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☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger recalls scary moment after heart surgery: 'I was in the middle of a disaster'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Arnold Schwarzenegger is remembering a frightening moment that left him “freaking out” while recovering from open-heart surgery. “We made a mistake,” Schwarzenegger recalled the doctors saying to him in the YouTube video. Schwarzenegger, who had a congenital heart defect, has undergone heart surgery three times. In 2018, he had open-heart surgery to replace a pulmonary valve, following a previous pulmonary valve replacement in 1997. He also underwent heart surgery in 2020 to replace an aortic valve.

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☆ Bill Richardson, U.S. diplomat and troubleshooter, dead at 75
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

As a congressman in 1994, Richardson visited reclusive communist-ruled North Korea to discuss a nuclear accord struck by Clinton. As Richardson was traveling to the country, North Korea shot down a U.S. military helicopter that had entered its territory, killing one pilot and capturing the other. Richardson stayed for weeks to negotiate, flying home with the dead pilot's remains while the surviving pilot was released soon thereafter. In 1996, Richardson negotiated the release of an American named Evan Hunziker, jailed on spy charges in North Korea. Richardson later attended a prep school in Massachusetts, where he became a star baseball pitcher with dreams of a professional career.

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☆ See inside Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home in Austria where he grew up without running water or electricity
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Lydia Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who turns 76 on July 30, was born in Thal, Austria. His family's apartment overlooked a castle and farmland but had no running water or electricity. Schwarzenegger revisited the home in the 2023 Netflix docuseries "Arnold." "It was absolutely beautiful," Schwarzenegger said in "Arnold," a 2023 Netflix docuseries about his life. In the series, Schwarzenegger returns to Thal, his childhood home, and the bedroom where he first dreamed of becoming a star.

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☆ Opinion: Indiana Jones passes his mantle to the queen of millennial side-eye
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Yet for all his lack of tree trunk biceps, Indiana Jones was always vivacious: outrunning boulders, sparring countless Nazis, and sprinting across collapsing rope bridges. Thomas Kretschmann and Mads Mikkelsen in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023). Walt Disney PicturesIt’s a mantle-passing in every sense: From Jones to his younger relative, and from a Hollywood legend to the queen of millennial side-eye. Age, and its careworn figurehead Indiana Jones, is chastened. Join us on Twitter and FacebookSo much of the adrenaline of the original Indiana Jones trilogy derived from their massive, intricate sets and intensely choreographed scenes that these days are largely replaced by green screens.

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☆ Why the Kennedys keep going back to their Hyannis Port compound after generations of tragedy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Raquel Laneri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In 1928, Joseph Kennedy bought a white-shingled cottage in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for $25,000. The main home in the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. AP/Stew MilneHyannis Port became a homeBefore the Kennedys rolled into Hyannis Port, they had trouble establishing a summer home in coastal Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Jean Kennedy play footballl while on vacation at the Kennedy compound in June 1953 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. (His father stayed in his Hyannis Port bedroom for five days listening to classical music when he heard the news.)

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NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX on Thursday sued a former aide to Hilary Clinton and the former aide's investment firm, seeking to claw back $700 million in investments allegedly made with misappropriated FTX funds. Bankman-Fried authorized investments in K5 projects that enriched Kives and Baum with no payoff for FTX or its customers, who were footing the bill, FTX alleged. FTX has also filed lawsuits over its pre-bankruptcy investment in the stock platform Embed and its payments toGenesis Global Capital, the bankrupt lending arm of crypto firm Genesis. FTX on Wednesday announced a settlement with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which the museum agreed to return $550 million in donations that it received from FTX companies in 2022. Reporting by Dietrich Knauth in New York Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Inside Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home in Austria where he lived with his 'tyrant' father without running water or electricity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Lydia Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger lived in an apartment in Thal, Austria, from his birth in 1947 until 1966. It overlooked a castle and farmland but had no running water or electricity, and used a pit toilet. Schwarzenegger revisited the home in a new Netflix docuseries, "Arnold." In a new three-part Netflix docuseries, "Arnold," Schwarzenegger returns to Thal, his childhood home, and the bedroom where he first dreamed of becoming a star. Here's a closer look at Schwarzenegger's childhood home in Thal, Austria.

