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☆ Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jennifer Saba | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Look for him to add Netflix (NFLX.O) to the list in 2023. Since his 2014 promotion into the technology titan’s corner office, Nadella has embarked on a pricey shopping spree. Later, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion and the speech recognition and artificial intelligence software developer Nuance for $20 billion. Even if Nadella loses out on the video-game company for competition reasons, however, owning Netflix would make strategic sense and probably be an easier sell in Washington and Brussels. With a market value 13 times that of Netflix, as of early December, $1.8 trillion Microsoft can afford Netflix.

☆ 'National Treasure: Edge of History' review: A Disney+ series adds a young-adult chapter to the movies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Giving the “National Treasure” movies a young-adult spin, “National Treasure: Edge of History” transforms the franchise into a Disney+ series, one that offers the same playful approach to the past while weighing that down with tiresome relationship issues and a protagonist with her own Scooby gang. The opening episodes have their moments, but it’s less something to treasure than at best mildly enjoy. Nicolas Cage starred in the 2004 movie and its sequel, a sort of discount “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The baton here passes to Lisette Olivera as Jess, a whip-smart Dreamer whose father, a protector of treasures, disappeared when she was a baby. As the recent “Willow” reminds us, Disney has aggressively mined its movie library for titles that might lend themselves to streaming-series treatment, and “National Treasure,” with its episodic aspect as Jess must locate and crack new clues, perhaps works on that level better than most. “National Treasure: Edge of History” premieres December 14 on Disney+.

☆ Why We Published a Special Project About Child Gun Deaths
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Jake Silverstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Our 2022 The Lives They Lived issue is about 12 American kids who died from gun violence in 2022. In 2022, all indications are that for the third straight year, guns will kill more American kids than anything else. Black children, especially Black boys, die from gun violence at a rate significantly higher than any other group. Black children are by far the most vulnerable to gun violence, but they are not alone. It is hard to think of a more terrifying or depressing trend in American life than this.

☆ 'It's A Wonderful Life': See the classic Christmas film on the big screen this month
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Jeanne Bonner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Karolyn Grimes and James Stewart in "It's A Wonderful Life." Fathom has long wanted to revive showings of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Carey said, noting that fans have been asking for it. No film is a failure if it has fansWhat’s long delighted film historians is the fact that when “It’s a Wonderful Life” debuted, it was largely deemed a wash. As film historian Jeanine Basinger writes in her compendium, “The It’s A Wonderful Life Book,” the original idea for the film languished for years before the studio RKO sold it to Capra in 1945 for a mere $10,000. William Edmunds and James Stewart in 1946's "It's A Wonderful Life."

CNN —The death of prominent journalist Grant Wahl at the World Cup in Qatar has led to an outpouring of shock and grief across the sports world, with NBA star LeBron James and tennis great Billie Jean King leading the tributes to the American. King said Wahl’s death was “heartbreaking.”“A talented journalist, Grant was an advocate for the LGBTQ community & a prominent voice for women’s soccer,” King tweeted Saturday. “I am so thankful for the support of my husband Grant Wahl’s soccer family and of so many friends who’ve reached out tonight. He added that he sought help at the medical clinic at the World Cup media center, believing he had bronchitis. Afterward, Wahl told CNN he “probably will” wear the shirt again.

CNN —Prominent American journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar after collapsing while covering the World Cup, sparking an outpouring of shock and grief across the sports world. Grant Wahl, pictured on October 10, 2014. “I am so thankful for the support of my husband Grant Wahl’s soccer family and of so many friends who’ve reached out tonight. Feeling pretty hairy, bad,” Wahl told co-host Chris Wittyngham in the episode. He added that he sought help at the medical clinic at the World Cup media center, believing he had bronchitis.

☆ Sandy Hook families focus on pushing for change, decade after shooting
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Daniel Fastenberg | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/3] A general view of Sandy Hook prior to the 10th remembrance of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S., December 8, 2022. He was among 20 first graders gunned down inside Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012. At least 11 school shooting plots have been foiled in recent years because of the training Sandy Hook Promise provided, the group says. Speakers included former U.S. President Barack Obama, who was in the White House when the Sandy Hook shooting took place. Mark Barden, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Sandy Hook, co-founded Sandy Hook Promise with Hockley.

Biden had been hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more apt to free Griner once America’s midterm elections were done, a calculation that proved correct. Still detained in Russia is Paul Whelan, a businessman whom the White House has also been working to free without success. In a 2012 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was vice president, Biden came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and he is expected to sign the measure into law. White House officials acknowledged the headwinds and worried that the midterm elections would be a repudiation of Biden’s record. “When I look at what the Biden White House has done, I think experience and patience really paid off,” said Jennifer Palmieri, who served as White House communications director during the Obama administration.

