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☆ Drones are buzzing around US military bases, even forcing one to close its airspace. They reflect a growing problem.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A US base briefly closed its airspace heading into the weekend due to heavy nearby drone activity. AdvertisementDrone sightings near US military basesWithin the past few weeks, there have been multiple confirmed drone sightings near two military installations in New Jersey, as well as reports of drones near US Coast Guard operations and critical infrastructure. AdvertisementUS Air Force F-16 Viper Demonstration Team members perform a show launch at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in June 2024. US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Meghan HuttonWright-Patterson hosts the Air Force Research Laboratory, the 655th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing, and the 445th Airlift Wing, as well as other units. These came amid a string of reported drone activity along the East Coast over the past month.

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CNN —Police have identified the shooter in Monday’s attack on a Madison, Wisconsin, private Christian school as a 15-year-old female student, as they investigate the latest school shooting to devastate an American community, claiming the lives of a staff member and another student. Natalie Rupnow – who went by the name “Samantha,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said – was found dead when officers responded to Abundant Life Christian School. Evidence suggests the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Barnes said at a news conference late Monday. It’s unclear whether the shooter’s parents owned or possessed the gun used in the shooting, Barnes told CNN. Two such cases followed school shootings at an Oxford, Michigan, high school in 2021 and a Winder, Georgia, high school in September.

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☆ The 15 most and least expensive cities in the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ten of the 15 most expensive metros based on regional price parity data for 2023 were in California. The most expensive US metros are commonly found in California, while many of the least expensive ones can be found in the South. That means prices were 13% more expensive than the national average, making it one of the metros with the highest regional price parities. California was 12.6% more expensive than the national average in 2023, making it the state with the highest regional price parity. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was around 20% less expensive than the national average, making it the metro with the lowest regional price parity in 2023.

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An ATF officer works the scene of a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 16. WMTVThe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is on the scene of a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, as officials work to learn more about the gun that was used. Police said on Monday that the suspected shooter was believed to be a student at Abundant Life Christian School. The suspect was found dead inside the building, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. This post has been updated with additional information from the ATF.

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☆ China’s weak consumption drags on economy as Trump tariff threat looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

US President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to impose tariffs exceeding 60% on Chinese goods could push Beijing to accelerate plans to rebalance its $19 trillion economy, analysts said. However, retail sales, a gauge of consumption, grew at its weakest pace in three months at 3.0% last month, much slower than a 4.8% rise seen in October. “Worries about the poor retail sales may be overdone, as it results from an early start of the ‘Double 11’ shopping festival which frontloaded sales to October,” said Xu Tianchen, senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. “If we smooth the October-November data, then growth should average around 3.9%, which is higher than the previous months,” he added. On Monday, Moody’s Ratings raised China’s GDP growth forecast to 4.2% from 4% for 2025.

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☆ This in-demand job can pay over $100,000 and doesn’t require a degree—companies have a 'huge' need for it, says Google exec
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

If you want to earn six figures while working from home, you might want to consider a career in data analytics. Data analytics was one of the most sought-after skills this year, according to a June 2024 report from freelance marketplace Upwork. On Google, searches for "data analytics skills" and "data analytics jobs" have hit a five-year high in 2024. There are currently close to 300,000 unfilled data analytics jobs in the U.S., Gevelber added. Here's how to land a job in data analytics — and where to find the best opportunities:

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☆ We're downgrading Broadcom after shares go parabolic. A rival chipmaker is a buy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. China and Starbucks : Some consumer stocks with strong China ties are taking a hit after another string of disappointing economic numbers. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ Is that a drone or an airplane? How to check what's flying overhead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

You can use websites like FlightRadar24 and ADS-B Exchange to check some of the aircraft overhead. Mysterious drones flying over the US East Coast have sparked concern and skepticism among locals and government representatives. National security officials have repeatedly stressed that many of the reported drone sightings are "actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully." Flight paths can differ depending on the route and winds, but flight-tracking websites can give you the best idea of what's flying overhead. AdvertisementThe aircraft lights on a Frontier Airbus aircraft flying at night.

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☆ Bernie Sanders says Amazon's warehouse worker injury rates are far worse than the company lets on
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Bernie Sanders says Amazon's focus on speed leads to "uniquely dangerous" workplaces. In a new report, which Amazon disputes, Sanders says its injury rates are worse than it lets on. Only 40% of Amazon's warehouses have that number of workers, it said. The comparison is likely more favorable as "the injury rate for the subcategory of large warehouses is consistently higher than the overall injury rate for the entire warehousing industry," according to the report. The report attributed much of the elevated injury rates to Amazon's "obsession with productivity and speed," which it said drives workers beyond safe limits.

