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☆ Trump says a Taylor Swift endorsement of Biden would be disloyal because he 'made her so much money'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Katie Balevic | Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump took aim at Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday in an apparent attempt to bolster his odds of regaining the presidency in November. They've accused her of being a Pentagon asset and part of a complex scheme to endorse Biden during the halftime of the Super Bowl, which they say is rigged. The former president took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday to say it would be a betrayal for Swift to endorse Biden. Advertisement"I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists. A spokesperson for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on Sunday.

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Minnesota introduced a new child tax credit that could reduce child poverty by 33%. There is still hope, meanwhile, for an expanded national child tax credit. AdvertisementMinnesota's top officials are celebrating a new child tax credit they say could curtail child poverty by as much as 33%. Qualifying Minnesotans can now claim up to $1,750 per child with the new tax credit thanks to legislation passed in the state's 2023 session. Not all hope is lost for an expanded federal child tax credit, however.

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☆ Superb Owl weekend has arrived! Enjoy the fruits of your typo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It's Superb Owl weekend! As fans search for Super Bowl news, many will mistakingly type Superb Owl. To make the mistake worth their while, here are some owls that are, indeed, superb. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . So to make your typo worth it, we've collected some images from what is likely to be this weekend's most popular typo: Superb Owl.

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☆ Taylor Swift's world tour is a promotional windfall for the NFL as it tries to grow its international fanbase
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Swift is en route to support Travis Kelce in the Super Bowl after her Tokyo concert. Some of Swift's fans in Tokyo were wearing Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs jersey. Swift's tour is welcome marketing for the NFL as it works to scale internationally. Executives said in the announcement that the NFL intends to increase the number of international games annually to break into new international markets. Tokyo itself has been home to more international NFL games than any other city in the world.

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☆ Biden officials confront limits of federal response in exercise preparing for 2024 election threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Carolyn Kaster/AP/FileUS national security officials have to weigh whether publicly calling attention to disinformation might inadvertently amplify the very message they’re trying to bat down. In both scenarios, federal officials favored a muted public response, largely choosing to let state and local governments take the lead. State and local officials run elections and are more trusted voices in their communities, but how can federal officials act decisively to support them? “It’s a trick box,” said Adam Hickey, who worked on election security issues for the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “[W]e prioritize tabletop exercises that integrate the range of cyber, physical, and operational threats election officials may encounter,” Conley said in a statement to CNN.

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☆ CIA fires whistleblower who is suing over claim she was sexually assaulted at spy agency’s headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Katie Bo Lillis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A female CIA trainee who claims she was sexually assaulted in a stairwell at CIA headquarters in 2022 and is now suing the agency alleging intimidation has been fired, her lawyer said on Thursday. She was then given 90 days to find another job within the agency or be terminated. According to Carroll, the trainee is a highly qualified project manager who speaks multiple languages, including Russian and Ukrainian. The suit comes as the CIA continues to face scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its handling of sexual harassment and sexual assault cases. A CIA spokesperson declined to discuss the specifics of the case at the time, citing the litigation.

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☆ An influencer who faked her death from cervical cancer says she did it to raise awareness for women who actually died from the disease
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Pandey said she did it to raise awareness for women who have actually died from cervical cancer. "Deeply saddened to inform you that we have lost our beloved Poonam to cervical cancer," a post on Poonam Pandey's Instagram read. I didn't die because of cervical cancer. But this is not just lip service, instead I'm committing my entire body to the service of Cervical Cancer." The American Cancer Society recommends women undergo cervical cancer screenings starting at age 25.

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☆ Taylor Swift will have enough time to make it from her concert in Tokyo to the Super Bowl, Japan's diplomats assure fans
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Swift can make it in time for the Super Bowl after her Tokyo concert, diplomats said. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end plays in Las Vegas a day after Swift performs in Japan. AdvertisementInternational diplomats are confident Taylor Swift can make it from her world tour stop in Tokyo to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in time to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelce. Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Then, Swift performs at the Tokyo Dome from February 7 through February 10 before flying back to the States for the Super Bowl the next day.

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☆ I volunteered to help New York City track its homeless population. Here's what I learned.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

New York City recently conducted its annual survey of the unsheltered homeless. Mayor Eric Adams, flanked by officials from the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, kicked off the city's annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate. The city was about to send 1,500 volunteers to all five boroughs to collect data on the unsheltered homeless. New York City has been keeping count this way since 2005. How New York counts its homeless populationMayor Eric Adams, flanked by city officials and volunteers at the city's 2024 Homeless Outreach Population Estimate.