☆ Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried hit with campaign finance complaint over GOP 'dark' money
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

An ethics watchdog group has asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged "serious violations" of election law, citing his admitted contributions of "dark" money to Republican-aligned groups during the 2022 primary season. Anyone can file a complaint with the FEC if they suspect a violation of federal election campaign laws. The complaint contains a link to the Nov. 16 interview Bankman-Fried gave to Tiffany Fong, who posted the discussion on her YouTube channel. "All my Republican donations were dark," Bankman-Fried went on to say, the complaint noted. In the interview, Bankman-Fried said that those contributions were "all for the primary."

☆ Police in Canada say remains of 2 slain Indigenous women are likely in landfill — but they won't search site
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Police in Canada are facing scrutiny after saying they believe they know where the bodies of two Indigenous women allegedly slain by a suspected serial killer are buried — but that they won't be searching the area due to difficult conditions. In May, the Winnipeg Police Department announced that partial remains of one of the victims, Rebecca Contois, 24, had been found in a landfill. In a tweet Tuesday, Niki Ashton, a Member of Parliament with Canada's New Democratic Party, said: "We remember the Indigenous women who have been targeted and killed because they are Indigenous women. "These deaths must not be ignored, nor the reality that they represent the ongoing generational harms and trauma that are rooted in violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people," the statement said. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday that he believed all levels of government have failed Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit people for centuries, CBC News reported.

Candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 15. Now, the homicide in Moscow, Idaho, of the four University of Idaho students — friends Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 — has become a fresh mystery for internet sleuths to speculate over. Officers investigate a homicide at an apartment complex south of the University of Idaho campus. Four people were found dead at a residence near the University of Idaho, police in the city of Moscow said. Jeremy Reagan, a University of Idaho law student who lives near the crime scene in Moscow, is all too familiar with being wrongly named.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried says he's the Republicans' third-biggest donor, but used 'dark money' to avoid media criticism
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But the FTX founder said he gave just as much to Republicans using "dark money." He said he did so to avoid media criticism from "liberal" reporters who would "freak the f*** out." "I've been their third-biggest Republican donor this year as well," he said. "They're all secretly liberal and I didn't want to have that fight, so I made all the Republican ones dark." Once the richest person under 30 with a net worth of $26 billion, Bankman-Fried told Axios on Monday that he's now down to his last $100,000.

☆ Kroger and Albertsons want to create a grocery empire. The last supermarket mega-merger backfired
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

With the FTC’s blessing, Haggen, a small supermarket chain in the Northwest with just 18 locations, bought 146 of the former Albertsons and Safeway stores, including the one where Martinez worked. In an weird twist, Albertsons bought back dozens of the same stores it previously sold to Haggen in bankruptcy court — at a lower price. Now she worries Kroger will divest Ralphs as part of its merger with Albertsons in a repeat of the Haggen 2015 deal. To address antitrust concerns that the merger will stifle competition in local markets where they overlap, Kroger and Albertsons plan to divest stores. In 2015, Haggen bought a Vons grocery store (owned by Safeway at the time) in Carpinteria as part of the Albertsons and Safeway divestitures.

☆ Girl dies after she's hit by truck in Raleigh Christmas parade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A girl was killed after she was hit by a truck pulling a float during a Christmas parade in Raleigh, North Carolina, authorities said Saturday. The driver of a vehicle in the parade lost control near an intersection and hit the girl while traveling at a low rate of speed, police said in a news release. The girl, who has not been identified, was a member of CC & Company Dance Complex, local news media reported. Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said her heart "aches for the young girl hit in a tragic accident." Police officers work the scene of a fatal accident at a holiday parade in Raleigh, N.C. on Nov. 19, 2022.

☆ What’s behind wide salary ranges after New York’s pay transparency law
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Yet that’s the kind of differential that is popping up in some job ads that have posted since New York City’s pay transparency law took effect on November 1. The answer may differ from employer to employer since there is no uniform practice in how a company should set its minimum and maximum pay range. She noted that candidates and employees are more likely to believe a company is fair if it posts narrower ranges. New York City’s pay transparency law doesn’t mandate that the actual offer a company makes to a candidate falls within the advertised range. And be very realistic about the experience you bring to a job, since that is a key element in setting pay.

☆ Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

(Ms. Didion’s death was the result of complications from Parkinson’s disease.) Ms. Didion’s stylish Corvette Stingray isn’t in the sale, but the photos that made it famous are. Quintana eventually pulled through, but died in 2005 at 39, a few months before Ms. Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” was published. In the book, Ms. Didion wrote about the heartbreak and challenges of that era of her life: “I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Following Ms. Didion’s passing, Ms. Smith, an artist and singer known as the “godmother of punk,” posted a tribute on Instagram, articulating what many felt.

