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☆ Judge rejects GOP congressmens’ lawsuit challenging vetting process for Pennsylvania overseas ballots
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a Republican lawsuit that sought to segregate overseas ballots in Pennsylvania for additional vetting. The overseas vote has long been viewed as sacrosanct because of its connection to the military vote, and the Pennsylvania lawsuit – which would have jeopardized the ballots of service people abroad – drew a sharp backlash. He cited other procedural issues with Republicans’ lawsuit as well. In the Pennsylvania case, the Republicans were arguing that election officials should take additional steps to verify ballots cast in the state from overseas voters. Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the judge who ruled in the case is Judge Christopher Conner.

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☆ The 'huge mistake' 1 in 13 homeowners are making with their money
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In fact, 1 in 13 American homeowners is currently uninsured, according to a recent Consumer Federation of America study. Considering that the average annual cost of homeowners insurance for a $300,000 mortgage has increased 23% to $2,230 in the last year, it makes sense why some homeowners are foregoing insurance or letting their policies lapse to save money. "The question isn't, 'Can I afford homeowners insurance?' Why you should always have home insuranceNot paying for homeowners insurance "is definitely a huge mistake," says Alaina Hixson, director of sales and operations at insurance provider The Churchill Agency. "While home insurance is often not cheap, the investment can save thousands and even hundreds of thousands in some cases."

Persons: Cathleen Tobin, Alaina Hixson, Hixson, they're Organizations: Consumer Federation of America, Churchill Agency, Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration Locations: New York

☆ Argentina: Abortion access is dwindling under President Javier Milei three years after legalization
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Betiana Fernández Martino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

This is how she came across Amnesty International, an organization that works for the promotion and defense of human rights. María is one of the cases where Amnesty International had to intervene to ensure a safe abortion. People hold green handkerchiefs during a demonstration in support of safe and legal abortion access to mark International Safe Abortion Day, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 28, 2023. Similarly, information from health professionals in the Safe Abortion Access Network (RedAAS by its acronym in Spanish) aligns with this. CNN contacted the National Ministry of Health regarding both shortages and the second public information request but did not receive a response.

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☆ UBS believes AI story is still in the 'early innings' and these are the stocks to play it
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"We believe we are still in the early stages of the AI growth story," UBS equity strategist Sundeep Gantori wrote in a Monday note to clients, noting the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 as an inflection point for AI adoption. "The company should benefit from healthy user engagement, improving monetization of Reels, and longer-term monetization of Instagram and WhatsApp offer longer-term opportunities," UBS wrote. Moving forward, UBS sees a favorable risk/reward profile for the name, citing steady iPhone growth and strong growth in its services, among others, as catalysts. UBS thinks this early adopter of AI applications is still "well placed" to benefit from use cases that are relevant to the industry. "While we agree that rising competition will result in some subscriber churn, we expect Netflix to continue to report strong growth globally."

Persons: Sundeep Gantori, Gantori, AAPL, INTC Organizations: UBS, Nvidia, Reality Labs, Apple, Intel, Apple Intelligence, Netflix

☆ Judge Aileen Cannon defends her judicial independence and says she’s never met Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Routh’s attorneys noted the many instances when Trump has praised Cannon by name for her decision to toss the documents case, including during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention this summer. “I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media, or public officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings,” Cannon wrote Tuesday. “This case, like the prior cited cases involving former President Trump, were randomly assigned to me through the Clerk’s random case assignment system. Special counsel Jack Smith is currently appealing Cannon’s dismissal of the documents case. I maintain no ongoing personal relationship with the prosecutor, nor have I communicated with him in years,” she said.

