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A scorching streak in Phoenix has set new daily records for 10 straight days during an October heat wave sweeping much of the West. The forecast calls for this streak of broken records to potentially reach up to 16 days in a row. The current record at a U.S. climate station for the number of consecutive daily record highs is 14 from Burlington, Iowa, recorded during the Dust Bowl in 1936. Dozens more October monthly record highs were set Thursday in states such as Kansas and Nebraska. The National Hurricane Center also continues to watch Hurricane Kirk and Tropical Storm Leslie in the open Atlantic, though neither pose any threat to land.

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☆ Russia has lost access to CERN in a sign that its war in Ukraine is causing a major scientific brain drain
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

CERN is revoking access for 500 Russian scientists over the Ukraine war, cutting them off from key facilities. But experts say the move is a major setback for Russian science, and is fueling brain drain. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Pierre Albouy/ReutersTriggering a Russian brain drainScientific experts, including several with working ties to CERN, spoke about the consequences to Russia and the wider scientific community. Advertisement"The relationship with Russian scientists has always been very strong because they have a very long and very good reputation in particle physics," Grimes said.

Persons: —, Denis Balibouse, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Sidortsov, Vladimir Putin, CERN's, Pierre Albouy, Kate Shaw, Roger Cashmore, Robin Grimes, Putin, Grimes, Lionel Flusin, It's, Arnaud Marsollier, Marsollier, Anja Niedringhaus, Tara Shears, Shaw Organizations: CERN, Service, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Collider, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Reuters, Kremlin, TASS, Kurchatov Institute, UK's University of Sussex, London's Imperial College, Foreign, Commonwealth Office, Getty, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Nature, CERN's Globe, UK's University of Liverpool Locations: Ukraine, Geneva, Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Moscow, Europe, Russian, Soviet, Novaya, CERN's

☆ 'This is what you live for': How to handle GameStop's jaw-dropping swings as meme stocks make a comeback, according to a momentum-obsessed technical strategist
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He believes the stock market is rational — even when it doesn't appear to be. Related stories"The market is ruthlessly efficient, both long term and short term," Lundgren said. The strategist added: "The market doesn't care one iota about fundamentals in the short term. Like any market, stock exchanges determine prices based on what buyers and sellers will pay and sell for. Just because it's taking place in a mall doesn't make that mall an insane asylum."

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☆ Texas AG Paxton settles felony fraud investigation, avoiding trial and ending yearslong legal saga
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Special prosecutor Brian Wice confirmed the case was settled in a phone call with CNN on Tuesday. A grand jury indicted Paxton on two counts of securities fraud and one count of failing to register with state securities regulators in July 2015, months after he was sworn in as attorney general. Wice told reporters after the hearing that the terms of the settlement amounted to a just conclusion to the case. He was impeached and suspended from office on allegations of corruption last May in the Republican-controlled Texas House, though a September trial in the Texas Senate acquitted him. Paxton was one of the highest-profile and last-remaining defenders of Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

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☆ Demand for a hot new AI role is skyrocketing — but some say it won't last.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Day to day, she coaxes AI models like OpenAI's GPT, utilizing natural language to manipulate the model into spitting out exactly the content she wants. "I just find it really interesting, really fun — it's like solving a word puzzle," Daniel, whose résumé also includes a prompt engineering role at LinkedIn, said. AdvertisementDaniel is part of a wave of a new kind of AI engineers — those without formal tech skills. AdvertisementDemand for prompt engineers has been skyrocketing amid the AI hype, and salaries are echoing the excitement. "I think different standards will emerge between what everybody can do and what the expert prompting engineers can do," she said.

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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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☆ Analysis: Why DeSantis’ departure isn’t likely to change the dynamic between Trump and Haley
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Ron Brownstein | Analysis Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

The DeSantis and Haley camps each believed they would benefit if the other left the field and created an unambiguous one-on-one race with Trump. In fact, both the Trump and DeSantis campaigns believe that more of the Florida governor’s supporters will likely pick Trump. Any gain or loss for Haley among voters from DeSantis’ decision seems likely to affect the race only marginally, many GOP observers believe. Even at that point in the 2016 race, Trump had won only a cumulative 40% of the votes cast in the GOP primaries. His theory that he could peel away a meaningful number of previous Trump voters simply proved wrong.

