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☆ Women's sports merchandise is an estimated $4 billion industry but fans still can't find the items they're looking for
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

"When you invest in a jersey, that means you really appreciate that person, their character, and what they bring to the game," Krieger said. Sports Innovation Lab estimates the women's sports merchandise industry is worth $4 billion — conservatively. People simply don't know where to find merchandise — 32% of fans reported having an issue finding a seller for women's sports merchandise compared to just 18% of fans looking for men's, according to Sports Innovation Lab's 2024 Women's Sports Merchandise Survey. But while big brands are making strides in partnering with women's professional teams to create merchandise, the women's sports merch buying experience is still lacking. Building the women's game takes an ecosystem of collaboration involving fans, athletes, leagues, team sponsors, and retailers.

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☆ A French Museum Collides With New Jersey Politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Plans to build an outpost of the Pompidou Center in the heart of Jersey City were put on hold after the State Legislature voted last week to rescind $24 million in funding for the Paris museum’s project. Another $34 million in state and federal assistance for what would have been the Pompidou’s first satellite location in North America was also put in jeopardy by the vote. Tim Sullivan, chief executive of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, addressed a letter to museum officials saying that the project was called off. “Due to the ongoing impact of Covid and multiple global conflicts on the supply chain, rising costs, an irreconcilable operating gap and the corresponding financial burdens it will create for New Jersey’s taxpayers, the Legislature has rescinded financial support,” Mr. Sullivan wrote, “leaving us to determine that this project is unfortunately no longer feasible.”

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☆ Where to Watch July 4 Fireworks Around New York City
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Alyce Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the public can watch free of charge from spots along Hudson River and areas of New Jersey. Other fireworks shows will take place on Staten Island, in Coney Island, in Westchester County and at Jones Beach on Long Island. The Macy’s fireworks will be launched from barges positioned on the river between West 14th and West 34th Streets. The best spots to watch from will be in Manhattan along the West Side Highway between those streets, or across the river near the New Jersey waterfront in Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City. There are five places where the public can enter the West Side Highway to watch the show.

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President Biden should do the same,” Doggett said in his statement Tuesday. “There’s a large and increasing group of House Democrats concerned about the president’s candidacy, representing a broad swath of the caucus,” another House Democratic lawmaker told CNN on condition of anonymity to speak candidly. They have held off going to Biden directly, hoping he would make the decision himself, but patience is wearing thin, multiple Democrats told CNN, amid signs that Biden has taken no steps to seriously consider the mounting concerns. President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and their granddaughters Finnegan and Natalie Biden head to Camp David on June 29, 2024. House Democrats are deep into their own polling, assessing how much damage has been done.

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☆ Trump's NJ golf club liquor licenses are in Jr.'s name. Hiding behind his son isn't helping as the state moves to revoke.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThe liquor licenses for Donald Trump's three New Jersey golf courses are in his eldest son's name, not his own, according to records obtained by Business Insider. But hiding behind Donald Trump, Jr. isn't enough to protect the elder Trump. Donald Trump, Jr.'s signature on the most recent liquor license for his father's golf course in Bedminster, NJ. New Jersey attorney general's office/BIThe last time Trump almost lost all three of his New Jersey licenses was in 2021. The law firm that handles Trump's New Jersey liquor licenses did not respond to phone calls and emails requesting comment.

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Thursday night’s Copa América contest between the U.S. men’s national team and Panama was not lacking for drama. The result puts the U.S.’s Copa América on life support as they prepare to close out the group against Uruguay on Monday in Kansas City. 12′: USMNT goalkeeper Matt Turner knocked to the ground after challenge from Cesar Blackman. Weah will now miss the group finale against Uruguay, and winger is one of the thinnest positions for the USMNT. If he is now to miss the crucial Group C game against Uruguay it will be a major headache for Berhalter.

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☆ Bob Menendez: Top federal prosecutor in New Jersey tells jury senator never pressured him
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Gregory Krieg | Sabrina Souza | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Menendez hoped that if I became US attorney, that I would look at (the Daibes case) carefully,” Sellinger said. That testimony came up again Tuesday when Menendez attorney Avi Weitzman pressed Sellinger on the nature of that interaction. This time, Sellinger told Solimon that he would not, after all, need to recuse himself from the Daibes case if he was nominated and confirmed. “If you call Sellinger,” Solimon said he told Menendez after the meeting, “you’ll be comfortable with what he says.”With Suarez’s chances sunk, Menendez recommended Sellinger for the job he had wanted all along. Solimon told Menendez he would contact Sellinger, he testified, but never did.

