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The Summary Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI director, promoted a supplement company that claims to help people “detox” from Covid vaccines. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, promoted a supplement line this year that purports without evidence to help people “detox” from Covid vaccines. “Mrna detox, reverse the vaxx n get healthy,” he wrote in one post, tagging the company Warrior Essentials and linking to its website. Warrior Essentials says that its “detox protocol” “promotes the body’s own internal cellular regeneration process” and can remove toxins from cells, repair circulatory health and restore DNA stability. A single bottle of the “detox” supplement containing 60 capsules (30 two-pill servings) is listed for $75 on the Warrior Essentials website.

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But neither he nor Ivanka Trump is expected to take on any formal role in the White House. This accounting of the roles Trump’s family members will play in his second administration is based on conversations with 10 people familiar with the dynamics. “Susie ran the best of his three campaigns, and she’ll run the best White House that he’s had,” the former senior Trump White House official said. Now, the president-elect calls Kushner periodically to get his opinion on some potential hires, the former senior White House official said. A source close to Trump Jr. said he has no designs on an official or unofficial position in Trump’s White House.

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WASHINGTON — The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday dives into the culture war issue of transgender rights as it weighs whether states can restrict gender transition care for minors. Democrats, including the Biden administration in the case now at the court, have sought to increase protections for transgender people. The surgery ban is not at issue in the Supreme Court case after a lower court judge said the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to challenge it. The case being argued Wednesday reached the Supreme Court after the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling last year rejecting challenges to the Tennessee law and a similar measure in Kentucky.

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Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, welcomed Yoon’s order to rescind emergency martial law. Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said the martial law order had “essentially no impact” on U.S. forces. The Ministry of National Defense also deployed between 200 and 300 armed troops to the National Assembly grounds via helicopter, Kim Min-gi, secretary-general of the National Assembly, said Wednesday. Throngs of protesters also arrived at the building in opposition to the martial law declaration. The martial law order was lifted around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday local time (2:30 p.m. Tuesday ET).

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Colegio Manquecura Ciudad del EsteStudents across Chile have been using recycled materials to add to their environments. Students at Colegio Pumahue Temuco were challenged to create a piece of “land art” inspired by ancestral history – art made directly in the natural landscape. While students at Colegio Pumahue Curauma came together to make sculptures reminiscent of the Moai heads of Easter Island for a school exhibition. Families from Colegio Pumahue Peñalolen worked together to build feeding troughs from recycled materials to help the local fauna. Colegio Pumahue Temuco

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☆ Hannah Kobayashi’s sister says family is unsatisfied with LAPD conclusion that she vanished voluntarily
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Dennis Romero | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The sister of missing 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi said Tuesday the police conclusion that she is a "voluntary missing person" is not satisfactory. "They just reached this conclusion … without showing them any footage," the lawyer said, referring to family members. McDonnell said at Monday's news conference that family reported her missing Nov. 13 and the LAPD took over the case two days later. He also said she had luggage that went to New York City rerouted back to Los Angeles International Airport, where she picked it up the day before crossing into Mexico. Family members, including Kobayashi's father, Ryan, gathered in Los Angeles starting in mid-November to direct volunteer search efforts and sleuth on her whereabouts, they said.

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A Chinese man living in the United States illegally was arrested Tuesday and accused of exporting guns and ammunition to North Korea and of planning to send other technology to the nuclear-armed pariah state. At least two shipments of firearms and ammunition were sent, hidden in shipping containers, from the port in Long Beach, California, and on to Hong Kong and then North Korea, according to court documents. In 2022, Wen said he was contacted by two North Korean officials in China who wanted him to send guns and ammunition to North Korea, the affidavit alleges. The North Korean officials had more than guns and ammunition on their mind, according to the affidavit. The North Korean officials also asked for military uniforms, which Wen said he believed would be use to help launch a surprise attack against South Korea, the document says.