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☆ Opinion: We’ll finally get some answers from Iowa about Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

It is a feat former President Donald Trump is trying to duplicate this year. The first true test of Trump’s comeback occurs Monday in Iowa, where caucusgoers will venture into sub-zero temperatures to choose between Trump, Florida Gov. After months of speculation, we’ll finally get some answers to a few questions: Is there an opening for any Republican aside from Trump? Most of our contributors thought Haley won Wednesday’s CNN debate in Iowa against DeSantis, but Trump’s absence from the stage again loomed large. “Haley sounded like someone looking to take on the genuine article — the Republican frontrunner,” wrote W. James Antle III.

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☆ IOTA launches $100 million entity in Abu Dhabi to create digital network
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

IOTA digital tokens will fund the investment. The foundation will be seeded with over $100 million in IOTA tokens, to be vested over the next four years, Schiener said. IOTA tokens on Tuesday traded at about $0.17, with a market capitalization of roughly $524 million, Coinmarketcap.com showed. The funds will be used to develop the IOTA network and accelerate its growth, Schiener said. IOTA will also start "tokenizing" assets, he said, a process in which ownership rights in land or buildings are represented as digital tokens and stored on a blockchain.

Persons: Satoshi bitcoin, Arnd, Dominik Schiener, Binance, Schiener, Hamad Sayah Al Mazrouei, Gertrude Chavez, Dreyfuss, Alden Bentley, Richard Chang Organizations: Swiss, Bity, REUTERS, IOTA, Wednesday, Abu Dhabi Global, United Arab, Registration, ADGM, Thomson Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Europe, Germany

☆ Opinion | The ’23 Elections and the Abortion Effect
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

After Tuesday’s elections, you write, “The political potency of abortion rights proved more powerful than the drag of President Biden’s approval ratings in Tuesday’s off-year elections.”What do Mr. Biden’s approval ratings have to do with abortion rights on the ballot? Andy Beshear in Kentucky highlights many reasons why President Biden needs to pass the torch. As a lifelong Democrat, I am mystified why Mr. Biden does not gracefully step aside. He won 52 percent of the vote in a red state that Mr. Biden lost by 26 points in 2020. I implore Mr. Biden to listen to the wishes of the American people and let a new leader arise.

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TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. At the same time, he said he was also shaken by images of dead and wounded Palestinian children in Gaza. Blinken also said it was imperative for Israel, regional countries, the U.S. and others to begin considering what the future of Gaza will look like if and when Hamas is destroyed. He said the idea of Hamas remaining responsible for the governance Gaza, thereby posing a continued threat to Israel, was “unacceptable." “Within those parameters we will continue to have discussions in the region and our partners about what should follow once Hamas is defeated," Blinken said.

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☆ Opinion: Jim Jordan’s pressure campaign backfired
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Over the past few days, Jordan tried to pressure fellow Republicans into voting for him. He mounted an intense campaign over the weekend to whip up the vote and undermine support for Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise. Arkansas Republican Steve Womack decried the “attack, attack, attack” methods that Jordan has been using. Within the GOP, Jordan has not been a figure who is well loved. At a potential turning point moment for the party, Jordan doesn’t have many chits he can call in to round up the votes.

Persons: Julian Zelizer, Jim Jordan’s, speakership, Jordan, Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise, Arkansas Republican Steve Womack, ” Womack, Donald Trump, Trump, MAGA, shutdowns, –, John Boehner, Newt Gingrich, Patrick McHenry –, hasn’t, don’t, Jordan doesn’t Organizations: CNN, Princeton University, New York Times, America, Twitter, Louisiana Republican, Arkansas Republican, Republican, Trump, Tea Party, Fox News, GOP, Ohio State University Locations: Arkansas, legislating, New York

☆ UNICEF says weather-related disasters have displaced millions of children
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Jose Cabezas Acquire Licensing RightsGENEVA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - UNICEF on Friday said floods, storms, and other weather-related disasters have driven millions of children from their homes, with the situation set to deteriorate if action is not taken. UNICEF recorded the most weather-related child displacements in the East Asia and Pacific region due to the combination of hazards there, followed by South Asia. Extreme weather events have become more common in recent years due to climate change. Floods and storms accounted for 95% of the child displacements, said UNICEF, during the six-year period, according to its report, "Children Displaced in a Changing Climate". The report projects that nearly 96 million children will be displaced due to river floods alone over the next three decades, an average of almost 3.2 million children every year.

