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☆ Elon Musk says DOGE's work will be public — legally, it has to be
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Legal experts say it is obvious that Elon Musk's DOGE falls under a federal transparency law. Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that they would not officially join the Trump administration. Musk has already said that DOGE is looking for staffers willing to work 80-plus hours a week for no money. Musk wrote on X. Musk is already getting to work on DOGE.

Persons: Elon, Donald Trump, Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ramaswamy, Jason Arnold, Obama, Bowles, Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Sen, Alan Simpson of, Trump, William Joseph McGinley, It's, Axios, Arnold, McGinley, Tricia McLaughlin, Clinton, Hillary Clinton's, George W, Bush's, Dick Cheney, Ken Lay, John Boehner, Boehner, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joni Ernst, Mike Johnson Organizations: Elon Musk's, Federal Advisory, Department of Government, Securities and Exchange Commission, FAA, Congress, Trump, Virginia Commonwealth University, Republicans, Democrats, Democrat, White House, Republican, Social Security, Capitol Hill, Congressional Research Service, USA, Enron, Federal, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Capitol Locations: Alan Simpson of Wyoming, Marjorie Taylor Greene of, Iowa

☆ Ozempic Scams, Sketchy Weight Loss Products Are Tricking Americans
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

For people struggling with their weight, these drugs can seem like a miracle. AdvertisementThe marketplace is awash in companies trying to ride the Ozempic wave by selling compounded semaglutide, knockoff drugs, and similar-sounding supplements. Even big-name telehealth companies are sending medications to patients without a lot of supervision. To ward off telehealth companies, Eli Lilly cut the price of Zepbound for certain patients who order directly from the company, though the drug is still pricey. She's switched providers — she's now getting her medication from Hers — and continues to shed weight.

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☆ My son is in his first semester in college. I want to give him space, but I also miss talking to him every day.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Erika Ebsworth-Goold | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My son is in his first semester of college, and we never talked about a communication schedule. AdvertisementDropping my son off at college this fall was tough. Related Video What new Citadel military college "knobs" go through on day one at the controversial schoolIn the weeks since, I've adjusted fairly well to my empty nest. AdvertisementBecause we never really formalized a comms plan, I still find myself hesitating when it comes to contacting my son. AdvertisementThere are other ways to connectWhile we no longer speak every day, I've kept in touch with my son in other ways.

Persons: he's, I've, I'm, FaceTime, Don't, it's, He's Organizations: Citadel

☆ Analysis: How Marco Rubio could raise the stakes for Cuba if he becomes secretary of state
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Patrick Oppmann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Havana, Cuba CNN —For more than 60 years Cuba has buckled under US economic sanctions and its own government’s missteps. The son of Cuban exiles, Rubio has long made it his mission to ramp up the US trade embargo on Cuba. If confirmed, Secretary of State Rubio will face far more pressing issues like Russia’s war in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East and countering growing Chinese influence in the world, particularly in Latin America. As secretary of state, Rubio could run point on devising additional economic sanctions on Cuba, increasing funding for dissidents and pro-democracy programs that Havana considers tantamount to regime change, and further restricting US travel to Cuba. During the first Trump administration, “Rubio called the shots on Cuba,” a US diplomat who did want to be quoted by name told CNN.

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☆ My husband likes to keep everything, and I prefer minimalism. A home remodel helped us learn to declutter together.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Camilla Richardson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A home remodel forced us to face the clutter, and now, we communicate much better. Now imagine the opposite of my personality in the clutter department, and you have my husband. My attempts to purge items didn't go well. I didn't know how to be kind in my panic, and he didn't want things to change. He had emotional attachments to things that I didn't understand, but it didn't mean I was right in demanding that they go.

