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Phil Murphy’s office, a representative from Homeland Security joined via Skype to speak alongside state officials, addressing local officials on the issue. As such sightings continue, New Jersey residents have taken to social media to share images and videos of the drones flying above them. Another Facebook user, Ernie Oporto, told NBC News that he filmed a drone in Woodbridge near the town’s police station. On Monday, a group of 20 mayors from Morris County wrote a letter to Murphy expressing “deep concern” and emphasizing the impact on 500,000 county residents and officials. The letter requested a formal investigation into the flights, clear communication to officials and an implementation of preventative measures to tackle unsafe drone operations.

Persons: Tony Perry, “ I’m, ” Perry, —, Phil Murphy’s, Murphy, Perry, Jeff Van Drew, Sabrina Singh, Dawn Fantasia, ”, ” Murphy, Joe Biden, Station Earle, Sam Morris, who’s, ” Robert W, Wheeler Jr, Wheeler, Sen, Jon Bramnick, Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden, Verity Lee, Ernie Oporto, Morris County, Chris Smith, Austin Lloyd, “, ” Smith, Cory Booker Organizations: Middletown, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Homeland, Gov, Homeland Security, Skype, NBC News, Pentagon, U.S . Police, Naval, Station, Arsenal, Washington , D.C, U.S . Northern Command, of Defense, ”, New, Monmouth County Sheriff, Facebook, State Locations: New Jersey, Flanders, N.J, U.S, Iranian, East Coast, United States, United Kingdom, Monmouth County, Morris County, Mine, Washington ,, Monmouth, Woodbridge, Morris

☆ ‘Attenzione, pickpocket!’: The woman who went viral fighting crime on the streets of Venice
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

“Attenzione — ladri, carteristas!” (She makes her announcements in Italian, English and Spanish to alert as many tourists as possible.) But it’s by seeing her at work in Venice that you really calibrate her impact. Spiraling petty crime@cittadininondistrattiFor all their fun, Poli’s videos — currently she has 461 up on Instagram — have spotlit a spiraling problem of petty crime in Italy. Thefts on trains across the country were up 21% — but thefts on trains in Venice were up by a whopping 38.8%. And that means that Venice, whose estimated 30 million annual visitors dwarf the under-50,000 local population, has become a honeypot for petty crime.

Persons: Monica Poli, “, Alessandro Lavardato, ”, Titian, Tintoretto —, —, Ron DeSantis, she’s, Monica ”, Poli, pickpockets, Il Gazzettino, there’s, Vincenzo Senatore, Andrea Merola, Poli —, they’ll, Il, Senatore “, ’ Poli, Julia Buckley, CNN Poli, pickpocketing, there’s Poli, ” Poli, She’s, Manuel Silvestri, sanguine, Poli isn’t, Franco Dei Rossi, Sempre, CNN It’s, Matteo Salvini, Antonio Incandela, Stefano Mazzola, Europol, TikTok, Monica Poli's, ‘ They’ll, it’s Organizations: Venice CNN —, Florida, Italian Interior Ministry, Giambrone, Bloomberg, Getty, Ministry, CNN, Cittadini, ” Poli isn’t, Piazza San Marco, Poli, Poli ., Lega —, Roma, European Union Agency for Law, Cooperation, YouTube, New York Times Locations: Venice, Poli, Instagram, Italy, Italian, London, alleyways, Gotham City, “, Piazza San, downcast, Europe, Barcelona, Paris

WASHINGTON — A Republican former House member and three current members of Congress from Utah invited a Jan. 6 defendant to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to a letter filed by the defendant's lawyer. Jan. 6 defendant Russell Taylor organized a group of “fighters” to travel to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to Trump’s tweet telling supporters the day "will be wild." Russell Taylor, right, makes an obscene gesture, obscured by NBC News, at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. On Jan. 6, 2021, after the Capitol attack, Taylor wrote in a message that he "was pushing through traitors all day today." In the interview, Trump said members of Congress who served on the House Jan. 6 committee "should go to jail."

