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☆ Germany set to double Ukraine military aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech on the day of the opening of an electrolysis gigafactory in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsFRANKFURT, Nov 11 (Reuters) - German chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to 8 billion euros ($8.5 billion), a political source in Berlin said on Sunday. Defence minister Boris Pistorius, interviewed by broadcaster ARD, referred to the planned doubling of military aid to Ukraine. "Doubling the military spending is both the right thing to do and important," it quoted member of parliament Andreas Schwarz, who acts as an SPD military budget official, as saying. A European Union plan to spend up to 20 billion euros ($21 billion) on military aid for Ukraine is meeting with resistance from EU countries, diplomats said this week.

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☆ Two Young Democratic Stars Collide Over Israel and Their Party’s Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | More About Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

“This is pursuing a proven and failed strategy,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in a recent radio interview. Calls for a cease-fire by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and others drew a stern rebuke from the White House, and she faced backlash for voting against a bipartisan resolution that expressed strong support for Israel. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who did not agree to an interview, met in Washington last month with the families of Jewish hostages kidnapped by Hamas. was trying to infiltrate the Democratic Party “to impose the ideological litmus tests on Israel” and “cleanse” those who disagree with them. It remains far from clear how many left-leaning Democrats Mr. Torres is moving.

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☆ 100 cruise passengers injured as ship lurches to a halt in storm
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A dream trip turned into a nightmare for the 1,000 passengers on board a cruise ship that was hit in storms, injuring 100. Everything went to plan until day 10 – November 2 – when the ship was en route to Gran Canaria, as storms approached. The ship remained safe at all times, but due to the impact of the storm some guests sustained injuries. It was last tracked off the coast of southern England, having departed Portsmouth for Lisbon, according to tracking website Vesselfinder. The route will take the ship through the Bay of Biscay again – hopefully with a smoother crossing this time.

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☆ Sam Bankman Fried Exposed the Fragility of Crypto - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Molly White | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In early 2019, FTX’s token, FTT, was conjured out of thin air as Mr. Bankman-Fried launched FTX from the same Hong Kong office where he ran Alameda Research. The FTT token initially sold to the public for around $1, but as cryptocurrency boomed into 2021, the token skyrocketed to $10, doubled again to $20 within a month of that and eventually peaked above $75. The bulk of them remained with FTX or Alameda Research. A trader might have reasonably agreed to buy a small amount of FTT tokens for the market price listed on an exchange. Other cryptocurrency firms that were overexposed to FTX or Alameda Research went bankrupt, in turn leaving their own customers and investors in the lurch.

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☆ Where Mike Johnson Stands on Ukraine, Abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. Issues and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Kayla Guo | More About Kayla Guo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Speaker Mike Johnson, the little-known congressman from Louisiana who won the gavel on Wednesday, is deeply conservative on both fiscal and social issues, reflecting the G.O.P.’s sharp lurch to the right. Mr. Johnson, a lawyer, also played a leading role in former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, helping to push a lawsuit to throw out the results in four battleground states he lost and then offering members of Congress a legal argument upon which to justify their votes to invalidate the results. He has a career rating of 92 percent from the American Conservative Union and 90 percent from Heritage Action for America. Here’s where he stands on six key issues. Government fundingMr. Johnson is a fiscal conservative who believes Congress has a “moral and constitutional duty” to balance the budget, lower spending and “pursue continued pro-growth tax reforms and permanent tax reductions,” according to his website.

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Those include two pro-secession Catalan parties who led the unsuccessful 2017 breakaway attempt and who now find themselves holding the key votes in Parliament that Sánchez requires. They have made an amnesty law as a prerequisite for supporting Sánchez. “Pedro Sánchez needs the amnesty law to pass so he can get the four votes he is lacking,” Nebrera told the AP. Spain granted a sweeping amnesty during its transition back to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. But legal experts are divided over the constitutionality of an amnesty for the Catalan separatists.

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☆ China's battered economy finally gets some relief as third-quarter growth numbers beat expectations
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

That's good news for the world's second-largest economy, which has struggled since Beijing lifted zero-COVID restrictions late last year. China is also battling deflation, spiking youth unemployment, and a property-market crisis that’s brought down major developers like Country Garden and Evergrande. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementChina's beaten-down economy finally got some good news Wednesday, as second-quarter growth came in ahead of forecasters' expectations. Beijing will likely be breathing a sigh of relief at the latest data, which suggests the world's second-largest economy is still on track to meet authorities' target of 5% growth for 2023.