Persons: Shenghua Wen, ” Akil Davis, Wen, Wen “, Wen's, Star Safire Organizations: DOJ, Attorney’s, North, North Korean, Star, Emergency Economic Locations: United States, North Korea, Ontario, Southern California, Los Angeles, Long Beach , California, Hong Kong, Angeles, U.S, China, Texas, California, Korean, South Korea

WASHINGTON — Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., on Wednesday will become the new chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, succeeding Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., who has held the post for more than a dozen years, Chu told NBC News on Tuesday evening. Meng, who has served in Congress since 2013, is running unopposed to replace Chu as chair of the caucus, which is known as CAPAC. CAPAC is the smallest of the Tri-Caucus, the three minority caucuses that also include the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Chu — the former three-time mayor of Monterey Park and the first Chinese American woman to serve in Congress — had led the caucus since 2011. Chu noted the growing number of Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) in Congress since she came to Washington.

Persons: Grace Meng, Judy Chu, Chu, Meng, CAPAC, Chu —, —, Mark Takano, Ted Lieu, Hakeem Jeffries, Joe Biden, Biden, Meng’s COVID, Donald Trump's Organizations: WASHINGTON — Rep, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, NBC, Tri - Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, House Veterans Affairs Committee, Democratic, Pacific Islanders, New York Democrat, Democratic National Committee, China Initiative, Department of Justice Locations: Monterey Park, American, Southern California, Hawaiians, Congress, Washington, China, United States

Telegram, which for years has had a reputation as a platform used to trade child sexual abuse material, has for the first time agreed to partner with a larger international watch group to combat such content. The U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation, which maintains a database of known abuse imagery and provides tools for tech platforms to automatically flag and remove it, announced a partnership with Telegram on Tuesday. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 23, 2016. Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileWith the new partnership, the IWF can effectively scan Telegram for exact matches of child sexual abuse material in its databases and automatically block it, the IWF said in a news release. Similar tools will also block links to sites known to host such content and identify artificial intelligence-created abuse imagery.

Persons: Pavel Durov, Chris Ratcliffe, Durov, Canadian Centre for Child Protection —, Remi Vaughn, “, Derek Ray, Hill, ” Ray Organizations: Internet Watch Foundation, Mobile, Bloomberg, Getty, IWF, U.S . National Center for, Canadian Centre for Child Protection, NBC News Locations: France, Barcelona, Spain, Dubai, U.S

☆ Watch CNBC’s full interview with Trivariate's Adam Parker, Charles Schwab’s Kevin Gordon and Obermeyer’s Ali Flynn Phillips
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC’s full interview with Trivariate's Adam Parker, Charles Schwab’s Kevin Gordon and Obermeyer’s Ali Flynn PhillipsTrivariate's Adam Parker, Charles Schwab’s Kevin Gordon and Obermeyer’s Ali Flynn Phillips, join 'Closing Bell' to discuss the markets, economy, Fed Chair Powell's latest remarks and their earnings outlook.

Persons: Trivariate's Adam Parker, Charles Schwab’s Kevin Gordon, Obermeyer’s Ali Flynn Phillips, Adam Parker

☆ Jeff Bezos says he wants to be Donald Trump's ally
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementDonald Trump has singled out Jeff Bezos for criticism in the past. He thinks Trump's pitch to cut regulations in the US is a good one, and he wants to help. Also on Bezos's agenda: Convincing Trump that the media — including The Washington Post, which he owns — is not the enemy. And Bezos says he could be a Trump ally because he wants to help the next president cut red tape. And my point of view [is], if I can help him do that, I'm going to help him.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Bezos, Trump, he's, York Times's, Andrew Ross Sorkin, It's, I've, Elon Musk's Organizations: Washington Post, Trump, The, Elon Musk's SpaceX, Washington Locations: York

☆ Is Amazon's Trainium chip the 'dupe' that could finally disrupt Nvidia's AI dominance?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's newsletter, Amazon's touting new hardware it hopes can help it unseat Nvidia as the king of AI chips. The big storyAmazon's affordable AIBusiness Wire/BI'Dupes' are all the rage these days, so why not make one for AI chips? AdvertisementThat's basically Amazon Web Services' idea for breaking Nvidia's stranglehold on the AI market. The tech giant's homegrown chip is its answer to Nvidia's all-powerful GPUs, which are widely used for training AI models. AdvertisementAWS CEO Matt Garman detailed how customers can get the most out of their AI chips with 'UltraServers' — multiple Trainium servers smartly pieced together — and the 'UltraCluster' — what you get when you combine multiple 'UltraServers.'

