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☆ Democratic Rep. Andy Kim faces off against Republican Bob Healey in New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Andy Kim is running against Republican Bob Healey in New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District. The 3rd District includes Hamilton, a swing town and one of the state's most populous municipalities. New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District candidatesKim, first elected in 2018, is bidding for a third term. Voting history for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional DistrictNew Jersey's 3rd Congressional District covers parts of Monmouth and Mercer counties, including Hamilton, a swing town and one of the state's most populous municipalities. His challenger, Healey, has raised $4 million, spent $3.8 million, and has $228,000 in cash still left to spend, as of October 19.

[1/2] The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2022. The Senate has the authority to confirm a president's nominees to the federal judiciary including the Supreme Court. Biden's Republican predecessor Donald Trump put a major emphasis on getting judicial nominations confirmed as he worked to move the judiciary rightward. If Democrats retain control, Biden has a chance to match or surpass Trump's mark of having 234 judicial nominees confirmed over four years. Circuit courts are the regional federal appellate courts one step below the Supreme Court.

☆ Casey DeSantis, Florida's 'co-governor': Rivals, friends, and former colleagues say she's the secret behind husband Ron DeSantis' meteoric rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lyz Lenz | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

Florida's first lady, Casey DeSantis, is a close confidant to her powerful husband, several people told Insider. He added, "We would not see Ron DeSantis outside of press conferences if he did not have a wife and kids." Ron DeSantis began clawing his way into the national spotlight in 2017 as a member of the US House of Representatives. She smiled wryly and said: "Everyone knows my husband, Ron DeSantis, is endorsed by President Trump, but he's also an amazing dad. "Ron DeSantis would be a very good candidate for the St. Johns county commission if he did not have Casey DeSantis in his life," Schorsch said.

☆ Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont faces off against Republican Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ned Lamont is running against Republican Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut's gubernatorial race. Lamont narrowly defeated Stefanowski in 2018 and is likely to retain his seat in this rematch. Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski are engaged in a rematch in Connecticut's gubernatorial election. Lamont defeated Stefanowski in the 2018 election to succeed outgoing Gov. Lamont defeated Stefanowski in the 2018 election by a slim margin — just over 3 percentage points, or about 44,000 votes.

☆ Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, a low-key moderate who once ran for president, faces off against first-timer Joe O'Dea in a surprise battleground
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Michael Bennet is running against Republican Joe O'Dea in Colorado's US Senate race. Colorado, which Joe Biden won by double digits in 2020, is an unexpected battleground. No fan of the current president, O'Dea added that "seeing a Biden-Trump rematch again in 2024 would rip the country apart." Bennet won 48.1% of the vote when he ran in 2010 for his own term — less than 2 percentage points ahead of Republican challenger Ken Buck. Joe Biden carried Colorado by 13 points in 2020, beating then-President Donald Trump there by more than 400,000 votes.

☆ Biden 'social cost of carbon' climate risk measure upheld by U.S. appeals court
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Clark Mindock | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The social cost of carbon metric is used in rulemaking processes and permitting decisions to calculate economic damages associated with a rise in greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and other activities. The decision supports the Biden administration's argument that states cannot sue until federal agencies incorporate the metric into decisions. The Democratic Biden administration had determined the cost to be around $51 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions, quintuple the roughly $10 figure implemented under Trump, a Republican. The states argued in a lawsuit filed in Missouri federal court last year that the pricing system would lead to regulatory restrictions that would overburden farmers and manufacturers. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that sweeping injunction, the U.S. Supreme Court in May affirmed.

☆ Bo Hines, a Trump-endorsed Republican, faces off against Democratic state Sen. Wiley Nickel in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Republican Bo Hines is running against Democrat Wiley Nickel in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District. The 13th District is split between the urban Triangle and rural Sandhills. North Carolina's 13th Congressional District candidatesHines, 27, a political newcomer with virtually no experience, raised eyebrows even within the GOP when former President Donald Trump offered him his endorsement. If elected, he will replace Rep. Ted Budd — a staunch Trump ally and Republican nominee in North Carolina's US Senate race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Richard Burr. Voting history for North Carolina's 13th Congressional DistrictNorth Carolina's 13th Congressional District encompasses Johnston County and parts of Wake, Wayne, and Harnett counties.

