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☆ Mike Bloomberg warns making RFK Jr. HHS secretary risks killing Americans, urges Senate to reject him
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Just imagine if RFK Jr. had been in office during Trump's first term," Bloomberg said at the Bloomberg American Health Summit in Washington D.C."Would Operation Warp Speed have even happened? RFK Jr. initially ran for president in 2024 as a Democrat, but switched to an independent bid and later dropped out to endorse Trump. Bloomberg in Tuesday's speech appealed directly to U.S. senators not to confirm RFK Jr. to the Cabinet role in the next Trump administration. Bloomberg expressed hope that Senate Republicans will convince Trump to reconsider nominating RFK Jr. before they are asked to weigh in. But RFK Jr. has taken a similar tack, endorsing a plan that he says is intended to "Make America Healthy Again" alongside Republicans.

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☆ Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Art Cashin, UBS’ director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange and a man The Washington Post called “Wall Street’s version of Walter Cronkite,” has died. It was part of a persona that was carefully constructed over more than 50 years on Wall Street. Though he was a respected market historian, he was most renowned as a storyteller for the stock market. Those who are somewhat suspect, they do much better.”He had two great loves in his life: his family and the New York Stock Exchange. In the age of computerized trading, the fabled NYSE trading floor still survives, though in greatly diminished form.

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☆ Who is Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI director?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Jack Forrest | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI and an ardent supporter of the president-elect, has vowed to help dismantle the same organization he’s poised to lead. The FBI director must also be confirmed by the Senate, where members are already bracing for how they’ll navigate a slew of unorthodox Trump selections. As of late last week, some close to Trump believed it was a “toss-up” between Patel and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as to whom the president-elect would pick for FBI director, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Trump briefly floated Patel as a potential replacement for then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, whom he had considered firing after the 2020 election. Patel was also put in charge of the Pentagon transition effort for Trump’s first term, overseeing coordination with the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

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☆ French lawmakers table no-confidence motion that could topple government
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris CNN —French lawmakers said they had introduced a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday, setting up a vote that could see the far right topple his government within days. However, that maneuver in turn grants lawmakers the opportunity table no-confidence motions against him – and lawmakers on the left, who have repeatedly vowed to bring down Barnier’s government, did just that. She added a warning to French President Emmanuel Macron, writing: “We have tabled a motion of no confidence. “We are going to support this no confidence vote because the French have had enough of being mistreated. They thought things would change with Barnier, but it’s worse,” Le Pen told reporters on Monday.

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☆ New findings from Sam Altman's basic-income study challenge one of the main arguments against the idea
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New findings from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's basic-income study found that recipients valued work more after receiving no-strings-attached recurring monthly payments, challenging a long-held argument against such programs. Altman's basic-income study, which published initial findings in July, was one of the largest of its kind. Critics say basic income programs — whether guaranteed or universal — won't be effective because they encourage laziness and discourage work. AdvertisementBroockman said the study's results can offer insights into how future basic income programs can be successful. AdvertisementConservative lawmakers in places like Texas, South Dakota, and Iowa have moved to block basic income programs, with much of the opposition coming from fears of creeping "socialism."

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“In the law, there is a clear separation of church and state,” Childs, an attorney who represents the Houston area on the board, said of her decision. This year, Oklahoma’s top education official began ordering public schools with students in grades five through 12 to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, a Republican, has purchased 500 Bibles and asked for $3 million from the state to buy copies for every classroom. “Public school is not Sunday school,” Wright said. Childs, the Texas State Board of Education member, sees the current push for increased religious influence in public schools as concerning, as it comes amid a dialing back of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at companies and institutions.

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A national CBS News/YouGov poll conducted last week found that 71% of people plan to avoid political discussions at Thanksgiving. Voss was among the dozens of people on social media who posted videos about how they are opting out of their family Thanksgiving plans. Van Bavel is director of NYU’s Social Identity and Morality Lab, which studies the dynamics of shared social identities. “There’s way more diversity among Republicans than most Democrats believe, and there’s way more diversity among most Democrats than most Republicans believe,” Van Bavel said. Jay Van Bavel, psychology professor at New York University“One of the biggest fears people have is being socially ostracized,” Van Bavel said.

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☆ Australia nears social media ban for children under 16 after heated debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The planned law would force social media platforms to take reasonable steps to ensure age-verification protections are in place. The ban was first announced during an emotionally charged parliamentary inquiry into social media, which included testimony from parents of children who had self-harmed due to cyberbullying. “I understand that using social media a lot is not a good thing and I’m working on it,” said Sydney high school student Enie Lam, 16. Australian media, from the publicly owned Australian Broadcasting Corp. to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., also support the ban. Let’s try and reduce the incidents we’re hearing involved with social media and young people in Australia.”

