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☆ Virginia Governor Youngkin 'humbled' by talk of possible presidential run
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Tim Kelly | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin did not rule out a run for president in 2024, saying on Thursday that he was "humbled" by the question of whether he would seek the Republican nomination. Youngkin was in Japan as part of an Asian trip, including stops in Taiwan and South Korea, to promote his state. In Tokyo, he met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who on Monday sat down with would-be presidential candidate Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis. Biden, 80, on Tuesday said he will seek re-election in 2024 in a contest that could once again pit him against leading Republican candidate former President Donald Trump. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday, 44% of Democrats said Biden was too old to run.
☆ What Walmart’s pullback from Chicago says about Corporate America’s limits
  + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
New York CNN —A line of Chicago mayors heavily courted Walmart over the last two decades, brushing aside community protests. Chains like Dollar General and Family Dollar are expanding in low-income areas, but they don’t sell fresh groceries. Walmart is closing neighborhood markets around the country, and three of the four stores closing in Chicago fall into that category. In Chicago, Walmart is closing in both low-income and high-income areas, a sign that it’s struggling across the city. But it’s the stores in low-income areas that will feel the loss most.
☆ Why Walmart is closing half its stores in Chicago
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Walmart announced Tuesday that next week it will close four poor-performing stores out of the eight it operates in Chicago. Now, it's closing four Chicago stores. Walmart said its remaining four Chicago stores “continue to face the same business difficulties,” but it believes closing these four will give the others the best chance of staying open. There were fears that Walmart and other businesses would leave Chicago, but Walmart pledged to stay and invest in the city. Some retailers have also cited higher levels of theft and other crime in their city stores.
☆ Chicago mayoral election ​live results: Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas face off in runoff election
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas are facing off in the Chicago mayoral runoff election. The winning candidate will succeed Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who was the third-place finisher in the initial Feb. 28 mayoral election behind Vallas and Johnson, respectively, missing her chance to compete in the runoff. Garcia came in fourth place in the February mayoral election; in 2015, he was also a mayoral candidate, forcing then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election, which he eventually lost. According to the Illinois State Board of Elections, Vallas raised $6.4 million in the lead-up to the initial February mayoral election and has raked in at least $10.9 million since March 1. Johnson raised nearly $4 million before the February election and has taken in at least $5.8 million since March 1.
☆ Inside Ken Griffin's rise to one of Wall Street's most powerful people, and why politics could be next
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +30 min
JB and I are not on speaking terms these days," said Ken Griffin, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, referring to JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois. As Florida rolled back pandemic restrictions more quickly than Chicago, even more Citadel employees migrated south. Ken Griffin's hedge fund has had a run of eye-popping returns since 2020. Others worry that it gives Griffin's hedge fund an unfair advantage. Hundreds of Citadel employees, partners, and families gathered at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida.
☆ U.S. Champions of High-Speed Trains Find Adoring Fans—7,000 Miles Away
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Peter Landers In Tokyo | Sha Hua In Singapore | Peter Landers | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
He has met the emperor and welcomed President Biden to his home, but Rahm Emanuel said an equally thrilling moment as ambassador to Japan came when he was offered a ride in the conductor’s cabin of a bullet train. His eyes opened wide. The train races toward Tokyo at more than 150 miles an hour. “Yeah, I want to! If you’ll let me,” Mr. Emanuel, 63, recalled saying.
☆ Micron launches mass output of advanced chip in Japan
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) on Wednesday kicked off mass production of its new high-capacity low-power 1-beta dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips at its plant in Hiroshima, Japan. The production of Micron's most advanced chip, which can store a third more data than older chips, comes as Japan tries to revive and modernise its once-mighty chip industry. The Japanese government in September offered Micron a 46.5 billion yen ($332 million) to boost production capacity at its plant. In July it gave a 93 billion yen subsidy to rival memory chip makers Kioxia Corp and Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) to help it expand output at their joint factory Japan. ($1 = 140.2700 yen)Reporting by Tim Kelly; Editing by David Dolan and Elaine HardcastleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Japan hosts multilateral display of naval unity amid East Asia tension
  + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Tim Kelly | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The naval parade in Sagami Bay near Tokyo involved 38 vessels, 18 from friendly countries such as the United States, South Korea, Britain, Australia, Singapore, India and Thailand. Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party has pledged to double Japan's defence budget to around 2% of gross domestic product within five years. Japan refused to join South Korea's fleet review in 2018 after Seoul asked it not to fly its rising sun ensign, which South Korea views as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression. Tokyo declined to invite South Korea to a planned 2019 review. China, which has criticised Japan's defence spending plans, declined an invitation to join the review.
☆ Elon Musk may have to shell out $44 billion to buy Twitter, but he's still the richest person in the world. Here's how the Tesla and SpaceX CEO makes and spends his $211 billion fortune.
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
In August 2018, Musk told The New York Times that he had taken to working 120 hours a week. "There were times when I didn't leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn't go outside," he told The Times. "This has really come at the expense of seeing my kids. And seeing friends." Getty Images/Joshua LottSource: The New York Times
☆ Shinzo Abe State Funeral Brings World Leaders to Japan
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Alastair Gale | Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A temporary altar was set up for the public to pay respects outside the Nippon Budokan, site of Shinzo Abe’s funeral. TOKYO—World leaders gathered Tuesday for the state funeral of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe , who was killed by an assassin’s bullet in July. Vice President Kamala Harris leads the U.S. delegation, which includes three former ambassadors to Japan and the current ambassador, Rahm Emanuel .
☆ What it's like working for lawmakers whose golden years are clouded by power struggles, rumors of senility, and constant second-guessing
  + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +25 min
Doug Heye, a Republican strategist, told Insider that some political maneuvering is more tactical. Emanuel, now the US's ambassador to Japan, didn't refute that the exchange took place but told Insider he didn't remember it. It serves the institution," the former GOP aide told Insider, adding that seasoned dealmakers are preferable to partisan bomb-throwers "with some agenda that they're driving." Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesWhite, now the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, told Insider his boss always had the final word. 'Preserving their dignity'Convincing career lawmakers to hang it up before they tarnish their respective legacies is tricky business, a veteran GOP leadership aide told Insider.
☆ The leadership strategy the CEO of a $5 billion virtual learning company uses to make quick decisions
  + stars: | 2021-02-10 | by ( May Teng | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Learning platform Kahoot! Because of this, CEO Eilert Hanoa often has to make quick decisions. Hanoa shared his best advice on leading a company in growth mode with Insider. The company continues to expand its offerings with Zoom and Bitmoji integrations, new free and premium tools for school and work use, and its recent acquisition of language learning platform Drops. Even at times of high growth, Hanoa makes a point to reflect on company decisions before moving forward to make sure that each project is properly executed.
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