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☆ Insider Today: Blackstone's holiday cheer
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. BlackstoneBlackstone released its annual holiday video for the seventh consecutive year, which might elicit the reaction: Why is a firm managing $1 trillion worried about holiday videos? In an industry full of super serious people doing super serious business for super serious clients, Blackstone's willing to make itself the butt of the joke. Jay Gillespie, the head of Blackstone's video team and one of the brains behind the holiday extravaganza, spoke to BI's Alex Nicoll about the evolution of his role at the firm. BlackRock CEO and cofounder Larry Fink made a cameo in Blackstone's holiday video this year: "Can you believe people confuse US for THEM?")

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☆ Bluesky's growing pains
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Kevin Collier | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

That led to an influx of copyright complaints, leaving Bluesky's slim moderation team to sift through which posts to keep and remove, said Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's head of trust and safety, in an interview. Rodericks said even as Bluesky has experienced growing pains, they're still not at the large scale seen on other major social media platforms. Most major social media platforms report much higher rates of CSAM. Disinformation researchers routinely identify account swarms, particularly pushing messages sympathetic to the Russian, Chinese and Iranian governments, on major social media platforms, although they rarely get significant traction. "All social media platforms are used by adversaries," Lisa Kaplan, the CEO of Alethea, a company that tracks coordinated online messaging and propaganda campaigns, told NBC News.

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☆ Violence by Prison Guards Rarely Punished by Federal Courts: BI Analysis
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Hannah Beckler | Nicole Einbinder | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

That's how one California prisoner's case failed before the District Court for the Eastern District of California. Cases against corrections officers run into another set of challenges under the doctrine of "qualified immunity." In prisons, BI has found, qualified immunity has also protected corrections officers who have been accused of excessive force. After losing at the district court level, McCoy appealed and got a rare finding from the judges of the 5th Circuit. AdvertisementOver the same five years in BI's sample, no federal judge found for the plaintiff in a single excessive-force claim filed by a California prisoner.

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☆ Dealing with my children's lies has been one of the most challenging parts of parenting for me
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Susan Solomon Yem | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It never ceases to amaze me how effortlessly my children lie. AdvertisementDealing with my children's lies has been one of the most challenging aspects of parenting. AdvertisementArreaza also told me kids tell three kinds of lies: attention-seeking ones, careless ones, and serious ones that happen when they're older. "Often teenagers tell lies because they're afraid of the consequences or they're embarrassed," Arreaza said. In modeling the truth for my children, I hope they understand they can always come clean to me.

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☆ Joe Manchin: West Virginia senator torches Democrats on the way out the door
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

For more on Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, watch CNN’s “Inside Politics with Manu Raju” at 8 a.m. “They have basically expanded upon thinking, ‘Well, we want to protect you there, but we’re going to tell you how you should live your life from that far on,’” Manchin added. Let anybody have anything they want,’” Manchin added. He added that during the Army-Navy football game last weekend, he told the president-elect, “I want to help any way I can.”“I want you to succeed,” Manchin said he told Trump. The senator added the third party would be called the “American Party” and would serve as a space for moderate Democrats and Republicans.

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☆ How much money does Mariah Carey make from 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'? 'It's a lot,' music expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Mariah Carey performs "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards. Jeff Kravitz | Filmmagic, Inc | Getty ImagesThe ecosystem of music royalties is notoriously convoluted. Carey and Afanasieff split their writing credits with publishers including Universal Music, Sony Music and Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, according to ASCAP. Afanasieff, Sony Music and Kobalt Songs Music Publishing didn't return requests for comment. All told, these estimates suggest Carey may have made about $2.7 million to $3.3 million from recording and publishing in 2022.

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☆ Ivanka Trump is done with politics and says she isn’t coming back
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

When Donald Trump was a real estate mogul, she was designing his next hotel. Ivanka Trump is done with politics and says she isn’t coming back. Ivanka Trump faced constant scrutiny and criticism for decisions made by her father that she was unable to wholly influence or moderate. Ivanka Trump, Theo Kushner, Jared Kushner and Joseph Kushner attend the funeral of Ivana Trump at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church on July 20, 2022 in New York City. Ivanka Trump exits the courtroom during a break in the civil fraud trial of her father, Donald Trump, at the State Supreme Court building in New York on November 8, 2023.

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☆ 1 big question this week: Was Friday's good news double a market turning point?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Wall Street bulls mounted a valiant effort and pushed the stock market sharply Friday on a double dose of encouraging news. There will be countless updates on inflation, rates, geopolitics, and more over the coming months, some of which we can see coming and some that will completely surprise us. Looking ahead, it will be a light week with the stock market closing at 1 p.m. ET: New home sales U.S. stock market closes at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, Dec. 25 U.S. stock market closed for Christman Day Thursday, Dec. 26 8:30 a.m.

