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☆ Women say they were abused for years by Oregon family doctor
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Meena Duerson | Meridith Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

The family doctorIn the Oregon community where Nicole Snow grew up, Dr. David Farley was always there. Recounting the same anecdote he’d told Snow, he told Medley he’d once lost a young patient to cervical cancer and needed to do another exam to keep her safe. But again, women like Medley, Snow and Pratt describe feeling belittled or dismissed. After watching a documentary about the gymnasts abused by then-team doctor Larry Nassar, Medley, Pratt and Snow launched a civil suit against Farley. Their lawsuit has been amended multiple times to add women, girls, men and boys who say they too were abused by Farley.

Persons: Unfathomably, ”, Katie Medley, Nicole Snow, David Farley, of Jesus Christ, “, ” Snow, Snow, Farley, he’d, ‘ We’re, ‘, I’ve, Lisa Pratt, Medley he’d, Medley, Pratt, —, Dr, ’, ” Lisa Pratt, CNN Pratt, she’d, ’ ” Weeks, Jason Carruth, ” David Farley, KATU, Tony Christensen, ” Pratt, Christensen, “ Tony Christensen, ‘ It’s, ’ ”, Farley’s, John Wentworth, John Wentworth’s, belittled, Sarah Dumont, ” Wentworth, Wentworth, Dumont, groped, Ellen Rosenblum, Rosenblum, West Linn, Glade, Nielson, … they’ve, David Farley’s, they’ve, “ Dr, Larry Nassar, Stewart, Finaldi, Nassar, Tom D’Amore, They’re Organizations: Oregon CNN, CNN, of Jesus, Harvard, Linn Family Health, LDS Church, RAINN, ” CNN, Oregon Medical Board, OMB, West Linn Police Department, The, Catholic Church and Boy Scouts, LDS, ., West, Oregon Medical, Manly, D’Amore Locations: Wilsonville, Oregon, Willamette, Portland, Linn, LDS, Utah, Clackamas County, Idaho, Nephi , Utah, Japan, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City , Utah, West Linn, it’s

☆ Greenland: Mystery of a mega-tsunami that made the Earth vibrate for 9 days has been solved
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. And no place was immune; the signal traveled from Greenland to Antarctica in about an hour, he added. Eastern Greenland had never experienced a landslide and tsunami like this before, Svennevig said. The threat goes beyond Greenland, Svennevig said; similar-shaped fjordsexist in other regions, including Alaska, parts of Canada and Norway. Recent rock avalanches in the Arctic as well as in Alpine regions, are “an alarming signal,” she told CNN.

Persons: Stephen Hicks, ”, Seismologists, Søren Rysgaard, Svennevig, Dickson, sloshing, “, Hicks, Paula Snook, ” There’s, Lena Rubensdotter Organizations: CNN, University College London, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Geological Survey Locations: Greenland, Denmark, Dickson, Dickson Fjord, Antarctica, Eastern Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Norway

☆ Trump's tariff proposals would mean 'consumers are going to pay more,' says economist—here's why
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

But as a general rule, economists tend to agree that, for U.S. consumers, higher tariffs tend to mean higher prices. "They'll be buying things at higher prices than they otherwise would." Still, a number of organizations say that Trump's new tariff policy would have a negative tangible effect on American consumers' finances. Plus, financial experts say a more aggressive tariff policy could be viewed as a form of economic saber-rattling. It tends to lead to higher prices for consumers in both countries."

Persons: Trump, Howard Gleckman, Kamala Harris, Biden, Donald Trump, Harris, George Ball, Sanders Morris, Clark Bellin, Sam Millette Organizations: Urban, Brookings Tax Policy Center, CNBC, U.S, Trump, U.S ., American Progress, Peterson Institute for International, Commonwealth Financial Network Locations: China, U.S, —

☆ Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Research rules out Scottish site as source
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

That research, published in the journal Nature, overturned a century-old idea that the stone came from current-day Wales. The Altar Stone, the largest of the bluestones used to build Stonehenge, lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England. “The Altar Stone is anomalous in many ways to both the bluestones and the sarsens at Stonehenge,” Bevins said. But discovering that Wales was unlikely to be the origin site for the Altar Stone was a game changer, Bevins said. The researchers compared their findings with samples from the Altar Stone and found no mineralogical connection between the rocks.

