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☆ Trump denies report that he calls DeSantis 'Meatball Ron': 'I don't even think about it — A very unimportant subject to me!!!'
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Trump denied a New York Times report that he is testing out nicknames for DeSantis. He has privately been calling the Florida governor "Meatball Ron," the report said. Trump wrote on Truth Social. Ron DeSantis and asking his team for damning material. Trump wrote sarcastically on Truth Social.
☆ The overturn of Roe v. Wade has been a catastrophe for Republican attempts to win over Gen Z
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The GOP win in getting the Supreme Court to strip abortion rights didn't sit well with young voters. For the survey, Murmuration polled 3,227 15 to 25-year-olds (members of Gen Z) and 1,036 adults aged 26 or older. The Gen Z survey had a 1.7% margin of error, while the survey of adults aged 26 years or older had one of 3%. Aside from "other," which also garnered 29%, abortion access was by far the most pressing issue amongst Gen Z. Since the Supreme Court punted abortion rights back to a state-to-state basis, referendums and constitutional amendments restricting abortion access will continue to pop up.
☆ Insurers Avoid Picking Up Businesses’ Covid-19 Pandemic Costs
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Richard Vanderford | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +6 min
“If they assumed incorrectly, the mom-and-pop restaurants shouldn’t be penalized.”Federal appeals courts so far have rejected cases like Consolidated Restaurant’s. In January, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled against a range of businesses. With that decision, businesses had seen losses in 11 federal appeals courts, whose jurisdictions span nearly the entire country. Business interruption insurance policies are typically written to address harm to property: For instance, if a water-main break floods a sales floor, or a fire forces a business to close. In June, a Boston federal appeals court rejected a Covid insurance claim by a group of restaurants.
☆ Liechtenstein votes resoundingly against banning casinos
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
ZURICH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Voters in Liechtenstein on Sunday roundly rejected a proposed ban on casinos in a referendum that has polarized the tiny principality and its 40,000 citizens. With six casinos dotted across the country that is a tenth of the size of London, the microstate has been dubbed the "Las Vegas of the Alps" among punters. They argue that the fledgling industry risks tarnishing a national image that the state has worked hard to repair. The country was on an international blacklist of tax havens until it began easing bank secrecy laws more than a decade ago. Reporting by Noele Illien Additional reporting by Francois Murphy in Vienna; Editing by Toby ChopraOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Outgoing New York Rep. Kathleen Rice says she warned Democratic leaders that the party would 'lose' Long Island in the midterms
  + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Rep. Kathleen Rice said she warned Democratic leaders of electoral losses on Long Island before the midterms. While former President Donald Trump lost New York State resoundingly in both 2016 and 2020, he won Suffolk each time. I said [to party leaders], 'You guys, don't understand, we're gonna lose Long Island. "When we had elections in November of 2021, every single Democrat on Long Island lost. However, the midterms proved that while the Republican brand on Long Island may have faltered in the 1990s and 2000s, that is certainly not the case today.
☆ South African President Ramaphosa Is Re-Elected as Party Leader
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Gabriele Steinhauser | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
JOHANNESBURG—South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was resoundingly re-elected as the leader of the ruling African National Congress on Monday, shrugging off a parliamentary investigation that found he may have violated the country’s constitution, as well as a forceful challenge by allies of his disgraced predecessor. Mr. Ramaphosa, who has been president of Africa’s most developed economy since 2018, beat his former health minister, Zweli Mkhize, gaining 2,476 votes out of 4,384 cast at the ANC’s elective conference that sets the party’s direction for the coming five years. Perhaps more important, officials backed by Mr. Ramaphosa won four out of the other six positions in the party’s leadership team, giving him a stronger hand in picking his cabinet and pushing through his chosen economic policies.
☆ Ron DeSantis is releasing his first autobiography, in a key sign he's exploring a White House run
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Ron DeSantis has a book coming out on February 28. Ron DeSantis of Florida has an autobiography coming out early next year, in the surest sign yet that he's considering a presidential run. Throughout these experiences, the publisher writes of the forthcoming book, "Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: He didn't want to be part of the leftist elite." Ron DeSantis. That book's publisher was High-Pitched Hum Publishing in Jacksonville, Florida, a cooperative publisher known as a "vanity press" in literary circles.
☆ Nancy Pelosi announces leadership exit after 2 decades leading House Democrats
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she is stepping aside from her leadership role. The decision comes after Republicans narrowly won the House majority. The decision comes in the wake of Republicans narrowly winning the House majority, ending Pelosi's latest two consecutive terms as Speaker. "Never had I thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House Speaker," the California Democrat, first elected in 1987, said. At 82, Pelosi has long served alongside House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, 83, and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, 82, in leadership.
☆ Airplanes fly near Mar-a-Lago with pro-DeSantis banners taunting Trump as a loser ahead of his 'HUGE announcement'
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Banner airplanes were trolling Donald Trump as a loser on Tuesday ahead of his "HUGE announcement." Trump is expected to announce his third presidential bid at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. One plane was observed near his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida with a message calling him a "3X bigly loser." Even his close ally, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said most Republican senators think he should wait. Trump's GOP allies have reportedly suggested that it would be better for him to wait until after Georgia's December 6 runoff election.
☆ Kentucky rejects anti-abortion constitutional amendment in surprise victory for reproductive rights
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
\In a surprise victory for reproductive rights, voters in conservative Kentucky have rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have protected the state's abortion ban from legal challenge, NBC News projects. The defeat of the amendment in Kentucky is another indication that there are limits to anti-abortion politics even in conservative states. Kentucky's abortion ban makes performing the medical procedure a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison. The defeat of the anti-abortion ballot measure in Kentucky is the second surprise victory for abortion rights in a conservative state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe over the summer. In August, voters in Kansas resoundingly rejected a measure that sought to strip abortion rights from the state constitution.
☆ Abortion rights are on the ballot in these states. Here's what you need to know for the midterms
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Michigan is poised to become a safe haven of constitutionally protected abortion rights in the Midwest, where access is shrinking. Democrats have made abortion rights central to their campaign to maintain control of Congress and expand their majorities in the midterms. This means reinstating abortion rights at the federal level is unlikely in the near term. Kansas, which is also a very conservative state, resoundingly rejected a ballot measure in August that would have stripped abortion rights from its state constitution. MichiganIn Michigan, voters will decide whether to amend the state constitution to protect not just abortion but reproductive rights broadly.
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