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☆ Novak Djokovic begins his pursuit of career golden slam at the Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Roland Garros, Paris CNN —There is a notable absence among Novak Djokovic’s 98 career singles titles, but the Serbian star is hoping to change that over the coming weeks. In the end, Djokovic progressed with ease, potentially setting up a thrilling second-round match against Rafael Nadal. It’s a feat, sometimes described as a career golden slam, only achieved by Steffi Graf and Serena Williams in the women’s game. “Playing in the Olympic Games is very rare for us tennis players,” Djokovic told reporters, ”and of course for anybody, as it comes every four years. The early stages of the match were particularly one-sided, with Djokovic taking the first set with back-to-back aces in just 24 minutes.

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ET Aurelien BreedenJohn Yoon andService on three high-speed train lines in France was disrupted on Friday because of arson attacks, the national railway company said, causing travel chaos on the day of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in Paris. “A massive attack took place last night to paralyze the high-speed rail network,” the railway company, S.N.C.F., said in a statement. Traffic was “severely disrupted” on three lines where fires had been set: the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern lines, the company said, and many trains had been canceled. The mood was already tense in Paris, where security has been tightening for weeks ahead of Friday night’s Opening Ceremony. The company said that another attack had been thwarted on the line that connects Paris to southeastern France.

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Ms. Harris was receiving 93 percent support from Democrats, the same share that Mr. Trump was getting from Republicans. Overall, Mr. Trump leads Ms. Harris 48 percent to 47 percent among likely voters in a head-to-head match. Mr. Trump leads Ms. Harris 48 percent to 46 percent among registered voters. The country’s view of Ms. Harris has also brightened, with her favorable rating rising by 10 percentage points since February. In a multicandidate race, less than a single percentage point separated Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris, with Ms. Harris at 44 percent and Mr. Trump at 43 percent after rounding.

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☆ How older Democratic voters are responding to Harris replacing Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Wow, we’re losing Joe Biden,” said Murphy, 83, a retiree who keeps busy teaching the Chinese tile game Mahjong to fellow seniors. You know, she’s, she’s at the perfect age. And I think she’s up to the challenge in that regard.”Boyer knows his innate optimism is about to be tested. “I think that she should be able to push his buttons.”What voters want to see from HarrisPat Levin for months bristled at the Biden age conversation. CNNHer advice to Harris is telling – so many voters who were loyal to Biden are now blunt about what was missing.

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☆ I used to explore abandoned places as a kid. When I started exploring them again as an adult, I made a career out of it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Blake Pfeil | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAs a kid who dreamed of being a professional artist, I spent hours at an abandoned dairy farm near my childhood home. After the dairy farm burned down, it slowly faded from my memory. The practice of exploring abandoned spaces calmed the symptoms of what eventually became a cyclothymia diagnosis — a rare mood disorder — much later in life. As I got older and moved away, my childhood fascination with abandoned spaces almost vanished completely. I lay in bed, thinking about the abandoned dairy farm, and I wondered if there were any abandoned buildings near where I live in the Hudson Valley, New York.

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☆ How CrowdStrike caused a global IT meltdown and what comes next
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +24 min

But this was not a Microsoft issue. Tom ChittyWe're going to talk more about who CrowdStrike are, I think, you know, some people would probably never have heard of CrowdStrike. Lots and lots and lots of global businesses rely on CrowdStrike for their security. I had first seen that and thought it was a Microsoft issue, the reason why Windows crashed on my PC. It was a CrowdStrike issue.

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☆ Cold showers: What the science says about the benefits
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This practice is known as cold water immersion, a type of cryotherapy or cold therapy — which can be applied for medical or therapeutic purposes in various ways. In modern times, some people wonder if cold showers, a more accessible form of this trend, could also do the trick. Taking cold showers may have benefits for your mental and cardiovascular health, experts say. But experts have ideas for why cold showers might work, based on what scientific and anecdotal evidence there is, he added. Taking a cold showerIf you want to try taking cold showers and have been cleared by your doctor, start small, experts said.

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☆ How Group Black's $500 million promise to Black-owned media unraveled
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Lucia Moses | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Montaque cofounded Group Black in 2021 with the goal of directing $500 million in advertising money to Black-owned media in its first 18 months. With the pledge, Group Black laid out a plan to steer money to Black media owners and acquire media companies. Bough, Group Black's chief strategy officer, was a former Mondelēz and PepsiCo marketer who presented the CNBC reality show "Cleveland Hustles." Various outlets reported that Group Black mounted bids for media companies including the Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group, the Paramount-owned BET, Vice Media, and Vox Media. Seven former employees described Montaque as an energetic leader but said he was ultimately ineffective in executing Group Black's mission.

