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☆ Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in his conversation with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +34 min

Here is a fact check:CrimeTrump claimed, “Our crime rate’s going through the roof.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. Facts First: Trump did express uncertainty about the number, but his “like 60 million or something” claim is false. They take ‘em out, and they bring them to the United States.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is baseless. He said, “With Ukraine, so we’re in for $250 billion and they’re in for about $71 billion.”Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. But Trump’s claim that the US has committed or provided far more aid than Europe is not true regardless.

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☆ Puerto Rico cancels classes, activates National Guard as tropical storm warning issued for Caribbean
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico activated the National Guard and canceled the start of classes in public schools as forecasters warned that the U.S. territory would be hit by Tropical Storm Ernesto, which formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, St. Barts and St. Maarten. Officials in the French Caribbean said the storm was expected to drench Guadeloupe on Monday and pass near St. Barts and St. Martin. The National Hurricane Center said Ernesto is forecast to approach Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands on Tuesday evening. In the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands, Gov.

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☆ Dan Stevens on His Best Movie, TV Roles: 'Downton Abbey,' 'Legion'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Advertisement"I think career is defined as much by what you say no to as what you say yes to," Stevens tells Business Insider. He famously devastated "Downton Abbey" fans by requesting to leave the beloved period drama, which necessitated killing off his fan-favorite character Matthew Crawley. "There was a real openness to see actors try things that they've not necessarily been seen in before over here, and that was very, very appealing to me," Stevens says. AdvertisementOn the excitement and terror of leaving 'Downton Abbey'Dan Stevens was one-half of the most popular couple on "Downton Abbey." AdvertisementAnd one that I particularly enjoy is when people say how much they enjoyed "High Maintenance," which was a show that I really really loved being a part of.

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☆ New study links early childhood tablet use to anger outbursts
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Katia Hetter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

One paper published just this year sheds some light as to why tablet use could be related to anger outbursts. This is in the context of near-universal use of social media, with up to 95% of kids ages 13 to 17 reporting using social media. American teens report spending a shocking amount of time — nearly five hours each day—on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and other social media apps. There are a number of problems with this level of social media use, one of which is what this time is replacing. Third, for those whose kids already have smartphones and use social media apps, speak with them about the impact of social media on them.

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☆ These cities will be too hot for the Olympics by 2050
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Lou Robinson | Angela Dewan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The only certainty about Summer Olympics weather is that there’s really no certainty at all. In other words, holding the Summer Games in these cities would be a huge health risk for the athletes. The Games held in 1996 in Atlanta simply wouldn’t be possible in 2050. They may not againSome of the cities that have already hosted the Summer Games will be way beyond safe temperatures by 2050. Beijing, which hosted in 2008, would be much too hot and humid, with heat stress forecast to soar past 90 degrees.

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☆ How and when to watch the Perseid meteor shower
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Riane Lumer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It’s that time of summer to watch the most anticipated meteor shower of the year: the dazzling display known as the Perseids. Visible annually from mid-July to September 1, the Perseid meteor shower is set to peak between Sunday and before dawn Monday. Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, described the Perseids as the richest meteor shower of the year because of the bright fireballs. “There are meteor showers going all the time, but again, they’re so weak, most people wouldn’t even notice they’re happening,” Cooke said. “Don’t look at your cell phone, because that screen ruins your night vision, and it takes your eyes off the sky,” Cooke said.

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☆ Europe was on the brink of a night train revolution. Here’s what actually happened
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ben Jones | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Prior to the company’s demise, it had looked like Europe was poised for something of a night train revolution. Despite this demand, the hurdles for startups like Midnight Train trying to enter the market to meet it remain virtually insurmountable. Formidable obstaclesEuropean Sleeper is one of the few new night train operators to begin services, but the company has struggled to find rolling stock. “Politicians must be clear: the night train market will be effectively closed for a very long time,” he says. With the honorable exception of Nightjet, which plans to expand rapidly over the next five years, European night train services have yet to match the hype.

