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☆ Off-duty FBI agent fatally shoots person during fight at crowded D.C. train station, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

An off-duty FBI agent fatally shot a person following an altercation inside a bustling Washington D.C. train station Wednesday evening, police said. The off-duty veteran FBI special agent was the one who opened fire and the victim shot was pronounced deceased, Benedict said. The FBI agent was transported to an area hospital for treatment for minor injuries. When asked if the off-duty agent started the altercation, Benedict said, “doesn’t appear so, he appears to be the victim.”It’s not clear if the shooting victim had a gun. before the train moved on to the next station and the train operator told passengers to get off.

☆ Jerrod Carmichael is the host of this year's Golden Globes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Jerrod Carmichael has been named host of the 2023 Golden Globes. “We’re so excited to have Jerrod Carmichael host the historic 80th Golden Globe Awards. Most recently he made his directorial debut with “On the Count of Three,” in which he starred, along with Tiffany Haddish, J. The Globes ceremony set for January comes after the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was marred with controversy. In September, when it was announced that the show would be returning to NBC, a press release at the time stated that it would be a one-year agreement.

☆ Philadelphia is launching a plant-based cream cheese
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN Business —Philadelphia Cream Cheese is launching a non-dairy version of its signature spread. The plant-based cream cheese is now available at grocery stories in Atlanta, Houston, Miami and other locations in the Southeast, with a wider rollout planned for summer 2023. Philadelphia's plant-based cream cheese is available in the Southeast. According to data from IRI, only about 41% of households who buy plant-based cream cheese make a second purchase within the year. “It’s just easier to forgo cream cheese and cheese … than it is to forgo meat,” he said.

☆ Elon Musk converts some Twitter offices into bedrooms at San Francisco HQ in light of 'hardcore' ultimatum, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has fitted out Twitter's San Francisco headquarters with bedrooms, sources told Forbes. A trash can in one of the office bedrooms already had waste inside, indicating that an employee had used the amenities, the source added. "People are already putting in late nights, so it makes sense to an extent," the source told Forbes. Twitter failed to announce or explain the reasons behind the new office bedrooms to employees, one person familiar with the situation told Forbes. "It's not a good look," one source told Forbes.

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☆ Kilde's hot start continues with downhill win at Beaver Creek
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde overcame flu-like symptoms to defeat rival Marco Odermatt and claim his second straight World Cup victory in the downhill at Beaver Creek on Saturday. Kilde, 30, also topped the podium at Lake Louise last weekend and now has eight World Cup titles to his name. "I caught the flu in Lake Louise after a nice weekend. "And also there are a lot of contenders at the start and it is never easy to win races." Odermatt, who won the Super-G in Lake Louise last week and is favoured to do so again on Sunday, is still searching for his first World Cup win in downhill.

☆ 13 behind-the-scenes executives leading Apple's $5 billion advertising division
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Right now its roughly $5 billion-in-revenue ads business largely consists of search ads sold within the App Store. It's been a big year for Apple's ad division. We asked more than a dozen advertising industry insiders and former Apple advertising staffers to identify the most important executives building Apple's advertising business. Teresi's ascent coincides with the explosive growth of Apple's ad business in recent years. A digital advertising veteran — having held senior roles at Yahoo, Quantcast, and Adobe — Teresi joined Apple in 2012 as vice president for its iAd division.

☆ Obituary: China's Jiang Zemin confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/5] A security guard stands next to a portrait of China's former President Jiang Zemin at an exhibition to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing, China, July 7, 2011. Under Jiang, China weathered the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001 and won the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. "Jiang Zemin was more ready to be natural, even though sometimes it could be perceived as vulgar, not very sophisticated." At celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic in 1999, floats carried giant portraits of Mao, Deng and Jiang past Tiananmen Square. Jiang, like Mao, wore his trousers well above his waist and brushed his hair straight back.

☆ ‘Living in despair and hopelessness’: A lack of affordable housing can put people’s health at risk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Renuka Rayasam Fred Clasen-Kelly Kaiser Health News | Renuka Rayasam | Fred Clasen-Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

She suspected the gray and brown splotches spreading through the apartment were mold and had caused her son’s illness. A nationwide affordable housing crisis has wreaked havoc on the lives of low-income families, like Joseph’s, who are close to the brink. Housing instability — such as having trouble paying rent, living in crowded conditions, or moving frequently — can have negative consequences on health, according to the federal Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. And there is no county in the country where a minimum-wage worker could afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to an August report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. A few months after leaving the apartment, Joseph and her two children moved in with her sister in Orlando, Florida, with their remaining possessions — a car and some clothes.