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☆ 'The Mother' starring Jennifer Lopez is one of Netflix's biggest hit movies of all time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"The Mother," starring Jennifer Lopez, is one of Netflix's most watched movies of all time. The action film cracked the top 10 list during the week of May 29 after debuting earlier in the month. Jennifer Lopez's action film "The Mother" is one of Netflix's most watched movies of all time. Lopez stars in the film as an assassin on the run who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter. Here's the list of Netflix's 10 most watched English-language films of all time:

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☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger explains in Netflix docuseries how he told wife about his secret son, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —It sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger struggled to tell his then wife Maria Shriver about his secret son with their housekeeper Mildred Baena. According to The Sun, Schwarzenegger revealed how the bombshell came out that Joseph Baena, now 25, was his son. “One day, the counselor said, ‘Today Maria wants to be very specific about something,’” Schwarzenegger reportedly says. The affair with Mildred Baena happened in 1996. “It was then just a matter of, ‘How do you keep this quiet?’”CNN has reached out to reps for Schwarzenegger and Shriver for comment.

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☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'No one gives a s--- about' climate change — this is what it should be called instead
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger says the global effort to mitigate the effects of climate change is being crippled by its fundamental communication problem. "As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere. 'Cause no one gives a s--- about that," Schwarzenegger told CBS' "Sunday Morning" correspondent Tracy Smith in a profile that aired Sunday. Pollution creates climate change, and pollution kills," Schwarzenegger said. The 75-year-old bodybuilder, actor, and former governor of California has become a public voice about climate change through his role as the host of the Austrian World Summit, a global climate change conference.

☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger's moving response to Bruce Willis retiring
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Arnold Schwarzenegger has a lot of love for Bruce Willis. Schwarzenegger recently talked to CinemaBlend about his friend and fellow action star. “He was, always for years and years, is a huge, huge star. And I think that he will always be remembered as a great, great star. And a kind man.”The Willis family announced last year the actor was stepping away from acting because he was diagnosed aphasia, a condition that can hinder ability to communicate, according to the Mayo Clinic.

☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger says his ‘I’ll be back’ tagline was an ‘accident’… thanks partially to James Cameron
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, Schwarzenegger recalled how his line of dialogue in the film in which he utters “I’ll be back” was an “accident,” stemming from a disagreement he had with his director James Cameron. “Jim Cameron and I were debating how to say the line because I was not comfortable with saying ‘I’ll,’” the former California governor reminisced. “I said, ‘I think it’s stronger to say, “I will be back.”’ Cameron said, ‘Are you the scriptwriter now? This guy comes up and says, ‘Say the line!’” Schwarzenegger continued. ‘The Terminator’ was largely responsible for my success, so I always would look at it very fondly.

☆ Wall Street is empowering its employees to build their own tech tools. But who is keeping track of all this stuff?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A story about training non-tech workers that has nothing to do with ChatGPT? Man Group, a $144 billion investment firm, has a popular training program to get non-tech workers up to speed on coding and data-science. Programs like <develop>, along with the rise of ChatGPT, speak to a wider trend across Wall Street of enabling employees to build their own tools despite not having a background in tech. Empowering people to build their own tools and apps to streamline their work seems great on paper. Read more about how Man Group teaches non-tech workers programming skills that help them save time.

☆ Chris Pratt's Met Gala post sparked conversation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Chris Pratt has upset some on the internet by showing off his toe. The “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Playing off his role in “Guardians,” one commenter suggested the Marvel group help. “You want a toe, I can get you a toe,” they quipped. “You need the guardians of Podiatry.”

☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger says his father was among millions ‘sucked into a hate system’ by lies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Chandelis Duster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday spoke out against antisemitism and hate, pointing to his family history in the hope it would stand as an example for others. “My father was, and so many other millions of men were, sucked into a hate system through lies and deceit. How many millions of people had to die and then they ended up losers … in the Confederacy, losers, as they all have, this just doesn’t work. A report released by the Anti-Defamation League last month found that antisemitic incidents in the US at their highest level since the organization began recording them in 1979. Data released by the FBI in March shows that the number of hate crimes reported in the US also increased in 2021.

☆ Tesla's price cuts highlight Elon Musk's last advantage in the EV business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Teslas are cheaper than everA Tesla Model Y. Patrick Pleul/Getty ImagesIn the market for a new car? Elon Musk's hoping that recent price cuts might turn you on to a Tesla. The billionaire might just be turning to his one remaining advantage in the EV business. But Tesla can cut prices and still deliver profits, something rival automakers struggle to do in their EV businesses. While Tesla investors are worrying about profits, Musk's rivals have their own reasons to be concerned, Stephen Beck, founder and managing partner of consultancy cg42, told Insider.

☆ Inside the Wild World of Celebrity Keynote Speakers: Drugs, Alcohol
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

"I never saw myself as a speaker, let alone a motivational speaker," Leonard tells me while his assistant irons his jeans. 'When I ramble," Hunter told me, "hit me in the leg!" Every plane had been grounded, including the one stuck on the tarmac with an increasingly inebriated Hunter Thompson trapped inside. But by far the most all-consuming task was booking gigs for Hunter Thompson. Just before a debate with G. Gordon Liddy at Brown University, Hunter demanded that Betsy Berg, whom I now worked alongside at GTN, score him some crystal meth.

