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☆ I quit drinking coffee for 4 weeks. My hands stopped shaking and my skin cleared — here's how I coped with withdrawal and what I drank instead.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Julia Poggensee | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I love a cappuccino or a black coffee in the morning, and I have long drank one to two cups of coffee a day. Once I started, it wasn't long before I started to get big cravings for it in the afternoons. Black tea, Club-Mate, maté tea, and matcha tea are also good coffee alternatives that still contain some caffeine if you're just looking to cut down rather than give it up. I felt better in the long runAfter one to two weeks without drinking coffee, I felt awake and was highly productive. For those who are set on giving it up, the most important thing is to find a good alternative.

☆ ABB takes valid detour around hairy IPO markets
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The deal, which values ABB E-mobility’s equity at 2.5 billion Swiss francs, is a halfway house after original plans for an initial public offering were delayed by volatile markets. The deal values the unit at around 3 times 2023 sales, assuming far-from-impossible 50% revenue growth this year and next. The charging division gets long-term investors, a beefed-up board and greater independence, making an IPO easier when markets recover. ABB meanwhile continues to streamline its operations to focus on the core fast-growing areas of electrification and automation. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

☆ Italy’s Meloni will dodge EU collision on budget
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MILAN, Nov 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rightist Italian premier Giorgia Meloni will avoid a fiscal row with Brussels. Her first ever draft budget, to be discussed on Monday, targets a deficit of 4.5% of GDP in 2023. The bulk of Italy’s extra borrowing will go to fight the energy crisis, which has cost Rome 75 billion euros this year. Both measures are nowhere near the outlandish promises Meloni and her allies made before the elections. Rome will also limit the budget impact by cutting a popular welfare scheme by perhaps 1 billion euros and by extending a windfall tax for energy companies.

☆ Messy money manager merger goes from bad to worse
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, Nov 21 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rob Adams must be wishing he could turn the clock back eight months. That’s when the boss of Australian fund management icon Perpetual (PPT.AX) was readying his first tilt for rival Pendal (PDL.AX). Whatever lies behind Paul Skamvougeras’ decision to quit as Perpetual’s Head of Equities, losing a key executive right on the eve of a merger is awkward. And shareholders remain unconvinced the Pendal deal is a certainty as its stock trades 11% below the offer price. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

☆ Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania Sen.-elect John Fetterman, blasts right-wing 'hate' of her and other 'strong women'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Gisele Fetterman, wife of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman, speaks to supporters after her husband’s win in the Pennsylvania Primary election at a watch party in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. The wife of U.S. Sen.-elect John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said right-wing misogyny is fueling personal attacks on her by conservative news outlets and on social media. "The right-wing hates women," Gisele Fetterman told The New Republic magazine in a new interview. "They especially hate strong women, and I think that's what you're seeing," said Fetterman, whose Democratic husband currently is Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor. Gisele Fetterman has become her husband's spokesperson since he suffered a stroke in May.

☆ Green Day Produce recalls enoki mushroom packages due to possible health risk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Mallika Kallingal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Green Day Produce is recalling its enoki mushroom packages sold between September and October because they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes – the bacteria that causes Listeria infections, according to a statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. The enoki mushrooms, a product of Korea, were packed in 7.05 oz clear plastic and distributed nationwide to distributors and retail stores. Although no illnesses have been reported so far, the product is no longer being distributed, the company said in the statement. Listeria is a serious infection and can sometimes be fatal in young children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. An estimated 1,600 people get Listeria infections each year, and about 260 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Although prominent election deniers in critical battleground states lost at the polls, their movement has had far-reaching impact. In reality, the livestream app suffered a glitch that caused the cameras to stop working, county officials said in a statement after investigating the blackout. IN ARIZONA, BOOSTING SECURITYIn Arizona's Maricopa County, election officials strengthened doors, added shatterproof film on windows and stationed a security guard in the ballot-counting room. In Georgia's Gwinnett County, which includes part of the greater Atlanta area, election officials held planning meetings with local law enforcement to beef up security, Elections Supervisor Zach Manifold told Reuters. The plan included keeping sheriff's officers on site for longer to ensure election staff felt safe, he said.

☆ BHP, World’s Top Miner, Nears Biggest Acquisition in a Decade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BHP runs the large Olympic Dam copper mine in South Australia and predicts that demand for copper will double in the next three decades. ADELAIDE, Australia— BHP Group Ltd. raised its offer for OZ Minerals Ltd. to value the Australian miner at $6.34 billion, as it seeks to produce more copper and nickel needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar farms. OZ Minerals said it intends to recommend shareholders vote in favor of BHP’s revised offer of 28.25 Australian dollars, the equivalent of about $18.90, a share. A completed deal would represent BHP’s largest acquisition since 2011 when it bought Petrohawk Energy Corp. for more than $12 billion.

