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Mike DeWine, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and other city leaders condemned the neo-Nazis in statements and on social media. But Black locals like Holmes wanted to do more and send a message of solidarity, they said. A group of Black leaders and locals marched through Columbus, Ohio, in a “unity” rally. Dozens of men walked, many side by side, down North High Street, many dressed in all black. He said the atmosphere among Black Columbus residents was one of fear and anxiety, with many wondering if they were safe in the city.

Persons: Derrick Holmes, ” Holmes, Joe Biden, Andrew Bates, Nazism, Mike DeWine, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, Holmes, Black, Sean Walton Jr, Brian Winston, Walton, ” Winston, “, ” Walton, ”, Elaine R, Bryant, Winston, Donald Trump’s, Anne Frank ”, Trump, Christian supremacists, Trump’s, Karoline Leavitt, Oren Segal, Jon Lewis, George, ” Lewis Organizations: Columbus ’ Union, Columbus ’ Union Grove Baptist Church, North, North Arts District, ”, ” Ohio Gov, Columbus Mayor, of, Black Columbus, Columbus, Columbus Division of Police, Police, Washington Post, Nazi, Defamation League Center, Extremism, New York Times, Hate, George Washington University’s Program Locations: Columbus , Ohio, Columbus, Columbus ’ Union Grove, United States, ” Ohio, of Central Ohio, Houston, Black, Michigan, Ohio, Springfield, Charlottesville , Virginia, Louis, “

The White House on Monday joined city, state and Jewish community leaders in Ohio condemning a small group who marched through Columbus on Saturday chanting racial slurs and white nationalist slogans while carrying Nazi flags. Neo-Nazis — their faces hidden behind red masks — roamed streets in Columbus today, carrying Nazi flags and spewing vile and racist speech against people of color and Jews," Ohio gov. Shannon Hardin, Columbus City Council president, said on X that the community "rejects their pathetic efforts to promote fear and hate," adding that he was in touch with law enforcement. Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said on X he was also in contact with police over the march and said his office would monitor the group involved. "Take your flags and the masks you hide behind and go home and never come back," he said.

Persons: Biden abhors, Andrew Bates, Anne Frank, Mike DeWine, Shannon Hardin, Donald Trump, Trump, Karoline Leavitt, Zach Klein, Lee Shapiro, Shapiro, Christopher Pohlhaus, Oren Segal Organizations: Monday, NBC, North Arts, NBC News, Columbus City Council, “, Columbus, American Jewish Committee, Trump, Nazi, ” Police, Defamation League Center, Extremism, New York Times, Hate Locations: Ohio, Columbus, United States, Michigan, Charlottesville , Virginia, Springfield , Ohio, Springfield, Louis

☆ Sam Altman is getting into the transition team game — for San Francisco's newly elected mayor
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementSam Altman has been tapped to cochair the transition team for San Francisco's mayor-elect. The OpenAI cofounder and CEO is cochairing the transition team for San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie, Lurie announced Monday. According to San Francisco's campaign finance database, Altman donated $500 to current San Francisco mayor London Breed in 2018. We need to get him to embrace San Francisco." BI could not find any contributions from Altman to San Francisco mayoral candidates during this election.

Persons: Sam Altman, Daniel Lurie, Altman, Lurie, Ned Segal, OpenAI, San, Levi Strauss, Jan Koum, Jonathan Gans, Oleg Nodelman, " Altman Organizations: San Francisco's, San Francisco, Business, London Breed, Breed, Los Angeles Times Locations: Bay, San Francisco

☆ Some Democratic political advertisers are still betting on X, despite Elon Musk's allegiance with Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk's ownership has shifted X's political stance, affecting Democratic ad spending. X switched political ads back on last year as it looked to recoup lost revenue after a brand exodus. AdvertisementWhile some Democratic political advertisers — including Kamala Harris' presidential campaign — have stopped spending on X altogether, a small number are holding firm. It ceased taking political advertising in 2019 under former CEO Jack Dorsey; Musk reversed that decision last year. The research firm EMARKETER predicted that political ad spending in the US will top $12 billion this year.