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Donald Trump's, Jan, Russell Taylor, ”, Taylor, Dyke, Huish, Royce Lamberth, Russell, Andrew Caballero, Reynolds, Chris Stewart, Stewart, Mr, They're, I've, District of Columbia Stewart, Russ ’, WE, Lamberth, He's, Trump Organizations: Republican, Washington , D.C, Capitol, U.S, District, NBC News, Getty, Politico, Trump, District of Columbia, Patriots, Press, Washington Locations: Utah, Washington ,, Washington, Congress

☆ What a small group of America's centimillionaires believe about bitcoin and its political future
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here is how one group of initially skeptical centimillionaires got over their doubts, how they are now thinking about bitcoin, and how they invest in it. AdvertisementThe group's members, which make up a diverse bunch, range from 30 to 87 years old with the average being 45 to 55. But bitcoin's future price prospect isn't the only draw for R360 members. This perception isn't new or unique to R360 members. They're making their voice heard, 'this candidate, yes, because they're supportive of bitcoin, and this candidate, no, because they're not.'

Persons: Charlie Garcia, Garcia, Donald Trump, centimillionaires, Barbara Goodstein, bitcoin, Michael Saylor, you'll, Donald, who's, Bobby Kennedy's, they're, David Bailey, Bobby Kennedy, Bailey Organizations: Business, Trump, Bitcoin Conference, Bitcoin, Mar, BTC Inc Locations: bitcoin, Washington, United States, Nashville

☆ Massad Boulos, hailed as a billionaire lawyer advising Trump on Middle East policy, probably isn't a lawyer or a billionaire
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

On December 2, the New York Times said Massad Boulos built "his wealth in West Africa" and runs two companies, SCOA Nigeria and Boulos Enterprises. AdvertisementBut Massad Boulos doesn't run Boulos Enterprises, according to several former employees and its actual boss, Boulos Boulos. A due-diligence report for Boulos Enterprises Ltd. created by Moody's Orbis database doesn't mention Massad Boulos. AdvertisementBeyond headlines in news outlets, BI couldn't find any evidence to suggest Massad Boulos is a billionaire. The company Massad Boulos actually does run, SCOA Nigeria, which has a subsidiary called SCOA Motors, is a penny stock.

Persons: Massad Boulos, He's, Tiffany Trump's, Donald Trump's, Boulos, Michael, Tiffany Trump, Trump, Steven Witkoff, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, hasn't, Tiffany, Michael Boulos, That's, SCOA, doesn't, Sarah Fadoul Boulos, Michel Zouhair Fadoul, Massad, weren't, It's, Donald Trump, that's, Sarah Boulos, didn't, Nahdiah Hoang, L'Orient Organizations: Trump, Middle, Business, The New York Post, Boulos Enterprises, Times, New York Times, SCOA, Financial Times, ABC, Boulos, University of Houston, Thurgood Marshall School, Texas Southern University, Texas Southern, Texas, Law, Texas Bar, DC, Lebanese, Lawyers, Beirut Bar Association, Nigerian Bar Association Locations: Michigan, Greece, Mar, battlegrounds, Nigeria, West Africa, SCOA Nigeria, Mauritius, Queens, Africa, France, Downtown, Texas, Alaska, South Dakota, Lebanon, Beirut

☆ A key pillar of Russia's wartime economy could soon be taking another hit
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The global oil markets are weighed down by ample supply and demand concerns, in part due to China's flagging economy. "So the global oil market is softer and that creates possibly an opportunity to take some further action," Yellen said. The US has been tightening its noose on Russian energy revenues. The measures have allowed the global energy markets to continue functioning in an orderly fashion — which prevents price shocks and inflation — but still limit Russia's oil revenue. In November, Russia's oil revenue fell 21% from a year ago amid weak energy prices, according to Bloomberg calculations based on official data.

Persons: Yellen, Janet Yellen, Biden, Dmitry Peskov Organizations: Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV, Brent, US West Texas, Kremlin, US Locations: Russia, Macquarie, Russian, Ukraine, India, China

☆ A complete timeline of Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Gomez shared pictures of the engagement ring on Instagram on December 11. Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco first collaborated on a song together in 2015. December 2023: Gomez and Blanco become Instagram officialIn late 2023, fans began to speculate that Gomez and Blanco were dating. Selena Gomez confirmed her relationship with Benny Blanco on December 7, 2023. Selena Gomez opened up about her relationship with Benny Blanco, calling him her best friend, biggest supporter and now one of People's "Sexiest Men Alive."

