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☆ A complete timeline of Bobby Berk's exit from 'Queer Eye' and the drama that's ensued
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewNetflix's "Queer Eye" reboot built a reputation as a feel-good show about a team of professionals, known as the Fab Five, giving people life makeovers. AdvertisementHis full statement read:"To the Queer Eye Community who have become family to me. It's with a heavy heart that I announce that season 8 will be my final season on Queer Eye. The day after Berk's exit was announced, a source told People magazine that "the parting was amicable." According to one source, Van Ness' temper would hit a boiling point at least once a week.

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☆ Apple's movies are box-office duds. Apple says they're profitable. Huh?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

And since the Apple-made movies are expressly built to be shown on its Apple TV+ streaming service, Apple can't make money selling them to a different streamer. Apple, movies, and TV: Why? And the second obvious answer is that Apple needs Apple TV+ because it's increasingly focused on making money from "services" as iPhone sales slow down. Apple has managed to grow Apple TV+ meaningfully after a rocky start. Still, even in the best-case scenario, Apple TV+ is a sliver of the $85 billion Apple made from services last year.

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☆ Opinion | Reflections on a Trump-Biden Rematch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Trump and Biden Pile Up Victories on Super Tuesday” (front page, March 6):I listened to Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech that he gave from Mar-a-Lago. True to form, the former president laced his comments with old grievances and false statements. This won’t be the last time Donald Trump makes false statements about the 2020 election results specifically or the 2024 results generally. Denny FreidenrichLaguna Beach, Calif.To the Editor:Why didn’t viable Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer challenge President Biden and throw their hats in the ring for the primaries a year ago? What is the nature of the specific politics of Democrats challenging a Democratic incumbent?

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☆ Kate DiCamillo Says ‘Paying Attention Is a Way to Love the World’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m happy to report that the books are now organized alphabetically by author, and the extra copies have been put into other people’s hands. What’s the last great book you read? For me a great book is a book that I want to make someone else read immediately. And, too, a great book is one that makes me want to tell a story back. The last story that made me feel that way was in the 2023 “Best American Short Stories.” It’s by Da-Lin.

Persons: Alice McDermott’s “, McDermott, Niall Williams’s “, Nehisi Coates, Gene Luen Yang, Carlo Rovelli, ”, Lin Locations: Gilead

☆ Why the Microsoft default font change from Calibri to Aptos upset some users
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The default font in her Word document was different, even though she hadn’t done anything to change it. Some die-hards even expressed their continued devotion to Times New Roman, the default font Calibri unseated in 2007. Is it arguably somewhat ridiculous to get worked up over a font change? pic.twitter.com/fV9thfdAr4 — Microsoft (@Microsoft) April 28, 2021The company has said the advent of higher resolution screens was a big factor behind their search for a successor. What’s going on?’”A graphic released by Microsoft detailing its new default font, Aptos.

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☆ Vindication for the cheap white refrigerator! Those fancy appliances break — and are so expensive to fix.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

New and fancy appliances have electronic parts that break down more easily. Maybe the humble white fridge deserves our respect. Being budget-friendly, the white fridge is something of a "landlord special," like painting over an electrical outlet. Unlike fancier stainless steel refrigerators with digital buttons and ice makers, a white fridge is built to last. Justice for the white fridge!

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☆ Free Shipping and Free Returns From Online Shopping Are Dying. Good.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Well, if you’ve ever bought stuff online and received free shipping or returns, you’ve also been a little bit of a jerk — and now it’s time to pay up. Fast, free shipping and easy, no-cost returns have become a baseline expectation in the modern online shopping experience. Instead of fighting for market share by offering free shipping and no-hassle returns, retailers are trying to squeeze more money out of every transaction. Free shipping is not actually free . Returns are a necessary and inevitable part of online shopping.

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☆ Tucker Carlson gets roasted for praising decades-old shopping cart tech in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is posting videos of himself experiencing various aspects of daily life in Moscow — and a moment involving Russian shopping carts has led to him being roasted on social media. AdvertisementTucker is excited that the Russians have figured out a way to keep homeless people from taking shopping carts. Although the shopping cart locks in Carlson’s video are far more widespread in Europe, they’re also a common sight at German-owned Aldi’s US stores. AdvertisementAn Aldi shopping cart in New York City. The shopping cart at the grocery store I go to allows me to scan items as I put them in the cart while shopping," X user EgilsRobs wrote.

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☆ Flight attendant who was on Alaska Airlines when door plug blew out is now picketing for ‘living wage’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Steve Maller, a flight attendant for nearly 20 years, was one of the flight attendants on the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 when a door plug blew out. But he did say he’s also proud of how the flight attendants on board responded. “We have flight attendants who live in cars because they can’t afford to live where they’re based,” she said. A flight attendant wears a pin reading,' Flight Attendants Save Live!' He said many are already walking out — and the steady flow of flight attendants leaving Alaska every month worries him.

