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☆ Judge delays ban on noncompete agreements for employees
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —A federal judge on Wednesday delayed a ban on noncompete agreements from taking effect for a small number of US workers on September 4. Unless the judge makes another ruling before that date, the ban will go into effect for the majority of employers in the US. The ban, which prohibits employers from enforcing noncompete clauses in most existing employment agreements and bans companies from including them in all future ones, was approved by the Federal Trade Commission in April. The FTC estimates that 30 million people — one in five US workers — are bound by a noncompete clause in their current jobs. In response to the order, FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar said, “The FTC stands by our clear authority, supported by statute and precedent, to issue this rule.

Persons: ”, Ada Brown, Ryan, Daryl Joseffer, Douglas Farrar Organizations: New, New York CNN, Court, Northern, Northern District of Texas, Federal Trade Commission, Ryan LLC, US Chamber of Commerce, Business, Texas Association of Business, Longview Chamber of Commerce, Plaintiff, FTC, US, of Commerce, U.S, Chamber Locations: New York, Northern District, Texas, Longview

☆ Opinion: Public schools are not Sunday schools
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Opinion Amanda Tyler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —It has been an especially active few weeks for news about religion in public schools. Public schools are not Sunday schools, and families should feel free to send their children to school without worrying about state officials interfering in their choices about religious instruction. These politically conservative state officials are seemingly making a show of testing the limits of government-sponsored religious instruction and exercise in public schools, emboldened by the US Supreme Court’s recent decisions. Like religious instruction in public schools, the public funding of religion undermines fundamental principles of religious freedom for all. By merging religious and political authority, taxpayer funding of religious schools threatens the rights of people of all faiths — and those of no faith.

Persons: Amanda Tyler, Jeff Landry, Ryan Walters, ” Amanda Tyler, Kennedy, Walters, beholden, ” Walters Organizations: Baptist, Religious Liberty, Christian Nationalism, CNN, Texas Education Agency, Louisiana Gov, US, Twitter, Oklahoma Supreme Court Locations: Louisiana, Oklahoma’s, Kennedy v, Bremerton, Kentucky, Texas , Louisiana, Oklahoma

☆ Opinion | The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Perverting the 14th Amendment
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump pushed the Republican Party’s platform committee to change its language on abortion, and on the surface it looks like an exercise in relative moderation. But is it really? The lodestar for the anti-abortion movement has always been a constitutional guarantee of fetal personhood, which would outlaw abortion and threaten the legality of both IVF and hormonal birth control. (This endorsement of protection for fetal personhood also makes clear that the platform’s ostensible support for IVF is cheap political posturing.) To state, in the context of abortion, that the 14th Amendment guarantees due process and that legislatures are free to pass laws “protecting those rights” is to outright endorse the legal theory that the Constitution already outlaws abortion with or without amendment.

Persons: Donald Trump Organizations: Republican, NBC Locations: United States

☆ Analysis: The Supreme Court just gave presidents a superpower. Here’s its explanation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. Juries can’t even consider official acts in terms of a prosecution, according to the Supreme Court. This case poses a question of lasting significance: When may a former President be prosecuted for official acts taken during his Presidency? She said they could easily have expressed that some of Trump’s conduct was unofficial. Sorting private from official conduct sometimes will be difficult—but not always.

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☆ Republicans Respond to Supreme Court Immunity Ruling With Triumph, and Democrats With Dismay
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In reactions mirroring the ideological split of the Supreme Court justices in their ruling granting presidents immunity for official actions, Republicans expressed triumph on Monday and Democrats dismay. Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio was the first of former President Donald J. Trump’s top running-mate contenders to weigh in, calling the decision “a massive win, not just for Trump but the rule of law.”Other Republicans also praised the ruling as a rejection of what they characterized as Democrats’ using the government against Mr. Trump for political purposes. Senator Steve Daines of Montana, who leads Republicans’ Senate campaign arm, said the Supreme Court had ended a “sad chapter of Joe Biden’s weaponization of the Justice Department.” Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser, called the decision “another setback for the Democrat Party’s illegal and unconstitutional crusade to outlaw dissent, jail the opposition leader, impose authoritarian rule, replace democracy with the deep state and liberty with leftwing oligarchy.”

