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☆ Is this the last Christmas for Sears?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Easterling was at the Sears in her hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of only 15 full-line Sears stores still open. The two started a catalog business selling watches and jewelry in 1888, incorporating under the Sears Roebuck name in 1893. The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. File photo/AP People shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961. AP Soldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

☆ Rivian’s CEO created buzzy, outdoorsy EVs. Now big automakers are coming after it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. The 39-year-old is running the car company he founded, building electric vehicles he helped engineer and design. Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesEver since he was a child growing up in Melbourne, Florida, Scaringe wanted to start his own car company. At the time, the idea of starting a car company seemed very farfetched. Robert Joseph "RJ" Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, said he had wanted to start a car company since he was a child.

☆ Rivian’s founder had an early advantage with his electric truck. Now rivals GM and Ford are closing in
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. The 39-year-old is running the car company he founded, building electric vehicles he helped engineer and design. A Rivian R1T pickup truck at the company's manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois. Robert Joseph "RJ" Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, said he had wanted to start a car company since he was a child. In 2021, Ford revealed the F-150 Lightning electric truck, which went into production this year.

☆ Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Daniel Trotta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Chicago police are investigating a noose that was found at the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an act the Illinois governor condemned as a symbol of racist hatred. The incident led to a temporary halt in construction, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing the construction consortium that is building the center. The noose was reported to police by the Lakeside Alliance, a construction team of Black-owned companies that is building the Obama Presidential Center, which will be a museum and public gathering space commemorating Barack and Michelle Obama, the first African-American president and first lady. The Lakeside Alliance is offering a $100,000 reward to help find those responsible, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing an alliance statement. Construction on the site began in 2021 and the center is due to open in 2025.

☆ The future of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried is now in the hands of these 3 lawyers who have worked for Enron, Michael Milken, and Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A senior Paul Weiss lawyer has been hired to defend FTX founder and ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX said on Twitter that a sprawling group of companies founded by Bankman-Fried, known as SBF, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The new CEO of FTX is John J. Ray III, a lawyer-turned-executive with a colorful past leading troubled companies, most notably Enron. The firm Paul Weiss and its lawyer Martin Flumenbaum, who represented the junk-bonds king Michael Milken, are representing Bankman-Fried personally. John J. Ray IIIRay joined FTX as CEO just in time to sign its bankruptcy filing.

☆ If you use Snapchat, you could get a $117 check from a data privacy lawsuit—the deadline to apply is Saturday
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Snap Inc., the social media app's parent company, is set to pay out $35 million to current and former Illinois residents for allegedly storing their facial recognition data without their consent. You'll need to include your Snapchat username and at least one Illinois address where you lived. Facebook, TikTok, Google, Shutterfly and Pret A Manger have all settled similar cases in Illinois over the last 14 months, too. California residents already have some data protection under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Fennessy also notes that as our collective understanding of data privacy grows, future lawsuits will focus less on user consent and more on what companies do with biometric data once they have it.

☆ How Taylor Swift went back to the past and turned 'Midnights' into her biggest album success yet
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Kaitlin Balasaygun | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Five years ago, Swift's "Reputation" achieved the biggest ever U.S. sales week by traditional album sales with 1.216 million copies sold. With "Midnights," Swift broke her own record again, reaching 185 million streams on its release day. Midyear Report for 2022," current vinyl album sales — music releases that are less than 18 months old — rose by 27.4%. On the other hand, catalog vinyl album sales — music releases that are 18 months old or older — fell by 8.4% since 2021. The demographics of vinyl buyers also help to explain the large vinyl album sales "Midnights" is seeing.

With the release of director Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” the conversation of the nation’s racist history and violence toward Black people is being revisited. Deadwyler told NBC News that the telling of Till’s story today is just as important as it was decades ago. “In the United States, we tend to think of our history in romantic terms,” Glaude told NBC News. The Senate passed a bill in January posthumously awarding Till and his mother the Congressional Gold Medal. But, Glaude said, even with these initiatives, without a racially just America, Till “died in vain.”“We can never forget,” he added.

☆ Home Depot's famous giant skeletons keep getting stolen from front yards
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A skeleton Halloween decoration was reported stolen from a Chicago front lawn on October 13, The Chicago Tribune reported, amounting to $600 in losses. Home Depot's skeletons have been popular since they first launched, leading to record Halloween sales for the home improvement chain in 2020. The $300 skeletons sold out by the end of September, ahead of Halloween. In October of 2022, the skeletons remain sold out at Home Depot and getting one isn't easy. "We encourage all our customers that experience this to reach out to local law enforcement," Home Depot told Insider in a statement.