Persons: Nick Pearce, ”, Richard Bevins, ” Piecing, ” Bevins, Bevins, Paul Williams, Stenness, T Schaeffer, “ Organizations: CNN, Archaeological Science, Aberystwyth University “, UK’s Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth University Locations: Scotland, Wales, Orkney, England, Orkney’s, Aberystwyth, Wiltshire, Salisbury, Woods, Marlborough, Preseli, British, Orkney's, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Inverness, Aberdeenshire, Britain

Low-income families who are robbed of their grocery funds may no longer get reimbursed if Congress doesn’t act by Sept. 30. Since late 2022, states have been authorized to use federal dollars to pay back victims of SNAP skimming thanks to a provision passed by lawmakers. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., who has advocated on behalf of SNAP skimming victims for years. “It’s frustrating and, frankly, very confusing that they don’t view this as a priority.”Despite the directive expiring, SNAP skimming continues to be a pervasive problem. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., proposed a bill in March that would require chip-enabled SNAP EBT cards and other safeguards, but the bill has yet to advance.

Persons: ”, “, Ruppersberger, Biden, Sen, Ron Wyden, ” Wyden, Daniel Acker, Cindy Long, ” Long, Ashley Burnside, ” Gina, Gina, Vicky Negus, Negus, ” Negus, “ It’s Organizations: Assistance, SNAP, U.S . Agriculture Department, C.A, state’s Department of Social Services, Oklahoma Human Services, Bloomberg, Getty, NBC News, USDA, for Law, Social, “ SNAP, Reform Institute, American, Human Services Association Locations: California, Oklahoma, Boston, Massachusetts, Washington ,

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Persons: Andrea Sanchez, behaviorists, Christine Calder, Shoshi, Sanchez, Shields, Daniel, Calder, it's, It's, Quagliozzi, Scratcher, Marlow, scratchers, Bob Murtaugh, Murtaugh Organizations: Business, Banfield Pet Hospital, Veterinary Behavior Services, Shoshi Parks, Amazon, Parks, Veterinary Medical Association, Humane Society of, National Academies of Locations: Vancouver , Washington, Chewy, Shoshi, United States

☆ What undecided voters thought of the debate: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

In today’s edition, we break down how panels of undecided voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania responded to the debate. A handful of Arizona voters previously turned off by both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald expressed interest in the Democratic nominee in an NBC News panel after the debate. Read more →Harris avoids some big questions, but Trump’s lack of control costs himBy Chuck ToddIn many ways, Tuesday’s debate was quite familiar. Just like our politics for the last nine years, the entire debate revolved around one person: Donald Trump. Read more →That’s all from the Politics Desk for now.

Persons: Chuck Todd, Donald Trump, Harris, Emma Barnett, Alex Tabet, Kate Snow, Jacob Soboroff, Kamala Harris, Donald, Lynne Kelleher, Kamala, ”, “, I’m, ” Hannah Reed, Trump, Joe Biden, Reed, Denise Lewis, she’s, isn’t, here’s Trump, who’s, Lewis, Read, → Harris, Don’t, Joe Biden’s, Biden, Chuck →, ove Organizations: NBC, White House, Capitol, Democratic, Trump, Libertarian, Biden Locations: Arizona, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Bucks, Scottsdale, Harris

☆ Chuck Todd: Harris avoids some big questions, but Trump’s lack of control costs him
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Chuck-Todd-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Chuck Todd | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

It wasn’t until Trump’s closing statement that he tried to effectively pin Vice President Kamala Harris to President Joe Biden’s administration. Not only did Trump fail to connect Harris more directly with the Biden years, but so did the questions. And Harris certainly took advantage of every opportunity to turn many of the questions directed at her or the Biden-Harris administration back on Trump. And Harris also benefited because the moderators didn’t always follow up with her when she didn’t answer their questions directly. (Again, Trump didn’t acknowledge any failures in his administration other than the people he fired, and Harris didn’t seem to hug the Biden-Harris record very much.)