Persons: J.D, Vance of Ohio, Donald J, Trump, Steve Daines, Joe Biden’s weaponization, ” Stephen Miller, ” Organizations: Trump, Mr, Senate, Justice Department, Democrat Locations: Montana

☆ Opinion: Ukraine’s new weapon against Russia? Lego
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Opinion Roy Schwartz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Pictured in Lego miniature is Kyiv’s Golden Gate, released as part of United24's second wave of Ukrainian monument replicas. The inspiration for a Lego campaign came from these initiatives and from Lego Architecture, an adult-oriented line of sets recreating iconic landmarks. The second wave, #UKRAINEinLEGObricks, released last month, includes Kyiv’s Golden Gate, Crimea’s Khan Palace, Lviv’s Oblast’s Pidhirtsi Castle, Odesa’s National Academic Opera and Mykolaiv’s Astronomical Observatory. Mykolaiv’s Astronomical Observatory is featured in Lego's second wave of monument recreations. UNITED24All models are made from authentic Lego bricks, though the Lego company isn’t affiliated with the project nor the artists building the sets.

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☆ A Wish From All Sides to Move On Ends With Liberty for Assange
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Glenn Thrush | Megan Specia | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As negotiations to end the long legal brawl between Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and the United States reached a critical point this spring, prosecutors presented his lawyers with a choice so madcap that a person involved thought it sounded like a line from a Monty Python movie. His path to freedom, he was told, would pass through one of the two American-held islands in the blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Assange, who feared being imprisoned for the rest of his life in the United States, had long insisted on one condition for any plea deal: that he never set foot in the country. The U.S. government, in turn, had demanded that Mr. Assange plead guilty to a felony for violating the Espionage Act, which required him to appear before a federal judge. In April, a lawyer with the Justice Department’s national security division broke the impasse with a sly workaround: How about an American courtroom that wasn’t actually inside mainland America?

Persons: Julian Assange, Monty, Assange Organizations: WikiLeaks, Justice Department’s Locations: United, Guam, Saipan, United States, U.S, America

☆ The 84-Year-Old Visionary With One Answer for Two Real Estate Crises
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( William Falk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Liberty Tower went up for sale in Manhattan’s financial district in 1978, there was only one bidder for the 33-story skyscraper. The building was dated and dilapidated, and even though rent had plunged to $5 a square foot, it was two-thirds vacant. New York City itself had tumbled into a downward spiral after a severe fiscal crisis and a deep recession. “The financial district was failing. Liberty Tower was the first major residential conversion of an office building in New York’s financial district.

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☆ Brittany Was Once Barren Ground for France’s Far Right. No More.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Catherine Porter | Dmitry Kostyukov | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

So many locals over so many decades have left Gourin in rural Brittany for the United States that Air France awarded the town a miniature Statue of Liberty. So proud were residents of that binational identity, they fund-raised four years ago to have the statue recast in bronze. It sits in a place of prominence, in Gourin’s main square, encircled by poles bearing international flags. And yet, in the recent elections for the European Parliament, almost one-third of local voters opted for the far-right National Rally, a French party built on intense anti-immigration sentiment. “This is an area that knows what it means to be immigrants,” said Pierre-Marie Quesseveur, a member of the local Brittany TransAmerica association, who expressed surprise at the election results.

Persons: ”, Pierre, Marie Quesseveur, Brittany TransAmerica Organizations: Air France Locations: Brittany, United States, Gourin’s

And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

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☆ The Supreme Court just made it much harder to go after financial fraud
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe Supreme Court dealt a blow to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a ruling Thursday, sharply limiting the way it pursues financial fraud cases. Until Thursday, the SEC had two ways of pursuing fraud cases. Or it could bring an "administrative proceeding" in its own in-house court, where it appoints its own judges and the cases have no juries. They handle all sorts of cases, not just financial fraud. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the dissenting opinion, wrote that the majority decision disrespected the separation of powers between the different branches of government.

Persons: —, John Roberts, Roberts, Dodd, Frank, George Jarkesy Jr, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Organizations: Service, US Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Business, US Senate, Department of Labor, Occupational Safety, Health Administration Locations: United States

☆ Opinion: Don’t underestimate moms ahead of the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Opinion Reshma Saujani | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Put another way, this isn’t going to be an “abortion” election or an “economy” election: 2024 is going to be the mom election. That decline is largely attributed to one key cost: child care. Both have since lapsed, leaving many families to teeter on (or fall off) a “child care cliff.”In 2024, the cost of child care — the cost of motherhood — has become untenable. They don’t see “motherhood issues,” such as child care and paid leave, as substantive, economic issues worth fighting for. For decades, moms have been divided — working moms versus stay-at-home-moms, single moms versus coupled moms, Moms for Liberty versus Moms Demand Action.

