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☆ Clooney and Roberts help Biden raise $30 million-plus at a star-studded Hollywood gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Barack Obama share a laugh during a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, on June 15, 2024. The fundraiser included singing by Jack Black and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and actors Kathryn Hahn and Jason Bateman introduced Kimmel, who himself introduced Biden and Obama. The president was fundraising "with out-of-touch elitist Hollywood celebrities," Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said. But Biden told the crowd in California that "we passed every major piece of legislation we attempted to get done." Earlier in the program, Kimmel noted Biden's campaign promise to restore the soul of America and said "lately it seems we might need an exorcism."

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☆ Meet the Professors Whose Porn Careers Cost Them Their Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Hallie Lieberman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

The porn videos had titles like "Juicy Anniversary" and "Bedroom Shenanigans." In search of a man for Wilson, Gow sought advice from his therapist, who suggested joining a swingers club. In the background, Video Gow is moaning "Oh yeah" as IRL Gow says, "I've always had some ED issues." As the video ends with the big finale — the money shot, as it's known in the industry — Video Gow stands above kneeling Video Wilson, arms outstretched. The termination letter said he had failed to properly report his income from the porn videos and had violated "prohibitions for using one's public position for private benefit."

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☆ How the Christ Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro became the symbol of Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Perched on the Corcovado – a 2,300-foot-high granite outcrop looming above the city – the Cristo Redentor (Christ Redeemer) statue sweeps its arms out in a warm embrace, welcoming visitors to the city of samba. “It is he who finds me when I arrive in Rio.”For over a century, the statue has been a symbol of Rio de Janeiro. Christ Redeemer bags are his top sellers, tied with those sporting the Sugarloaf Mountain. Deemed one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Christ Redeemer is Rio’s most visited attraction, says tour guide Cristina Arroio. Maybe that’s the ultimate miracle of the Christ Redeemer.

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☆ Biden Team Set to Raise Record $28 Million at Hollywood Fund-Raiser
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden’s campaign expects to collect more than $28 million at a gala Los Angeles fund-raiser packed with celebrities on Saturday night in a Hollywood show of force. Air Force One was expected to land in Washington only long enough to refuel for the continuing flight. The travel across 10 time zones illustrated the competing presidential and political demands on Mr. Biden’s time as the campaign against former President Donald J. Trump accelerates. Aides said the taxing schedule made clear that even at age 81, he still demonstrates the endurance to manage his many duties. The $28 million haul anticipated from Saturday’s event was set to break a party record, overtaking the $26 million Democrats brought in from a fund-raiser in March in New York featuring Mr. Biden along with Mr. Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

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☆ An unexpected generational realignment is scrambling the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A truism of American politics is that older voters prefer the Republican and younger voters prefer the Democrat. In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney lost the election, but he did better than Democrat Barack Obama among voters 45 and older. Older voters are gravitating to Biden, and younger voters are taking a look at Trump. But older voters have gone in the opposite direction, and instead of favoring Trump, are nearly split in the Marist poll. Despite the shift of older voters in the direction of Biden (and younger voters away from him), I was surprised to see older voters still have reservations about Biden’s age.

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☆ How a ‘Committed Partisan Warrior’ Came to Rethink the Political Wars
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Once, after he executed a particularly tough-minded legal attack on Republicans, Bob Bauer remembers, a conservative magazine called him an “evil genius.” He took it as a compliment. Mr. Bauer was their man. But now Mr. Bauer, the personal attorney for President Biden and previously the White House counsel for President Barack Obama, is looking back and rethinking all that. Maybe, in taking the “genius” part to heart, he should have been more concerned about the “evil” part. And in the process of thinking about what went wrong, Mr. Bauer, who calls himself a “committed partisan warrior,” has stopped to wrestle with his own role in the wars.

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☆ CFR's Michael Froman on key takeaways from the G7 summit
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCFR's Michael Froman on key takeaways from the G7 summitMichael Froman, Council on Foreign Relations President and former U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the key takeaways from this week's G7 meeting.

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☆ Donald Trump turns 78, a birthday he wishes ‘doesn’t exist’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Trump is now 78 years old. “Just remember what I’m telling you: 78 is not old,” Trump asserted to a New York Post gossip columnist almost two years ago. “This is a degraded version of an already horrible person,” Emhoff said in reference to Trump’s Vegas speech. The Biden campaign called Trump “feeble” on social media when the former president ended a post-meeting news conference after five minutes without taking questions. But the observations about Trump’s age and mental state are not just coming from inside the Biden campaign.

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☆ Live Updates: U.S. to Sign 10-Year Pact With Ukraine as G7 Leaders Meet
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( David E. Sanger | Steven Erlanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Mr. Biden and Mr. Zelensky will meet on Thursday and sign a security agreement, said Jake Sullivan, Mr. Biden’s national security adviser. Mr. Biden faces the hurdle of convincing his allies, starting with Mr. Zelensky, that the United States plans to stay in the fight with Ukraine, no matter what happens in November. Mr. Biden told Mr. Zelensky last week, in France, that “I apologize for the weeks of not knowing what was going to pass,” and put the onus on Republicans in Congress. During a trip to Normandy last week, Mr. Biden appeared to have persuaded France, one of the last holdouts, to support the deal. “The administration has been quick to get aid to Ukraine once Congress moved, and that’s to its credit,” he said.

