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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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☆ C.H. Robinson Dave Bozeman on impact of AI: It's been a game changer for us
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailC.H. Robinson Dave Bozeman on impact of AI: It's been a game changer for usDave Bozeman, C.H. Robinson president and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the company's investor day, impact of AI technology on the company, looming port strike, implications of President-elect Trump's tariff proposals, and more.

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☆ Vivek Murthy dices a mango for 'Bon Appetit' and shares parents' immigration story
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy shared a very fruitful tutorial on cutting a mango — along with some juicy stories. It was titled "How to cut a mango like a surgeon (general)." "Whenever mango season came we would peel them all day long and make mango dishes out of them," Murthy said. "Mango bread, mango pudding, mango ice cream, mango cake, mango lassi." Murthy, 47, is the first Indian American surgeon general and the youngest active-duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.

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☆ Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals design for new $550-million wing
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Benjamin Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. CNN —The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York released the first renderings of its revamped wing for modern and contemporary art, a $550-million project spanning around 126,000 square feet and designed by Frida Escobedo, the first female architect to design a wing in the museum’s 154-year history. “The wing will comprise a three-story base supporting recessed fourth and fifth floors,” a representative for Escobedo’s studio said in a statement. The museum is in the final stages of a $70-million upgrade of its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which houses African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries. In addition, the Met recently completed both a rehang of its American Wing to mark its centennial and a new interactive learning center.

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☆ Xi’s RSVP is a snub to Trump, but the inauguration invite is still a big deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Still, even without a favorable response, Trump’s invitation to Xi marks a significant development that sheds light on the president-elect’s confidence and ambition as he wields power ahead of his second term. This is a reminder of Trump’s fondness for foreign policy by grand gesture and his willingness to trample diplomatic codes with his unpredictable approach. The Xi invitation also shows that Trump believes that the force of his personality alone can be a decisive factor in forging diplomatic breakthroughs. But at the same time, it’s fair to question whether the fire and fury of his first-term foreign policy delivered durable results. “We’ve been talking and discussing with President Xi, some things and others, other world leaders, and I think we’re going to do very well all around,” Trump said.

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xAI paid one worker double the industry standard wage for the role; one OpenAI worker made over three times as much. AdvertisementTo examine Musk's claims about salaries, Business Insider analyzed wage data from specialty visa applications for each company from 2024. At the top end, xAI paid one worker nearly double the prevailing wage for the role of principal machine learning engineer. Since launching xAI Musk "has been trying to leverage the judicial system for an edge," they added. In April, Musk said xAI brought over a Tesla engineer after OpenAI began "aggressively recruiting" workers from the electric-car maker.

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☆ Saudi Arabia is set to be announced as the 2034 World Cup host. Human rights groups warn of ‘unimaginable human cost’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Ben Church | Amanda Davies | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Saudi Arabia is on a mission to diversify its economy as part of Saudi Vision 2030. But, according to human rights groups, a Saudi World Cup in 2034 will come at a cost. Saudi Arabia, under MBS today, has crossed that red line.”CNN has reached out to Saudi Arabia for comment. Our journey started in 2016, not because of the World Cup bid,” Albalawi told Reuters. Saudi Arabian fans cheer before the World Cup match between Saudi Arabia and Mexico at the Lusail Stadium on November 30, 2022.

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☆ ‘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.

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☆ Bill Belichick named head football coach at North Carolina
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Jill Martin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The long-time NFL coach was named the next head football coach at the University of North Carolina, the school announced on Wednesday. The eight-time Super Bowl Champion has officially been named our next @UNCFootball Head Coach. In addition to 24 seasons as the Patriots head coach, Belichick was head coach of the Cleveland Browns for the 1991-1995 seasons. At Carolina, we believe in providing championship opportunities and the best experience possible for our student-athletes, and Coach Belichick shares that commitment. Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty Images Belichick, right, coaches alongside New York Giants head coach Bill Parcells during a playoff game in 1984.

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☆ CEO of logistics giant C.H. Robinson says the business can weather Trump tariffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Frank Holland | In Frank-Holland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As Dave Bozeman takes the stage at his first investor day as CEO of C.H. Robinson , he'll have to contend with a freight recession, the threat of higher tariffs and the turnaround of a century-old logistics giant. Trump has said he'll impose 60% tariffs on goods from China and 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. Either way we're still going to move that freight," Bozeman said. "But I do think that their business is diversified enough that they can work through tariffs."

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☆ 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.

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☆ Trump has big plans at home, but Syria shows why he can’t escape the world’s problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Trump faces tightening web of US adversariesBut Trump has stiff challenges in Syria and beyond. Trump may have to quickly decide whether to maintain a deployment of hundreds of US troops in Syria to fight any resurgence of ISIS. And America’s problems with Russia, North Korea and Iran are compounded by the loose but expanding strategic synergy between the trio and China. And he announced the airstrikes by B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 aircraft against ISIS targets in central Syria. McMaster, urged his old boss on Sunday to treat Iran, Russia, China and North Korea as different threads of the same challenge.

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☆ Here are Monday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Tesla, Rivian, AMD, Broadcom, Charles Schwab, PayPal & more
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Here are Monday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Bank of America downgrades Advanced Micro Devices to neutral from buy Bank of America said it's concerned about market share gain potential slowing. Deutsche Bank initiates First Citizens as buy Deutsche Bank said it has a favorable long term view of the commercial banking company. Bank of America upgrades PayPal to buy from neutral The firm said the stock is a turnaround story. Bank of America downgrades Capital One to neutral from buy Bank of America said the Trump trade has played out for Capital One. Bank of America upgrades TaskUs to buy from neutral Bank of America said the outsourcing company is "best in class."