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☆ The Great Zelle Pool Scam
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Devin Friedman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

When I asked Chase to discuss Zelle fraud, I received an email saying, "Unfortunately, we don't have anyone available for an interview." The way the email messages from Gary were subliterate in a completely different way from the way a classic Gary email is subliterate. When Gary Kruglitz told us to Zelle him, he didn't really tell us to Zelle him. Out of all the kinds of money, money to build a pool is probably the very best kind of money for the world to suffer the loss of. It's possible that the government will eventually be moved to safeguard consumers against Zelle fraud.

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☆ Zelle Fraud: I Got Scammed Out of $31,000 and My Bank Didn't Care
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Devin Friedman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

Because a lot of bank branches were still closed, and the crew wanted their money, he requested that we transfer the money via Zelle. When I asked Chase to discuss Zelle fraud, I received an email saying, "Unfortunately, we don't have anyone available for an interview." The way the email messages from Gary were subliterate in a completely different way from the way a classic Gary email is subliterate. When Gary Kruglitz told us to Zelle him, he didn't really tell us to Zelle him. It's possible that the government will eventually be moved to safeguard consumers against Zelle fraud.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one — asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the government open. The Republican speaker laid out his strategy Wednesday behind closed doors, urging his unruly Republican majority to work together. It would slash federal spending by 8% from many agencies and toughen border security but has been rejected by President Joe Biden, Democrats and his own right-flank Republicans. But pressed on how he would pass a partisan Republican spending plan that even his own right flank doesn't want, McCarthy had few answers. Political Cartoons View All 1182 ImagesAs the Senate pushes ahead in bipartisan fashion, McCarthy is demanding that Biden meet to discuss border security measures.

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☆ Millennials looking to buy a home are worrying about climate risk. They're not wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Over 80% of prospective homebuyers said climate risk impacted their search, Zillow found. Over 80% of prospective homebuyers said climate risk impacted their search, Zillow found. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhile millennials logged higher concern over climate issues than their Gen Z counterparts, it turns out millennials' budget is often putting them in the path of climate risk. Zillow found 36% of millennial buyers were considering moving to an area with "greater climate risk'" compared with 19% of Gen Zers. The climate crisis puts coastal cities in Florida at a higher risk of flooding.

Persons: Zillow, Millennials, millennials, Zers, Manny Garcia, Zillow's, Garcia, Bob Stephens, Stephens, Jeffrey Greenberg, Jeremy Porter, Todd Bevington Organizations: Service, Carolinas, Insurance, First Street Foundation, AP Locations: Texas , Florida, Florida, California, Louisiana, Lahaina, Vermont, Maine, New York, Asheville , North Carolina

☆ Opinion | How Covid Built a Bridge Between the Worst of Past and Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

I would put inflation in this category as well. By contrast, the aspects of the Covid era that I discussed or tried to predict in my fast-forward column were accelerations, not disjunctions. The growth of working-from-home and virtual commuting, similarly, was a leap upward that followed a “continuous rise” in the pre-Covid decades. And the baby bust of 2020 was, of course, an acceleration of a fertility decline that began with the Great Recession more than a decade before. Some trends didn’t shake out exactly as I anticipated three years ago: The decline of newspapers, for instance, continued on trend but didn’t actually accelerate.

Persons: Wells, Bill Clinton’s, George Floyd, Barack Obama’s, wokeness Locations: America

☆ Dollar reigns as Europe's central banks spring some surprises
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Marc Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

"It punctures the balloon on terminal rates and also creates more second guessing on the quality of the (economic) landings". With a crucial Bank of Japan meeting still to come this week, Japan's 10-year government bond yield rose to its highest in a decade. Ben Luk, senior multi-asset strategist at State Street Global Markets said the overall tone of the Fed's meeting on Wednesday, while not overly hawkish, included two surprises. The median forecast for the federal funds rate is 5.1% by year-end, up from 4.6% estimated in June. Additional reporting by Xie Yu in Hong Kong Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Tomasz JanowskiOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Insider Today: Signs your manager is burnt out
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But something less talked about is burnout among managers — that's our big story today. "It impacts your attention, impacts your judgment, impacts your memory, impacts your decision-making ability. I spoke with multiple experts about signs that your manager is burnt out:AdvertisementAdvertisementFear. "It's important to realize that every manager has a manager," Sood said. Multiple "corporate goths" spoke with Insider about the importance of being true to themselves, even in the office.