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☆ CNBC Sport: Warner Bros. Discovery's distribution win, and how Netflix landed its Christmas Day NFL lineup
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Alex Sherman | In Alex-Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +20 min

At first, I was a bit skeptical this was as big of a win for Warner Bros. Carriage fees for cable networks with many live NBA games and a popular studio show ("Inside the NBA") would typically rise. But, after doing a bit of digging, I've come to believe it's a little more of a win for Warner Bros. At first, I was a bit skeptical this was as big of a win for Warner Bros. But, after doing a bit of digging, I've come to believe it's a little more of a win for Warner Bros.

Persons: Alex Sherman, David Zaslav, I'd, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal, –, Turner, Ian Eagle, Nate Burleson, Watt, Noah Eagle, Greg Olsen, Jamie Erdahl, Steve Wyche, Laura Rutledge, Mina Kimes, NBC's Devin McCourty, Jason McCourty, I'm, Olsen, Fox, Tom Brady, They're, Comcast's NBCUniversal, they're, Bob Baffert, Contessa Brewer, Baffert, Barnes, Whoopi Goldberg, George Chung, Goldberg, CNBC's Jess Golden, Michael Ozanian, Egon Durban, Michael Meldman, Armour, CNBC's Golden, Gabrielle Fonrouge, Steve Cohen, Juan Soto, Soto, Roger Goodell, Jay, Kendrick Lamar, Z, Sean, Diddy, Combs, Z's, Goodell, David Grogan Organizations: CNBC, Comcast, Warner Bros, Discovery, TNT, NBA, Warner Bros ., Turner Sports, NASCAR, NHL, MLB, sublicensing College Football, ESPN, Max, Netflix, CBS, Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, NBC Sports, NFL, The New, Fox, Paramount, Kentucky Derby, Medina, Churchill Downs, CNBC Sport, Women's Sports Network, ABC, NBC, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, Ares Management, Las Vegas Raiders, Silver, New York Red Bulls MLS, Illustrated, SI, Authentic Brands, New York Mets, The New York Post, Mets, New York Yankees, Major League Baseball, CNN, Front Office, NCAA, College Football, CFP, Alabama, SEC, Super, Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference Locations: J.J, The New York, Churchill, Baffert, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sun Valley , Idaho

☆ Hundreds of student-loan borrowers who applied for debt cancellation are being denied relief by a major lender, over 20 Democratic lawmakers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Elizabeth Warren led over 20 colleagues in requesting the CFPB and FTC investigate student-loan company Navient. A group of Democratic lawmakers said that a major student-loan company is denying some student-loan borrowers relief that they might qualify for. Instead, they can request a school misconduct application from Navient, and Navient would then decide whether to approve it. AdvertisementThe issue, the lawmakers wrote, is that Navient has denied relief for the majority of borrowers who applied. BI previously spoke to some borrowers who have attempted to navigate Navient's school misconduct application process.

Persons: Sen, Elizabeth Warren, Navient, it's, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Ron Wyden, Warren, Nick Eucker Organizations: Democratic, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, Navient, Business, BI Locations: Alexandria

☆ UBS is expecting higher inflation in the next decade. Here are 5 trades the bank recommends to beat rising prices.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Christine Ji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

If you were expecting the Federal Reserve to finally put inflation to rest in 2025, don't get your hopes up. Rising prices are shaping up to be a persistent problem over the next decade, according to UBS. UBS sees the megatrends of increased deficits, deglobalization, and decarbonization as drivers of elevated inflation for the next decade. Protectionist policies like tariffs and other trade restrictions are likely to result in higher costs for consumers and businesses, slower worldwide economic growth, and, ultimately, increased inflation. This high-growth group of commodities can help increase returns on portfolios even with increased inflation.

Persons: —, That's, Mark Haefele, Donald Trump's, Stocks, Haefele, Dow, Schwab Organizations: UBS, Reserve, Wealth, Trust, American PLC, BHP Group, BHP, Copper Miners, Dow Jones

☆ Analysis: Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Ivan Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a fellow secular Baathist like Assad, had been executed just six months earlier. But Syria’s then leader, who had succeeded his father Hafez seven years before, represented a stable contrast to the chaos engulfing neighboring Iraq. Assad met us without a large entourage, folding his long body into a chair at the head of the room. An armed man walks through the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. People inspect documents they found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, on December 9, 2024.

