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☆ Crafting an Aboriginal Reality Out of History, Myth, and the Spiritual Realm
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Natasha Frost | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Long before Alexis Wright was a towering figure in Australian letters, she took notes during community meetings in remote outback towns. Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand. The work was laborious, and it soothed her youthful fervor for the change that seemed all too slow to arrive. “It was good training, in a way,” she said in a recent interview at a public library close to the University of Melbourne, where until 2022 she held the role of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature. “They were teaching you to listen, and they were teaching you patience.”Wright, 73, is arguably the most important Aboriginal Australian — or simply Australian — writer alive today.

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☆ 'He's a non-entity': House Democrats no longer see Dean Phillips as a threat — just a joke
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When Rep. Dean Phillips first began making noise about launching a quixotic presidential campaign, the mood among House Democrats might have best been described as anger and disbelief. Since launching his campaign, Phillips has generally been absent from Capitol Hill, effectively cutting down Democrats' ranks by one seat. AdvertisementOn Wednesday evening, Sen. Tina Smith made light of her Minnesota colleague's recent struggles in a video message to the Congressional Dinner, an annual gathering of reporters and lawmakers. At first, Phillips's campaign seemed to constitute a real threat to Biden, even if he was unlikely to actually defeat him. In a statement for this story, a Phillips spokesperson chastised his Democratic colleagues who now speak ill of him.

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☆ Heavy snow, rain threaten travel chaos during China’s Lunar New Year
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —Heavy snow and rain is forecast to hit central and eastern China in the coming days, threatening travel plans for hundreds of millions of Chinese workers heading home for the Lunar New Year. However, Xu Jun, chief forecaster from the Central Meteorological Observatory, told CCTV the forecast snowfall won’t be as heavy or widespread as that experienced around the holiday season 16 years ago. “The rain and snow overlap with the peak period of Spring Festival travel. This has posed risks to safe (travel) and brought inconvenience to the transportation,” weather expert Wang Lijuan, from China Meteorological Administration, told CCTV. Xu, from the Central Meteorological Observatory, told CCTV freezing rain could affect many provinces over an area as wide as 43,000 square kilometers (16,600 square miles).

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☆ Frost Bank CEO on regional banks
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | 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 EmailFrost Bank CEO on regional banksPhil Green, Frost Bank chair and CEO, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss pressures on regional banks based on geography, commercial real estate, and more.

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☆ Walmart is selling a $248 dupe of a cozy West Elm swivel chair that costs $899
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart is selling a dupe of a pricey West Elm swivel chair. Walmart's Mira Velvet Swivel Chair costs $248, while West Elm's Cozy Swivel Chair costs as much as $899. AdvertisementOn Monday, Apartment Therapy's Morgan Pryor noted that the swivel chair sold at Walmart is a near-identical dupe to West Elm's Cozy Swivel Chair. The West Elm Cozy Swivel Chair. The West Elm Cozy Swivel Chair for $899.

Persons: Walmart's, Cozy, —, @guiliannagm, Therapy's Morgan Pryor, Stanley Organizations: Walmart, West, Service, Gardens, Shoppers, Twitter, Costco, Sam's Club Locations: Elm

☆ Cramer: Earnings take center stage this week, but don't sleep on the Fed and Treasury
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

It's ironic: We are at a moment where supply of money and demand for goods are intersecting. We have two markets: the Treasury market and the equity market, with the first more powerful than the second, even if we can't tell that in the scrum of earnings announcements. If the Fed signals more rate cuts, then we will be set up for higher stock prices if the companies deliver good earnings. The possibility of higher earnings so far has been controlled by supply and demand and the disinflation it is breeding, which may continue this week. Hence the power of their earnings to generate the mask of a higher market price-to-earnings ratio.