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☆ Space Force is sending one of its 'Guardians' into space for the first time in its history
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The US Space Force is sending its first Guardian into space as early as August. It's the first time in Space Force's four-year history that it will send a Guardian to space. AdvertisementThe US Space Force is sending its first member — which it calls "Guardians" — into space. USSF Col. Nick Hague is set to pilot a NASA mission to the International Space Station as early as August, Space Force announced. Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will join the Crew-9 mission aboard the Dragon, a Space X spacecraft.

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☆ Kentucky teachers who banded together for years to play the lottery finally won a $1 million prize. Here's how they are splitting it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

30 middle school employees in Kentucky banded together and won a $1 million lottery prize. The "Jones 30," a group of current and former school employees, have played the lottery for years. They hid their winning ticket in a math textbook, the group's organizer told the Kentucky Lottery. AdvertisementA few dozen middle school employees in Kentucky banded together to play the lottery, and they won a $1 million prize. "We all taught at the same school at one point or another," one winner told the Kentucky Lottery, according to a press release.

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☆ US sees signs Iran is worried about escalating proxy attacks amid heightened tensions
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Natasha Bertrand | Katie Bo Lillis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Officials cautioned that there is no sense that Tehran’s growing wariness is likely to change its broader strategy of supporting proxy attacks on US and Western targets — although it could signal adjustments around the margins. But officials do believe that Iran is pursuing a calibrated approach to the conflict that is designed to avoid sparking all-out war. But some current and former US officials are skeptical that Iran will substantively change its tactics. ‘Varying degress of loyalty’The escalations also underscore the varying degrees of control that Iran actually has over its proxy groups. Among the groups, Iran has the least amount of operational control over the Houthis in Yemen, multiple officials told CNN.

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☆ Biden has to deal with a second war he didn’t want. His task is to contain it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

— Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian group based in Lebanon, has been waging a low-grade war against Israel. — Iran has blamed Israel for an attack that killed a number of Revolutionary Guard officers in Damascus, Syria. Hawkish Republicans like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham are demanding he attack Iran on Iranian soil. “The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East. And on a purely strategic level, risking a major Middle East war that could cause massive US casualties to avenge the deaths of three soldiers, as terrible as their deaths are, would not represent a sound equation.

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The US has in recent months carried out several strikes targeting Iranian proxies’ weapons depots in Iraq and Syria. To date, none of those strikes have deterred the militants, whose 165 attacks have injured over 120 US service members across the region since October. ‘We don’t seek a war with Iran’Still, striking Iran is one of the least likely options at this point, officials said. We’re not looking for a wider conflict in the Middle East,” John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, told CNN on Monday. Tehran has watched as anti-US and anti-Israel protests swept across the Middle East after the Israel-Hamas war started.

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☆ Biden considers halting some US military aid to force Israel to scale back its offensive in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Biden is considering curtailing some weapons support for Israel, NBC reported. Biden wants to use the weapons as leverage to force Israel to scale back its attack. Biden has repeatedly asked Netanyahu to show restraint and dial back attacks on Gaza, and to open humanitarian corridors so that aid can reach Palestinians. Biden has also asked Netanyahu to plan for a two-state solution after the conflict. AdvertisementSo to finally force Netnayahu's hand, the Biden administration is now quietly considering holding back support, NBC News reported.

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☆ Obama and Clinton are joining Biden for an all-hands-on-deck effort to defeat Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewPast Democratic presidents are gearing up to rally around President Joe Biden in an effort to to stir up voter enthusiasm — and cash. Related storiesThe 2024 presidential election is shaping into a 2020 rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump. The proposed campaign fundraiser indicates that Obama and Clinton may agree that Biden needs all the help he can get. Advertisement"There is real focus and urgency around making sure we beat Trump," an unnamed Biden advisor told NBC. Earlier this month, Obama urged Biden to step up his campaign, becoming "animated" at the idea that Trump may return to power.

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☆ The top 4 ways big corporations are fueling global wealth inequality: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Withholding their fair share in taxes. The wealthy business owners and their corporations have engaged in a "sustained and highly effective war on taxation," Oxfam found. Though some of the mega-wealthy have voiced the need for them to pay their fair share, but the disparities are still gaping and calls for a global billionaire tax, which could yield as much as $250 billion annually, have not gained traction. "Corporate taxes are disproportionately borne by the richest, thus the collapse in corporate taxes in recent decades has essentially provided another tax cut for the wealthy," Oxfam's analysis found.

