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☆ What the first legal challenge to derail Biden's student loan forgiveness plan means for borrowers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A lawyer working for a conservative legal group this week brought the first legal challenge to President Joe Biden's sweeping plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for millions of Americans. "Nothing about loan cancellation is lawful or appropriate," Frank Garrison, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a complaint filed in federal court in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Garrison is asserting that he could be harmed by Biden's loan forgiveness in the form of a tax bill. Canceled student debt can be considered taxable income. Currently, Garrison is pursuing a government program that leads to tax-free debt cancellation, known as public service loan forgiveness, but he says Biden's plan could now cause him to get a $1,000 state tax bill.

☆ Republicans Louie Gohmert and Paul Gosar 'may have had serious cognitive issues,' Jan. 6 committee advisor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Republican Denver Riggleman says Reps. Louie Gohmert and Paul Gosar are in their own little worlds. They harbor "wild, dramatic fantasies about Democrats, the media and big tech," Riggleman says. "I came to believe Gosar and Gohmert may have had serious cognitive issues," Riggleman writes of his former colleagues in his new book, "The Breach: The untold story of the investigation into January 6th." Reps. Gohmert and Gosar did not respond to requests for comment about Riggleman's remarks. Republican Reps. Perry and Biggs have both been subpoenaed by the select committee investigating the deadly siege at the US Capitol.

☆ Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler clashed over Trump's first impeachment with Nadler saying Democrats' plans were 'unfair' and 'unconstitutional'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Jerry Nadler also reportedly pushed Democrats to have Trump's lawyers more involved. "It's unfair, and it's unprecedented, and it's unconstitutional," Nadler reportedly told Schiff, according to an excerpt from "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump." In the end, Schiff's House Intelligence Committee took the lead role in handling Trump's impeachment, a break from the historic tradition of the Judiciary Committee handling such proceedings. "I write the rules of my committee, not you," Nadler reportedly told his colleague once. Schiff, according to the book, retorted, "I don't really care about your resentment.

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☆ Opinion: The British Empire: A legacy of violence?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

A related question is also surfacing now: What is the legacy of the British Empire writ large? Bergen: This reassessment of British Empire: You are leading the charge. Bergen: So, are the British in high school as they learn about British history being told a bunch of fairy tales? Are there similarities between the 1619 Project and what you and other colleagues are doing in your reassessment of the British Empire? And I think that’s what we’re seeing in different kinds of ways with the history of the British Empire.

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Liz Cheney launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump and his allies Monday, accusing Republican leaders of treating the former president like a “king” by defending him at every turn in a federal investigation into classified documents stored at his Florida estate. They are attempting to excuse this behavior,” Cheney, R-Wyo., said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. (SCI is short for “sensitive compartmented information.”)"Bit by bit, excuse by excuse, we’re putting Donald Trump above the law. “No one should take our effort to reform the electoral count as any indication that Donald Trump did not violate the existing law or did not violate the Constitution,” she said. “Mike Pence was essentially the president for most of that day,” Cheney said.

☆ This DoorDash hack used by local food-delivery couriers is saving restaurants big on delivery fees. Here's how it works.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

That fee can be passed on to customers to save restaurants money. "The DoorDash self-delivery is a hack," Simmons, whose organization represents 550 local delivery operators in the US, said. And by deploying the self-delivery tactic with apps like Grubhub and DoorDash, restaurants can save even more money, Blum said. Colonel Delivery restaurants partners that use self-delivery can't pass on delivery fees to DashPass customers. But the "hack" is worth looking into if it can save restaurants from paying higher third-party delivery fees, he added.

☆ Fear and loathing on Wall Street: Inside the paranoid, hyper-competitive onslaught to prevent quant traders from defecting to rivals
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Current and former employees at prominent quant trading operations spoke to Insider anonymously for this story, citing fear of legal reprisals. "At the NSA, the penalty for leaking is twenty-five years in prison," Simons liked to tell employees, according to Gregory Zuckerman's book "The Man Who Solved the Market." In the early 2000s, quant noncompetes were narrower and shorter — six to nine months was industry standard, quant recruiters who had to navigate these obstacles told Insider. But it has aggressively pursued employees it believes have crossed the firm, according to court filings and media reports. Absent such changes, quant noncompetes will likely continue to proliferate with little resistance from employees.