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☆ A looming childcare cliff could cost families $9 billion in earnings and leave millions of kids without care. Democratic lawmakers want to avoid a crisis.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Child Care Stabilization Act would allocate $16 billion to childcare annually for five years to aid providers. At the same time, childcare workers are facing low pay and tough conditions; they have previously told Insider that the industry needs even more subsidizing. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It is the thing that we pay the most money for," she previously told Insider . She's not alone: Other parents have told Insider that high costs for scarce childcare have led them to drop out of the workforce completely. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Right now we have a childcare crisis with ARPA funding," Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California, a member of the Congressional Dads Caucus , said.

Persons: Joe Biden's, Sen, Patty Murray, Katherine Clark, Paige Connell, She's, Kaitlin Peterson, Jimmy Gomez Organizations: Rescue, Service, Democratic, Century Foundation, unsustainably, Department of Labor, ARPA, Congressional, Caucus Locations: Wall, Silicon, Washington, Massachusetts, Denver, Jimmy Gomez of California

☆ He Was a Hillary Clinton Cheerleader. Now He Calls Democrats a Threat.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Charles Homans | More About Charles Homans | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For a long time, I worked within the Democratic Party, and slowly moved toward the left, to the point where I quit the party in 2020. And, having done that, I look much more objectively at these arguments that Republicans are far, far worse and far, far more dangerous than Democrats, and if Trump gets elected again, it’s the end of the world, it’s the end of the country. It’s certainly a threat to democracy to take Joe Biden, who 67 percent of Democratic voters in a recent CNN poll do not want to be the Democratic nominee. We are going to make sure this is a fair process because it’s not going to be a fair process within the Democratic Party. Ron Klain, who until recently was Mr. Biden’s chief of staff, wrote a blurb for your 2019 book.

Persons: Republican Party’s lurch, ” You’re, It’s, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, West, it’s, Ron Klain, Biden’s Organizations: Republican, Democratic Party, Trump, Democratic, CNN, Green Party

☆ Companies withhold billions in wages annually through unpaid tips and overtime. Some lawmakers now demand stricter penalties.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Workers, especially in low-paid industries, have millions in wages stolen each year. Wage theft — when employers don't pay their workers the benefits they're entitled to — is incredibly prevalent across the economy. From 2017 to 2020, workers clawed back over $3 billion in stolen wages , according to the left-leaning nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute. Under Murray's proposed legislation, workers would get paid back fully what they're owed — not just minimum wage. Meanwhile, government agencies are also trying to take aim at firms not paying workers what they're owed.

Persons: Sen, Patty Murray, Rosa DeLauro, Bobby Scott, Murray, Murray's, —, they'll, they're Organizations: Service, Workers, Economic Policy Institute, Labor Department Locations: Wall, Silicon, DOL, —

☆ Opinion | Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( James Kirchick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In May 1966, the moderate integrationist John Lewis was ousted from the chairmanship of SNCC by the Black Power radical Stokely Carmichael. Committed to a political program that would improve the lives of the poor and working class regardless of their skin color, Mr. Rustin opposed racial preferences . Contrary to contemporary “antiracism” advocates who claim that the existence of racial disparities necessarily constitutes evidence of racism, Mr. Rustin asserted, “That blacks are underrepresented in a particular profession does not by itself constitute racial discrimination.”Another major source of tension between Mr. Rustin and the progressive left concerned American foreign policy. Briefly a member of the Young Communist League in the 1930s, Mr. Rustin followed the path of many a disillusioned ex-Communist by becoming a staunch anti-Communist. Although an early opponent of American military involvement in Vietnam, Mr. Rustin could not, as he wrote in 1967, “go along with those who favor immediate U.S. withdrawal, or who absolve Hanoi and the Vietcong from all guilt.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the United States next week, underlining the divide between Israel's far-right government and segments of the country's population. Netanyahu’s public itinerary so far does not feature an appointment with Biden at the White House. Proponents of the plan say the country’s unelected judiciary, led by the Supreme Court, wields too much power. Biden expressed concerns when Israel's parliament slammed through the first piece of legislation in July, calling the outcome “unfortunate.” On Tuesday, Israel's Supreme Court opened the first case to look at the legality of Netanyahu’s deeply contentious plans. The country’s academics, artists, business leaders and even military reservists have come out against the overhaul.