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Don’t, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s, Harris, Biden, It’s, goad Trump, Biden’s flameout, Hillary Clinton, didn’t, “, won’t, Biden —, Harris didn’t Organizations: Biden, Trump, Trump Republicans Locations: Harris

Here's what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia. Fact check: Trump calls Harris’ dad a Marxist“Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well," Trump said. Fact check: Trump claims Harris ‘wants to confiscate your guns’“She wants to confiscate your guns,” Trump claimed. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”Fact check: Harris says Trump oversaw manufacturing job losses“Donald Trump said he was going to create manufacturing jobs. Fact check: Trump says he has ‘nothing to do with Project 2025’“I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

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☆ Harris bests Trump in debate, but there’s no guarantee it will shape the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Harris and Trump didn't interact after the debate ended Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Trump speaks during the debate. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Trump supporter Pat Tuttle watches the debate from Jonathan's Grille in Nashville, Tennessee. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Harris averages 49% support across recent polls while Trump stands at 48% in the latest CNN Poll of Polls . Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty Images Trump and Harris shake hands at the start of the debate. Harris introduced herself by name and said, “Let’s have a good debate.” Trump responded: “Nice to see you.

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☆ Jim Cramer breaks down the trends affecting tech and bank stocks right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer reviewed Tuesday's market action and asserted that tech stocks are easier to own for the long term while bank stocks suffer as the market broadens and experiences "economic choppiness." "You simply can't bank on the bank stocks right now, hence why the great broadening out is indeed fraught with risk," he said. "Meanwhile, tech may be torturous to own on a day-to-day basis, but long-term it's a cornucopia of rewards." He said many of these tech companies have lasting, secular themes, adding that any business related to data centers has "tremendous pin action." We don't have to play an interest rate guessing game with tech because the Fed is tangential."

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Daniel Pinto backtracked, Cramer, Jay Powell Organizations: JPMorgan, Federal, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, Big Tech, Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Oracle

☆ A recent big tech plan for carbon removal is at the center of a major climate change emissions debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

"Nature-based carbon removals, such as soil carbon sequestration, store carbon temporarily in living biomass," said Dr. Allanah Paul, a CO2 removal and carbon accounting expert based in Europe. Nature-based carbon removal does have advantages. The rise of negative emissionsOther climate experts view the criticisms of nature-based carbon removal as missing the central point. "As an emitter, every company should focus on reducing their emissions, but as a purchaser looking to offset residual emissions, they should prioritize purchases of robust negative emissions," he stated. "My understanding is that Symbiosis intends to create a demand for high-quality nature-based carbon removal by setting very high standards for removal quality," Leslie-Bole said.

Persons: Paul, Allanah Paul, Strong, Julia Strong, Salesforce, Paul Davies, Haley Leslie, Bole, Leslie Organizations: Symbiosis, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Symbiosis Coalition, Coalition, Council, US, World Resources Institute Locations: Europe, Symbiosis, The State

☆ AI gadgets have been a bust so far. Apple aims to change that
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Steve Kovach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The system is called Apple Intelligence, and it'll be rolling out over the coming months. Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence in stages. Plus, app developers will be able tap into Apple intelligence, so you can use it everywhere on your phone. In the PC market, Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs launched this summer, but without their marquee AI feature, Recall. Without Recall, there's not much AI in this batch of AI PCs.

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☆ A man was left stranded on a mountain by his colleagues in a work retreat gone wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-29 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA Colorado man was rescued after getting stranded overnight on a 14,230-foot mountain during a work retreat, local authorities said. Related storiesBy 9 p.m., Chaffee County Search and Rescue South said it had been alerted and activated two teams, a drone pilot, and a helicopter. Chaffee County Search and Rescue South posted this image from the search. Chaffee County Search and Rescue SouthBut just as those groups set out, the man regained cell service and managed to make a 911 call, the search and rescue team wrote. The man told rescuers he'd fallen more than 20 times and ended up in a gully, unable to get up.