Persons: Michelle Porter, Mary Poffenroth, it's, we'll, we've Organizations: Health

☆ DNA evidence helps identify woman’s killer 36 years after her death
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Maria Aguilar Prieto | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In 2005, the sheriff’s office renewed efforts to solve the crime by uploading the DNA sample to the FBI’s national genetic database, CODIS. The first breakthrough came in 2022, after the sheriff’s office received a grant from the state attorney general’s office. With this funding, they sent the DNA sample to Parabons NanoLab in Virginia for genetic genealogy testing. Twenty-six years after Tracy’s death, the sheriff’s office used lab data to identify John Guillot Jr. as her killer. Parabon NanoLabs tested the DNA sample and traced the suspect’s family lines to the 1700s.

Persons: CNN — Tracy Whitney, Tracy, Robin Whitney, ” Robin, Tracy –, “, “ I’d, ”, Robin’s, Robin, John Guillot Jr, Guillot Jr, Pierce, Lindsay Kirkegaard, Parabon NanoLabs, Guillot, John Guillot III, ’ Robin, we’ve, she’s, ” Tracy, It’s Organizations: CNN, Burger, Sheriff’s, Sheriffs, Golden State Locations: Sumner , Washington, Tacoma, Pierce, Virginia, Pierce County, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania

☆ 5 housing market predictions for 2025, according to economists
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

If fewer homes are built in a supply-constrained market, prices might grow much higher, said Channel. A stable rental market will also give renters more strength to negotiate with landlords. For instance: Austin, Texas was the "epicenter of multi-family construction," she said, meaning a lot of new supply was added into the city's rental market, bringing rental costs down. In contrast, supply-constrained metropolitan areas like Seattle, Washington, D.C., and New York City, are experiencing high rent growth of 5% annually. Mortgage rates declined this fall in anticipation of the first interest rate cut since March 2020.

Persons: Fairweather, Selma Hepp, Donald Trump, Jacob Channel, Redfin's Fairweather, Hepp, CoreLogic, Donald Trump's, Jessica Lautz, CoreLogic's Organizations: D.C, National Association of Realtors, CNBC Locations: U.S, Austin , Texas, Seattle , Washington, New York City, Florida , California, Texas

☆ Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour Book' sells more than 800,000 copies in first weekend
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

According to Circana, Swift’s “Eras Tour Book” sold 814,000 copies over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Swift also brought the three-hour “Eras Tour” concert film to movie theaters independently. Even some Swifties took issue with the book release — dubbing it “The Errors Tour Book” — after they spotted an abundance of grammar mistakes, typos, graphic design mishaps and blurry or low-quality photos. With her “Eras Tour Book” in hand, she asked, “If you’re paying $40 for a book, wouldn’t you expect it to not have this many errors?”Neither Target nor Swift’s team responded to requests for comment. The book is also “the highest-selling book in the Music category since Circana began tracking 20 years ago,” according to the press release.

Persons: Circana, ”, Swift, “, ‘ Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, ” Rick Gomez Organizations: Target, Disney, Poets Department

For the past four years, Texas has made itself an adversary of the White House on immigration. “We’re actively looking at the properties we have around the state and seeing if it works for the Trump administration,” Buckingham told NBC News. Buckingham also said that Texas would look to help guide the incoming administration’s policies on border security. Scott Stephen Ball for The Washington Post via Getty Images fileThe Trump administration is listening. But legal experts, including Su, are watching to see if Trump’s Department of Justice backs off from that and other legal challenges on Texas’ immigration policies that were undertaken by the Biden administration.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Biden, Donald Trump, White, Dawn Buckingham, Trump, “ We’re, ” Buckingham, “ We’ve, Buckingham, Tom Homan, Scott Stephen Ball, ” Tom Homan, Trump's, Abbott, ” Abbott, Joe Biden’s, ”, Andrea Flores, Obama, “, Flores, Rick Su, ” Flores, ” Su, Su Organizations: White, Republican, Democratic, NBC News, Eagle, The Washington, Getty, U.S, Immigration, Customs, Trump, Biden, Denver, University of North, Lone Star, Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety, Trump’s Department, Justice, “ Locations: Texas, U.S, Mexico, Washington, Rio Grande, El Paso, United States, America, ” Texas, “ Texas, FWD.us, New York, Chicago, University of North Carolina

