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☆ Gen Alpha won't know a world without social media and AI. Here are 3 tips for parents raising kids in a digital world.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Kristina Puga | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGeneration Alpha — the kids born between 2010 and 2024 — is the first not to know a world without AI or social media. Meanwhile, social media companies, like TikTok, have been in the hot seat regarding their negative effects on youth — from mental health to sexual exploitation. "They're learning who they are, and how to explore, and how to move out into the world," Galinsky said. Galinsky said social media is not all bad, but some parts can be difficult for young people. Set up social media rules with your childrenGalinsky said parents should let children get involved in developing a plan for their social media use.

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☆ Dollar General is taking a key strategy from Costco as it aims to lower costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dollar General is sharply reducing the selection of products it sells in order to cut costs. The discounter previously stocked about 12,000 unique items, referenced by SKUs. AdvertisementSome Dollar General shoppers may see their favorite items disappearing from shelves as the discount retailer looks to control inventory costs. The move inches Dollar General closer to Costco's time-tested strategy for finding savings through simplicity — the wholesale club famously keeps its SKU count to around 4,000 in its warehouses. Last summer, Dollar General took a $95 million inventory write-down as it cleaned those stores up.

Persons: SKUs, —, Todd Vasos, there's, Neil Saunders, Vasos, didn't, Gina Goetter Organizations: Costco, Service, Walmart, Aldi, Hasbro

☆ Don't trust Trump's 'impossible' appeal bond claims, attorney general tells judges
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Trump "at a minimum" should have let the courts hold those properties while he appealed, a lawyer for Attorney General Letitia James wrote. The attorney, Dennis Fan, argued that Trump had not provided any evidence this week to support his claim that it was "impossible" to obtain an appeal bond using his real estate holdings as collateral. "Defendants supply no documentary evidence that demonstrates precisely what real property they offered" to potential insurers, wrote Fan, in the filing to Manhattan appeals court judges. The office made these points as part of a broader argument that Trump hasn't really exhausted all his options to get a bond that would stop the massive fraud judgment from coming due. Unless a court intervenes, James could start collecting on the judgment — by seizing Trump's assets — as soon as next week.

Persons: Donald Trump, Letitia James, Trump, Dennis Fan, James Organizations: U.S, Trump Organization, New Locations: Manhattan, New York City, U.S, New York

☆ SCOTUS airs grievances about the media during oral arguments on social media censorship case
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

During oral arguments, justices asked questions about what constitutes coercion and in what cases the government can intervene with suggestions for the conduct of social media companies — and also showed off some of their media knowledge. AdvertisementMurthy v. Missouri is one of several cases the high court will hear about social media and the First Amendment this year. However, Roberts agreed with the pair and pointed out that government agencies do not have a "monolithic" point of view on moderation of social media content. An injunction previously handed down by the Fifth Circuit of Appeals on the same case barred a wide-ranging group of government officials from contacting social media companies. However, it is unlikely that the Supreme Court will uphold it, Vox reported.

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☆ U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A smart phone is displaying Facebook with the Meta icon visible in the background in this photo illustration. The paper quoted a spokesman for Meta as saying in a statement: "The sale of illicit drugs is against our policies and we work to find and remove this content from our services". "Meta proactively cooperates with law enforcement authorities to help combat the sale and distribution of illicit drugs," he added. The prosecutors' office and a spokeswoman for the FDA declined to comment to WSJ. Meta, the FDA and the Virginia Attorney General's office did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.