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☆ Opinion | The Ogre Gorging on America
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

If you can imagine the lobby bar of the Manchester Marriott as an Anglo-Saxon mead hall, I can explain how it felt to cover the New Hampshire primary. I will need the help of the late Seamus Heaney, who described what it was like to be quaffing in Heorot Hall while Grendel lurked and swooped through the frost-stiffened north. In his lyrical translation of “Beowulf,” Heaney described Grendel as “the terror-monger,” the “captain of evil” and “the dread of the land.”He wrote that the fiend “ruled in defiance of right” and was “malignant by nature, he never showed remorse.”

Persons: Seamus Heaney, Grendel lurked, ” Heaney, Grendel, ” Organizations: Manchester Marriott Locations: Hampshire, Heorot

Image Antoinette Lattouf said the Australian Broadcasting Corporation unlawfully dismissed her amid outside pressure. Credit... Peter MorrisThe ABC, publicly funded and with an obligation to represent all stripes of Australian life, is confronting the collision of two contentious issues. First, how do news outlets and their employees cover hot-button topics in a time of stark political divides and strong personal brands? And second, as its journalists allege, has Australia’s beleaguered public broadcaster been so weakened by underfunding and right-wing political attacks that it will not stand up for its journalists, especially people of color and women? “I was embarrassed that a group of 156 lawyers could laugh at how easy it was to manipulate the ABC,” Mr. Lyons said, according to multiple sources.

Persons: Antoinette Lattouf, Peter Morris, underfunding, John Lyons, Lyons, ABC “, Mr, David Anderson Organizations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, Melbourne Locations: Israel

☆ Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ lands but its fate is unclear due to power issue
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Rovers, science experiments, golf balls and other telltale signs of human exploration still sit on the lunar surface, and it’s only just beginning as more space agencies and countries plan trips to the moon. An artist's illustration depicts the SLIM lander's descent toward the lunar surface. JAXAJapan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer successfully landed on the lunar surface Friday but almost immediately encountered a critical issue. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency team said it believes the solar power issue is a result of the spacecraft facing the wrong direction. If the Moon Sniper can soak up some sunlight, the mission may continue.

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☆ ‘Frost quakes’ were felt around Chicago this week. Here’s what scientists do and don’t know about the seismic phenomenon
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

He’s also experienced some frost quakes, officially known as cryoseism, in the past. Kari MoisioWhere and how frost quakes occurThe phenomenon isn’t unique to the US Midwest; frost quakes have also been reported in New England, Canada and parts of Scandinavia. Frost quakes have been heard and felt in parts of Scandinavia, including Finland. Irene Stachon/ShutterstockUsing social media posts and climate data analysis, he mapped frost quakes in Ontario and neighboring regions in 2013 and 2014. Leung identified two frost quake clusters and the first known frost quakes in three Canadian provinces and seven US states, according to his thesis.

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☆ A Week After Deadly Riots, a Fragile Peace in Papua New Guinea
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Christopher Cottrell | Natasha Frost | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the edge of the prime minister’s compound, hundreds of protesters tugged at the gates and set a guard booth on fire. “We are not calling in the Australians,” Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea told a reporter visiting him in his office. “We can handle this ourselves.”Last week’s deadly unrest caught officials unaware and left Mr. Marape grappling with a fast-moving crisis. Papua New Guinea has a very large youth population, but few jobs to offer its young people, making economic hardship even more severe. Within hours, Port Moresby, the capital, was rocked by a level of violence it had not seen in decades.

Persons: James Marape Organizations: Bullets, ” Locations: Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby

Winter turned its icy glare on the U.S. this week, blanketing cities and states from east to west with snow and sending temperatures into an Arctic spiral. Heavy lake-effect snow shut down city hall, canceled school in several districts and led to travel bans across multiple suburbs. Blades of grass hardened into icicles as snow fell and temperatures dropped in Houston, Texas. Pedestrians braved the cold while walking in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and children sailed down snow drifts at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. And steam rising off of Lake Michigan in Chicago drew would-be photographers, bundled up and enjoying the view as winter settled in.

