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☆ Trial begins in human smuggling case after family froze to death trying to cross border
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Prosecutors say Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, ran part of the scheme and recruited Steve Shand, 50, of Florida, to shuttle migrants across the border. Prosecutors say when Jagdish Patel’s body was found, he was holding Dharmik, who was wrapped in a blanket. Patel is a common Indian surname and the victims were not related to Harshkumar Patel. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested more than 14,000 Indians on the Canadian border in the year ending this Sept. 30. Prosecutors say Shand told investigators that Patel paid him about $25,000 for the five trips.

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☆ One chart that should make Apple bulls worry and think about trimming
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Carter Braxton Worth | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The almighty Apple, despite making new 52-week highs and all-time highs as recently as two weeks ago, continues to struggle versus its peer group. In fact, Apple's relative performance to the tech sector peaked more than two years ago — in Q3 2022 — and has not improved in any meaningful way. The exact date of Apple's relative performance peak was Sept. 27 2022. Since then, Apple (AAPL) is +49.9% while the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF (XLK) is +92.7%. The relative performance chart below tells the tale.

Persons: Said, Carter Braxton Worth Organizations: Apple, Technology, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL

☆ American Battleground: Christianity and chokeholds, the powerful forces propelling Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Tom Foreman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

“Hey hey, ho ho, thank you, Joe, it’s time to go!”The success of former President Donald Trump’s campaign is becoming a catastrophe for sitting President Joe Biden. A fundraising appeal from the Biden campaign says, “How does a guy who used to say that Donald Trump and his policies were ‘reprehensible,’ become Donald Trump’s running mate? Through years of being a rubber-stamp for Donald Trump’s extreme, MAGA agenda. Women voters, whom the Trump campaign desperately needs, start posting cat memes sharply critical of Vance’s views. But even though Trump is casting himself as the martyr, within days it will seem he was playing the prophet.

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☆ Massachusetts pizza shop owner is sentenced to 8.5 years for forced labor and threats of deportation
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Hanna Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for subjecting employees to years of violence and intimidation, according to prosecutors. In June, he was convicted on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor. Authorities discovered that Papantoniadis operated his pizza shops with a skeletal staff, forced workers to perform grueling shifts of 14 hours or more, often seven days a week. Papantoniadis violently choked a worker who expressed his intention to quit, causing the victim to flee in fear, investigators found. “Today’s significant sentence sends a message to employers — employees deserve to work in safety, free from harassment and abuse.”

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☆ Father of Georgia school shooter knew of son’s deteriorating state, say investigators, who found notebook with disturbing drawings
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Cindy Von Quednow | Phil Gast | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Colt Gray, 14, meanwhile, will be tried as an adult, authorities have said. A fascination with guns, school shootingsWard testified Colt Gray detailed in notebooks his plans for what he intended to do at Apalachee High School. When Colin Gray asked his son who that was, Colt Gray explained and the topic was “dropped” after that. And while Marcee Gray called Apalachee pleading for staff to find her son, Colin Gray did not call. Colin Gray did not appear remorseful after the deputies showed up, Ward testified.

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☆ My mom died when she was 48. I'm 46, and I'm worried I won't see my kids grow up.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Jason Keil | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I felt a tremendous sense of guilt when my mother unexpectedly died on Christmas Eve in 2004 at the young age of 48. I think some of it stems from the guilt I've felt over her death. "But it's not a given that if your mom or dad died young, you're definitely going to die young." "Guilt is there because our culture does not provide children, especially young ones, with the reason why their parents died," she explains. Soon, she says, I will begin to realize that just because my mother died young doesn't mean I will, too.

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☆ Trump likely wouldn’t need Congress to approve his most controversial trade policy
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —It’s easy to dismiss many presidential candidates’ campaign promises as empty, because Congress would need to approve them. Alex Durante, an economist at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, told CNN that 100% tariffs would threaten the economy. It’s possible he is floating 100% tariffs as just a threat designed to change the behavior of other countries. ‘No question it’s inflationary’The Trump campaign did not provide an explanation to CNN about how Trump would implement 100% tariffs nor what the trigger would be. He said Trump’s tariff plan, if enacted, would risk setting off a market panic like former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss did in 2022.

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☆ Travel news: World’s best city for nightlife, according to Time Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. CNN —In travel news this week: the world’s best party spots, the city taking a stand against electric scooters, plus the story of how the world’s tallest bridge transformed a continent. Best nightlife citiesSun, sea and samba: Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has been declared the best place in the world to party right now, according to Time Out’s new survey of thousands of people worldwide. The best place to party in Europe, unsurprisingly, is Germany’s legendary clubbing capital Berlin.

