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☆ US Senator Feinstein back home after fall, brief hospitalization
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting to vote on legislation and pending nominations before the committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023. Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was briefly hospitalized following a minor fall in her San Francisco home, her office said on Wednesday, the latest incident involving a key member of the committee that approves federal judges. "All of her scans were clear and she returned home," after a brief Tuesday night hospitalization, Feinstein's office said in a statement. Feinstein is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that plays a critical role in confirming presidential appointments of federal judges. First elected to the Senate in 1992, Feinstein has said she will not seek re-election in 2024.

Persons: Dianne Feinstein, Kevin Lamarque, Feinstein, Republican Mitch McConnell, Ramsay Hunt, Moira Warburton, Rami Ayyub, David Ljunggren, Susan Heavey, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Capitol, REUTERS, Democratic U.S, Democrats, Senate, Top, Republican, Committee, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, San, Washington

☆ Outperforming analysts reveal 2 new oil and gas stock picks — with one expected to rise by 35%
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Analysts at RBC Capital Markets have revealed two new top stock picks in the oil and gas sector. The bank's energy and utilities equity team is behind a basket of stock picks called the Global Energy Best Ideas List. RBC said the basket rose 7.8% in July, compared to a 6.2% rise in the iShares S & P Global Energy ETF . ALA-CA YTD mountain Callon RBC analysts also favor Callon Petroleum . As well as adding the above two stocks to their Best Ideas List, RBC analysts removed several others this month.

Persons: Vern Yu, Yu, Vern Yu's Organizations: RBC Capital Markets, Global, RBC, P Global Energy, ALA, Callon Petroleum, Shell PLC, California Resources Corp Locations: Canada, United States, Enbridge, North America

☆ McCarthy-aligned super PAC could spend $100 million to target blue states in 2024, internal memo says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"In 2024, the House will be won or lost in blue states," Congressional Leadership Fund president Dan Conston, wrote in the Aug, 7 memo addressed to "Interested Parties." This is the challenge facing House Republicans, wrote Conston. "These blue states exist in a vacuum outside of the competitive presidential and senate races ... meaning we must create our own infrastructure." All of those flipped New York seats are 2024 targets of the campaign arm for House Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The Democratic rival House Majority PAC has said they are investing $45 million in New York and $35 million in California.

Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, Dan Conston, Conston Organizations: U.S, Capitol, Republican, GOP, CNBC, Republicans, House Republicans, House Democrats, Democratic Congressional, Democratic, Biden, Congressional Leadership Fund Locations: Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Wyoming, New York, New Jersey, Washington and Oregon

☆ Qatar stock market ends higher, Saudi extends losses
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Md Manzer Hussain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An electronic board displaying data is seen at the Doha Stock Exchange in Doha, Qatar January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari/File PhotoAug 6 (Reuters) - Qatar stock market closed higher on Sunday in response to rising oil prices amid supply cuts by top producers, while the Saudi index ended lower on weaker corporate earnings. The Qatari Stock index (.QSI) advanced 0.2%, ending two sessions of losses, with Baladna (BLDN.QA) climbing 3% and Qatar Fuel (QFLS.QA) gaining 1%. The index heavyweight Islamic banks Qatar Islamic Bank (QISB.QA) and Qatar International Islamic Bank (QIIB.QA) added 2.2% and 1.1% respectively. The food products distributor Halwani reported higher losses in second quarter compared to a year earlier.

Persons: Al Omari, Halwani, Md Manzer Organizations: Doha Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Qatar, Qatar Islamic Bank, Qatar International Islamic Bank, Savola, Thomson Locations: Doha, Qatar, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Russia, El Gadida, El

☆ Opinion | Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is in the dock for trying to cheat America out of a fair election and body-snatch the true electors. But the arrest of Trump does not arrest the coup. The fact is, we’re mid-coup, not post-coup. The former president is still in the midst of his diabolical “Who will rid me of this meddlesome democracy?” plot, hoping his dark knights will gallop off to get the job done. His father disdained losers and Trump would rather ruin the country than admit he lost.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, disdained Organizations: New York Times, Siena College

