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“It’s incredible,” Payton II told NBC News. One might be Payton II, the son of longtime Seattle SuperSonics star Gary Payton, a member of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. Golden State faced Los Angeles twice in the preseason, and Payton II made sure to go over to the younger James pregame to offer a few words of advice. Rarely do players with those statistics get drafted by an NBA team, but the Lakers took Bronny in the second round with the 55th overall pick. That idea of feeling undeserving is something Payton II experienced growing up.

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☆ How Liz Cheney tried to give GOP women permission to vote for Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Republican women can vote for Kamala Harris — and they don’t need to tell anyone about it. Such voters need to be approached gently since she’s asking dissident Republican voters to shelve some of their most cherished political positions. Cheney’s appearances with Harris came as the vice president seeks to further widen a massive gender gap with the ex-president among women voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll this month showed Harris leading women voters by 56% to 40% over Trump. Trump’s struggles with women votersHarris’ events with Cheney raised the question of just how many Republican voters might be in reach for her.

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☆ What to watch this weekend
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

As the temperatures drop, you may want to stay closer to home or at the very least indoors. In addition to directing the film, Kendrick stars as Cheryl Bradshaw, who appeared as a bachelorette in an episode of “The Dating Game” in 1978, where she crossed paths with the murderer. “Smile 2”Naomi Scott stars in "Smile 2." “Goodrich”Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis in “Goodrich” Stay Gold FeaturesMichael Keaton is in for a good weekend. Jennifer Rose Clasen/HBOIf you don’t know about the phenomena of “Florida Man,” get thee to a search engine.

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☆ Despite Trump’s embrace of Orbán, Senate Republicans sound alarms over Hungary’s democratic backsliding
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Morgan Rimmer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN —If there is one area where senior Senate Republicans have chosen to break with former President Donald Trump, it is his embrace of Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He added, “Hungary also continues to disregard the concerns raised by its allies and partners about deepening its ties with China. Orbán has endorsed Trump, and Trump has touted the prime minister’s backing, even noting it during September’s presidential debate. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina restarted the U.S. Senate NATO Observer Group in 2018, co-chairing the group alongside Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. This led Tillis and Shaheen to introduce a Senate resolution condemning Hungary’s democratic backsliding and its delay in allowing Sweden to join the alliance.

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Nonfarm payrolls added 254,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, down 0.1 percentage points. "It was a very good report across every indicator in there," said Aaron Sojourner, a senior researcher at the W.E. As they barnstorm across battleground states, Harris and Trump paint dueling pictures of the U.S. labor market. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesThe jobs report adds to a flurry of good economic news in recent weeks, with metrics that could potentially amount to the best economic upswing in decades. Following the jobs report blowout, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed out last week at a fresh all-time high of 42,352.75.

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Hanging over all of this for Charbel — as well as the relatively small contingent of Israeli critics of the escalation with Hezbollah — is the fear that history will repeat itself. Israeli invasions in both 1982 and 2006 became more expansive and deadly than how they had been initially framed. 'Strategic failure'Israel’s ground operation was met with a new wave of international concern and condemnation. But the Biden administration remains concerned the mission could expand, the administration official said. Thousands of Israeli troops and tanks crossed the border, culminating in a deadly siege of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Persons: —, Michael A, Horowitz, Israel, Biden Organizations: Le Beck, NBC News, London School of Economics, National Security, Palestine Liberation Organization, Lebanese Christian Locations: States, Washington, Israel, Lebanon, Cairo, Beirut, Sabra

☆ Dikembe Mutombo: Basketball Hall of Famer dies from brain cancer at 58
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( David Close | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo – known for his shot-blocking and famed finger wave after denying opponents at the hoop – died Monday from brain cancer aged 58, according to the NBA. Dikembe Mutombo wags his finger during a game in Atlanta in 1998. In 1997, Mutombo established the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation with a mission to improve education and quality of life in his native DRC. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a statement, saying, “Dikembe Mutombo was simply larger than life. Dikembe Mutombo, playing for the Houston Rockets, blocks a shot during a game in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 2004.