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☆ Rickey Henderson, Major League Baseball's all-time base stealer, dies at 65
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Andrew Greif | Andrew Greif Is A Freelance Sports Journalist. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer in Major League Baseball history and one of the game’s most enduring players, has died, Major League Baseball confirmed Saturday. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred called Henderson the “gold standard of base stealing and leadoff hitting” in a statement Saturday that expressed the league’s condolences Saturday. In 2001 while playing for San Diego — one of the nine teams he played over a 25-year career — Henderson passed Babe Ruth as MLB’s all-time walks leader. A field near his high school, Oakland Tech, still bears Henderson’s name. “There was only one Rickey Henderson in baseball,” George Steinbrenner, the former Yankees owner, once said, according to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Persons: Rickey Henderson, Henderson, Rob Manfred, “ Rickey, “, Lou Brock’s, “ Lou Brock, ” Henderson, San Diego —, — Henderson, Babe Ruth, MLB’s, Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Henry Aaron, ” George Steinbrenner, Dave Winfield, Henderson’s, I’ve, ” Winfield Organizations: Major League Baseball, MLB, Athletics, Oakland Athletics, Oakland, Lou Brock’s MLB, San Diego, American League, Oakland Tech, Henderson, Boston, Yankees, Baseball Hall of Fame, Newark Bears, Dodgers Locations: Sacramento, Oakland, Calif, Toronto, Chicago

☆ Bans on transgender care for minors may complicate eating disorder treatment
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Liz Szabo | Liz Szabo Is An Independent Health | Science Journalist. Her Work Has Won Multiple National Awards. One Of Her Investigations Led To A New State Law In Virginia. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Restrictions on gender-affirming care proposed by Republicans in Congress and President-elect Donald Trump could be devastating for transgender youths, doctors say, especially for teens with eating disorders. Taking the hormones estrogen or testosterone, which many trans teens eventually receive, restores most of that bone loss. Additional restrictions could lead more kids to develop eating disorders and make it harder for people with eating disorders to recover, Menzel said. Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of the influential conservative group Moms for Liberty, dismisses gender-affirming care for minors as “child abuse” and “snake oil,” and she said her organization is working to ban gender-affirming care for minors in every state. Research shows such state bans on gender-affirming care heighten the stress and anxiety with which many trans people already live.

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WASHINGTON — A lengthy investigation by Senate Democrats into alleged ethical lapses by Supreme Court justices has ended with the release of a report Saturday criticizing the judiciary and calling for legislative reforms that incoming Republican leadership opposes. “The Supreme Court has mired itself in an ethical crisis of its own making by failing to address justices’ ethical misconduct for decades,” the report says. “An enforceable code of conduct for the Supreme Court is essential in light of the court’s failure to police itself,” the report says. In other findings, the report found justices are lax in identifying conflicts of interest that should trigger recusal. “This entire investigation was never about ‘ethics’ but about trying to undermine the Supreme Court because the Court is no longer acting like a super legislature handing down opinions implementing the Democrats’ political agenda,” he wrote.

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Less than a day after Trump named Kash Patel as his choice for FBI director, a former federal law enforcement official asked me a question: "curious if I'm on that list?" His definition of the 'deep state' appears to include the organization he hopes to lead. “One of the most cunning and powerful arms of the Deep State is the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” he wrote. “I have received calls from lifers who are putting in their papers,” said the former FBI official, who asked not to be named, citing fears of retaliation. Ultimately, he will fire the Attorney General and the FBI Director or force them out if they don’t do what he wants.”

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☆ 'Deliberate Indifference' Standard Halts Serious Prison Abuse Lawsuits
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Nicole Einbinder | Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

The court unanimously ruled that prison officials were liable for Eighth Amendment violations only if they acted with "deliberate indifference" to a prisoner's suffering. "And when this is true of prison officials, no constitutional liability may lie, however 'soul-chilling' the conditions." As long as prison officials assert that they didn't know about the risk, he said, a federal court will rarely find an Eighth Amendment violation. Prison officials weren't aware of the altercation, according to an incident report, until Hodges' then-fiancée called the prison, concerned about his safety. She disagreed with how her colleagues assessed the question of mindset, writing that a committee finding alone should not release prison officials from liability.

