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☆ Musk joins Trump and family for Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-29 | by ( Kit Maher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a seat at the family table for Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago, joining President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump and their 18-year-old son Barron, in the latest indicator of Trump’s growing bond with the world’s richest man. Yaakov Safar, who took the video, is a French jewelry designer who was invited to Mar-a-Lago as a guest on Thanksgiving. “I was telling @TheSlyStallone that I just watched Demolition Man again and how well it predicted the crazy woke future 30 years ago!,” Musk posted on X. Musk was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called to congratulate the president-elect the day after the election, according to a source briefed on the call. On the day after the election, Musk was seen in a Trump family photo at Mar-a-Lago posted by Trump’s granddaughter Kai.

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☆ A CIA counterterrorism officer's cover was being a comic book author. Now, he's an award-winning writer for DC, working in Hollywood on HBO's 'Lanterns.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-29 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Now, he's balancing writing comics with working on the "Lanterns" TV series for HBO. So I threw that away and I'd be like, 'Oh, I'm a comic writer.' Pretending to be a comic writer in the CIA meant he was already in the right mindset. AdvertisementIn 2013, he wrote for the Vertigo imprint, before his first work at DC Comics, "Nightwing" — about Batman's former sidekick — was published in 2014. Movies: King is a member of the team developing the "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" movie based on his comic series of the same name.

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LAS VEGAS — A major home warranty provider is under scrutiny from customers who say it isn’t living up to its promises to fix or replace broken appliances. American Home Shield (AHS) is one of the nation’s leading providers of home warranty plans, boasting over 2.2 million subscribers. But some customers say they’ve had a hard time getting AHS to respond to common issues like those. What I got was the complete opposite.”Las Vegas resident Julian Sanchez criticized American Home Shield’s customer service. Another concluded the damage was due to “foreign debris,” rather than the normal wear and tear covered by his contract.

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☆ I stayed in a 110-year-old ship that's been converted into a beachfront hotel. It was a great retreat from living in a concrete jungle.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementI stayed in Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel, a short ferry ride from Singapore. AdvertisementFrom the get-go, I was blown away by the vastnessThe front of the ship hotel, with its two anchors preserved. Aditi BharadeAs my taxi turned the corner from the ferry terminal, I took in the sheer size of the 430-foot-long ship hotel. The bathroom, too, was huge — much larger than some hotel rooms I've stayed in. AdvertisementThe bathroom was larger than hotel rooms I've stayed in, in the past.

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☆ For over 25 years, this photographer had a window-side seat at the Macy’s Parade
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —When photographer Elizabeth Kahane’s husband asked where in New York they should live following their engagement in 1998, she had a very specific requirement for their marital home: A view of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Its street-facing windows offered the perfect vantage point to watch — and photograph — the procession, which travels down through midtown Manhattan to Macy’s department store on Thanksgiving morning. The photographer has captured the spectacle almost every year since, missing the parade just twice in over a quarter of a century. Thomas the Tank Engine, the Kool-Aid Man and Boss Baby are just some of the dozens of other outsized characters Kahane has pictured floating slowly past her home — often at eye-level. Some shots were taken from inside the apartment, with kids seen enjoying the surreal view of parade characters — from Sonic the Hedgehog to Pikachu, gleefully riding a Poké Ball-inspired sled — looming outside.

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☆ Ohio governor signs bill restricting trans students' school bathroom use
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Mike DeWine signed a bill Wednesday banning transgender students from using school restrooms that align with their gender identities. The bill also mandates that Ohio schools cannot have restrooms or locker rooms that are open to all genders, excluding family facilities or single-occupancy facilities. Instead, it will make trans people less safe and fail to increase the safety of all students,” Antonio wrote. Ohio House Republicans attached the legislation about restrooms to proposals regarding report card data for Ohio’s college credit program for high school students. “Extremist politicians are panicking because transgender students exist," Willingham-Jaggers said.