Persons: Ken Griffin, they'd, It's, Matt Moye, they've, David Marshall, Jim Simons, George Soros, John Paulson, Philip Falcone, Jonathan Ernst, RenTech, Simons, Gregory Zuckerman's, Moye, quant, Pavel Volfbeyn, Alexander Belopolsky, spooked, Eric Wepsic, Shaw, —, Izzy Englander, Rick Wastrom, Smith Hanley, Jane Street burgeoned, Peter Friedman, Brennan Hughes, Griffin —, They've, Friedman, Chase Lochmiller, Ray Dalio, Jane Street, Hughes, Samuel Estreicher, Estreicher, I'm, David, Wastrom, Marshall, noncompetes Organizations: Citadel Securities, Renaissance Technologies, Citadel, St John's Law School, Center for Labor, Employment, REUTERS, NSA, Fund, RenTech, Millennium Management, Millennium, D.E, Trading, Integra Advisors, Wall, Google, Sigma, Polychain, Getty, Bridgewater Associates, National Labor Relations Board, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, Group, New York University, school's Center for Labor, John's Law, —, New Locations: America, Bridgewater, New York, Hudson, Riker's Island, Houston, Chicago, Connecticut, — California, St, New York , Illinois

☆ The night the Lord of the Skies got away
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years. But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station. The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico. It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone. Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."

☆ The untold story of how Amazon siphoned FedEx talent, setting Amazon Logistics up to soar while FedEx flounders
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-29 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider spoke with seven former FedEx executives who went to work for Amazon from 2012 to 2018 and five more who worked at either FedEx or Amazon at the same time. You are executing someone's playbook," one former FedEx executive who went to Amazon said. Amazon Logistics leaders would study the intricacies of FedEx and UPS operations, take the best elements, and act like they were homegrown, former leaders said. The strategy — which FedEx used to great effect with its SmartPost service — "printed money for Amazon," one former Amazon Logistics leader said. And in 2020, less than a decade after getting serious about logistics, Amazon hit a milestone: It delivered more packages than FedEx.

☆ The wealthy elite who gather in Davos to talk about saving the planet always ignore the best solution: paying more taxes
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-05 | by ( Paul Constant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He spoke with Peter Goodman about his new book and the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Goodman says Davos has become a feel-good event for billionaires who refuse to make real change. But Davos's most noteworthy topics are the ones that don't typically get discussed: For instance, historian Rutger Bregman made waves in 2019 when he told the affluent audience at Davos that they were ignoring the solution that mattered most: "Taxes, taxes, taxes. The solutions to the very real problems discussed at Davos every year are relatively simple, but they'll never be welcomed by the Davos audience. The only people who aren't ready to hear about that solution, unfortunately, are the people who gather at Davos every year.

☆ Când va avea loc festivalul Untold din România şi care sunt condiţiile de acces (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Untold, unul dintre cele mai mari festivaluri din Europa, va fi organizat între 9 și 12 septembrie 2021, fiind așteptați sute de mii de oameni, au anunțat luni organizatorii. De asemenea, Uniunea Europeană va aproba de la 1 iulie Certificatul Verde - COVID-19 care asigură aceleași trei condiții: vaccin, certificat anticorpi sau test negativ (antigen sau PCR). Experiența, rigurozitatea și seriozitatea organizatorilor UNTOLD, alături de măsurile de maximă siguranță propuse, vor permite condiții de siguranță la evenimentul de la Cluj-Napoca, spun organizatorii. (...) Între timp, va exista și certificatul verde COVID, care include toate cele trei variante: vaccin, anticorpi după trecerea prin boală sau test negativ", a mai spus reprezentantul Untold. Organizatorii Untold mai anunță că pregătesc și în acest an nume mari internaționale și cea mai intensă experiență de până acum.