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☆ Skipping college, switching jobs, and navigating office politics: What older Americans regret about their careers
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Many older Americans regret some career choices that affected retirement plans and job prospects. This is part of an ongoing series about older Americans' regrets. AdvertisementSince September, BI has heard from older Americans about their career regrets in two surveys it conducted. Some older Americans BI spoke with agreed that their degrees haven't helped further their careers. Chuck SmithMany older Americans, like Chuck Smith, 60, couldn't control how long they stayed in roles because of layoffs but wished they had settled somewhere more stable.

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☆ My son stayed home alone at 7 and biked across town by his tweens. I don't regret giving him so much independence.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I am a single mom and allowed my son a lot of independence growing up. My parenting may be unconventional but it worked because of how I raised him at a young age. My parents were relatively carefree and let us roam with minimal supervision, as long as our chores were done. Other parents often questioned my free-range parenting approach, but I wasn't concerned. AdvertisementI don't regret how I raised my sonMy 13-year-old son and I stand next to an iconic landmark in Austin on the side of Jo's Coffeeshop.

Persons: —, Jude, Julie Royce, hadn't, I'd, wasn't, he's Organizations: Getty Locations: Austin

☆ My daughter repeated kindergarten because she couldn't read. I ended up sending both my kids to private school because I don't trust the public system.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The mom of two was disappointed her district didn't teach phonics as part of its literacy program. Her father, Paul, and I decided that she should repeat kindergarten in her public school. We had to employ a reading tutorA key issue was the school district didn't teach phonics for reading. She finished her second kindergarten year in public school before beginning first grade at a local Catholic school. Related storiesWe were so happy with the Catholic school that we sent Huddy, Carter's younger brother, there, too.

Persons: Susie Coughlin, Carter, Paul, she'd, that's, He's Organizations: Catholic, Business Locations: Falmouth , Maine

☆ Senate passes Social Security Fairness Act
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to increase Social Security benefits for close to 3 million federal, state and local public sector workers, which includes firemen, policemen and teachers. The Social Security Fairness Act — which already passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support in November — eliminates two policies that have reduced Social Security benefits for public service employees. The workers affected are those who are eligible for government pensions from jobs where they didn’t pay into Social Security but who did pay into the program through other jobs or whose spouses did so. “The GPO reduces the spousal or surviving spousal benefits of people who receive pensions on the basis of noncovered employment,” CBO noted. Americans can receive retirement benefits if they have paid into Social Security for at least 10 years and are also entitled to spousal or survivor benefits if their spouse paid into the program.

Persons: Joe Biden, Democratic Sen, Sherrod Brown of, Republican Sen, Susan Collins, Collins, —, ” Collins Organizations: CNN, Senate, Social Security, Congressional, Office, CBO, Congressional Research Service, Social, GPO, Democratic, Republican, Security, “ Locations: Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Maine, Bangor , Maine

☆ Always on the move, Rickey Henderson leaves legacy as one of baseball’s greatest showmen
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Tyler Kepner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

That was his best season, too, and at the start of the next one, he broke Lou Brock’s career record for stolen bases. Henderson led his league in stolen bases 12 times; Ryan led his league in strikeouts 12 times. Henderson is the only player with more than 1,000 steals; Ryan is the only pitcher with more than 5,000 strikeouts. But here’s the difference: as freakishly dominant as Ryan was in strikeouts, Henderson was far more prolific in stolen bases. And while Bonds is easily the game’s greatest living player, Henderson was probably the greatest living Hall of Famer at the time of his death.

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☆ A world-renowned chocolatier shares the 2 store-bought chocolate brands he buys for himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Christophe Rull is a world-renowned chocolate master and executive pastry chef at the Hotel Bel-Air. Business Insider asked him to share his favorite store-bought chocolate brands. Christophe Rull is a world-renowned chocolate master, a cast member of Netflix's "Bake Squad," and the executive pastry chef at Los Angeles' iconic Hotel Bel-Air. Rull is developing a chocolate program at the hotel's new bakery, The Patisserie, but was happy to share the two store-bought chocolate brands he loves — just in time for holiday shopping — with Business Insider. Rull told BI that one of his favorite store-bought chocolate brands is Läderach, which is currently run by 2018 World Chocolate Masters champion Elias Läderach, who made history as the first Swiss person to win the title.

Persons: Christophe Rull, Rull, Läderach, —, He's, Elias Läderach, Jean, Marie Auboine's, Auboine, Marie Auboine Chocolatier Organizations: Bel, Air . Business, Business, Food Network, Netflix, Bellagio, Costco, Las Locations: Switzerland, Los Angeles, Swiss, Canada, Europe, Asia, Fontainebleau, Miami, Las Vegas

☆ Luigi Mangione: How Parents of Alleged Shooters Cope; Therapist Advice
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She said parents must strive to find self-compassion and "separate their identity from their child's actions," no matter how challenging. "Elliot was far from evil," Rodger told ABC that year. Such an event "forces us as parents to contend with our worst fears," Annie Wright, another family therapist, told Business Insider. Despite his seemingly solid network of friends and family, Mangione had spondylolisthesis, a painful spinal condition. Parents can still protect themselvesGoldberg's clients, particularly parents of kids with substance abuse issues, struggle to move past their guilt.