☆ Secret 9/11 memo reveals Bush rewriting the history of the 9/11 attacks and the warnings he'd tuned out
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

The ten members of the 9/11 Commission got to ask him and Vice President Dick Cheney any question they wanted about the September 11th attacks. What the new memo makes clear is that the White House's lack of urgency in facing down the domestic Al Qaeda threat wasn't all that complicated. Fortunately for Bush, the 9/11 Commission Report was careful not to point the finger directly at the sitting president. Still, when set beside the newly declassified memo, their official version of history as described by the 9/11 Commission Report feels incomplete, and sanitized. On the question of whether Al Qaeda came up during the August 17 briefing, Morell said he did not remember.

☆ Factbox: Walmart shootings: Episodes of gun violence at retail chain
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 23 (Reuters) - Tuesday's massacre at a Virginia Walmart was the latest in a series of gun violence episodes at the retail giant's stores in recent years. Here is a partial list:Nov. 22, 2022: A Walmart employee killed six people and wounded several others before fatally shooting himself at a store in Chesapeake, Virginia, authorities said. U.S. President Joe Biden called it another horrific and senseless act of violence, adding: "We must take greater action." Aug. 3, 2019: A far-right gunman killed 23 people in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in what federal authorities said was a hate crime. July 30, 2019: Days before the El Paso massacre, a suspended Walmart employee killed two co-workers and wounded a police officer at a store in Southaven, Mississippi.

☆ Some older workers have fond memories of sleeping at the office, but the Elon Musk-style 84-hour workweek is falling flat with younger Americans
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some Twitter employees are working 80-hour weeks and sleeping at the office. Some older workers have fond memories of sleeping at work, but younger Americans aren't on board. Americans are divided on what to make of this, and a workplace-culture expert believes the schism reveals a generational divide. But younger workers are unlikely to buy in, said the best-selling author and workplace well-being expert Jennifer Moss. While older generations worked through the dot-com craze and the rise of Silicon Valley hustle culture, younger workers are changing attitudes around how far you need to go for your job.

☆ Alger's Ankur Crawford offers her case for growth stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | 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 EmailAlger's Ankur Crawford offers her case for growth stocksAnkur Crawford, Alger executive vice president, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to offer investment plays in the growth sector.

☆ New wave of resignations hits Twitter after Musk ultimatum
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Lora Kolodny | Jason Abbruzzese | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A new wave of Twitter employees resigned on Thursday after Elon Musk issued an ultimatum telling them they would need to be willing to commit to a "hardcore" work environment. Three Twitter employees who spoke with CNBC asked to remain nameless, citing fear of professional retaliation. It was not clear exactly how many Twitter employees resigned. Musk has asked some top engineers who opted to resign to consider staying on, according to one Twitter engineer familiar with the situation. The recent wave of resignations adds to what is now a combined mass layoff and voluntary exodus from Twitter, leaving the company significantly smaller than when Musk first took over in late October.

The public termination came after Frohnhoefer tweeted evidence suggesting that Musk was “wrong” about his claims that Twitter was running, in the billionaire’s words, “super slow” in various countries. Sources have indicated to CNN that employees in recent days had been very candid in criticism of Musk in the company’s Slack. (CNN has attempted to contact fired employees to confirm.) In addition to the public pushback from employees, some Twitter staff appear to have tried to appeal to Musk and his inner circle privately as they weigh numerous disruptive changes to the platform. The paid subscription service was suspended on Friday with little warning.

☆ Twitter's trust and safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of the risks with his paid verification system, and he launched it anyway: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter warned Elon Musk of the dangers in his new badge system before its launch, per Platformer. The trust and safety team said the rework would give rise to impersonation issues and confusion. The warning came from Twitter's trust and safety staff a week before the billionaire implemented his overhauled verification system, per Platformer. In their recommendations, the trust and safety team warned of "impersonation of world leaders, advertisers, brand partners, election officials, and other high profile individuals," according to Platformer. In its memo, the trust and safety team also highlighted the consequences of removing checkmarks from accounts that were already verified before Musk bought Twitter, according to Platformer.

