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☆ Analysis: Vladimir Putin's humiliation will require the West to reexamine its balancing act to save Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —The world just got a hint of a tantalizing but possibly even more dangerous future without Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Western stakes in the Ukraine war rose significantly as a result. There’s now no doubt that the war Putin unleashed to wipe Ukraine off the map poses an existential threat to his political survival. This would be good news for the West, which has bankrolled and armed the country’s fight for its life. After this weekend, this new reality will require the West to once again examine its balancing act to save Ukraine.

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☆ Opinion | Republicans Serve Up Red Meat for a Reason
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are, as of Saturday, at least 13 people running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination: former President Donald Trump; his U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, his vice president, Mike Pence; Gov. Instead, Republicans are studiously focused on the fever dreams and preoccupations of right-wing media swamps while showing an almost total indifference to the real world. In the worst-hit areas, such as New York City, public health officials urged residents to either stay inside or use masks when venturing outdoors. And this is on top of emissions produced by cars and other vehicles in an economy that still runs on fossil fuels. For many Americans, in other words, it takes little more than a glance outside the window to see a major problem of national consequence.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson of, Tim Scott of, Will Hurd, Francis Suarez of, Vivek Ramaswamy, Perry Johnson, Larry Elder Organizations: Francis Suarez of Miami Locations: Florida, North Dakota, New Jersey, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Will Hurd of Texas, U.S, New York City

☆ Who are the Republican candidates running for president?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

June 22 (Reuters) - At least 11 Republican candidates have announced that they will try to win their party's nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 2024 election. DONALD TRUMPTrump, 77, announced his election campaign last November as he faced criticism from within his Republican Party over his support for far-right candidates who were defeated in the midterm elections. She attracts about 4% support among Republican voters. DOUG BURGUMDoug Burgum, who is serving his second four-year term as North Dakota's governor, launched his campaign earlier this month. WILL HURDFormer U.S. Representative Will Hurd, who was among the few Republicans who criticized Trump when he was president, is one of two Black candidates in the 2024 Republican race.

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☆ Will Hurd Joins Crowded 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Moderate Will Hurd, a Trump critic, joins 2024 Republican race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Doina Chiacu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File PhotoWASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Will Hurd, a moderate who was once the sole Black Republican in Congress, on Thursday joined the crowded race to beat Donald Trump for the party's 2024 presidential nomination. Painting a stark contrast to Trump, Hurd said his vision of America would acknowledge science, address mental health, and be inclusive and understanding. A former undercover CIA officer in the Middle East and South Asia, Hurd served on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. In 2019, he strongly criticized tweets by then-President Trump saying four progressive Democratic minority congresswomen, including one born in Somalia, should "go back" to where they came from. Since leaving Congress, Hurd has worked as a managing director at Allen & Company, a board member for OpenAI, and trustee of the German Marshall Fund, according to his website.

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☆ 5 Things to Know About Will Hurd
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former Representative Will Hurd, a Republican from a swing district in Texas who served three terms, faces the daunting task of establishing himself in a field of much better-known presidential candidates. Here are five things to know about Mr. Hurd, who announced his 2024 bid on Thursday. Mr. Hurd got a job with the C.I.A. straight out of college in 2000 and spent more than eight years as an undercover agent, with stints in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. His next assignment came after Sept. 11.

Persons: Will Hurd, Hurd, Al Qaeda, Cole Organizations: Republican, Guardian Locations: Texas, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, American, Islamabad

☆ Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd jumps into the 2024 GOP presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Rose Horowitch | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Will Hurd, a retired CIA officer and former Texas congressman, announced Thursday that is joining the race for the Republican presidential nomination, launching a long-shot bid as a moderate alternative to GOP hard-liners. But he faces long odds in a growing primary field still dominated by former President Donald Trump, analysts say. Hurd called a 2024 battle between Trump and President Joe Biden the "rematch from hell," claiming that a majority of Americans would prefer other candidates. Hurd has cast himself as a moderate Republican who can appeal to voters across the political spectrum. "Republican voters want to win," Terrill said.