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☆ A woman won gold at the Olympics by eating more and exercising less to gain 22 pounds
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA British athlete won an Olympic gold medal by eating more food and exercising less to gain 22 pounds. AdvertisementAldridge won the first ever gold medal in women's Olympic kitefoiling. Owing to the stigma around weight gain, it may seem counterintuitive that Olympians, at the peak of human performance, should put on weight to be successful. But kitesurfing isn't the only sport where athletes gain weight to be more competitive. Related storiesWhen she first started kitefoiling, Aldridge consumed a lot of beer and ice cream, she wrote on Instagram earlier this year.

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☆ Work Culture at the Gates Foundation: Bill Gates Was Domineering, Inspired Fear
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Every year, Bill Gates — and, until she left, Melinda French Gates — would hold multiple meetings with executives of the Gates Foundation to approve plans and budgets, and review strategies. For many, the meeting might be the only direct opportunity to interact with, and impress, Gates and French Gates. AdvertisementGates and French Gates followed the presentations closely, usually saving questions for the end. The former couple sought to maintain a professional relationship, giving themselves at least two years to see if they could work together, with the understanding that French Gates would leave if they couldn't. One former senior employee compared the style of discussion to the Socratic method, often used in law schools by professors who push students to reasoning through dialogue.

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☆ Olympic moment of the day: 3x3 basketball has its first classic final and a potential turning point
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

First, it was the women’s final between Germany and Spain coming down to the final seconds. And then on the final shot of the game, Gracia Alonso’s desperation shot at the buzzer clanged off the rim. Germany's Marie Reichert takes the ball to the hoop against Spain's Sandra Ygueravide in the women's 3x3 basketball gold medal game. In Olympic 3x3 basketball’s overtime, the first team to score two points wins. The Dutch fans lost their minds as the French crowd fell silent in shock.

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☆ Novak Djokovic beats Carlos Alcaraz to win Olympic gold and career Golden Slam
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Matthew Futterman | James Hansen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Relive how Novak Djokovic won Olympic gold against Carlos Alcaraz with game-by-game live coverage from the matchPARIS — Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(3), 7-6(2) in the men’s singles Olympic final at Roland Garros in Paris on Sunday. Djokovic won in four. GO DEEPER Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz meet in a Wimbledon final duel of the extraordinaryThe first set lasted 93 minutes. After the Wimbledon final, Djokovic was largely sanguine about how soundly he had been beaten, saying Alcaraz was simply better in every department. It was a confidence and a quality not seen since that French Open final in 2023 and perhaps the US Open final in the same year.

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☆ How Xs and Cs spotted in the ionosphere could disrupt life on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Earth’s electric and magnetic fields and gravity cause charged particles in the ionosphere to flow away from Earth’s magnetic equator. Typically, plasma bubbles are long and straight because they form along Earth’s magnetic field lines. GOLD observations captured C-shaped and reverse C-shaped plasma bubbles close together in the ionosphere on October 12, 2020, and December 26, 2021. So far, GOLD has only observed two instances of the close pairings, but the C-shaped bubbles have the potential to disrupt communications. “Due to such wide view and continuous measurements, GOLD has allowed us to observe these mysteries within the ionosphere,” Karan said.

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☆ Gold and some non-dollar currencies start to shine, but it's not all about de-dollarization
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementThe amount of gold holdings in global reserves has doubled in just over five years, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysis. "As the yellow metal carries no credit or counter-party risk, some deem it as being better insulated from financial sanctions, particularly those from the emerging world," wrote UBS' Czerwonko. Advertisement"The situation in competing jurisdictions is also dire; in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man can remain king," wrote Czerwonko. AdvertisementSimilarly, Bloomberg Intelligence said said a Wednesday report that a potential second Trump term could hasten a global currency regime change. "Any title toward isolationism in a Trump second term, such as altered US attitudes toward its role in NATO and international affairs would spur de-dollarization," wrote Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.

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☆ Watch out for the semiconductor supercycle before you start buying stocks like Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nvidia stock prices have more than doubled since the start of the year, and in June, it briefly became the world's most valuable company. "The boom in spending on AI infrastructure has been a major growth driver for the chip industry," Miller said. Zuckerberg even touted Meta's growing stockpile of Nvidia chips in an interview with The Verge in January, adding that he expects the company to own more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. The boom in data center builds has also spurred significant chip demand. Amazon, Meta, and Google are all designing their own AI chips.