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump americanthinker.com/blog/2024/... www.americanthinker.com The real reason Boeing is in the news In short, China wants Boeing out. Inside Trump’s Truth Social Conspiracy Theory Machine An analysis of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts reveals the paranoid and unfounded content the former president creates and amplifies each day. In addition to the posts themselves, the analysis zeroed in on the 170 Truth Social accounts that Mr. Trump had amplified on the platform. A spokeswoman for Truth Social did not answer questions from The Times about the company’s policies on conspiratorial content and the accounts that spread it. From July to September, Truth Social received an average of about 4.7 million unique monthly visitors, according to the web analytics firm Similarweb.

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☆ The election-betting market has exploded in popularity this presidential cycle
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Betting markets are booming ahead of the US Presidential election. Kalshi has attracted $100M in election bets this month and is the top free finance app in Apple's app store. Robinhood is getting in on the action, announcing its own election betting platform on Monday. Earlier this month, a US federal appeals court cleared Kalshi to open its election betting platform for US citizens. Interactive Brokers also launched a slew of election betting contracts earlier this month following the court decision to allow Kalshi to operate.

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☆ McDonald's executives say E. coli outbreak is 'behind us'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A week after health authorities publicly linked a deadly E. coli outbreak to McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers, the company's CEO, Chris Kempczinski, told investors that the situation is now behind them. On Sunday, McDonald's said Quarter Pounder burgers would return to the roughly 900 restaurants where the company had pulled the menu item following the outbreak. McDonald's has stopped sourcing onions from the supplier indefinitely and will return the Quarter Pounder to menus sans slivered onions. As of Friday, 75 health cases across 13 states have been tied to the outbreak, including one death of an older adult. At least three lawsuits have already been filed against McDonald's by victims of the outbreak.

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☆ Over 90% of AWS's biggest data center customers are now using its homegrown Graviton chips, executive says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AWS's Graviton CPU chips are used by over 90% of its 1,000 largest data center customers. AWS's custom silicon strategy includes AI chips like Inferentia and Trainium. AdvertisementIn 2018, Amazon Web Services launched Graviton, its own line of homegrown central processing unit chips for data center servers. Big enterprises, such as Epic Games, Databricks, and Pinterest, are all major Graviton customers, he said. "We will absolutely continue to drive innovation in custom silicon as we have been doing for the past 10-plus years."

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☆ McDonald's reverses U.S. same-store sales declines in the third quarter, but E. coli fallout looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

McDonald's on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts' expectations as its U.S. restaurants reversed last quarter's same-store sales decline. It's the second straight quarter that the company's same-store sales have fallen. U.S. same-store sales rose 0.3%, reversing last quarter's same-store sales declines but still slightly weaker than the 0.5% increase predicted by StreetAccount estimates. The company's two international divisions both reported steeper declines in same-store sales compared with the prior quarter. The international developmental licensed markets division reported same-store sales declines of 3.5%, driven by weak demand in the Middle East and China.

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☆ American Battleground: Christianity and chokeholds, the powerful forces propelling Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Tom Foreman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

“Hey hey, ho ho, thank you, Joe, it’s time to go!”The success of former President Donald Trump’s campaign is becoming a catastrophe for sitting President Joe Biden. A fundraising appeal from the Biden campaign says, “How does a guy who used to say that Donald Trump and his policies were ‘reprehensible,’ become Donald Trump’s running mate? Through years of being a rubber-stamp for Donald Trump’s extreme, MAGA agenda. Women voters, whom the Trump campaign desperately needs, start posting cat memes sharply critical of Vance’s views. But even though Trump is casting himself as the martyr, within days it will seem he was playing the prophet.

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☆ The economy seems to be firing on all cylinders — but a veteran JPMorgan strategy chief says one underappreciated risk could cause a serious global slowdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Corporate earnings growth, productivity growth, and business fixed investment all seem to be headed in the right direction as well. Related storiesThese signals have given David Kelly, JPMAM's chief global market strategist, great confidence. Such tariffs would cause "seismic shocks to the US economy," Tom Orlik, the chief economist at Bloomberg Economics, said earlier this month. Charles Schwab global investment strategy chief Jeffrey Kleintop cited tariffs as a top risk back in June. "But oddly enough, the global economy bounced back anyway.