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☆ Will Hurd, a Former House Republican, Opens ’24 Bid With Attack on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Neil Vigdor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Will Hurd, a former Texas congressman who was part of a diminishing bloc of Republican moderates in the House and was the only Black member of his caucus when he left office in 2021, announced his candidacy for president on Thursday with a video message that attacked the G.O.P. front-runner, Donald J. Trump. Mr. Hurd, 45, represented the 23rd District for three terms before deciding not to run for re-election in 2020, when a host of G.O.P. moderates in Congress chose to retire instead of appearing on a ticket led by President Trump. His district was larger than some states, extending from El Paso to San Antonio along the southwestern border.

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☆ Dollar bears bide their time as US economic strength persists
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Fund managers in the latest BofA Global Research survey named shorting the dollar as the market's third "most crowded" trade. The dollar is "in a very messy transition from bull market to a bear market," said Aaron Hurd, senior portfolio manager, currency, at State Street Global Advisors. Hurd expects the dollar to remain buoyant over the very short term, but decline steadily over the next few years. Most investors believe the dollar will likely remain elevated until U.S. data turns decidedly weaker, allowing the Fed to cut rates. "The dollar strength is entirely related to the fact that U.S. data is actually pretty good," said Alvise Marino, a strategist at Credit Suisse.

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☆ Former Rep. Will Hurd might launch a 2024 GOP presidential campaign. He's still waiting to see if his party agrees that 'we're better together.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Former GOP Rep. Will Hurd, a Trump critic, is considering running for president in 2024. He says he won't support Trump in 2024 and suggested DeSantis will struggle to appeal to voters. the former Texas congressman told Insider in an interview before his address to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Annual Spring Kick-off. "We have four years," he told Insider, "before we could potentially get surpassed by the Chinese government as a global superpower." On abortion, Hurd told Insider it "probably makes sense" to institute a nationwide ban after 15 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.

☆ 'Star Trek: Picard' series finale Episode 10 review: 'The Last Generation' fights the Borg (again), with an ending that's easy to resist (SPOILERS)
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The following contains spoilers about the “Star Trek: Picard” series finale, “The Last Generation.”CNN —Jean-Luc Picard and his crew fought the Borg again in the finale of “Star Trek: Picard,” but despite the oft-used phrase about the futility of fighting them, the highly sentimental ending to the Paramount+ series – including 15 minutes of character-driven material after the battle – likely gave many fans what they wanted, but still turned out to be pretty easy to resist. Patrick Stewart has gamely anchored this latest offshoot of Gene Roddenberry’s creation into his 80s, in this third round flanked by most of the original “Star Trek: The Next Generation” lineup. Still, the extended curtain calls reinforced a sense that the nostalgia, while initially welcome, had essentially reached its limit. There’s nothing wrong with serving that devoted audience, but the 10-episode sendoff still began to feel like too much of a good thing. Nobody can accuse Paramount of under-utilizing the “Trek” shingle, with “Strange New Worlds,” “Lower Decks” and “Prodigy” set to return later this year, plus a just-announced movie featuring Michelle Yeoh.

☆ Best Credit Card for Gas and Groceries
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

That’s why we named this card our Best Gas Card for Online Shoppers. For new card members, the Blue Cash Everyday Card offers a $200 cash back bonus. This card, our Best Overall pick for the Best Gas Credit Card, offers 3 points per dollar on restaurants, gas stations and a handful of other categories. Our Gas Credit Card Credit Card MethodologyTo review Best Gas Credit Cards, Buy Side from WSJ looked for cards that offered 3% or greater rewards on gas purchases. To find out more about how we choose credit cards—and to meet our panel of experts—you can check out Buy Side from WSJ’s full best credit cards methodology.

☆ Yes, You Can Put Your Taxes on a Credit Card. Here’s How to Make It Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +14 min

Sign-up bonusesA much better strategy, according to credit card experts, is to use a hefty tax payment to help you qualify for a generous sign-up bonus on a new credit card. Downsides of paying taxes with a credit cardIn addition to fees, paying your taxes with a credit card isn’t without downsides. Most credit card issuers report your credit card balances and the amount of available credit to all three major credit bureaus monthly. Although having a large balance on a credit card can impact your credit score, the effects aren’t permanent. How to pay federal taxes with a credit cardThe IRS does not directly accept tax payments via credit card.