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☆ How the Oilers blew out the Panthers to avoid a Stanley Cup sweep: 5 takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Michael Russo | Daniel Nugent-Bowman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Dylan Holloway added two goals for the Oilers, and Mattias Janmark, Adam Henrique, Darnell Nurse, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan McLeod had the others. Instead, the Oilers became the fourth team in a row to win Game 4 to extend a series after dropping the first three games of a Stanley Cup Final. “It only counts as one win,” Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov said. He was in on all three goals the Oilers had in the middle frame, scoring once and adding two assists. Leon Draisaitl, Hyman and Nugent-Hopkins were all pointless — a big reason the Oilers were in their gigantic hole.

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☆ Giant Loophole May Protect Trump Liquor Licenses Despite His Felonies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New Jersey officials revealed this week that they are looking at the licenses at his three golf courses there. AdvertisementThese states prohibit felons or people convicted of "moral" offenses such as fraud from holding a liquor license. Say Trump is landlord to the bar operators at one of these properties, and it's the bar operators who hold the liquor license, Pierce said. If Trump is charging the bar a flat rent, his felony status won't impact that liquor license. Trump would still have options, though, even if his hush-money conviction voided one or more of his liquor licenses.

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☆ Top Wall Street analysts are optimistic on the outlook for these 3 stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

At the same time, Wall Street analysts continue to focus on picking individual stocks that can thrive even in the face of short-term pressures and deliver attractive, long-term returns. Here are three stocks favored by the Street's top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. Burlington StoresOff-price retailer Burlington Stores (BURL) is this week's first pick. Tarlowe noted that the expansion in Burlington Stores' gross and operating margins helped drive better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter. (See Burlington Stores Stock Charts on TipRanks)AmazonE-commerce and cloud computing company Amazon (AMZN) is also a top pick.

Persons: Jefferies, Corey Tarlowe, BURL, Tarlowe, TipRanks, Ivan Feinseth, there's PagerDuty, Matthew Hedberg, Hedberg Organizations: Burlington Stores Inc, Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Burlington, Burlington Stores, Amazon Web Services, AWS, RBC Capital, Department of Veteran Affairs Locations: Burlington, New York, U.S, Jersey, billings .

☆ Wait, We’ve Been Flying the Flag the Alitos Had? San Francisco Takes It Down.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Heather Knight | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It turns out that the New Jersey vacation home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was not the only surprising place where a provocative flag adopted by Jan. 6, 2021, rioters has flown recently. For 60 years, residents in San Francisco could have spotted the flag in a public pavilion just a stone’s throw from the mayor’s balcony at City Hall. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was among the 18 historic banners that billowed over a central plaza in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, where fewer than 13 percent of voters supported former President Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election. Few people, including Mayor London Breed, made much of the white flag with a green pine tree. A San Francisco resident raised concerns that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flying over the city, after revelations in The New York Times that the same flag had flown outside Justice Alito’s second home on Long Beach Island, N.J.

Persons: Samuel A, Alito, Jan, Donald J, Trump, Alito’s, Joe Biden Organizations: Hall, London Breed, New York Times, U.S . Capitol Locations: New Jersey, San Francisco, Francisco, Long, N.J

☆ Bob Menendez: 4 questions that could determine his legal – and political – fate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are fighting a legal battle on two fronts. The government’s ability to sketch a clear and convincing picture for the jury despite these growing constraints will likely determine Menendez’s legal fate. “(She) communicated with the bribe payers, she passed messages to Menendez, and she collected some of the bribes,” Pomerantz said. Rob Menendez – rotten to the core.”Menendez Jr. directly addressed that line of attack in a recent spot of his own. But for Menendez, the senator and father, the will of the 8th District’s primary voters could weigh heavily on his political future – and legacy.