Persons: X, —, Kamala Harris, Elon Musk, revved, hasn't, Colin Allred, Sen, Ted Cruz, Jon Tester, Tim Sheehy, — Jon Tester, it's, Harris, Linda Yaccarino, Tyler Goldberg, Mike Nellis, Nellis, I've, Matthew Madrazo, Jonathan Phelps, X's, Ned Segal, Jack Dorsey, Musk, Elon, Mark Jablonowski, Andy Kiersz Organizations: Elon, Democratic, Service, Twitter, Trump, Texas Senate, Montana, Solutions, Republican, Fox News, Democrats, Nellis, Media, X, Financial Times, Meta, Google Locations: Texas, Montana, Washington ,

☆ Data startup Matia just emerged from stealth with a $10.5 million seed round — check out its 11-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Miami-based data operations startup Matia has secured $10.5 million in seed funding. BI got an exclusive look at the 11-slide pitch deck Matia used to secure the fresh funding. AdvertisementMiami-based data management startup Matia has just come out of stealth with $10.5 million in seed funding. The startup's pitch deck, shared exclusively with BI, states that it has four early customers and 10 companies who are showing "strong interest." Check out the 11-slide pitch deck used to secure the fresh funding.

Persons: —, Benjamin Segal, Segal, Matia, Benjamin, Geva Organizations: BI, Service, Leaders Fund, Cerca Partners, Caffeinated Locations: Miami

☆ Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has moved his AI startup out of stealth, calling it Parallel
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Parag Agrawal updated his LinkedIn page with his AI startup's name for the first time: Parallel Web Systems. The ex-Twitter CEO raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January. AdvertisementThe former CEO of Twitter has moved his AI startup out of stealth mode with a previously unknown name: Parallel Web Systems. Agrawal raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January when the startup's name was still unknown. From Twitter to AI startupAgrawal was the CEO of Twitter from November 2021 to October 2022, when Elon Musk fired him following his acquisition of the platform.

Persons: Parag Agrawal, Parallel's, —, Agrawal, Elon Musk, Kurt Wagner's, Wagner, Musk, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, Sean Edgett Organizations: Systems, AIs, Service, Twitter, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, LinkedIn, Company, Shapley Inc, Business Locations: Palo Alto , California, San Francisco

☆ Your employer may start covering weight-loss drugs soon
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

A growing number of employers are considering covering the blockbuster weight-loss drugs, several surveys show. Roughly the same share say they are somewhat or very likely to begin covering these medications for weight loss within the next 12 months, according to KFF’s annual Employer Health Benefits Survey. But only 18% of firms in KFF’s survey, which includes those with 200 or more employees, cover GLP-1 drugs primarily for weight loss. Even employers that provide coverage for anti-obesity drugs often put up guardrails, such as requiring employees to receive prior authorization or to try other weight-loss methods first. Outpatient drug costs are expected to climb 11.4% next year, surpassing the 8% increase projected for medical plan costs, according to Segal’s most recent survey.

Persons: ”, Matthew Rae, Mercer, Beth Umland, Eileen Pabon, KFF, It’s, Eric Miller, Segal, Vicky Cathcart, ” Cathcart Organizations: CNN, Workers, Health, Survey, Business, DSV Air & Sea, Employees, Employers, Outpatient, Marroquin Industries Corp Locations: Mercer, New Jersey, Hawthorne , California

☆ So, Human Resources Is Making You Miserable?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( David Segal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Show of hands: Who’s fed up with human resources? Maybe you’re irked by the endless flow of memos and forms, many of which need to be filled out, pronto. Or you’ve got some problem with management and you don’t trust that H.R. department bugs a lot of employees and managers, and it seems to have more detractors than ever since the pandemic began. department is bothering you, here’s a fact you might find perversely consoling: You are not as aggravated or bummed out as the people who work in H.R.

Persons: you’ve, ” Organizations: Caesars Forum Locations: H.R

☆ Cats vs. Dogs? Cats Are Better. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

It’s not easy not being a dog person. I once moderated a conversation for The Times between Susan Orlean and Julie Klam, both authors of books about dogs. “Everybody who reads my book is a dog person,” Klam, whom I also profiled for her memoir, “You Had Me at Woof,” said at one point. The very bad date in the story “Cat Person” has, of course, two cats. By contrast, I could see the appeal of dogs if they didn’t need to be trained, didn’t bark, didn’t need to be walked, didn’t shed, didn’t smell, didn’t require washing or grooming.

