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☆ The 10 most livable cities in the U.S. where costs are low, incomes are growing and there's plenty to do
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you're looking for a livable city with a lower cost of living that offers a solid work-life balance and abundant recreational opportunities, consider Portland, Maine. Portland earned high marks for both quality of life and location and community. Cities in this region generally scored highly on cost of living. In Lincoln, Nebraska, for example, residents enjoy a cost of living about 6% lower than the national average, RentCafe found. But Portland's high quality of life may make up for the cost of living and give it an advantage in the overall rankings.

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☆ Pakistan province calls for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India as record smog chokes major city
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Lex Harvey | Sophia Saifi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN —A smog-choked province in eastern Pakistan has issued a rare plea for cross-border collaboration with India, as major cities in both countries endure severe air pollution that risks the health of millions. “We are suffering in Lahore in a way due to the eastern wind corridor coming from India,” he said. Lahore, home to more than 14 million people, saw its air quality index surpass a record 1,900 in one part of the city on Saturday, according to IQAir, which tracks global air quality. Experts say India’s air pollution is so bad that smog could take years off the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Both India and Pakistan have tried to clamp down on the practice, but it is still widespread.

Persons: Raja Jahangir Anwar, ” Anwar, Punjab’s, ”, Arif Ali, Sakib Ali, Maryam Nawaz, Parveen Kumar Organizations: Pakistan CNN, Environment, CNN, Getty, Hindustan Times, World Health Organization, Experts, India’s Locations: Islamabad, Pakistan, India, Punjab, Pakistan’s, Lahore, AFP, Delhi Meerut, Ghaziabad, Delhi –, Gurgaon, India’s Punjab, Haryana, Pakistan’s Punjab

CNN —More severe weather is expected in the South and the Southern Plains Monday, including in Oklahoma, where residents are surveying the destruction from tornado-spawning storms that injured at least 11 people and leveled homes over the weekend. Tornado sirens rang out Monday morning in Oklahoma City, where residents are still surrounded by the destruction and debris caused by the weekend’s severe storms, after the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning. There were no confirmed tornadoes or reports of damage from Monday morning’s storms. A level 2 of 5 threat of severe thunderstorms spans from central and eastern Texas to the Illinois-Missouri border – including Dallas, threatening damaging wind gusts, large hail and tornadoes, according to the SPC. Nearly 40 structures were destroyed in the Oklahoma City area, the Oklahoma City Fire Department said in a Facebook post.

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☆ Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Physical Intelligence, a robot startup based in San Francisco, has raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed Monday to CNBC. Investors included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, a Physical Intelligence spokesperson said. Physical Intelligence's new valuation is about six times that of its March seed round, which reportedly came in at $70 million with a $400 million valuation. Physical Intelligence hopes that model will be the first step toward its ultimate goal of developing artificial general intelligence. In case studies, Physical Intelligence details how its tech could allow a robot to do laundry, bus tables or assemble a box.

Persons: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Microsoft's Bing Organizations: Economic, Amazon, Change, Physical Intelligence, CNBC, Investors, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tesla, Google, Intelligence Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, San Francisco, ChatGPT

☆ From nuclear to quantum computing, how Big Tech intends to power AI's insatiable thirst for energy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

data center, in Navi Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Mar. Some of the options on the table include a pivot to nuclear, liquid cooling for data centers and quantum computing. A server room at a data center in India. Alongside nuclear energy and liquid cooling technology, some tech players have suggested developments within AI could help to decarbonize data centers. Aerial view of a data center owned by the US multinational and technology company Google in Santiago on October 9, 2024.

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☆ HPE CEO tells BI why he's redoubling DEI initiatives as some companies waver
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion. AdvertisementHewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri started his career at the company as a "Customer Service Engineer" in a call center nearly 30 years ago. Neri said he addresses DEI initiatives at the company in internal quarterly leadership discussions and company surveys multiple times a year. The CEO role has changedThe 57-year-old CEO wants a diverse workforce that stays with the company and moves up the ranks. If you're sitting on the sideline, that means you're you're not contributing your best," he said.