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Donald Trump has more than just the presidency on the line Nov. 5 — the outcome of his various legal troubles hinges on the election, as well. The “witch hunts against President Trump have imploded” and “should all be dismissed in light of the Supreme Court’s historic decision on immunity and other vital jurisprudence,” Cheung said in a statement. Hush money caseWin or lose, Trump’s biggest immediate challenge after the election is his potential sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. Federal election interference caseIf Trump loses, special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case is also on the horizon. Similar to the criminal cases, Trump has argued that his actions were protected by presidential immunity.

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☆ JPMorgan begins suing customers who allegedly stole thousands of dollars in 'infinite money glitch'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

JPMorgan Chase has begun suing customers who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from ATMs by taking advantage of a technical glitch that allowed them to withdraw funds before a check bounced. A Houston case involves a man who owes JPMorgan $290,939.47 after an unidentified accomplice deposited a counterfeit $335,000 check at an ATM, according to the bank. “On August 29, 2024, a masked man deposited a check in Defendant’s Chase bank account in the amount of $335,000,” the bank said in the Texas filing. The infinite money glitch episode highlights the risk that social media can amplify vulnerabilities discovered at a financial institution. JPMorgan prioritized cases with large dollar amounts and indications of possible ties to organized crime, they said.

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☆ Analysis: How a night of fighting words upended the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Tom Foreman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

“We’ve got to take a look at what I was left when I became president.” Biden rises to the challenge. Former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden take part in the CNN presidential debate on June 27. “I would say that there was a time period in which it felt like Donald Trump couldn’t lose,” she says. “Donald Trump knows how to turn every moment into victimhood,” pollster Frank Luntz notes on CNN. A crowd waits in the sun for Donald Trump to speak at an event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

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☆ A Kentucky man was wheeled into surgery to harvest his organs. Weeks later, he left the hospital alive
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

The hospital, Baptist Health in Richmond, Kentucky, and the organ procurement group declined interviews with CNN. At the federal level, the Health Resources and Services Administration, through the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, is investigating, as well. She said the hospital told her that another scan showed no brain activity. The coordinator was in tears, Miller said, and the doctor who was supposed to do the organ procurement was upset and left. Miller said that as soon as the staff told TJ they’d take him back to the ICU, he calmed down.

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For years, Republican activists have huddled in video meetings to talk about remaking democracy and plan for the election. They successfully lobbied for new state election laws and procedures, diving deep into the intricacies of election regulations. Earlier this year, Ms. Mitchell said she was called by God to shift her attention to the possibility that noncitizens were voting. They were involved in recent attempts to make it easier for State Election Board members to hold up certification while they conduct inquiries into the vote. Ms. Mitchell has talked about a federal elections overhaul should Republicans win the White House and Congress.

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☆ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexually assaulting ‘Making the Band’ teen contestant and 10-year-old boy in new lawsuits
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

One John Doe states in his lawsuit that he auditioned for Combs in 2005 at a hotel in New York at age 10. According to the lawsuit, Combs then forced Doe to perform oral sex after he resisted. Doe lost consciousness and later woke up in tears with his pants undone and pain in his anus and buttocks, the lawsuit states. The following day, the complaint states, Combs and his bodyguard sexually assaulted Doe. The initial lawsuit, filed by his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, was settled the next day.

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Israel’s Knesset opened its winter session on Monday against a backdrop of war in Gaza and Lebanon and after an Israeli strike on Iran on Saturday. UNRWAThe Knesset was set to debate on Monday bills that would make it illegal for Israeli officials to cooperate with UNRWA, the main U.N. agency that aids Palestinians. The bills would effectively shut down the agency’s work in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem within 90 days. According to the Jerusalem Post, the first bill states that UNRWA could no longer operate in Israel, while the second would abrogate the treaty that underpins the relationship between UNRWA and Israel. The Knesset has already voted in favor of advancing the bill and it is being prepared for a second and third reading.