☆ Analysis: U.S. Republicans aim at Ukraine aid but unlikely to block it
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

All 57 House votes against a bill providing more than $40 billion for Ukraine in May came from Republicans. Anderson said some Republicans have viewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration as corrupt since Trump's first impeachment trial. House Democrats voted to impeach Trump in 2019 on charges he held up military aid for Kyiv to put pressure on Zelenskiy to investigate one of Biden's sons. Several defense industry executives said they viewed the Republican comments on Ukraine aid as political rhetoric ahead of the midterms, not a threat. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion survey this month showed 73% of Americans felt the United States should continue to support Kyiv.

Oct 19 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding apparatus is unconstitutional, faulting a system Democrats designed to insulate the agency from requiring congressional appropriations. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the CFPB's independent funding through the Federal Reserve rather than budgets passed by Congress violated the separation of powers principles in the U.S. Constitution. "The Bureau's perpetual self-directed, double-insulated funding structure goes a significant step further than that enjoyed by the other agencies on offer." It could ask the full 5th Circuit to reconsider the case or appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in 2020 ruled in another case that the protection Congress originally afforded the CFPB director, who could only be fired for cause, was unconstitutional.

☆ Democrats are downplaying Biden's history-making 80th birthday, and insist that voters only care about what he 'is going to do to make their lives better'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Joe Biden will make history on his November 20 birthday as the first 80-year-old US president. "Like President Biden has said, anyone with questions about his age should just watch him," a spokesperson told Politico. Biden's birthday comes amid intense scrutiny of his age, especially as he weighs whether to run for re-election in 2024. But some Democrats have called for a new generation of leaders while Republicans have questioned Biden's mental acuity. Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's campaign manager in 2012, told POLITICO, the average voter doesn't care about Biden's age, but instead "wants to know what Joe Biden is going to do to make their lives better."

☆ Feds plan to call Leonardo DiCaprio and former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly at trial of Fugees rapper Pras Michel
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Pras Michel, a founding member of the Fugees hip-hop group, is standing trial in DC next month. He's accused of illegally lobbying Trump officials to resolve an inquiry into the 1MDB scandal. In a court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed a witness list that includes DiCaprio and top Trump administration officials, including former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former national security advisor H.R. As part of the scheme, prosecutors said, Michel recruited about 20 so-called "straw donors" who made campaign contributions with Low's money. Michel is charged with violating both FARA and that other statute, known as 951, in his alleged lobbying schemes.

☆ All eyes are on DeSantis' relationship with Biden as Hurricane Ian approaches Florida. Here's how the previous 3 presidents worked (or didn't) with governors on disaster relief efforts.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Governors usually work directly with the White House during disasters, relying on the government for federal resources. Here's a look at how the last three presidents handled disaster relief efforts and how Biden could address this crisis with DeSantis. However, on Tuesday evening, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted that Biden and DeSantis had spoken to discuss steps the federal government is taking to help Florida. Here's how the last three presidents worked with governors in their disaster relief efforts. Biden declared a state of emergency as the storm approached, ordering federal assistance to supplement disaster response efforts.

☆ Rick Scott joins Mitch McConnell in rallying around Ron DeSantis' migrant flight stunt
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Rick Scott plugs Ron DeSantis' migrant trafficking project in a new fundraising pitch. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hailed the migrant shuffling as "a good idea" on Tuesday. Exploiting migrants for political gain is the rare thing McConnell and Scott agree on right now. Scott is the second Senate GOP leader to climb aboard the DeSantis bandwagon this week. This spring McConnell threw cold water on Scott's self-styled midterm strategy blueprint, emphatically stating "that will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda."

British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit Berkeley Modular, in Northfleet, Kent, Britain, September 23, 2022. The pound crashed below $1.09 for the first time since 1985 and British government bonds suffered the biggest daily fall in decades. "I've rarely seen an economic policy that is as uniformly panned by economic experts and financial markets," said Harvard professor Jason Furman, former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers during Barack Obama's presidency. Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies compared Kwarteng's statement to a budget in 1972 that similarly sought to double Britain's rate of economic growth, but is widely remembered as a disaster for its inflationary effect. Furman said Truss might also have no choice but to undo some of her plans if Britain's debt problems start to spiral because of higher interest rates.

☆ Human Rights Campaign, largest U.S. LGBTQ advocacy group, names new president
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The Human Rights Campaign announced Tuesday that Kelley Robinson will serve as its ninth president — the first Black queer woman to lead the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization. Robinson will step into the role a year after HRC fired its previous president, Alphonso David, who was the organization's first Black president. David allegedly consulted with the governor's office in December 2020, while president of HRC, the report said. David maintained that he wasn’t aware of allegations of sexual harassment against the governor during his time as chief counsel. In February, David sued the organization in federal court, alleging that he was underpaid and then terminated “because he is Black."

