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☆ Kamal Bherwani lost his son to fentanyl poisoning. He’s developed a video game he hopes will save others
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Dad, is it all right with you if I go to the Mohegan Sun for the night with my boys,” Ethan Bherwani texted him. Moments before he collapsed to the floor, Ethan Bherwani had bought cocaine from a man in a casino restroom. Courtesy Kamal BherwaniOn the night of his son’s funeral, Kamal Bherwani started a foundation that seeks to educate young people about the dangers of fentanyl. Ethan Bherwani was interested in many things, from flying to music to following the New York Mets. Kamal Bherwani treasures Ethan’s phone, which has given him glimpses into his son’s mind.

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☆ A trio of crises threatens to upend the race 5 weeks before Election Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

A trio of emergencies has all struck just five weeks ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be forced to reckon with the crises in the final days of their campaigns. AdvertisementViolence in the Middle East, a massive labor strike among East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers, and the devastation of Hurricane Helene all struck with only five weeks before the 2024 presidential election. "What we've seen out of Vice President Harris is we've seen steady leadership," he said when talking about the Middle East. What matters most now is how the candidates' messaging lands with specific communities impacted by these crises, Loge said.

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As federal investigations swirled around Eric Adams over the past year, the New York City mayor stuck to a familiar script. In one instance, an unidentified Adams staffer agreed to an interview with FBI agents. In March 2019, an Adams staffer was exchanging text messages with the then-Brooklyn borough president about another possible trip to Turkey. “To be o[n the] safe side Please Delete all messages you send me,” the staffer wrote Adams, according to the indictment. Later that day, the Adams staffer visited the businessman at his office and said he had just met with the mayor.

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New York Mayor Eric Adams is expected to face federal charges by prosecutors out of the Southern District of New York as soon as Thursday, two sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday night. Before news of federal charges broke Wednesday, Adams was at a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which President Joe Biden also attended. “I do not see how Mayor Adams can continue governing New York City,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X. "However, it is clear that defending himself against serious federal charges will require a significant amount of the time and attention needed to govern this great city. The most appropriate path forward is for him to step down so that New York City can get the full focus its leadership demands."

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☆ George Santos pleads guilty, avoiding a looming criminal trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-19 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewSerial liar and former US congressman George Santos pleaded guilty to criminal charges in court Monday, avoiding a criminal trial. Santos ultimately pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts — one count of wire fraud and one count of identity theft — as part of a plea agreement. Advertisement"You trusted me to represent you with honor and to uphold the values that are central to our democracy," Santos told reporters outside court after the hearing. Related storiesCourt filings previously indicated Santos was in talks for a plea deal as early as December. Two associates of Santos — Nancy Marks and Sam Miele — have previously pleaded guilty to fraud charges against them and would have likely testified in Santos' trial.

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☆ I got engaged with a $57 Etsy ring. My fiancé and I both make 6 figures, but we're planning strategically to save $20K for our wedding.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Viviana Vazquez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Our wedding budgetWe have a wedding budget of $20,000, with a guest list of around 120 people. Some of my family members won't be able to travel to Mexico, so we plan to invite them to dinner after our City Hall civil wedding. Some of my family members won't be able to travel to Mexico, so we plan to invite them to dinner after our City Hall civil wedding. We plan to help subsidize five rooms for 10 family members by contributing $1,000 per room, or half the cost. We plan to help subsidize five rooms for 10 family members by contributing $1,000 per room, or half the cost.

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☆ A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Natasha Singer | Thalia Juarez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As part of the program, called Break Through Tech A.I., Ms. Prudencio completed an intensive class developed by Cornell Tech faculty with input from a few tech executives. These are the kinds of important learning and career opportunities that can help computing majors land jobs in fast-moving fields like A.I. But students like Ms. Prudencio, who attend public colleges not known for top computing programs, often face challenges gaining access to them. “I was never made aware of health tech before my project with Pfizer,” said Ms. Prudencio, 20, who works part time at a tennis center. Now she hopes to pursue a career in health A.I.

Persons: Chelsea Prudencio, Prudencio, “, ” Organizations: Chelsea, Baruch College, Cornell Tech, Pfizer, Citigroup Locations: Manhattan

☆ Dave & Buster’s to Allow Betting on Arcade Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | More About Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dave & Buster’s did not respond to requests for comment, and it was not clear which specific games customers would be able to place bets on, or when the company would roll out the betting product, which will be available to people enrolled in the Dave & Buster’s loyalty program. On social media, people poked fun at the announcement, joking, for example, about whether customers might bet on such games as Skee-Ball. The age policies vary at each Dave & Buster’s location, but generally people under 18 years old can enter with a guardian. For example, professional golfers and tennis players pay an entry fee to compete and can win a cash prize. “If two people are competing against one another in Skee-Ball, presuming that there is nothing unusual done in the Skee-Ball game and physical skill is actually going to determine the winner, there is no problem,” Professor Edelman said.