☆ The Best Gas Card for Heavy Travelers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

While the card does come with a $95 annual fee after the first year, for the frequent traveler who also spends a lot on gas, no gas card is more rewarding. That is why Buy Side from WSJ named it our Best Gas Card for Frequent Travelers. Consider the Wells Fargo Active Cash card, the Buy Side’s Pick for Best Cash Back Credit Card. Our Gas Credit Card Credit Card MethodologyTo review Best Gas Credit Cards, Buy Side from WSJ looked for cards that offered 3% or greater rewards on gas purchases. Finally, cards that carried an annual fee needed to give cardmembers enough additional rewards to offset the annual fee and be more rewarding than our picks with no annual fee.

☆ TikTok's new Bold Glamour filter has gone viral for simulating 'mainstream beauty' but it's a reminder of how far AI has to go to integrate 'faces of color'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

TikTok's new filter "Bold Glamour" has taken the platform by storm in recent weeks. Instead, she pulled out her phone to show me "Bold Glamour." Bold Glamour has appeared in millions of videos on TikTok because of how seamlessly it melds into certain users' faces. And on users with conventional, Eurocentric features, Bold Glamour looks like a wash of well-applied makeup. The argument that a filter like Bold Glamour can subtly distort a users' sense of reality, beauty, and very self is certainly valid.

☆ Texas congressman who broke with GOP is censured
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That independent streak includes opposing a sweeping House GOP immigration proposal over the U.S.-Mexico border, which includes a large portion of his South Texas district. Gonzales was defiant before the vote and did not attend the meeting of Texas GOP leaders and activists in Austin. "The Republican Party of Texas would be wise to follow his lead and do some actual work." Last year, former Texas GOP Chairman Allen West stepped down from the job to mount a faint primary challenge against Republican Gov. The state party in 2018 also censured a former moderate Texas House speaker who opposed bathroom restrictions for transgender people.

☆ The Best Cash Gas Credit Card on the Market Right Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

That flexibility is why Buy Side from WSJ named the Wells Fargo Autograph Card our Best Overall Gas Card of 2023. The Wells Fargo Autograph Card comes with no annual fee, meaning you don’t need to worry if you’re earning enough rewards to justify keeping the card. As long as you pay off your balance in full each month, using the Wells Fargo Autograph card will put more money in your wallet. With the Autograph card, Wells Fargo doesn’t play these games. Consider the Wells Fargo Active Cash card, the WSJ Buy Side Pick for Best Cash Back Credit Card.

☆ Oracle health cloud leader Don Johnson — once considered for co-CEO — has abruptly resigned, insiders say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Oracle executive Don Johnson is abruptly leaving his key post, insiders say. Johnson was at one point named by Larry Ellison as a potential contender for Oracle co-CEO. Don Johnson — the former Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) boss once named by founder and CTO Larry Ellison as a potential contender for co-CEO — abruptly left his latest post, two people familiar with the matter said. Johnson came to Oracle from Amazon Web Services in 2014 and was tapped by Ellison in 2018 to run the company's all-important cloud unit, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. About a year later, Johnson stepped down from the cloud and AI organization, according to another email viewed by Insider.

☆ The Best Balance Transfer Credit Card With No Balance Transfer Fees
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Wings Visa Platinum’s free balance transfers, along with up to 12 months of 0% APRs on purchases and balance transfers are why Buy Side from WSJ named this card its Best Balance Transfer Card No Balance Transfer Fees. That’s because unlike most other balance transfer credit cards, the Wings Financial Visa Platinum card charges no balance transfer fee. The Wings Visa Platinum card works best if you can afford to pay down your transferred credit card balances within a year. How we pickedTo pick Buy Side from WSJ’s Best Balance Transfer Credit Card, we looked for no-annual-fee credit cards offering balance transfers for new customers with 0% APR promotions. We preferred credit cards with longer balance transfer promotional periods and lower balance transfer initiation fees.

