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☆ It looks like remote workers are getting the boot once again
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A bunch of executives at e-commerce firm Wayfair singled out remote workers as the ones who were more likely to have been laid off in a fresh round of cuts, The Wall Street Journal. The targeting of remote workers will come as little surprise for many, given the ugly battle that's been raging over remote work in recent months. Some bosses such as Elon Musk have disparaged remote workers as lazy members of the "laptop classes living in la la land," and called out the practice as "morally wrong." However, the Wayfair layoffs are a reminder that remote workers are in grave danger if their managers don't believe they're putting in the hours away from the office. Many remote workers will be feeling more vulnerable than ever.

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☆ Trump plans to testify in E. Jean Carroll's trial. His only move would be to apologize and beg for forgiveness, experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

On Monday, Trump's attorney Alina Habba said he intends to take the witness stand in his defense. Trump's two driving impulses — to fight the system and to take the witness stand — will create the judicial equivalent of a car wreck, experts told Business Insider. Alternatively, Trump can get on the witness stand and "try to testify in a narrative fashion," Jones said. Carroll's trial does have a jury, making it harder to "unring that bell" of forbidden testimony, Jones said. Or wager that he'll inflict wounds on himself by taking the witness stand?

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The rare torrent of rain that slammed the San Diego area on Monday forced numerous residents to navigate life-threatening scenes that they had trouble believing even as they recounted them. “What happened yesterday was extraordinary,” said Todd Gloria, the mayor of San Diego. On Tuesday, officials assessed the devastation in a region where very few residents have flood insurance. The record pace of the rainfall — a deluge of nearly three inches in three hours — had quickly overwhelmed drainage systems. According to the National Weather Service, it was the fourth greatest total for any day in recorded San Diego history, going back to 1850.

Persons: ”, Todd Gloria, — Organizations: National Weather Service Locations: San Diego, Diego

PARIS (AP) — France is getting ready to show its gratitude toward World War II veterans who will return, many for the last time, to Normandy beaches this year for 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day to mark the defeat of the Nazis. And we have to tell them,” Philippe Étienne, chairman of the Liberation Mission, the specially created body that organizes the 80th anniversary commemorations, told The Associated Press. “The civilians were part of this (World War II) conflict because they suffered and they supported fighters. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had been present for the 70th anniversary of D-Day, wasn't expected to be invited this year. French authorities are notably considering launching an nationwide operation to collect family documents, objects and audiovisual material related to World War II that would help keep the memory alive.

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☆ A millennial showed off the minimalist home she designed after growing up with her mother's clutter. She got roasted by Gen Z and boomers likening it to an 'airport lounge.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementWhile she has gone viral before, she's never received this much hate, she told BI. "We have the grey tone on grey tone on grey tone with a snarky tone thrown in," wrote one commenter. "People are either loving the house, and they're millennials, or they're anything but a millennial, and they hate it," she told BI. Those videos then went "super viral overnight," she told BI. Meesh told BI she's also been somewhat restrained in her critiques given what she could be covering — including her mother's views on the LGBTQ+ community and the patriarchal values she's espoused.

Persons: —, Meesh, she's, they're, Meesh Meesh Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Arizona

☆ Death Toll From Israeli Strikes in Gaza Passes 25,000, Gaza Health Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ibraheem Abu MustafaDOHA/GAZA (Reuters) - The toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7 has passed 25,000, health officials in the enclave said on Sunday, amid heavy Israeli strikes and street battles raging across the Hamas-run Strip. Gaza's health ministry said 178 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours, one of the deadliest days so far of the war. A total of 25,105 Palestinians have been killed and 62,681 have been injured in Israeli strikes since Oct. 7, the Gaza ministry said in a statement. Finding food for the family, for the children, has become a more challenging adventure than surviving war," Amer, 32, a father of three who lives in northern Gaza, told Reuters. The Palestinian Health Ministry there said Israeli forces have killed 360 Palestinians since Oct. 7.

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☆ Have your New Year’s resolutions already failed? This year, try taking things week by week
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Katie Hawkins-Gaar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

It makes sense, then, that as the fog of my grief began to clear, I felt the familiar pull to set resolutions and start anew. So, here’s my pitch: Instead of setting a series of resolutions for the year, or even a monthlong goal (I’m looking at you, #DryJanuary), try taking things week by week. We also have a prompt to reflect on one good moment from the past week, thanks to a suggestion from a reader. We’ve created different versions of the document so that you can set intentions solo or share them with a friend. Setting weekly intentions has also helped me complete dull but important tasks I may otherwise put off.

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With fighting still raging in Ukraine, and a front line that has barely shifted in more than a year, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, headed on Tuesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, amid a swirl of diplomatic discussions about possible peace talks. In his speech, he promoted a Ukrainian peace plan and called for stiffer sanctions on Russia. But in a contrast with his comments to the forum last year, Mr. Zelensky made no direct appeals for weaponry for new offensives on the battlefield. “We need you in Ukraine to build, to reconstruct, to restore our lives,” he told the audience of investors. “Each of you can be even more successful with Ukraine.”