Persons: David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Dimitri Vegas, Mike, Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Timmy, Nina Kraviz, Boris Brejcha, Paul Kalkbrenner, Jamie Jones, Pan, Pan - Pot, Sven Vath, Chris Liebing, Robbie Williams, Jason Derulo, Tempah, Ellie Goulding, John Newman, James Arthur Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Edy Chereji, Untold, Pan -, Black Locations: Europa, Cluj - Napoca, România, străinătate, PCR, ţara, Tiesto, Afrojack, Diplo, Don Diablo, Marshmello, Prodigy

☆ Untold revine în 2021 fără limită de capacitate. Vezi în ce perioadă va avea loc festivalul
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Festivalul Untold va avea loc în perioada 9-12 septembrie, la Cluj-Napoca, şi este primul mare festival din Europa anunţat pentru acest an, potrivit organizatorilor. Sute de mii de oameni, din întreaga lume, se vor bucura din nou patru zile şi patru nopţi pe tărâmul magic Untold, din Cluj-Napoca. Întâlnirea din acest an dintre fani, artişti, organizatori şi partenerii festivalului va fi una greu de egalat şi plină de încărcătură emoţională, după aproape doi ani de pauză. Untold, unul dintre cele mai mari festivaluri din întreaga lume, îşi deschide porţile, între 9 şi 12 septembrie 2021. Astfel, Untold este unul dintre puţinele festivaluri de amploare internaţională, care se va desfăşura în acest an, în întreaga lume!”, se arată într-un comunicat transmis de organizatori, menționează Digi.

Persons: îşi, David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Dimitri Vegas, Mike, Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Timmy, Nina Kraviz, Boris Brejcha, Paul Kalkbrenner, Jamie Jones, Pan, Pan - Pot, Sven Vath, Chris Liebing, Robbie Williams, Jason Derulo, Tempah, Ellie Goulding, John Newman, James Arthur Organizations: Untold, Pan -, Black, MO Locations: Cluj - Napoca, Europa, Untold, Tiesto, Afrojack, Diplo, Don Diablo, Marshmello, Prodigy

☆ Leaked documents show White House blocked government website used to recruit election workers during the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Government emails and documents exclusively obtained by Insider reveal an internal fight within the Trump administration over whether to create the poll-worker recruitment website HelpAmericaVote.gov. The White House's Office of Management and Budget initially rejected the Election Assistance Commission's request to create the website. EAC officials immediately resubmitted their HelpAmericaVote.gov request. In a separate statement to Insider, the General Services Administration, which had overseen distribution of ".gov" website domains since 1997, confirmed it was no longer involved in approving or denying federal agencies' website requests. Hovland added his agency's request for the HelpAmericaVote.gov website contained all the information OMB required and that he was "surprised" approval was so difficult to obtain.

☆ 'Quiet professionals': These are the legendary Vietnam War marksmen every Marine scout sniper trains to be
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-15 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Modern Marine Corps scout snipers are required to study their history, to learn from the outstanding snipers that came before them. In many conflicts throughout US history, Marine Corps snipers have proven to be valuable assets on the battlefield. Carlos N. Hathcock:Carlos Hathcock USMC ArchivesIn Vietnam, Hathcock had 93 confirmed enemy kills and several hundred unconfirmed. That never mattered to him though, according to Charles Henderson's book, "Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills." The only US military sniper with more confirmed kills than Mawhinney in Vietnam was Army sharpshooter Adelbert Waldron with 109 confirmed kills.

Persons: Charles Mawhinney, Eric England, Carlos Hathcock, —, Charles, Chuck, Mawhinney, Joshua Coulter, Coulter, Carlos N, Hathcock, Edward James Land, Cobra, Charles Henderson's, Sgt, Eric R, Eric, Corps Mawhinney, Joseph Ward, Adelbert Waldron Organizations: Marine Corps, Marine, Service, Marines, Staff, Corps, In Vietnam, Arkansas, 3rd Marine Division, Union, Historical Society, Los Angeles Times, National Museum of, Army, Scout Locations: Vietnam, England, Vietnamese, Georgia, Oregon

☆ (foto) Topul celor mai bune cărți conform Goodreads Choice Awards 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

My dark Vanessa de Kate Elizabeth Russell– 48 664 de voturiLista integrală o puteți vedea AICI! Boyfriend Material de Alexis Hall – 33 502 de voturiLista integrală o puteți vedea AICI! The Only Good Indians de Stephen Graham Jones – 17 021 de voturiLista integrală o puteți vedea AICI! The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History de Andy Greene – 20 099 de voturiLista integrală o puteți vedea AICI! Celelalte categorii ale Goodreads Choice Awards 2020, le puteți vedea AICI!