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad did not seize an opportunity to reconcile his relationship with the Syrian people during a period when the country’s civil war had quietened, according to Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. “We didn’t see any serious movement on the return of the refugees or reconciling with his people,” Al Thani said. Rebel forces in Syria are currently advancing quickly to capture cities previously controlled by Assad in both the north and south of the country. “Our worries (are) that this will bring us back to the old cycles of internal violence and civil war, which would threaten the territorial integrity of the state of Syria,” he said. “Honestly it’s going to damage and destroy what’s left if there’s no sense of urgency to start putting a political framework to what’s happening over there.”

Persons: Bashar al, Assad, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, ” Al Thani, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, ”, what’s Organizations: Qatari Locations: Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Doha, Qatar’s, Syria

Syrian rebels claimed to have seized a key southwestern city close to the border with Jordan as on Saturday they pressed on with a lightning-fast offensive that threatens to further destabilize a region already convulsed by war. "Once they get Homs, then really Damascus is cut off and they'll all be centered around Damascus and Latakia on the coast." But Hellyer said there was not yet a definitive outcome to the conflict despite the rebels' rapid advance. The collapse of government control in Daraa and the threat to Homs signals a growing vulnerability in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s hold on power. The observatory says more than 820 people, including 111 civilians, have been killed across the country since the rebels began their offensive.

Persons: “, Bashad Al, Assad, OMAR HAJ KADOUR, Hellyer, hasn't, Bashar Al, Deir, Israel Organizations: NBC, Syrian, Human Rights, ”, Getty, Royal United Services Institute, NBC News Locations: Jordan, Daraa, Hayat Tahrir, U.K, “, ”, Hama Saturday, BAKR, AFP, Syria, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Russia, Iran, Tartus, Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, H.A, London, Latakia, Idlib, Raqqa, Jaber, Golan

Jupiter on Saturday will shine at its brightest for the year, as Earth’s orbit swings our planet between Jupiter and the sun. As night falls, Jupiter will rise in the east-northeast, among the stars that make up the constellation of Taurus, according to NASA. These stars can be seen all season long and often feature prominently in the winter sky. To spot the Winter Triangle, first look for the three stars that make up Orion’s belt. Slightly lower and to the left of the belt will be Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

Persons: Galileo Galilei, Procyon Organizations: NASA, Sirius, Orion, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere Locations: Northern

☆ Is Red No. 3, the artificial food dye, safe? FDA may finally move to ban it
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

The Food and Drug Administration may finally move to ban artificial red food dye, the coloring found in beverages, snacks, cereals and candies. This means that thousands of products that contain this chemical can remain on the market.”Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, has claimed food dyes cause cancer, but has not said what he would do if confirmed to the Cabinet post — if anything — about artificial food dyes in American food. The European Union requires a warning label on products that contain three artificial food dyes approved in the U.S.:Yellow No. “All the colors listed have recently undergone assessments for safety in food by the JECFA and were found to be safe for use in food under current use conditions.”States already banning the artificial food dyesStates are already putting pressure on manufacturers to remove artificial dyes from food and beverages. The law will ban six of the nine FDA-approved artificial food dyes –– Red No.

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☆ Democrats and Republicans in Congress worried that Gabbard might leak information to Syria
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +15 min

The aides were concerned Gabbard might leak the name of the defector, who had hidden his identity out of fear of reprisals from the Assad regime. In the past, Caesar had spoken privately to members of Congress without his face covered when Gabbard was not present. The Assad regime brutally crushed peaceful political protests in 2011, firing on unarmed demonstrators and carrying out mass arrests and torture. As the war intensified, Gabbard’s sympathetic statements about the Russian-backed Assad regime raised eyebrows and alarmed her colleagues. “She basically completely adopted the Assad regime propaganda, where she suggested falsely that the U.S. was supporting terrorist extremists in Syria, and didn’t mention that the Assad regime had been slaughtering fellow Syrians there,” the former official said.

