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☆ Ron DeSantis' memoir could come back to bite him in Disney legal battle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Statements in DeSantis' bestselling memoir may hold the proof Disney needs to win its case. Ron DeSantis may have inadvertently handed Disney key evidence it needs to beat him in their escalating legal and political battle. In addition to supporting legislation against Disney, DeSantis has also frequently and fervently railed against the "woke" company. Ron DeSantis is again going after Walt Disney World, after the company launched a stealth power play. Executive Office of the Governor, State of FloridaAs promotion for his memoir, DeSantis also penned a February Wall Street Journal editorial entitled "Why I Stood up to Disney."

March 28 (Reuters) - The recent failures of mid-size U.S. lenders show the need for more robust risk management at banks and fintechs, along with improved regulation, the head of the top consumer financial watchdog agency said on Tuesday. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra told a gathering of retail bankers in Las Vegas that regulators were looking at liquidity, interest-rate risk management, capital frameworks, resolution planning and stress testing. "It will be good for the industry to have some honest conversations with itself about what is the way for the regulatory framework to not create this type of risk," Chopra said. As head of the CFPB, Chopra also sits on the board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which took over failed Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month. He also serves on the Financial Stability Oversight Council, created in the wake of the 2008 crash.

☆ Sakkari wins after silencing Shnaider's 'inappropriate' celebrations
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Ian Ransom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

After a wry grin, Sakkari grew serious and walked toward the chair umpire holding up a finger, saying: "If she screams one more time in my face ... No, no, no, no. One more time and I'm going to speak to the referee." Taking charge of the situation appeared to work for Sakkari, who duly broke the 18-year-old Russian to take the set, then locked down the match to reach the third round. "During a match you can be very pumped or, you know, the way that some players celebrate their points, it's not appropriate," Sakkari later told reporters. Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Buttigieg shuts down Fox News host Bret Baier's questions about his diplomatic travel with Chasten: 'Why is it any different when it's me and my husband?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Pete Buttigieg called out Fox News host Brett Baier for applying a double standard to his marriage. "That's quite a spin to put on it," said Buttigieg, who led a presidential delegation in April to the Invictus Games, a sporting competition for wounded veterans. When Baier asked whether Chasten's trip was reimbursed, Buttigieg responded, "Of course not!" The diplomatic protocol on a presidential delegation, he said, has long been that the principal is accompanied by their spouse. Buttigieg, a veteran who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, said leading the presidential delegation was "one of the great honors of my time in this job."

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., doesn't care that former President Donald Trump backs Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House. "Endorsements don't matter to me," said Norman, one of 20 Republican holdouts who have blocked McCarthy, R-Calif., from winning the majority he needs on a series of deadlocked votes for House speaker. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., another anti-McCarthy voter, took umbrage at Trump calling recalcitrants on behalf of the beleaguered House GOP leader. "I think it actually needs to be reversed; the president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, sir, you do not have the votes, and it’s time to withdraw." "But I don't think when you have eyes on an institution for years and you've made up your mind, I don't think President Trump or anyone else is going" to change it.

☆ ‘Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse’ by Ahmad Jamal Review: A Minimalist Pianist Lets Loose
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Will Friedwald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

“Ahmad is one of my favorites,” he told Hentoff in a different interview. “I live until he makes another record. For some, it was a distinct echo of when Louis Armstrong had spoken of his own love for Guy Lombardo a few decades earlier. What Davis—and since then, several generations of jazz players and listeners—loved most about Mr. Jamal becomes crystal clear in two new sets of live recordings from a Seattle nightclub being released on the Jazz Detective label. “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964” and “Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966” have both been produced by Zev Feldman .

☆ К атаке на трубопровод Colonial Pipeline может быть причастно ЦРУ
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-14 | by ( Mld Media Srl | Степанов Георгий | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Не исключено, что к хакерской атаке на оператора крупнейшего трубопровода в США, компанию Colonial Pipeline, причастно ЦРУТакое мнение высказал президент компании InfoWatch Наталья Касперская, передает «РИА Новости». Хакерская атака на Colonial Pipeline была совершена 7 мая и вынудила компанию перекрыть трубопровод, который обеспечивает поступление примерно 45% топлива, потребляемого на восточном побережье США. Кремль причастность России к хакерским атакам на Colonial Pipeline отверг. Через несколько часов после атаки Colonial Pipeline заплатила хакерам почти $5 млн выкупа в криптовалюте, сообщал Bloomberg со ссылкой на источники. 13 мая Colonial Pipeline объявила о начале работы по возобновлению деятельности трубопровода.

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