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☆ North Korea sending troops into Ukraine could supercharge an already-close partnership with Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

South Korea says 1,500 North Korean troops have been sent to aid Russia in its war in Ukraine. They also said that North Korean troops could find themselves little more than cannon fodder. Other experts said North Korean troops would experience the roughest end of Russia's notoriously brutal military hierarchy, which marks some as expendable. "The grim reality is that the North Korean troops will likely simply be cannon fodder for Russia," said Edward Howell, a North Korea expert at the University of Oxford. AdvertisementHoare also pointed to the risk of North Korean troops defecting, which would loom over any deployment.

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☆ Cuddle time capped: New Zealand airport puts a 3-minute limit on goodbye hugs
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Hannah Peart | Hannah Peart Is An Intern In The Nbc News London Bureau. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

But back on the ground, one airport in New Zealand is implementing a maximum time just three minutes for loved ones to say goodbye to their relatives with a hug. 3 minutes max,” one of a series of signs at Dunedin Airport on the country's South Island says. It is an airport and those drop off locations are common locations for farewells” he told Radio New Zealand (RNZ) earlier this month. Recognizing that the signage had “caused quite a stir” he said that the signs were designed to keep drop-off zones moving at the airport. “It’s about enabling others to have hugs.”NBC News has reached out to De Bono and the airport for comment.

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☆ Philadelphia man charged with allegedly making gruesome threats against person recruiting poll watchers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to skin alive a state party representative who was recruiting poll watchers, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Prosecutors say that 62-year-old John Pollard sent several text messages to the representative, who isn’t named in court documents. The charges, which come just over two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, are part of an effort by the Justice Department to combat threats and violence against election workers. When the representative did not immediately respond, Pollard allegedly wrote again, saying: “I will KILL YOU IF YOU DON’T ANSWER ME!”“Your days are numbered, B**ch,” he wrote in a second. Pollard does not yet have an attorney listed in the court docket.

Persons: John Pollard, Pollard, ”, “, ” Pollard Organizations: CNN, Prosecutors, Justice Department, ING Locations: Philadelphia

☆ An airport sick of cars clogging its drop-off zone imposed a 3-minute cap on hugs
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dunedin Airport has limited farewell hugs to three minutes at its dropoff zone. Dan De Bono, Dunedin Airport's chief executive, said the new rule had caused some controversy. Dunedin Airport in New Zealand's South Island erected a sign reading: "Max hug time three minutes. According to its 2023 annual report, Dunedin Airport was the fifth-busiest airport in New Zealand, with 920,349 passengers that year. Last year, parking revenue at Columbia was 20% higher than airline revenue, the publication said.

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☆ King Charles arrives in an Australia with mixed feelings about the monarchy
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Hannah Peart | Hannah Peart Is An Intern In The Nbc News London Bureau. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

LONDON — King Charles III has expressed “deep love and affection” for Australia, a former part of the British Empire. Charles, 75, is Britain’s first reigning monarch to visit Australia in 13 years. The royal visit to Australia includes a Monday reception at Parliament House in Canberra, the capital, where the king will meet with Albanese. King Charles and Queen Camilla are greeted upon their arrival at Sydney International Airport on Friday. King Charles is projected on the Sydney Opera House ahead of his official visit on Friday.

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☆ Why the US loses $800 million a year in unrecycled aluminum cans
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Manuel Silva-Paulus | Hannah Brock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, but Americans throw out millions of tons of it every year — mainly aluminum cans and other post-consumer scrap. At the same time, US can-recycling rates are falling drastically behind several countries. In New York City, canners are vital to making recycling work. In Michigan, two companies are revolutionizing post-consumer recycling.

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☆ Israel killed its most-wanted target thanks to 2 things: chance and persistence
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Tom Porter | Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 terrorist attacks. AdvertisementAfter a yearlong war against Hamas that reduced much of Gaza to ruins, Israel on Wednesday killed its top target: the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Israel's military persisted, using heavy weapons, including 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, to target areas under Gaza where Sinwar and other Hamas leaders could have been hiding. During that time, Israel killed several Hamas leaders, including Mohammad Deif in Gaza, and Ismail Haniyeh in an audacious explosives attack in Tehran, Iran. A chance encounterA unit from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) 828th Bislamach Brigade conducted Wednesday's operation in Gaza.

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CNN —Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president. The documents were released a day after Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a bid by Trump to pause the release. Others include a myriad of claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election. The final volume includes memos from lawyer John Eastman with a plan for Pence to reject the congressional certification of the 2020 election. Prosecutors have charged Trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction.