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☆ Opinion | How to Save Disney
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the feast-or-famine landscape of contemporary cinematic box office, Disney is gorging itself at the high table once again. There are the recent stumbles into culture-war controversy and a related impulse to blame the fans when self-consciously diverse content disappoints commercially. There’s the stagnant stock price, the big layoffs last year and the smaller ones this year. But really, the problems can be summed up in a single sentence: The old stuff still sells, but nobody likes the new stuff. But when it comes to new content and new storytelling, the Mouse is struggling to connect.

Persons: ”, Hugh Jackman Organizations: Walt Disney Company, ” Marvel, Pixar, Disney, Vox Media

☆ Olympic moment of the day: Philippines’ Carlos Edriel Yulo gets his nation a historic gold – and himself a new house
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

With his victory in the men’s floor exercise final, Yulo on Saturday became the first Filipino man ever to win an Olympic gold medal, the first Filipino to win any medal in gymnastics and the second Filipino to ever win a gold medal. Just before the 2023 World Championships, Yulo and his longtime coach Munehiro Kugiyama decided to part ways. That didn’t change when he took to the podium to receive the first gold medal ever put around a Filipino man’s neck. But this (pointing at his gold medal) is what really matters to me. I am happy that I won a gold medal and also a house.”

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☆ Léon Marchand turns himself into a French legend
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

La Défense Arena just outside of Paris was full of French tricolore flags and anticipation as home nation fans waited for Léon. Lé-on!” When he appered on the pool deck, a roar went up and then more chants: “Lé-on! I really used that energy from the crowd,” Marchand said after. Marchand swam an incredible 200m breaststroke to sweep the French crowd off its feet. The French crowd roared.

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☆ Iran says Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Hamas said Haniyeh was killed "in a Zionist airstrike on his residence in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of Iran's new president." Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday, and Hamas blamed Israel for the attack. Hamas officials did not immediately respond to requests for further comment. In April, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed three of Haniyeh's sons and four of his grandchildren. Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian's swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, along with other Hamas officials and officials from Hezbollah and allied groups.

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☆ Opinion | Are Democrats Right to Unite Around Kamala Harris?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

All that week, I heard: America First, America First, America First. This was a party that had persuaded itself that one man’s ambition, his insatiable, unquenchable lust for power, was self-sacrifice. He sent the crowd into a frenzy as he ripped that shirt, tearing the flag on it in half, to reveal a Donald Trump campaign shirt beneath. In 2020 and early 2021, Donald Trump tried to overturn an election he lost. Where was Mike Pence, the vice president from Donald Trump’s first term?

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☆ Joe Biden's bombshell revives Elon Musk's ambitions to make X the world's digital town square
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's right: Biden used X to tell the world he was pulling out of the presidential race. Related storiesThis has all helped build X's case as the internet's digital town square. Spam and abuseThat said, there have been several signs in the months prior suggesting that it is hardly fit to be a digital town square. Pavliuc also notes that X's leaders have struggled to present the app as a "digital town square" that's fair for all. "It's important to think about comparing it to a physical town square where if you scream misogynistic or racist slurs at someone, would that be OK?

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☆ Biden said only the 'Lord Almighty' could get him to exit the presidential race. Then came Nancy Pelosi.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Until Sunday, President Biden for weeks had insisted that he would remain the Democratic nominee. But Nancy Pelosi's influence on the race likely proved to be a force too strong to withstand. Pelosi reportedly told Biden that she had trouble mapping out a pathway for him to win reelection. AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden earlier this month said that he'd step aside as the Democratic nominee only if "the Lord Almighty" came down and told him to do so. And on Sunday, Biden — weighed down by a growing number of Democratic lawmakers calling for him to exit the race — dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Instead, Biden’s campaign unraveled over the course of the next 24 days. It’s a high-risk, high-reward gamble for Democrats, resetting a campaign Biden was losing with a new nominee just 107 days before the election. Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, were among Biden’s debate prep team and had faced the ire of the president’s family in the aftermath of the debate. Several news outlets, including CNN, reported that Pelosi and former President Barack Obama had privately expressed concerns about the future of Biden’s campaign. That same day, ABC News reported that Schumer told Biden in their Saturday meeting that it would be best if he bowed out of the presidential race.