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☆ Trump hawks $100,000 watches as he leverages his candidacy for profit
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Steve Contorno | Alejandra Jaramillo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The GOP nominee announced his latest branded merchandise, Trump Watches, on social media Thursday – 40 days before the election and on a day when he did not appear on the campaign trail. A disclaimer on the website discloses that neither Trump nor his company designed, manufactured, distributed or sold the watches. Rather, a company named “TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC” licensed the Trump name to sell the line of wrist watches. This week, he also launched “Trump Coins” – a 1oz .999% silver medallion with the former president’s face on one side and his signature on the White House on the back. Like the watches, the Trump Coins are the result of another licensing deal.

Persons: Donald Trump, hawking, ” Trump, Trump, Donald Trump Jr, “, Kamala Harris, Steve Witkoff Organizations: CNN, GOP, Trump, Truth, “ Trump, White, Trump Coins, Mar

☆ Putin reveals new rules on nuclear weapons in Russia's latest warning to the West
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin at an expanded Prosecutor General's Office meeting on March 26, 2024, in Moscow. In opening remarks before a meeting with senior officials on Russia's nuclear deterrence on Wednesday, which were released by the Kremlin and translated by NBC News, Putin said that "a number of clarifications ... defining the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons" are being made to the document that defines Russia's nuclear doctrine. Russia's latest comments on changing its nuclear doctrine are not a surprise — Moscow has hinted for months that it was making changes to its official stance on the use of nuclear weapons. In its 2020 policy, Russia nonetheless described nuclear weapons as "a means of deterrence," the use of which would be "an extreme and necessary measure." Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko shake hands during a press briefing following their talks in Minsk, Belarus, May 24, 2024.

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☆ Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

MOSCOW Reuters —President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack. The 71-year-old Kremlin chief, the primary decision-maker on Russia’s vast nuclear arsenal, said he wanted to underscore one key change in particular. Russia reserved the right to also use nuclear weapons if it or ally Belarus were the subject of aggression, including by conventional weapons, Putin said. Putin said the clarifications were carefully calibrated and commensurate with the modern military threats facing Russia – confirmation that the nuclear doctrine was changing. Russia’s current published nuclear doctrine, set out in a 2020 decree by Putin, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.

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The Spurs' majority owner is Peter Holt, managing partner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which also operates the team's arena, the Frost Bank Center. Last May, Viera bought a 5% stake in the Spurs for an undisclosed enterprise value. Partial team owners can get major discounts when they buy small pieces of teams that give them less control over decisions. Businessman Paul Viera is increasing his stake in the San Antonio Spurs from 5% to 11%, CNBC has learned, as NBA valuations climb and make teams more attractive assets for investors. NBA teams are hot assets thanks in large part to the league's new $76 billion, 11-year media deal.

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday are expected to derail their own plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, with the party divided over the length of a short-term funding bill and what, if anything, should be attached to it. Democrats, who want a “clean” three-month funding patch with nothing attached, and nearly all plan to vote no. But the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file Republicans back Johnson’s move, saying holding the vote will put lawmakers on record. Everyone.”Davidson, who was ousted in July from the far-right House Freedom Caucus, lamented that Republicans have failed to unify behind a plan weeks before the election. That would buy time for bipartisan negotiators to strike a longer-term funding deal during the lame-duck session for fiscal year 2025 — if a short-term bill can pass the House.

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☆ History says these 5 sectors are poised for double-digit gains within a year after the Fed cuts rates
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As expected, the Fed has been coy about cuts, leaving markets torn between pricing in a 25- or 50-basis-point reduction. "In cycles where rate cuts were able to prolong economic expansion and keep corporate earnings on an upward trend, stocks performed quite well," Belski wrote in a mid-September note. AdvertisementWhile rate cuts aren't a cure-all, Belski is confident that the economic expansion will continue, which will keep this bull market on firm footing. "But with significantly strong trailing one-year performance headed into this initial rate cut, future gains are likely to be more muted relative to historical norms." Sectors poised to outperform as the Fed finally cuts ratesAfter outlining how US stocks broadly have fared following cuts in the last four decades, BMO shared relative sector performance before and after periods of rate declines.