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☆ Why Trump is threatening Canada with tariffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementPresident-elect Trump on Monday threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imported goods from Canada. In making his statement on Truth Social, Trump criticized Canada over immigration policy and drugs. President-elect Donald Trump this week has made waves with his vow to impose new tariffs on imported goods from Canada, China, and Mexico, which also happen to be the United States' top trading partners. "Canada places the highest priority on border security and the integrity of our shared border." "In addition, the CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] is continually strengthening its ability to detect opioids through enhanced inspections at ports of entry, detector dogs, and emerging technologies, preventing opioids from entering and leaving Canada."

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☆ Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say injects the state into family medical decisions and overrides parental rights. Tennessee, and many conservatives who support the state’s position, argues parental rights aren’t a factor in the case. Conservative groups have lined up in federal courts to make nearly identical parental rights arguments in other cases. That separate lawsuit specifically asked whether the state law violates the “fundamental right of parents” to make decisions about the medical care of their children. In allowing the Tennessee ban to take effect last year, a divided 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside the parental rights arguments.

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☆ Trump sprints through transition as he faces narrow window to act in office
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Steve Contorno | Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

On Tuesday, Trump’s transition team signed an agreement with the White House after months of postponing the traditional transition process – a delay that Biden officials warned could undermine an orderly transfer of power and pose national security risks. In a statement announcing the agreement, the Trump transition said it will use its own security and information systems, its own office spaces and maintain its own ethics plan. The transition team said its ethics plan will be posted online in compliance with federal law. Several of Trump’s picks have vast personal fortunes and deep ties to the private sector. Trump’s transition team has so far relied instead on internal vetting.

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☆ Does the United States Have an Infertility Crisis?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Dani Blum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s become a popular talking point among some of President-elect Trump’s most prominent supporters: America has an infertility problem. “Why are so many couples infertile?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, asked in a September post on the social media site X. Dr. Casey Means, a former surgeon and health influencer who has advised Mr. Kennedy, has called infertility a “crisis.”And Mr. Trump himself has said he would task Mr. Kennedy with investigating “the decades-long increase in chronic health problems,” including infertility, or the medical inability to conceive. Like people in many other developed regions across the globe, Americans are having fewer children now than before — a demographic trend that has alarmed some conservatives in particular. Some of that is likely a result of social and economic factors, like steep child care costs, housing prices and more people choosing to forgo starting families.

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☆ Video platform Rumble plans to buy up to $20 million in bitcoin in new treasury strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rumble , a video platform aimed at conservatives, said Monday evening that it will begin allocating a portion of its excess cash reserves to bitcoin and making purchases of up to $20 million in the cryptocurrency. "We believe that the world is still in the early stages of the adoption of bitcoin," Rumble chairman and CEO Chris Pavlovski said in a statement Monday. The move puts Rumble in the same company as MicroStrategy, which began employing an aggressive bitcoin-buying strategy in 2020. Rumble is viewed as a play linked to Donald Trump's return to the White House given its popularity among conservatives. MicroStrategy chairman and bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor said last week on an X Spaces event that he plans to pitch the board of Microsoft in December on his bitcoin treasury strategy.

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☆ This is one thing Marc Andreessen says you shouldn't do at work
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementMarc Andreessen argues against sharing too many personal details at work, urging professionalism. Advertisement"When managers and leaders say, 'Bring your whole self to work,' they're leaving out the terms and conditions," Reitz said. On an episode of their podcast, "The Ben and Marc Show," Andreessen and A16z cofounder Ben Horowitz celebrated Donald Trump's reelection. "When it comes to business, it shouldn't be just based on our personal politics. I can bring my whole self to work, but I can't talk about politics,'" she said.

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☆ Opinion | Republicans Freak Out Over Trump’s Choice for Labor Secretary
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It might be the most shocking news yet to come out of this roller-coaster of a transition: After weeks of choosing cabinet secretaries who seem determined to destroy the agencies they will lead, Donald Trump announced the choice of a secretary of labor whom many American workers actually like. His pick, Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon, who just lost her bid for re-election, was one of only three Republicans to cosponsor the PRO Act, which protects workers’ right to organize. She also cosponsored the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, which requires all states to recognize public-sector unions. In fact, Chavez-DeRemer, the daughter of a Teamster, has such a pro-union record that some Republicans are in a full-blown panic about her nomination. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana wrote on X that he plans to question her about her support for “Democrat legislation in Congress that would strip Louisiana’s ability to be a right to work state, and if that will be her position going forward.” The New York Post ran a headline quoting conservatives calling her “toxic” and “unserious.”

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☆ Meet the Press – November 24, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +57 min

[END TAPE]KRISTEN WELKER:According to the Washington Post, President-elect Trump plans to fire the team that worked with the special counsel. So, I think President Trump is picking reformers for these Cabinet positions. After the midterms Joe Biden said that there was no way President Trump would ever be back in the White House. He's going to sign some executive actions, but he's also going to then begin to roll out this plan. I also think he's going to face some skepticism by Republicans on using the military, for instance, going kind of into different states.