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☆ China's November retail sales miss expectations as real estate slump deepens
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Anniek Bao | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

China's retail sales disappointed in November as sentiment in the real estate market weakened further, in another sign that Beijing's efforts to boost the economy have failed to revive sluggish demand. Retail sales rose by 3% in November from a year ago, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Monday, missing the forecast of 4.6% in a Reuters poll. The slump in real estate investment for the January to November period deepened, shrinking by 10.4% from a year ago, following a 10.3% decline reported in the January to October period. Consumer and business confidence has been hit by a prolonged property downturn, local government debt risks and high unemployment. "The stimulus effect has been short-lived," My Bui, economist at investment management firm AMP said in an email.

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☆ Have you ever wanted to run away from your life? Why this phenomenon is more common than you think
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Amanda Musa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Oftentimes, law enforcement designates these individuals as voluntary missing persons, McCabe said. This month, Kobayashi was declared a voluntary missing person after Los Angeles police say she traveled to the US-Mexico border and crossed into Mexico alone. SometimesLocal law enforcement agencies across the country are responsible for investigating missing persons cases, according to McCabe. Missing persons investigations often involve forensic analysis, gathering cell phone data and requesting search warrants, he said. For every voluntary missing person who is found, there is another who is never located.

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☆ Food prices are on the rise again. What’s behind the increase
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

And more increases appear to be coming down the pike for the pulped-paper-packed protein: Wholesale prices for chicken eggs soared by nearly 55% last month, and wholesale food prices rose by 3.1% (their highest monthly increase in two years). “Overall grocery price inflation is relatively tame; it’s essentially in line with where it was before the pandemic … nothing alarming,” said Gregory Daco, EY Parthenon’s chief economist. Through November, grocery prices were up 1.6% from the year before, according to the latest CPI report. That breakneck pace resulted in grocery prices being 27% higher now than they were in February 2020, before the onset of the pandemic in the US. “That’s the difficult part — you’re unlikely to see food prices fall significantly and revert to 2019 levels,” Daco said.

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☆ Why the U.S. government is saying all citizens should use end-to-end encrypted messaging
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Secure messaging apps use end-to-end encryption to protect communications from hackers, surveillance and unauthorized access, so even messaging app providers can't read your messages. There are also paid messaging apps that are end-to-end encrypted, such as Threema. For example, RCS messages using Google Messages are automatically upgraded to end-to-end encryption, but Apple's implementation of RCS on iPhones is not end-to-end encrypted, Horwitz said. For example, Facebook Messenger offers end-to-end encrypted messages, but not in all cases. The app supports end-to-end encryption when messaging other users using Google Messages over RCS, according to the company.

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☆ This real estate stock may have been unfairly hit by fears of DOGE's spending cuts
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Jason Gewirtz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Trading under the stock symbol DEA, the company operates 100 government leases across the country, and 98% of its revenue comes from those buildings. DOGE, as the advisory council being led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy is more commonly known, aims to slash $500 billion dollars in federal spending. "Our leases are in DEA and FDA drug labs, where we help analyze things like fentanyl before it is admitted into evidence in a court case. DEA mountain 2024-11-05 Easterly Government Properties which has highly exposed to government leases has seen shares drop since the election. Jonathan Hughes, an analyst Raymond James, agreed the dividend is problematic, but said concerns about the stock are "overblown."

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☆ Trump dares Republicans to challenge his playbook on RFK Jr., Gabbard and Patel
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

There was, however, no sighting of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to run the Health and Human Services Department. Will Trump deploy the Hegseth playbook on Gabbard, Patel and Kennedy? Outgoing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warned Friday that anyone seeking Senate confirmation should avoid “appearance of association with” efforts to discredit proven medical cures. President Trump ran on disrupting permanent Washington and having people who are going to view things differently,” he added. Graham, meanwhile, signaled support for Patel, despite the former Capitol Hill staffer’s past vows to purge the FBI and to go after Trump’s political opponents and journalists.

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☆ 'This has gone too far': N.Y. Gov. calls for federal assistance after mysterious drones shut down airport runways
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Mysterious drones in New York temporarily shut down runways at an Orange County airport, a frustrated governor said, calling for federal assistance and declaring that "this has gone too far." The New York Stewart International Airport was forced to close runways Friday night for about an hour "due to drone activity in the airspace," Gov. The drones have been spotted over New York, New Jersey, and other states in the Northeast, sparking concern and confusion. Hochul said she directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively investigate the sightings and coordinate with federal law enforcement to address the drones. "Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential.