Persons: Nick Clegg, Meta Organizations: U.S, Wall Street, Drug Administration, Meta, FDA, Virginia Attorney, U.S . State Department, United Nations Office, Drugs Locations: Brussels, Belgium, Virginia

☆ Dollar General forecasts upbeat 2024 sales on steady demand, shares up
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Dollar General forecast annual sales above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, banking on more inflation-affected customers buying its cheaper groceries and essentials and sending its shares surging more than 6% premarket. With consumers preferring to cook more meals at home amid higher prices and borrowing costs, Dollar General has seen more shoppers visiting its outlets to browse for lower-margin, needs-based goods, over pricier general merchandise. The retailer also posted holiday-quarter net sales of $9.86 billion for the fourth quarter, above analysts' average estimate of $9.78 billion. However, like rival Dollar Tree , Dollar General also projected annual profit below estimates, underscoring margin pressures from higher costs linked to its supply chain, labor and raw materials. It expects 2024 profit between $6.80 and $7.55 per share, compared with an estimate of $7.55 per share.

Persons: Todd Vasos Organizations: Dollar, Walmart

☆ Dollar General is taking checkout back out of your hands because of theft
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dollar General is pulling self-checkout options out of 300 stores. The dollar store is also getting employees involved again at thousands more. AdvertisementRival dollar store chain Dollar Tree said Wednesday that it would close 1,000 stores under its Family Dollar brand, citing theft as one of the factors it considered when deciding which stores to close. Since then, Dollar General has used AI to evaluate its self-checkouts, he said. AdvertisementDo you work at Dollar General, Dollar Tree, or Family Dollar and have a story idea to share?

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☆ Energy, materials lead the way — plus, what we want to hear from DuPont and Estee Lauder
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Leading the way were the energy and materials sectors while the technology and health-care groups lagged. Cyclical sectors like energy and materials have been strong performers over the past month or so, amid a broadening market rally . As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ Trump wins rare court victory as Georgia judge dismisses 3 criminal counts against him
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump got a rare bit of good news on Wednesday as the judge overseeing his criminal case in Georgia dismissed three of the counts against him. And the judge did not dismiss the vast majority of the counts in the indictment, dismissing six out of 41 counts overall. So far, 10 criminal counts against Trump remain. Trump himself pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes that would flip the election results in his favor. He wrote that prosecutors didn't sufficiently explain how public officials would have violated their oaths of office if they allowed Trump a victory.

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☆ Dollar General's brand is showing some cracks and may be a warning sign ahead of earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Christina Cheddar Berk | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

In collecting this data, the firm saw a deterioration in the Dollar General brand last year. As of Monday's close, Dollar General's stock is up more than 57% from a 52-week low of $101.09 reached in mid-October. Their research found that consumers felt the cleanliness of Dollar General's stores, a top five driver of satisfaction, lagged key peers Dollar Tree and Family Dollar, and fell 2% further in February. Until November, shoppers rated Family Dollar and Dollar General's product offerings more or less on a par with each other. In addition to Dollar General's own challenges, all dollar stores are likely being hurt by weaker spending among low income consumers.

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☆ Trump tried to move assets to Florida, NY officials complain in fraud-judgment filing
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But officials say he recently tried to change the addresses for major assets from NY to Florida. AdvertisementDonald Trump tried — but failed — to switch the addresses of key assets from Trump Tower in New York to Florida, officials with the state attorney general's office said in their latest civil fraud case filing. Trump attempted to switch the Trump Tower addresses of several key assets to new addreses in Florida, state officials allege. AdvertisementFinally, Trump's lawyers claimed the "proper address" for Trump Tower in Chicago — another defendant in the fraud case — is Trump's Jupiter, Florida golf course, rather than Trump Tower in New York. In his final judgment, dated February 22, the judge uses the Manhattan Trump Tower address for all six of these defendants — not the Florida addresses Trump claimed.

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☆ He prosecuted child sex predators. Now, he’s going after Meta for allegedly enabling them
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Meta, along with other major social media companies, faces growing scrutiny over the safety of young users on its platforms. But of the several lawsuits filed against Meta over child safety in recent years, none have focused as pointedly as Torrez’s case on alleged child sexual exploitation. In some cases, Torrez said he volunteered to take child abuse cases and to visit safe houses to conduct interviews with child victims. The New Mexico Attorney General's office alleges it found in an investigation of Facebook and Instagram accounts promoting sexualized images of minors. Meta also says it has removed hundreds of thousands of accounts, groups and devices for violating its child safety policies.