Persons: Winter, Frost, hunkered Organizations: Blades, U.S, Capitol Locations: Buffalo , New York, In Oregon, Lake Oswego, Portland, New Orleans, Houston , Texas, Chicago, Nashville, Kansas City , Missouri, Washington, Lake Michigan

The Iowa caucuses, which are the opening contest in the months-long Republican presidential primary process, begin at 8 p.m. EST. Trump's political strength heading into the Iowa caucuses, which come 426 days after he launched his 2024 campaign, tells a remarkable story of a Republican Party unwilling or unable to move on from him. On the eve of the caucuses, Trump predicted he would set a modern-day record for an Iowa Republican caucus with a margin-of-victory exceeding the nearly 13 percentage points that Bob Dole earned in 1988. Last month, some presidential campaigns were expecting close to 200,000 Republican voters to participate in the caucus. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in Des Moines, Iowa, and Adriana Gomez Licon in Council Bluffs, Iowa, contributed to this report.

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INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Marc Smiarowski hunched over to fight off the minus 18-degree Fahrenheit (minus 28 degrees Celsius) chill on Sunday, waiting for the doors to open for Donald Trump’s midday rally at a small college outside Des Moines. The major candidates spent Sunday in the state trying to shore up support and find Iowans who remain persuadable before the caucuses. He hopes Haley will do well in the caucuses, which he will attend despite the bitter cold. ___Fingerhut reported from Dubuque, Iowa, and Cooper reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Meg Kinnard in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.

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☆ Capping 5 Years of Speculation, Jacinda Ardern Gets Married
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Natasha Frost | More About Natasha Frost | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She steered New Zealand through volcanic eruptions, terrorist attacks and a pandemic, won her party a record-breaking majority and, at age 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government. On Saturday, they finally got their answer, when the couple released official wedding portraits to the news media. The ceremony, which took place at the Craggy Range vineyard, in New Zealand’s spectacular Hawke’s Bay, follows one canceled effort and more than five years of media speculation. In January 2019, a BBC interviewer made headlines when she pressed Ms. Ardern on whether she and Mr. Gayford would marry, or whether she would consider proposing to Mr. Gayford if he did not pop the question, prompting accusations of sexism. Since then similar questions have dogged Ms. Ardern.

Persons: Jacinda Ardern, Clarke Gayford, fiancé, Ardern, Gayford Organizations: New Locations: New Zealand, New

☆ A $174,000 salary isn't enough for members of Congress. In fact, they should probably give themselves a $100,000 raise.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

With a salary of $174,000 per year, members of Congress make more than 80% of American households. Stunted salary growth and limited perksThe salaries for members of Congress haven't budged in nearly 15 years. Historically, Democrats have been more willing to push for higher pay for members of Congress, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. For simplicity's sake, let's put the number at $274,000 — a $100,000 raise for members of Congress. Nor is jacking up lawmakers' salaries likely to be a panacea that solves every problem in a troubled institution.

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☆ How Cramer makes sense of the 'great bottom' of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

We've seen a stock rally that can't seem to quit. Probably when the supply of stock comes to market through IPOs and we get a weak bond auction that causes the bond market to hiccup. So now, you just got my best lesson about the great bottom of 2023. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. The New York Stock Exchange is seen during morning trading on December 01, 2023 in New York City.

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☆ Opinion: Taylor Swift has it. Elon Musk and George Santos don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Exit George SantosVideo Ad Feedback SE Cupp: Trump didn't pave the way for George Santos. In the week that Americans said goodbye to Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger and Sandra Day O’Connor, it was jarring that Santos occupied our minds. But as SE Cupp argued, in a more rational world, Santos would have resigned from Congress long ago. • Join us on Twitter and Facebook“Many Republicans just don’t care,” wrote Zelizer. Ron Edmonds/APAs a 12-year-old girl in 1981, Traci Lovitt was riveted by the appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman on the Supreme Court.