Persons: Matt Haig, Fredrik Backman, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Lucy Foley, Riley Sager, Simone St, James, Alyssa Cole, Fisher, Brit Bennett, Vignes, Jane Austen, Natalie Jenner, Sue Monk, Kristin, Sarah J ., Bryce Quinlan, Bryce, V.E, Schwab, T.J, Brandon Sanderson, de Jennifer L ., Poppy, Maiden, Emily Henry, Rebecca, Colleen, Alexis Hall, Christopher Paolini, Kira Navárez, Kira, Martha Wells, Johnson, Hank Green, Silvia Moreno, Garcia, Stephen King, Grady Hendrix, Alexis Henderson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nathan W ., Samantha Irby, Colin Jost, Andy Greene Locations: Irlandei, Sarah J . Maas, Harrow, Ninth, Mexic, Vampires, Humor

☆ Cele mai mari festivaluri de muzică din România, Untold și Electric Castle, confirmate anul viitor
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Organizatorii festivalului Untold din Cluj anunță că ediția din 2021 va avea loc în perioadă 5-8 august. Ei spun că evenimentul va putea fi organizat în format fizic datorită apariției vaccinului anti-Covid, dar și dezvoltării testelor rapide ce vor permite testarea în masă. Potrivit organizatorilor, peste 95% dintre posesorii de abonamente și bilete pentru ediția din 2020 și-au transformat biletele și abonamentele în varianta ANYTIME Pass, care le asigură accesul, la alegere, la una dintre următoarele 3 ediții UNTOLD. În același timp, organizatorii festivalului Electric Castle au anunțat că evenimentul este programat să aibă loc între 15 şi 19 iulie, pe domeniul castelului Banffy (judeţul Cluj). Trupele Twenty One Pilots, Gorillaz şi Deftones au fost confirmate drept capete de afiş pentru cea de-a opta ediţie a festivalului Electric Castle.

Organizations: Electric Castle Locations: Cluj, Banffy

☆ Electric Castle pregătește noul show pentru anul 2021, chiar dacă situația pandemică este incertă
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Electric Castle pregătește noul show pentru anul 2021, chiar dacă situația pandemică este incertăEdițiile din acest an ale festivalurilor Electric Castle, Untold, Neversea și Summer Well au fost anulate din pricina pandemiei de coronavirus, iar data reluării show-urilor încă este incertă. Cu toate acestea, organizatorii festivalului Electric Castle , susținut an de an la Bonțida din județul Cluj, au anunțat deja cine sunt artiștii pentru ediția din 2021. În plus, artiști cunosocuți la nivel mondial au confirmat deja prezența la festival pentru anul viitor. Twenty øne piløts, Gorillaz și Deftones sunt cap de afiș pentru Electric Castle 2021. Acestea pot fi rezervate cu plata unui avans de 100 de lei și achitarea diferenței în iunie anul viitor.

Organizations: Electric Castle, Castle, Well, Facebook Locations: Untold, Bonțida, Cluj, România

☆ How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-03 | by ( Jonathan Mahler | Jim Rutenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +61 min

Murdoch family, 1987: Lachlan, James, Anna and Rupert. The second season of HBO’s “Succession,” whose fictional media family, the Roys, bears a striking resemblance to the Murdochs, airs this summer. ‘A press dictatorship’To understand how the Murdoch empire works, it is essential to return to its origins. The bigger Murdoch’s empire became, the more power he had to clear away obstacles to further its expansion. Like his father, Lachlan considered the idea of meddling with such an important profit driver a form of madness.