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Following Donald Trump’s lead, Johnson has tied a six-month funding bill to the SAVE Act, which would overhaul voting laws to require people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Democrats and some Republicans are pushing for a “clean” funding bill that would keep the government open until December, after the election. The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1 unless Republicans and Democrats strike a deal to extend funding. Because of their miniscule majority, House Republicans can only afford four GOP defections if all lawmakers vote. “I’m a firm NO on bankrupting the nation and a YES on election integrity,” Mills said.

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☆ European Central Bank set to cut interest rates just days before the Fed's big decision
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Annette Weisbach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, at the ECB And Its Watchers conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 20, 2024. Traders are widely anticipating an interest rate cut at the Federal Reserve's Sept. 17-18 meeting, as well as at the ECB's meeting this week. "The rate cut this Thursday should be largely uncontroversial," Holger Schmieding, the chief economist at Berenberg Bank, told CNBC in an email to clients. In July, the ECB left interest rates unchanged in a unanimous vote following June's landmark cut. The ECB's key interest rate — which helps to price all sorts of loans and mortgages across the bloc — is currently at 3.75% after years of aggressive hikes.

Persons: Christine Lagarde, Holger Schmieding, Joachim Nagel, Anatoli Annenkov, what's Organizations: European Central Bank, ECB, Bloomberg, Getty, FRANKFURT, U.S . Federal Reserve, Federal, Berenberg Bank, CNBC, ECB Council, —, Bank Locations: Frankfurt, Germany, Société, Ljubljana, Slovenia

☆ Burned and uninsured: Wildfires are leaving California’s housing market in trouble
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-18 | by ( Shania Baweja | Taylor Galgano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

That’s made home insurance increasingly unaffordable or even inaccessible – and that’s leaving more people in the same position as the Daneaus. California’s largest insurer, State Farm, requested a 30% rate increase for its homeowner’s line last month. Last year, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara reached an agreement with insurers with an aim to cover approximately 85% of properties in high-risk areas. “[My insurance plan] wasn’t canceled but my insurance company increased the rates quite a bit,” she said. But he cautioned there’s no guarantee of that, leaving homeowners like the Daneaus grappling with uncertainty.

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☆ 37-year-old mom earns $73,000 in one of the most in-demand jobs in the world—and it doesn't require a degree: 'I love what I do'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Morgan Smith Mickey Todiwala | Morgan Smith | Mickey Todiwala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Jackson, 37, is a technician at Vestas, a wind turbine manufacturer, in Bee County, Texas, and earns $73,000 per year. The Labor Department reports that wind turbine service technicians have one of the highest rates of injury and illness of all occupations. Here's how Jackson earns $73,000 a year as a wind turbine service technician in Texas. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItWhile you don't need a bachelor's degree to become a wind turbine service technician, some jobs might require you to complete a 2-year technical program or apprenticeship. "The wind turbines are smart, they're basically computers and constantly communicating to us what is going on with them."

Persons: Jessica Jackson, —, Jackson, It's, Jackson's, Mickey Todiwala, Vestas, She's Organizations: CNBC, The Labor Department, University of Arizona, Blattner Energy, Blattner Locations: Jackson, Bee County , Texas, U.S, Texas, Vestas

☆ Taiwan under pressure to bolster its defense as Trump-Harris presidential race stokes policy concerns
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Dylan Butts | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te claps while he visits a military camp in Taoyuan, Taiwan May 23, 2024. While Biden has, on several occasions, stated the U.S. would come to Taiwan's defense, Trump has opted for "strategic ambiguity," Naggy added. According to analysts, she is expected to remain somewhat consistent with Biden's agenda and foreign policy. As vice president, Harris has expressed support for Taiwan and met with the island's new leader, Lai Ching-te, in 2022. However, she would come into office with significantly less foreign policy experience than President Biden.

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☆ What to watch at Olympics today: Simone Biles is back, LeBron James and Team USA face Serbia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Alex Andrejev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Later, the U.S. men’s basketball team, led by LeBron James, plays Serbia and Nikola Jokić in a matchup of top NBA talent. (Russia — the defending champion in both the men’s and women’s team all-around — is banned from participating in team sports at the Paris Olympics.) The women’s team final is set for 12:15 p.m. One more thing: Durant — a three-time Olympic gold medalist — might finally play after a calf injury sidelined him through the team’s summer exhibitions. The U.S. women’s team wraps up group play with Australia on Wednesday.