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☆ Opinion: The G7 ‘family photo’ of world leaders tells a bigger story
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The annual G7 summit, a gathering of leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest democracies, used to be a staid, predictable affair. Tensions were about to explode in 2018, when G7 leaders met in Canada. Behind the smiles and waves, a fraught 2018 G7 summit in Canada. German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberates with US president Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 2018 G7 summit in Canada. German Chancellor Angela Merkel chats with a relaxed US President Barack Obama outside during the 2015 G7 summit in southern Germany.

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☆ Opinion: It’s ok to mock Biden and Trump for their age? Why that’s dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Opinion Arick Wierson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: Arick Wierson is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and former senior media adviser to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Guardian, for example, ran a headline, “Trump is too old and incited a coup. Yet any meaningful conversation about how we, as Americans, need to revisit our prejudices around age have been notably absent in this election. While the benefits are still unevenly distributed, new technologies continue to improve the quality of health care and Americans are once again living longer (after a slight dip during the pandemic.) Americans are not only living longer but better than ever before.

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☆ Google search head says 'we won't always find' mistakes with AI products and have to take risks rolling them out
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I don't think we should take away from this that we shouldn't take risks," Reid said. When we find new problems, we should do the extensive testing but we won't always find everything and that just means that we respond." Reid's comments come at a critical moment for Google, which is scrambling to keep pace with OpenAI and Microsoft in generative AI. "You may have seen stories about putting glue on pizza, eating rocks," Reid told employees at the all-hands meeting. Reid was introduced on stage by Prabhakar Raghavan, who runs Google 's knowledge and information organization.

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☆ Neither Biden nor Trump is seriously addressing the safety net crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“They’re both promising not to tackle the debt,” Ryan said, coming back to the issue that has animated his political career. Trump wants to extend all of the tax cuts, which could further explode the debt without corresponding spending cuts. When Trump and Republicans enacted the current tax structure, they made individual tax cuts temporary and most of the corporate tax cuts permanent. Biden has proposed additional taxes on those making more than $400,000 to address Medicare’s solvency, among other ideas, but does not have a detailed Social Security plan. The dirty little secret in all of this is, Medicare and Social Security are going insolvent on their own.

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☆ Opinion | Trump Would Be Long Gone if Only We Could …
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Thomas B. Edsall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A central predicament of President Biden’s campaign is how to persuade voters to abandon Donald Trump. “In 2012 the Obama campaign turned a nice guy, Mitt Romney, into a piece of crap,” Steve Murphy, a co-founder of the Democratic media firm MVAR Media, told me. “You can’t do that to Trump because everybody already knows he’s a piece of crap.”Not only do voters know that Trump is a liar and corrupt, narcissistic and venal; his supporters have repeatedly found ways to slide past his liabilities. In April, before the former president was convicted on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, and again this month, after he was found guilty, YouGov asked voters: “Do you think someone who has been convicted of a felony should be allowed to become president?”

Persons: Biden’s, Donald Trump, Obama, Mitt Romney, Steve Murphy, Trump, YouGov, ” Organizations: “, Democratic, MVAR Media, Trump, New Locations: New York

☆ Trump proposes a policy that could make tipping more annoying for everyone
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewDuring a rally in Nevada on Sunday, former President Donald Trump proposed eliminating taxes on income earned from tips. It could also mean consumers — many already experiencing tipping fatigue as tipping culture pervades more industries — would be asked to tip in additional situations so workers could receive untaxed income. AdvertisementA spokesperson for the Trump campaign told BI that, if elected, Trump planned to ask Congress to eliminate taxes on tips.

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☆ Biden plans Hamptons trip for campaign fundraisers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden is planning a fundraising swing through the ritzy New York seaside towns of the Hamptons later this month. The Rosensteins have combined to give $300,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, according to Federal Election Commission records. Glazer has donated $750,000 this year to the Biden Victory Fund. A spokesman for the Biden campaign did not return a request for comment. The money from the events will go toward the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising operation for the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and over a dozen state parties, a source explained.

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☆ Years of scrutiny for a president’s son culminate in guilty verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, his ex-girlfriend, his brother’s widow – with whom he had an affair – and his daughter all testified. Hunter Biden was administratively discharged, which is standard procedure when an officer fails a drug test. Did Joe Biden profit from his son Hunter’s career? It is a trade-off Hunter Biden has been experiencing for years. When Joe Biden was tapped as Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008, they made a point about not consorting with lobbyists.

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☆ Why oil companies are raking in record profits under Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Nearly four years ago, while campaigning in the runup to the last presidential election, Donald Trump warned that President Joe Biden would “destroy” the oil industry. In the last three and a half years, US oil production — and oil and gas company profits — have broken records. That’s a 160% jump compared to the first three years of the pro-big-oil Trump administration, according to calculations by CNN. However, in March, the Biden administration approved ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, which holds around 600 million barrels of oil, angering climate advocates. Despite his mixed record with oil and gas companies, though, Biden has presided over a historic run for the industry, Kloza said.

