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☆ Mike Pence knocks President Biden over investigation into Hunter: When I was VP 'my son was flying an F-35
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence knocked Joe and Hunter Biden over news of a special counsel's investigation. Pence said when he was vice president, "my son was flying an F-35 for the Marine Corps." Hunter Biden was conducting business with foreign companies and struggled with substance abuse during Biden's vice presidency. "When I was vice president, my son was flying an F-35 for the Marine Corps defending this country. Then-Vice President Pence also spoke of his son during his eulogy for President George H.W.

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☆ Joe Biden acknowledges seventh grandchild: a 4-year-old daughter named Navy, who was fathered by Hunter Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hunter Biden had a daughter named Navy with Lunden Roberts, a former stripper, in 2018. For years, President Joe Biden never acknowledged Navy, who is his seventh grandchild. "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy," Biden told People. The president told People magazine in a statement, "Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy." It's unclear if the Bidens will make a visit to Navy and Roberts who both now reside in Arkansas.

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☆ 'Penny shoppers' are finding hidden $0.01 deals at Dollar General — and it's a sign of a larger problem for the discount chain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dollar General cuts prices on some items to $0.01 in preparation for removing them from inventory. And shoppers dedicated to the art of sifting through the merchandise have developed a playbook for finding the best penny items. Another tip: "Don't ask employees about penny items," lest they pull them from the shelves, one TikTok video tells penny shoppers. But for Dollar General employees, penny items can be a liability. Are you a Dollar General employee with a story idea to share?

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☆ Fox News regular who accused Hunter Biden of having nefarious ties to China is now being charged with having nefarious ties to China
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Gal Luft claims he has proof of Hunter Biden profiting off his family name in deals with China. Luft himself has been charged by the DOJ with false statements and being a foreign agent of China. After months of secrecy surrounding the charges against Luft, the indictment has been unsealed. Prosecutors allege Luft created a written "dialogue" between Woolsey and an associate at CEFC China Energy, a state-run energy company, which was then published in a Chinese newspaper online. Christopher Clark, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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☆ Biden snaps 'No!' when asked if he was involved in alleged Hunter Biden shakedown of Chinese executive
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden on Wednesday angrily denied that he was involved in an alleged shakedown of a Chinese businessman by his son Hunter Biden. "No I wasn't, and I won't," the president said as he left to the White House to fly to Chicago for an event. The White House previously has said that President Biden was not involved in Hunter's business ventures. The WhatsApp message came to light days after Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax crimes in federal court in Delaware. "I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father," Hunter Biden wrote.

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Hunter Biden arrives at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base after disembarking from Air Force One with his father, U.S. President Joe Biden, in Syracuse, New York, Feb. 4, 2023. Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has agreed to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor crimes of willfully failing to pay federal income taxes, a court filing Tuesday revealed. The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere 'traffic ticket,'" Trump wrote. Trump later wrote on Truth Social: "People are going wild over the Hunter Biden Scam with the DOJ!" "These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee's investigation.

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☆ MAGA world frantically points at Biden bribery story as Trump's second indictment hits
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The MAGA faithful rallied around a twice-indicted Trump, and pointed fingers at Joe Biden. They claim the indictment distracts people from a $5 million bribe that Biden received. Greene tweeted on Thursday: "This is what Joe Biden got paid $5 million to do. President Donald Trump will be back in the White House and Joe Biden will be Hunter's cellmate," he wrote. Sen. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee tweeted: "Now that President Biden is reportedly involved in a $5 million bribery scheme with a foreign nation, what does the DOJ do?

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☆ Manhattanhenge is coming to New York City tonight. Here's where to see it best.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Manhattanhenge is happening in New York City on Monday. It's the phenomenon where the setting sun perfectly aligns with the city's street grid. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term. The term Manhattanhenge was coined by the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a native New Yorker. The Tudor City Overpass in Manhattan and Hunter's Point South Park in Queens are two more scenic spots, he says.

☆ The GOP Takeover of an ‘Equity’ Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: A House report opens a window on Hunter's complex deal making. Glenn Youngkin has overhauled Virginia’s former Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, putting in charge a black Republican who doesn’t mince words. “DEI is dead,” Martin Brown said late last month in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute. Democrats are responding to this turnabout by calling for Mr. Brown to be fired for heresy. The state’s chief diversity officer since last November, Mr. Brown told VMI that he needed the school to lead in “the greatest country in the world .