☆ Former senior Obama advisor guides lobbying and policy strategy of London cryptocurrency firm
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The crypto industry has been ramping up lobbying around the world with potentially strict regulations on the horizon. The Biden administration released its framework on potential U.S. crypto regulations earlier this month, including ways that could help fight fraud. Kasselman described Messina as a critical guide to the company's lobbying and overall policy efforts. He noted that Messina is not a registered lobbyist, yet often advises their team on lobbying strategy. Kasselman credits Messina with the company hiring Ian Mair as Blockchain.com's head of U.S. policy and Giles Swan to run its European policy.

☆ Putin could go ‘scorched earth’ in response to Ukraine’s incredible military success — and the consequences would be grave
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Viktoria Bräuner | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ukrainian troops have been making big advances in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. Insider spoke with two professors about how Russian President Vladimir Putin may react. Ukrainian troops told The Telegraph over the weekend that Russian forces had been fleeing the area and that Ukrainian forces were overwhelmed by the amount of weaponry and ammunition they'd abandoned. Possible use of chemical or nuclear weaponsMasala said the use of chemical or nuclear weapons by Russia was "always a theoretical option" but "very unlikely." "I think the use of nuclear weapons is out of the question at the moment," he said.

☆ Why Joe Biden thinks he's never too old to be your president
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

As the oldest sitting president, he's raising concerns about how long he can continue governing. Republicans — including Trump — have gleefully seized on Biden's verbal misadventures, such as when he called his vice president "President Harris." President Joe Biden drives the Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning in Dearborn, Michigan. Ruggerio described the idea that Joe Biden is diminished or can't remember things as "bull crap." Cox said that while he thinks Biden is "still Joe" and still capable, he worries that Biden's age is a problem.

☆ Boeing will give $1 million to Joe Biden's inauguration. Here's what that will buy the aerospace giant.
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-16 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Aerospace giant Boeing will donate $1 million to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the company confirmed to Insider on December 10. Corporations that give $1 million to Biden's inaugural committee earn "chair" status and a host of exclusive perks, including invitations to a "virtual event" with Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and their spouses. Several big-name corporations are lining up to give to Biden's inauguration as they seek to be on the good side of the incoming administration. Representatives for the Biden inaugural committee did respond to a request for comment. Carolyn Kaster/APA history of givingBoeing gave $1 million both to President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration and President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration, according to federal contribution records.

☆ JPMorgan Chase says it won't give money to Biden's inauguration as the president-elect's team seeks $1 million corporate donations
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-16 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

JPMorgan Chase told Insider it wouldn't donate to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. The Biden inaugural committee is soliciting corporate contributions of up to $1 million. Wexler declined to comment on whether the Biden inaugural committee directly solicited the company for a donation. Representatives for the president-elect's inaugural committee did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. But his inaugural committee has not revealed details of its plans.

☆ 'Barrett is like Jesus' for evangelical voters: Why confirming a new Supreme Court justice before the election mattered more to Republicans than another coronavirus stimulus
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-28 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

It pales in comparison to getting the Supreme Court justice," an expert told Insider. The federal judge — now a newly minted Supreme Court Justice — is the first nominee in US history to be confirmed this close to an Election Day. McConnell's 'leave no vacancy behind' mindset about the courtsAnd the timing couldn't have been more ideal for the party, experts told Insider. In total, the top Republican has overseen 220 confirmations, including three Supreme Court justices. The Supreme Court offers them a shortcut "to enforce these kinds of values that they're really concerned about."

☆ I'm a photographer who covered 9/11 and its aftermath. Here are the most gripping photos I took, and the stories behind them.
▼ + stars: | 2001-09-11 | by ( Alan Chin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

A month after that, I got an assignment to go to northern Afghanistan. Their soldiers had repelled a Taliban offensive in 1997, and massacred thousands of the Taliban prisoners they had captured. Air Force flights from as far away as Germany were dropping American military and humanitarian food packets in an effort to win hearts and minds. This was taken aboard the ferry connecting the east and west sides of the American military base. Even as the American war in Afghanistan ends in both ignominy and relief, the conflicts there and in dozens of other places continue.

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