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At an office in SoHo, rows of desks sit empty, while a shaggy dog — shadowing an owner nostalgic for work-from-home comforts — wanders the conference rooms. On the subway, commuters delight in a once-unimaginable indulgence: bag-spreading across two seats. About a year and a half after Mayor Eric Adams chided workers — “You can’t stay home in your pajamas all day!” — New York’s offices in late August were under 41 percent of their prepandemic occupancy. Just 9 percent of the city’s office workers were going in five days a week at the start of the year, according to the Partnership for New York City, a business group. Remote-work levels crisscrossing the country are more mixed, with just under one-third of America’s workdays now done from home.

Persons: —, “, Eric Adams, America’s workdays Organizations: Orange, Partnership, New Locations: SoHo, New York City, New York

☆ EVs are running out of customers — and some dealers don't want them anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Alexa St. John | Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementMore electric vehicles are being pumped out of car factories than ever before – but some dealers don't want them. Electric car inventory has been piling up on dealership lots this year as companies up their EV production, leading some dealers to say enough is enough. Some are telling automakers they don't want any more until they can sell what's sitting, several dealers told Insider. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the EV plateau, dealers are left in the lurchIn this round of growing pains for the electric car market, dealers are set up for the most trouble . "Dealers know in real time with real-time feedback what the market is doing," Karl Brauer, an automotive analyst for iSeeCars, previously told Insider.

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☆ Natural disasters are making it harder for you to insure your home — and costing homeowners thousands
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

These are the issues that are plaguing Florida," Collins told Insider. The climate crisis is impacting the cost of homeownership nationwide, as insurance companies adjust their models based on the shifting frequency and scale of natural disasters. Tell us how the climate crisis is affecting you and where you live. Homeowners left in a lurchIn California, homeowner Nick told Insider that he couldn't find affordable insurance for his $100,000 cabin in the Klamath National Forest. "We never thought the fires could be this frequent and this bad," he told Insider.

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☆ Mess at Chef's Table: How claims of theft, embezzlement, and abuse shut down Brooklyn Fare's legendary Michelin-starred restaurant
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, the iconic three-Michelin-star tasting restaurant by chef César Ramirez, quietly ceased operations in July. Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is one of New York's most hallowed culinary institutions. A former employee at Chef's Table at Brooklyn FareBut beneath the restaurant's pristine stainless-steel surface, chaos was brewing. By 2011, Chef's Table had become one of only 138 restaurants worldwide to boast three Michelin stars. This year, Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare was the highest-ranked US restaurant on the 2023 World's 50 Best Restaurants' list.

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My friends and I aren't sure how the climate crisis will affect our retirement, only that it will. Another friend replied, "Well, the good thing about climate change is that it gives me a reason to move." The climate crisis will also affect homeowner's insurance. It's hard to know where to retireAs for where to settle down in my retirement, the climate crisis throws in another wrench. While a lot remains unknown about the effects of climate change, I've resolved to stick to a retirement savings plan.

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☆ Multiple brides and grooms say they don't know how they'll get their outfits, or if they'll get their money back after a Texas-based formal wear chain abruptly closed
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Al's Formal Wear's sudden closure left many brides and grooms in the lurch just before their weddings. —🚨 Rusty Surette 🚨 (@KBTXRusty) August 8, 2023Al's Formal Wear had 26 stores in Texas and had operated in the area for over 70 years. Other than Texas-based Al's Formal Wear, sister brands Tip Top Tux, Nedrebo's Formal Wear, Savvi Formal Wear, and American Commodore have also shut down, local news outlet Atlanta News First reported. Rival Atlanta-based formal wear chain Men's Wearhouse said in a statement on Wednesday that it would offer a $100 discount for customers with unfulfilled orders from any of Dapper & Dashing's subsidiaries. Dapper & Dashing and Al's Formal Wear did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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