Persons: Bashar al, Assad, Saddam Hussein, Syria’s, Hafez, Little, Ali Haj Suleiman, Assad wasn’t, Saddam, Bentley, Basat al, “, ”, Tariq, Hussein Malla, Basat al reeh, Falaqa, Ghaith, Asma, Bashar Assad, Zein, Karim Organizations: CNN, National Public, Lamborghini, Royce, Brotherhood, Syrian, Syrian Presidency Locations: Iraq, Damascus, Syria, Lebanon, Latakia, Turkey, Idlib, Iran, Russia, Saydnaya, Syrian, Hama, British, Gaza, Aleppo, Old City

☆ Chuck Todd: Is the rise of the independents coming? An experiment is brewing in a key battleground
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Chuck-Todd-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Chuck Todd | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

So to say Michigan Democrats were shocked by the mayor's decision to go independent is a bit of understatement. In my experience, most independent candidates who previously ran and won as Democrats or Republicans but then switch do so out of some political necessity. For the less politically engaged, a category that includes many key swing voters, this is a very appealing elevator pitch. But not every state party will be as desperate as Kansas Democrats were in accepting a party-switcher as its party savior. Ultimately, the national environment has never looked more enticing for independent candidates to disrupt the two-party duopoly.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Mike Duggan, he’s, Gretchen Whitmer isn’t, Jocelyn Benson, Garlin Gilchrist, Duggan, —, Harris, they’d, there’s, aren’t, Dan Gilbert, Jamie Dimon, Gilbert, Dimon, Benson, Gilchrist, Pete Buttigieg, Simone Biles, Sen, Angus King, Lowell Weicker, Joe Lieberman, Jesse Ventura, I’ll, Trump, MAGA, hewing, don’t, Dan Osborn, Don’t, GOP Sen, Pete Ricketts, Bill Cassidy, Cassidy, Steve Hilton, David Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, There’s, Thom Tillis, Tillis, Ted Budd, Laura Kelly Organizations: Detroit, Democrat, Democratic, Gov, Policy Conference, Biden, Michigan, Duggan’s, Rocket Mortgage, Republicans, JPMorgan Chase, ”, Republican, GOP, Senate, Trump, Fox, MAGA Republican, Kansas Gov, Kansas Democrats, Trust Locations: Washington, Michigan, Detroit, Maine, Connecticut, Jesse Ventura in Minnesota, Nebraska, Louisiana, California, North Carolina, Florida , Texas, New Mexico , Colorado , Iowa , Connecticut , Illinois, New Jersey, Kansas

☆ ‘Conan the Bacterium’ is extremely radiation-resistant for a surprising reason
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

For the previous study, the team measured the amount of manganese antioxidants in the cells of the bacteria. The researchers found that the amount of radiation that a microorganism could survive was directly related to its amount of manganese antioxidants. So the more manganese antioxidants present, the more resistance to radiation. This antioxidant has been used in radiation-inactivated polyvalent vaccines, which rely on radiation to shut down pathogens like chlamydia. The study team analyzed how MDP’s active components, including manganese, phosphate and a peptide called DP1, protect cells and proteins from radiation exposure.

Persons: “, ”, Brian Hoffman, Charles E, Emma H, Morrison, Hoffman, Michaely Daly, Daly, Deinococcus radiodurans, radiodurans, ” Hoffman, Tetyana Milojevic, Tetyana, ” Daly Organizations: CNN, National Academy of Sciences, biosciences, Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, World Records, International Space Station, Uniformed Services University of, Health Sciences, National Academies ’, Planetary, University of Orléans, MDP Locations: Mars, France

☆ Sorry, ‘Real Housewives.’ Gen Z is all about Mormon wives
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Alicia Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” follows a group of eight married Mormon women in their 20s and early 30s living in Utah. Nowak and Hannah Jaeger, both Southern California locals, noticed their friends talking about “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” nonstop, prompting them to discuss it on their lifestyle podcast BusyBabes. Jessi Ngatikaura, Jennifer Affleck, Mayci Neeley, Taylor Frankie Paul, Mikayla Matthews, Layla Taylor and Demi Engemann in "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." Fred Hayes/DisneyAs the Mormon wives began to gain an audience on TikTok in 2022, one of the mothers Taylor Frankie Paul revealed she and other Mormon couples had been taking part in “soft-swinging” – or consensually sharing partners. But, in many ways, the show embraces the Mormon wives’ progressive desires – from talking about their sex lives to getting divorces – and pushes back on the conservatism within their own community.