☆ Chaos unchecked: A comprehensive timeline of Elon Musk's Twitter verification saga - for now
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Elon Musk's revamped Twitter Blue launch has hit some major snags in the past week. The shenanigans surrounding the blue check (and subsequent gray check) has heads spinning among average Twitter users, major advertisers and big-name celebrities. Here's a look at everything that's happened with Twitter Blue in the past week and the murky state of verification on the platform. Musk's new verification model was designed to become part of Twitter's existing Twitter Blue feature, a $4.99 monthly subscription offering premium services. He also said that Twitter is adding a "parody subscript," because "tricking people is not ok."It is unclear when and how Twitter Blue may be reinstated.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence for new ‘Sharpiegate’ allegations in Pennsylvania midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A video being shared is claiming that Sharpie pens would cause ballots to bleed through and that settings on Dominion machines would then be unable to read a person’s vote in Pennsylvania. LISTEN CLOSELY about Election Day voting with the right pen issue and the sharpie gate plan too. According to the Department of State, out of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, 13 use Dominion machines, including Erie, Crawford, Warren, Clarion, Jefferson, Armstrong, Fayette, Bedford, York, Luzerne, Carbon, Pike, and Montgomery. “We are aware of these allegations made in previous elections, and those previous accusations were determined to be unfounded in Pennsylvania.”Moreover, Dominion machines can read Sharpie-marked ballots, the company says. On its website, Dominion Voting Systems says (here “Dominion machines can read hand-marked paper ballots marked with writing instruments approved by election authorities, including Sharpie pens."

☆ Twitter has re-rolled out its 'official' badges for some accounts after previously saying it would not add them
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter's "official" badges seem to have been re-rolled out after appearing, then vanishing. Twitter's support account confirmed on Friday the badges had been added to some accounts. A post from the support account said on Friday: "To combat impersonation, we've added an "Official" label to some accounts." What you saw him mention was the fact that we're not focusing on giving individuals the 'Official' label right now." However, accounts including the New York Times and Twitter itself did not appear to have an "official" label.

☆ How anyone can get a cut of the $1.2T vacation rental market with reAlpha
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Realpha With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

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☆ Elon Musk calls Twitter's 'official' labels an 'aesthetic nightmare' and says they create a two-class system
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has called Twitter's gray "official" labels an "aesthetic nightmare." The labels were rolled out on Wednesday to some public figures and news organizations. In a confusing rollout, the "official" labels appeared on the Twitter accounts of some public figures and news organizations. Later in the day, he called them an "aesthetic nightmare" during a Twitter Space conversation. During Wednesday's Twitter Space, Musk said: "Apart from being an aesthetic nightmare when looking at the Twitter feed, is that it was simply another way of creating a two-class system."

☆ Twitter Launches Gray ‘Official’ Label to Verify Certain Accounts
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Joseph De Avila | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Twitter is launching a new ‘official’ label for accounts of governments, companies, major media outlets and others. Twitter Inc. is launching a new, gray “official” label that will indicate whether the social-media company has verified the authenticity of an account, the latest development in the platform’s verification process under new owner Elon Musk. Accounts that will receive an official label include those of governments, companies, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures, said Esther Crawford , director of product management at Twitter, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Less than 24 hours after implementing new gray "official" checkmark tags to some prominent Twitter accounts, platform owner Elon Musk has decided to remove them. But by noon on Wednesday, Musk tweeted to a user that he had decided to “kill” those checkmarks. The "official" checkmarks quickly disappeared. Crawford then clarified that the "official" checkmarks would still be used in the future but that they would be initially focused on adding them to "government and commercial entities." “Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months,” Musk tweeted Wednesday.

☆ Elon Musk reverses course, kills new 'official' designation for big-name tweeters
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In his latest series of changes to Twitter's verification system, Twitter owner Elon Musk said he has already "killed" the new "official" designation Wednesday that had started rolling out for some of the platform's biggest names earlier in the day. Some originally verified accounts would sport an "official" label, Crawford said, while any user who pays $7.99 per month for Twitter Blue, the company's subscription product, would sport a blue check mark. Musk himself has benefited from having the Twitter verification check mark. In a tweet Wednesday, Musk wrote, "Blue check will be the greatest leveler." Under Musk's direction, the new Twitter Blue check mark will instead work as a paying subscriber badge that the company nonetheless plans to call "verification."

☆ Twitter will distinguish 'verified' Twitter Blue accounts from 'official' accounts with different colored check marks, product manager says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter will distinguish between Twitter Blue "verified" accounts and "official" accounts with different check marks. Not all verified accounts will get an "Official" label, which is not available for purchase, Crawford said. The change has not yet been made to the current Twitter profile, as the Twitter Blue changes are set to roll out on November 9. "Not all previously verified accounts will get the "Official" label and the label is not available for purchase," Crawford added. "Accounts that will receive it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures."

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