☆ Some TikTok users are receiving $167 checks over data privacy violations—and Google and Snapchat could be next
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

This week, TikTok users across the country who created videos on the app before September 30, 2021, began receiving payments between $27.84 and $167.04 following a $92 million class-action data privacy settlement with the social media platform. The largest checks went to short- and long-term residents of Illinois, where TikTok was sued for violating the state's strict biometric data laws by collecting and implementing facial recognition data into its algorithms without user consent. On the surface, facial recognition features on social media seem harmless, if not beneficial to the user experience — but experts say there are underlying consequences. Matthew Kugler, a privacy law professor at Northwestern University told CNBC Make It in May that such businesses hold the potential to eliminate our anonymity. In 2019, a study Kugler authored found that 70% of its participants were uncomfortable with companies using facial recognition data to track individual's locations and serve target ads.

☆ These 10 LGBTQ candidates could make political history in November
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Matt Lavietes | Matt Lavietes Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

More than 600 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer candidates will be on the ballot Nov. 8 — up from the 432 candidates in the previous midterm elections in 2018 — according to the political action committee LGBTQ Victory Fund. But even as an LGBTQ political leader, Balint, who is a lesbian, has faced pushback for her sexuality. He previously told NBC News that his Republican political affiliation was a result of his family's affection for former President Ronald Reagan. Jennie ArmstrongRunning for: Alaska House of Representatives, District 16Andrew GrayRunning for: Alaska House of Representatives, District 20If elected would be the first: LGBTQ state lawmaker(s) in Alaskan history. Alaska is one of four states with zero out LGBTQ state lawmakers, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund.

☆ Omicron subvariants pose a new threat to people with immune deficiencies
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Benjamin Ryan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Troubling recent reports reveal the emergence of new omicron subvariants that not only evade AstraZeneca’s Evusheld, the antibody drug authorized to prevent Covid infection, but also the sole antibody drug that has retained effectiveness as treatment for Covid, Eli Lilly’s bebtelovimab. Doctors have cautioned that should Laura get Covid, this could aggravate her autoimmune disease and lead to catastrophic kidney damage. Evusheld is a long-acting antibody injection given every six months that studies have suggested provides a robust buffer to the immunosuppressed. For now, immunocompromised people are anxiously watching the pandemic forecast to see if the subvariants that research indicates evade monoclonal antibodies will become predominant. “If fewer people are prescribed Evusheld,” she said, “there’s less incentive for drug companies to start developing newer therapeutics.

☆ About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Courtesy of Leilani GrahamIf pig organs turn out to be just as effective as human organs, she added, "That is more appealing to me than using marginal donors." If the technique works for human organs in the future, it could allow clinicians to preserve many more organs for donation after death. Changing organs' blood typeEnzymes are delivered to a lung inside a perfusion machine at Dr. Marcelo Cypel’s lab. Growing synthetic organs from stem cellsResearcher Stormy Chamberlain holds a tray of stem cells at the University of Connecticut's Stem Cell Institute. Hanna started a company called Renewal Bio to pursue the possibility of turning stem cells into organs for transplants.

☆ Young Black activists are done waiting their turn for political office. They're taking on the 'John Lewis generation' of elder lawmakers who they say are out of touch.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Elvina Nawaguna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus are twice as old as the median Black person living in the US. The Congressional Black Caucus, a powerful voice for Black Americans, is significantly older than those it speaks for. Clay had replaced his father, William Lacy Clay Sr., a civil-rights icon and founding Congressional Black Caucus member who had represented the area since 1969. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe Congressional Black Caucus is reckoning with a leftward shift it's struggled to embrace. A spokesperson for the Congressional Black Caucus did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ 5 cutting-edge medical experiments could expand our organ supply, from gene-edited pigs to artificial embryos
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Courtesy of Leilani GrahamIf pig organs turn out to be just as effective as human organs, she added, "That is more appealing to me than using marginal donors." While much of the shortage is driven by imperfect logistics and bureaucracy rather than supply, cutting-edge research could make organs — human, pig, or synthetic — more accessible in Graham's lifetime. If the technique works for human organs in the future, it could allow clinicians to preserve many more organs for donation after death. Changing organs' blood typeEnzymes are delivered to a lung inside a perfusion machine at Dr. Marcelo Cypel’s lab. Growing synthetic organs from stem cellsResearcher Stormy Chamberlain holds a tray of stem cells at the University of Connecticut's Stem Cell Institute.

☆ Walgreens Names Hsiao Wang as Next CIO
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said Thursday it would appoint Hsiao Wang as its new chief information officer, as tech leader Francesco Tinto departs. Mr. Wang, most recently CIO of arts-and-crafts seller Michaels Cos., steps into the new role on Sept. 26. Walgreens has named tech veteran Hsiao Wang as its new CIO. Mr. Tinto became Walgreens CIO in September 2019, just months before the Covid-19 pandemic began. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team.