☆ Trump's court appearances should be nationally televised, Adam Schiff says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) delivers remarks during the fourth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON — A campaign to televise former President Donald Trump's federal criminal trials was launched late Thursday by congressional Democrats, led by California Rep. Adam Schiff. The letter was released within hours of Trump's arraignment in Washington, D.C., where the former president pleaded not guilty to four charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Thursday's court proceedings marked the third time this year that the former president has been hit with criminal charges, but his first time before a judge in the nation's capital. Trump has pleaded not guilty in the two other criminal cases.

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☆ Taylor Swift urged to postpone LA shows amid hotel strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —“Swifties” heading to Los Angeles to see Taylor Swift concerts this week may find a large number of staff at their hotels on strike when they get there. Some California politicians wrote to Swift this week urging her to cancel her shows in LA, which run from Thursday through August 9. The politicians said Swift’s shows would be money makers for the hotels they are battling. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesThe open letter addressed to Swift said, “We are writing in support of the hotel housekeepers across Los Angeles. “In Los Angeles, hotels are doubling and tripling what they charge because you are coming… but many workers cannot afford to live close to where they work.

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☆ Broadcom is planning drastic job cuts at VMware as its acquisition of the cloud company nears completion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Rosalie Chan | Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Broadcom is planning drastic cuts of VMware's non-engineering staff, sources told Insider. Broadcom is currently preparing to close a $61 billion acquisition of VMware. Broadcom is planning deep job cuts at VMware, focusing on non-engineering jobs, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Broadcom is currently preparing to close a $61 billion acquisition of VMware. VMware employees have been expecting layoffs once the deal closes, and Broadcom leadership previously told VMware staff that it wanted to make the company "lean and flat," as Insider previously reported.

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Picketers walk outside the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 as the Writers Guild of America strike enters the sixth week. As the Hollywood writers strike nears its 100th day and pressure from striking actors mounts, producers are asking for a meeting. The Writers Guild of America told screenwriters that Carol Lombardini, the studio negotiator, requested to talk Friday about the possibility of resuming negotiations with the guild. The meeting request doesn't guarantee that producers and writers will resume talks, but it's the first sign of movement in a stalemate between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the WGA since early May when the strike began. Tens of thousands of actors joined the picket lines last month, bringing Hollywood productions to a standstill and marking the first simultaneous actors' and writers' strikes since 1960.

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☆ US House Republicans rally around Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters after a Republican conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 18, 2023. Republicans, who have recently intensified their investigations of Biden's family, claimed that Trump's latest indictment showed the United States lapsing into the condition of a "banana republic." House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leaders have said that an impeachment inquiry is possible but have stopped short of announcing one. Republican hardliner Matt Gaetz took direct aim at Smith, tweeting that the special counsel "shouldn't be in any position to charge Trump with anything. Greene and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik have recently introduced measures to expunge both impeachments.

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☆ Read Your Way Through Hanoi
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Hanoi has always been a city of tales and legends. Cradled by the silky Red River, Hanoi is also a city of loss and survival: It was destroyed time and time again during the French Indochina War, then the Vietnam War, when thousands of tons of bombs were dropped onto the city. But once in Hanoi, you will feel the energy of a city that constantly renews itself. If you prefer to get to know Hanoi via fiction, “Dumb Luck,” by Vu Trong Phung — a sarcastic novel set in Hanoi during the colonial period — is considered a classic of Vietnamese literature.

Persons: ”, Emperor Ly Thai, Luke Nguyen, banh, Huong, Ho Xuan Huong, Nguyen Quang Thieu, Vu Trong Locations: Hanoi, Indochina, Vietnam

☆ From Washington to Warsaw, a ‘greenlash’ is picking up steam despite extreme heat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

A pushback against climate policies is not just a U.S. issue. Reprisals over climate policies come at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in human history. Ruling party leader Jarosław Kaczyński described the bloc's green policies as "madness" and akin to "green communism." "At the moment, it looks like green parties are not doing going fantastically well. "The IRA is called an IRA, it is not called a climate act because there's no way that you could get Democrats and Republicans to agree on something called climate," Tocci said.

