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A 40-year-old man was fatally stabbed at an Upper Manhattan subway station Friday night during a dispute with another person, the police said. Officers responding to a 911 call about a person stabbed at the West 175th Street A train station in Washington Heights just before 6 p.m. found the man near the turnstiles on the mezzanine level, the police said. Around 8:30 p.m., a station entrance on Fort Washington Avenue between West 174th and 175th Streets was closed off with yellow police tape. A trains were skipping the station, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subways. Police officers at the station entrances were directing riders to take the bus or head to stations at West 181st or 168th Streets.

Organizations: West, Harlem Hospital, Fort Washington, West 174th, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Police, West 181st Locations: Upper Manhattan, Washington Heights, Fort, West

☆ The US Air Force says the military's new dogfighting AI fighter jet pilot is making 'dramatic' advances from one test to the next
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewLast month, two US Air Force fighter jets battled in the skies above California in an intense dogfight. AdvertisementCol. James Valpiani, Air Force Test Pilot School commandant, provides final points of instruction to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall during his visit to Edwards Air Force, California, May 2. But throughout all of this, the AI pilot, named Hivemind, has been maturing quicker than expected. The X-62 Variable In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) flies in the skies over Edwards Air Force Base, California, Aug. 26, 2022. Footage from the real-world test of a dogfight between an AI-controlled fighter and a manned fighter.

Persons: —, James Valpiani, Frank, Kendall, Valpiani, Frank Kendall, It's, Ryan Tseng, Tseng, Air Force Frank Kendall, James West Tseng, Ryan Hefron, Hefron, Kyle Brasier, Giancarlo Casem Organizations: Service, US Air Force, Air Force, Defense, Research, Business, An Air Force, Air, Edwards Air Force Base, U.S . Air Force, Edwards Air Base, United States Air Force, Edwards Air Force, DOD, DARPA, Shield, Aircraft, USAF, Israel Defense Forces, DoD Locations: California, Calif, China, Gaza

☆ Ted Cruz's leaked donor docs show how money in politics really works
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewOn Tuesday, reporter Pablo Manríquez discovered a collection of documents that appear to belong to Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign. Each individual at the dinner had pledged between $1,000 and $2,500 to Cruz's campaign, according to the documents. AdvertisementFor each of those New York meetings, Cruz was supplied with detailed biographies of his interlocutors, a list of their recent political contributions, and directions on how much money to ask for. For some meetings, Cruz is directed to ask a single donor whether they will contribute $119,200 to his race. Advertisement"Ask [donor] to talk to your team about outside efforts" isn't a 'solicitation' under federal campaign finance law," Ghosh wrote on X.

Persons: —, Pablo Manríquez, Sen, Ted Cruz's, Cruz, Cruz —, Colin Allred, who's, Donors, Cruz's, Saurav Ghosh, it's, reelect Cruz, ade Organizations: Service, Texas Republican, Business, Democratic Rep, Washington , DC, Juneteenth, GOP, Capitol, Republican, Senate, Committee, Ericsson, National Association of, Texas GOP, National Republican, @tedcruz, TX GOP Locations: America, Washington ,, Texas, New York, York, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | Donald Trump Is You! And You! And You!
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump contains multitudes. When federal agents came for those classified documents scattered like pocket change around Mar-a-Lago, they were really coming for you. They used Trump to teach you a lesson and flexed their contempt for you through their indictment of him. In a fund-raising email sent by his campaign last week, Trump said, “If we fail to have a MASSIVE outpouring of patriotic support — right here, right now — they’ll TAKE ME OUT and move on to their real target: YOU! !”And all the Jesus Christ allusions of late by Trump and his disciples?