☆ The Tragedy of Kevin McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Will Hurd | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It’s hard not to see the predicament of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a tragedy. A man who was heralded 15 years ago as a new brand of conservative leader, who set records for fundraising, and who helped get candidates elected all over the country now has had to suffer through successive failures to become speaker of the House. Mr. McCarthy was a co-author, with future Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Eric Cantor , of “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders” (2010), which criticized earlier Republicans, particularly on matters of the federal budget. They wrote that Republicans were “arrogant and out of touch” and suffered “failures from high-profile ethics lapses to the inability to rein in spending or even slow the growth of government.”

☆ The Best Balance Transfer Credit Card
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

When you open a balance transfer card, you typically have a chance to move your existing credit card debt onto your new card. That’s why Buy Side from WSJ named this card its Best Overall Balance-Transfer Credit Card. How This Card Helps You Get Out of DebtTo find the best balance transfer credit cards, we assumed your aim was to pay off a significant amount of credit card debt—for simplicity we picked $5,000—as quickly and cheaply as possible. Our Balance Transfer Credit Card MethodologyTo pick Buy Side from WSJ’s Best Balance Transfer Credit Card, we looked for no-annual-fee credit cards offering balance transfers for new customers with 0% APR promotions. We preferred credit cards with longer balance transfer promotional periods and lower balance transfer initiation fees.

☆ Oracle beats on top and bottom lines
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Safra Catz, Oracle's CEO and then one of Oracle's two co-CEOs, smiles during Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on, Sept. 20, 2016. Here's how the company did:Earnings: $1.21 per share, adjusted, vs. $1.18 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. $1.21 per share, adjusted, vs. $1.18 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Health care software company Cerner, which Oracle acquired for $28 billion in June, contributed $1.5 billion in revenue. Without the impact from foreign-exchange rates, Oracle's adjusted earnings would have been 9 cents higher, the company said.

☆ Best Balance-Transfer Credit Cards
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +16 min

We looked through cards from both large national banks and smaller credit unions to find the best 0% balance transfer offers that can help you pay down credit card debt. In addition to being the best balance transfer card, the Unlimited Cash Rewards card remains useful after you have paid off your credit card balance. While balance transfer credit cards can be a great tool for paying down debt, transferring your balance to a new credit card is not usually free. How We PickedTo pick Buy Side from WSJ’s Best Balance Transfer Credit Card, we looked for no-annual-fee credit cards offering balance transfers for new customers with 0% APR promotions. We preferred credit cards with longer balance transfer promotional periods and lower balance transfer initiation fees.

☆ Analysis: Investors look to emerging markets as planets align for end of dollar bull market
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

NEW YORK, Dec 6 (Reuters) - As the U.S. dollar tumbles from multi-decade highs, some investors are betting emerging market currencies will be big winners from a sustained reversal in the greenback. Signs of a broader turn in dollar sentiment are visible in the buck’s 8% decline against a basket of developed market currencies from its September highs. "The planets are lining up for a dollar bear market," said Paresh Upadhyaya, director of fixed income and currency strategy at Amundi US. Emerging market currencies have outperformed their developed market counterparts this year, with MSCI's index of emerging market currencies down 5% year-to-date, while the dollar's G10 peers have lost nearly twice as much. Conversely, tightening by central banks around the world also risks sparking a global recession, a scenario some believe could hurt emerging market currencies and help the dollar.

As the political world settled in for a long wait to know who will control Congress, Republicans began finger-pointing Wednesday about whether former President Donald Trump was to blame for their lackluster election night. The Georgia Senate race is headed to a December runoff, NBC News projects, making it increasingly likely control of the upper chamber won't be decided until then. "Now that it’s obvious the @gop should expel the Trump family from its future lexicon," Trump critic and Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted Wednesday morning. Vance at an Ohio Republican Party election night watch party in Columbus on Tuesday. Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from Texas, tweeted of the election results, "It’s the candidates, stupid."

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