Persons: Jose Cabezas, Catherine Russell, Verena Knaus, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Deborah Kyvrikosaios Organizations: Hurricanes Eta, Iota, REUTERS, Rights, UNICEF, Thomson Locations: Villanueva , Honduras, East Asia, Pacific, South Asia, China, Philippines

☆ Trump taunts GOP rivals as legal clouds loom
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Daniel Strauss | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But without any obvious threat to his dominance of the GOP field, Trump is embracing brash tactics such as belittling his opponents and fundraising off of his possible court appearances. In the latest update to the CNN Poll of Polls on the race, from before the second GOP debate, Trump holds an average of 58% support, Florida Gov. Trump wants to be in her head,” he said, alluding to Haley. This goes back so long ago and it’s just Trump being Trump.”What’s different this year is the bevy of indictments and serious legal woes threatening Trump. In the first six months of 2023, Trump’s joint fundraising committee took in more than $53 million.

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☆ Open AI CEO Sam Altman and his boyfriend Oliver Mulherin want to have kids soon
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to have kids soon with his boyfriend, Oliver Mulherin. Before Mulherin, Altman was last known to be dating Nick Sivo, his cofounder of their startup Loopt. The leader behind the buzzy conversational AI chatbot told New York Magazine that he and his boyfriend, Oliver Mulherin, an Australian programmer, want to have kids soon. AdvertisementAdvertisementLike Altman, Mulherin seems to have an interest in AI. Before Mulherin, Altman was last known to be dating Nick Sivo; they were together for nine years, Altman told the New Yorker.

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☆ Opinion: What nearly every human seems to be missing about shark attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

For the unlucky few who experience shark attacks, the ordeal is undoubtedly terrifying. Yet every summer, stories about shark attacks top homepages. Unlike shark attacks on humans, which are mainly attributed to curiosity, we know exactly what we’re doing. Throughout, the great white is characterized as a dogged predator obsessed with human flesh. I’d never suggest that the victims of shark attacks had it coming, or that cinemagoers should feel an iota of shame.

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☆ Romp in the rain as American Harman wins Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Martyn Herman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

It's just always bugged me but I was really proud of the way that I struck the ball today. Few of the thousands huddled under a sea of umbrellas would have tipped world number 26 Harman to win before the tournament. Likewise, Young, Rahm, Day and England's Tommy Fleetwood were all unable to hole the putts that would have at least asked some questions of Harman's nerve. But not even a Merseyside monsoon could rain on Harman's parade as he enjoyed a victory march down the last. Shubhankar Sharma tied for eighth place to post the best finish by an Indian at the British Open -- one of only 22 players to finish an attritional Open under par.

Persons: Brian Harman, Phil Noble, Harman, Rahm, Straka, Kim, Brian Harman romped, Spain's Jon Rahm, Austria's Sepp Straka, Tom Kim, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Emiliano Grillo, Cameron Young, Brooks Koepka, McIlroy, Young, Tommy Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Scott Tway, Shubhankar Sharma, Martyn Herman, Ken Ferris Organizations: 151st, Royal, 151st Open, REUTERS, Royal Liverpool American, Sunday, Tour, Northern, Local, Thomson Locations: Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, Britain, England, Liverpool, Georgia, South, American, Austrian, Merseyside

☆ Opinion: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Kenergy’ is all I need
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Everything changed when Ryan Gosling, the twice-Oscar-nominated star of “Half Nelson,” “La La Land,” “The Notebook,” “Blade Runner 2049” and “Drive” was sent the script for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie. The film depicts Ken as pure superficiality, the acme beta man who exists only under the glow of Margot Robbie’s Barbie gaze. His platinum, almost white-bleached hair has lit up every interview, radiating the “Kenergy” he references like punctuation. Asked by one reporter how we might “find our Kenergy,” Gosling replied without missing a beat: “It’s there the whole time… Look no further. In becoming Ken, Gosling dashed one of Hollywood’s most tedious clichés, proving that it is possible to transform into a marshmallow-for-brains “himbo” without turning into an egomaniacal nightmare.

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CNN —A graphic video emerged on social media Wednesday from Manipur amidst ongoing ethnic violence in the northeastern Indian state. The video, which is going viral on social media, depicts an incident from May 4, according to the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) showing two women being forced to walk naked through a crowd of fully clothed men. The distressing video, that has been seen by CNN, shows the terrified victims surrounded by a mob of men, many brandishing long canes or sticks as weapons. Among other things, tribal status would enable the Meitei to buy land and provide more opportunities for government jobs. “After taking a Suo-moto cognisance of the incident immediately after the video surfaced, the Manipur Police swung to action and made the first arrest this morning.