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☆ Wayfair CEO likens home goods slowdown to 2008 financial crisis: 'Customers remain cautious'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The first Wayfair brick-and-mortar store prepares to open on May 02, 2024 in Wilmette, Illinois. Online home goods company Wayfair saw sales decline in its fiscal second quarter as its CEO likened the current slowdown in the home goods category to the 2008 financial crisis. "Our credit card data suggests that the category correction now mirrors the magnitude of the peak to trough decline the home furnishing space experienced during the great financial crisis," Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah said in a news release. "Customers remain cautious in their spending on the home." The company saw adjusted EBITDA of $163 million during the quarter, still below the $168 million that Wall Street had expected, according to StreetAccount.

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☆ Solar storm watch fuels hope of aurora sightings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Katie Hunt | Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The northern lights could grace skies farther south than usual this week because of a solar storm that may affect Earth, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The center issued a strong geomagnetic storm watch, known as a G3 — the third highest level out of five — for July 29 to July 31. Strong geomagnetic storms are infrequent, the Space Weather Prediction Center said, but they’re more common than the G5, or extreme, geomagnetic storm that occurred on May 10 and May 11. If the predicted G3 conditions occur, auroras could be visible as far south as Illinois and Oregon, the Space Weather Prediction Center said. Alerts issued by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center and other agencies help the operators of power grids and commercial satellites to mitigate potential negative impacts from a solar storm.

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☆ Rush hour isn't what it used to be: Working 10-to-4 is the new 9-to-5, traffic data shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As more commuters settle into flexible working arrangements, the traditional American 9-to-5 has shifted to 10-to-4, according to the 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard released in June by INRIX Inc., a traffic-data analysis firm. Its analysis shows fewer early morning trips and a higher volume of midday trips compared to pre-pandemic traffic patterns. Ridership sank during the pandemic, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis data shows, and never fully recovered. The result is a surge in traffic congestion throughout the peak midday and evening hours, according to Pishue. "Pre-Covid, the morning rush hour would be a peak and then the evening peak would be much larger," he said, describing two apexes with a valley in between.

Persons: Kevin Carter, Bob Pishue, Louis, Gallup Organizations: Getty Images, INRIX Inc, Federal Reserve Bank of St Locations: San Diego, San Diego , California

☆ Don't believe these 3 myths about coffee, say registered dietitians
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

To get to the bottom of what's fact and what's fiction, we asked registered dietitians Maddie Pasquariello and Roxana Ehsani about the coffee myths they come across the most. But despite its popularity, there are plenty of myths about coffee and it can be difficult to know what's true. Two-thirds of Americans drink coffee every single day, according to data collected by the National Coffee Association in 2022. "I would only recommend that people don't forget to drink a glass of water first or along with [coffee] too," Ehsani says. Myth #3: "More than 2 cups of coffee a day is too much"Deepak Chopra told CNBC Make It he drinks two to three cups of coffee before noon.

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☆ Maria Corina Machado: The woman behind Venezuela’s opposition movement
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Machado has described the decision to bar her – upheld by Venezuela’s Supreme Court – as illegitimate, unjustified and unconstitutional. From left: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, and Urrutia's wife Mercedes Lopez wave during their campaign closing rally in Caracas on July 25, 2024, ahead of Sunday's presidential election. CNN: In the economy, your plan is to privatize most Venezuelan public assets, especially in terms of health, oil and education. I do believe in public education, but I do believe that you have to create incentives so the public education can be as competitive and with the same degree of excellence that you have in private education. But you don’t need to own the companies directly for the country to benefit from it.

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The birdie is about the fastest projectile you’ll see at these Olympics, and it’s as light as a feather — literally. When you’re watching the Games, keep in mind just how much an object’s speed can determine the outcome. Is the object fast enough to go great distances? Is it fast enough to befuddle an opponent? Follow The New York Times Olympic coveragePlay againMethodology: The speeds of the objects were collected using a sports radar gun.