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☆ How F1 can help engineer the world's net-zero future
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Chris Hawes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

F1 produced 223,031 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, with almost 75% coming from travel and shipping. Unlike soccer, which produces more than 30 million metric tons per year by some estimates, F1 has the engineering capabilities to provide solutions. As reported in April, these goals are difficult to square with F1's decision to increase the number of races in its calendar. The final pedal F1 can push is energy efficiency, and teams are already looking for ways to transfer learnings from the track to their infrastructure. "We want to take that approach ... and apply it to the building and infrastructure side of the campus as well."

Persons: Sustainability Kim Wilson, Pat Symonds, We've, Ellen Jones, we've, Sustainability Adam Sammons, Red Bull Organizations: Health Service, McLaren, Sustainability, CNBC, Formula One, EU, petro

☆ Next U.S. president shouldn't surrender America's energy dominance, TotalEnergies CEO warns
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Whoever wins the 2024 U.S. election should work to preserve America's energy dominance rather than risk losing it, TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne told CNBC on Monday. The U.S. is the world's largest oil producer, accounting for 22% of the global total, according to the Energy Information Administration, with Saudi Arabia next, producing 11%. The vast majority of U.S. crude is consumed within the country, which is also the world's largest oil consumer. Roughly 64% of total U.S. crude oil production is shale and the French international energy firm CEO said the U.S. will also soon be No. Looking ahead to the election, former President Donald Trump and the Republican party have long been proponents of U.S. shale production, pushing for deregulation of the industry and an expansion of drilling projects — drawing the ire of climate activists and many on the left.

Persons: Patrick Pouyanne, Pouyanne, CNBC's Dan Murphy, Donald Trump Organizations: CNBC, Energy Information Administration, French, U.S, Republican Locations: U.S, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi

Whoever is elected the 47th president of the United States will start with a rare and clear advantage: a remarkably solid economy. Tuesday’s election will show how much that all matters to voters, who will soon decide which candidate they want to entrust the economy to from here. But to regular American households, it’s more of a “Yes, but” economy: Yes, the job market is strong, but my boss wants me in five days a week, and that doesn’t work for me anymore. Yes, inflation has fallen, but I can’t afford day care. Prices across the rest of the service economy were 4.7% higher overall, and medical care was up 3.9%.

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☆ Meet the Press – November 3, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +55 min

KRISTEN WELKER:As the 2024 election nears the finish line, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their last appeal to voters. Vice President Harris and former President Trump and their surrogates are making their closing arguments. North Carolina was the state former president Trump won in 2020 by the smallest margin and both candidates held events there on Saturday. I asked, what is his message to women who are thinking about voting for Vice President Harris. Today, Vice President Harris is in Michigan working to shore up the blue wall, her simplest path to winning the White House.

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The Summary FEMA and NOAA have become politicized as the frequency and severity of natural disasters have increased. With the neck-and-neck 2024 election just days away, the futures of the federal agencies responsible for weather forecasting, climate change research and disaster recovery hang in the balance. And with it, they’ve become a target for some conservatives who are skeptical of climate change and want to slash government budgets. “Climate change is a very unique problem in that, like most environmental problems, it doesn’t respect our political boundaries and it doesn’t respect our state boundaries,” he said. “We need centralized federal agencies to respond to climate change, agencies that can handle big, significant, multistate disasters at the appropriate scale.”

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As Americans across the country voted early in record numbers ahead of Tuesday's election, it has become clear that they are motivated, arguably like never before. But it was my daughter's vote I placed inside the envelope," wrote David Frum on X (formerly known as Twitter) last week. She told NBC News that she had voted Democrat for many years before switching parties during the pandemic and will vote for Trump this year. Other issues she said are motivating her decision to vote for her daughter’s future are inflation and the price of groceries as well as her stance against mandatory vaccination policies during the Covid pandemic. “I chose freedom, decency and democracy — along with a bright, just and prosperous future for my five children and future grandchildren,” he wrote.

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☆ Buy these 39 quality stocks with rising earnings in a market with intriguing but imperfect parallels to the highly volatile fall of 2016
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are 39 quality economically sensitive stocks to buy, according to Morgan Stanley. Economically sensitive stocks, including financials and industrials, took off in anticipation of that result and caught fire after it became official. Several parts of the stock market seem to be preparing for another Trump presidency, according to Morgan Stanley. "Markets generally welcomed a reflationary playbook in 2016," Wilson wrote. AdvertisementRegardless of who's in office, Morgan Stanley outlined a list of 39 economically sensitive stocks that should do well.