Persons: Susan Orlean, Julie Klam, ” Klam, “, ”, Tim Kreider, Bachelorhood, Guy, Glen Powell’s, Gary, He’s, JD Vance, Kamala Harris, ” Tommy Tomlinson, Mark Twain, Lovewright, Lore Segal Organizations: intuit Locations: people’s, Woof

☆ Nickelback, Post Malone, Chris Brown, and other stars took COVID cash despite their accountants' initial concerns about 'perjury' and 'perception problems,' court documents say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Congress created the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant in 2021 to help theaters and indie music venues stay in business during the pandemic lockdowns. A 2023 Business Insider investigation found that dozens of wealthy musicians used ineffective oversight and loopholes in the law to line their pockets. But once the law was passed, Strickland said he focused on helping as many people get money as possible. According to an email, he ended up telling NKSFB to pull the application, figuring he was being fed "BS" by a consultant.

Persons: Post Malone, Chris Brown, Nickelback, Lil Wayne, didn't, —, Paul Anka —, David Hickok, Hickok, Bessy Wong, Mickey Segal, Anka, Segal, NKSFB, Kyle Leunissen, Suicideboys, Michael Strickland, Lites, Strickland, Paul Anka Organizations: Service, Small Business Administration, Business, Post, SBA, BI, Billboard Locations: Angeles, American, NKSFB

☆ Australia appoints special envoys as antisemitism, Islamophobia rise over Gaza war
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —The Australian government is appointing the country’s first envoys to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia in an attempt to prevent further fraying of social cohesion over the war in Gaza. “I have spoken with members of the Jewish community here, in Melbourne, right around Australia, who have not felt safe, members of the Jewish community whose children are worried about wearing their school uniform in our capital cities. David Gray/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), which represents the Jewish community, recorded a spike in antisemitic incidents from October to November 2023. The group said Tuesday reports of antisemitic incidents in Australia are still running 400-500% higher than before the conflict. Protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza are continuing in Australia with four people arrested for climbing onto the roof of Parliament House last week.

Persons: Anthony Albanese, “, ”, Albanese, Jillian Segal, ” Albanese, David Gray, Fatima Payman, Matt Jelonek, ” Sen, Labor’s Organizations: Australia CNN, “, Albanese’s, Labor Party, Jewish Museum, Getty, of Australian, Australian, Hamas, Palestinian, United, West, Australian Labor Party, Greens Party, University Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Gaza, Israel, Sydney, Melbourne, That’s, AFP, United Nations, Perth, West Australian

☆ How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( David Segal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Richard Hatch was searching the card catalog of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, hunting for intriguing titles under the subject heading “Magic.” It was 1979, and Hatch was a young graduate student in physics, but he’d long nurtured an amateur’s passion for the conjuring arts and, on this day at least, he preferred to read about sleight of hand than quantum mechanics. His rummaging stopped when he spotted a title called “Die Juden in der Zauberkunst.” Hatch had spent four years of his youth in Germany so he translated it instantly: “Jews in Magic.” The card said the book was written by someone named Guenther Dammann and published in Berlin in 1933. A book about Jews in magic, from Germany, in the very year that the Nazis assumed power and started burning “un-German” books in bonfires across the country. It seemed obvious. This was an antisemitic tract, identifying Jews to make it easier for the government to persecute them and the public to shun them.