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☆ Iran passes controversial ‘chastity’ law imposing even harsher dress restrictions. The president doesn’t like it
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Iran’s parliament has enacted a harsh new modesty law, significantly tightening existing dress restrictions that have already fueled nationwide protests and posed a serious challenge to regime stability. “In my opinion the hijab law, which I have to implement, is vague. It defines improper dress in various ways, ranging from nudity and dressing immodestly to wearing the hijab incorrectly. The law also introduces a system of fines and restrictions with financial penalties, even for initial offenses. While the harsher penalties have caused concern for Iranians, a particularly controversial aspect of the legislation is expanded surveillance.

Persons: CNN —, Masoud Pezeshkian, “, ”, Sina Toossi, Ebrahim Raisi, Negar Mortazavi, Pezeshkian, Mortazavi Organizations: CNN, Guardian Council, International, United Nations, Guardian, Supreme National Security Council Locations: Washington, DC, Iran

☆ You could score a tax break by gifting crypto to charity — but there may be some pitfalls
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Hispanolistic | E+ | Getty ImagesIf you're planning a gift to charity this holiday season, you could score a tax break by donating cryptocurrency. In 2024, there's been a significant jump in crypto gifts to charity, according to Fidelity Charitable, which has accepted $688 million in crypto donations — mostly in bitcoin — through Nov. 19. Donating crypto to charity is similar to giving other types of property. But if you itemize and can claim the charitable deduction, it's generally better to donate profitable investments, such as cryptocurrency, rather than cash. However, donating crypto can be more complicated than assets like stock, experts say.

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☆ ‘Loki’ actor Jack Veal appeals for help as he says he’s homeless at 17
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The actor who played Kid Loki in the first season of the Marvel series “Loki” has appealed for help from the public after falling on hard times. Jack Veal recently posted on TikTok about his difficulties, saying “Hi. I’m a famous actor, I’m 17 and I’m homeless.”“You may know me from ‘Loki,’ ‘The End of the F***ing World,’ or various other movies where I played important roles. In a followup video Tuesday, he said he had been contacted by social services for a meeting that could potentially help him. “I don’t know what you guys have done, but it’s gotten out there and it’s really, really helped me.

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☆ Walmart's CEO had wine delivered by drone to his front door and believes it's key to the company's future success
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He said Walmart's future looked like "urgent deliveries happening in a really fast time." He said he ordered the drone delivery when his wife Shelley realized she didn't have a key ingredient in the kitchen. In August, DroneUp, Walmart's drone delivery partner, told Axios that drone deliveries were not economically sustainable for smaller, low-cost packages. The retailer currently offers drone deliveries in three locations in the US — Bentonville, Dallas, and Virginia Beach. In January, it expanded its drone delivery radius to serve 1.8 million additional households in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.

Persons: Doug McMillon, Morgan Stanley, Shelley, McMillon Organizations: Walmart, Morgan, Morgan Stanley Global Consumer, Retail Conference, Business Locations: New York, Bentonville , Arkansas, DroneUp, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Tampa, Bentonville, Dallas, Virginia, Forth Worth

☆ South Korea's largest labor union launches an indefinite strike and calls for the president's resignation
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementSouth Korea's largest labor union has issued an indefinite general strike. The call went out to its 1.1M members after South Korea's president declared martial law. South Korea's largest labor union launched an indefinite general strike late on Tuesday, calling for the country's embattled president to resign after he declared martial law. The decree, which suspended civilian government functions and established temporary military control, was South Korea's first declaration of martial law since the country's democratization in 1987. AdvertisementMeanwhile, South Korea's former foreign minister, Kang Kyung-hwa, told CNN that the president's move and the way it was handled was "completely unacceptable" and an "aberration."

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☆ France's prime minister was ousted after losing a confidence vote — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementFrench Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a confidence vote on Wednesday. It was France's first successful vote of no confidence in more than 60 years. Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, lost a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly on Wednesday after left and far-right parties voted together. The collapse of the 3-month-old government makes Barnier France's shortest-serving prime minister and could bring further upheaval to financial markets. Barnier is expected to tender his resignation but may continue as a caretaker until a new prime minister is appointed.