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, ” Organizations: Economic Locations: Ukraine, Davos, Switzerland, Ukrainian, Russia

Political, business and other elites will gather once again Monday for the World Economic Forum’s 54th annual meeting in the Alpine hamlet of Davos, Switzerland, to tackle the thorniest of problems, from war to inequality to climate change. The forum is not without its own controversy, having been pegged over the years as a haven for globalists and ruling elites. This year’s conference comes on the heels of a report released Wednesday by think tank The Conference Board detailing findings from a survey of global business leaders, which showed a global economic downturn and inflation are among the top concerns of CEOs worldwide. With Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict raging on, global political instability also topped the list of things keeping corporate leaders awake at night. Meanwhile, global growth is expected to slow to 2.4% in 2024, according to a report from the World Bank released on Tuesday.

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Here’s what else you should know about the ICJ and South Africa’s case against Israel. For the case brought by South Africa, the panel will also be expanded to include one judge from South Africa and one from Israel. Does South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel Matter? How Is Israel Responding to the Genocide Charges by South Africa? Israeli officials have denied the allegations in the strongest possible terms, and even vigorously attacked South Africa for bringing the charges.

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☆ Blinken to meet with leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE with aim to avert larger Middle East war
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-08 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards an aircraft during his departure from Washington to travel to the Middle East, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 4, 2024. This is a conflict that could easily metastasize, causing even more insecurity and suffering," Blinken told reporters in Doha after meeting with Qatar's leadership on Sunday. The Middle East trip follows the assassination by drone of deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, which Hamas has blamed on Israel. Many U.S. officials now fear that the fighting will draw Hezbollah and Lebanon into the war, a shift that could see Iran up its involvement as well. Hezbollah, the most powerful militant and political organization in Lebanon, has been described by analysts as having 10 times the power and military capabilities as Hamas.

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☆ Jim Cramer’s guide to investing: Insider buying and short interest
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-26 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors about a potentially bullish tell: Watch for when management buys back shares of a stock with high short interest. Short interest refers to the total number of shares that have been sold short and not yet repurchased. If a company's management starts buying back shares with high short interest, it could be a sign they think the stock won't go any lower. So short sellers may start to quickly repurchase the shares to minimize their losses, leading to a short squeeze that ultimately sends the stock higher. "Insider buying plus heavy short interest can equal raging buy, as long as you avoid situations where the shorts are determined to crush the stock at any cost."

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☆ 'Visit anytime!' NY attorney general and Trump fraud-trial judge get open invite to tour all '$1B' of Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tuesday, a Palm Beach real estate broker testified on Trump's behalf that Mar-a-Lago is worth $1 billion. "If you have a dreamer, and a great American, I don't think that's a bad thing," the broker testified of his Palm Beach neighbor. "You have dozens and dozens of hand-carved cherubs" on the living room doors, Moens testified at one point. Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The property is currently worth closer to $1.5 billion, Moens testified in the July deposition.

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☆ Walmart joins the growing list of major companies to suspend advertising on Elon Musk's X
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart has joined the growing list of companies suspending their ads on X. It comes after Elon Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic post. Musk said that it was "a mistake" and "one of the most foolish things" he'd done on the platform. AdvertisementWalmart announced on Friday that it will stop advertising on Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. AdvertisementMusk has since said the post was a "mistake" and "one of the most foolish things" he'd done on the platform.

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☆ The war in Gaza has left us bitterly divided. Here’s how we can take down the temperature
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Opinion Keith Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

I think of that encounter from time to time as I ponder the unspeakable violence of the war raging in the Middle East. I’m also heartbroken to witness the profound pain of my Jewish and Muslim friends and their growing fears for their own safety. Intolerance was already on the rise but the events of the past two months have sent it into overdrive. Indirectly, therefore, public opinion in the US seems likely to have some potential impact on the Israeli government’s actions. Despite backlash from other sections of their own community, some Jewish groups have marched alongside pro-Palestinian protesters to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.

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☆ Microsoft's top brass still don't seem to know what the heck happened with Sam Altman and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft has put billions into OpenAI, but it still doesn't know why its board fired Sam Altman. Microsoft president Brad Smith dismissed the idea that the drama was over a dangerous AI discovery. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementLooks like Microsoft's top brass are still out of the loop with what the heck happened over at OpenAI.

Persons: Sam Altman, Brad Smith, Smith, —, Altman, There's, Elon Musk, – Organizations: Microsoft, Service, OpenAI, Reuters, Elon, Business Locations: Silicon

☆ 'The most taboo topic I've ever seen': Inside Microsoft's war over the war in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Viva Engage, Microsoft's slick message board designed to compete with Slack, is often touted as "Facebook for work." In October, according to internal messages viewed by BI, a Microsoft employee shared a post praising child tax credits as a way to reduce poverty. Employees with pro-Palestinian views have also used inflammatory language in their posts on Viva Engage. It has cut off the comments to Viva Engage posts it considered too incendiary. "It's important to recognize the pain and suffering of so many people, including our colleagues, as the events in Israel, Gaza, and the surrounding region continue to unfold," Nadella wrote.

