s EV charging win really means for drivers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A Tesla charging station stands in a parking lot on January 17, 2023 in Springfield, Virginia. But other EV charging companies have, so far, faced a far greater reliability challenge than Tesla’s. It’s an integrated system and has been from the very beginning,” said Jim Burness, chief executive of National Car Charging, a wholesaler of equipment to the EV charging industry. In both cases, drivers will be able to access Tesla chargers without having to use Tesla apps. That could lead to more lines at Tesla chargers, irritating Tesla owners.

Persons: Tesla, Anna Moneymaker, Stephanie Brinley, Jon McNeill, ”, “ Tesla, Jim Burness, Justin Sullivan, Alan Wexler, “, ” Wexler, Dan Barbossa, CNN’s, Mark J, Terrill, they’re, you’re, Brendan Jones, Blink, Burness, “ That’s, Stephen Beck, Gary Silberg Organizations: CNN, P Global Mobility, Ford, General Motors, EV, GM, Nissan, Tesla, DVx Ventures, CNN Business, Detroit, CCS, KPMG Locations: United States, Springfield , Virginia, America, San Francisco , California, Westlake, Calif

☆ A woman who works out of a tiny home and gets weekly massages at the office says her job has 'all the perks'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In January, Kylie Goodwin, who works in accounting, posted a TikTok video of offices in tiny homes. Goodwin said the workspaces within the tiny homes are just one of the perks of working there. An FHS employee responded by email to Insider's request for comment about the tiny homes but didn't provide more detail. Tiny homes are all the rage right now, from handcrafted luxury models that are over $175,000 to tiny homes sold on Amazon that cost a few thousand dollars. "My job has all the perks," Goodwin wrote.

Persons: Kylie Goodwin, Goodwin, —, Kylie Goodwin —, FHS, commenter Organizations: Service, FHS Property Management, Home Solutions, FHS Locations: Missouri, Springfield , Missouri

The host, Caleb Hammer, said they owed more than $112,000 in loans, credit cards, and car debt. The debts included six credit cards, two car loans, a hospital bill, and buy-now-pay-later spending. Discover credit card: $3,627.68. Citi credit card: $5,039.21. Hammer said he was "scared" for the couple because of their car loans, which represented around 70% of their debt.

Persons: Caleb Hammer, Hammer, Kia, Jessilyn, you've, I'm, we're, Brandon Organizations: Cherokee Overland, Apple, Citi, Capital, Cash American Express, Chase, Bank, Amazon, Apple Watch, Kia, Jeep Locations: Brandon, Springfield , Missouri, DoorDash

☆ At Least Six Dead After Dust Storm Causes Crashes on Illinois Highway
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A dust storm caused a pileup of dozens of vehicles on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. Photo: Nathan Cormier/StoryfulAt least six people died and dozens were injured in Illinois after a dust storm caused more than 60 vehicles to crash along a two-mile stretch of Interstate 55, police said. Authorities said at least 30 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 passenger vehicles were involved in the pileup Monday, which occurred on the northbound and southbound lanes of I-55 south of Springfield, Ill. At least two commercial trucks caught fire.

☆ Dust Storm Causes Pileup on Illinois Highway, Killing Multiple People
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A dust storm caused a pileup of dozens of vehicles on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. Photo: Nathan Cormier/StoryfulMultiple people died and more than 30 were injured after a dust storm caused more than 60 vehicles to crash on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. The crashes occurred around 11 a.m. local time, south of Springfield, Ill., according to Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan Starrick.

☆ Illinois dust storm causes car crashes, at least 6 fatalities along I-55 in Montgomery, Sangamon counties
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Joe Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least six people were killed after a dust storm caused dozens of vehicles to crash along a major highway in Central Illinois on Monday, officials said. The crashes along I-55 led to the interstate closing in Sangamon and Montgomery counties after police say dust from newly plowed fields took over the highway. Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan Starrick said there were at least six dead and more than 30 people were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening. He said the interstate in southern Sangamon and northern Montgomery counties would remain closed as officials investigate and clear vehicles. The National Weather Service in Lincoln, Illinois, issued a “blowing dust warning” at 1:25 p.m. CT.“Severely limited visibilities are expected.

☆ Six Dead After Dust Storm Causes Crashes on Interstate 55 in Illinois
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Six people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in crashes caused by “excessive winds” that blew dust from nearby farms onto Interstate 55 in a rural section of central Illinois, on Monday morning, leading to “zero visibility” conditions, the Illinois State Police said. The crashes, which took place just before 11 a.m. in Farmersville, Ill., south of Springfield, involved about 20 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 cars, including two tractor-trailers that caught fire, the police said in a statement. The people injured were between 2 and 80 years old, and their injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening, the authorities said, noting that it had been difficult to extract people from their vehicles, some of which were engulfed in flames. “This is a difficult scene, something that is very hard to train for something that we really haven’t experienced locally,” Kevin Schott, the director of Montgomery County’s emergency management agency, said at a news conference on Monday.