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☆ How a college football quarterback with 36,000 Instagram followers scored more than 30 brand deals and made himself the go-to voice for NIL
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Margaret Fleming | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Chase Griffin has more than 30 brand deals, and his recent ones are mostly multi-year partnerships. Chase Griffin. 1st College Athlete Brand Ambassador for the largest/most powerful bank in the world. JP MOrgan Chase 1st College Athlete Brand Ambassador. "NIL & Athlete Brands: A NewEra", November 22, 2022.

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☆ Feds vote to reduce bottlenecks in connecting new power sources to the energy grid
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Also, power generators will have to meet certain requirements to keep their place in the queue, including a financial deposit. Deadlines and penalties for transmission providers: Transmission providers will have strict deadlines to to respond to power generators waiting in the queue, and will face penalties if they miss those deadlines. Also, power generators will be able to add a source of power to a single interconnection request. It can be so expensive to build new transmission, sometimes power generators can't afford the cost and have to cancel their power generation plans completely. Also, power generators wait for an average of five years in these queues because grid operators are flooded with interconnection queue applications.

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☆ Saudi bourse extends losses on profit-taking; Egypt gains
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Ateeq Shariff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's stock market ended lower on Sunday, extending losses from the previous session on profit-taking, while the Egyptian index ended five sessions of losses. Saudi Arabia's benchmark index (.TASI) dropped 0.5%, weighed down by a 2.5% fall in Riyad Bank (1010.SE), while Saudi Awwal Bank (1060.SE) retreated 3.8%. On the positive side, National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (4030.SE) advanced more than 4% after posting a sharp rise in second-quarter net profit. In Qatar, the index (.QSI) gained 0.5%, led by a 2.7% rise in petrochemical maker Industries Qatar (IQCD.QA). ($1 = 3.7505 riyals)Reporting by Ateeq Shariff in Bengaluru Editing by Christina FincherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Ateeq, Christina Fincher Organizations: Saudi, Riyad Bank, Saudi Awwal Bank, National Shipping Company, Industries Qatar, Eastern Company, Thomson Locations: Saudi, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Ateeq Shariff, Bengaluru

☆ Scorching temperatures are making delivery a dangerous job — and it's only getting worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Even outside the hottest US states, heat that delivery workers aren't used to can be dangerous. Several delivery driver deaths have triggered changes. In recent years, delivery drivers reporting heat-related illnesses were second only to construction workers, according to OSHA statistics reported by E&E News. The 2022 death of 24-year-old Esteban Chavez, a UPS driver in Southern California, made national headlines. But his death came less than a year before the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents UPS workers, began re-negotiating its contract with UPS.

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☆ They don’t act or write, but the Hollywood strikes are putting them out of work
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Natasha Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Elyea, and other small business owners have told CNN about the various ways they’re getting through the dry spell: cutting hours, laying off staff, or temporarily closing their doors. And you know, don’t be buying cars having to make big car payments, and don’t be making big plans with money you don’t have,” she told them. “I know I can get through it, but it takes years to recover,” Levelle told CNN in early July. Natalia Lopez told CNN in June that without her $20.74 per hour wage, she had shifted her grocery list to just basics, like rice and beans. Cendejas told CNN the studios should recognize the people essential at every level to get the work done.

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☆ Fact Check-Georgia mason-run missing kids program does not involve microchipping minors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An initiative by freemasons called the Georgia Child Identification Program states it helps parents collect basic information about their children in an identification kit in case they were to go missing. There is no evidence the program, also known as GACHIP, involves inserting microchips in minors, contrary to social media posts. Similar masonic initiatives in Missouri and Ontario, in Canada, clarify their programs do not involve microchipping children (mochip.org/faq/), (www.masonichip.ca/newsList.php). (here)The Grand Lodge of Georgia and the GACHIP did not respond to a request for comment. A Georgia masons’ program called the Georgia Child Identification Program (GACHIP) helps parents put together an identification kit with basic information about their children.

