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Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was accused of sexual assault. Trump himself has faced various sexual misconduct allegations, which he has denied, though he was found liable last year for sexual abuse in a civil trial over an alleged incident in the 1990s that he also denies. Now, after having won the presidency again, he’s spending early political capital to confirm appointees who have faced sexual misconduct allegations of their own. The allegations against Trump’s picksGaetz’s years of controversies have been thrust back into the spotlight now that he’s up for a Cabinet post. “It’s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of,” Trump told reporters.

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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.

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☆ Comcast doesn't want its cable TV networks anymore
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One of the country's biggest cable TV companies doesn't want its cable networks anymore. That's the pitch Comcast is making Wednesday as it announces plans to split off almost all of its cable TV networks into a new company. Into the spinco goes every cable network Comcast owns except for Bravo. For the record: Comcast says it thinks the cable networks it is ditching can be successful on their own. And as I said last month: Comcast is getting rid of its basic cable networks for the same reason everyone who owns basic cable networks would like to get rid of their cable networks.

Persons: Brian Roberts, Trump, Kamala Harris, Brendan Carr, Trump's Organizations: Cable, Comcast, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, Paramount, Warner Bros, Discovery, Disney, Federal Communications Commission, CBS, Fox News Locations: USA

He was the founder of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy, anti-Beijing newspaper that was forced to shut down in 2021. The trial, which began in December 2023, is the most high-profile prosecution of a Hong Kong media figure since the city was handed over from British to Chinese control in 1997. Like all national security trials in Hong Kong, Lai’s trial does not have a jury and is presided over by three judges picked from a national security committee that is approved by Hong Kong’s leader. “Jimmy Lai is a key instigator of anti-China activities, and his collusion with external forces to disrupt Hong Kong and incite division is well-known,” China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong said in a statement last week. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Hong Kong at 135 out of 180 places in its annual press freedom ranking.

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☆ The stock market could be a $50 trillion guardrail on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Yet there is another force that could deter Trump from some of his most extreme instincts: the $50 trillion US stock market. A view of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street on November 13 in New York City. A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street November 13, 2024, in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images“There is zero chance that he will take personally any negative feedback from the stock market,” said Sonnenfeld. While the stock market initially celebrated the election results, the bond market did not.

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☆ Jim Cramer says 'nothing truly dulls the case' for owning Tesla stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer made the case for owning Tesla stock, saying it's worthwhile not because President-elect Donald Trump reportedly wants to relax U.S. self-driving rules, but because of CEO Elon Musk himself. "While I don't buy the national self-driving mandate, I think nothing truly dulls the case for owning Tesla," he said. "The Musk premium will work its magic in other ways, perhaps favorable municipalities and Tesla rentals next to federal highways." But Cramer suggested that the Trump team's plans for autonomous vehicles might be easier said than done. Cramer also stressed that Tesla stands apart from its EV peers because of its tech focus.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Tesla, Trump, Cramer, Elon, Trump's Organizations: Bloomberg, Trump, Barclays, SpaceX

☆ 4 ways Trump's housing plans are expected to hurt homebuyers and 3 ways they could help
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementHigh housing costs, driven in large part by a shortage of homes, are keeping inflation sticky. Economists say Trump's proposals are a mixed bag; some could help housing costs and some could hurt. Ultimately, housing policy experts and industry leaders say housing costs will largely depend on how much new supply can be delivered to the market, which is suffering from a severe shortage of homes. Federal housing assistanceDuring his first term, Trump repeatedly proposed major cuts to housing assistance for households with low incomes or members with disabilities. This would make it harder for lower-income Americans to afford homes and slow down affordable housing construction.

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☆ Disney is avoiding more political dust-ups, but Netflix is bringing the fight to the media giant when it comes to live sports
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. In today's big story, Disney reported strong earnings and has a bright outlook on the future, but it doesn't want to discuss politics . The big storyLet's not talk politicsBob Iger, CEO of Disney Charley Gallay/Getty ImagesWhen it comes to Donald Trump, Disney is taking a page from its famous mascot and being as quiet as a mouse. But the king of streaming — Netflix — seems unstoppable , and it's threatening a space that Disney's ESPN previously had a stronghold: live sports.

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☆ Trump’s latest controversial Cabinet pick could have a huge impact on Americans’ health and lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The president-elect’s previous selections for director of national intelligence, attorney general and defense secretary could change the country and the world in the long term. The US Department of Health and Human Services secretary has a massive platform and huge power to influence the information that Americans have and the choices they make. “I guess if you like health and you like people who live a long time, it is the most important position,” Trump said. Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesAnother health expert and former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director condemned the pick. The highly contagious disease is preventable with two doses of the measles vaccine that most Americans get as kids.