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☆ ‘Inside Out 2’ becomes highest-grossing animated movie of all time
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Erika Tulfo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

That’s after movie sequel “Inside Out 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, raking in $1.46 billion at the global box office and dethroning former record holder “Frozen 2” from 2019, according to Disney on Wednesday. “Inside Out 2” hit theaters last month and passed the $1 billion mark just 19 days after its release — the fastest ever for an animated film. It’s currently on week six of its theatrical run and has already bagged a spot as the 13th highest-grossing film of all time. The excitement surrounding the “Inside Out 2“ release comes after the film industry was met with a slow start to the summer movie season. Discovery) and “Oppenheimer” combined added nearly a billion dollars to the domestic box office, according to Comscore data.

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☆ A food policy expert is trying a different diet every month this year. Here's why the vegan and Mediterranean diets are his favorites so far.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA food policy expert who is trying a different diet each month in 2024 told Business Insider that the vegan and Mediterranean diets are his favorite so far. So far this year, Wren has tried veganism, UK-based weight loss company Slimming World, only eating Huel products, intermittent fasting, paleo, and the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet has been voted the healthiest diet for seven years in a row by the US World News & Report. AdvertisementThe Mediterranean diet also appeared to be best for his mental health, he said in a TikTok video. Importantly, though, Wren was on holiday in Italy in June when he followed the Mediterranean diet.

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☆ Americans Still Shop for Luxury Items in Physical Stores, Not Online
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

It found that people generally have a strong preference for a brick-and-mortar experience when buying luxury items. Online luxury sales picked up during the pandemic but have since come back down to earth. The overarching theme is that many consumers haven't warmed up to shopping luxury — namely, ultra-luxe items and brands — online. AdvertisementWe try to treat luxury with the same e-commerce experience we use for paper towels, and that just doesn't work. For the most part, luxury brands prefer that customers would rather shop in-store.

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☆ Analysis: Harris gets a dream start, but the task ahead is monumental
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Her multi-hour phone blitz to Democratic Party power players on Sunday hinted at an operation primed ahead of time but that was kept secret and didn’t leak. The vice president has shown signs of improving her political skills recently, but that’s never been her forte. In a memo to reporters, the Trump campaign previewed a blistering assault to come on Harris. Harris is the least popular vice president in history – which is no surprise given her terrible record,” the memo said. The question now is whether Harris, who has exhibited considerable political liabilities as vice president, has the skills, staying power and luck to take advantage.

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☆ Warning signs blinking over swimmers’ anger at alleged Chinese doping scandal ahead of Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Eleven of those Chinese swimmers are due to compete again in Paris, and many of their rivals are preparing to go against them with a sense of bitter resignation. Rob Koehler, director of international sports advocacy group Global Athlete, told CNN that they are already anticipating the worst. In a statement, WADA stood by its previous decision-making and said an independent prosecutor had confirmed that its conclusions were reasonable. He said athletes feel as though World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency have failed them and that nobody outside of the sport is paying attention. While none of those swimmers want to publicly comment on the situation ahead of the Games, Koehler believes that they will publicly protest if any one of the 11 Chinese athletes win a medal.

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☆ Embraer CEO: We don't have any plans to go to a bigger aircraft
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEmbraer CEO: We don't have any plans to go to a bigger aircraftFrancisco Neto, Embraer CEO, joins 'Squawk on Street' to discuss how their company is doing regarding business, whether they are in the mood to compete with Boeing with bigger aircraft, and more.

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Though many Americans believe the housing market is at risk of crashing, the economists who study housing market conditions overwhelmingly do not expect a crash in 2024 or beyond. How low demand can cause a housing market crashA sudden drop in homebuying demand can lead to a housing market crash. What a housing market crash would mean for homebuyersAnything is possible, and nobody has a crystal ball to see for certain what will happen in the housing market in the coming months and years. Preparing for a potential housing market crashRight now, you probably don't need to be preparing for the housing market to crash. Housing market crash FAQsWhat are the key signs of an impending housing market crash?

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☆ She felt lost when she became a widow in her 20s. Then she signed up to grief camp
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +23 min

“Being a widow in my 20s, I don’t have as many people around me who relate to that grief experience. Six months since she’d signed up for grief camp. Being a widow in my 20s, I don’t have as many people around me who relate to that grief experience. She wrote a piece called “Grief Camp is My Happy Place,” for her Substack, describing her experiences. “I think a lot of people hear ‘grief camp’ and think it’s going to be sad all the time.

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☆ Biden will not seek reelection; endorses Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —President Joe Biden says he is not seeking reelection in a letter posted to his official account on X. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote. “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,” Biden wrote. It’s also the latest shocking development in a highly charged political campaign that has included an attempt on Trump’s life. The mood in the White House and at Biden’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington had turned sour.

