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☆ ‘Kinds of Kindness:’ Playing a sex cult leader, Willem Dafoe dons a pair of bright orange Speedos
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Caitlin Chatterton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In the first, “The Death of R.M.F.,” Jesse Plemons plays Robert, the hapless puppet of his boss Raymond (Willem Dafoe). Eats a Sandwich,” Stone and a now-shaven headed Plemons are the disciples of a purity cult led by Dafoe, tasked with locating someone able to revive the dead. Emma Stone plays three characters across three stories in Yorgos Lanthimos's "Kinds of Kindness," and her wardrobe journey reflects that. “Willem is such a great example: you are a CEO, and then you’re (Stone’s) father, and now you’re a leader of a sex cult. Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight PicturesIn the third chapter Dafoe plays a cult leader, freed from Raymond’s designer suits and instead sporting little else besides eyeliner and orange Speedos.

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☆ The most immediate threat to China's economy isn't external. It's internal.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

China's economy faces immediate internal challenges, with weak demand dragging on production. Two recent gauges of China's manufacturing activity point to strong export demand amid weak domestic sentiment. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Instead, China's sluggish internal domestic demand appears to be a more pressing issue. In June, China's official Purchasing Managers' Index — which represents larger companies and state-owned enterprises — contracted for the second straight month.

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☆ The Biden campaign is celebrating the wins they can get and touting the $33 million in donations they managed to rake in post-debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden campaign said it raised $33 million after the first presidential debate of the year. The campaign said that half of the funds raised came from first time donors. The spike in donations provides some relief for Biden who is facing growing calls to step aside. AdvertisementSupporters of President Joe Biden may have been unnerved by his bad performance at Thursday's presidential debate, but that didn't seem to hinder his campaign's fundraising efforts. "$33 million raised since the debate, $26 million from grassroots donors," Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said in an X post on Sunday.

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☆ Gen Z and millennials are going into debt to travel this summer. Remote working may be partly to blame.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Forbes Advisor survey of 1,000 Americans who plan to travel in 2024 showed the post-pandemic "revenge travel" boom is in full force, despite rising inflation. The stats weren't surprising to Thomas, who told BI that this new trend could be partly attributed to the rise of remote work. Revenge travel and other loansIt's not just remote and hybrid working that may have contributed to a rise in travel spending. Travel experts previously told BI they had noticed an uptick in clients opting for luxury air travel experiences, from private jets to first-class and premium-class plane tickets. Thomas and financial expert Julie Beckham told BI that young people are likely to be influenced by peers who are showcasing their travel experiences online.

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☆ Mark Cuban's still betting on Biden after that disastrous debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden had a rough showing at the presidential debate on Thursday, but Mark Cuban says he'd still hire Biden to run his businesses instead of former President Donald Trump. Morgan asked Cuban if he would employ Biden to run any of his companies, after Cuban said he'd still vote for Biden in spite of that bad debate performance. But while Trump is "obviously a good salesperson," Cuban said that he didn't think he fared well on other fronts. Related stories"I don't know if he is a voracious reader and learner, but I have read about him discussing books he has read," Cuban added. AdvertisementRepresentatives for Biden and Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Lauren Boebert admits the shiny gold Trump sneakers she wore after her Colorado primary win were 'very China' counterfeits
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Lauren Boebert was seen sporting a pair of Trump sneakers at her election watch party last week. But the Colorado Republican said the flamboyant footwear she wore wasn't the real deal. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The Colorado Republican was seen sporting a pair of golden Trump sneakers at an election watch party on Tuesday. Boebert, who switched from Colorado's 3rd congressional District to the 4th congressional District, won the GOP primary for the constituency.

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☆ Elon Musk's now lauding Jensen Huang for having once cleaned toilets
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk is a fan of Jensen Huang's work ethic. Huang said he once worked for the breakfast chain Denny's, where he washed dishes and cleaned toilets. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementNvidia CEO Jensen Huang's indefatigable work ethic has helped turn the chip giant into one of the most valuable companies in the world. So it's perhaps no surprise that Huang's client and fellow billionaire, Elon Musk, is a fan of his management style.

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☆ Jon Stewart says Biden looked like he had 'resting 25th Amendment face' — that establishes processes in case of a president's death — at the debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden had a rough night at his first presidential debate of the year. Turns out "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart thinks the debate was a disaster for Biden too. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementJon Stewart has weighed in on Thursday's presidential debate and he thinks it was a disaster for President Joe Biden, 81, too. At one point in the debate, Biden misspoke while defending his accomplishments in healthcare policy, saying that his administration had "finally beat Medicare."