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☆ One year after 4 Pepperdine students were killed in high-speed crash, sorority sisters push for change
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Nbc Los Angeles | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Thursday marks one year since four Pepperdine University students were struck and killed in a high-speed crash along Pacific Coast Highway. Pepperdine students, including the slain women’s sorority sisters and friends, continue to grieve their deaths while trying to honor their legacy by fixing the dangerous roadway where they were killed. It may have been a year since the deadly crash, but Pepperdine Alpha Phi sisters are still honoring the lasting impacts the four students left behind while struggling to cope with pain and grief. “Asha was so smart,” Halia Hansen, Vice President of Marketing for Alpha Phi and another close friend, said. “She would always have a smile on her face whenever I would see her.” Hannah Schendel, Pepperdine Alpha Phi President said.

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☆ Special counsel says obstruction charge against Donald Trump in January 6 case should stand
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s decision limiting some obstruction charges against those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, should not apply to Donald Trump in the election subversion case against the former president. One primary reason the obstruction charge against Trump should stand, prosecutors argue, is that – unlike in the case involving a rioter that was before the Supreme Court – Trump is directly accused of creating false evidence though the plot to insert fake electors in the certification process. Trump is arguing the ruling should result in Judge Tanya Chutkan throwing out the case against him. “The defendant’s supplement ignores entirely that the superseding indictment includes allegations that involve the creation of false evidence,” prosecutors wrote Wednesday, namely, “the fraudulent electoral certificates.”Smith also urged the judge to ignore Trump’s claims of presidential immunity, calling them “deeply flawed” and “irrelevant” to the issue at hand and should wait to be argued in separate filings. Trump has been charged with multiple counts related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction.

Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump, – Trump, Mike Pence, Trump, Tanya Chutkan, ” Smith Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Trump Locations: United States

☆ Male artists ‘peak in their 40s,’ Tracey Emin says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Renowned British artist Tracey Emin has said that many male artists, like her contemporary Damien Hirst, “peak in their 40s,” whereas women retain their creative force as they age. “Women have the capability of doing that (carrying on) as long as they’re given the opportunity to do it,” Emin said. And I think people who don’t make art or don’t attempt to be an artist, don’t understand how difficult it is to have that conviction, that self-belief and everything. Damien was a young artist that started off with a lot of that belief and a lot of that conviction. Emin added that her health issues have given her a newfound perspective on life, saying she doesn’t measure life by money or accolades.

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☆ North Korea is blowing stuff up and making threats, but it's unlikely to go further
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

North Korea destroyed parts of roads and rail lines connecting it with South Korea. It comes after North Korea last week accused South Korea of flying drones over its capital. In response, South Korea fired warning shots within its own border, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The detonations come after North Korea last week accused South Korea of flying drones over its capital Pyongyang. Howell added that historically, North Korea has stepped up provocations during US election years.

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☆ How AI is closing talent gaps by focusing on skills
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Sponsor Post | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

There's good reason to adopt a skills-first strategy: Hiring managers who practice skills-first hiring find it twice as easy to find qualified candidates than hiring managers who do not. But the advancement of generative AI has the potential to change that. To use AI effectively for skills-first hiring, talent professionals must understand how models have been developed and trained and audit and monitor those models for bias. Indeed's Smart Sourcing generative AI provides an explanation of the candidate's potential overlapping qualifications with the employer's job description. As crucial as AI will be to skills-first hiring, talent acquisition, and management always starts and end with humans.

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☆ ‘Alarming disregard’ for children’s lives in Gaza, says UNICEF spokesperson
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Hannah Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Obama’s reemergence on the campaign trail for Harris comes as he recognizes his own legacy is at stake
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

This past Wednesday alone, he recorded 21 videos for the Harris campaign. Obama acolytes have spent the last eight years rationalizing Trump as the last gasp backlash to the Democrat and his presidency. While most of the party leaders Harris called that Sunday afternoon, including Bill Clinton, and immediately pledged support, Obama held off. Harris advisers knew Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi favored an open process to find a new nominee. And according to people who know about the conversations, he checks in with several of his own closest aides now helping run Harris’ campaign, such as current campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and his own 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe.

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☆ I'm 30, and my best friend is 75. She's shaped how I approach relationships.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Hannah Wilkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My parents introduced me to my best friend when I was 19, hoping she would be a good mentor for me. Now, more than 10 years later, I consider her my best friend. At 30, people often say it's nice that I have an "extra grandma," but I quickly correct them — no, she's my best friend. AdvertisementHannah Wilkinson has learned a lot from her best friend Gill. Hannah Wilkinson's best friend Gill is 45 years older than she is.

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Her case is far from unique, however: Hospitals across the United States have said they’re taking steps to conserve their supply of IV fluids, including postponing or canceling nonemergency surgeries. IV fluids do more than deliver drugs or electrolytes directly into a patient’s bloodstream. On Monday, the AHA urged President Joe Biden to declare a nationwide emergency over the limited supply of IV fluids. She’s been dependent on IV nutrition, which delivers nutrients directly into her bloodstream, for more than eight years. Hannah Hale, in 2016 on her first day home after a long hospitalization, with her TPN, or IV nutrition.