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One, in particular, summed up the mood among Biden’s donors, he said. After weeks of turmoil over the future of the Democratic ticket, Kessler said the campaign donors he’s courted as a bundler for Biden’s campaign are turning their full attention to Harris and committing to work on her behalf. On Sunday afternoon, the Biden campaign filed paperwork with federal election regulators, transforming itself into the “Harris for President” committee. Lindelof was among the contributors who had called on fellow Democratic donors to stop writing campaign checks. Morgan had planned a fundraiser for the Biden campaign in Florida, but those plans had been put on hold because of the tumult unleashed by the June 27 debate .

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Instead, Biden’s campaign unraveled over the course of the next 24 days. It’s a high-risk, high-reward gamble for Democrats, resetting a campaign Biden was losing with a new nominee just 107 days before the election. Dunn and her husband, Bob Bauer, were among Biden’s debate prep team and had faced the ire of the president’s family in the aftermath of the debate. Several news outlets, including CNN, reported that Pelosi and former President Barack Obama had privately expressed concerns about the future of Biden’s campaign. That same day, ABC News reported that Schumer told Biden in their Saturday meeting that it would be best if he bowed out of the presidential race.

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☆ The classic psychological phenomenon behind Trump supporters' fake ear bandages
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In the days that followed, some of his supporters started sporting bandages of their own. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The bandages go a step beyond Trump shirts and lawn signs, Dr. Angie Corbo, chair of communications studies at Widener University, told Business Insider. For supporters of Navalny and now Trump, this performative act of imitation is a sign of solidarity. AdvertisementThe ear bandages portray a different, softer message — one that could make his audience feel more connected to him.

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☆ Harris fundraiser in Provincetown raises more than $2 million, organizers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Defending Joe Biden and ripping into Donald Trump, Kamala Harris got one of her most roaring responses in years as she spoke at a fundraiser Saturday afternoon in Provincetown, Massachusetts. But we are a group of people who understand anything worthwhile takes a lot of hard work,” Harris said. It takes believing in something and then going forward.”The event was scheduled weeks ago, in very different political circumstances. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is seen by some leading Democrats as a potential running mate should Harris become the nominee, spoke before she did. “Harvey Milk liked to say, ‘Hope will never be silent — and neither will we,’” Harris said.

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☆ Opinion | I Watched the Republican Convention. The Democrats Can Still Win.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This year’s Republican National Convention was Donald Trump’s third as the party’s nominee, but it was the first that felt like a full expression of a G.O.P. Speakers even made efforts to reach out to unions, Black voters and immigrants — imagining a big-tent Republican Party that could be far more formidable at the ballot box. But if the Democrats were running a strong candidate right now, no Democrat would look at that convention with fear. [You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.] In this conversation, moderated by the show’s senior editor, Claire Gordon, we dissect the themes and undercurrents of the convention and what they might signal about a Republican Party in the midst of change.

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☆ AOC rallies to Biden's side as progressives split over backing his 2024 campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Michael Kosnar | Ken Dilanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

But she warned that things could get more chaotic for Democrats if Biden were to make the extraordinary move to end his campaign just weeks before the Democratic convention. In a twist for the left-leaning Ocasio-Cortez, her comments make her among the more forceful pro-Biden voices in the party right now. Many progressives, including Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are primarily driven by policy goals and know they have Biden's ear. The strategist said part of the reason progressives like Ocasio-Cortez are backing Biden is the "bird in hand phenomenon" — there's a "comfort level" with Biden in the White House. Ocasio-Cortez also cautioned followers that Biden has unique electoral strengths that other Democrats cannot expect to replicate.

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The crowds inside the hall in downtown Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week reflected the mood of the party: unified, abundant, exhilarated. If the state of the opposition could be summed up by the demonstrations outside the arena, it was quite the opposite: disjointed, sparse, gloomy. Protests through the week in Milwaukee have appeared far smaller and less energetic than those at past national conventions. At the last in-person Republican convention, in 2016, a coalition of protesters rallied in Cleveland for days, angry over the nomination of former President Donald J. Trump. That week was marked by scuffles, standoffs with police and the burning of an American flag outside the convention hall.

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☆ Europe faces a hostile Russia and the prospect of an isolationist US. Unity is more crucial than ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Clare Sebastian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Together we will make our allies share in the burden of securing world peace,” he said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “I think whoever wins the US race… it will be more America first,” Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told CNN. Europe needs to take care of its defense more.”Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen argues Europe stepping up its commitment to its own security has nothing to do with the US. “We have to be more capable of defending ourselves, with a more and more aggressive Russia, not only when it comes to Ukraine,” she told CNN. Preserving European unity is critical to a long-lasting peace, he said.

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