☆ Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt welcome second child
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Heidi Montag Pratt and husband Spencer Pratt have welcomed their second child. “The Hills” couple introduced their new baby boy on Thursday, with Montag posting to Snapchat from the hospital. Earlier, Montag had posted herself doing breathing exercises and rubbing her baby bump as Pratt drove her to the hospital. Oh yeah, definitely gonna have this baby very quickly. “I have been hoping and praying for this moment for so long!” Montag said on social media at the time.

☆ Rio swaps wild goose chase for white-knuckle ride
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rio Tinto’s (RIO.L) tortuous quest to buy out minorities in Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ.TO) just got even worse. Now a side deal to remove Pentwater Capital Management and SailingStone Capital Partners from the deciding vote has fallen apart. Rio needs Turquoise Hill, which controls two-thirds of Mongolian mega-mine Oyu Tolgoi, to ensure a tighter grip on one of its key growth projects. But to win the vote it needs a simple majority of the minorities, and Pentwater and SailingStone have over 30% already. Hence the attempted side deal, which would have outsourced the valuation of the two minorities’ stakes to an arbitration process.

☆ Ticketmaster shares spotlight with Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Ticketmaster has a pretty bad seat for the Taylor Swift show. It also risks tempting Swift to turn the spotlight on Ticketmaster. In 2010, U.S. trustbusters allowed Ticketmaster to merge with Live Nation and create one of the largest event businesses in the world. Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen tried unsuccessfully to weaken Ticketmaster, but Swift might be able to move the needle. Taylor Swift and Uncle Sam would be a formidable duo.

☆ BHP’s shinier $6 bln OZ bid stays within reality
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, Nov 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - BHP (BHP.AX) boss Mike Henry’s apparent nonchalance about buying OZ Minerals (OZL.AX) always smacked of play-acting. No sooner had the metals miner rejected its larger rival’s A$8.3 billion ($5.8 billion) all-cash overture in August than Henry was fobbing it off as a “nice-to-have, not a must-have” business. Yet on Friday, the target disclosed BHP recently upped its offer 13%, and says it will agree in principle to the revised bid. Henry is now dangling a 49% premium to OZ’s undisturbed share price. Cutting around a third of OZ’s annual expenses would, taxed and capitalised, cover the A$3.1 billion premium.

As Republicans across the country saw their predictions of commanding victories up and down the ballot fall short on election night, Democrats in Pennsylvania were celebrating signs of a blue wave. Spencer Platt / Getty Images fileMany state Republicans said it’s no surprise that the strategy worked. “I think Republicans are going to be very demoralized here,” one Republican who worked on a Pennsylvania campaign, said in an interview. But while Oz struggled to overcome questions about his residency, Democrats and Republicans both said the election was driven by the Shapiro-Mastriano dynamic. “To have a wave, you not only have to have the initial motion, but you have to have the driver.

☆ Here's how to get a free reusable red cup at Starbucks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

You can get a free reusable holiday cup at Starbucks on November 17. The red cups come with any size holiday drink order while supplies last. You're eligible to receive the cup any way you order, including mobile orders and delivery, but only while supplies last. If you order multiple drinks, you can get multiple red cups, Starbucks said. This is the fifth year Starbucks has offered the reusable cup promotion, and this year's version is 16 oz and made of 50% recycled materials.

☆ Starbucks employees at more than 100 stores are on strike during one of the chain's busiest days of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Over 1,000 Starbucks workers are striking for the chain's Red Cup Day. More than 1,000 workers are on strike at 111 stores across 23 states, according to the union, Starbucks Workers United. The collective action is to protest "short staffing and the company's failure to bargain with union stores," the union said in a press release. Striking workers are picketing outside Starbucks stores and giving away Starbucks Workers United-branded cups. Starbucks workers unitedWorkers are also giving out fliers to passersby asking them to sign an online pledge in support.

☆ Republicans win U.S. House majority, setting stage for divided government
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/3] House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters after McCarthy was nominated by fellow Republicans to be their leader or the Speaker of the House if they take control in the next Congress, following House Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoyWASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Republicans were projected to win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden's Democratic Party held control of the Senate. Even though the expected "red wave" of House Republicans never reached shore, conservatives are sticking to their agenda. The 2024 election will immediately influence many of the legislative decisions House Republicans pursue as they flex their muscles with a new-found majority, however narrow. House Republican Leader McCarthy on Tuesday won the support of a majority of his caucus to run for the powerful position to succeed Nancy Pelosi.

Those were among the driving questions leading up to the midterm elections about Latino voters. Latino voters have long had themes attached to them for elections. Greg Abbott, who declared he would get more than half of Texas' Hispanic vote, finished with 40 percent, 2 percent less than in his last election. That helped create a "bridge opportunity" with Latino voters, said Sanchez, also a University of New Mexico political science professor. George W. Bush was elected with 35% of the Latino vote and did even better in getting re-elected with 40% of the Latino vote.