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☆ Rare Monet returned to family more than 80 years after it was stolen by Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New Orleans to the descendants of its original owners. The Monet was then purchased at auction by a Nazi art dealer and disappeared in 1941. A New Orleans-based antiquities dealer purchased it then sold it to a couple in Washington state. Since then, the FBI has been working to return the Monet to the Parlagi’s granddaughters, and the handoff was made Wednesday. The Parlagi family is still searching for several other art pieces stolen by the Nazis, including a signed Paul Signac watercolor from 1903 that was sold to the same Nazi art dealer as the Monet.

Persons: Claude Monet, ”, Adalbert, Hilda Parlagi, Monet, Paul Organizations: CNN, FBI Locations: Louisiana, New Orleans, Houston, Austria, Vienna, Nazi, France, Washington

☆ Trump's close relationship with Putin could come back to haunt the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Tom Porter | Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The relationship between Trump and Putin has long been a source of controversy. AdvertisementWith only a month to go before the presidential election, Donald Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again come under the spotlight. In a forthcoming book, journalist Bob Woodward says that the former president and Putin have a closer friendship than previously known. The Ukraine war has already roiled markets for food, oil, gas, and other products, and wider conflict could have an even more devastating impact. If Russian President Vladimir Putin is victorious in Ukraine, it may embolden Chinese leader Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan.

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“Love Island USA” personality Hannah Smith was arrested and accused of threatening to kill a police officer on Sept. 30 in Atlanta, according to an incident report from the Cobb County Police Department. According to the incident report, Smith was escorted out of the concert venue by security for allegedly yelling and screaming. While being escorted out, Smith allegedly punched a member of emergency medical services who was assisting, according to a Cobb County officer supervising the situation. On the way to the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office Adult Detention Center, Smith allegedly threatened to kill the officer and the officer's sister. Smith was placed in custody and charged with two felonies — terroristic threats and obstruction or hindering an officer, according to police.

Persons: Hannah Smith, Gracie Abrams, Roxy, Smith, It's, —, ”, Ariana Madix, Kendall Washington, Nicole Jacky, Jacky Organizations: Cobb County Police Department, Detention Locations: Atlanta, Cobb, North Carolina, Washington

☆ Brett Kavanaugh: Internal emails dispute Trump’s claims that FBI had ‘free rein’ to probe assault allegations, new report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The White House, however, instructed the FBI to only interview 10 witnesses, according to the report. The report sheds light on the tight limits the White House imposed on the FBI as it undertook a “supplemental” background investigation while Kavanaugh’s confirmation hung in the balance. According to the report, those Trump comments were then flagged by an FBI public affairs office in emails to others at the agency, including some top officials. The White House finally told the official that it would be in touch it if had additional guidance to offer on the supplemental investigation. With the report, Whitehouse is calling for the agency to put in place standard procedures for how such supplemental investigations should be handled.

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☆ Afghan national charged with Election Day terrorist plot in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against an Afghan national who was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in support of ISIS on Election Day in the United States. The juvenile has also been arrested, according to court documents. The indictment comes as the Justice Department has publicly – and repeatedly – said its focus is on protecting the November presidential election from foreign threats. Tawhedi’s alleged plot, which prosecutors say was aimed at targeting “large gatherings of people,” was foiled less than a month before voters head to the polls. They also cited a video found on the phone that prosecutors say showed the 27-year-old telling his child about the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife.

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☆ Israel may have military superiority, but it lacks a clear strategic vision, say experts
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Experts told BI that Israel still lacks a long-term strategic vision on how to end the war. But while Israel may have military superiority in the region, it lacks a clear, long-term strategic vision to end conflict in the Middle East, according to security experts. It's clear the Israel Defense Forces have achieved a series of tactical gains in recent weeks, but they still lack a clear military strategy, security analysts told Business Insider. "Neither outcome achieves Israel's security objectives, which would represent a defeat for the IDF and could threaten the survival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government," Pfaff said. The problem may be that Israel's security doctrine has long been based on short wars.

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☆ The Middle East is on high alert for October 7 anniversary attacks as Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza and Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Hannah Abraham | Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Middle East is anticipating strikes on the anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks. Israeli offensives have targeted several Middle Eastern regions, including Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. AdvertisementThe Middle East is on high alert for military strikes timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks on Israel. AdvertisementThere are fears the conflict could escalate into a full-blown war in the Middle East. AdvertisementIn June, the IMF said that the long-term economic effects of conflict on real GDP per capita in the Middle East would be particularly severe.

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