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☆ Who is Juan Merchan? What to know about the judge in Trump’s hush money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan is a seasoned jurist who is no stranger to Trump’s orbit. In the lead-up to the start of the trial, Trump fanned the flames on social media with his views on the judge. “Judge Merchan was always well-prepared, accessible, and – most importantly in the Weisselberg matter – a man of his word. Trump also claimed Judge Merchan has ruled against him in pretrial motions “because his daughter makes money by working to ‘Get Trump.’”Loren Merchan has not commented publicly on the case. David Paterson appointed him to the New York State Court of Claims in 2009, the same year he began serving as an acting New York Supreme Court judge.

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☆ N.F.L.’s Rapid Embrace of Gambling Creates Mixed Signals
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Jenny Vrentas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over the next week, the National Football League’s players, coaches, fans and executives will gather for an event that was virtually unthinkable just 10 years ago: the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the United States. Now it even has a team in Las Vegas, which the league shunned for decades because any affiliation was seen as a threat to the integrity of the game. Yet the embedding of sports gambling so quickly into the culture of the league has resulted in jarring contradictions. is pushing to popularize and benefit from sports betting while still guarding against the potential pitfalls that it long condemned. While the league donates money to promote responsible gambling, its broadcasts are peppered with advertisements for sports betting companies.

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☆ After deception and drama, George Santos faces expulsion from Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The authors of the subcommittee’s submission, in perhaps their most admirable achievement, summarized Santos’ grand political deception in a single sentence. (Santos’ first treasurer, Nancy Marks, resigned before pleading guilty to a conspiracy fraud charge and implicating Santos in a scheme to hoodwink donors.) Not coincidentally, all five swing-district Republican freshmen are expected to vote for Santos’ removal on Friday. In comments to reporters on Thursday, Santos promised more drama before he leaves town. “I’m going to be the first member of Congress expelled without any of those parameters.”On that point at least, Santos is telling the truth.

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After months of congressional hand-wringing, Mr. Santos finally met his demise on Friday, after Republicans and Democrats each offered separate expulsion resolutions. The resulting debate on the House floor on Thursday captured the absurdity and unseemliness of Mr. Santos’s scandals. Mr. Santos is only the sixth member of the House to be expelled in the body’s history. Mr. Santos must still contend with the federal indictment in which prosecutors have accused him of multiple criminal schemes. (That company, Harbor City Capital, has been accused of operating a Ponzi scheme by the Securities and Exchange Commission, though Mr. Santos has not been implicated.)

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“Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit,” the report concluded. Ethics panel concludes sexual harassment allegation against Santos was not substantiatedThe House Ethics panel said there was not substantial evidence to support a sexual harassment allegation brought against Santos. But the report also indicates that there was some tension between the overlapping DOJ criminal probe and House ethics probe. The ethics panel reached out to the Justice Department to deconflict their investigations, and top DOJ officials asked them in March to pause the ethics probe. The House report says DOJ’s “deferral requests” prevented them from getting to the bottom of certain allegations.

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☆ George Santos says voters don't care about his lies, vowing that expulsion wouldn't stop him: 'Nobody elected me because I played volleyball or not'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Santos survived a second expulsion vote earlier this week, though another one might be coming. "Nobody elected me because I played volleyball or not," Santos told CNN's Manu Raju in an interview that will air in full on Sunday. The latest vote came after Santos' fellow New York freshmen Republicans abruptly turned against him and forced another expulsion vote. In a development that helped spark the latest expulsion vote, Santos' former campaign treasurer flipped and admitted to prosecutors that she and Santos falsified nonexistent campaign donations to inflate his fundraising totals. Newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson has been even more explicit that part of the reason GOP leadership has opposed Santos' expulsion is that they can't afford to make their razor-thin majority even smaller.

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☆ George Santos told a NYT reporter his niece was kidnapped by Chinese Communists, but an official said he 'made it up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He told the New York Times that one threat included the kidnapping of his five-year-old niece. A "high-ranking police official" told the publication the story was made up. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. George Santos recently told a New York Times reporter that his 5-year-old niece was kidnapped from a Queens, New York, playground. According to a recent New York Times piece, Santos dialed up reporter Grace Ashford (who penned the initial Santos exposé) for the first time in September 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Look, I don't want to go into like, conspiracy theory," Santos told the New York Times.

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☆ Dalvin Brown — Personal Tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Dalvin Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dalvin BrownDalvin Brown is a Personal Tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal and host of a tech YouTube channel. Dalvin previously covered innovation for the Washington Post, and before that wrote about consumer tech at USA Today. A graduate of Baruch College and an Ida B. Wells Scholar at City University of New York, Dalvin has a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in business and economics reporting. He’s a 2020 recipient of the Frederic Wiegold Prize for Business Journalism.