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Gail Collins: So, Bret — more than 350,000 new jobs in January without an inflation surge! I guess that means the Biden plan is really working out, hehehehe. First, prices for groceries are still too damn high — up 25 percent in the last four years, according to The Washington Post. That practically amounts to a campaign ad for Donald Trump every time people are at checkout. Gail: Well, it’s a pretty good sign for Biden that an economic conservative like you so desperately wants him to win.

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☆ In ‘Last Days,’ Strange Sounds of Simultaneous Joy and Sadness
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Hugh Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Like, ‘Oh, are you being serious or are you not?’ No; I am deadly serious when I’m doing these things. I’m just chasing this strange feeling.”Leith’s way of talking about music is a lot like his actual music: blurry and discursive, but also precisely evocative. That strange feeling he’s chasing, for example, is one he compared to being at a wake, where “outward joy and outward sadness” are possible at the same time. Take his opera “Last Days,” which receives its U.S. premiere on Feb. 6 in Los Angeles as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series. It is adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name, which fictionalizes the final days of Kurt Cobain.

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Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Major League Baseball pledged support. “We have after school education, enrichment and tutoring.”One of the largest donations is a $10,000 pledge from an anonymous former Major League Baseball player who won a World Series. And, we make every effort to educate our kids about the role that Jackie Robinson played in life and civil rights, his life beyond sports. “We can’t imagine, being named League 42 without a Jackie Robinson statue in our park," he said.

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☆ Consumers Feel Better About the Economy. Why? Gas Prices, Eggs, Stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Listen, I'm not saying that all the good vibes Americans are suddenly feeling about the economy boil down to stocks, gas prices, and eggs. What improved America's economic vibes was basically three things: the soaring stock market, falling gas prices, and eggs. Research shows that consumers feel more pessimistic when gas prices go up — James Surowiecki points out in The Atlantic that high gas prices also make people less happy and more likely to hate the president. If oil prices stay relatively low and, in turn, keep gas prices down, less exasperated drivers could help Joe Biden keep his job come November. There are all sorts of geopolitical threats and unknowns that could throw global trade and oil prices (and thus gas prices) into chaos.

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☆ A winter weather pattern change is about to bring a wild swing in temperatures to the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean/USA Today Network Snow falls on parked cars in Concord, New Hampshire, on January 16. Monday's caucuses were the coldest ever , with high temperatures below zero across much of the state. Dan Powers/USA Today Network Firefighters rescue a man after his car was stuck in a flooded area in Charlotte, North Carolina, on January 9. Gregg Pachkowski/USA Today Network Snow covers the trees around the Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, on January 9. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com/USA Today Network Flooding is seen at an intersection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on January 9.

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☆ Northwest faces freezing rain and heavy snow while Arctic blast loosens its grip on eastern US
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Robert Shackelford | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean/USA Today Network Snow falls on parked cars in Concord, New Hampshire, on January 16. Gary Hershorn/Corbis News/Getty Images Snow and ice dust a worker who was removing snow from a sidewalk in Des Moines on January 13. Dan Powers/USA Today Network Firefighters rescue a man after his car was stuck in a flooded area in Charlotte, North Carolina, on January 9. Gregg Pachkowski/USA Today Network Snow covers the trees around the Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, on January 9. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com/USA Today Network Flooding is seen at an intersection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on January 9.

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☆ Fat Joe on teaming up with Jelly Roll and Wyclef Jean to advocate for healthcare price transparency in Washington, DC
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( John Lynch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Around 500 Congress members and government officials attended to watch Joe perform with artists Jelly Roll and Wyclef Jean, according to the artist's rep. You know, I'm an open book. Jelly Roll, Fat Joe, and Wyclef Jean. Power to the Patients/Shareif ZiyadatWhat made Jelly Roll and Wyclef Jean the right folk to link with on this particular event? AdvertisementAnd this year, you know, I'm a huge fan of Jelly Roll.

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☆ ‘Lift’ Review: Thin as Thieves
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Robert Daniels | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kevin Hart plays Cyrus, a master thief, in the undercooked heist flick, “Lift,” directed by F. Gary Gray. Beyond the windfall Jorgensen will get from shorting water utility stocks, it’s unclear what he gains from this elaborate ruse. An Interpol agent, Abby (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), enlists Cyrus to steal the passenger plane carrying the gold bars before any damage can be done. Although Abby and Cyrus are old flames, the film doesn’t pick up any romantic steam, either, thanks to what passes for banter. “I was looking at the questions that weren’t being asked,” Cyrus tells Abby.

Persons: Kevin Hart, Cyrus, ”, Gary Gray, Daniel Kunka, Lars Jorgensen, Jean Reno, Jorgensen, Abby, Gugu, “, weren’t, ” Cyrus Organizations: Interpol Locations: Tuscany, Venice

☆ Fans are calling out celebrities who attended Balenciaga's runway show one year after the brand's controversial holiday campaign scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The star-studded affair took place one year after Balenciaga's controversial holiday campaign. AdvertisementFans are calling out celebrities who attended Balenciaga's most recent fashion show following the brand's controversial holiday ad campaign last year. AdvertisementThe tension surrounding Balenciaga unfolded in November 2022 after it released a "Gift Collection" holiday campaign on social media. "As a mother of four, I have been shaken by the disturbing images," Kardashian wrote on X in November 2022. "So the fake outrage of Balenciaga sexualizing children is over huh," they wrote.