Persons: Sydney Nowak, ” –, “, ” Nowak, ”, It’s, Nowak, Hannah Jaeger, Gen Z, millennials, Nielsen, ’ ” Nowak, Kathy M, Newman, ” Newman, Jessi Ngatikaura, Jennifer Affleck, Mayci Neeley, Taylor Frankie Paul, Mikayla Matthews, Layla Taylor, Demi Engemann, Fred Hayes, Lisa Filippilli, ” Georgia Berger, Nara Smith, Hannah Neeleman, Joel Penney doesn’t, we’re, ’ ” Penney, ” Penney Organizations: CNN, Nielsen, Hulu, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney, Management, Collider, Times, Montclair State University Locations: Las Vegas, Utah, Southern California

☆ ‘Book detectives’ step up hunt for Jewish-owned works looted by the Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Though these institutions were never built, crates of looted books were sent to sorting centers to be processed – often by forced Jewish labor. Diane Mizrachi, a librarian at UCLA, knew virtually nothing of the looted books until 2020, when she received an unexpected email. Jewish Museum Prague“I see it as a moral and ethical issue,” she added. Some of the looted books returned by UCLA to the Jewish Museum in Prague Shannon Tanhayi Ahari/UCLA LibraryThe process of recovering them is, therefore, not straightforward. The new exhibition features some of the looted books.

Persons: Adolf Hitler’s, Samuel Blinder, Diane Mizrachi, Mizrachi, “, ‘, ’, ”, ” Mizrachi, –, I’m, it’s, Michal Bušek, Prague Shannon Tanhayi Ahari, Bušek, Irene Aue, David, Leo Baeck Organizations: US, UCLA, Jewish Museum, Jewish, Community, Nazis, CNN, “, Lost, University Library Frankfurt, Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, Leo Baeck Institute, Association of Locations: Europe, Prague, Czech, North America, Israel, Nazi, Bohemia, Moravia, Germany, Berlin, Ben, Jerusalem, United Kingdom

☆ Syria After al-Assad: How Will the Rebels Govern?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This week, Druse fighters joined the push to topple the Assad regime, launching an offensive in the southwest and clashing with government forces, according to media reports. There are more than one million Druse across the Middle East, mostly in Syria and Lebanon, with some also in Jordan and Israel. Islamic StateThe Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, seized vast stretches of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, establishing a brutal caliphate before it was beaten back by a U.S.-led coalition. Lately, there have been signs of the group’s resurgence in Syria amid wider instability in the region. The Pentagon warned in July that Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq were on track to double compared with the previous year.

Persons: Assad, Carlotta Gall Christiaan Triebert, Ben Hubbard, Riley Mellen, Neil MacFarquhar, Farnaz Fassihi, Vivian Yee, Samuel Granados, Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Raja Abdulrahim, Adam Rasgon, Ephrat Livni, Thomas Fuller Organizations: Southern, Islamic, ISIS, Pentagon, Syrian, Human Rights Locations: Sweida, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Islamic State, Iraq, U.S, Homs, Syrian

☆ Who is Tony Buzbee, the larger-than-life lawyer behind lawsuits against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Andy Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

I just think the tank is cool,” Buzbee told KPRC. “I think we’ve had our fun,” Buzbee told the station with a grin. Jay-Z is not the first target of a Buzbee lawsuit who has accused his client of making up her story, but Buzbee insists he vets accusers before accepting their cases. “This (concert) should have been stopped from the very beginning,” Buzbee told CNN in a 2021 interview. “This is not our first rodeo,” he told CNN, “but this is not gonna be easy.”CNN’s Kara Scannell contributed to this report.

Persons: Brash, Tony Buzbee –, Sean “ Diddy ” Combs, Buzbee, Shawn “ Jay, Carter, Mr, ” Buzbee, Jay, ” Jay, Jane Doe, ”, Diddy, Doe, Combs, Alex Spiro, “, –, Sherman, “ I’m, KPRC, Tony Buzbee, KHOU, we’ve, Deshaun Watson, Watson, Houston Texans –, confidentially, they’re, CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister, Travis Scott, Scott, Axel Acosta Avila, Robert Bumsted, Tony Buzbee isn’t, Zoe, Andy Warhol, Justin Keiter, Frances Moody, “ They’re, Rick Perry, Donald Trump, Perry, Mitch Little, Ken Paxton, Eric Gay, Ken Paxton –, Biden, Paxton, Dade Phelan, Sylvester Turner, Mary Nan Huffman, ” Huffman, Rebecca Grossman, Grossman, CNN’s Kara Scannell Organizations: CNN, Buzbee, Marine Corps, “, KPRC, Houston, M University, KHOU, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, NFL, Houston Texans – Watson’s, Astroworld, Houston Chronicle, Texarkana Magazine, KTRK, Texas, Texas Capitol, Republican, Houston City Council Locations: Houston, mater , Texas, Buzbee, Galveston, Texas, Austin, California