Persons: Narendra Modi, ” Modi, Biju Boro, ”, Mallikarjun Kharge, Modi, –, Biren Singh Organizations: CNN, Indigenous Tribal, ’, Indian, ”, Getty, Modi Govt, BJP, State, Manipur Police, Twitter Locations: Manipur, Indian, Guwahati, reconvening, Phainom, Kangpokpi district, Imphal, Kuki, India’s, Modi, India, Thoubal District

☆ Ritholtz’s Josh Brown talks crypto winter, the failure of blockchains and how to invest in digital assets
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

I don't think advisors really have any reason to be compelled to have these conversations with clients and clients aren't asking for it." "[If tomorrow you] woke up and there was no crypto … I don't think your life would change one iota. At the end of 2021, Ritholtz partnered with WisdomTree to launch the RWM WisdomTree Crypto Index to offer exposure to the crypto market through a financial advisor. "I don't think everyone has to, but if you want to, I think holding bitcoin outright is maybe the most common sense approach. "I don't think individual investors should be involved in bitcoin futures," he said, "because there's no passive way to do that.

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☆ Fact check: Debunking Trump’s blizzard of dishonesty about his federal indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump has responded to his federal indictment the way he has responded to various other crises – with a blizzard of dishonesty. Here is a fact check of 10 of the indictment-related claims Trump has made since the 37 federal charges against him were unsealed on Friday. Trump and the Presidential Records ActTrump claimed in North Carolina that he had abided by the Presidential Records Act: “And we had a great – we had a wonderful operation, everything by the Presidential Records Act.”Facts First: This is false. The Presidential Records Act says that all presidential records belong to the federal government the moment the president leaves office. Margaret Kwoka, a law professor at The Ohio State University and an expert on information law, said in a Friday email that “any comparison between congressional records and presidential records is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

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For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. I keep this a secret because I know everyone will think I'm being unrealistic, but I don't think I need a degree to have financial stability. Am I being unreasonable, or is there a life outside of a college degree? I don't think your plan to take your time choosing a career path is unreasonable. I'm so confident in this assertion that I don't think you should keep your ambivalence about going to college a "big secret."

☆ Opinion | The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Michael W. Mcconnell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The result was not just autocratic rule at home but also periodic defaults on the royal debt, astronomical interest rates for government borrowing and ultimately civil war. The debt limit is nothing more than an authorization from Congress to borrow a certain amount, up to a certain limit. Nonetheless, President Biden’s advisers reportedly are contemplating violating the congressional debt limit based on a far-fetched interpretation of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment propounded by some academics. It does not make it unconstitutional for the United States to run out of money. For the United States to fail to pay interest or principal on its debt would be financially catastrophic, but it would not affect the “validity” of the debt.

☆ Democrats gear up for rematch against Lauren Boebert after her near-loss in the 2022 midterms: 'She's actually doubled down on crazy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After a close 2022 result, Democrats are hoping to knock off GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert next year. Last year, Boebert won her Republican-leaning Colorado district over Adam Frisch by only 546 votes. And as the incumbent in the state's conservative-leaning 3rd Congressional District, it appeared to many as though Boebert would be relatively safe in her reelection bid in last year's midterms. "I think it started the people in the third congressional district thinking that she wasn't paying enough attention to the district as she was paying more attention to national politics." "Extreme House Democrats lost the majority because they hammered families with crime, chaos and skyrocketing costs," National Republican Congressional Committee communications director Jack Pandol said in a statement.

☆ Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Mirrors the Myth of the Wild West
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

As Silicon Valley Bank went down the tubes, it wasn't surprising that the loudest mouths in Techworld started demanding that the federal government cover everyone's losses. They were pioneers on the frontier of tech and finance, and as such they acted the way pioneers always do. Myths of the frontiersIt's unfashionable for people in the tech industry to dispute the central role that government-funded infrastructure and academic projects have played in the development of Silicon Valley and the digital age. Shout down into Silicon Valley and you'll hear echoes of this same pioneer myth. They see themselves as heroes not of a Western frontier but of space — the Final one — as refracted by the legendary writers of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

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