☆ Prosecutors close to decision on charging Hunter Biden, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Hunter Biden, U.S. President Joe Biden's son, attends the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. Federal prosecutors are getting close to deciding whether to criminally charge Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, after a yearslong investigation, a new report said. Prosecutors are known to be weighing whether to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes, as well as another charge related to an allegedly false statement he made when buying a gun in 2018. Hunter's lawyers met last week in Washington, D.C., with prosecutors at the Department of Justice about the probe, a step routinely taken shortly before authorities move to charge people. Among those prosecutors was David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware, who is leading the investigation, and who will decide whether to charge Hunter, according to The Washington Post report on Wednesday, adding it could happen soon.

☆ Hunter Biden's lawyers say he has already paid $750K in child support as he fights to reduce payments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hunter Biden's attorneys revealed Monday that he has paid $750,000 so far in child support. The president's son is fighting to reduce his child support payments to the mother of one of his kids. A trial to decide whether Hunter's child support payments can be decreased is slated to take place in July, CNN reported. "Mr. Biden claims to be nothing more than a Yale-educated attorney/artist who is somewhat financially destitute and needs his child support adjusted," the brief said. The case was closed in 2020 but reopened last fall after Hunter sought to reduce his child support payments.

☆ Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of engineers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Driven by the recent AI boom, companies are raiding top college campuses for rare technical talent. She's currently on leave from her Stanford AI Ph.D. program to focus on Moonhub. In 2011, new AI Ph.D. graduates took jobs in the tech industry and academia in about equal measure. But since then, the majority of new grads have headed to the AI industry, with nearly double the percentage of AI Ph.D. grads taking industry jobs versus academic roles in 2021, according to Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI's 2023 AI Index Report. "All AI companies have roles for people with Ph.D.s and without," said Attaluri, the soon-to-be researcher at DeepMind.

☆ Inside the Wild World of Celebrity Keynote Speakers: Drugs, Alcohol
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

"I never saw myself as a speaker, let alone a motivational speaker," Leonard tells me while his assistant irons his jeans. 'When I ramble," Hunter told me, "hit me in the leg!" Every plane had been grounded, including the one stuck on the tarmac with an increasingly inebriated Hunter Thompson trapped inside. But by far the most all-consuming task was booking gigs for Hunter Thompson. Just before a debate with G. Gordon Liddy at Brown University, Hunter demanded that Betsy Berg, whom I now worked alongside at GTN, score him some crystal meth.

☆ NBA roundup: Devin Booker, Suns even series with Clippers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Apr 18, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) against the Los Angeles Clippers in the second half during game two of the 2023 NBA playoffs at Footprint Center. Kevin Durant added 25 points, six rebounds and five assists as Phoenix rebounded from a Game 1 home loss. Kawhi Leonard registered 31 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals and Russell Westbrook added 28 points for the Clippers. Mitchell, the seventh-leading scorer in the NBA this season at 28.3 points per game, had just 17 points Tuesday but collected a career-high 13 assists. Mobley had 13 points and 13 rebounds while Garland scored 32 points, including 26 in the first half.

☆ Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of rare talent
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

☆ Recent price action just delays the retest of October lows: J.P. Morgan's Hunter
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | 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 EmailRecent price action just delays the retest of October lows: J.P. Morgan's HunterJason Hunter, J.P. Morgan head of technical strategy, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss Hunter's take on the markets, how the CPI data plays into Hunter's thesis and how investors should consider tech stocks.

☆ A millennial who grew his net worth to $600,000 explains what it took to dig his way out of debt after overcoming a gambling addiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ambus Hunter, 36, said he almost went broke when he became addicted to gambling over a decade ago. His net worth is now about $600,000, and he works part time as a financial coach. Over the course of just four weeks, he said he lost roughly $10,000 — almost all his savings — playing roulette. Hunter said he'd had one major hiccup since he committed to quitting gambling but that he was able to get back on track. He said he set out to quickly replace the roughly $10,000 he'd lost.

☆ House Republicans vow to avenge Trump indictment by going after 'spineless weasel' Alvin Bragg and President Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump was charged with 34 felony counts Tuesday in Manhattan. House Republicans incensed by the arraignment began spitballing ways to fight back. "This day cannot be forgotten," Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona wrote online in a post bemoaning the "unequivocal persecution of Donald Trump." Meanwhile, House GOP Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik predicted that all those seeking to politically harm Trump with this trial had actually sealed their own fates. "President Trump will defeat this latest witch-hunt, defeat Joe Biden, and will be sworn in as President of the United States of America in January 2025," she said in a press release.

