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Senate Democrats’ main super PAC says it’s planning to spend more than $4 million in television ads to boost Warnock. But McConnell endorsed Walker in the primary, after which Democrats unloaded on the Republican nominee in a brutal ad campaign. The Dec. 6 Georgia runoff between Walker and Warnock won’t decide the balance of power in the Senate, now that Democrats are assured control. After Republicans failed to win control of the Senate this week, top McConnell and Scott allies pointed fingers. Roberts, who retired after the 2020 election, said McConnell and Scott must set aside their differences to win Georgia.

☆ Sunset for Trump and His Foes?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Also because many of the things Trumpists legitimately complain about aren’t illegal and don’t amount to vote fraud. CIA veterans and the media lying about the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop isn’t vote fraud. State voting rules being changed through dubious procedures isn’t vote fraud and doesn’t invalidate votes cast in good faith. The appeal of “rigged” to Donald Trump is obvious—it lets him continue to command the airwaves rather than concede and disappear as losing candidates usually do. Oh wait I wrote these words in 2016 when he was losing to Hillary Clinton .

☆ Rick Scott launches his Trump-backed challenge of Mitch McConnell to become Senate GOP leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sen. Rick Scott is challenging Mitch McConnell to become the top Senate Republican. Scott's challenge comes as former President Donald Trump and some Senate Republicans blame McConnell for a lackluster midterm election. As Politico broke the news of Scott's challenge, McConnell's allies lashed out. As the leader of Senate Republicans' campaign arm, Scott played a key role in shaping his party's strategy. Unlike McConnell, Scott did not want the GOP to aggressively intervene in contested primaries, which led to Trump-backed challengers like Dr. Mehmet Oz and Don Bolduc emerging in key races in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, respectively.

☆ David Dobrik's L.A. pizza restaurant opening draws massive weekend crowds despite influencer’s controversial past
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

YouTuber David Dobrik’s restaurant, Doughbrik’s, would open its doors at 1 p.m. Saturday. The family knew its early arrival would guarantee them a prime spot in line, a slice of pizza and most important: a Dobrik sighting. The lull in content follows a string of controversies entangling Dobrik since he filed for the Doughbrik’s trademark in 2020. Dozens of people flocked around the entrance to the restaurant on Saturday, where Dobrik was posing for photos with fans who braved the line. The restaurant, he wrote, "sold out of pizza" its opening day.

☆ I'm a broker on 'Selling the Hamptons.' If you're looking to buy a house, now's the time to do it — before spring.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Dorothy Cucci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bianca D'Alessio, a broker for Nest Seekers International and castmember of 'Selling the Hamptons.' Across the market, different price points are responding differently. When you're a renter, you're paying someone else's mortgage; when you own, you're paying yours. Once they've identified them, we can move forward in having a conversation of what's possible in different areas and at different price points. At different price points, different inventory types, and in different cities, we're going to feel different adjustments.

☆ Gallagher, watermelon smashing comedian, dead at 76
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Comedian Gallagher, best known for his watermelon-smashing comedy routine and many popular specials in the 1980s, died Friday morning, according his manager Craig Marquardo. Gallagher’s most famous bit involved a hand-made sledgehammer he called the “Sledge-O-Matic,” which he would use to smash food on stage, spraying the audience. Comedian Gallagher circa 1970s. Bill Johnson/Denver Post/Getty Images“That was something else he liked to claim credit for, which was physically engaging the audience in that manner,” the obituary said. “While his counterparts went on to do sitcoms, host talk shows and star in movies, Gallagher stayed on the road touring America for decades,” the obituary said.

☆ GOP Insider readers: Dump Trump!
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Kayla Gallagher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Insider asked its Republican readers to send in their thoughts on Donald Trump following the GOP's dismal midterm performance. Subscribers to Insider's newsletter were asked two questions: Do you agree with the GOP insiders who blame Trump? Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Image— Joe S.I don't blame Trump per se. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images— Julia T.I think Trump, DeSantis AND the GOP are EXTREMELY dangerous for our Democracy. The Republican Party needs to get away from the extremists in the party or the Republican Party will no longer exist.

☆ 'Buying Beverly Hills' star Mauricio Umansky says you don't need a great resume to work at his real estate brokerage
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

'Buying Beverly Hills' star Mauricio Umansky is CEO of America's most successful real estate broker. But he's also CEO of America's biggest real estate brokerage, selling properties including the Playboy mansion and the Walt Disney estate. "I mean, a lot of employees don't even need to be in real estate." "I'm looking for people that believe real estate should be collaborative and not cut-throat, people that are excited about making the industry better," Umansky says. "There's not a lot of difference between selling a $100 million house and selling a $5 million house.