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A high-profile violent crime typically sets social media abuzz with tips and theories from amateur internet sleuths, hunting for the alleged perpetrator. Thompson’s targeted killing has sparked online praise from people angry over the state of U.S. health care. A Gallup poll released Friday found that Americans believe health care quality is at a 24-year low. Those polled said health care coverage is even worse, with 54% saying it’s fair or poor. At least one person who did try to help find Thompson’s killer was criticized on X, formerly known as Twitter, for doing so.

Persons: Brian Thompson, “, ”, Michael McWhorter, ” Alex Goldenberg, Thompson, Thompson’s, Brian, “ Brian, Savannah Sparks, —, Sparks, isn’t, thatdaneshguy, Jan, Gabby Petito, sleuths, Petito, Brian Laundrie, Riley Walz, Walz, TizzyEnt, McWhorter, ” McWhorter, Sukrit, ” Venkatagiri, Venkatagiri, anecdotally Organizations: New York, Research, Rutgers University, NBC News, UnitedHealth Group, Gallup, Capitol, Citi, NYPD, Swarthmore College, Bureau of Investigations, New York Police Department . Police, Investigators, Police Locations: New York City, TikTok, U.S, Lyft, New York, Atlanta, Manhattan

☆ 4 people who bought and sold homes without a traditional real-estate agent break down how and why they did it
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Some predicted more people would forego hiring traditional real-estate agents for their deals. AdvertisementA 2023 court ruling against the country's biggest association of real-estate agents was expected to transform how Americans buy and sell homes. The majority of Americans hire a traditional real-estate broker to facilitate their transactions. Read on to hear from the four people who bought or sold homes this year via big companies or real-estate startups instead of a traditional agent. According to Kenneth Bloom, who's already sold two properties with Redy, the savings are significant compared to using a traditional real-estate agent.

Persons: brokerages, RISmedia, Redfin, it's, Chelsea Hutchison, Read, Hutchison, Melissa Gonzales, Opendoor, Josh Altman, Redy, Kenneth Bloom, who's, Bloom, he's, —, Sergio Rodriguez, Rodriguez, they'll, TurboHome Organizations: National Association of Realtors, Business, NAR, Opendoor, Realtors Locations: homebuyers, Canby , Oregon, Vegas, Waterford , Michigan, West Bloomfield , Michigan, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, California, California , Texas, Washington

☆ Distant wars waged by Israel and Russia changed Syria’s fortune. What comes next is impossible to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But the war of attrition has left Russia “incapable” of assisting Assad, even President-elect Donald Trump noted on Saturday. But this is one seized by Turkey, a NATO member which has dealt with the most fallout from Syria’s turmoil. Adem Altan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe unknowable impact of vast, fast change left Syria mired in half-policies and US inaction before. This may prove the swift and severe change that Syria needed to stabilize – a shaking of the carpet that leaves society smoother. Syria’s past 13 years have been so brutal it deserves exactly that.

Persons: George W Bush, Obama, Donald Trump, Bashar al, Assad, Ghaith, Sergei Lavrov, ”, Hayat Tahrir, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Erdogan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Adem Altan, Barack Obama, Trump’s Organizations: CNN, US, NATO, Syrian Democratic Forces, ISIS, Getty Locations: Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Ghouta, Beirut, Donetsk, Syrian, Russian, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Ankara, Turkish, Ireland, Afghanistan, AFP

☆ Most people probably won't notice when artificial general intelligence arrives
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some say OpenAI's o1 models are close to artificial general intelligence. Most people won't notice when AGI ultimately arrives, some AI experts say. AdvertisementSome say o1 shows how we might reach artificial general intelligence — a still theoretical form of AI that meets or surpasses human intelligence — without realizing it. "Most folks don't have a lot of tasks that bump up against limits of human intelligence, so won't see it." Tier 3, or "Artificial Focused Intelligence," is an AI that outperforms average human experts in specific, intellectually demanding tasks.