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☆ Watch Ariana Grande Swing From a Chandelier in ‘Wicked’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Mekado Murphy | More About Mekado Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Hi, This is Jon M. Chu and I am the director of “Wicked.” “And Elfie. And it’s Glinda and Elphaba, played by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, and they’ve just bonded over sharing stories with each other. It seems simple, but actually there’s a lot of manpower that is running that thing. One of the biggest things that Cynthia really wanted was that she didn’t just want to be a passenger on this, she really wanted to be a part of it. She’s not resisting it as much as in the shown in fact, she’s actually really enjoying this attention and this friendship.

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☆ How Jared Goff hitting rock bottom became his and the Detroit Lions’ salvation
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Michael Silver | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +25 min

Summoned to Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell’s office on a late-October Tuesday in 2022, Goff feared the worst, and with good reason. And he’d done it in his first season with Matthew Stafford, the Lions’ longtime starting quarterback who’d been swapped out for Goff. AdvertisementIn May, the Lions signed Goff to a four-year, $212 million contract extension, with $170 million guaranteed. AdvertisementIn the lead-up to the game, Goff tried hard not to make the story about him. We’re f—ing different than all 31 in this league.”We found a way pic.twitter.com/lzSSpJVMfM — Detroit Lions (@Lions) November 11, 2024Later, Goff harkened back to the trying times he, many of his teammates and their coaches have experienced together, and the resolve it fostered.

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☆ Compassion or Coercion? Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Stephen Castle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sarah Tarlow had a sense that something was wrong as soon as she opened her front door and called out to her bedridden husband upstairs. Instead of the sound of the radio that normally echoed from his room, the house was engulfed in silence. “I think it was enormously brave what he did. I’m not sure I could be that brave,” Ms. Tarlow, a professor of historical archaeology at Leicester University, said while sipping coffee at her home in a snow-covered village 30 miles from Leicester, in England’s Midlands. “I think it was a courageous thing, I think it was a loving thing.”

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☆ I worked on cruises for 3 years and now frequently sail as a passenger. Here are the 10 things I do on every trip.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Tammy Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I spent three years working on cruise ships. Here are the 10 things I always do while cruising to have the best trip possible. Depending on what time I get on the ship, my cabin and luggage may not be available for several hours. Frequent walks on the promenade deck are often a highlight of my tripYou can see some wonderful views from a cruise ship. Lastly, I always lean into themed parties and eventsMany cruise ships have themed events or nights, and I love looking them up in advance so I can prepare my outfits.

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☆ Mother who kept baby hidden in drawer for three years jailed
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years in Britain. He went on to tell the court that the little girl was left alone when her mother went to work, took the other children to school and even when she went to stay with relatives over Christmas. He alerted family members and later that day social services attended the property, where they found the girl in a drawer. When confronted, the mother “did not show any emotion and appeared blasé,” the social worker told the court in a statement. During an interview with police, the woman said had not known she had been pregnant and was “really scared” giving birth.

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Back in 2006 in Italy, newly elected Vladimir Luxuria was briefly barred from using the ladies' room when she took her seat in Parliament. "What is happening to Sarah McBride is rank politics." "So I am very sympathetic to Sarah McBride." During her four years in the Polish Parliament, Grodzka also faced verbal attacks and was repeatedly misgendered by fellow Polish lawmaker Krystyna Pawlowicz. In recent years — nearly a decade after she left Parliament — Grodzka is still occasionally on the receiving end of personal attacks from Polish lawmakers, as the country's right-wing has embraced anti-LGBTQ sentiments.

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☆ Agility Robotics CEO tells BI how its humanoid robots are getting paid — and warns against empowering them with AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementAgility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson says humanoid robots are filling some labor gaps. AdvertisementDigit is Agility Robotics' mobile manipulation humanoid robot. It competes with the likes of Apptronik, which is working with NASA on humanoid robots, and Boston Dynamics, which has created humanoid robots called Atlas that it says can run and jump over obstacles, as well as perform factory worker tasks. Agility Robotics' humanoid robots are currently only permitted to work inside a specific, cordoned-off space separate from human workers. Agility Robotics takes a similarly cautious approach to its application of artificial intelligence, which is deep in the hype stage.