☆ Scandal în rândul presei din Chicago: Primărița a anunțat că va acorda interviuri față în față doar jurnaliștilor de culoare
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-22 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: libertatea.roScandal în rândul presei din Chicago: Primărița a anunțat că va acorda interviuri față în față doar jurnaliștilor de culoarePrimarul din Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, a anunțat că la aniversarea a doi ani de mandat va acorda interviuri față în față doar jurnaliștilor de culoare, în condițiile în care - spune ea - jurnaliștii din Chicago sunt în proporție copleșitoare albi, scrie US Today, citat de hotnews.ro. ”Am candidat pentru a sparge status quo-ul ce îi lăsa pe atât de mulți pe dinafară”, a scris ea pe Twitter, potrivit sursei citate. Mary Ann Ahern, jurnalistă (albă) cu vechime la WMAQ-TV, cea care a dat prima știrea despre decizia primăriței Lightfoot, a afirmat că pare că Lightfoot pare că evită jurnaliștii cu care are des diferențe de opinie. Alții, printre care și TriiBE, o platformă digitală cu accent pe populația de culoare, consideră că revolta stârnită de decizia primarului este jignitoare. ”Cu toată indignarea asta, voi dați de înțeles că jurnaliștii negri și latino nu sunt capabili să pună întrebări grele”, a scris TriiBE pe Twitter, adăugând că a obținut un interviu cu primărița.

Persons: Primărița, Lori Lightfoot, Gregory Pratt, Mary Ann Ahern Organizations: US, Chicago Tribune Locations: Chicago, Primărie, SUA, edil, primărița

☆ Un bărbat a trăit trei luni în aeroportul din Chicago de teama Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Un bărbat a trăit trei luni în aeroportul din Chicago de teama Covid-19Un bărbat a fost descoperit că a trăit într-o zonă securizată din aeroportul internaţional din Chicago timp de trei luni, iar el a spus poliţiei că i-a fost prea frică de Covid-19 să se întoarcă acasă, în Los Angeles, relatează The Guardian. Aditya Singh, în vârstă de 36 de ani, a fost arestat în weekend şi acuzat că a pătruns într-o zonă restricţionată a unui aeroport şi furt, a scris Chicago Tribune. După aproximativ trei luni, sâmbătă după-amiază, Singh a fost abordat de doi angajaţi ai United Airlines care i-au cerut documente de identificare. Hagerty a spus că Singh a găsit legitimaţia în aeroport şi că „se temea din cauza Covid-19 să plece acasă”. A fost precizat că incidentul va fi anchetat în continuare, nefiind clar cum a fost posibil ca timp de trei luni bărbatul - „care nu reprezintă un risc pentru securitate” - să nu fie remarcat în aeroport.

Persons: Aditya Singh, Singh, Kathleen Hagerty, Hagerty, poliţia, dimineaţă Organizations: Chicago Tribune, United Airlines, Orange, Aviation Locations: Chicago, Los Angeles

☆ Коронавирус: Мужчина прожил три месяца в аэропорту
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-18 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Калифорниец незаконно прожил три месяца в международном аэропорту Чикаго из-за боязни коронавируса. По информации издания, 36-летний Адитья Сингх скрывался в охраняемой зоне аэропорта О'Хара, используя потерянный сотрудником аэропорта бейдж. Мужчина заявил в суде, что боялся лететь в родной Лос-Анджелес из-за COVID-19. В начале января бригадам скорых американского округа Лос-Анджелес сказали не забирать в больницы людей с низким шансом выжить. На фоне роста заболеваемости было решено преобразовать калифорнийский Диснейленд в крупнейший COVID-центр, где будут проводить массовую вакцинацию от коронавируса.

Persons: Калифорниец, Адитья Сингх, Сингх, Сингха Organizations: Chicago Tribune Locations: Чикаго, О'Хара, ЛосАнджелес, Калифорния, Диснейленд

☆ Sears is reportedly slashing life insurance policies for some of its 90,000 retirees as the retailer continues to scramble
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-01 | by ( Áine Cain | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insurance expert David Paige told Business Insider that, as a result of their age and pre-existing conditions, many retirees will not be able to replace their life insurance. AdvertisementSears survived liquidation, but the same can't be said for its retirees' life insurance coverage. Insurance expert David Paige told Business Insider that the news isn't good for retirees. Unlike health insurance, life insurance has no rule stipulating that insurers can't reject applicants for pre-existing conditions like illness. AdvertisementThis isn't the first rumble of trouble regarding life insurance coverage for Sears retirees.