Persons: ‘, Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch, Jerry Hall, Lachlan’s, Lachlan, —, Hall, President Trump, Theresa May, Robert A, consummating, Rupert, Elisabeth, Anna, James, David Graves, Rex, Prudence, Murdoch’s, Patricia Booker, Anna Mann, jockeying, Murdoch didn’t, ” Murdoch, Ron Galella, ‘ I’ve, Graham, Jeff Bezos, William R, Hearst, George Hearst, Ochs, Sulzberger, Arnold Newman, HBO’s, Australia —, “, don’t, Trump, Rutger Bregman, Tucker Carlson, Carlson, — Murdoch, Dow Jones, Bancroft, ’, Keith Murdoch, Keith, Joseph Lyons, Tom Roberts’s, ” Lyons, ”, I’ll, ” Rupert Murdoch, Aubrey Hart, Roberts, ” Keith, Margaret Thatcher’s, Thatcher, revel, John Major, Neil Kinnock, Joseph Stalin, Britain’s, Roy Cohn —, Joseph McCarthy, Ronald Reagan’s, Roger Stone Jr, Murdoch weaponize, Reagan’s, Stone, Reagan, George H.W, Bush, L.A, Ted Turner, Roger Ailes, Nixon, George H.W . Bush, Time Warner, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Post —, Fox, Monica Lewinsky, ” David Frum, George W, Sumner, Peter Mathew, Fairfax, Chase Carey, Talib Kweli, Rawkus, Kathryn Hufschmid, Kathryn, ” Lachlan, Sarah O’Hare, Lachlan doesn’t, Chris Mitchell, — he’d, Wendi Murdoch, Wendi, Jules Stein, Leonardo DiCaprio, James warily, Ivanka Trump, Ivanka’s, Jared Kushner, Kushner, Ivanka, Wendi’s, Donald Trump, Ailes, Rudolph Giuliani’s, Corey Lewandowski, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bret Baier’s, Baier, Stephen F, Hayes, ” Trump, Tell Hayes, Sean Hannity, Sinclair —, Doug Mills, Megyn Kelly, — “ You’ve, — Trump, Kelly, Charles Krauthammer, John Kasich, James’s, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Hillary, Clinton, United States —, Paul Gigot, Obama, Al Drago, Anthony Hilton, Hilton, Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, europhiles, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, David Cameron, feckless, Leveson, Robinson, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Farage, Evgeny Lebedev, Carlo Allegri, Murdoch lounging, What’s, lodestar, David Rhodes, Rhodes, Ben Rhodes, Kevin Hagen, he’d, Trump’s, Jeff Rovin, Satan, James Murdoch, Clint Spaulding, Patrick McMullan, James Stavridis Organizations: Northern, Fox News Channel, Sun, European Union —, Downing, Walt Disney Company, Century Fox, Disney, Getty, News Corp, Trust, Washington Post, Hearst Corporation, United, The New York Times, Arnold Newman Properties, Fox, White, Broadway, Fox News, Trump White, Street, Melbourne Herald, Weekly Times, ”, Eugenics Society of Victoria, Oxford, Murdoch, Fleet, The, British government’s, Sky Television, Britain’s “, Labor, Trump, Gov, Reagan’s, New, New York Post, The Boston Herald, CNN, Time, Republican, Post, Pew, Republicans, CBS, Viacom, British Sky Broadcasting, Australia spearfishing, Harvard, The Harvard, Rawkus Records, Princeton, Kawasaki, Hollywood, New York Observer, York mayoral, Fox & Friends, Trump International Golf Club, Gateway, America, New York Times, Clinton Climate Initiative, Labor Party centrist, Pacific Partnership, Tea Party, European Union, Freedom Party, Nazi, London, Press Association, Associated Press, Brexit Times, United Nations, Reuters, Photographers, CBS News, Democrat Locations: Macedonia, Southern, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, United States, Britain, London, Australia, Australian, Sydney, Lachlan, Davos, New York, Dutch, Iraq, British, Gallipoli, Adelaide, White Australia, Luxembourg, York, George H.W ., Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Indonesia, Oregon, Fiji, Murdoch, Cavan, Beverly Hills, L.A, Caribbean, earshot, West Palm, Des Moines, Iowa, Ohio, Clinton, Trump, Downing, Brussels, Europe, Philippines, Manila, Bangkok, Cannes, “, Trump’s, Scotland, Aberdeen, Ailes’s, Russian

☆ Dead of AIDS and Forgotten in Potter’s Field
▼ + stars: | 2018-07-03 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Trying to pin down the precise number of those with AIDS buried on Hart Island is difficult. A longstanding stigma about the island and criticism that the burial practices are crude and outdated have made city officials reluctant to provide many details. But piecing together an estimate is possible by surveying the many hospitals that treated AIDS patients during the epidemic and sent bodies to potter’s field. By that accounting, the number of AIDS burials on Hart Island could reach into the thousands, making it perhaps the single largest burial ground in the country for people with AIDS. One of them, Elsie Soto, 35, of the Bronx, learned recently that her father, Norbert Soto, who died in 1993 from AIDS, is buried on the island.

Persons: Elsie Soto, Norbert Soto Organizations: AIDS Locations: New York, Hart, AIDS

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