Persons: Luigi Mangione's, Brian Thompson, Natalie Rupnow, who've, Rachel Goldberg, Sue Klebold, Dylan Klebold, Peter Rodger, Isla, Elliot Rodger, Elliot, Rodger, Annie Wright, Goldberg, Wright, Rodgers, Peter Lanza, Sandy Hook, Adam Lanza, Mangione, Martin, Klebold, Chin Rodger, Adam Lanza's, Lanza Organizations: YouTube, ABC, Gilman, Columbine, Isla Vista, New York Times, New Yorker Locations: Wisconsin, Isla Vista, Baltimore, San Francisco

☆ Nursing has become a new frontier for gig work, and it's creating the same issues that Uber drivers face
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Gig work has expanded to include nurses at hospitals and medical facilities, per a new report. Nursing represents a high-stakes use case of gig work apps, one of the researchers said. The interviewees all used at least one gig work app to find nursing shifts. The nursing apps often charge a fee for access, and workers bid with their pay rates. Advertisement"At most hospitals and medical facilities, no orientations are required for gig nurses and nursing assistants," the report reads.

Persons: Uber, Katie Wells, Wells, Funda Ustek, Spilda, ShiftMed, Todd Walrath, Walrath, ShiftKey Organizations: Nursing, Roosevelt Institute, King's College London, University of Oxford's Oxford Internet, Workers Locations: Oregon, Spilda

☆ Durbin uses new report to accuse Justices Thomas and Alito of violating disclosure laws
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A top Senate Democrat on Saturday accused conservative Supreme Court justices of violating federal disclosure laws in a lengthy report that caps a monthslong investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes weeks before Republicans take control of the chamber. Both Thomas and Alito have cited the “personal hospitality” exemption from annual reporting requirements, which they said relieved them of any obligation to report the trips. In response to the outcry over the Thomas trips, the Supreme Court adopted its first-ever code of conduct a year ago, but the document quickly faced criticism because it includes no enforcement mechanism. Durbin’s report also recounts a scandal this year involving two controversial flags – including an upside-down US flag – hoisted over properties that Alito owns. Republicans, including Trump, have defended Thomas and Alito and have accused Democrats of trying to delegitimize the court’s conservative majority by focusing on ethics.

Persons: Sen, Dick Durbin, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, ”, ” Durbin, Durbin –, Thomas ’, Thomas, Alito, –, Thomas “, Ginni Thomas, Donald Trump, Durbin Organizations: CNN, Senate, Committee, GOP, Federal, Trump, Republicans, White Locations: Illinois

☆ Lawmakers take a big step toward avoiding a shutdown: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-20 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Plus, senior White House reporter Pete Nicholas files a dispatch from a conference of conservative activists in Phoenix. The vote was 366-34, capping a tumultuous week in the House that foreshadowed how the new Congress in January might deal with Donald Trump back in the White House. “I’ve talked to President Trump, in detail, and he knows exactly what we’re doing,” the speaker said. “We don’t need partisanship now; we need hyperpartisanship now,” Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House senior adviser, told a raucous audience gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center for AmericaFest.

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Elon Musk waded into Germany’s election on Friday, expressing his support for a far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party that's being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” the tech billionaire wrote on X, referring to the Alternative for Germany party. In September, it became the first far-right party to win the most votes in a state election since the Nazi era, when it triumphed in Thuringia. Party leader Björne Höcke has twice been found guilty by a German court of purposefully employing Nazi rhetoric. Musk also voiced support for the AfD last year when he criticized the German government over its handling of illegal migration.

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☆ As Congress works to avoid a shutdown, here's what's next for a bill to increase Social Security benefits for public pensioners
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-20 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

But the bill, the Social Security Fairness Act, may undergo changes if some Senators' efforts to add amendments are successful. Per the original proposal, the Social Security Fairness Act calls for eliminating Social Security provisions known as the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP, and Government Pension Offset, or GPO, that have been in place for decades. The WEP reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who receive pension or disability benefits from employment where they did not pay Social Security payroll taxes. The Social Security Fairness Act was passed by the House with a 327 majority in November. Social Security advocacy groups have pushed for larger comprehensive Social Security reform that would use tax increases to pay for making benefits more generous.

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