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☆ Amazon leaders are worried that a 'Day 2' mindset is seeping in at the company
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Selipsky does work at a "big company" of course, but he doesn't want Amazon to feel that way. At Amazon, it's always supposed to be "Day 1," the dawn of a new era where the customer comes first and bold bets are backed. Selipsky said in the staff meeting that Amazon has to keep the mentality that "we are going to be the insurgents." Economic update: I wrote a week ago that the dream scenario for the economy was looking more likely by the day. More than 30 people involved in the tech industry told us the real problem was lazy managers.

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☆ A Canadian lake best charts humanity’s impact on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Fossils embedded in rock reveal intriguing details about animals, plants and other life-forms that once called Earth home. ConsequencesCrawford Lake in Ontario is the geological site that best reflects a new epoch recognizing the impact of human activity on Earth, said geologists of the Anthropocene Working Group. The Anthropocene Working Group determined in 2016 that the epoch began around 1950 — the start of the era of nuclear testing. The international research group says that Crawford Lake in Ontario best charts humanity’s impact on Earth. Back then, it took 10 hours to relay a single image to Earth — incredibly slow by today’s standards.

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☆ These ancient Egyptian paintings were hiding a secret
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.CNN —Researchers using a cutting-edge technique have discovered hidden details in two ancient Egyptian paintings in the Theban Necropolis, near the River Nile, that date back more than 3,000 years. Using portable chemical imaging technology, the researchers identified alterations made by the artists that are rare in Egyptian paintings, commonly thought to be the product of highly formalized workflows. We want to understand how these paintings were made.”X-ray fluorescence in chemical imaging technology helps to reveal alterations made in Egyptian tomb paintings that may not seem obvious to the naked eye. “It demonstrates the potential value of quantitative data, obtained through scientific analysis, for a more comprehensive and less subjective interpretation of ancient Egyptian art,” she said. “And the adaption of portable (X-ray) instruments as mobile devices designed for use in the field is a very exciting advancement in the study of ancient Egyptian wall paintings.”

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☆ SEC to vote on new money-market rules Wednesday that industry opposes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The SEC is expected to vote on new rules for money-market funds Wednesday. Increase in liquidity requirements Most money market funds invest exclusively in cash or government securities. Some, known as "prime" money market funds, also invest in commercial paper. All are subject to liquidity requirements (some assets have to be readily convertible to cash), including levels of daily and weekly liquidity requirements. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), an industry trade group, wrote to the SEC, expressing "substantial concerns" about the liquidity requirements.

Persons: Jon, Luc Dupuy, SIFMA, Kenneth Bentsen, Brad Sherman, Sherman, Dupuy, redemptions Organizations: SEC, Federal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Asset Management, Investment Funds, Securities Industry, Financial Markets Association

☆ Lawmakers tussle over GOP efforts to thwart ESG investing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers clashed Wednesday over federally mandated environmental, social and governance disclosure requirements for companies rolled out amid concerns over growing climate disasters. The GOP majority committee members decried the disclosure rules as part of a broader push to discourage ESG investing nationwide. Democrats defended them as necessary to promote responsible investing to reduce inequities and curb climate change. "These politically motivated regulations not only discouraged private companies from going public but also hinder the competitiveness of American public companies." Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, meanwhile, criticized Republicans' attempts to undermine what she called the federal government's responsibility to hold public companies accountable for ESG.

Persons: Patrick McHenry, Maxine Waters, David Marcus, Facebook’s Calibra, Biden, Waters, Gary Gensler, Joe Biden, Andy Barr, Benjamin Zycher, Zycher, Juan Vargas, Vargas Organizations: Financial, Consumers, Investors, American, WASHINGTON —, Republican, Financial Services, GOP, Securities and Exchange, SEC, Democratic, ESG, European Union, Labor Department, Republicans, American Enterprise Institute Locations: Washington , U.S, McHenry, R, Ky

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