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☆ Opening of possibilities and potential for change after Assad dynasty collapses, says RUSI fellow
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | 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 EmailOpening of possibilities and potential for change after Assad dynasty collapses, says RUSI fellowRUSI Senior Associate Fellow H. A. Hellyer joins Squawk Box to discuss what may be next for Syria after rebels took over the capital Damascus.

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☆ John Mahama: Former Ghana leader pulls off historic comeback after crucial presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election, marking a historic political comeback for the opposition candidate, former leader John Mahama. Bawumia said in his concession speech on Sunday morning that internally collated results showed that “Mahama has won the presidential election decisively,” ahead of a formal announcement by the electoral commission. Bawumia said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party had also won the parliamentary election. Bawumia, 61, a UK-trained economist who chaired the nation’s economic management team, faced criticism ahead of the elections over his handling of the struggling economy. On the campaign trail, Mahama also criticized him for saying little about the economy.

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

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

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

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SEOUL, South Korea — When South Koreans came out to defend democracy this week in the face of a surprise martial law declaration by their president, history was weighing heavily on their minds. South Korea, a key U.S. ally, is the world’s 10th-largest economy and a vibrant Asian democracy in a region where authoritarianism is on the rise. But the country of 50 million people spent decades under military-authoritarian rule, with martial law frequently declared and those who resisted it sometimes killed. But then they ended up at the National Assembly.”Their job was to prevent lawmakers from entering, since the legislature’s operations had been banned under the martial law proclamation. Historically, “whenever South Korean authoritarian leaders wanted to declare martial law, they typically sought at least some kind of tacit approval from Washington,” Jo said.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his senior aides are discussing the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for those whom President-elect Donald Trump has scorned in recent years as he has hinted about plans for retribution, two sources familiar with the discussions confirmed. Some Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans have supported the notion of preemptive pardons to protect people under a new Trump presidency. Previous presidents have issued such pardons, including George H.W. Back in the Biden White House, there is work being done on the president’s use of clemency authority on criminal justice cases. Advocates, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are encouraging the president to act on a variety of cases they say are worthy of clemency.

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☆ How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Arthur Allen | Kff Health News | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“The litany of things that will start to topple is profound,” said James Hodge, a public health law expert at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. “One in 3,000 kids who gets measles is going to die. The U.S. has seen 16 measles outbreaks this year — 89% of cases are in unvaccinated people — and a whooping cough epidemic is the worst since 2012. “If you overturn the administrative state, the impact on public health will be long-term and serious,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. It would take years before enough children died before people said, ‘I guess measles is a bad thing,’” she said.

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☆ John Mark Karr claimed he was with JonBenét Ramsey when she died. Here's where he is today.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementOnly one person has ever been arrested on suspicion of JonBenét Ramsey's murder: John Mark Karr. The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen, has transfixed the public since 1996. In the decades since the crime, there have been many theories about who killed JonBenét and even several false confessions. The suspect covered most widely in the media was John Mark Karr, who was arrested and cleared for the murder in 2006. John Mark Karr used the name "Daxis" to send emails to a JonBenét Ramsey documentarianJohn and Patsy Ramsey in May 1997.

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☆ Club World Cup: Donald and Ivanka Trump feature in draw, as Inter Miami discovers its fate
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Inter Miami will play Egypt’s Al Ahly in the first match of next year’s revamped Club World Cup, after the draw was made on Thursday. It’s being viewed as a warmup for when the United States hosts the World Cup in 2026, alongside Canada and Mexico. President-elect Donald Trump featured in the often chaotic draw, speaking to the audience via a pre-recorded video message. He was introduced world soccer governing body FIFA President Gianni Infantino as his “very special friend.”“The event is going to be incredible. I will try and be there if I can,” Trump said, before praising Infantino and looking ahead to the 2026 World Cup.

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☆ Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little is being done to curb the risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Sharon Lerner | Al Shaw | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +28 min

The result is that even the EPA’s alarming estimates of cancer risk vastly underestimate — by as much as fourfold — the chances of formaldehyde causing cancer. But four former government scientists with experience doing statistical analyses of health harms told ProPublica that the myeloid leukemia risk calculation was sound. The agency’s sprawling assessment shows that, among scores of individual air pollutants, formaldehyde poses the greatest cancer risk — by far. As the EPA admits, its cancer risk calculation fails to reflect the chances of developing myeloid leukemia. Nationwide, that’s the average lifetime cancer risk from air pollution; formaldehyde accounts for most of it.

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☆ Beige moms aren’t harming their children with their aesthetic, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Shortly after Nattie Powell’s daughter turned 1 year old, Powell bought her a toddler-sized Christmas tree toy just in time for the 2023 holiday season. Powell, who often records herself DIYing various holiday decor and household objects, thought painting the tree neutral colors would better suit the aesthetic of her living room. But once she posted the updated toy — dark green with brown ornaments — commenters quickly called her out on a “beige mom” activity. It is OK to be a ‘beige mom’Powell’s daughter didn’t seem to care, playing with the toy tree without complaint, she said. “Mothers shouldn’t feel judged or stressed out about if they choose to embrace the ‘beige mom’ trend or not,” said Poon, who is also the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ section on developmental and behavioral pediatrics.

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☆ Satellite images show Iran's new drone carrier has set sail, leaving its home port for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementIran has spent the past few years turning a container ship into a militarized drone carrier. New satellite images show the Shahid Bagheri has left its home port for the first time. This image from November 12 shows the Shahid Bagheri (center) at its berth. Last year, the IRGCN commissioned the Shahid Mahdavi, a modified expeditionary sea base that was formerly known as the Sarvin. Iran's IRGC published a video today of launching a ballistic missile from their forward base Shahid Mahdavi (converted container ship).

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