Persons: Richard Hatch, Hatch, ” Hatch, Guenther Dammann Organizations: Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Locations: der Zauberkunst, Germany, Magic, Berlin

What's next: Media Matters filed a motion to dismiss Musk's lawsuit in March, but a judge has yet to rule. VCG/GettyGovernment lawsuits and investigationsSEC investigation into Musk's Twitter takeoverThe issues: The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Elon Musk's Twitter purchase. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesPersonal lawsuits against MuskTornetta v. MuskThe issues: Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta sued Musk and Tesla in a class action lawsuit regarding Musk's compensation package, which was worth $55.8 billion at the time. Several lawsuits also allege Musk discriminated against them because of their race, gender, or disability in choosing to fire them. The executives were set to receive golden parachutes, but claim Musk and X have not paid them out.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, Musk, Claire Boucher, Grimes, Alex Spiro, Sam Altman, Donald Trump, Spiro, Anna Webber, Angelo Carusone, What's, Gina Carano, Schaerr Jaffe, Tesla, Musk's, Elon, SEC hasn't, Elon Musk's, who've, Owen Diaz, Matt Winkelmeyer, Richard Tornetta, Kimbal Musk, He's, Boucher, Benjamin Brody, Brody, Brody reverberated, Ben Brody, didn't, Robert Kaiden, Kaiden, he's, Agrawal, Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, Twitter Vijaya Gadde, Sean Edgett, Segal, hadn't Organizations: Service, SpaceX, Business, OpenAI, SEC, Trump, Trump —, Elon, Variety, Media, X Corp, Disney, National Labor Relations Board, UAW, Tesla, Getty Government, Twitter, Securities, Exchange Commission, Justice Department, Reuters, Traffic, Administration, NHTSA, Apple, NLRB, Musk's SpaceX, US, Employment Opportunity, Musk, Nazi, Litigation Locations: Texas, Texas and Missouri, America, Nazi Germany, California, Delaware, San Francisco

☆ Opinion | The View From the Israeli Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Tuesday I got back from an eight-day trip to Israel and the West Bank. There is a coalition that Netanyahu leads stretching from right to far right and a coalition that Gantz leads stretching from center to right. So one thing I did in Israel was deepen my reporting on Israel’s right. Many consider him the most influential political analyst on the right and deeply rooted in the right. He has a book coming out in English called “The Story of Israeli Politics.”

Persons: “, Ezra Klein, Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Gantz, Amit Segal’s, ” Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, West Bank Locations: Israel

DON'T MISS: The ultimate guide to becoming a master communicator and public speaker"[The class] certainly had the biggest impact in terms of my subsequent success," Buffett told Segal. Professionals can still benefit from the lessons Buffett used in that public speaking course, Dale Carnegie CEO Joe Hart told CNBC in 2019. Don't spend ten minutes or ten hours preparing a talk: Spend ten weeks or ten months. Refer to brief notes, Carnegie suggested, because reading from a script can keep you from being present. Take CNBC's new online course Become an Effective Communicator: Master Public Speaking.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Buffett wasn't, Gillian Zoe Segal, Buffett, Segal, Dale Carnegie, Joe Hart, Carnegie, Hart, that's, Jot Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway, CHI, Center, CNBC, Columbia Business School, Dale Carnegie Training, Win, Carnegie Locations: Omaha , Nebraska

☆ The Napoleon of Your Living Room
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( David Segal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gary Friedman hates meetings. A 66-year-old with apparently limitless energy and a perpetual tan, Mr. Friedman is the chief executive of RH, one of the country’s largest high-end furniture sellers, and he never holds meetings. That’s a typical stretch for Mr. Friedman’s adventures with his architecture and design team, a group of about 20 executives overseeing one of the priciest expansions in the history of American retail. The company is doubling the number of stores, called “galleries” in RH speak, with 35 new ones in the works. He wants to forge a brand that is so ubiquitous — RH restaurants, RH hotels, RH clothing — that its impact is global.

Persons: Gary Friedman, Friedman, ”, Friedman’s, California Rich Locations: California

Warren Buffett has words of wisdom for young people early in their careers. Second: In order to reach your goals, hone your communication skills. Developing communication skills is "a modest improvement that can make a major difference in your future earning power, as well as in many other aspects of your life," Buffett told Gillian Zoe Segal in an interview for her 2015 book, "Getting There: A Book of Mentors." It's an "essential" skill, no matter what job you're in, because you need to be "able to get others to follow your ideas," he added. Understanding how to communicate can help you land a job or a promotion, experts say — and "communication" was ranked No.