Persons: AGI, OpenAI, —, Wharton, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, we've, That's, Yann LeCun, Lex Fridman's, It's Organizations: o1, AMI

☆ We left corporate jobs and a 6-figure salary to travel full-time. It took years of saving.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Haley and Shane Mahabadi left corporate jobs and a six-figure salary to travel full time. The married couple planned and saved for years before heading to Southeast Asia. Haley left her corporate job in 2023 and Shane left his this year so they could travel. Haley: After graduating college in 2019, we did a two-and-a-half month-long backpacking trip through Southeast Asia. AdvertisementHaley and Shane Mahabadi left corporate America and are traveling full time in Southeast Asia.

Persons: Haley, Shane Mahabadi, Shane, We've, we're, Shane Mahabadi Shane, we'd, I'd, I'm, we'll, That's Organizations: Dish Network Locations: Southeast Asia, Denver, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, America, Northern Vietnam

☆ How much holiday cheer is too much? Investor enthusiasm on stocks running high into year-end
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

The trick, though, comes in trying to distinguish between a bull market feeding off rational fundamental positives and one that has grown so frisky as to be acutely risky. What's clear for sure is that we've entered the "belief" phase of this bull market, which is more than two years old yet is showing few of the telltale signs of ending very soon. Wall Street turns bullish Brokerage-house strategists as a group were far too cautious entering 2023, the S & P 500 staying ahead of the consensus target virtually all year. Yet we think there will be fewer checks when stocks are running up, creating the potential for risk appetite to turn frothy." Just normal bull market?

Persons: we've, Todd Sohn, Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, anecdotally, David Rosenberg, Rosenberg, YTD, Stephen Suttmeier, Goldman Sachs, DocuSign, industrials Organizations: telltale, Strategas Research, Wall, Rosenberg Research, Blackrock Investment Institute, Blackrock, Bank of America, Robinhood, Cloud Computing, Trump, Big Tech, Leuthold, Fed

☆ 'Selling $1 bills for $3': Why bond buyers and equity investors can't get enough of bitcoin-obsessed MicroStrategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

All they know is that it's a bitcoin company, run by one of the asset's most vocal evangelists. Bitcoin per share, and bitcoin value per share, reflect how many bitcoin investors are getting when they buy a share of MicroStrategy. So with a stock price of around $390, each MicroStrategy share gives investors exposure to 0.0017 bitcoin. There are several reasons, including that MicroStrategy's bitcoin count is steadily rising. Kotzman, who owns bitcoin and MicroStrategy shares, is confident that the company's bet — and, by extension, his own — will pay off in the long term.

Persons: Cryptocurrency maven Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy, bitcoin, who've, Michael Saylor, Saylor, Tim Kotzman, Steve Sosnick, Matthew Sigel, Sigel, They'll, they're, Kotzman, it's, Citron, That's Organizations: Nvidia, Business, BTC, Citron Research Locations: bitcoin, MicroStrategy

☆ Meet Kevin Weil, the Man Turning Sam Altman's Visions Into Reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Melia Russell | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

The event, the AI infrastructure conference Ray Summit, had originally booked OpenAI's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, to speak. If Sam Altman is the starry-eyed visionary of OpenAI, Weil is its executor. That includes Weil, a relative OpenAI newcomer who joined in June and rapidly became one of its most notable ambassadors. Former colleagues say Kevin Weil was key to turning Twitter into a crucial arena for advertisers. That's far from the only struggle the product chief faces.