Persons: Donald Trump, “, Trump Organizations: Trump Locations: Manhattan, Coast

☆ Gunshot Detection System Wastes N.Y.P.D. Officers’ Time, Audit Finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Alyce Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

ShotSpotter, a system the Police Department uses to detect gunfire, is overwhelmingly inaccurate and leads officers to spend hundreds of hours each month investigating nonexistent shots, according to an audit the New York City comptroller released Thursday. The Police Department has spent more than $45 million on ShotSpotter since it started using it in 2015, even as cities around the country have stopped using the system. New York must decide before December whether to renew its contract with SoundThinking, the California company that owns the system, and the audit advises officials to decline until the system can be fully evaluated. Of the 940 alerts officers responded to last June, only 13 percent corresponded to confirmed shootings. And in 2022, the audit found, the system also failed to detect more than 200 real incidents of gunfire in Manhattan.

Organizations: Police Department, New, The Police Department, SoundThinking Locations: New York City, New York, California, Manhattan

☆ James Chance, No Wave and Punk-Funk Pioneer, Dies at 71
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

James Chance, the singer, saxophonist and composer who melded punk, funk and free jazz into bristling dance music as the leader of the Contortions, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. His brother, David Siegfried, said Mr. Chance had been in declining health for years and succumbed to complications of gastrointestinal disease at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in East Harlem. Contortions songs like “I Can’t Stand Myself” and “Throw Me Away” filled the rhythmic structures of James Brown’s funk with angular, dissonant riffs, to be topped by Mr. Chance’s yelping, blurting, screaming vocals and his trilling, squawking alto saxophone. He was a live wire onstage, with his own twitchy versions of moves adapted from Brown, Mick Jagger and his punk contemporaries.

Persons: James Chance, David Siegfried, Chance, Terence Cardinal Cooke, James Brown’s, Chance’s, Brown, Mick Jagger Organizations: Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, Mr Locations: Manhattan, East Harlem, New York City

☆ Barbara Gladstone, 89, Dies; Art Dealer With a Personal Touch and Global Reach
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Barbara Gladstone, an art dealer whose eye for spotting talent and knack for nurturing it helped her to build one of the largest and most influential contemporary art galleries in New York, died on Sunday in Paris. She was 89. Her gallery said her death, in a hospital, was caused by an ischemic event, whose symptoms are similar to those of a stroke. Ms. Gladstone, who was on a working trip to Paris, lived in Manhattan. What brought these disparate artists together on her list was her abiding interest in them personally and the devoted way she husbanded their work.

Persons: Barbara Gladstone, Gladstone, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Elizabeth Murray, Matthew Barney, Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, Richard Prince, Robert Bechtle, Shirin Neshat, Wangechi Mutu, LaToya Ruby Frazier Organizations: Italian Arte Locations: New York, Paris, Manhattan, Italian

☆ 4 ways one couple turned their café into a nearly $50 million business
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"It was a small little dream that we had to open one cute, quaint, cozy coffee shop and café," owner Elisa Marshall told CNBC. AdvertisementIt was "a lot of sacrifice," Sormonte told CNBC, and "a lot of sweat and tears and love." Marshall told CNBC that they chose the name with the intent to create "the feeling of warmth and home." They struck a deal in 2020 with a private equity firm for "between $10 million and $20 million," CNBC reported. They also do catering and rent their café spaces for events — which together account for about 20% of Maman's yearly revenue, Marshall told CNBC.

Persons: —, Elisa Marshall, Maman, Marshall, Benjamin Sormonte, Sormonte Organizations: Service, CNBC, Business, Marshall, New York Magazine Locations: York, Canada, Manhattan, New York, Marshall, Spain, Ibiza, Southern France, Toronto, Sormonte

☆ Woman accuses luxury real estate broker Tal Alexander and his brother of raping her while their third brother watched
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Daniel Geiger | Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA woman has accused star real estate broker Tal Alexander and his brother Alon of raping her at a Manhattan apartment in 2012. Earlier this year, two other women filed separate lawsuits accusing Alon and a third brother, Oren Alexander, of rape. Tal and Oren Alexander cofounded the luxury real-estate brokerage Official. An attorney for Tal Alexander did not immediately return an email Tuesday seeking comment on the allegation. They also developed a reputation in the brokerage business for their aggressive approach in courting wealthy clientele and elbowing other brokers out of transactions.