☆ Fact Check-Mail-in and absentee ballot numbers in Pennsylvania counties do not prove ‘cheating’ or election fraud in the state
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Mail-in and absentee ballot numbers in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County and Philadelphia County have been misleadingly portrayed as proof of Democrats committing election fraud by social media users. They falsely claim that more Democrats requesting to vote by mail in Allegheny County than in Philadelphia County, despite there being more registered Democrats in Philadelphia County, is evidence of “cheating”. In both 2016 and 2018 Allegheny County had more mail in requests overall than Philadelphia County did. Reuters was unable to determine the reason for higher mail in voting in Allegheny County in 2016 and 2018. Of those, Democrat voters in Philadelphia requested 368,940 mail-in ballots while Allegheny received 288,044 applications by Democrat voters.

☆ Fact Check-Most Democrat wins for U.S. Senate races were called by Nov. 9; Dems did not ‘only’ win in states with mail in voting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For the midterm election on Nov. 8, there were 35 states that had Senate races. Delays were seen in Arizona and Nevada, where the Senate races were called for Democrats on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 respectively. All four projected Democrat wins for the Senate races on election night, after the polls closed. In Illinois and Maryland, known as “Solid Democratic” states, the Senate race was called on election day. Only two of 14 U.S. Senate races resulting in Democrat wins in states that allow mail-in voting were not called by Nov 9.

☆ Police chief in Pennsylvania 'shocked' he wasn't stiffed by Donald Trump on a bill for rally security
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Wilkes-Barre Township Police Chief Will Clark had low expectations when billed Donald Trump's political action committee. Clark's own department in Pennsylvania still has an unpaid bill for extra security at a "Make America Great Again Rally," back in 2018. Along with the Trump campaign, Clark also tried sending the bill to the Republican National Committee and Lou Barletta, the Trump-endorsed former Pennsylvania congressman who failed to oust Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in that race. To date, there's only one other known instance of late — also unexplained — where the Trump campaign paid some of the money it owed a municipal government. In this case, it was the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, for a 2020 campaign event that then-Vice President Mike Pence headlined.

☆ Mitch McConnell laments that there's no stopping Trump from inserting himself into Georgia's Senate race but says the runoff gives Republicans 'another chance to get it right'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Warren Rojas | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mitch McConnell called Georgia's Senate runoff a second chance to still win a seat. McConnell said he can't keep Trump from messing with Georgia politics like he did in 2021. But the Kentucky Republican is less enthused about having to try and keep embattled former President Donald Trump from derailing things, again. These days, Trump is combating multiple investigations and taking heat from Republicans like McConnell who blame him for the GOP's poor showing in the 2022 midterm elections. The Senate majority that GOP leaders saw within reach eventually fizzled, as candidates like Blake Masters of Arizona and Mehmet Oz of Pennsylvania faltered in critical suburban areas and received tepid support from independents.

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he's running for president again in 2024. Trump's 2024 campaign comes as he faces escalating federal and state criminal investigations. Trump cast himself as the lone panacea to a long list of ills on a "quest to save our country." Supporters wait for the arrival of former President Donald Trump during an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Grover Cleveland, of the National Democratic Party, was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in the White House.

☆ Adam Laxalt concedes in Nevada race that tipped the balance of the Senate
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general who called the 2020 presidential election “rigged,” conceded his loss on Tuesday in a contest that tipped the balance of the Senate to Democrats. The concession comes days after multiple news outlets on Saturday, including NBC News, had declared his opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the winner. The race margin was razor-thin, with the latest tally showing Cortez Masto with 48.8 percent of the vote and Laxalt with 48 percent. In the end, Cortez Masto eked out the win by vastly outperforming Laxalt in mail-in ballots. Laxalt noted Cortez Masto and allies spent a "staggering" amount of money against him and he still came within half a percentage point of victory.

☆ Fact Check-John Fetterman did not receive more than half of votes by mail, contrary to claims online
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

They falsely claimed that more than half of votes for Fetterman were from mail-in ballots. The posts echo a false narrative previously debunked by Reuters that mail-in ballots lead to widespread voter fraud, (here), (here). Meanwhile, Reuters calculated that 65.04% of votes for Fetterman were from in-person ballots cast on election day (1,756,951 election day votes divided by 2,701,191 total votes). It is unclear where social media users sourced the percentage of votes by mail for Fetterman to be 52%. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State’s election results, mail-in ballots did not account for 52% of John Fetterman’s total votes.

“Personalities come and go,” said Dave Ball, the GOP chair in Pennsylvania’s Washington County, who has supported and defended Trump. Trump is preparing to do just that, with a Tuesday announcement expected at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In Illinois, Republicans had threatened to take two state Supreme Court seats and flip state Senate and House seats. In Pennsylvania, GOP leaders had hoped to at least hold on to the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey. Trump lost the state by narrow margins in 2016 and 2020.

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