Persons: CNN — Kellyanne Conway, Reshma, Biden, Donald Trump, ” Conway, Conway, —, who’ve, we’re, ” isn’t, they’re, Trump Organizations: CNN, “, New York Times, ”, Federal, Household Economics, Liberty, Twitter, Republicans Locations: teeter

☆ The debate night contrast Biden hopes will win the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The Almighty won’t be standing on stage alongside Joe Biden on Thursday night. Biden’s campaign laid the groundwork for the Atlanta showdown hosted by CNN in a weekend memo. If Trump rants and vents his 2020 election lies on Thursday, he will play into Biden’s hands. That could avoid the mayhem of the first Trump v. Biden debate in 2020. His campaign has spent days trying to roll back his expectations of Biden as a doddering, elderly president who can’t string two words together.

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☆ How Delta made itself America's luxury airline — and what United wants to do about it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Rival United Airlines — second to Delta in net profit margins — is circling. Delta plans to open Delta One lounges in Boston and Los Angeles later this year, and is studying airports where it could open others. Like other airlines, Delta accepted billions in federal aid to weather the pandemic. Luxury air travel and the United States didn't go together for many years — and might not still, if you ask well-heeled globetrotters. And at Delta and other airlines, many of the perks for luxury flyers come through lounges.

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☆ Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is annoyed with SpaceX's big rocket launches
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jaures Yip | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, recently filed concerns to the FAA about Elon Musk's SpaceX, requesting that Starship's launch operations be potentially limited over environmental impact concerns. The SpaceX launch system is a work in progress. It also employs multiple properties "all within the vicinity " of SpaceX's proposed Super Heavy booster launches, Blue Origin said. SpaceX plans to launch 44 Starship-Super Heavy missions per year under a NASA lease, Blue Origin wrote in the filing. Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin immediately responded to Business Insider's requests for comments ahead of publication.

Persons: —, Jeff Bezos, SpaceX's, Blue, Musk, Sue, chatbot Grok Organizations: Service, FAA, Elon, SpaceX, Business, Super, of, Kennedy Space Center, Heavy, NASA, CNBC Locations: SpaceX's

☆ Columbia places three administrators on leave amid investigation, cites commitment to ‘confronting antisemitism’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Kristina Sgueglia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Columbia University says it’s placed three administrators on leave pending a university investigation of a weeks-old incident at an alumni reunion event. The university, which reiterated its commitment to combatting antisemitism, did not share any specifics for the leave. Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett said in a statement to the Spectator that he “deeply regret(s)” his role in the texts. “The Dean of Columbia College informed his team yesterday that three administrators have been placed on leave pending a university investigation of the incident that occurred at the College alumni reunion several weeks ago,” a Columbia spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Josef Sorett, the dean of Columbia College, said in a statement provided to CNN he was cooperating with the investigation.

Persons: it’s, Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett, “, ”, –, Minouche Shafik, Shafik, Representative Virginia Foxx, ” “, ” Foxx, Josef Sorett, ” Sorett, CNN’s Matt Egan, Artemis Moshtaghian Organizations: CNN — Columbia University, Washington Free Beacon, Columbia Spectator, Columbia College, Spectator, CNN, College alumni, Columbia, “ Columbia College, Hamilton, Representative, Education, Workforce, University, Columbia College Board, Visitors, New York Times Locations: Columbia, Israel

AdvertisementAyomikun Adekaiyero: The series does a great job of showing how this toxic masculinity among the men — particularly Aegon, Daemon, and Criston — escalates this conflict. I think he's a character that — don't get me wrong, I love Daemon — got a little bit muddied in season one. Ayomikun: Also, though I do believe both Aegon and Daemon want war for the wrong reasons, they're kind of right? Ayomikun: Criston and Aegon are really like that "It's always two dumb people telling each other exactlyyyyy" meme. Ayomikun: The fight was a truly brilliant scene, especially since we as the audience can't really tell which twin is which.

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☆ Opinion: Is Trump’s UFC vs. migrant fighting league his worst ever idea? Almost
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Trump first asked the audience if they had ever heard of Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). From there, Trump boasted that he had told White: “Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league of fighters. Obviously, Trump’s point in his migrant UFC proposal was that despite the toughness of the professional UFC fighters, the migrants coming to America are actually stronger, tougher and more dangerous. That moment came when Trump told the audience that the UFC president didn’t like the migrant fight league idea, adding, “But actually, it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had.”Trump is telling the truth there: Musing about a migrant fighting league is vile — but it’s not his worst idea. Trump proposing a dehumanizing physical battle between migrants who would then fight the UFC champions — which conjures up Roman gladiator matches — is simply more evidence of Trump’s depravity.