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☆ Agility Robotics CEO tells BI how its humanoid robots are entering the workforce — and getting paid for it
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Agility Robotics is hoping to deploy them across industries like grocery, automotive, and pharma. AdvertisementDigit is Agility Robotics' mobile manipulation humanoid robot. It competes with the likes of Apptronik, which is working with NASA on humanoid robots, and Boston Dynamics, which has created humanoid robots called Atlas that it says can run and jump over obstacles, as well as perform factory-worker tasks. Agility Robotics' humanoid robots are permitted to work only inside a specific, cordoned-off space separate from human workers. Agility Robotics takes a similarly cautious approach to its application of artificial intelligence, which is deep in the hype stage.

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☆ I took my teenagers to an all-inclusive resort. Not having to plan every moment helped me be more present as a parent.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Terri Peters | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementMy husband and I just took our teenagers to an all-inclusive resort for the first time. I'm the primary vacation planner, so overall, I enjoyed the ease of a family all-inclusive vacation. While adults-only resorts have a definite nightlife vib, with open bars and tipsy late-night entertainment, I found the family all-inclusive vibe to be much less alcohol-focused. AdvertisementOverall, I'd visit an all-inclusive resort with my kids againThe author and her family enjoyed the all-inclusive resort. Overall, visiting an all-inclusive resort with my teenagers was a great experience, one that required little to no planning on my part once our flights and resort were booked.

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☆ I had a baby a month before turning 50. I'll be nearly 70 when he graduates high school, but we live in the moment.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Our son, Huck, was born healthy. AdvertisementSpeace, 56, with her son, Huck, 6. Courtesy of Jamey WoodI was tired, but I don't think I got more tired than younger moms did. It's helped me deal with the reality that I'll be almost 70 when Huck graduates high school. I'll put my son back in his bed and he'll say, "Mommy, you're all wet."

Persons: Amy Speace, Jamey, Huck, Jamey Wood, It's, I'd, I've Organizations: Business Locations: Nashville

☆ When my job went remote, I moved from the US to El Salvador. The change of pace helped me rediscover my purpose.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Cailey Griffin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She thought leaving the US to relocate to El Salvador was the change of pace she needed. I decided to return to my rootsWhile relocating to El Salvador, full-time would be new to me, visiting was not. I wasn't monetized on TikTok at the time, so my income while living in El Salvador came from finding freelance gigs. I earned around $35,000 in one year of freelancing, which was enough to live comfortably in El Salvador. Connecting with the community in El Salvador helped me feel reconnected to my purpose, and in my current position, I'm also helping assist my fellow community members.

Persons: Analucy Benavides, I'm Organizations: Día de, El, Maryland Locations: El Salvador, Maryland, United States, Central American, Día de Los, TikTok

☆ Meet the Press – November 24, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +57 min

[END TAPE]KRISTEN WELKER:According to the Washington Post, President-elect Trump plans to fire the team that worked with the special counsel. So, I think President Trump is picking reformers for these Cabinet positions. After the midterms Joe Biden said that there was no way President Trump would ever be back in the White House. He's going to sign some executive actions, but he's also going to then begin to roll out this plan. I also think he's going to face some skepticism by Republicans on using the military, for instance, going kind of into different states.

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☆ My kids wanted to donate toys to other kids after a hurricane hit our town. I'm so proud of them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Katrina Donham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementWe live in Asheville, and after Hurricane Helene, my kids wanted to donate toys. After watching the episode "Making Room for a Baby," I desperately wanted to "clean up my life," both metaphorically and physically. The labor of tossing out items that no longer "sparked joy" unironically did just that: sparked joy and gave me a renewed sense of hope for the future. To help our daughters better understand the scope of the damage, we drove through the decimated areas of town. AdvertisementI explained the basic idea: We would go through each individual item one by one and ask ourselves if it sparked joy.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Marie Kondo, cranny, unironically, let's, Let's Organizations: Netflix Locations: Asheville, Sunnyside , Queens, Hurricane, Asheville , North Carolina