Persons: Warren Buffett, —, Buffett, Gillian Zoe Segal, Joblist Organizations: Berkshire

☆ Opinion: Mexico is about to elect its first woman president. The US isn’t heading in that direction anytime soon
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Opinion Alice Driver | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

While he has stated support for Roe v Wade, in 2023, at a fundraiser Biden said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. Feminist activists demonstrate in favor of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, September 2023. Silvana Flores/AFP/Getty ImagesFor decades, abortion was criminalized in Mexico, while in the US the constitutional right was established in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more than 20 US states ban or restrict abortion. I never imagined that.”In the US, I wonder if I will see a woman elected as president in my lifetime.

Persons: Alice Driver, ”, Mexico’s, Alice Driver Luis_Garvan, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl, “, Donald Trump, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Susan Segal, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Roe, Wade, Biden, “ I’m, I’m, Roe America, Silvana Flores, Verónica Cruz, ” Cruz Organizations: American Worker, Meatpacking Company, New Yorker, The New York, Oxford American, CNN, CNN —, Mexico City, Society, Americas, Roe, Getty, Mexico’s, America –, Trump, Biden, Young Texas Locations: Mexico, New, United States, New York, Roe, Mexico City, AFP, Arkansas, America, America – Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Mexican

☆ This startup used its own AI avatar technology, instead of a pitch deck, to help raise its Series B. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA startup has showcased its AI platform by using it to pitch potential investors while trying to raise its Series B. These AI avatars can answer real-time questions, give presentations, and ask questions. Touchcast's platform allows people to ask these digital twins questions asynchronously. Since the launch of ChatGPT-3 in November 2022, startups creating AI avatars have caught investor attention. Segal said this investor frenzy was being driven by the "huge market potential" of AI avatar technology.

Persons: —, Touchcast, asynchronously, Edo Segal, Ziv Navoth, Navoth, Segal, Touchast, Sky Fernandes Organizations: Service, Business, VU Partners, Accenture Ventures, VU Ventures Partners, Sky, McKinsey, NVIDIA, BI, Google Locations: New York, San Francisco

☆ A woman couldn't understand why she wasn't losing weight after trying diets, exercise, and medication. A test revealed she was missing crucial gut microbes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Kimmie Gilbert couldn't seem to lose weight despite trying diets, exercise, and medication. Research suggests that gut microbiome composition might play a role in a person's weight. AdvertisementKimmie Gilbert has one pressing question: "What in the world are y'all eating that I'm not eating that causes y'all to lose weight and not me?" In 2019, health tech had a global market value of approximately $350 billion, according to McKinsey. A microbe called Prevotella, which is associated with weight loss, wasn't found at all in her gut.

Persons: Kimmie Gilbert couldn't, Gilbert, —, Kimmie Gilbert, y'all, Eran Segal, Annie Gupta, Goodman, Rob Knight, Jack Gilbert, wasn't, Gupta, Prevotella, Segal Organizations: Service, Netflix, McKinsey, BMI, Weizmann Institute of Science, UCLA, Luskin, UC San Diego Locations: New Orleans

☆ 4 lessons for success from Berkshire shareholders' best Buffett and Munger stories
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Around these parts, the honchos at Berkshire do have one key thing in common with Murray: everyone who's met them seems to have a story. Just about everyone who had encountered one of the Berkshire luminaries shared some of the wisdom they imparted. Indeed, it's advice that Buffett echoed at the shareholder meeting on Saturday. In response to a question about advice everyone needs to hear, Buffett urged shareholders to think about the way they'd like their obituaries to read and to pursue life accordingly. An encounter with his friend, Berkshire board member Chris Davis, reminded him of a key piece of advice from Munger: surround yourself with images of your idols.

Persons: Bill Murray, Murray, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, who's, Guy Spier, Doerthe Obert, —, It's, Buffett, William Greene, Michael O'Brien, Chris Davis, Charlie, Munger, Benjamin Franklin, Greene, Gillian Segal, Segal Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway, Drew Investment Research, Buffett Locations: Washington ,, Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire, Zurich, Munger