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☆ Biden's approval rating just hit its lowest mark on record
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden's approval rating remains severely underwater just under five months before Americans will render their verdict on his reelection bid. Joe Biden's approval rating has hit 37.4% in 538's average—an all-time low. https://t.co/sF8buXFup9 pic.twitter.com/lZcLTxOOw2 — Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) June 10, 2024On Monday, Biden notched the unpleasant distinction of recording his lowest-ever mark in FiveThirtyEight's weighted tracker of his approval rating with a 37.4% approval. According to FiveThirtyEight's weighted average, Trump has a 41.6% approval rating. Four other modern presidents had an average sub-50% approval rating at this same point in time.

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☆ Trump claims credit for Biden’s insulin price cap
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday recognized that the price of insulin is lower under President Joe Biden, but he still wants voters to credit his own administration. "Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. Insulin price caps have become a central piece of evidence for Biden's broader economic argument on the campaign trail against Trump. "And now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it!" For Trump's part, the former president signed an executive order in the last year of his administration to issue his own $35 price cap on insulin.

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☆ Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of Judge Aileen Cannon from veterans of her courtroom
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Judge Aileen Cannon had been on the federal bench for little more than a year when a senior judge offered to preside over one of her first criminal trials in her isolated south Florida courthouse. In her seven years as a Justice Department attorney, Cannon participated on the trial teams of just four criminal cases. Still, Cannon has asked questions in the Trump case that appear out of left field. Her orientation toward such legal rabbit holes is not distinct to the Trump case, veterans of her courtroom say. Ultimately, nearly every attorney CNN spoke to said that Cannon, despite the criticism, is unwavering in her beliefs about how each case in her courtroom should proceed.

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☆ U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Censures Iran and Demands Access for Inspectors
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Farnaz Fassihi | David E. Sanger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency on Wednesday censured Iran over its refusal to grant inspectors access to its uranium enrichment program, passing a carefully worded resolution after the United States toned it down in a bid to avoid provoking a crisis at a time in which the Middle East is already roiling. The resolution was sponsored by France, Britain and Germany in response to advances in Iran’s nuclear program over the past year and the Iranian’s government's refusal to cooperate with the agency. Russia has close security ties to Iran and purchases Iranian drones for the war in Ukraine. China is a close economic ally helping Iran evade sanctions by purchasing its oil at a discounted rate. Nine years ago, when Iran agreed to sharp limits on its nuclear program in a deal reached with the Obama administration and European nations, both Russia and China joined the effort to contain Tehran’s nuclear capabilities.

Persons: Obama Organizations: United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, United, Wednesday Locations: Iran, United States, France, Britain, Germany, Tehran, United Nations, Russia, China, Ukraine, Vienna

☆ Biden spoke so low during a key White House meeting that some attendees struggled to understand his words, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden during key January negotiations for a Ukraine funding deal spoke so low that some attendees had difficulty hearing him speak, according to The Wall Street Journal. AdvertisementBiden during the meeting also closed his eyes for such a duration that some wondered if he had shut out the meeting, per the report. When pressed on the issue, Biden has vigorously defended his age and his administration's accomplishments. And Democratic allies like Jeffries have also strongly vouched for Biden, telling the Journal that the president was "incredibly strong, forceful and decisive" in the January White House meeting. The White House strongly pushed back against the characterization of Biden as a poor performer, which spokesman Andrew Bates in a statement to the Journal said were "false and politically motivated claims."

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☆ Live Updates: Hunter Biden’s Former Partners Describe the Toll of His Drug Abuse
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

forward — rose in a Delaware courtroom to declare that the Justice Department’s sweeping immunity deal with Hunter Biden was not nearly as sweeping as the defense believed. His transfer coincided with efforts by congressional Republicans to portray Mr. Weiss — a Trump appointee held over by President Biden’s aides — as offering “a sweetheart deal” to the Bidens. In early 2023, he published a memoir covering the police trial, describing himself as “the prosecutor who took down Baltimore’s most crooked cops.”Mr. But he was passed over because it was believed he might clash with prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, they said. Ms. Monaco eventually chose another prosecutor from Maryland, Thomas P. Windom, to run the team.

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☆ Is the climate your top issue? Here's a guide to each candidate's stance.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

From the protection of lakes and streams to the battle to curb greenhouse gas emissions, many voters in the upcoming US presidential election want to see the federal government play an active role in climate issues. One thing is clear though: the lion's share of voters believe that climate change is real. AdvertisementThe latest quarterly survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication revealed that 72% of Americans believed that climate change was occurring, while only 15% disagreed. Related storiesHere's a look at President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump's positions on climate — which is poised to be a defining issue for Gen Z and millennial voters this fall. But President Donald Trump withdrew from the plan while in office, blasting it as detrimental to the US economy.

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