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☆ Donald Trump posts $92 million bond just 3 days before he'd be forced to fork the actual cash over to E. Jean Carroll
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump has posted a bond that will stop E. Jean Carroll from being able to collect $83.3 million from a defamation judgment against him. Trump agreed to the terms of the bond with the Federal Insurance Co. on Tuesday, according to documents filed in court Friday. Trump would have shopped around for the lowest premium, and there may have been more than one carrier competing for his business, Pedersen said. Mandatory costs and interest raise the bond by a standardized 111% above the original judgment in federal cases, Pedersen said. Trump has already put the $5 million in damages he owes in that case into a court-controlled account as he pursues appeals.

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☆ Inside a prison healthcare company's ownership shell game
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Dakin Campbell | Nicole Einbinder | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has criticized Corizon successor company YesCare for its opaque corporate structure. Yet Geneva's track record is scant; it only incorporated in November 2021, six months before it got the YesCare contract. AdvertisementOnly one agency with a YesCare contract told BI it was aware of the extent to which YesCare had outsourced its operations. AdvertisementAn October 2022 YesCare bid document, submitted to the Alabama Department of Corrections, says PharmaCorr will dispense all prescription medications for YesCare. AdvertisementThe agreement between Geneva and prison healthcare provider YesCare requires YesCare to pay at least $500,000 a month to Geneva.

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☆ Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg told a blatant lie about a blatant lie. Here's how NYC prosecutors got him for perjury.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

On Monday in Manhattan, Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two state felony counts of perjury. Both lies involved the size of Donald Trump's Trump Tower penthouse on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. AdvertisementAllen Weisselberg had little choice but to plead guilty to perjury after Manhattan prosecutors caught him blatantly lying about lying, as they revealed in court Monday. Weisselberg was at that sit-down with Forbes, assistant Manhattan district attorney Gary Fishman said Monday, during the ex-CFO's plea hearing. Engoron and state officials have contended that the square footage was intentionally inflated by Trump and Weisselberg as far back as 2012.

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☆ Think your interest costs are high? Donald Trump now owes $1M more in interest on his NY fraud trial judgment.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Under last month's fraud trial judgment, Trump's debt to NY rises by $111,984 in interest per day. Under the final fraud trial judgment, the GOP frontrunner's debt to New York state rises daily by $111,984 in interest. That means every 9 days, Trump owes the state another $1 million in interest. On that same day, the total Trump owes New York will tick up by another $1 million, to $456 million. Former Trump Organization CEO Allen Weisselberg owes $1 million; interest is adding $272 to his total every day.

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☆ E. Jean Carroll's lawyers demand Trump ponies up $83.3 million verdict and say he needs to prove he has the money
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

E. Jean Carroll's lawyers demanded Trump pay the $83.3 million defamation verdict against him. Carroll's lawyers say he needs to prove he has the money to pay. After that case, Trump put the funds in a court-controlled account while he appealed the case. Advertisement"In support of his position, he fails to cite a single controlling (or even persuasive) case," Kaplan wrote. "He provides no demonstration that any of these assets are readily collectible and will remain readily collectible throughout the pendency of an appeal," Kaplan wrote.

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☆ Trump wants a 78% discount on his bond while he appeals the massive $454 million judgment against him
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump offered to post a $100 million bond as he appeals his fraud trial loss. The judgment against him, the Trump Organization, and other executives stands at $454 million. That would be a 78% discount on the $454 million judgment Trump, his company, and others owe after his court loss. Trump could put up the money in cash, or he could obtain a bond through a licensed bond company and offer some of his own assets as collateral. A recent Bloomberg analysis found that Trump had about $600 million in combined liquid assets, which includes cash and stocks.