☆ Year-end tax moves to make now
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

So if you have $10,000 in gains and $12,000 in losses, you won’t owe any capital gains tax on the $10,000, and you will be able to deduct $2,000 from your regular income. A traditional IRA can be funded with before-tax dollars (thereby reducing the money you have to pay income tax on for 2024). If you give them to a grandchild, their capital gains basis is the value of the shares the day they receive them. Whereas if you first sold the shares directly you’d owe capital gains tax on the $8,000 gain, leaving you with anywhere from 15% to 37% less in cash to give them, depending on whether the gain was short- or long-term and depending on your tax bracket. It is money that is exempt from income tax, as well as Social Security and Medicare taxes.

Persons: ”, Dan Snyder, won’t, it’s, hasn’t, Roth, you’re, You’re, Mari Adam, Adam, “ Organizations: CNN, ”, Tax Foundation, Social Security, IRS Locations: Massachusetts , Oregon, Rhode

In handwritten notes from 2019 reviewed by Business Insider, Mangione wrote that he had spondylolisthesis — severe slippage of parts of the spine due to joint deterioration. The scion of a prominent Baltimore family, Mangione was educated at elite schools. "When you think of the Mangione family, you think of an esteemed family that has done a lot for the community," Maronick said on a phone call. Related storiesMangione was "very into sports" and "very social," a high-school classmate told BI. In recent months, one of Mangione's cousins began reaching out to Mangione's friends to ask whether anyone had heard from him, his high-school classmate told BI.

Persons: Luigi Mangione, didn't, Brian Thompson, he's, UnitedHealthcare —, Thompson —, Mangione, he'd, Thompson, Nick Mangione, Thomas J, Maronick Jr, Maronick, Luigi Mangione's, Lyme, R.J, Martin, Surfbreak, Ted Kaczynski's, Kaczynski, He'd, I've, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, hadn't, Mangione hadn't, texted Mangione, Mangione's, Thomas Dickey, Dickey, Ana Altchek, Laura Italiano, Natalie Musumeci Organizations: Affordable, Business, University of Pennsylvania, Mangione, BI, Baltimore Banner, Gilman, AppRoar Studios, Eta Kappa Nu, Stanford, Honolulu Civil, Harvard, Civil, The New York Times, Democratic, Republican, San Francisco, UnitedHealth Group, Police, Pennsylvania Locations: American, Manhattan, Baltimore, Towson , Maryland, Maryland, Instagram, Hawaii, Surfbreak, TrueCar, Asia, Japan, San Francisco, Altoona, America, New York, Mangione

☆ 29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS's free direct tax filing tool on day one of his presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The IRS has gradually rolled out a program to allow Americans to directly file taxes with the IRS. A group of Republicans want Trump to end it, saying it's government overreach. More than two dozen House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to terminate the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) free direct tax filing system as soon as day one of his presidency. The new program is designed to compete with those programs and make filing easier and less costly for Americans. They also cast the free direct-file program as an example of the "weaponization of government against Americans," a long-standing focus of Trump and MAGA-aligned right.

Persons: It's, Trump, Donald Trump, Adrian Smith of Nebraska, Chuck Edwards of, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE, Smith, Edwards, Vance Organizations: IRS, Republicans, Trump, MAGA Locations: Chuck Edwards of North Carolina