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☆ How Could Alito Have Been So Foolish to Fly an Upside-Down American Flag? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Michael Ponsor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I won’t even opine whether my flying the flag upside-down flag at my house would have constituted a violation of the Code of Ethics that binds me and all federal judges — except the justices. The fact is that, regardless of its legality, displaying the flag in that way, at that time, shouldn’t have happened. To put it bluntly, any judge with reasonable ethical instincts would have realized immediately that flying the flag then and in that way was improper. The same goes with the flying of an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at Justice Alito’s vacation house along the New Jersey shore. Like the upside-down flag, this flag is viewed by a great many people as a banner of allegiance on partisan issues that are, or could be, before the court.

Persons: Samuel Alito, St, “ Organizations: Justice Locations: New Jersey

☆ Bob Menendez: Trump circus overshadows senator’s corruption trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

So it goes for Menendez, who is likely pleased to have his legal drama playing out in relative obscurity. More recently, Fetterman mocked the senator’s defense, which relies in part on pointing the finger of blame on Nadine Menendez, his wife. Republicans in Washington, as they’ve done during these first two weeks of the Menendez trial in New York, have been consistently deferential to the New Jersey Democrat. Rep. Andy Kim, a popular Democrat from South Jersey, is expected to win the nomination to succeed Menendez. Andrew Giuliani, pressed for a thought on the senator’s trial or the allegations against him, shrugged.

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CNBC reached out to the SEC about the recent batch of Wells notices sent to crypto firms, and an agency spokesperson declined to comment. Exchanges, both centralized and decentralized, would be forced to choose between registering with the SEC, or delisting ether altogether. watch nowBoth Consensys and Uniswap suggest the SEC's broad approach to classifying securities may be outdated. "The SEC is arguing that the Uniswap protocol is an unregistered securities exchange, and that the Uniswap interface and wallet are both unregistered broker brokers," Ammori said. Uniswap argues in its response to the SEC that the majority of its trading volume is obvious nonsecurities, like ether, bitcoin and stablecoins.

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☆ Witness in Menendez trial describes setting up mortgage payment and consulting job for senator’s girlfriend-turned-wife
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Sabrina Souza | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Menendez and Hana – as well as the other co-defendant, New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes – have pleaded not guilty. Moldovan said Nadine Menendez was “upset and offended” that Hana had a lawyer formalize the loan with a promissory note. Moldovan testified that he rarely did anything without Hana’s approval. Nadine Menendez never signed the IS EG job agreement, according to Moldovan. On cross-examination, the senator’s attorney, Avi Weitzman, asked Moldovan if Nadine Menendez ever mentioned she was dating the senator, to which he testified she did not.

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☆ Bob Menendez: 4 big questions as senator’s corruption trial enters its second week
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Here are four big questions facing Menendez, his lawyers and federal prosecutors as the trial intensifies. How hard does the defense lean on Nadine Menendez? The other half of their telling, in short, is that Nadine Menendez was the one pulling the strings — and hiding it from her husband. Republicans have been surprisingly absent from the hoopla around the Menendez trial. This dynamic could change later this week or next when Trump’s trial is expected to reach its denouement.

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☆ The Mrs. defense: powerful men blaming their wives
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito said in a written statement to The New York Times, which first reported the story this week. A Supreme Court justice being unmasked as having a partisan tilt wouldn’t be illegal – just awkward and icky. Shannon Stapleton/ReutersCouples behaving badlyFormer Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, pioneered the Mrs. defense when he and his wife were both accused of funneling campaign funds for private use. A unanimous US Supreme Court, including Alito, later vacated the governor’s conviction and narrowed the scope by which prosecutors can pursue bribery allegations. The Mrs. defense could conceivably be turned on its head and used by a powerful woman to blame her husband.

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Senator Robert Menendez’s bribery trial got underway this week in a Manhattan courtroom eight months after he was first indicted on corruption charges. The government has brought a complicated set of accusations against Mr. Menendez, 70. “This case is about a public official who put greed first,” said Lara Pomerantz, an assistant U.S. attorney. “A public official who put his own interests above his duty to the people. Who put his power up for sale.”Two businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, are on trial with Mr. Menendez, accused of plying him with bribes.

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☆ How Chris Kreider, Rangers rallied to close out Hurricanes: 5 takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Arthur Staple | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Chris Kreider wouldn’t let the New York Rangers lose again. After losing Games 4 and 5 following a 3-0 series start, the Rangers were in trouble again Thursday, down 3-1 entering the third period. AdvertisementOn just their second power play of the game 5:11 later, Kreider tipped a waist-high shot by Artemi Panarin behind Andersen to tie it. Andersen keeps Rangers in it, tooThe biggest difference in the series was in net, as many expected. The final special teams tally for the series: The Rangers went 5-for-19 on the power play and Carolina went 2-for-21 while allowing two Rangers shorthanded goals.