☆ Elon Musk apologized for 'incorrectly low' Tesla severance packages
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk apologized Wednesday to laid-off Tesla employees for incorrect severance packages. Some workers previously told Business Insider they were offered two months' pay as severance. AdvertisementElon Musk apologized in an email to some laid-off Tesla employees after their severance packages were found to be "incorrectly low," according to a screenshot of the email viewed by Business Insider. "As we reorganize Tesla it has come to my attention that some severance packages are incorrectly low," Musk said in the brief email sent Wednesday. Other workers told BI that as of Wednesday night, they'd yet to receive any information about severance packages.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Musk, they'd, Tesla, Drew Baglino, who'd, he'd, Rohan Patel, They're, Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, Sean Edgett Organizations: Service, Business, CNBC, Worker, Twitter Locations: China

☆ Biotech startup Seed Health is betting its profits on AI-powered medical science
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Natalie Rose Goldberg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

On Thursday, Seed Health launched CODA, a computational biology platform funded by its consumer business profitability. Seed Health has been in the business of microbiome scientific breakthroughs since its founding in 2015, but its biggest success to-date may have been becoming profitable as a bioscience startup. Katz's co-founder and co-CEO at Seed Health, Raja Dhir, said CODA and the accompanying data set will help to standardize microbiome science methods, which has long been an issue in the field. CODA's first applications are in metabolic health, brain health, longevity, and menopause, research areas chosen because they have already been identified as areas of human health where early CODA data displayed the strongest evidence. Seed Health has been working on several efforts around pioneering microbiome science for human and planetary health, and many in the field believe the approach is destined to have wider applications.

Persons: Katz, Ara Katz, Eran Segal, Eric Topol, transcriptome, Katz's, Raja Dhir, Dhir, Arpana Gupta, Goodman, There's, Segal, Joseph Petrosino, Petrosino Organizations: Seed, Seed Health, CNBC, Weizmann Institute of Science, Scripps Research Institute, UCLA, Luskin Microbiome, Baylor College of Medicine, Center, Metagenomics, Microbiome Research

The rift over the war in Gaza between Israel and the United States, its closest ally, broadened on Sunday when Israel’s prime minister accused a top-ranking American lawmaker of treating his country like a “banana republic.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing increasing pressure to negotiate a cease-fire, lashed out at Senator Chuck Schumer over his call for elections to be held in Israel when the war winds down. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Mr. Netanyahu suggested that Mr. Schumer, the Senate majority leader, was trying to topple his government and said his call for an election was “totally inappropriate.”“That’s something that Israel, the Israeli public, does on its own,” he said. “We’re not a banana republic.”On Thursday, Mr. Schumer, a Democrat from New York who is the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States, delivered a scathing speech on the Senate floor, accusing Mr. Netanyahu of letting his political survival supersede “the best interests of Israel” and of being “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza.”

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Chuck Schumer, ” Mr, Netanyahu, Schumer, ”, “ We’re, Mr, Israel ”, “ Organizations: ”, CNN’s, Union Locations: Gaza, Israel, United States, CNN’s “ State, ”, New York

☆ 'Nearing exhaustion': Top strategists warn that weaker consumer spending could cause US stocks to run out of steam — but 22 investments can thrive during a market reversal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Eight economists, investment chiefs, and strategists that Business Insider recently spoke to credited healthier-than-anticipated consumer balance sheets and spending for the continued expansion. "Either that, or they're going to be maxed out — they can't get any more money. They're not going to have any liquidity to be able to continue to do the things they're going to do." He's also sticking with defensive stocks as consumer spending softens, including those in the consumer staples sector like Clorox (CLX) and Procter & Gamble (PG). Real estate is a "hated asset class" that's negatively correlated with interest rates, Sekera said.

Persons: shouldn't, Kevin Gordon, Charles Schwab, they're, Sue Crotty, Ed Clissold, Ned Davis, Clark Bellin, Bellin, David Rosenberg, They're, Rob Swanke, Swanke, Preston Caldwell, Morningstar's, Dave Sekera, Sekera, Christopher Barto, Gordon, Clissold, He's, Morningstar's Sekera, Crotty, Segal Marco Advisors, She's, Barto, that's Organizations: Business, Consumers, Segal Marco, Ned, Ned Davis Research, Commonwealth Financial Network, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Fort Pitt Capital Group, Procter, Gamble, Federal Reserve, Exxon, APA Corp, Duke Energy, Segal, Energy, Healthcare Locations: Devon, Real, NiSource

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