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☆ Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit: Reuters
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition. Representatives with the Trump transition and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The alliance last month in an Oct. 15 letter urged Congress to retain the EV tax credits, calling them "critical to cementing the U.S. as a global leader in the future of automotive technology and manufacturing." Trump's energy transition team views the consumer EV credit as an easy target, believing that eliminating it would get broad consensus in a Republican-controlled Congress as part of a larger tax-reform bill.

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☆ APEC/G20: World leaders heading to major summits are wary of Trump. China’s Xi sees an opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-13 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

China, perhaps more than most countries, will be bracing for fractious relations ahead with the United States. “It makes sense for Chinese officials to use these big events to try and shape some of the international narratives right now,” said Li Mingjiang, an associate professor of international relations at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. “Since there’s not much time before January 2025.”Cargo containers and cranes at Yantian port in southern China's Shenzhen earlier this year. The Chinese leader warned that the two countries “will both benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation,” according to China’s Foreign Ministry. “Beijing does worry about Trump’s wrath and what he could do to damage China’s interest on a bilateral level,” she said.

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They’ve pressed forward even though a majority of Americans still see the Capitol rioters as responsible for an attack against democracy, according to the most recent polling. The most pressing concerns are for convicted rioters required to report to prison before Trump’s inauguration in January, and for rioters with sentencing hearings coming up, according to a source familiar with the discussions. “They’re thrilled with the election, but there’s a lot of uncertainty from their perspective,” the source told CNN. For convicted rioters already serving prison sentences, there’s even less hope to get them out based on Trump’s campaign rhetoric, the source said. She later told CNN that her strategy guide has already been sent to Trump and the Republican National Committee.

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☆ January 6 rioters and judges digest the impact of Trump’s victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Attorneys for some defendants also suggested Trump’s victory was unfair in light of the fact that rioters are still being prosecuted and sentenced. Talk of potential presidential pardons permeated at least one violent rioter’s sentencing Thursday, when Zachary Alam told a judge he had no remorse for his actions. I want a full pardon.”“Instead of pardons of innocence, some January 6ers should receive pardons of patriotism,” Alam added. US District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, later said Alam was “delusional” to think that his actions on January 6 were patriotic. Alam was convicted on multiple felony and misdemeanor counts stemming from his participation in the Capitol attack.

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WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to relieve consumers of high interest rates. Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that he would bring down interest rates without elaborating on how. He has suggested the president should have a say in determining rates set by the Federal Reserve and publicly berated the central bank and its chairman, Jerome Powell, for not lowering rates sooner. Trump has no direct control over the interest rates set by the Federal Reserve, which is determined by a committee that includes seven members appointed to 14-year terms along with five regional Reserve Bank presidents. “There aren’t a lot of policies that the president has at his disposal that can really lower rates,” said McLaughlin.

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☆ Trump still hasn’t signed ethics agreement required for presidential transition
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-09 | by ( Betsy Klein | Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

As president, Trump repeatedly came under fire from ethics groups for potential conflicts of interest relating to his businesses and brands. A source familiar with the process acknowledged that details are still being worked out with the Biden administration regarding the ethics agreement, which is required by law under the Presidential Transition Act and which applies to all members of the transition team. Updates to that bill requiring the ethics pledge were introduced by Trump ally Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, and signed into law by Trump himself in March 2020. The Trump team ignored a pair of key preelection deadlines to unlock transition activities with the Biden administration’s General Services Administration and the White House. The ethics agreement was also due by October 1.

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☆ How Black business leaders are thinking about a coming Trump administration
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Frank Holland | In Frank-Holland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Black business leaders are still trying to figure out why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race, and how to approach the coming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. That's what the voters wanted and that's what they thought President Trump represents," said Charles Phillips, co-chair of the Black Economic Alliance and co-founder of Recognize. According to NBC News, Trump's economic policies were a key reason he gained support from Black voters in battleground states like North Carolina and Wisconsin. But Ryan Wilson, co-founder and CEO of the Gathering Spot, believes Harris' race and gender were the primary reasons for her loss. "I don't know another way to have the discussion but to point to America's old enemies, racism and sexism.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Trump, Charles Phillips, Ryan Wilson, Harris, Wilson Organizations: Black Economic Alliance, CNBC, NBC News Locations: North Carolina, Wisconsin

☆ Trump Says He Won't Sell Truth Social, Calls for Investigations
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Shares in Trump Media & Technology are surging after the election. Furthermore, Trump threatened the "market manipulators or short sellers" who he said were spreading the "fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements" that he did intend to sell Trump Media shares. AdvertisementShares in Trump Media were up around 15% by late afternoon Friday trade. Neither the Trump campaign nor Trump Media immediately responded to requests for comment from Business Insider. Trump's majority stake comprises 115 million shares worth around $3.7 billion as of Friday.