Persons: Donald Trump, Morgan Stanley, —, Trump, Kamala Harris, It's, Harris, Mike Wilson, Wilson, that's, it's Organizations: Service, Trump, Consumer, Federal Reserve Bank of St, Louis Locations: Financials

☆ What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Yahya Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Blomdahl moved to Svalbard in 2015 and documents her unique life to millions of fascinated social media followers. But as Blomdahl knows, life in Svalbard isn’t easy. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. I just want to show Svalbard the way it is.” Cecilia BlomdahlAs for day-to-day life, Svalbard is sufficiently equipped with the means to sustain its population. Local officials have geared available resources to primarily maintain life on Svalbard as it is, given the environmental and developmental constraints.

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☆ A house divided: How two generations of Black men with opposing political views live under the same roof
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Marquisef_Headshot.Jpg | Marquise Francis | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

SAVANNAH, Ga. — David Shockley doesn’t understand his son Darius’ political ideology. “It makes no sense,” said David, who is Black and plans to vote for former President Donald Trump for a second time. The latest NBC News Stay Tuned Gen Z poll, powered by SurveyMonkey, found that more than half of Gen Z respondents ages 18 to 29 say they have different political views than at least one of their parents. Both David and Darius — two Black men in a battleground state — are emblematic of a voter base that Democrats and Republicans see as integral to success. “Despite the chasm between the political views, we still come together on our—” said David as he searched for the right word.

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☆ Bill Gates is surprised more people don't ask him these 'boring' questions: They're 'more important than the GDP'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Gates is constantly asked for his thoughts on big topics like artificial intelligence, climate change and pandemics. Gates, 69, told LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman during an episode of the "Possible" podcast that published on Wednesday. — even though those types of topics aren't always top of mind for most Americans. It's "one of the most important questions ever," Gates wrote, adding: "It is hard to think of a measure of how a society is doing that reveals more than whether it is protecting its children, and especially its most vulnerable children," Gates wrote. Malnutrition probably isn't a top concern for the average person living in an area that's relatively unaffected by the issue, Gates told Hoffman.

Persons: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Gates, —, Hoffman, I'm Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, New York Times, World Health Organization, CNBC

☆ UK's Conservatives name Kemi Badenoch as new leader, shifting the party further to the right
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech on the final day of Conservative party conference at Birmingham ICC Arena on October 2, 2024 in Birmingham, England. LONDON — The U.K.'s opposition Conservative Party on Saturday named right-wing Kemi Badenoch as its new leader, closing a long-drawn-out runoff after the Tories' landslide electoral defeat ushered in a moment of reckoning for the party. Badenoch ousted Robert Jenrick to secure the top job, replacing outgoing leader and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. "It is the most enormous honor to be elected to this role," Badenoch said, giving her maiden speech as party leader shortly after the results were announced. The ultimate winner was decided by Conservative Party members, with Badenoch receiving 53,806 votes to Jenrick's 41,388.

Persons: Kemi Badenoch, Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Rishi Sunak, Tory, Jenrick, James, Keir Starmer's Organizations: Conservative, Birmingham ICC Arena, Conservative Party, Tories, Conservatives, Keir Starmer's Labour Locations: Birmingham, England, Badenoch

☆ Worries about the election could be cutting into some workers' productivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Anxiety over the US election could be hurting some workers' productivity. One boss is considering letting his employees work remotely in the weeks after the election. She said some workers will be busy hitting refresh on news and social sites, looking for insight into how the election might swing. Yet that doesn't mean being overly indulgent or letting workers focus too long on issues that aren't germane to the business. Despite the widespread election worries, not every indicator signals that the vexing political climate is throwing off most workers.

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☆ Barbecue, bingo, and bipartisan partying: How America is preparing for election night
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

On a highly charged election night, some Americans are ready to go out and party. AdvertisementMany Arizonans are still undecided — on which strain of weed they want to smoke on election night, that is. She anticipates it will be open until at least midnight on election night, two hours past its usual closing time. AdvertisementDrag queens Aggy Dune (left) and Darienne Lake (right) will perform on election night. Courtesy of Andrew LehnSome workers are opting out of election night completely.