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☆ One of Trump's cabinet picks shows how making it easier to build homes is a rare point of bipartisan agreement
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Doug Burgum, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Interior and "energy czar," won praise from pro-housing advocates from both parties earlier this year when he made the case for denser, more walkable, mixed-use communities. Advertisement"He's been a champion of zoning reform and parking reform and transportation reform," Chuck Marohn, the founder of the urbanism nonprofit Strong Towns, told Business Insider. Doug Burgum — President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the US Department of Interior — reflects the growing bipartisanship around deregulating housing. At the same time, the housing shortage has begun to impact communities across the country rather than just large coastal metros. While Republicans use language about private property rights, free markets, and deregulation to make a case for YIMBY policies, Democrats talk about racial equity and environmental sustainability, Nolan Gray, research director for California YIMBY said.

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☆ Opinion | We Wanted a New Republican Party. Trump Delivered.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +55 min

Barack Obama was elected president, and the mood in the Republican Party picked up on the mood you’ve already described. But in the end, what he did electorally was not in that election to build the pan ethnic working class Republican Party. But at the very least, there was the conventional wisdom was that the Republican Party had to move substantially to the left on immigration. I just think that if the Republican Party is not the party of private property and wealth building, so I don’t think. Is there any chance that the Republican Party is about to not be the party of private property and wealth building No, no, I think you’re right.

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☆ Trump suffers first defeat but as always doubles down for the next fight
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —For Donald Trump, every defeat is just the catalyst for his next battle. The Gaetz disaster suggests that despite his big election win, some laws of political gravity still apply to Trump. This may explain why two-and-a-half weeks into his transition, several of Trump’s Cabinet picks are embroiled in allegations of sexual misconduct, ethics or legal controversy. Like Gaetz, Hegseth was not prosecuted over the allegation and denies he did anything wrong. Plenty of presidents get a Cabinet pick knocked back and do just fine.

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☆ Trump Recruits His Cast for Season 2 Straight From Television
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After an election where podcasts and influencers played an outsize role, conservatives were quick to declare that traditional media was dead. Turns out a lot of it is just moving into the West Wing. President-elect Donald J. Trump, whose rise was fueled by reality TV stardom, is once again turning to television to recruit the key cast members of his new administration. The latest was Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former syndicated TV host, who was picked by Mr. Trump on Tuesday to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. (His wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is Mr. Hegseth’s erstwhile “Fox & Friends” co-host.)

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☆ Conclave: How realistic is the movie which lifts a lid on how a pope is elected?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Christopher Lamb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —This has been a blockbuster election year politically, so it’s fitting that a new movie shines a light on an ancient and highly secretive voting process: the selection of a new pope. Brían F. O'Byrne as Cardinal O'Malley (L) and Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence (R) in the movie "Conclave." They cast them in the Sistine Chapel, in front of the awe-inspiring sight of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment,” writing their choices on paper ballots that are then burnt after being counted. The crowd waiting outside is informed that a pope has been elected when the chimney above the Sistine Chapel billows out white smoke. White smoke emerged from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel when a new pope was elected on March 13, 2013.

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WASHINGTON — Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown, and Speaker Mike Johnson says House Republicans will probably push the fight into early 2025 rather than reach a full-year funding deal this year. And then then we should be actually working on the next year’s appropriations.”But even if they push the fight to early 2025, Republicans won’t have full control over spending decisions. Government funding legislation is subject to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, which top Republicans have promised to preserve. That means they’ll have to reach a deal with Democrats, who currently control the Senate and want to pass full-year funding this year, not in 2025. “The bottom line is we’ve got to control spending and not allow there to be a runaway spending bill in December,” he said.

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☆ Meet the top 4 candidates Trump is considering for Secretary of the Treasury
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementLast week, Trump was said to be deciding between two leading candidates for Treasury Secretary. Here are the top picks Trump is reportedly now considering for Secretary of the Treasury. Kevin WarshKevin Warsh, center, is rising as one of the candidates for Trump's Treasury Secretary. AdvertisementMarc RowanMarc Rowan isn't said to be actively lobbying for Treasury Secretary, but his aides have reportedly been in touch with the Trump administration. Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBessent, 62, was one of the original frontrunners for Trump's Treasury Secretary.

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☆ Brendan Carr wrote the FCC chapter in ‘Project 2025.’ Now he’s Trump’s pick for the agency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wasted no time in stating his priorities on Sunday night. Carr is now the senior Republican at the agency, which meant he was widely expected to get the chairman appointment. As chairman, Carr may be able to steer generous federal subsidies to Starlink. In his Project 2025 chapter, Carr laid out an agenda for the federal agency under a future Trump administration. The FCC chairman during Trump’s first term in office, Ajit Pai, had a very different set of priorities.

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☆ Trump’s influence already generating drama among world leaders as G20 gets underway
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Kevin Liptak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

It was just one example of Trump casting a long shadow over a pair of world leader summits taking place in South America this week. Yet to many involved in the discussions, the episode suggested the contention that colored world leader summits during Trump’s first presidency may be poised to return. “You can already see the Trump effect taking hold,” one Western diplomat said as the summit was getting underway. “Trump will only cause more divisions, and more divisions mean less leverage and less influence,” the official went on. “President Biden is that president, he will be handing off power in January, and it will be up to a new administration to decide what to do with it.”

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