☆ Democratic governors quietly prep extensive plans to counter Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Since long before the election, they’ve been poring through Project 2025 — it’s helpful, several Democratic governors told CNN, to have a blueprint in public. Laura Kelly, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association. Plans for Trump underway for monthsMany Democratic governors had been working on plans well before even President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and Vice President Kamala Harris became their party nominee. They’re coming to this weathered with the experience from the first Trump term. Michigan Gov.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, they’ve, They’ve, ”, Laura Kelly, JB Pritzker, postelection, Jared Polis, Pritzker, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they’re, Trump, Emmanuel Macron’s, hasn’t, Gretchen Whitmer, Mike Pence, weren’t, Rebecca Wright, Whitmer, Donald Trump, ” Whitmer, I’ve, we’ll, Tim Walz, Harris ’, “, Kathy Hochul, ” Hochul, Matt Meyer, Beverly Hilton, Richard Nixon, Nixon, ” — Walz, he’d, Martin O’Malley, Austin Steele, Gavin Newsom, Andy Beshear, Josh Shapiro, Wes Moore, Jay Inslee, Trump’s, —, Lindsey Wasson, Inslee, Bob Ferguson, ’, ” Inslee Organizations: Los Angeles CNN —, Democratic, CNN, Trump, White House, National Guard, showdowns, Kansas Gov, Democratic Governors Association, Illinois Gov, Colorado Gov, Senate, White, Notre Dame, Mar, Michigan Gov, Convention, United Center, Michigan, Biden, Gov, Penn, New Yorker, Delaware Gov, Beverly, Golden Globes, Former Maryland Gov, Democratic National Committee, Minnesota Gov, Howard University, Kentucky Gov, Maryland Gov, Democratic Party, Washington Gov Locations: Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, Covid, Michigan, Chicago, Los Angeles, —, Minnesota, York, New, Delaware, Washington ,, California, Polis , Pennsylvania, Seattle, Washington, Pearl

☆ He built a $12 billion rocket company without a college degree—but has no desire to go to space: It wouldn't 'be very enjoyable'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck is perfectly content watching the rockets his company builds reach the heavens while his feet remain firmly planted on Earth. I just have a burning desire to create things to enable others to go to space," says Beck, 47. The native New Zealander launched Rocket Lab in 2006 with no college degree or space industry connections. But Beck insists he's not interested, citing one of the very traits that helped him successfully build his company: "a healthy degree of paranoia." He has "so much respect" for astronauts, particularly those with engineering backgrounds, who understand the danger of space travel and do it anyway, he says.

Persons: Peter Beck, Beck, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, he's, I'm Organizations: Rocket, New Zealander, Forbes Locations: , California

☆ Google launches Gemini 2.0, its latest AI model that can 'think multiple steps ahead'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, enhancing the AI product's capabilities. Gemini 2.0 focuses on agentic AI, improving multi-step problem-solving. Not to be left out, Google lifted the lid on its next-generation AI model, Gemini 2.0, which it promises is a big step up in smarts and capabilities. Google plans to bring Gemini 2.0 to its AI Overviews feature in Search. With Gemini 2.0, Google says Overviews can tackle more complex searches, including multi-step questions and multimodal queries that use text and images.

Persons: they've, Sundar Pichai, it's, It's, Bibo Xu, Jaclyn Konzelmann Organizations: Google, Gemini, Astra, Mariner, Google Labs Locations: smarts, London, Chinatown

☆ The new hottest trade on Wall Street: Quantum computing stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Investors looking for the next big technology trend may want to keep an eye on quantum computing stocks. A qubit, or quantum bit, is a unit used to encode data in such computers. The breakthrough from Google lifted other quantum computing stocks , including little-known contender Rigetti Computing . Quantum computing is no new phenomenon, but it is gaining importance as larger and larger swaths of data are processed to train large language models. EMJ Capital's Eric Jackson called it the "next big theme" in a post on social media platform X, saying that he's long Rigetti Computing and sees a "big opportunity" ahead for the company.

Persons: Capital's Eric Jackson, Management's Paul Meeks Organizations: Google, Rigetti, Nvidia

☆ There's one final way Biden can fund Ukraine's fight against Russia, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Biden administration should seize Russia's frozen assets held by the US, two researchers say. President Joe Biden's final move to help Ukraine should be to seize Russia's reserve assets held by the US before the start of Donald Trump's second term, two researchers wrote this week. "Saudi Arabia, for example, has threatened to sell its European debt holdings if Europe seizes the frozen assets." The US wouldn't be completely alone in doing so — both Canada and the United Kingdom appear willing to seize assets held in their countries. Russia has warned of retaliation if its frozen assets are seized, cautioning that it could seize Western-owned corporate assets still in the country.

Persons: Biden, Joe Biden's, Donald Trump's, Trump, Joe Biden, Maximilian Hess, Carey K, Mott, Hess, Hungary's, Janet Yellen Organizations: Policy Research Institute, Yale Program, Kremlin, Kyiv, Seven, Russia, European, Western, Bloomberg Locations: Europe, Ukraine, United States, Moscow, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia

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