☆ The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Nina Burleigh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

About an hour southeast of the Trinity Site, I reached Three Rivers Petroglyph site, the largest rock art site in the Southwest. Around 600 years ago, the Jornada Mogollon people etched 21,000 images of flora and fauna, people and crypto-beasts into the basaltic rubble along the foothills of the Sacramento. Alamogordo is 15 minutes east of the White Sands National Park, 275 square miles of gypsum dunes that form one of the world’s most breathtaking natural wonders. The park is open to camping and hiking for a $25 fee. After a breakfast of Hatch green chile eggs (a word to the wise: pack the Pepcid), I drove an hour west on U.S. 70 to the White Sands Missile Range Museum, just inside the gate to White Sands Missile Range.

Organizations: White, cumulus, Trinity, White Sands, Missile, Museum Locations: Alamogordo, New Mexico, Sacramento, Rivers, Mexico, U.S

☆ Is Now a Bad Time to Retire?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Anne Tergesen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Retiring during a market downturn and soaring inflation can feel like sailing into the wind instead of the sunset. The market’s performance in the first few years of retirement can have a big impact on how long a nest egg lasts, partly because losses take a bigger bite out of a portfolio when it is typically at its largest, advisers and economists say.

☆ Friends and family mourn lives lost in India bridge disaster
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Rescue boats search the Machchu river where the pedestrian bridge collapsed on Sunday. Friends have lost friends and parents have lost children. By the time rescuers pulled Naseema to safety, the river had consumed every other family member who had been on the bridge that evening. He said that like many others, his daughter and son were excited to visit the bridge and watch the sunset. Crestfallen and anxious, he rushed to a nearby hospital where he saw his two children lying dead on stretchers.

☆ France had hottest month of October since 1945
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A man enjoys the sunset on a warm and sunny autumn day on the beach of Calais, France, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File PhotoPARIS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - October 2022 is set to be the hottest month of October in France since records started in 1945, national weather agency Meteo-France said in a statement. Meteo-France said that due to climate change, periods of unusual heat late or early in the year were set to become more frequent. Beach resorts across Europe have extended their season as the unseasonable warmth kept tourists coming to the seaside. Reporting by GV De Clercq; Editing by Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Biden heads to Florida to campaign against DeSantis with midterms looming
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit Florida on Tuesday, seven days ahead of U.S. midterm elections, to contrast Democratic healthcare plans to those of Republicans while taking on potential 2024 rival Ron DeSantis during a campaign event. In his first political event in a state he lost in 2020, Biden is expected to take aim at Florida Republican Governor DeSantis during a campaign event for Democratic candidate for governor Charlie Crist, and then attend a fundraiser. The president is expected to offer his most sharply targeted attack yet on DeSantis, administration officials told Reuters. Biden and DeSantis have clashed over multiple issues including COVID-19 vaccines, abortion and LGBT rights. Biden met DeSantis last month during a trip to the state to assess devastation from Hurricane Ian.

☆ Hong Kong economy shrinks 4.5% yr/yr in Q3, outlook remains weak
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong’s economy shrank faster in the third quarter, contracting 4.5% from the same period a year earlier, the third straight quarter of downturn, advance government data showed on Monday, as external demand remained weak. Hong Kong, China June 29, 2020. The city’s economy shrank by 4.0% and 1.3% in the first and second quarters respectively. It was the deepest contraction since the second quarter of 2020 when gross domestic product shrank 9.4% as COVID-19 took its toll around the world. In his first policy address earlier this month, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee prioritised improving international competitiveness and attracting more overseas talent.

☆ Elon Musk and Donald Trump now own rival social networks. Here's a timeline of their rocky relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Former President Donald Trump said he's "very happy" that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. January 2020: 'One of our great geniuses'Former President Donald Trump speaks during a "Save America" rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 9, 2022. May 2020: Trump backs up Musk in feud with California covid rulesElon Musk meets Donald Trump at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020. May 2022: Musk said he would reinstate Trump's Twitter accountTesla CEO Elon Musk. July 2022: Trump lashes outFormer President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition during their annual conference on June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.

☆ Zuckerberg motivates supervoting stock resistance
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jeffrey Goldfarb | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Mark Zuckerberg is providing fresh motivation for investors everywhere. If there was ever a time for shareholders to rally against the sort of dual-class structures that surrender control to entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg has provided the ammunition. At the time of the stock sale, Zuckerberg commanded 57% of the vote with just a 28% economic stake, subjugating other owners with supervoting shares that carry 10 votes apiece. Meta reckons its board is sufficiently independent to keep watch over Zuckerberg, despite his codified influence over it. Rejecting supervoting stock would be the best option.

☆ U.S. carrier Alaska exercises options to buy 52 more MAX jets from Boeing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] An Alaska Airlines aircraft flies past the U.S. Capitol before landing at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsOct 26 (Reuters) - Alaska Airlines will exercise options to purchase 52 more 737 MAX jets from U.S. planemaker Boeing Co (BA.N) as the carrier phases out Airbus SE (AIR.PA) aircraft from its fleet, the company said on Wednesday. The multi-billion dollar deal for the jets, which are due to be delivered between 2024 and 2027, will expand Alaska's MAX fleet to 146 from 94. The deal is the latest narrowbody order for Boeing this year and underscores strong demand for the jets as airlines tap into a resurgence in travel. Alaska said it could operate over 250 new 737 MAX jets by 2030.