Persons: —, Tal Alexander, Alon, Oren Alexander, Angelica Parker, Tal, Oren, Parker, vaginally, Sean Zanni, Patrick McMullan, Isabelle Kirshner, Kirshner, Michael Willemin, Angelica, Willemin, Douglas Elliman, Rebecca Mandel, Kate Whiteman, Evan Torgan, Mandel, Whiteman, everyone's, they'll, it'll Organizations: Service, Business, Partners, Hamptons Locations: Manhattan, New York, SoHo, NY

☆ ‘Cats’ Returns, Ditching the Junkyard for Queer Ballroom
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of May, the Perelman Arts Center posted a clip on social media of “Jellicle Cats,” the catchy, effervescent opening number from the musical “Cats.” It showed a group of queer performers catwalking in a rehearsal room before breaking apart to freely dance and vogue. One singer wore a cap winkingly topped with feline ears; another stared down the camera and twirled her ponytail with declarative swagger. This was the first real glimpse of a new, ballroom-inspired revival of “Cats,” running through July 28 at PAC NYC, as the Perelman Center in Manhattan is known. Since it was announced nearly a year earlier, the show had been a subject of skepticism and mocking humor: “Cats” was ridiculous enough, but ballroom? Then the “Jellicle Cats” clip went viral, and jaws dropped.

Persons: chimed, Ziwe, Justin Simien, “ Organizations: Perelman Arts, PAC NYC, Perelman Locations: Manhattan

Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte didn't want to be overly ambitious when launching a business in New York in 2014. Some items feature "a fun twist," Marshall says: The salted chocolate cookie sandwich with white chocolate ganache resembles a fancier, French version of an Oreo. Sormonte and Marshall didn't know how much launching a cafe in New York would cost, and ended up spending $250,000. The praise brought in waves of customers, and Maman brought in roughly $2 million in revenue during its first full year. And it was great," Marshall says, adding: "Next thing you know, we're the hottest cookie in New York."

Persons: Elisa Marshall, Benjamin Sormonte didn't, Marshall, Oprah Winfrey, Sormonte, — Marshall, childhoods, Armand Arnal —, Sormonte's, Marshall didn't, Maman Organizations: CNBC, Michelin Locations: New York, SoHo, Toronto, France, Montreal, Ibiza, Spain, New, Tribeca

☆ Donald Trump, Jan. 6 and Waiting for Justice in America - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Katherine Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There won’t be a trial anytime soon — or maybe ever — for Donald Trump on charges related to Jan. 6. If Mr. Trump is elected, there might not be a trial at all. One of the things a trial gives you is an answer: There is an ending to a trial. But on some level even a hung jury provides an answer: Here is tangible evidence of a societal inability to resolve this issue. There won’t even be an ending like that to Jan. 6, and if you think about it, there still isn’t a clean separation between the event and the politics of 2024.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump Locations: Manhattan

☆ How MBAs Are Skipping the Corporate Ladder to Become CEOs
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewWhat's the most sought-after job opportunity for graduating students of top business schools like Harvard Business School, Wharton at UPenn, and Stanford's Graduate School of Business? For the 2024 CIT program, which starts this summer, Alpine received 750 applications for just 12 slots, giving it an acceptance rate of 1.6%. Related stories"You're moving from Yale Law School and Harvard Business School to Jackson, Mississippi, to run a plumbing company," Anderman said as an example. Wurtzbacher also got invaluable leadership training from Weaver, a longtime professor at Stanford's Business School and winner of the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2024. The CIT program is so attractive to them because it offers a clear path to doing this by leading a company.