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☆ Opinion | Vote to End the Trump Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Opinion | The Editorial BoardYou already know Donald Trump. Listen to those who know him best. Mr. Trump will use thegovernment to go after opponents. Another Trump term willdamage the climate, shatter alliancesand strengthen autocrats. The New York Times editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.

Persons: Donald Trump, Roe, he’s, won’t, Trump Organizations: New York Times Locations: autocrats

Outrage has followed the release of a video from a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania that seemed to depict Vice President Kamala Harris tied to a golf cart carrying a man wearing a mask of former President Donald Trump. The float moved along a main street in Mount Pleasant, a town of about 4,000 people located 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. A video appeared to show a woman dressed as Harris with her hands tied at the Halloween parade Wednesday. The fire department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News or share who did the float belong to. The fire department said on Facebook that it has “traditionally only provided safety & traffic control” during the parade.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Diane Bailey, ”, Josh Huff, ” Bailey, Harris, Ashley Frailey, “, Michelle Milan McFall, it’s, ” McFall, Bill Bretz, Davis, ” Davis Organizations: Service, Mount Pleasant, NBC, NBC News, Facebook, Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, Westmoreland County Democratic Party, Westmoreland County Republican, NAACP Locations: Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant, Pittsburgh, Westmoreland County, America

☆ Hurricane season to reawaken in its final month
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Halloween may be over, but hurricane season still has a few unsettling tricks left in its final month. Three tropical trouble spots bear watching in the Atlantic basin in the coming days as a strange hurricane season continues to defy expectations. CNN WeatherThe US Gulf Coast could finally have some atmospheric protection on its side after multiple devastating hurricane strikes this season. This season is above average in terms of named storms, hurricanes and major – Category 3 or stronger – hurricanes. Hurricane season officially ends on November 30, but tropical systems aren’t bound by that date.

Persons: Patty, Rafael, Sara, It’s, it’s, Michael Lowry, Helene, Milton Organizations: CNN, National Hurricane Center, Central America, Storm, Puerto Rico Thursday, Virgin, NOAA, Hurricane Locations: Caribbean, of Mexico, Central, Puerto, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hispaniola, Gulf, Mexico

☆ What’s at stake on Tuesday? The planet.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Julian Quinones/CNNFormer Trump administration officials have outlined the speed at which they intend to dismantle the progress the Biden administration made on climate change. Trump has publicly distanced himself from the ideological blueprint, but CNN found at least 140 authors worked in the Trump administration. But given the momentum of the clean energy train, some experts and analysists doubt that Trump would be able to derail it entirely. While the green trend in economics now has Republican states like Texas leading the nation in clean energy installations, Germany, Japan and China got there first. Trump’s plan is to undo that progress, throw billions of dollars of clean energy investment out the window and give other countries the economic opportunity, instead.

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☆ Sophie Turner says American politics made it too hard to cope with living in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In an interview with Harpers Bazaar, Sophie Turner opened up about her marriage to Joe Jonas and her life in the US. AdvertisementSophie Turner said she struggled with American politics when she was married to Joe Jonas and living in the US. After marrying Jonas, Turner moved to LA in 2019, and they relocated to Miami in 2021. "The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned... Everything just kind of piled on," she said. AdvertisementTurner, who now lives in West London, told Harpers Bazaar she's "so happy to be back."

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☆ U.S. economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, impacted by hurricanes, Boeing strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month, down sharply from September and below the Dow Jones estimate for 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. In what had already been expected to be a downbeat report, October posted the smallest gain since December 2020. A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 7.7%. In the report narrative, the BLS noted that the Boeing strike likely subtracted 44,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector, which lost 46,000 positions overall. The meager jobs numbers along with wages about in line with expectations help cement another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next week.

Persons: Nonfarm, Dow Jones, Helene, Milton, Cory Stahle, Kamala Harris, Republican Donald Trump, Lisa Sturtevant Organizations: of Labor Statistics, BLS, Boeing, Federal Reserve, Republican, Bright MLS Locations: U.S

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