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☆ You can't kill Coach
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Mandy Moore carries a Coach bag in 2006. And with fewer people buying Coach bags, consumer ideas of the brand shifted. Keel, who purchased her first Coach accessory — a discounted cardholder from Coach Outlet — around that time, remembers the change in the brand's perception vividly. AdvertisementKate Bauer, a 29-year-old from Toronto, collects vintage Coach bags that she exclusively buys secondhand. She told BI that the importance of old Coach styles to the brand's current business has never been clearer.

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☆ Putin says Russia plans to 'comprehensively upgrade' its navy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia's navy is set to receive more than 40 vessels this year, Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Putin says Russia's naval upgrades will "drastically improve its combat potential." AdvertisementRussia has been working hard to bolster its naval capabilities, the country's leader Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "A lot has been done in this area, as our navy is getting new ships," Putin said during a meeting on shipbuilding issues, according to Russian state media outlet TASS. Russia's navy is set to receive more than 40 ships and boats this year, said Putin.

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☆ Jonathan van Ness breaks silence over claims they were abusive on 'Queer Eye.' Here's a complete timeline of the drama surrounding Bobby Berk's exit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Olivia Singh | Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The reboot, which premiered on the streamer in 2018, was initially hosted by Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Antoni Porowski. November 13, 2023: Bobby Berk reveals he's exiting 'Queer Eye' after 8 seasonsBobby Berk announced his exit from "Queer Eye" in 2023. AdvertisementHis full statement read:"To the Queer Eye Community who have become family to me. It's with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 will be my final season on Queer Eye. According to one source, Van Ness' temper would hit a boiling point at least once a week.

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☆ Amazon is trying to defend its kingdom against cheap Chinese rivals, and it thinks it has a plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Temu and Shein have been giving Amazon a run for their money with their ultra-low prices. But Amazon might just have a plan to fend them off — starting its own discount section. The Seattle-based giant is looking to ship a range of unbranded items directly from China to the US. That appears to be the gist of Amazon's new plan to fend off its Chinese rivals, Temu and Shein. According to the outlet, Amazon wants to ship a range of unbranded items directly from China to the US.

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☆ 'Highest return': Outperforming fund manager names the best ETFs to play India right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"Since India is a strong secular growth market, we would say the mid and small-cap [market] is the place to be. Against that backdrop, he named one ETF to play this small-cap corner of the market: the iShares MSCI India Small-Cap ETF . For investors who want to invest in large-cap stocks, he recommends the iShares MSCI India ETF . A third ETF that Jayaraman likes is the WisdomTree India Earnings Fund , which tracks an index that measures the performance of companies traded in India that are profitable. While both funds invest in emerging market stocks, the International Opportunities Fund also has stocks of companies in developed countries outside the United States.

Persons: Arjun Jayaraman, Jayaraman Organizations: CNBC, Markets Fund, International, Fund, U.S Locations: India, United States

☆ Inside Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy spending: $100 on pizza, $4 polyester ties, and 'deep bronze' tanning lotion
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

They also include quite a few Amazon purchases, including cheap ties and "deep bronze" tanning lotion. For the first time, Giuliani disclosed the financial details of Giuliani Communications, the company he owns that produces his video livestreams on social media. On a monthly basis, Giuliani Communications spends more money than it makes — even before the WABC cancellation. Earlier filings were compiled by Joseph Ricci, an accountant whose firm was paid $4,000 by Giuliani Communications in May. Ricci has since declined to work on the banruptcy, Giuliani's lawyers have said.

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☆ Why soccer players are demanding change to a calendar that has left them ‘at the limit’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

FIFPRO‘An industry-wide issue’European club teams are preparing for a revamped UEFA Champions League – the most prestigious competition in European club soccer – which will see teams play at least an additional two games. Manchester City hoist the Club World Cup trophy in December 2023. Conflict between national teams and clubs over minutes could arise, star players could see the field less and league structures would have to change. Over 40% of World Cup players surveyed by Football Benchmark said that they experienced extreme or increased mental fatigue after the tournament. Instead, it’s the calendar and consultation process that need to change for those in the game.

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☆ Chronic loneliness puts older adults at risk for stroke, study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

And it may impact your stroke risk, according to a new study. This suggests that the biggest impact on stroke risk occurs over the long term. People who scored high on the loneliness scale both times they were surveyed had a much higher risk of stroke, the study said. And that feeling of loneliness is what the study found to be correlated to the increased risk of stroke, Soh said. “Make it be known that you are experiencing feelings of loneliness, and also identify what would be helpful for you specifically to address the feelings of loneliness,” Soh said.