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☆ We Know Where New Weight Loss Drugs Came From, but Not Why They Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Gina Kolata | More About Gina Kolata | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Every so often a drug comes along that has the potential to change the world. Medical specialists say the latest to offer that possibility are the new drugs that treat obesity — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and more that may soon be coming onto the market. Obesity affects nearly 42 percent of American adults, and yet, Dr. Engel said, “we have been powerless.” Research into potential medical treatments for the condition led to failures. While other drugs discovered in recent decades for diseases like cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s were found through a logical process that led to clear targets for drug designers, the path that led to the obesity drugs was not like that. Researchers discovered by accident that exposing the brain to a natural hormone at levels never seen in nature elicited weight loss.

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☆ A former campaign staffer for Rep. George Santos who impersonated Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff for donations was just indicted for wire fraud and identity theft
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A New York grand jury indicted a former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos' 2020 and 2022 campaigns. The indictment alleges that Sam Miele impersonated someone without their permission in order to solicit more than a dozen donations. The indictment does not say who Miele impersonated, but previous reporting notes the stolen identity was of Dan Meyer, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's former chief of staff. While the indictment does not say who, exactly, Miele impersonated, previous reporting from The Washington Times and CNBC notes that Miele took on the identity of Dan Meyer, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's former chief of staff. Miele's indictment comes three months after federal prosecutors unsealed a thirteen-count indictment against Santos that included charges of theft of public funds, wire fraud, and money laundering.

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☆ George Santos' sister still owes nearly $20,000 in back rent on a Queens apartment they once shared
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. George Santos' sister, Tiffany, once bilked the landlord of her Queens apartment out of $40,000 in rent, according to court documents. A lawyer for the landlord told Insider Thursday that she has not started making payments. Two lawyers for legal services who represented Devolder Santos in the case didn't immediately return emails seeking comment. On Thursday afternoon, Santos told Insider by text message that he never lived at the Elmhurst apartment. "As for my sisters Perosnal (sic) dealings I'm unaware of them and find it interesting that the struggles of a private citizen newsworthy," Santos told Insider by text.

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☆ We just learned the identities of the 2 bail guarantors keeping George Santos out of jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

A judge has unsealed the identities of George Santos's mysterious bail sponsors. A third bail guarantor never came forward, a judge wrote. Additional identifying information in the bond documents remains sealed. US Magistrate Judge Anne Shields allowed them to be bail sureties anyway because they "agreed to be personally responsible" for Santos. If anything, Seybert wrote, Santos has drawn even more attention to their identities — giving more reason to make them public.

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☆ A Job With a Fair Salary? What Pay Transparency Laws Are Revealing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( H. Claire Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last December, Yun Yati Naing began searching for the job she would begin after graduating from Baruch College in New York City. It was one month after a law passed by the city went into effect requiring employers with four or more employees to post salary ranges on all new job advertisements. “All my friends were talking about it,” Ms. Naing said. “It really made a difference going into the work force as a fresh graduate. She tracked job opportunities on an Excel spreadsheet, and, after a flurry of interviews and offers, she accepted a job in financial services that advertised starting pay between $54,000 and $79,000.

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☆ New York sends college acceptance letters to 125,000 high school seniors, but broader enrollment crisis may be hard to fix
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"There's a broad-based drop in belief or trust in higher education as an institution," said Cole Clark, a managing director within Deloitte's higher education practice and co-author of a recent trends report. These days, only about 62% of high school seniors in the U.S. immediately go on to college, down from 68% in 2010. High schoolers are more interested in career trainingMost Americans still agree a college education is worthwhile when it comes to career goals and advancement. High schoolers are putting more emphasis on career training and post-college employment, the nonprofit found after polling more than 5,000 high school students six times since February 2020. Earning a college degree is almost always worthwhile

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☆ 'Jeopardy' host Ken Jennings zinged embattled Rep. George Santos after the congressman was the correct answer in a category on the game show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Jeopardy" host Ken Jennings zinged George Santos after the GOP Rep. was featured in a clue. "I don't get to say this very much but George Santos is correct," he said during the episode. "Who is George Santos?" "I don't get to say this very much but George Santos is correct," Jennings said in a swipe at the Republican lawmaker. Earlier this month, federal prosecutors charged Santos with wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds, part of a 13-count indictment.

☆ US House Democrat to force vote to expel embattled Republican George Santos
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Garcia, who represents a House district in California, used a parliamentary maneuver to force a vote within two days on the motion. "George Santos is a fraud and a liar, and he needs to be expelled by the House," Garcia said in a statement. "Republicans now have a chance to demonstrate to Americans that an admitted criminal should not serve in the House of Representatives." Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said he would not support Santos's re-election bid. Nine House Republicans have called on Santos to resign, including six from New York.

NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative George Santos on Wednesday vowed to fight charges of fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds in the latest hit to the newly elected Republican, who has resisted calls to resign for lying about his resume. "I'm going to fight my battle. I'm going to deliver. I'm going to fight the witch hunt. Santos was released on a $500,000 bond and is due back in court for his next appearance on June 30.

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