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☆ Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Natasha Bertrand | Haley Britzky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN. “Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? At the time, defense officials tried to include as few civilian employees as possible to limit the impact to the workforce, sources said. But “there are still ways a new administration could work around these protections,” a defense official said, even if it might take several months to do so.

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☆ The best writing online about why Trump won, why Harris lost, and what it all means
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Theron Mohamed | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Commentators and academics have been weighing in on why Donald Trump won the US election. The images of him bleeding after a failed assassination attempt became the symbol of what supporters saw as a campaign of destinyHow Mr. Trump won is also the story of how Ms. Harris lost. Laurel Duggan, UnHerdWhy white women stuck with TrumpAdvertisementThe abortion issue had seemingly little impact on Republicans's performance with white women in this cycle. Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of the Silver Bulletin newsletterSilver republished a lengthy blog post from late October with the new title "24 reasons that Trump won." Nate Silver offered up 24 reasons why Trump won.

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When Donald J. Trump repeatedly singled out the Japanese construction equipment maker Komatsu during his 2016 presidential campaign, employees at the company were taken aback. In one interview, Mr. Trump criticized the Affordable Care Act as being so expensive that it required people to “get hit by a Komatsu tractor” to meet the deductible. At the time, Komatsu’s president brushed off the remarks, saying the company was grateful to Mr. Trump for helping to raise its global profile. After his improbable victory over Hillary Clinton, however, Komatsu took steps to ingratiate itself with the Trump White House. Since then, it has increased investments in North America, adding thousands of workers to its payroll and ramping up domestic production.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, “, Hillary Clinton, Komatsu Organizations: Komatsu, Trump White Locations: Tokyo, ingratiate, American, North America

Donald Trump’s return to the presidency has done something no political opponent could: put an end date on his time atop the Republican Party. Trump single-handedly remade the Republican Party in his own image, not only becoming its unquestioned leader but also rewiring what the Grand Old Party stands for. “We are getting four more years of Trump and then eight years of JD Vance!” Trump Jr. said last week as he campaigned for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. He had a shaky start, but he has steadied himself,” a veteran Republican operative said. “A Trump win means [the 2028] field will be slower to develop,” a longtime Republican operative said.

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In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump kept supporters at a Michigan rally waiting for hours after he detoured to Texas to record Rogan’s show. And then many of them suddenly found themselves running Harris’ campaign. “This has been an historic partnership in which these teams have worked together extraordinarily well,” said a White House official who has been there from the beginning. “Not enough people understand the importance of that,” a Trump campaign official said of the Kennedy nod. It was the first energizing move that the campaign had since the switch-out.”A Democrat close to the Harris campaign said: “Brat summer had to end.

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Maansi Srivastava for NBC NewsMaansi Srivastava for NBC NewsTrump embraced that narrative in his victory speech in Florida early Wednesday. About 80% of white evangelicals backed Trump in Tuesday’s election, the NBC News Exit Poll shows. During his first term in office, Trump and his staff welcomed Christian leaders, including Sheets, to the White House. Julia Demaree Nikhinson / APJohnson and others who shared that worldview were on hand for Trump’s victory speech at a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Around 3 a.m., he recorded as those gathered to celebrate Trump’s victory began to sing a classic Christian hymn.

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☆ With Trump's White House win, the clock is ticking on over $6 billion in Ukraine aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The clock is ticking on getting Ukraine that support before Trump takes office. Trump's return to the White House could threaten US support for Ukraine. AdvertisementPresident-elect Donald Trump will be returning to the White House, and that means the clock is now ticking on getting billions of dollars in US aid to Ukraine. AdvertisementA Pentagon spokesperson told Business Insider it's on track to get the Ukraine aid out before mid-January, but it'll be a heavy lift. Kyiv has repeatedly asked the Biden administration to do so, but the White House has maintained the position that such action would be escalatory.

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☆ Trump has long threatened the media. Press freedom groups fear he might make good on it
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Press freedom groups sounded the alarm Wednesday on the potential dangers facing journalists under a second Trump administration, denouncing threats from the president-elect and his associates to undermine the news media. “On the campaign trail and during his previous administration, President-elect Donald Trump has frequently deployed violent language and threats against the media. His election to a second term in office marks a dangerous moment for American journalism and global press freedom,” Reporters Without Borders said. In the run-up to Election Day, Trump repeatedly threatened the Fourth Estate, often employing extreme and authoritarian rhetoric. In the wake of Tuesday’s election, press freedom advocates remain concerned about the longer-term implications of legal threats that journalists could face.

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