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☆ ‘Chelsea’ Asked for Nude Pictures. Then the Sextortion Began.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Instagram message popped up from a girl named Chelsea: “Howdy.”David didn’t know anyone named Chelsea, but he clicked through her profile: She had brown hair and a nice smile; under her name was a quote from the Bible. He was hesitant when she asked him to chat, but soon her flirty messages escalated to a volley of explicit pictures, and David, a 32-year-old pharmacy technician, got carried away. When she asked him for a nude, he hardly thought twice, he said. He slipped into the bathroom at the New Jersey hospital where he works, took a picture and hit send. David’s phone lit up with messages: pictures he had sent with his genitals exposed alongside screenshots of his Instagram followers with whom he shares a last name — his family.

Persons: “ Howdy, ” David didn’t, selfies, David, “, ” Organizations: Chelsea, Department of Homeland Security Locations: Chelsea, New Jersey, Nigeria

☆ Menendez defense lawyer denies bribery scheme and says gold bars found at senator’s home belonged to his wife
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Menendez is not running for reelection in next month’s Democratic primary but has said he would consider an independent bid should he be exonerated. “Evidence will show Nadine’s family had a lot of gold,” Weitzman said, asserting that she did not discuss money with the senator and kept financial problems she had from him. Weitzman also said the gold bars were found in Nadine’s locked closet, which the senator didn’t have access to. The potential jurors – an array of New Yorkers, including pastors, a standup comedian and amateur musicians – were pressed on whether they could be unbiased and fairly consider testimony from law enforcement officers or convicted criminals. One potential juror spoke about being a “news junkie” who couldn’t sit on the trial because “I’ve learned about the case significantly.

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☆ Jury selection begins in bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez in New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jonathan Dienst | Dareh Gregorian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Jury selection begins Monday in the federal criminal trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is charged with accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in bribes — including some in gold bars — in return for official acts. It also alleges the couple received "gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and other items of value," such as jewelry and exercise equipment. The other two, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, have pleaded not guilty and will stand trial alongside Menendez. The indictment noted a search of Menendez's home in 2022 turned up "two one-kilogram gold bars and nine one-ounce gold bars that had serial numbers indicating they had previously been possessed" by Daibes. The federal criminal trial is the second Menendez has faced since he was elected to the Senate in 2006.

Persons: . Sen, Bob Menendez, he's, Nadine Menendez, Damian Williams, Jose Uribe, Fred Daibes, Wael Hana, Menendez, Daibes, Uribe, He's, Donald Trump Organizations: ., Senate Foreign Relations, Prosecutors, Southern, of New York, Government, Democratic, Senate, Democratic Party Locations: New Jersey, Qatar, Egypt, Hana, Cuba, Florida, Paris

☆ Sen. Menendez bribery trial starts with judge scolding lawyers on 'gamesmanship'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Robert Menendez arrives at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, New York, United States on May 13, 2024. A judge on Monday admonished attorneys for playing legal games shortly after they convened for the start of the federal bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J."There's been too much gamesmanship here," Judge Sidney Stein told prosecutors and defense attorneys before jury selection began for the trial in federal court in Manhattan. His wife, Nadine Menendez, is also charged in the corruption case, but her trial was severed from her husband's due to what her lawyers said were medical issues. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York told Stein that they expect to lay out their case in four-and-a-half to six-and-a-half weeks. The trial itself could last around six to seven weeks, Stein told dozens of prospective jurors before giving them a rough outline the 18-count indictment against Menendez and his co-defendants.

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☆ Apple's Maryland store workers vote to authorize strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Apple Store at Towson Town Center Mall on May 10, 2024 in Towson, Maryland. Workers at Apple 's store in Towson, Maryland, have voted in favor of authorizing a strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (AIM) said in a statement late on Saturday. The date for work stoppage has yet to be decided, according to the union, which represents Apple's retail store workers in Maryland. Meanwhile, workers at Apple's store in Short Hills, New Jersey, voted against unionizing, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. CWA and the NLRB did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the Bloomberg report on the New Jersey workers' vote.

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