☆ Senators bracing for confirmation battles over unorthodox Trump Cabinet picks
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Lauren Fox | Clare Foran | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Hegseth on Thursday huddled with a handful of Republican senators, many of them seen as close allies of Trump, for a series of meetings. But while some members of the party signal support for the nomination, other Republicans on the Hill warn that there are mounting concerns about Hegseth. With a 53-seat majority, Hegseth and other Trump nominees can afford to lose only three Republican votes, leaving little room for error. Trump’s transition team was in the middle of announcing new Cabinet picks when they were informed of the sexual assault allegation against Hegseth, CNN reported, stunning several members of the team. Mullin said that Hegseth voluntarily brought up the sexual assault allegation against him in a meeting on Capitol Hill.

Persons: Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump, Hegseth, Marsha Blackburn of, Markwayne Mullin, “, —, Gaetz, Trump’s, GOP Sen, Kevin Cramer, ”, Cramer, Hegseth isn’t, she’s, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, I’m, Mullin, ” Mullin, Republican Sen, Bill Hagerty Organizations: CNN, Republicans, Capitol, Trump, Pentagon, of Defense, Lawmakers, Police, Fox News, Republican, GOP, Department of Health, Human Services, White, Hill, Senate, Hegseth Locations: Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Oklahoma

A prominent digital rights activist, who is transgender, confronted Rep. Nancy Mace at a public event Thursday, days after the congresswoman from South Carolina introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol. A representative for Mace and Project Liberty, the organization that hosted the summit and invited Greer, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Greer’s organization is known for its viral protest efforts against internet censorship and surveillance and in support of net neutrality. McBride, whom Mace has repeatedly misgendered, said in a statement that she would follow the new bathroom rules as outlined by Johnson, even if she disagrees with them. In her congressional office, McBride will have a private bathroom, while all other public bathrooms in the Capitol will be banned for transgender people.

Persons: Nancy Mace, Evan Greer, Mace, Ro Khanna, ” Greer, ” Mace, misgendering Greer, Greer, didn’t, “, ”, “ I’m, ’, Sarah McBride, Mike Johnson, McBride, misgendered, Johnson Organizations: U.S . Capitol, Georgetown University, Washington , D.C, Democratic Rep, Tech Solutions, Liberty, NBC Locations: South Carolina, Washington ,

☆ I spent a week in a hospital in Ecuador when my lung collapsed. It confirmed that moving here was the right decision.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Sinead Mulhern | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Earlier this year, she spent a week in the hospital due to a collapsed lung, a severe complication of pneumonia. The support she received from the hospital staff and her friends confirmed that moving there was the right decision. "We have to go to the hospital right now," my doctor told me after confirming that my right lung had collapsed. I felt scared and focused on my friend as the surgeon told me to hold my right arm above my head and stay still. People I didn't know well would call to check in, and friends of friends would send well wishes.

Persons: Sinead Mulhern, I'd, Ecuador —, hadn't, I'm, Sanja, We've, Jonathan, KFF Organizations: Monopoly Locations: Ecuador, Cuenca —, Quito, South America, Ecuadorian, Canada, Australia, South Africa, England, Venezuela

☆ Inside the push for dietary guidance on ultraprocessed foods — and why it’s failing right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

These additives, along with high levels of sugar, salt and fat, help create the overwhelming lure of ultraprocessed foods. Ultraprocessed foods are typically high in added sugars, fats and salt; low in dietary fiber; and full of chemical additives, such as artificial colors, flavors and stabilizers. “There’s a lot of debate about whether or not all ultraprocessed foods are bad for you,” Hall said. Reduce intake of ultraprocessed foods — it’s really that simple.”Unfortunately, advisory committees are instructed to make recommendations using only the strictest science, Nestle added. It takes two overflowing trays of a mix of minimal and ultraprocessed foods to match the same energy density as one trayful of ultraprocessed foods.

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