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Delegates use wonky terms like “NDCs” “1.5 degrees” and “loss and damage,” not exactly conversation starters at parties. Currently, temperatures have increased about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit). As extreme weather events driven by climate change have increased and intensified, climate scientists have pushed to limit warming to 1.5. Last year’s climate talks, COP27 in Egypt, produced a landmark agreement for rich countries to contribute to a fund to help developing nations adapt to climate change. The wonky speeches, lots of discussion and disagreements will continue, all with the hope of combatting climate change.

Persons: FOSTER, —, ___ Peter Prengaman Organizations: United Arab Emirates, of, Delegates, Biden, Associated Press, AP Locations: DUBAI, United Arab, Dubai, Paris, United States, COP27, Egypt

☆ Moby Don: Trump's fraud-trial 'victim,' Deutsche Bank, praised him as a lucrative 'whale' in fawning in-house documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Reps from Deutsche Bank, which NY says was defrauded, described actually prospering thanks to Trump. Advertisement"We are whale hunting," former Deutsche Bank executive Rosemary Vrablic told her fellow bankers of Trump in an email from 2011, soon after son-in-law Jared Kushner offered to make an introduction. She contends that Deutsche Bank was defrauded out of more than $100 million in interest income. As a sophisticated international lender, the bank did its own risk analysis, apart from Trump's net-worth statements, the defense has argued. But the state has countered that any fact-checking, any profit-making, and any other non-victim-like behavior on the part of Deutsche Bank is besides the point.

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☆ A fully-intact fly was found inside a man's colon during a routine colonoscopy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Kate Hull | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Doctors found a fly in the colon of a 63-year-old man during a routine colonoscopy. AdvertisementA fly found in a man's colon during a colonoscopy caused a buzz amongst his gastroenterologists. As a doctor fished a camera through the man's colon, he was shocked to discover a fully intact (but dead) fly in the middle of the man's colon. But "having such an intact fly like this is just unheard of." When doctors showed the patient pictures of the fly in his colon after the procedure, "He's like, huh, I must have eaten a fly," Bechtold said.

Persons: —, I've, Dr, Matthew Bechtold, aren't, Bechtold, gastroenterologists Organizations: Service, American, of Gastroenterology, University of Missouri Health Care

☆ I worked in Amazon HR and was 'disgusted at what I was seeing' with performance improvement plans. Then I got put on a PIP and knew I had to quit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

A former HR staffer at Amazon put employees on a performance-improvement plan known as Pivot. Then the HR staffer, who said they developed PTSD from the work, was put on their own PIP. Either the Pivot appeal or the Pivot work that workers' managers had to do. And look, I'm not going to say you're going to ever find this somewhere, locked down in words. AdvertisementI have PTSDI was disgusted at what I was seeing with the Pivot process.

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☆ Biden Pardons Turkeys in Annual Thanksgiving Tradition
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

I hereby pardon Liberty and Bell. Even though Liberty and Bell are from Minnesota, they’re named for a famous Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. These birds have a new appreciation for the word, “let freedom ring.” So I’m told by the Turkey Federation and the Liberty Bell — Liberty and Bell — they love honeycrisp apples. Ice hockey. I sure as hell would like to see them play ice hockey.

Persons: I’m, Liberty, Bell, they’re Organizations: Bell, Liberty Bell, Turkey Federation, Liberty Locations: Liberty, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, America

☆ Six Hours to Cook and $100 to Shop: Watch 3 NYT Food Writers Make Thanksgiving
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Cc Allen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +42 min

‘Your dinner must be enough to feed four people.’” “’You can cook as many dishes as you’d like, but it must include a main dish and a dessert.’” “All right, cool.” “I love Thanksgiving.” “I love Thanksgiving.” “Thanksgiving is a colonialist holiday that celebrates a genocide. Minus 3.” “Oh, oh, tamarind. O.K., O.K., O.K.” “Where’s the butter? So what I’m going to do is I’m actually going to start the butter and then put the chocolate in. Souffle vibes, O.K., I’m going to do the cranberries now.” [BACKGROUND CHATTER] “Hi.” “Hi camera.” “I’m doing like a layer.

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Political Cartoons View All 1256 Images“I know that late in the game, fourth quarter, we're within a score, I want the ball," he added. Stafford looked sharp on a series of impressive late throws, none better than a picturesque 32-yard fling to rookie Puka Nacua. The Seahawks ultimately couldn’t stop the Rams' ground game in the fourth led by Royce Freeman, who rushed for 73 yards. Metcalf caught a TD pass in the first quarter for Seattle, which also committed 12 penalties for a whopping 130 yards. “This was the most disappointing loss for us because of the way we did it," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said.

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