☆ Can tiny homes save California? 4 villages illustrate their potentials and pitfalls.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

While this is the first time the state is providing this many tiny homes directly, the solution is not a new phenomenon. Here is a list of some of the municipalities that have built tiny homes to solve this issue and how they have fared. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSan Jose was quick to adopt tiny homes as temporary shelters, per the East Bay Times. It's set to send tiny homes to cities already constructed, eliminating much of the cost and process for local governments. It — like many cities in California — has turned to tiny homes as temporary shelters for people living on the streets.

☆ ‘True Lies’ Review: A Counterintelligence Couple Comes Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The old James Cameron / Arnold Schwarzenegger collaboration “True Lies” has needed a reboot since, oh, about the time it was released. Its premise was close to preposterous: A long-married woman wouldn’t know her husband was a globe-trotting, veteran counterterrorism agent? Linguistics professor, yoga enthusiast and mother of two Helen Tasker (Ms. Gonzaga) has been married to Harry Tasker (Mr. Howey) for 17 years. Yet she has no idea that all his business travel for that job in “computer sales” really involves him and his cohort saving the world. This doesn’t earn her a lot of our respect, but the show wisely dispenses with the whole façade in the first episode: Helen becomes an agent, too.

☆ Elon Musk used to scream if he wasn't mentioned in an article about Tesla, the company's first CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said Elon Musk used to "scream" if he was not cited in Tesla stories. Musk didn't return requests for comment. In an interview with Insider, Eberhard said he and Musk were "congenial" until his last few months at the company. "His behavior changed dramatically as soon as we started having press about Tesla," Eberhard told Insider in an interview. He previously told Insider that Musk and Tesla's board met behind his back and voted to replace him as CEO.

☆ S.F. antiques dealer who was recorded spraying a homeless woman with a water hose is arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Johnson-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Johnson | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The San Francisco antiques dealer whose gallery was vandalized and denounced online after viral video showed him spraying a homeless woman with a water hose was arrested Wednesday and charged with battery, authorities said. The man, Collier Gwin, 71, was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge, police said. He was booked late Wednesday afternoon into the San Francisco County Jail, where he was being held on $2,500 bail, according to jail records. A nearby business owner recorded video of Gwin spraying the woman on the sidewalk outside Foster Gwin Gallery on Jan. 9. They will release her within a day.”Foster Gwin Gallery in San Francisco.

☆ BMW teases a talking car that shifts colors like a chameleon
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Joseph White | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BMW plans to launch a new lineup of electric vehicles, which it is calling the Neue Klasse, or new class. The BMW concept was very much a show car, with elements that could be challenging to put into mass production at competitive prices. But Zipse told a packed theater at the Palms Casino that BMW "will bring this technology into our Neue Klasse ... in serious production." Playing on its long-time slogan "the ultimate driving machine," BMW said the "Dee" technology could make future cars the "ultimate companion." The i Vision Dee car has 240 separate color cells that can change individually.

☆ James Cameron says he'd want to make the next 'Terminator' movie about AI instead of 'bad robots gone crazy'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Filmmaker James Cameron said he's discussed a new "Terminator" movie but "nothing's been decided." He said he would want to focus it on artificial intelligence rather than "bad robots gone crazy." Cameron returned to the franchise for the first time since 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" with 2019's "Terminator: Dark Fate," which he produced and conceived the story for. In 2019, Cameron told Deadline that "Dark Fate" could be the beginning of a new "Terminator" trilogy if it performed well enough at the box office. "If we get fortunate enough to make some money with 'Dark Fate' we know exactly where we can go with the subsequent films."

☆ New: Business Owner Nails Impression
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew: Business Owner Nails ImpressionKevin and Bethenny are pleasantly surprised with this food truck owner's impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger!

☆ Dispute over North Carolina congressional districts tees up major elections case at Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lawrencehurley_Pic.Jpg | Lawrence Hurley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

WASHINGTON — When the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the Republican-drawn congressional district maps in February, Rep. Tim Moore, the Republican speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, reached for some potent ammunition. Moore said in an interview that he backed the theory because it is the only way to challenge a state court ruling that he believes was not based on law or precedent. Republicans, led by Moore, immediately asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the maps. Gary D. Robertson / AP fileThe independent state legislature theory claims state legislatures have the final say over election laws, potentially shielding their actions from state courts. He also said he believed that the governor had the power to veto elections legislation, a procedure cast into doubt by at least one interpretation of the independent state legislature theory.

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