Persons: Michel Barnier, that's, Emmanuel Macron, Barnier, Macron, Pen, Bruno Cavalier, Oddo, Antonio Fatas, Fatas Organizations: National Assembly, European Union, Britain, Marine, ING, Bloomberg, European Locations: France, Ukraine, Italy, Poland, Greece, INSEAD, European Union

☆ South Korea's political uncertainty has just made the BOK's job even tougher - Standard Chartered
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSouth Korea's political uncertainty has just made the BOK's job even tougher - Standard CharteredPark Chong Hoon of Standard Chartered Bank discusses how South Korea's political turmoil will complicate the Bank of Korea's job.

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☆ OpenAI partners with defense company Anduril
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI and Anduril on Wednesday announced a partnership allowing the defense tech company to deploy advanced artificial intelligence systems for "national security missions." This fall, Palantir signed a new five-year, up to $100 million contract to expand U.S. military access to its Maven AI warfare program. OpenAI said it was working with Anduril to help human operators make decisions "to protect U.S. military personnel on the ground from unmanned drone attacks." The company said it stands by the policy in its mission statement of prohibiting use of its AI systems to harm others. The news comes after Microsoft -backed OpenAI in January quietly removed a ban on the military use of ChatGPT and its other AI tools, just as it had begun to work with the U.S. Department of Defense on AI tools, including open-source cybersecurity tools.

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☆ 'This is the end of President Yoon's presidency': Analyst
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'This is the end of President Yoon's presidency': AnalystKarl Friedhoff from Chicago Council on Global Affairs talks about the future of South Korea's political leadership after the short-lived martial law in the country.

Persons: Yoon's, Karl Friedhoff Organizations: Chicago Council, Global Affairs

☆ Hegseth faces an ‘absolutely critical’ day as Pentagon hopes hang by a thread
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

His fate will not only depend on whether sufficient Republican senators will defer to the president-elect. That dilemma is especially acute since concern among Republican senators helped derail the Gaetz selection last month. So far, only a small minority of Republican senators have raised questions about Hegseth. But several Republican senators said they hoped such steps would be taken, especially in the case of Hegseth. CNN’s Manu Raju asked North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer whether standards had changed since those days.

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☆ Transgender Care for Minors Faces Supreme Court Test
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over whether a Tennessee law denying some kinds of medical care to transgender youth runs afoul of the Constitution. Twenty-three other states have similar laws. The court’s decision, expected by June, will almost certainly yield a major statement on transgender rights against the backdrop of a fierce public debate over the role gender identity should play in areas as varied as sports, bathrooms and pronouns. The Tennessee law prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, providing hormone therapy or performing surgery to treat what the law called “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” But the law allows those same treatments for “a congenital defect, precocious puberty, disease or physical injury.”Three families and a doctor sued to challenge the law, and the Biden administration intervened on their side. The challengers said the law violated the Constitution by denying equal protection to transgender people, primarily by discriminating against them based on sex.

Persons: Biden Locations: Tennessee

☆ Democrats are urging Biden to cancel student debt for thousands of borrowers before Trump takes office
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementDemocratic lawmakers urged Biden to cancel student debt for defrauded borrowers before Trump takes office. Miguel Cardona urging him to discharge unprocessed borrower defense applications, which are applications student-loan borrowers can submit if they believe they were defrauded by the school they attended. AdvertisementWith President-elect Donald Trump taking office in under two months, the lawmakers said debt relief would become a lot more uncertain under his leadership. However, thousands of borrowers are still waiting for their borrower defense applications to be processed, and time is running out. AdvertisementThe Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider regarding where it stands with processing borrower defense claims.

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☆ Eli Lilly's Zepbound causes greater weight loss than Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in head-to-head trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Eli Lilly on Wednesday said its obesity drug Zepbound led to more weight loss than its main rival, Novo Nordisk 's Wegovy, in the first head-to-head clinical trial on the weekly injections. Eli Lilly said Zepbound provided a 47% higher relative weight reduction compared with Wegovy in the trial. Separate studies on the drugs, along with a recent head-to-head analysis of health records, have similarly implied that Zepbound outperforms Wegovy in terms of weight loss. Eli Lilly is still evaluating the results, which it plans to publish in a peer-reviewed journal and present at a medical meeting next year. Zepbound's greater weight loss is a huge advantage for Eli Lilly, which is competing with Novo Nordisk for a larger share of the booming weight loss drug market.

Persons: Eli Lilly, Zepbound, Wegovy, Dr, Leonard Glass, Eli Lilly Cardiometabolic Organizations: Novo Nordisk, and Drug Administration Locations: U.S

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