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☆ A guaranteed basic income program in Minneapolis found that even after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they weren't working any less
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe city of Minneapolis is experimenting with a guaranteed basic income program, and the preliminary results are promising. Minneapolis has provided $500 monthly payments with no strings attached to 200 low-income families for the last year. Flint, Michigan — for example — recently opened enrollment for a basic income program for pregnant mothers, giving them a lump sum during pregnancy and $500 a month for their baby's first year of life. In Iowa, two Republican state representatives are pushing legislation to ban basic income programs, Business Insider reported. A lawmaker in Texas, meanwhile, called a newly launched basic income program in Harris County, which includes Houston, unconstitutional.

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CNN —Efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and broker a prolonged pause in fighting are at an important juncture as President Joe Biden deploys his point person on hostage talks to Europe for multiparty talks on the contours of a possible agreement. He said on Friday, Biden had spoken to Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as well as Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss ongoing hostage talks. “We continue to do everything we can to facilitate another hostage deal just like we did back in November,” Kirby said. Each stage would come with a pause in fighting and the delivery of aid to the North and South of Gaza. The White House on Thursday reiterated its gratitude for Qatar — which has acted as a key mediator in hostage talks — in response to the leaked recording.

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☆ The 'World's Ugliest Lawn' winner says the animals that visit every day 'think it's beautiful'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An Australian woman won a Swedish competition for the "World's Ugliest Lawn." AdvertisementNot everyone would consider it a compliment, but an Australian woman is thrilled after an international panel gave her the "World's Ugliest Lawn" award. As a prize, the Swedish competition awarded Kathleen Murray of Tasmania with a "Proud owner of The World's Ugliest Lawn" t-shirt. The press release noted that all contestants had "a lot of ugliness to be proud of" in their dry yards. For that, the planet, and its dwindling stockpiles of life-giving liquid, thanks you, Kathleen," the press release said.

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☆ Video shows Florida residents roasting Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler at school board meeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA Florida school board member accused of hypocrisy is holding her ground despite calls for resignation, and local residents are none too pleased. Bridget Ziegler, wife to former Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler, sits on the Sarasota County School Board. (Leaders within the group have told Business Insider they oppose "all sexual orientations when discussing sexually explicit and graphic books," including heterosexual ones.) Christian Ziegler was then ousted from his high-level position within the state GOP after the other woman accused him of rape. One student in the district told board members that students and teachers are equipped to "handle" conversations about gender and race.

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☆ Here are the craziest and most picturesque photos from the brutal cold that swept the US last week
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A cold front recently swept the nation with snow and freezing temperatures. In some areas, it broke a years-long snow drought that left many, especially northerners, confused. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFreezing temperatures swept the nation – and parts of the globe – last week with snow, ice, and sleet. Some areas of the country were finally relieved of a snow drought that had persisted for several years, ending a streak of short, dry winter days.

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☆ Trump says he 'aced' a cognitive test a few months ago and that his 'mind is stronger now than it was 25 years ago'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump is now boasting about his mental competency after he confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi during a recent campaign event. "A few months ago I took a cognitive test my doctor gave me," Trump said. You know Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know, they — do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. Senior Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita later said "Nancy ….Nikki ….its a distinction without a difference" in a post on X. "They're saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he's talking about Nancy Pelosi," Haley said, BI reported.

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☆ DeSantis cancels morning show appearances as his campaign appears to take a last gasping breath
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis canceled his scheduled Sunday appearances on NBC and CNN. Instead, he went to South Carolina, where GOP primaries will take place in late February. Ron DeSantis canceled planned appearances on cable news channels Sunday morning as his campaign makes what appears to be a final play for relevancy. Ron DeSantis has pulled out of his #MTP appearance tomorrow morning due to what a person familiar says is a last-minute schedule change. He is currently campaigning in South Carolina," Welker posted on X on Saturday evening.

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☆ Moms for Liberty leaders are behind a new charter school, which will have little government oversight even as taxpayers fund it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Leaders of the conservative group Moms for Liberty are behind a new charter school in Charleston. AdvertisementSome leaders of Moms for Liberty, the conservative group that has pushed for "parental rights" in schools nationwide, are behind the opening of a new charter school. Tara Wood, the chair of Charleston's Moms for Liberty chapter and a member of the new charter school's board, told Business Insider in a statement that "Ashley River Classical Academy is not a Moms for Liberty school." "We are simply trying to protect our children from sexually explicit books," the group's Charleston chapter says on its website. Asked about the curriculum, Wood said: "What is so 'controversial' about the year our country was founded?"

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