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☆ This 28-year-old fund consistently beats the S&P 500 — without megacap tech stocks. Here's its strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

One fund has a formula that has enabled it to consistently beat the S & P 500 : the Hennessy Cornerstone Growth Fund. The fund uses a formula-based strategy for investing, according to its portfolio managers Neil Hennessy, Ryan Kelley, and Joshua Wein. "We're trying to combine value with momentum and some growth," Kelley said. Stocks the fund owns Most of the stocks in the outperforming fund aren't actually in tech but in the industrials, consumer, financials and health-care sectors — because of the formula they use. It is the only name which survived in the recent rebalancing to the current batch of 50 stocks, said Wein.

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☆ Inside Elon Musk's burn book — the non-exhaustive list of billionaires he's fought with in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's ire this year has extended from Mark Zuckerberg to MacKenzie Scott. The mercurial billionaire has often fired insults and traded barbs at his contemporaries on X. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Elon, Mark Zuckerberg, MacKenzie Scott, Mark Cuban, —, Elon Musk, hasn't, Musk, BBC's James Clayton Organizations: Elon, Service, Business

☆ When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Eli Tan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Some changes to terms of service are as small as a few words. Others include the addition of entire sections to explain how generative A.I. models work, and the types of access they have to user data. Snap, for instance, warned its users not to share confidential information with its A.I. chatbot because it would be used in its training, and Meta alerted users in Europe that public posts on Facebook and Instagram would soon be used to train its large language model.

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☆ Elon Musk is reigniting his space feud with Jeff Bezos: 'Sue Origin'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Space barons Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have long had competing ambitions to take over the skies. Bezos' Blue Origin recently proposed a cap on SpaceX's launches due to environmental concerns. Musk slammed the move and gave the company a new moniker: "Sue Origin." AdvertisementJeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, thinks the FAA should cap SpaceX's launches — and Elon Musk isn't too pleased about it. Blue Origin recently expressed concerns over the environmental impacts of SpaceX's rocket launches on nearby facilities in a filing to the FAA, which the agency published on Friday.

Persons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Musk, Sue, —, Elon Musk isn't Organizations: Service, FAA, Elon, Business

☆ This stock is 'one of the cheapest ways' to play India's infrastructure boom, fund manager says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Causeway Capital Management's Arjun Jayaraman is bullish on one pure-play infrastructure stock: REC , a company which issues loans to power utilities and to other infrastructure. "It is one of the cheapest ways to play infrastructure," the portfolio manager told CNBC Pro Talks last week. Jayaraman manages Causeway's Emerging Markets Fund and International Opportunities Fund . Though he called the Indian market a "very strong growth story," he said he would focus on its small- to mid-cap segment. "Since India is a strong secular growth market, we would say the mid and small-cap [market] is the place to be.

Persons: Arjun Jayaraman, Jayaraman, Narendra Modi Organizations: Investments, CNBC, International, REC, Markets Fund, Fund Locations: India, bullish

☆ Elon Musk starts new beef with Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy, says the 'Star Wars' chief is 'more deadly than the Death Star'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It looks like Elon Musk isn't a fan of what Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has done with "Star Wars." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk doesn't like what Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has done with the Star Wars franchise. The Academy Award-winning film producer was appointed president of Lucasfilm after the company was acquired by Disney in 2012. But Kennedy's leadership of Lucasfilm has drawn a mixed reception from Star Wars fans.

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☆ Walmart says this store manager could earn half a million dollars this year — and he doesn't have a college degree
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Mustafa Tovi, 45, draws a base salary of $168,000 as a Walmart store manager. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMustafa Tovi, 45, has spent more than half his life working at Walmart and has no regrets building his career with the big-box retailer. The Walmart manager said his base salary was recently raised to $168,000, a 17% increase from his original base salary of $143,000 last year. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ World’s best airline for 2024 named by Skytrax
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Barry Neild | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

We look forward to more wins in the future.”Close-run contestSaudia was named by Skytrax as winner of the World's Most Improved Airline award. Singapore also won for Best First Class service and Best Airline in Asia. ANA, meanwhile, picked up the accolade for World’s Best Airport Services, as well as Best Airline Staff Service in Asia. Saudia was named World’s Most Improved Airline, beating Taiwan’s Starlux and Iceland’s Play into second and third places. Delta Air Lines was declared the Best Airline in North America, also picking up the award for Best Airline Staff Service for the region.

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☆ Unmarried Chinese women have found yet another way to get over the stigma of being single: Flee to the West and get another degree
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewSome single Chinese women — fatigued from the social stigma of being unmarried and childless — are opting to run away altogether. These women — mostly millennials in their mid to late 30s — are taking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu to talk about their great escape to the West. These women, per their accounts, are enrolled in higher education in countries like France, the UK, and the US. In these diary-style posts, the women talk about how higher education in the West has been their ticket to freedom. AdvertisementLeftover womenThere are several push factors that may be motivating more Chinese millennial women to seek greener pastures abroad.

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