Persons: Sears, David Paige, —, Paige, Eddie Lampert, Ron Olbrysh, Olbrysh didn't, Read, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Olbrysh, NARSE Organizations: National Association of Retired Sears Employees, CBS, Service, Sears, Chicago Tribune, Tribune

☆ International desserts: 50 famous desserts around the world
▼ + stars: | 2018-11-30 | by ( Jen Rose Smith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +41 min

Taste that rich filling for evidence of the Arab influence that infuses Sicilian cuisine: The candied citrus that often flavors the creamy interior remains beloved throughout the Middle East. In the 1990s, the cake became a menu star as a lava cake or molten chocolate cake. A soft, flaky dough is shaped into a plump half-moon that barely contains the sweet filling, then topped with a light blanket of powdered sugar. Variations on medovik differ widely, but the most popular takes incorporate one of two very Russian ingredients into the sweet filling. Sesame Balls, Jian Dui, ChinaShutterstockBite into the crisp shell of a deep-fried jian dui to discover a sweet filling within the golden, sesame-seed-studded exterior.

Persons: Hong, Austria Natasha Breen, it’s, United States Robert Lachman, Fannie, they’ve, Katharine Hepburn, “, don’t, ” Cannoli, Johanna Kindvall, Ruth Wakefield, Cornes, Brûlée, France David Carson, Louis, Dan Tats, eggy tarts, beignets, Maine’s, Bob Fila, you’re, Gulab Jamun, gulab, Eid, kashata, Kouign Amann, amann, Dominique Ansel, Brittany, kouign amann, kulfi, Pierre Hermé, Torte, daubing, ma’amoul, they’re, blini, United States Nathan Congleton, Pavlova, Aussies, Anna Pavlova, you’ll, Rigó, Rigó Jancsi, Princesse de Caraman, Saffron, Jian, Anita Chu, jian, Xue Hua Bing, Taipei’s, xue, bing, Sticky Rice, rong, treacle, ’, Tatin, you’ve, ”, Tim Krob, tim krob Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Times, Boston Cooking, Southern, Morocco –, Louis Post, Dispatch, TNS, Chicago Tribune, Gelato, Sudan –, New, NBC, Philadelphia, Taste Research, New Zealand, Kiwis, Midwestern, Le, Central America Locations: Africa, Asia, Italy, Portugal, South, Argentina, Peru, de leche, America, Vienna, Baklava, Turkey, Ottoman, Levant, Balkans, Caucasus, North Africa, Constantinople, Germany, Middle East, East, United States, Fannie Farmer’s, Sicily, Palermo, Sweden, fika, Singapore, pandan, States, Massachusetts, Boston, France, Southern United States, Gazelle, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Moroccan, Tetouan, St, Hong Kong, nata, Macau, Portland, Portland , Oregon, Torta, Hungary, Austro, Europe, Sarajevo, Budapest, Latin America, Spain, Mexico, Chocolat, Gelato, Bologna, India, Persia, York, East Africa, Kifli, Knafeh, Amman, Alexandria, Palestinian, Nablus, Brittany, SoHo, Breton, Kulfi, Mughal, Paris, Austria, Linz, Austrian, Tangier, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Medovik, Russia, borscht, New York, Eastern Europe, Philadelphia, Netherlands, Wageningen, Australia, New, New Zealand, Philippines, Manila, Mexico City, Qatayef, Rigó Jancsi, Belgium, Cream, Iran, Persian, Saffron, Tehran, Tehrangeles, China, Taiwan, Midwestern United States, Midwest, Mango, Thailand, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Treviso, Umbria, Ulaanbaatar, Tres, Central, United, Oakland

Sezonul de toamnă: 10 cele mai disputate întrebări de la etapa a doua de Ce?Unde?Când? Pentru a vă testa cunoștințele, echipa #diez a selectat 10 cele mai interesante întrebări de la a doua etapă. Operațiunea Păunul Albastru a fost un proiect britanic ce prevedea plasarea de arme nucleare în Câmpia-Germano-Poloneză, care urmau a fi detonate de un timer în caz de invaziune sovietică. Când documentul a fost declasificat însă publicul nu a luat în serios așa posibilitate. Răspuns: Deoarece documentul a fost făcut public la 1 aprilie#10.

Persons: -, iscusinţă, Gustav Klimt, Klimt, Adele Bloch, Bauer I Organizations: Chicago Tribune, Plângerii, Albă, NASA, Câmpia - Germano - Poloneză, Guinness, Moldovenesc Locations: Egiptul, Macedonia, britanic, Câmpia - Germano

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