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☆ Photos show the real flying saucer funded by the US Army that never took off
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Elias Chavez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The VZ-9AV Avrocar was an attempt to build a stealthy aircraft that could fly at high speeds. The project was projected to cost $3.16 million in the 1950s, approximately $26 million today. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In 2007, the aircraft was acquired by the National Museum of the United States Air Force and has since been restored.

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☆ Fact Check: Palestinian official flag in 1939 did not show Star of David
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The image of the flag, which is half white and half blue with the Star of David in its centre, is spreading on Facebook (archived) with claims that it shows the official 1939 Palestinian flag. “The 1939 flag of Palestine shows that it was recognized as a Jewish entity even then,” one Facebook account wrote (archived). According to academics who spoke to Reuters, the flag seen in circulating images is not an official flag of historical Palestine. An example of a mandate-era official flag from 1946 can be seen on the British Imperial War Museums website. The official flag of mandate Palestine in 1939, during which Palestine was administered by Britain as a League of Nations Mandate, was a Union Jack.

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Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. Political Cartoons View All 1273 Images“No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence during Watergate. Two years later, Saigon fell to the communists, leaving a bitter taste among former U.S. allies who blamed Nixon, Kissinger and Congress for abandoning them. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” Kissinger tells Nixon. And so they did — the Quaker-born Nixon, the Jewish-born Kissinger, on the floor, Nixon in tears about the unfairness of his fate.

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☆ McDonald’s is bringing back iconic McNugget Buddies as limited-edition collectibles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

McDonald's will roll out the Kerwin Frost Box, a collab with New York-based artist Kerwin Frost, on December 11. But the star of the limited-time collab are the McNugget Buddies, an assortment of anthropomorphic McNuggets that haven't been a part of McDonald's mascot rotation in decades. The McNugget Buddies were first introduced in a 1988 Happy Meal, according to McDonald's. They made appearances in McDonald's Canada comics in the early 1993, were available as Sports Buddies in the UK, Japan and Singapore in 1992 and were last seen in 1996 for McNugget Buddies Halloween. The six new McNugget Buddies are based on Frost's experiences growing up in New York City, including one that is designed to look like him.

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☆ Opinion: What the Sports Illustrated AI debacle is telling us
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Opinion Will Leitch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

(Full disclosure: I briefly hosted a television show for Sports Illustrated a few years back that no one watched.) But the only difference between those sports sites using AI writers and other sports sites using AI writers is that people actually used to enjoy Sports Illustrated and Deadspin; Yahoo, for example, has been contracted with a company called “Automated Insights” to write AI sport stories for years. Another game I like to play in my downtime is NBA2K, the wildly popular NBA video game. But in the game, Aldridge is not real; he’s just some pixels synced to audio the real Aldridge recorded years ago. Sports writers insist, as we fight back against a creeping AI world, that we can always do our jobs better than a robot can.

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New Zealand’s new right-wing government has said it will repeal a law that would have gradually banned all cigarette sales in the country over the course of several decades. It would have gradually introduced changes in retail cigarette sales and licensing over several years until tobacco could eventually no longer be legally sold in New Zealand. By Jan. 1, 2027, the law would have made it illegal to sell tobacco products like cigarettes, to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, according to the government. The law would then have gradually raised the smoking age, year by year, until it covered the entire population. But last week, the new government said in published agreements between the three coalition partners that it would repeal the law, without explaining why.

Persons: Jacinda Ardern Locations: New Zealand

☆ In New Zealand’s Crackdown on Crime, What Part Can Maori Wardens Play?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Natasha Frost | More About Natasha Frost | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As tempers flared on a recent evening in a nightlife district in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, Joanne Paikea sensed an altercation — or even an arrest — brewing. “Bro, you know the cops are behind us,” she said, describing her efforts to soothe the surging tension between two groups. “So you’re either going to listen, or get arrested. The role of policing has recently come under the microscope in New Zealand, where lurid crime stories have dominated headlines. Shootings, gang tensions and scores of ram raids — when miscreants smash into stores with cars to loot them — have rattled the peaceful nation and became an important issue in last month’s election.

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