☆ Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Chris Hammons unloads a bag of items she purchased at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Dallas, Texas September 23, 2009. In its bankruptcy filing, Bed Bath & Beyond said it had $5.2 billion in debt and assets of just $4.4 billion. Discount chains such as HomeGoods and TJ Maxx have also undercut Bed Bath & Beyond’s prices. Without the differentiators of the lowest prices or widest selection, Bed Bath & Beyond’s sales stagnated from 2012 to 2019. And Bed Bath & Beyond is the latest retail chain to file for bankruptcy this year.

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☆ DeSantis may have overreached when he went to war with Disney, and Trump smells blood in the water
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Florida Gov. "DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney," Trump wrote earlier this week. "DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney," Trump crowed on his social media platform Truth earlier this week. The Florida governor wanted to burnish his national image by torching Disney. And by gobbling up intellectual property and broadcasting rights, Disney continues to be virtually inescapable.

☆ Man who threatened to bomb Merriam-Webster offices over gender identity definitions sentenced to year in prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A California man got a year in prison over threats to Merriam-Webster and other businesses. Jeremy Hanson made threats related to gender, including some related to the definition of "female". Hanson used an anonymous account to post threatening responses to new definitions added to words like "female" on Merriam-Webster's website. "It is absolutely sickening that Merriam-Webster now tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda," Hanson wrote. "You [sic] headquarters should be shot up and bombed," Hanson wrote in a message on the site's Contact Us page.

☆ The glut of parking spaces in the US is driving up housing costs and hurting the environment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Devoting this much land to parking makes housing more expensive and hurts the environment. Removing some of our parking could boost our quality of life, according to a former Google exec. All this parking is a burden on our environment, government budgets, affordable housing, and, ultimately, quality of life, Poskey said. He pointed to onerous parking requirements as a reason for the country's lack of affordable housing. Areas of Plano, Texas; Springfield, Massachusetts; and New Orleans with a mix of commercial buildings and stores accounted for 3% of those cities' land but 40% of their jobs, the Brookings Institution found.

☆ A Missouri lawmaker defended child marriage, saying kids he knows who got married at age 12 are 'still married'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon defended child marriage on Tuesday, citing a couple he knows. Moon said the couple married at age 12 and that they were still together. "You said actually that should be the law because it's the parents' right and the kid's right to decide what's best for them. "Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12?" In 2018 the Missouri legislature passed a bill raising the state's minimum marriage age from 15 to 16, with teens under 18 requiring parental consent.

☆ 130 Regal, Eastgate, and other movie theaters could close in the US — see the list of those already shuttering
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Travis Clark | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cineworld has sought to exit its leases for 130 theaters in the US. A bankruptcy court in Texas has already approved its plan to walk away from 47 of those locations. Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. So far, the Texas bankruptcy court overseeing the proceedings has approved the company's plan to exit 47 leases, according to court filings. The North American box office hit $7.4 billion in 2022, according to Comscore, down from over $11 billion in 2019 and 2018.

☆ Delta and United are dropping service to more cities as the trend of leaving regional airports behind continues
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The two airlines have collectively dropped 55 regional airports since the COVID-19 pandemic. "Delta continues to evaluate the regional market, monitoring regional carrier pilot availability and customer demand. After Delta pulls out, La Crosse Regional Airport will still be connected to Chicago by American Airlines. The four airports are the latest in a long list of regional airports that were abandoned by major airlines as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Including the airports cited above, Delta has dropped 17 regional destinations and United 38 regional destinations since the beginning of the pandemic.

☆ FBI Headquarters Decision Pits Maryland Against Virginia
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Eric Bazail-Eimil | Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in Washington, D.C. , whose replacement location is to be chosen soon. WASHINGTON—After more than a decade of delay and escalating political volleys across the Potomac River in recent months, the agency that manages the federal government’s real estate is close to picking the location of a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters campus in the capital’s suburbs. The decision to replace the deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington has set off a heated competition between elected officials representing Virginia and Maryland, the two states vying to secure the future site to house at least 7,500 bureau employees and the bureau’s leadership, along with the economic development that will come with it. Maryland’s two potential sites are in Greenbelt and Landover, while Virginia’s is in Springfield.

☆ America's Parking Addiction Hurts the Economy, Drives up Housing Costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jeral Poskey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

A society committed to housing and feeding its people will ensure plenty of land is dedicated to homes and farms. According to the builder WGI, the average parking stall in the US costs $27,900 to build, more than the cost of many new compact cars. The money and resources dedicated to parking could be used for other purposes, but breaking our country's reliance on parking has been difficult. Parking accounted for about 27% of per-unit costs, regardless of whether the resident owned a car or not. Better transportation, better land use, better citiesEfforts are underway to finally rid America of its unhealthy devotion to parking.

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