Persons: —, Shavano, Danny Andres, he'd Organizations: Service, Business, Employees, Industry Locations: Chaffee County, Chaffee

☆ Chess games and a new job: How Alex Murdaugh is spending life behind bars
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Pilar Melendez | Pilar Melendez Is An Editor On The Nbc News Platforms Team. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Disgraced former South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh scored a big legal win last week after the South Carolina Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal for a new murder trial. Murdaugh’s lawyer, however, is not worried and is focused on their appellant cases. Last week, the state Supreme Court agreed to hear Murdaugh’s state appeal for a new murder trial based on allegations that a court clerk tampered with the jury that convicted him. Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal’s decision came after an evidentiary hearing into whether Hill’s comments during the trial influenced the jury. “We are really looking forward to making our case to the Supreme Court,” Griffin said.

Persons: Alex Murdaugh, Murdaugh, Jim Griffin, “ Alex, ”, ” Griffin, Maggie, Paul, Aimee Zmroczek, Curtis Eddie Smith, Zmroczek, ” Zmroczek, Chrysti Shain, “, Murdaugh’s, ” Shain, Eric Bland, doesn’t condon, ” Bland, Colleton, Becky Hill, Jean Toal’s, Toal, Hill Organizations: South, South Carolina Supreme, NBC, Murdaugh’s, NBC News, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Department of Corrections, “ Locations: South Carolina, Murdaugh’s “, Colleton County

☆ Why parents may want to start locking a child's credit at a very young age
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

While locking their credit won't solve all cybersecurity issues related to stolen Social Security numbers, it's one extra layer of protection parents can implement. Parents can take these steps proactively even if there's nothing to suggest a minor's credit has been compromised such as unexpected credit card solicitations or bills received in the minor's name. It can take some time and effort to lock a child's credit, but the outlay is minimal compared with what can be a lengthy and emotional credit restoration process. Locking a child's credit won't protect against all of these, but it's a solid step in the right direction, financial professionals said. To check to see if their child has a credit report, parents can mail a letter with their request to each of the credit bureaus.

Persons: —, Kim Cole, Loretta Roney, It's, Cole, Bruce McClary, McClary Organizations: Social, Social Security, Navicore Solutions, InCharge, Federal Trade Commission, Administration, Foundation, Credit Counseling

☆ Mike Lynch won a dramatic 12-year legal battle over his tech company. Weeks later, he and his top lawyer are dead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Hailed as Britain's Bill Gates, Lynch sold Autonomy, his groundbreaking data-management company, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion. Shareholders and business commentators were puzzled about what HP, a hardware company, would do with Autonomy, a software company — and why the latter was worth $11 billion. A year after the acquisition, HP wrote down $8.8 billion of the purchase value and accused Lynch of lying about Autonomy's finances. Lynch said HP stifled Autonomy with mismanagement and bureaucracy that pushed out employees and stymied sales. "This verdict closes the book on a relentless 13-year effort to pin HP's well-documented ineptitude on Dr. Lynch," Morvillo said in a joint statement with his attorney colleague Brian Heberlig.

Persons: —, Mike Lynch, Bill Gates, Lynch, Sushovan Hussain, Stephen Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Chris Morvillo, Léo Apotheker, Apotheker, Meg Whitman, James B, Stewart, Time Warner, Bryn Colton, Hussain, hadn't, Henry Nicholls, David Cameron, Cameron, Lynch —, Whitman, Apotheker's, Robert Hildyard, Hildyard hadn't, wasn't, that'd, Guglielmo Mangiapane Morvillo, Morvillo, Brian Heberlig, Angela Bacares, Hannah, Charles Morvillo Organizations: Service, Autonomy, Hewlett, Packard, HP, Business, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, Shareholders, New York Times, Time, FBI, Deloitte, Telegraph, The New York Times, KPMG, US Justice Department, Justice Department, High Court, REUTERS, BBC, British Museum, Politico, The Times, Times, Bacares Locations: San Francisco, London, California, Kenya, Sicily