☆ Brendan Fraser wins best actor Oscar for ‘The Whale’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The film was adapted from Samuel Hunter's 2012 play of the same name. The role marked his return to the big screen as a leading man after a nine-year absence from major roles. The film drew criticism from some reviewers who said its depiction of Charlie relied on tropes of depressed, obese people. Some spoke out against its use of prosthetics rather than casting an obese actor. (Writing by Ben Kellerman; editing by Jonathan Oatis)((benjamin.kellerman@thomsonreuters.com))Keywords: AWARDS OSCARS/ACTOROur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Man who carried a Confederate flag in the Capitol on Jan. 6 is sentenced to 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Daniel Barnes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Delaware man who carried a Confederate flag through the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday. Seefried addressed the court before the sentence was handed down and said he knew entering the Capitol was wrong. Read more on NBC NewsPhotographs of Seefried walking through the Capitol with his Confederate flag quickly became some of the most well-known images from the Jan. 6 assault. "You can shoot me man, but we're coming in," Seefried told Goodman, according to prosecutors. During Hunter's sentencing, his lawyer blamed the elder Seefried for allegedly pressuring his son to storm the Capitol.

☆ This $22.7 million quail plantation in southwest Georgia is a hunter's paradise. It has five properties and more than 3,500 acres of hunting land — take a look inside.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jon Kohler, the seller's agent, told Insider that the property was developed in 1850 by famous architect John Wind, who is known for his Greek Revival style. Courtesy of Jon Kohler & AssociatesKohler told Insider that the property has been primarily used as a quail plantation since it was built in the 1850s. Quail plantations are common in south Georgia because of its lush habitat and diversified selection of tree cover. Many quail plantations were converted from old cotton plantations in the 1880s as wealthy industrialists from the north moved southward after the Civil War, according to research from the University of Tennessee. "Magnolia Hall does not have the traditional markings of an old cotton plantation like a graveyard, and I don't believe the property was ever used to grow cotton," Kohler told Insider.

☆ House GOP's 'all-star' oversight panel features 13 election deniers, 10 impeach-Biden-world advocates, and 3 congressional subpoena dodgers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

House Republican leaders have stocked the oversight panel with partisan bomb-throwers. Many of the new panelists voted to overturn the 2020 election and defied Jan. 6 investigators. Retired Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who chaired the House Oversight Committee last session, asserted that this new cast of characters were getting into it for the wrong reasons. "The personal vendettas these committees pursue are not a legitimate use of the oversight power. "These are basically the people who own Kevin McCarthy at this point," Bardella told Insider at the Facts First event.

☆ White House lawyer snubs Republican request for documents for now
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Trevor Hunnicutt | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday told Republicans hoping to investigate President Joe Biden that their requests for information for probes, including on the Afghanistan withdrawal, are improper until those lawmakers take over the House next month. Republicans, who take control of the House of Representatives next month, have also prioritized investigating the Democratic president and his son Hunter's business dealings. Democrats, who retain control of the White House and Senate, are working to aggressively contest those investigations. Comer, a Kentucky Republican, is expected to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Jordan, an Ohio Republican, is expected to chair the judiciary panel.

☆ Elon Musk's Tesla, the world's leading EV maker, is capping off 2022 as one of the S&P 500's worst-performing stocks.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But to Musk, prices have already started dropping, which eliminates the need for the Fed to keep rates so high. If it was all [interest] rates, NDX would be down a similar amount," Black tweeted at Musk. Ultimately, Tesla investors shouldn't feel alone in their pain amid downtrodden stock prices this year. How has your view of Tesla stock changed since October? Their managers told us how they overcame a brutal year for the stock market, and shared the stock picks that worked best.

☆ Asking about pay in a job interview makes you less likely to get hired
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Research has found managers are less likely to hire people who ask about pay in job interviews. Asking about pay can make managers think you care more about the rewards than the actual job. The upshot for job seekers: Be patient. But research suggests that that's exactly how hiring managers will perceive you if you ask about pay and perks. The upshot for job seekers is that patience and restraint are key.

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