☆ Review: Driving the $360,000 Bentley Continental GT Speed is the closest I'll ever get to heaven on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Alanis King | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

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Rapp, watching Spacey accept his prize, threw a pencil at the screen, he testified this week. Spacey’s lawyers have tried to convince the jury of six men and six women that Rapp fabricated his claim in large part because he was bitterly envious of their client's success. Rapp, they contend, desperately wanted Spacey’s career: the hit films, the plum roles, the two Oscars. But through the first five days of the trial in downtown Manhattan, Rapp’s alleged jealousy has been a recurring and striking theme. “I wanted my career.”Warrington Parker, a San Francisco trial attorney, and Danny Cevallos, an NBC News legal analyst, both described the jealousy argument as a high-risk bet for Spacey’s lawyers.

☆ How the White House is bracing for potential charges against Hunter Biden
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

President Joe Biden has stood by his son Hunter as he reportedly awaits possible criminal charges. But the White House faces a complicated communications challenge if federal agents move forward. But the White House faces a complicated communications challenge if federal agents investigating Hunter Biden move forward with charges against him on tax crimes and a false statement on a gun application. Experts say one thing the White House must not do is contact the Justice Department about the case. Republicans are itching to investigate Hunter Biden if they win control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Six-year-old Tahjir Burrowes wandered out of his Florida home on Oct. 5, wearing only a diaper and a T-shirt, and headed straight for a hurricane-flooded canal. His 17-year-old brother, Tahjon, knew something was wrong as soon as he got out of the bathroom and could not find his little brother anywhere. “Mom, mom, mom! Their mother, Lachera Burrowes, immediately jumped in her car and drove to the canal near their Lehigh home. Tahjon, left, and Tahjir Burrowes survey their Lehigh home, shortly after Hurricane Ian hit.

☆ Brittney Griner's wife says she doesn't know if the WNBA star 'has anything left in her tank'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Cherelle Griner said her wife, WNBA star Brittney Griner, is being held "hostage" in her first interview since a Russian court sentenced the basketball player to nine years in prison for drug possession in August. "On its face it just seems like my wife is a hostage," Cherelle Griner told "CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King. On that call, Cherelle said, she didn't know if Brittney "has anything left in her tank to continue to wake up every day and be in a place where she has no one." Ahead of her Oct. 25 hearing, Cherelle said Brittney is "at her absolute weakest moment in life now." Brittney Griner, who came to my country for seven, eight years, and helped my country be recognized through sport, paid taxes in my country, helped my country.

☆ Beware, Florida homeowners. The worst is yet to come.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Dan Latu | James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

They were paying $750 a month for the lot in a mobile-home park and couldn't fathom paying $7,200 a year for homeowners insurance, let alone additional protections for floods. (Flood insurance costs an average of more than $600 a year in Florida and can stretch even higher in high-risk areas.) But just 57% of those homes are covered by flood insurance, a Bank of America analysis of data from CoreLogic and the National Flood Insurance Program found. Some owners may not even know that they need a separate insurance policy for flooding, assuming it's covered by their homeowners insurance. Roughly a dozen firms that provide homeowners insurance in Florida have gone under in the past two years, The Washington Post reported.

☆ What we know about the victims of the possible serial killer in Stockton, California
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-04 | by ( Antonio Planas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Police are searching for a person of interest in a series of five fatal shootings in Stockton, California, that are thought to be connected. “By definition, you could probably very well call this serial killings,” Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said Friday. Paul Alexander YawPaul Alexander Yaw. via FacebookGreta Bogrow, 60, of Texas, said Monday that her son Paul Alexander Yaw was killed July 8 at a park in the Northern California city. It’s been really, really hard.”The station reported that Debudey was a father and that he and Lopez met 28 years ago when they were in high school.

A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker is tugged towards a thermal power station in Futtsu, east of Tokyo, Japan November 13, 2017. The global LNG market has more than doubled in size since 2011, ushering in dozens of new entrants and the expansion of smaller players in Asia. The capital needed to trade the market soared after benchmark LNG prices rose from record lows below $2 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) in 2020 to highs of $57 in August. LNG spot prices price stood at $40.50/mmBtu then. 'DIFFICULT TO COMPETE'High LNG cargo prices are also widening energy poverty globally as some cargoes, initially destined for poorer nations, end up being diverted to European buyers.

☆ 'Clerks III' review: Kevin Smith's sequel is a sentimental valentine to the movie that launched his career
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Grappling with middle age, “Clerks III” turns out to be unexpectedly sentimental and nostalgic, reflecting that writer-director-editor-co-star Kevin Smith inherently recognizes this will likely be the gang’s final visit to Quick Stop Groceries. If so, it’s an uneven if gentle way to hang out the “We’re closed” sign. Things take a rather abrupt and darker turn, however, when Randal suffers a near-death experience, clearly inspired by Smith’s own cardiac episode in 2018. The weightlessness of the material was, initially, basically the point, which makes the reach for more emotional heft ungainly. “Clerks III” will play exclusively in theaters via Fathom Events from September 13-18.

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