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☆ Here are Tuesday's biggest analyst calls: Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Krispy Kreme, Skechers, Amazon, First Solar, Qualcomm and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Morgan Stanley upgrades Skechers to overweight from equal weight and downgrades Under Armour to underweight from equal weight Morgan Stanley said its Skechers channel checks looked promising. "We initiate coverage of LandBridge (LB) with a Buy rating and a $35 price target following its IPO last month." Morgan Stanley reiterates First Solar as overweight Morgan Stanley said First Solar could benefit from a new Trump administration. Morgan Stanley reiterates Amazon as top pick Morgan Stanley said Amazon is its favorite pick ahead of earnings, but that the firm also likes Alphabet and Meta. Morgan Stanley initiates Alumis as overweight Morgan Stanley said it's bullish on shares of the immunology company.

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☆ The stock market is approaching 2 catalysts that will spark the next leg of the bull run, market vet says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The record stock market rally will get a boost from key economic data and earnings results, Ed Yardeni said. Yardeni highlighted strong company earnings and profit margins supporting the market in a way it didn't in 2000. AdvertisementThe stock market rally is set to continue this week as investors digest two key pieces of economic data and an onslaught of second-quarter earnings results. "We've acknowledged that the current stock market rally is reminiscent of the valuation-led market meltup of the 1990s. "We're expecting S&P 500 earnings per share of $250, $270, and $300 in 2024, 2025, and 2026, respectively.

Persons: Ed Yardeni, —, We've, we've, Yardeni, We're Organizations: Service, Yardeni Research, PCE, Federal Reserve

Gunman Countersnipers Trump NHow the Trump Rally Gunman Had an Edge Over the Countersnipers The Times recreated, in 3-D, the lines of sight for the three countersniper teams and the would-be assassin. Roof view AGR warehouse Gunman positioned behind trees AGR warehouse Gunman positioned behind trees Close-up Gunman positioned behind trees Gunman positioned behind treesThe gunman was largely concealed by two trees and the slope of a warehouse building roof, which he used as his perch. Gunman may have been only partially visible to countersnipers Shaded area hidden by slope of roof View of countersnipers AGR warehouse Gunman may have been only partially visible to countersnipers View of countersnipers Shaded area hidden by slope of roof AGR warehouse Note: Diagram represents a conservative size of the gunman's prone body. Rally crowd Gunman out of view Rally crowd Gunman out of viewFrom this view inside the building, the gunman would have been out of the countersnipers’ lines of sight. Roof view Trump Trump Close-up Trump TrumpAs he crawled up toward the peak of the roof, its slight slope would have concealed him from the Secret Service countersnipers for a majority of the time.

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☆ 39% of Americans worry they can’t pay the bills
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Many Americans regularly worry they won’t be able to make ends meet. Even higher percentages of Latino (52%) and Black (46%) Americans said they’re worried most or all of the time about making ends meet, according to the poll. More than half (55%) of those making less than $50,000 a year similarly worry about having enough money to meet expenses. Even higher percentages of Latinos (52%), Black Americans (44%) and those under the age of 45 (47%) say they’ve taken extra work. Others say they’ve cut back on driving (41%) and they are taking on credit card debt to afford necessities (37%).

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☆ The housing market is close to a rare buying opportunity with prices set to drop in pandemic boom towns, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewProspective homebuyers may be better off staying on the sidelines: the housing market is on its way to a rare buying opportunity, with steep home price declines bound for key areas of the real-estate market in the coming years, according to one analyst. That's an additional ingredient on the top, which just makes it more likely that prices fall," Gerli told BI. AdvertisementThe situation in the South's housing market also bears some similarities to previous housing bubbles, Gerli noted. In key boom towns, home prices have shot up 50%-70% since the pandemic, though incomes have only risen 10%-20%, he said, citing municipal data. It'll take a long time for housing to become more affordable overall, given how overvalued the market is, Gerli said.

Persons: —, Nick Gerli, Gerli, Freddie Mac, That's, Southern homebuilders, we've, it's, Redfin, Homebuyers, It's Organizations: Service, Business, National Association of Realtors, Builders Locations: Florida, Southern, Texas

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