☆ English town of Southport mourns 9-year-old stabbing victim and calls for an end to unrest
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The disturbances have been fueled by social media users who spread misinformation about the suspect in the July 29 stabbing rampage. A police officer fends away a demonstrator during an anti-immigration protest, in Rotherham northern England on Aug. 4, 2024. The suspect was born in Wales and moved to the Southport area in 2013. We don’t hear you back.’’The coffin of Southport stabbing victim Alice da Silva Aguiar being taken from St Patrick's Church, Southport after her funeral. On Sunday, her parents released a photo of Alice standing next to a cardboard cutout of Swift as she waited for her last dance class to begin.

Persons: Alice da Silva, Constable Serena Kennedy, Alice, ”, Kennedy, Taylor Swift, fends, Hollie Adams, Sergio, Alexandra, ’ ’, ’, Alice da Silva Aguiar, Danny Lawson, Jinnie Payne, Swift, ’ ” Payne, “ Organizations: Patrick’s Catholic, Merseyside Police, Reuters, Churchtown Primary Locations: Southport, England, Merseyside, Liverpool, Rotherham, Wales, Rwanda, Britain, “, St Patrick's

☆ New study finds invasive Jorō spiders ‘keep cool under pressure’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

… It seems like even though their heart rate does accelerate, it’s much more even (than the other spider’s heart rates),” he added. To test the spiders’ heart rates, Davis and study coauthor Christina Vu, who was a University of Georgia undergraduate student of entomology at the time, wrangled 79 spiders from two different genera. The Jorō spiders (top left) had to be carefully restrained using pins in order to measure the arachnids' heart rates. They compared the spiders’ resting heart rates to their heart rates during restraint and found all the spiders’ heart rates increased, but the Argiope spiders, which are known to avoid urban settings, had many more spikes as they struggled to run away, according to the research. … To observe spider heart rates, they must be restrained in the first place, which causes a heart rate elevation,” he said.

Persons: I’ve, ’ ”, Andy Davis, panicking, Davis, Christina Vu, —, ” Vu, Jorōs, “, ”, Floyd Shockley, ” Shockley, Jay Stafstrom, ” Stafstrom, they’re Organizations: CNN —, University of Georgia, University of Georgia’s Odum, of Ecology, University, Georgia, Smithsonian National Museum of, Cornell University Locations: United States, Asia, Georgia, West Virginia , Tennessee, Maryland, Canada, arachnophobes, Washington , DC, Ithaca , New York

I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”A day earlier, the Harris campaign released a television advertisement highlighting her pivot. Her stance reflects a change in public opinion since Mr. Trump left the White House in 2021. The decision for the Harris campaign to frame her record as California attorney general as a “border-state prosecutor” stands in contrast to how she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary. “Donald Trump tanked the deal,” Ms. Harris said in Arizona as a crowd of more than 15,000 supporters booed. “Voters want to see folks be serious about actually fixing the broken immigration system and securing the border,” Ms. Cox said in an interview.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden’s, Harris, Donald J, Trump, “, Ms, ”, Bill Clinton, Biden, Mr, ” —, Kamala, Chris DeRose, ” Mr, DeRose, “ There’s, “ Donald Trump, ” Ms, ” Jen Cox, Mark Kelly, Cox, Tom Suozzi, Suozzi, ” Harris, Mike Madrid, Harris’s, Obama, Madrid, Donald Trump, ” Michael Gold, Reid J, Epstein Organizations: Republicans, Democratic, Republican, White House, Biden, Trump, America, Democrats, Mr, “, Democrat Locations: Arizona, U.S, United States, California, “, Montana, Maricopa County, New York, Bozeman, Mont, Washington

How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? How close today’s ice is to suffering the same fate is something scientists are still trying to figure out. Sudden Shift in the West African Monsoon0 +3 +6 +9 +12 +16 +18˚F WE ARE HERE Degrees of warming 0 +3 +6 +9 +12 +16 +18˚F WE ARE HERE Degrees of warming 0 +3 +6 +9 +12 +16 +18˚F WE ARE HERE Degrees of warmingAround 15,000 years ago, the Sahara started turning green. When it might happen: Hard to predict. “With every gram of additional CO2 in the atmosphere, we are increasing the likelihood of tipping events,” he said.