Persons: Donald Trump, —, he's, general's, Trump, Arthur Engoron, Engoron, Letitia James, Jean Carroll, Mark Zauderer, New York litigator, Dorf, Zauderer Organizations: Trump Organization, Service, New, Trump, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Truth Locations: New York, Manhattan

☆ Ukraine hit a company of Russian troops with HIMARS while they waited around for a visiting general
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Russian battalion congregated at a training area near the village of Trudovske in occupied eastern Ukraine when the two missiles struck, The BBC reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the incident told the outlet that the soldiers were gathered to await the arrival of a senior commander. Ukraine has yet to comment on the strike, but the BBC reported a US-made HIMARS launch system was used to fire the two missiles. In August, Ukraine said it launched a HIMARS attack on five Russian units gathered on a beach that resulted in 200 casualties and destroyed equipment. Some accounts at the time suggested the troops had been gathered to await a general's pep talk before a dangerous mission.

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☆ The chaotic history of how we elect presidential candidates
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It is worth remembering that there are no constitutional provisions regarding presidential primaries and very few details about the election of the president itself. AdvertisementWhat were early presidential elections like? In the wake of the violence, Democrats launched a massive overhaul of their presidential primary process. According to some officials who worked on the commission, their changes had the unintended effect of popularizing state presidential primary elections. In short, party officials’ hands are initially tied, even if they want to cast the deciding votes.

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☆ Thailand's Paroled Former PM Thaksin Meets Prosecutor on Royal Insult Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's newly paroled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has met with a prosecutor over a royal insult complaint stemming from a 2015 interview, the attorney general's office said on Monday. The meeting relates to a lese majeste case brought against Thaksin in 2016, in which the attorney general's office is now considering new evidence. Violations of the law are punishable by up to 15 years in jail.

Persons: Thaksin Shinawatra, Thaksin Locations: BANGKOK

☆ 'Social' media is both the cause of — and solution to — our loneliness problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The report listed technology as a driver behind our isolation, fear of missing out, conflict, and reduced social interaction. Other drivers of loneliness included social policies, cultural norms, the political environment, and macroeconomic factors. In fact, most research demonstrates that loneliness increases with increased use of technology, especially social media sites." "The response is incredible," Kyle Rand, CEO and cofounder of Rendever, told BI. He added: "The trend to solve loneliness through more technology, when technology has not yet reduced the problem, seems to be going in the wrong direction."

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☆ What about Don Jr.? What about Eric? Why Judge Engoron gave them lighter penalties than dad.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump are executive vice presidents at the Trump Organization. AdvertisementSince January of 2017, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump have run their father's real-estate empire as "co-CEOs," as lawyers for New York's attorney general like to call it. "I was focused on pouring concrete," Eric Trump had said in a pre-trial deposition, during which he pleaded the Fifth some 500 times. Like his little brother, Don Trump, Jr., was guarded when called to the witness stand. In the litigation with the New York attorney general's office, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. have been primarily represented by Clifford S. Robert.

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☆ A California man was found with 1 million rounds of ammo and 248 illegally owned guns in his house, state authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

California authorities found a man illegally owning 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo. The guns included 11 machine guns, 133 handguns, and 60 assault rifles, authorities said. AdvertisementA man in Richmond, California, was arrested last month with a cache of 248 illegally owned guns and 1 million rounds of ammo in his home, the state attorney general said on Thursday. The man, who was not named, is "alleged to be legally barred from owning weapons," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. "In our efforts to retrieve guns from a prohibited individual, we found hundreds of allegedly illegal weapons and approximately one million rounds of ammunition," Bonta said.

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☆ Ivanka Trump's spotty memory called 'suspect' by judge in fraud trial verdict, even though she was dismissed from the case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Justice Arthur Engoron devotes more than a page of his 92-page fraud verdict to Ivanka Trump. In his verdict, Engoron refers to Ivanka Trump's "inconsistent recall," calling it "suspect." AdvertisementAs the Trump fraud trial's only former defendant, Ivanka Trump is long gone from the case. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were together worth an estimated $1 billion during the Trump administration, according to their financial disclosures. AdvertisementA lawyer for Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

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