Persons: Kevin Weil, OpenAI, Weil, Robert Nishihara, Ray Summit, Mira Murati, Sam Altman, Altman, He's, James Everingham, Sarah Friar, OpenAI's, Adam Bain, Everingham, Underwood, Slack, Elizabeth, Ashley Johnson, Brian Ach, TechCrunch Weil, Katie Jacobs Stanton, Kevin Systrom, Snapchat, Systrom, Instagram, Vox, Dario, Daniela Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Aravind Srinivas, Mira Murati's, Patrick T, Fallon, Jacobs Stanton, Horacio Villalobos, Corbis, Weil's, he's, there's, Niko Felix, Felix, Melia Russell Organizations: Marriott Marquis, Apple Watch, Ray, Facebook, Twitter, Planet, TechCrunch, CNBC, Meta, Wired, OpenAI, The New York Times, Ray Summit, Silvergate Bank, Getty, LinkedIn, Business Locations: downtown San Francisco, OpenAI, Instagram, Silicon Valley, California, Portola Valley, Central, ., Murati, ChatGPT, Seoul, Tokyo

However, authorities uncovered a backpack upon a second sweep of Central Park Friday evening, which awaits forensic lab testing in Queens, a law enforcement official told CNN. Investigators are also examining whether the shooter used a specialized weapon in the killing, Kenny told reporters Friday. The suspect traveled to New York City on a Greyhound bus that began its route in Atlanta, Kenny said Friday. The law enforcement source said most people on the list have been already been dismissed by using social media searches. The mandate is to continue to build a video timeline of every day the suspect was in the city, the source said.

Persons: Brian Thompson, Jessica Tisch, ’ We’re, We’re, ” Joseph Kenny, Kenny, ABC News Kenny, “, ”, ” Kenny, Andrew, ’ ”, John Miller, Anderson Cooper, ” Miller, Gideon Platt, Thompson, Miller, “ It’s, It’s Organizations: CNN, York, York City Police, NYPD, Authorities, FBI, Atlanta Police Department, Greyhound, Port Authority, Hilton, Hilton Midtown, ABC, ABC News, Police, UnitedHealth, UnitedHealth Group, Port, ’ ” CNN, Intelligence, West Locations: Manhattan, New York City, York City, Queens, Canada, Mexico, Atlanta, Jersey, Central Park, Minnesota, New York, British

☆ Holiday celebrations: What to do when you’re on your own
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

If you’re troubled by your situation, it’s OK to honor your feelings and keep the celebrations low-key or sit this holiday season out, experts say. This could be the holiday season in which you feel empowered to create new meaningful experiences with friends or the VIP in your life who is always there for you — yourself. Here’s how to figure out what’s best for you this holiday season. Silver encourages single people to “stop viewing your holiday season as a consolation prize.”Your holiday season isn’t insignificant, said Silver, who has been single for 17 years. Regardless of what you do, Silver said she hopes you have as happy a holiday as anyone else — and urges you to choose the holiday season plans that you have the emotional bandwidth to handle.

Persons: “, ”, Shani Silver, podcaster, Norman Rockwell, Ayanna Abrams, you’re “, Abrams, Adam Brown, Silver, Brown, you’ve, gifting, intangibles, can’t, ” Abrams Organizations: CNN, The New School for Social Research Locations: New Orleans, Atlanta, New York

☆ Insider Today: 'Brotox' on the rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On the agenda:AdvertisementBut first: How to win your company holiday party. We've all heard the same advice around this time of year when company holiday party invitations abound. When you arrive at your company's holiday party — and when you leave, for that matter — is just as important as the other oft-told advice you've probably heard. White-collar men's beauty secretsJuanjo Gasull for BIMen in corporate America want to look good at work — and they're spending thousands of dollars to do so. More of this week's top reads:AdvertisementThe Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City.

Persons: Gordon Ramsay's, Iuliia, We've, you've, Diane Gottsman, Alyshia Hull, Gottsman, Juanjo, Natalie Ammari, Don Saladinol, Tyler Le, Don Saladino, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Anne Hathaway, Saladino, Emily Hart, Kimbal Musk, Musk, Hugo Matheson, Tim Burton, Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Scoot, Rebecca Zisser, Dan DeFrancesco, Grace Lett, Lisa Ryan, Amanda Yen Organizations: Business, BI Men, The, Warner Bros Locations: Atlantic City , New Jersey, America, York, New York, Boulder , Colorado, Chicago, Denver, Austin , Texas, Boulder, New York City

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