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☆ Biden will not seek reelection; endorses Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —President Joe Biden says he is not seeking reelection in a letter posted to his official account on X. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote. “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,” Biden wrote. It’s also the latest shocking development in a highly charged political campaign that has included an attempt on Trump’s life. The mood in the White House and at Biden’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington had turned sour.

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☆ Opinion | Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Everyone wants Joe Biden gone. What if?’ We’re doing things the Democratic way. I went there growing up and have Proustian recollections of crispy French fries with vinegar sold on the Boardwalk. It makes me sad that Biden doesn’t see what’s inescapable: If he doesn’t walk away gracefully right now, he will likely go down as a pariah and ruin his legacy. The race for the Oval today is between two delusional, selfish, stubborn old guys, and that’s a depressing state of affairs.

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☆ Opinion | Biden and Trump Have Succeeded in Breaking Reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( M. Gessen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Four years ago the Republican convention was a bizarre spectacle, a cross between a Napoleonic fantasy and a Leni Riefenstahl movie. The dominant image was of an imperial dynasty laying claim to forever rule. As for the shooting, it had been instantly mythologized as a miracle of survival: Speaker after speaker, including Trump himself, credited the Almighty with saving the former president so he could save America. There was no reference to the speculation, multiplying across the internet, that the deep state was behind the assassination attempt. Even Donald Trump was, by his standards, cogent and calm.

Persons: Leni Riefenstahl, Sean O’Brien, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden Organizations: Republican, Teamsters ’, Democratic

Trump and former first lady Melania Trump were joined on stage by vice presidential nominee JD Vance and his wife, Usha. Here are five takeaways:Trump details shooting: Trump appeared solemn are he narrated the “painful” events of his Saturday rally in minute detail. Little mention of Biden (by name): Trump said he would use President Joe Biden’s name only once. But it’s also because Trump might not face Biden again, after all. A rare Melania sighting: Melania Trump has kept a low profile since the Trump administration ended, choosing not to attend Trump’s hush money trial or the CNN debate.

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☆ Opinion | Trump the Lion, or Trump the Lyin’?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

No one has ever said that Donald Trump doesn’t know a good story when he hears one. Trump is a master of narrative. Not always true narrative, and not always rational narrative. (Barron, who was very upset by what happened to his father, according to Trump aides, was nowhere to be seen.) “I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump told the crowd at Fiserv Forum, after walking out on a stage with a campy giant “TRUMP” in blazing white lights and a display of the White House portico.

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☆ The week in 40 photos
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Emmalee Reed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. After gunshots rang out — one of which pierced the upper part of Trump’s right ear — Trump fell to the ground and Secret Service agents rushed the stage to surround him. The shooter was killed by the Secret Service, the agency said. The FBI identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, and authorities told CNN that he was positioned on a building rooftop just outside the rally venue. Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.

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☆ Election Live Updates: Republicans Leave Convention Unified Around Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +74 min

And there was great, great sorrow. They’re going to be OK. They’re going to be doing very well. Now he’s going to get on the plane in a little while and he’s going to go back home to his wife. Great, great student at Yale. So many — just so many heroes, so many great, great people.

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CNN —On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time address by displaying a rare vulnerability. The former president’s son Eric Trump delivered conservative red meat, much like his brother Donald Trump Jr. had a night earlier. Little mention of Biden (by name)Trump said Thursday night that he would use Biden’s name only once. Thursday night, CNN reported that many senior-ranking White House and campaign officials now privately believe that Biden must abandon his campaign for a second term – and soon. And especially so on its final night, when the politicians mostly gave way to right-leaning celebrities.

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☆ Democrats Are in Chaos: ‘You Can’t Win an Election This Way’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Katie Glueck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For years, President Biden has deployed a self-deprecating line when confronting a challenging political environment: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty,” he urges. “Compare me to the alternative.”Democrats are doing just that — and when it comes to winning the election, a growing number of them believe that Mr. Biden is no longer measuring up. At the White House and on the Biden campaign, senior staff members are increasingly worried that Mr. Biden could lose Virginia, a state that last backed a Republican for president two decades ago and is typically not regarded as a presidential battleground, according to a senior Biden aide who insisted on anonymity to speak candidly about internal assessments. In Michigan, some Democrats worry that Mr. Biden would not only lose the state in November to former President Donald J. Trump, but could sink candidates down the ballot, from Congress to state legislatures.

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