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☆ The National Christmas Tree Fell Over. Make of That What You Will.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Katie Rogers | More About Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a bold affront to the holiday season, the National Christmas Tree eschewed its festive duties and fell over on Tuesday afternoon, alarming federal park workers and temporarily throwing the plans for the national tree-lighting ceremony into question. People who don’t much like the president have already compared the tree to President Biden’s economic policies, and criticized Mr. Biden’s inability to keep the tree from falling over, as if ensuring the tethering of a Christmas tree to the frigid earth were his sole responsibility as president. Who among us hasn’t rebelled against the American urge to celebrate Christmas almost an entire month early? (The debate over using a cut Christmas tree or a planted one has been raging in the tree community for decades.) Anyway, the episode unfolded when a strong gust of wind forced the 40-foot Norway spruce to the ground, Jasmine Shanti, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service, said in an email.

Persons: Rosalynn Carter, us hasn’t, Jasmine Shanti Organizations: National Park Service, White Locations: Georgia, Norway, West Virginia

☆ A friendship breakup over not being 'a girls' girl' divided the internet. The polarized response shows we may be more biased than we think.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Aimee Pearcy | Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Kelly Kim, a model and influencer, first shared the story in a TikTok video posted on November 7, although she said the events transpired months ago. She first found out about Kim's viral TikTok video when someone commented about it on her Instagram, she said. While her name wasn't used in Kim's video, Lee told BI that she connected the dots after watching it. AdvertisementLee said that while it "didn't feel right" to come to the internet with such a private issue, she decided to post her own TikTok video to clear up misconceptions about her. Lee told BI that the response to the video has felt overwhelming, and that she has turned off her notifications.

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☆ Three dead as storm hits Crimea and Russia's Black Sea coast
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Fierce storms killed three people on the Russian and Crimean Black Sea coast on Monday, with hundreds evacuated. Storms have been raging in the Black Sea since Friday. Video published online showed large waves sweeping over the seafront in Sochi, and carrying away cars. The Russian-installed governors of Crimea and Sevastopol, both of which Moscow seized and unilaterally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, declared states of emergency. In the Russian port of Novorossiysk, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and Russia's Transneft state oil pipeline company announced a halt to loadings due to weather conditions.

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☆ US pushes for extension of Gaza pause, but the possibility of war raging again looms large
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The Israeli Cabinet has discussed the idea and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Biden in a call Sunday an extension would be welcome, his office said in a statement. In the short term, Israel and Hamas both appear to have strong reasons to continue the truce. Why the Gaza pause may eventually unravelAn extended pause in the fighting would play into humanitarian aims, but time may be short before the strategic goals of Israel or Hamas shift. In another sign that differences over the package could lead to further delays, Sen. Chris Murphy said he’d be open to conditioning Israeli aid on the protection of Palestinian civilians. And Israeli President Isaac Herzog told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Sunday that he supported the idea for an “international coalition” to monitor Gaza after Hamas had been eradicated in the war.

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☆ US Navy foils gunmen attempting to hijack an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A US Navy warship responded to a distress call and secured the seized ship, an official said. London-based Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer's Zodiac Group. Crew members of the Central Park tanker locked themselves in the ship's safe room for safety, the official told Griffin. Zodiac Maritime has been targeted previously amid a wider yearslong shadow war between Iran and Israel. Both the Symi and the Central Park had been behaving as if they faced a threat in recent days.

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☆ Fire Season in Australia Has Started, Early and Ominous
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Yan Zhuang | More About Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The warmest winter on record, followed by an unusually warm and dry spring. Hundreds of fires along Australia’s east coast, including one that razed 53 homes in Queensland. It’s not yet summer, but Australia’s fire season is well underway, in the latest example of how climate change is altering the rhythms of life across the Earth. Stoked by the El Niño weather pattern, it is the first dry and hot year since the Black Summer of 2019-2020. “We’re still at the very beginning of the fire reason, and already we’ve had hundreds of fires since early October,” Western Australia’s emergency services minister, Stephen Dawson, said on Friday.

Persons: We’re, we’ve, Stephen Dawson Locations: Queensland, Perth, El

Muse hosts the 105-Mile Trade Zone and has the greatest volume of trade with China. It is the fourth border crossing seized by the alliance forces in a month of intense fighting. Social media sites associated with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army displayed photos and video of what they said were its forces at the border gate. Fighting has been raging in the region since the Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, calling themselves the Three Brotherhood Alliance, launched a coordinated offensive on Oct. 27. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army has made common cause with Beijing by declaring elimination of the cyberscam operations to be one of its goals.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, authorities said. The attackers seized the Liberian-flagged Central Park, managed by Zodiac Maritime, in the Gulf of Aden, the company and private intelligence firm Ambrey said. London-based Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group. Both the Symi and the Central Park had been behaving as if they faced a threat in recent days. The Houthis did not immediately acknowledge the seizure of the Central Park.

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