Persons: —, Wharton, David Wurtzbacher, Wurtzbacher, Tal Lee Anderman, Graham Weaver, Weaver, JP, Graham, Anderman, they're, they've Organizations: Service, Harvard Business School, Stanford's Graduate School of Business, McKinsey, Business, Investors, Harvard, Stanford Business School, Green, Partners, CIT, Alpine's CIT, Wharton, Alpine, BI, Yale Law School, Alpine's San, Stanford's Business School, Stanford Locations: UPenn, San Francisco, Stanford, Manhattan, America, Jackson , Mississippi, Alpine's, Alpine's San Francisco, York, Carolinas, Virginia

☆ An NYU freshman is suing her roommate, accusing her of stealing over $50,000 of her luxury belongings
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The 19-year-old daughter of a Russian mining magnate is suing her NYU roommate. The lawsuit claims the roommate stole about $51,000 worth of luxury items, including a ruby ring. According to the suit, she sold some of the items on The RealReal — a secondhand marketplace. AdvertisementAurora Agapov, the daughter of a Russian-American mining magnate, has accused her New York University roommate of stealing more than $50,000 worth of luxury handbags and jewelry from her. In a lawsuit filed on May 31 in Manhattan's Supreme Court, Agapov, a 19-year-old freshman, claimed that her 18-year-old roommate, Kaitlyn Fung, sold some of the items on The RealReal — a secondhand luxury marketplace.

Persons: —, Kaitlyn Fung Organizations: NYU, Service, New York University, Business Locations: Manhattan's

☆ Fisker files for bankruptcy protection in wave of EV startups, moment of déjà vu for its founder
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Henrik Fisker stands with the Fisker Ocean electric vehicle after its unveiling at the Manhattan Beach Pier ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show and AutoMobilityLA in Manhattan Beach, California. The new filing comes after the Fisker company failed to secure an investment from a big automaker to keep afloat. The automaker, unlike most of its peers, contracted a third-party manufacturer to build the Fisker Ocean crossover. Déjà vuFor Henrik Fisker, a renowned automotive designer credited with designing the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin DB9, it's déjà vu. His first namesake company – Fisker Automotive – filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013, shortly after he left the company.

Persons: Henrik Fisker, Patrick T, Fallon, Fisker, Nikola, Faraday, It's, Henrik Fisker's, Tesla, Sam Abuelsamid, Magna, Abuelsamid, Geeta Gupta, Gupta, Stephanie Valdez Streaty, Aston Martin, – Organizations: Manhattan, Los Angeles Auto, AFP, Getty, Lordstown Motors, Guidehouse, Software, U.S, Canadian, Apple, Adobe, SAP America, Manpower, Systems, CNBC, Cox Automotive, Fisker, Inc, BMW Z8, Aston, Aston Martin DB9, China's Wanxiang Locations: Manhattan Beach , California, EVs, U.S, North America, Europe

☆ New York’s highest court leaves Trump gag order in hush money case in effect
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Nicki Brown | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal on the gag order in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. The gag order, issued by Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case against Trump, remains in effect. Separately, Trump has asked Merchan to terminate the gag order ahead of his sentencing scheduled for July. Once that motion is filed, the court will again make a decision on whether to hear the case. If the Court of Appeals did find the gag order unconstitutional, Trump’s attorneys wrote it would “undermine the justification” for the fines Trump received for his violations.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Judge Juan Merchan, Trump, Merchan, Stormy Daniels, Todd Blanche, ’, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Gary Spencer, Trump’s Organizations: CNN, New, Trump, Manhattan, Attorney

☆ Inside the highly competitive training program that puts MBAs into a CEO role right after graduation — and is harder to get into than Harvard
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

☆ Trump gag order appeal dismissed by New York's top court
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

New York's highest court on Tuesday dismissed former President Donald Trump's appeal of the gag order in his criminal hush money trial. The New York Court of Appeals in a brief decision declined to hear Trump's bid "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved." The decision means Trump's gag order, which bars him from speaking about jurors, witnesses and other parties involved in the Manhattan Supreme Court case, remains in effect. Trump's attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, to terminate the gag order because the trial is over. The Trump campaign and the lawyer who filed the gag order appeal to the state's top court did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump's, Judge Juan Merchan, Merchan Organizations: New York, New, Appeals, Manhattan Supreme, Manhattan District, Manhattan DA, Trump Locations: New York , New York, USA, New York, Manhattan