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☆ Xi wants the world to know China's military is totally loyal despite the purges
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

China's military is loyal and will faithfully execute the policies set down by the Communist Party. In June, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping reminded the Central Military Commission — the country's top political-military body — that the military reports to the Communist Party. "Xi stressed that political work is always the lifeline of the country's military. "Xi stresses PLA's political loyalty at crucial meeting held in old revolutionary base," read the Global Times headline. Beyond military corruption, Xi also is concerned about what he sees as decadence in Chinese society — especially among young people — which is undermining Chinese military power.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Xi, Mei, he'd, he's, Stalin, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Communist Party, Central Military Commission, Global Times, Business, Party, Times, People's Liberation Army, PLA, RAND Corp, Taiwan, PLA Rocket Force, CMC, Soviet Union, Political, Red Army, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: China, US, China —, Germany, Soviet Union, Forbes

☆ BOJ to weigh rate hike next week, detail plan to halve bond buying, Reuters reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The flag of Japan flutters at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2023. The Bank of Japan is likely to debate whether to raise interest rates when it meets next week and unveil a plan to roughly halve bond purchases in coming years, sources said, signaling its resolve to steadily unwind its massive monetary stimulus. "The decision will be a close call and a hard one to make," given uncertainty over the consumption outlook, one of the sources said. "It's really a judgment call, in terms of whether to act now or later this year," another person said. While the nine-member board broadly agrees on the need for a near-term rate hike, there is no consensus on whether it should happen next week or later in the year, they said.

Organizations: Bank of Japan, The Bank of, Reuters Locations: Japan, Tokyo, The Bank of Japan

☆ Vance’s selection solidifies Trump’s hold over the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

It’s just a decisive move toward America First on foreign policy.”Trump’s selection of Vance is one of the clearest barometers of the former president’s tightening hold over the GOP. Those included Christian conservatives, the business community, congressional insiders and traditional Republican foreign policy hawks shaped by Ronald Reagan’s vision of the US as the muscular leader of the free world. Instead, with Vance, Trump chose an acolyte and potential successor who could deepen and extend the direction the former president has set for the party. Vance has been most unequivocal in criticizing the internationalist approach to foreign policy centered on robust alliances. With the selection of Vance, Trump has broadcast his belief that he has conclusively won the internal GOP debate over all aspects of US interactions with the world – foreign policy, immigration and trade.

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☆ Men’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics: NBA player list, how to watch and Team USA’s top threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Mike Prada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

The 2024 men’s Olympic basketball tournament at the Paris Games is overflowing with star power — and not just from Team USA. Even South Sudan, the lowest-ranked team in the tournament, proved its mettle by nearly upsetting Team USA in a tune-up matchup last weekend. White was a member of the 2019 FIBA World Cup team, while Edwards and Haliburton made their debuts at the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Twenty-seven of the 30 NBA teams will have at least one player participating in this tournament. Can Team USA do it again in 2024?

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☆ Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer: Market is on solid footing, and economic data is allowing the Fed to ease
▼ + 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 EmailFidelity's Jurrien Timmer: Market is on solid footing, and economic data is allowing the Fed to easeJurrien Timmer, Fidelity Investments director of global macro, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss how news this week will impact markets, whether inflation hawks are beginning to let their guard down, and more.

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☆ The war in Ukraine has 'opened Pandora's box' in Europe, and now new strike weapons are on the way, nuclear weapons expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The impact of these deep strikes has been eye-opening for Europe and the US, opening "Pandora's box" for more of these capabilities, a nuclear weapons and arms control expert told Business Insider. The conventional weapons include SM-6, Tomahawk, and developmental hypersonic weapons, "which have significantly longer range than current land-based fires in Europe." "The war in Ukraine shows that long-range strikes are a key issue for the defense of Europe," Lecornu posted on X. "These countries knew that long-range weapons were important even before Russia invaded Ukraine, but Russia's war in Ukraine has opened Pandora's Box to more and more military steps," explained Hans Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jonathan WordPoland, Germany, France, and Italy's new long-range missile plans follow work in the US to quickly develop new long-range strike systems.

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