Persons: ”, Tapio Schneider, “ It’s, David Holland, Niklas Boers, “ Organizations: California Institute of Technology, West Antarctic, New York University, Animals, Amazon, Technical University of Munich, Potsdam Institute, Climate Impact Locations: Western Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, Antarctica, Sahara, North Africa, East Africa, Africa, Caribbean, Europe

☆ What Maya Rudolph's SNL Impression Reveals About Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

And it has different meanings in African American English versus the Mainstream US English more likely spoken by white folks. So when white people unfamiliar with African American English hear that rise and fall, they think the speaker is being kind of argumentative. How "Black" Harris sounds, in other words, is in the ear of the beholder. In 2022, she compared the way Harris talks to audio clips of the comedian Maya Rudolph doing her impression of Harris on "Saturday Night Live." Just about anything Harris does, Rudolph does, too, but more so.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump, Harris, Nicole Holliday, Holliday, Barack Obama, MAGA, That's, Joe Biden, she's, —, Meryl Streep, Maya Rudolph, Rudolph, I'm, they're, — Harris, She'll, Adam Rogers Organizations: National Association of Black Journalists, Trump, UC Berkeley, Howard University, Howard, Business Locations: California, Oakland , California, Bay, Montreal, United States, Harris

☆ Voters blamed Biden for high inflation. Kamala Harris could get a pass.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Where voters place their blame — and specifically whether it falls on Vice President Kamala Harris — could be one of the defining factors of the presidential election. Early polling suggests that Harris won't be able to entirely shed the blame that President Joe Biden has received for inflation. If Harris can avoid some of the blame Biden received for rising prices, it could improve her chances of winning over crucial swing state voters, Traugott said. However, Sarah Foster, a Bankrate analyst, thinks some voters could shift much of their frustrations about rising prices from Biden to Harris. To be sure, it's up for debate how much Biden, Harris, or even Trump are deserving of blame for the rising prices of the past few years.

Persons: —, Kamala Harris —, Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, she'd, Michael Traugott, Kamala Harris, Trump, Traugott, Evan Roth Smith, Blueprint's, Semafor, Elizabeth Pancotti, Sarah Foster, It's, Joseph Stiglitz, University of Michigan's Traugott Organizations: Service, Business, Trump, Democratic, University of Michigan, Republicans, Biden —, Roosevelt Institute, New York Times, Biden, FOX Business, University of Michigan's

☆ How Pinterest became a secret weapon for a social-media marketer and boosted her revenue by $30,000 a month
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That's what 23-year-old Kenda Laney thinks of when she reflects on the start of her career in social media. When Laney was later asked if she could look into Pinterest, which she only used for fun, she was intrigued. In July, about $29,000 of the $109,000 in revenue she made from these purchases was driven by Pinterest. AdvertisementFor creators who want to start using Pinterest, Laney advises them to do their due diligence on search-engine optimization, or SEO, for their content niche. "Hyperfocus on how your content is an answer to someone's question rather than just describing what your content is," Laney said.

Persons: Kenda Laney, Laney, Laney Media's, Pinterest Organizations: Service, Business, Laney Media, Pinterest Locations: Colorado

☆ Secret Service busted into a salon to let people use the bathroom during a Kamala Harris fundraiser, business owner says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Secret Service agents taped over a security camera and broke into a Massachusetts hair salon while securing the area for a Kamala Harris campaign event, according to the salon's owner. Advertisement(Business Insider blurred the face of a Secret Service agent in the video below.) The fourth person, wearing a dark suit and white shirt like a Secret Service officer, stood by the door. BI asked Secret Service spokesperson Melissa McKenzie whether the agency invited other people to use the bathroom. Brian Smith, the building's landlord, said he didn't give the Secret Service permission to use the property either.

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