☆ Andy Sieg Could Be Citi's Next CEO If He Can Fix a Broken Wealth Business
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Andy Sieg shocked the finance industry last spring when he left Merrill Wealth Management. AdvertisementBank of America analyst Ebrahim Poonawala recently argued that Citi should consider selling the wealth business if it cannot improve its profitability. AdvertisementWhile Sieg has told Citi managing directors to manage up less, a former Merrill executive who worked under him said Sieg was adept at it. Former Citi managing directorAdvertisementVahid's position will be taken by Kris Bitterly, the global head of investment products, in September. Mirroring tactics that supercharged Merrill, Sieg has changed Citi Wealth's compensation scheme to prioritize asset gathering, to the consternation of several employees.

Persons: Andy Sieg, Kevin Crain, Sieg, Crain, Jane Fraser, Fraser, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Smith Barney, Ebrahim Poonawala, Wells, Mike Mayo, Brian Moynihan, Alex Wong, Moynihan, Fraser isn't, Mayo, anoint, Jamie Dimon, Jennifer Piepszak, Marianne Lake, Viswas Raghavan, Jane, He'd, George H, Bush, Bill Schreyer, Merrill Lynch, Dave Komansky, David Komansky, YOSHIKAZU TSUNO, Phil, Doug, Lord Abbett, David Poole, Citi's, there's, That's, Poole, Glenn Schorr, Jim O'Donnell, O'Donnell, Sieg's, Andy Sieg's, Naz Vahid, David Bailin, Bailin, Naz, Phil Waxelbaum, Vahid, Kris, Don Plaus, Keith Glenfield, Dawn Nordberg, Edward Jones, They're, Ernst & Young, he's Organizations: Merrill Wealth Management, Business, Citi, Bank of America, Morgan, BI, Merrill, Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Harvard, Penn State, JPMorgan Advisors, United Arab, Citi . Citi, Work, Citi lifer, Former Citi, North, Citi Alliance, Citi Wealth, Bloomberg, Ernst &, Citizens Bank Locations: Sieg, Wells Fargo, Merrill, Bellefonte , Pennsylvania, Poole, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, London, Aventura , Florida, Asia, Manhattan, North America

☆ Trump Isn’t Choosing a V.P. He’s Casting a Reality Show. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Ramin Setoodeh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The public jockeying by various candidates to become Donald Trump’s running mate has taken on the air of a circus. Vance of Ohio; Senator Rick Scott of Florida; Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; the businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; and others. Mr. Trump’s search is playing out more like an open cattle call audition. But Mr. Trump is always governing for the cameras — his favorite constituency. Mr. Trump was America’s first reality-TV president, and now he’s reviving the hits: He’s turned the veepstakes into a reboot of “The Apprentice.”

Persons: Donald Trump’s, J.D, Vance of Ohio, Rick Scott of, Tommy Tuberville, Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump, Tim Scott, unvarnished, He’s, ” Locations: Manhattan, Rick Scott of Florida, Alabama

☆ ‘Wheatfield’: Agnes Denes has reimagined her landmark artwork
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Out west, Denes hopes to plant seeds of community with the help of the project’s host, Tinworks, an arts organization in the rapidly developing city of Bozeman. “Wheat is wonderful — it sustains humanity and is probably the most planted food next to rice. Jenny Moore/TinworksSome 200 packets of wheat were also distributed among Bozeman residents to grow concurrently with Denes' field. “Can you imagine if I could have realized 20 or 30?”Sowing seeds for changeAs with “Wheatfield,” seeds have often served as potent symbols for Denes. Courtesy Agnes Denes/Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + ProjectsWith “Wheatfield – An Inspiration,” like with all her work, Denes strives for nuance and to engender change through visitors and participants who take something meaningful from the work.