☆ Sainz retires from U.S. GP after first lap collision
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 21, 2022; Austin, Texas, USA; A view of sunset and the Texas flag as Scuderia Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz (55) of Team Spain drives during practice for the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY SportsAUSTIN, Texas, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Ferrari's Carlos Sainz retired from the U.S. Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after starting from pole position and then suffering a first corner collision with Mercedes' George Russell. Red Bull's Max Verstappen, chasing a record-equalling 13th win of the season, seized the lead at the start with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc starting 12th. Ferrari said they had retired Sainz in the pits due to a water leak caused by the collision.

Centering on Julia Roberts and George Clooney, two great, aging stars of rom-coms past, “Ticket to Paradise” was always going to be a throwback. Clooney and Roberts play David and Georgia Cotton, a long-divorced couple. The divorced couple who reconcile is an old rom-com trope. Even young gorgeous individuals in a tropical paradise aren’t as effortlessly, gracefully charming as George Clooney and Julia Roberts batting putdowns back and forth. That’s ultimately also the biggest similarity between the two generations of rom-com love.

☆ These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

AI Image/Stable DiffusionHanson, who’s based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and powerful. A piece by illustrator Daniel Danger that was included in the training data behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. But removing pictures of an artist’s work from a dataset wouldn’t stop Stable Diffusion from being able to generate images in that artist’s style. Hanson, for her part, has no problem with her art being used for training AI, but she wants to be paid.

☆ Instagram is making it easier for influencers to earn money from brand deals with new tools like creator portfolios and campaign listings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Instagram's creator marketplace is also being updated to improve discoverability. In November, Instagram will begin to let some influencers build media kits within the app through a new feature called "creator portfolios." Creator portfolios are part of the Meta-owned platform's broader creator marketplace offerings, which are currently only available to select influencers within the US. Instagram is adding tools that will help make sponsorship opportunities more visible within its creator marketplace. InstagramThus far, Instagram's creator marketplace has been relatively quiet, according to several influencers who Insider spoke with last month.

Brent crude futures fell 3 cents to settle at $92.38 a barrel. read moreThe U.S. dollar index pared losses after the comments, weighing on oil prices. A stronger dollar reduces demand for oil by making the fuel more expensive for buyers using other currencies. "Harker is saying that the war on inflation has just begun," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. The announcement, however failed to ease oil prices, as official U.S. data showed that the SPR last week dropped to their lowest since mid-1984, while commercial oil stocks fell unexpectedly.

Pump jacks operate at sunset in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File PhotoSummary China mulls cutting quarantine time for visitors - reportLooming EU ban on Russian oil, OPEC+ cuts supportiveU.S. oil reserve sales plan fails to dampen pricesNEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices edged higher on Thursday on news China is considering easing COVID-19 quarantine measures for visitors, boosting hopes for increased energy demand in the world's top oil importer. Brent crude futures rose 6 cents to $92.47 a barrel by 12:58 p.m. EDT (1658 GMT). China, the world's largest crude importer, has stuck to strict COVID curbs this year, which weighed heavily on business and economic activity, lowering demand for fuel. The announcement, however failed to ease oil prices, as official U.S. data showed that the SPR last week dropped to their lowest since mid-1984, while commercial oil stocks fell unexpectedly.

☆ Oil prices rise on possible easing in China COVID quarantine measure
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Emily Chow | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Pump jacks operate at sunset in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery (WTI) , which expires on Thursday, rose $1.29, or 1.5%, to $86.84 per barrel. Bloomberg news reported on Thursday that China is considering cutting the quarantine period for inbound visitors to seven days from 10 days, citing people familiar with the matter. "Short of an unlikely shale oil revival, there are few lasting policy measures the Biden administration can use to effective push oil much lower." "EU sanctions on Russian oil imports will likely become the focus of the oil market in coming weeks... We expect Brent oil futures to average $100 per barrel in Q4 2022 on the back of supply disruption from the EU sanctions," Dhar added.

☆ Oil prices mixed amid uncertain demand, supply concerns
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Emily Chow | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File PhotoSINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices were mixed on Thursday as investors balanced caution over tightening supply against concerns that a global slowdown could curb demand. "Oil prices are being whipsawed by a number of drivers in Q4 2022," said Commonwealth Bank commodities analyst Vivek Dhar in a note. Upward pressure though is coming from OPEC+ supply cuts and imminent EU sanctions on seaborne imports of Russian oil and refined production." Global recession concerns and the potential for another aggressive U.S. rate hike were clouding the outlook for oil prices, said CMC Markets analyst Leon Li. "Therefore, oil prices would return to a downtrend after a short-term rebound," he said.

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