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☆ Beijing knife attack injures five, including three children, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Shawn Deng | Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Five people, including three children, have been injured in a stabbing attack in Beijing, Chinese police reported Monday. The incident occurred at around 3.20 p.m. local time (3.20 a.m. Police said the incident occurred at the intersection of Wanquanzhuang Road and Wanliu Middle Road. The country of 1.4 billion has generally low violent crime rates, but has been rocked by a number of high-profile stabbing cases in recent decades. Several have targeted schools, including a 2020 knife attack at an elementary school, as well as attacks at or near kindergartens in 2022 and 2023.

Persons: Tang Organizations: CNN, Police, School Locations: Beijing, Haidian, China’s

☆ California's attorney general is investigating a school district over its handling of Rosemead High sex abuse claims
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The California attorney general is investigating the El Monte Union High School District in Southern California. The action follows Business Insider's reporting on a pattern of sexual misconduct at one district school, Rosemead High. Investigators are looking at compliance failures related to "suspected child abuse, sexual abuse, assault." AdvertisementThe California attorney general is investigating a Southern California school district over whether it properly handled claims of educator sexual abuse and misconduct, records reviewed by Business Insider show. Investigating a local school district is a rare step for the top law enforcement office in the state.

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☆ People who allegedly withdrew thousands of dollars from Chase ATMs in viral check fraud scheme may soon have to pay up
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Customers who allegedly withdrew money fraudulently from Chase Bank ATMs using an illegal scheme that blew up on TikTok over the summer could soon have to cut hefty checks back to the bank. These people were able to withdraw funds by writing checks to themselves and immediately withdrawing funds before the checks bounced. Normally, the bank follows the industry standard of making a portion of any check available to customers before the funds clear. However, a temporary glitch allowed customers to withdraw more substantial amounts than typically allowed before a check clears. One case in Houston involves a “masked man” who allegedly deposited a $335,000 check to a defendant’s account.

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☆ GOP’s aggressive legal election strategy has more than 130 cases
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Democrats had warned the new rules around certification could allow local election officials to delay or altogether decline to certify the election results as they searched for purported fraud or irregularities. Key GOP state officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, had also opposed the new rules. Republican state officials have launched an emergency appeal in Virginia, while Trump has attempted to play up the ruling for political gain. A Republican lawsuit led to a settlement with Detroit election officials that affirmed that there would be at least one GOP poll watcher in each precinct. But in Wisconsin, a judge rejected a lawsuit there to force election officials to hire more GOP poll workers in Racine.

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☆ CNN Poll: Most voters don’t think Trump will concede if he loses the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Jennifer Agiesta | Ariel Edwards-Levy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Overall, just 30% of registered voters think Trump will accept the results of the election and concede if he loses, while 73% say that Vice President Kamala Harris would accept an election loss. But that rises to 20% among registered voters who support Trump, compared with only 3% who feel that way among Harris supporters. The CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS online and by telephone October 20-23, 2024, among 1,704 registered voters nationwide drawn from a probability-based panel. Likely voters include all registered voters in the poll weighted for their predicted likelihood of voting in this year’s election. Results for the full sample of registered voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points; it is 3.1 for likely voters, and larger for subgroups.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Kamala Harris, Harris, Trump’s, There’s, Edward Wu Organizations: CNN, SSRS, Trump

☆ McDonald’s needed to win Americans back. Then came an E. coli outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Even for a brand as gargantuan as McDonald’s, the last few months have been… a lot. The timing of the outbreak is especially challenging for McDonald’s as it has been trying to win back customers who’ve been put off by higher prices. Over the summer McDonald’s did an about face to try to win people back. “It had been a pretty strong quarter.”And absent the E. coli outbreak, Tuesday’s earnings call might have been all about the value menu and the Crocs. The length and severity of the outbreak is now a wild card for analysts as they assess McDonald’s financial future.

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