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☆ How many people work for the federal government?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Cut federal workers? The current effort, run by Ramaswamy and Musk, has made a show of eyeing the size of the federal workforce. Hold on a secIn those 40 years of explosive population, spending and debt growth, the size of the federal workforce – this is actually kind of shocking – has stayed pretty much the same, confounding the popular presumption that the number of federal workers must have skyrocketed with federal spending. In fact, the number of full-time federal workers has been relatively static, within a few hundred thousand civilians, since the 1960s. Bush administration and of the federal workforce by hundreds of thousands during the Clinton administration did not markedly change the size of the federal workforce, which has hovered within a few hundred thousand of 3 million workers for decades.

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☆ Everything we know about the 'mystery drones' spotted over the East Coast
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Dozens of unidentified aircraft have been spotted over cities in the eastern United States. AdvertisementWhere have residents reported unidentified aircraft? Residents and officials have reported spotting unidentified aircraft, believed to be drones, flying above New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania in recent weeks. There have also been reports of suspected drones following a US Coast Guard vessel, as well as local police statements on the presence of unidentified aircraft near critical infrastructure. Singh said that the Pentagon has no evidence that the reported drone sightings are the work of a foreign adversary.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case about whether a charitable group linked with the Catholic Church can claim a religious exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax system. The Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior appealed after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in March that its activities are not religious in purpose, meaning the various groups it controls could not obtain the same exemption that strictly religious entities can get. The Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission had concluded that the charitable groups were not “operated primarily for religious purposes” under Wisconsin law. The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority that is often solicitous of religious claims. Groups representing various Christian denominations and people of other religious faiths, including Jews and Sikhs, also asked the court to take up the case.

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☆ Victims ‘shocked’ after Biden grants clemency to ‘kids-for-cash’ judge and $54 million embezzler
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

His house arrest was set to end in 2026. She was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison, nearly the maximum, though she moved to house arrest during the pandemic. She was supposed to be on house arrest until 2028, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Many of these people have since completed their sentences, though plenty remain on house arrest. With grumblings among some Republicans about sending these convicts back to prison, Love said Biden “simply cleaned out this population” and took that option off the table.

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☆ Luigi Mangione reward money: Tipster in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting needs to wait for payout
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But the tipster who called 911 on Luigi Mangione needs Mangione, who was arrested Monday and accused of the killing, to be convicted before they get the money. AdvertisementAn ordinary Crime Stoppers reward is under $3,500. AdvertisementEven though that person didn't call Crime Stoppers directly, they can still potentially receive the reward, according to the foundation spokesperson. Those details "would be ironed out between Crime Stoppers and the police foundation," the foundation spokesperson said. AdvertisementThe ordinary NYPD Crime Stoppers procedure is designed to be completely anonymous to protect tipsters.

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☆ 'The Kings of Tupelo' explains a wild attempt to kill Obama. Here is where the would-be assassin is now.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

James Everett Dutschke, a former Taekwondo instructor, sent poisoned-laced letters in an attempt to kill President Barack Obama in 2013. Netflix explains how the bizarre set of events unfolded in its latest true crime docuseries, "The Kings of Tupelo." It culminated in an April 2013 attempt kill Obama as well as Roger Wicker, a US Senator from Mississippi, and a local judge. AdvertisementDutschke sent letters to the trio that were dusted with the poison ricin. James Everett Dutschke is serving a 25-year prison sentence for sending the ricin lettersJames Everett Dutschke and two US Marshals in 2014.

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☆ Peter Thiel says he wouldn't take a 'full-time' Trump administration job: 'I'd be depressed and crazy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Peter Thiel has been a major Trump supporter and spent big to help elect JD Vance to the Senate. He said he's not interested in working in Trump's new administration — at least full-time. "I'm not going to do anything on a full-time basis," Thiel said on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," an online talk show. AdvertisementAs Trump has begun staffing his new administration, he's plucked a handful of figures from tech world. It isn't a full-time role for Musk, and DOGE won't have any formal authority on its own.

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☆ One map shows how expensive it is to live across the country
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementThe Bureau of Economic Analysis published new regional price parity data on Thursday that showed how expensive it is to live in different areas of the US. The following map shows overall regional price parities, where a value over 100 means it was above the national average. California metros also made up the majority of the top 10 that had the highest all-items regional price parities in 2023. The metro area of San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley had the highest at 118.2, meaning it was almost 20% more expensive than the national average. Arkansas continued to have the lowest regional price parity and was 13.5% less expensive than the national average in 2023.

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☆ Who would pay $38,000 to own Mark Zuckerberg's gold chain? This guy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The anonymous winner bid $40,500 — but Aaron White was close with his $38,000 bid. How much would you pay to look like Mark Zuckerberg? "So it's a tiny, tiny slice of some form of American history." Aaron White bid $38,000, but says he would've bid up to $45,000, for Mark Zuckerberg's gold-plated chain. Of course, the question is: If you owned Mark Zuckerberg's used gold chain, would you actually wear it?

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