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☆ Opinion: Destined to be a lame duck
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. When Biden and Trump meet in a debate on CNN Thursday, expect part of the audience to be wondering exactly who and what will come next. Biden, who’s battling low approval ratings, is sticking with Vice President Kamala Harris, whose polls are also bleak. There were 28, and we’ve had 11 so far this year, Bridget Johnson noted in the first of a CNN Opinion series about America’s preparedness. “It’s a measure of his hold on American society that he’s still revered a half-century later,” wrote Frederic J. Frommer.

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☆ Ángeles Flórez Peón, Spanish Civil War’s Last Militiawoman, Dies at 105
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Adam Nossiter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ángeles Flórez Peón was 17 when she braved mortar and artillery fire to bring food to her fellow Republican volunteers in the trenches of northern Spain during the Spanish Civil War. At 18, she was a nurse tending to the wounded in the doomed effort to save Spain from a military takeover. Ms. Flórez Peón died on May 23 in a hospital in Gijón, Asturias. The Spanish press, which first reported her death, called her the last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil War. Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, paid tribute to her on social media, writing, “105 years of dignity, commitment and struggle for equality, liberty and social justice.”

Persons: Ángeles, Peón, Flórez Peón, Pedro Sánchez, ” Organizations: Republican, Nationalist, Socialist Locations: Spain, Asturias, Gijón

☆ Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Opinion Nadine Pinede | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Juneteenth is a celebration of that hard-fought Black freedom, observed in honor of June 19, 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, first learned from Union soldiers that they were free. Like my parents growing up in Haiti, she was used to seeing Black people in positions of power. She had freed herself from unjust rules meant to restrict education for Black Americans. Mark Felix/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Haiti, Hurston’s creative powers had the time and freedom to unfurl. As the author of “Barracoon,” a book based on interviews with one of the last enslaved Black Americans, Hurston almost certainly understood the significance of Juneteenth.

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☆ Taiwan is one-upping Ukraine's navy to defeat a Chinese invasion
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewTaking a cue from Ukraine's use of naval drones to offset a superior Russian fleet, Taiwan has unveiled a much larger unmanned kamikaze boat that could devastate a Chinese amphibious force. But if not this one, Taiwan will certainly field some kind of unmanned attack boat to try to stop a Chinese invasion or blockade. AdvertisementBoth Taiwan and America are looking to what has become the gold standard in naval drone warfare: Ukraine's campaign in the Black Sea. Instead, Russia's Black Sea Fleet has retreated from Ukrainian waters. In part this is because of land-based anti-ship missiles such as the Neptune, which sank the cruiser and Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva in 2022.

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☆ The Recording of Justice Alito Shows He’s Right About One Thing - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Justice Samuel Alito is right. No, Justice Alito is right about the fact of unresolvable conflict in American political life. They really can’t be compromised. In a 2020 keynote to a gathering of the Federalist Society, for example, the justice bemoaned changing attitudes on same-sex marriage. “You can’t say that marriage is the union between one man and one woman,” Alito said.

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☆ Abortion: Trump walks fine line but allies and activists have big plans for a second term
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Phil Mattingly | Andrew Seger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

“I believe he’ll be a pro-life president in the future also.”Many senior Trump administration alumni and allies are now mapping out and drafting policy options for a second Trump term. A second Trump term would also put back in place and expand restrictions on Title X grants – federal funds for public and nonprofit groups that provide family planning. Resurrecting these actions in a second Trump would almost entirely be up to the discretion of whomever he appoints to lead the relevant federal agencies. With Roe v. Wade’s protections erased, anti-abortion activists would like a second Trump administration to push harder than it did before – especially in restricting access to mifepristone. Abortion rights advocates worry he could play an outsize role shaping abortion restrictions in a potential second Trump administration.

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☆ I'm a veteran who voted for Trump twice and then supported Nikki Haley. I'm seriously considering Biden over the 'autocrat.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Roger, who is affiliated with the Haley Voters Working Group. The group is comprised of former primary supporters of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley who are supporting President Joe Biden in the general election or considering supporting the president. I'm an old-school Reagan fan, and Nikki Haley is a genuine Republican. Voters know that President Trump is the only person who will beat Joe Biden and take back the White House. President Trump will put America First instead of getting into more wars and more conflict like Biden has done."

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