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☆ Parenthood — and the choice to be childfree — is at stake this election. 3 Americans explain how it's impacting their vote.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ahead of Election Day, Business Insider spoke with voters about how family and reproductive healthcare access will influence their decision. Along the spectrum of support for abortion access, one common thread stood out: The cost of raising a family. In terms of abortion access, Trump has bragged about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade — a decision that led to 41 states with bans. In her first time voting for president, Sark said she plans to vote third party, likely for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. "I don't think that there's really anything that we can do about abortion in this election," Sark said.

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☆ Here are the eight new emoji coming to smartphones
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emoji that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which also include a root vegetable, a harp, a leafless tree, a fingerprint, a shovel, a purple splatter, and a flag for the remote island in the English Channel called Sark. Emojipedia, a popular emoji reference site, released sample images a few months ago. Recently, the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit that oversees global emoji standards and new releases approved the new emoji lineup. The exhausted emoji face had the honors of winning the “most anticipated” emoji in the World Emoji Awards receiving more than 60% of the vote.

Persons: ” Emojipedia, emoji, Brian Baihaki, ” Baihaki Organizations: New, New York CNN, Unicode, Apple Locations: New York, Emojipedia

Texas announced the contract extension through the 2030 season last month but had not released financial details. The extension includes $100,000 annual raises that will push Sarkisian's guaranteed salary to $10.9 million by the final year. According to the regents' agenda, the raises are a 78% overall increase in Sarkisian's guaranteed compensation. The Longhorns won the Big 12 in their final season in the league. Texas also is extending the contracts of tight ends coach Jeff Banks, offensive coordinator Kyle Flood and defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski.

Persons: Steve Sarkisian's, Sark, Kevin Eltife, “ We’re, ” Sarkisian, “ We’ve, Jeff Banks, Kyle Flood, Pete Kwiatkowski Organizations: —, Longhorns, Big, College Football, Texas, University of Texas, Regents, ”, Washington, Southeastern Conference, AP Locations: AUSTIN, Texas, — Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' first Big 12 championship since 2009 and the program's first appearance in the College Football Playoff earned Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian a four-year contract extension through 2030, the school announced Saturday. “Coach Sark is an incredible coach, a first-class person and tremendous leader of men," Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife said. “Coach Sark has brought the pride and passion back in our program. His name had briefly surfaced as a candidate for the job at Alabama after Nick Saban retired earlier this week. But even before Saban retired, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte had said the university was considering a raise and extension for Sarkisian.

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☆ Matthew Tuttle got the financial world buzzing with ETFs that short everything Cathie Wood's ARK and Jim Cramer buy. He told us the next big ideas on his radar.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In late 2021 Matthew Tuttle launched a fund that bets against the ARK Innovation ETF. A month ago he started a new ETF that shorts stocks picked by Jim Cramer of "Mad Money." Tuttle, the CEO and investment chief of Tuttle Capital Management, is starting to get a lot of requests for "anti"-ETFs. When shorting big name investors makes senseIt's easy to assume Tuttle is motivated by personal or professional dislike for Wood and Cramer. While he's considered creating an anti-fintwit ETF, Tuttle is still positive on Fintwit itself.

☆ Artist's discovery of an 'execution wall' sheds light on the brutal history of Nazi concentration camps on British soil
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Forensic evidence from a bullet-damaged wall sheds light on the Nazi occupation of a British island. During World War II, thousands of prisoners were sent to labor and concentration camps in Alderney. Before the Germans occupied the Channel Islands, the whole population of Alderney were evacuated to England. German occupying troops parading in St. Helier on Jersey, Channel Islands in 1940. Last year a right-wing British think tank proposed that asylum seekers headed to the UK be detained on the island.

☆ Betting against Jim Cramer just became a lot easier with the launch of a new ETF that shorts the TV host's stock picks
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer makes a lot of stock market calls, and not all of them pan out. The Inverse Cramer ETF bets against the financial pundit, by shorting stocks he's bullish on. The product is the handiwork of the money manager known for shorting Cathie Wood's stock picks. The Inverse Cramer ETF (SJIM) shorts equities the well-known financial pundit is bullish on. The Inverse Cramer ETF is an actively managed portfolio that carries an equally-weighted 20-50 names, Tuttle told Bloomberg, with the product having an expense ratio of 1.2%.

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