Persons: Agnes Denes, —, CNN —, Denes, Bozeman . Wheat, ” Denes, ”, Blair, Jenny Moore, Tinworks, Kenny Van Dyke, “, ” Moore, Agnes, Moore, I’d, it’s, Leslie Tonkonow, … Organizations: CNN, Art Basel, Bozeman ., Bozeman, Tinworks, Montana, “ Locations: Lower Manhattan, Montana, Wheatfield, Budapest, New York, Battery Park City, Milan, Switzerland, Bozeman, Montana State, Ylojarvi, Finland, ”, Sullivan County , New York, Lewiston, Niagara, Long Island , New York, Kassel, Germany, Istanbul, Egypt, Queens , New York, “ Wheatfield

☆ At this comedy show, tech workers are the butt of every joke
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But comments like these are par for the course at Socially Inept, a comedy show hosted by former tech employees who make the audience — which is largely made up of tech workers themselves — the material. Socially Inept was founded by Jesse Warren and Austin Nasso, two former Big Tech employees. AdvertisementNasso, Oster, and Warren met through Seattle's comedy scene when Nasso and Warren worked Big Tech jobs in the city. It makes it seem like you're in on the joke, even when you're also kind of the butt of the joke. And for the most part, it seemed like tech workers in the audience were very self-aware and took their roasts in stride.

Persons: —, She's, Peter Jay Sharp, Jesse Warren, Austin Nasso, Nikita Oster, Boston —, Nasso, Oster, Warren, Masha Oster, — Warren, Justin Bieber, James Franco, Tom Brady, revel, they're Organizations: Service, Business, Flatiron District, Union Square Ventures, Google, Big Tech, Boston, Microsoft, SpaceX, Valley Bank, Army, eBay, Tech Locations: New York, Hudson, Manhattan, San Francisco , LA, Miami, Seattle, LA, hurtfulness

☆ Biden campaign slams Trump as ‘convicted criminal’ in first ad seizing on former president’s legal woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Arlette Saenz | Sam Fossum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“In the courtroom we see Donald Trump for who he is. “And a president who is fighting for your family.”For months, Biden and his team refrained from using Trump’s legal woes in their arguments against him. The campaign has leaned into using the verdict as further evidence the former president is unfit for office and has branded him a “convicted felon” in statements. “For the first time in American history, a former president is convicted – a convicted felon. The ad push comes 10 days before Biden and Trump will appear on the debate stage at a CNN studio in Atlanta for the first in-person showdown of the 2024 campaign.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, ”, “, Donald Trump’s, Joe Biden’s, Trump, Donald Trump, He’s, –, ” Biden, Barack Obama, “ Trump, Michael Tyler Organizations: CNN, Biden Locations: Manhattan, New York, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Atlanta

☆ Analysts say to buy Best Buy stock for an AI device upgrade boost and a whole lot more
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Coming on Tuesday, Microsoft plans to start selling new AI-enabled laptops at Best Buy, with roughly 40% of Copilot+ PCs exclusive to the retailer. We think that high-end offerings like these will give Best Buy a much-needed boost in sales and later for its stock price, too. In Monday's note to clients, the analysts also said that Best Buy can get a "volume benefit from lowering prices on previous models of the same product." That's a key reason why we first initiated our position in Best Buy earlier this year. People walk past a Best Buy store in Manhattan, New York City, November 22, 2021.

Persons: I'm, it's, Jeff Marks, Marks, we've, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Andrew Kelly Organizations: UBS, CNBC, Club, Microsoft, Federal, 1Q Locations: Friday's, Manhattan , New York City

☆ Top Real Estate Brokerage Rattled by Sexual Assault Claims
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than a decade, Oren Alexander was one of the biggest names in ultraluxury real estate in Miami and New York City. He helped to broker the record-setting 2019 purchase of a penthouse at 220 Central Park South, a deal closed for nearly $240 million. The real estate empire that he helped to build in the sky in multimillion-dollar perches of glass and steel in both cities is now crumbling under mounting allegations of violent sexual assault. Mr. Alexander, 36, was accused in two separate lawsuits filed earlier this year of sexually assaulting two women more than a decade ago. Oren’s identical twin brother, Alon, an executive in a private security firm, is also named as a defendant in both complaints.

Persons: Oren Alexander, Alexander, Alon Organizations: Hamptons Locations: Miami, New York City, Manhattan

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