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☆ Elon Musk just reignited his feud with Jeff Bezos
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementElon Musk reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos in a X post on Thursday. Musk said Bezos told people that Trump would lose and they should sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock. Elon Musk has taken aim at Jeff Bezos once more, reigniting the war of words between the world's two richest people. In a X post on Thursday, Musk said that Bezos had told people to dump their shares in his companies because Donald Trump was bound to lose the presidential election. This message about Bezos is a way to give himself an excuse to legitimately do so, by saying that 'Bezos started it.'"

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☆ Susan Smith case: 2 boys drowned and a deception that gripped the nation: Why it is still intensely felt 30 years later
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

At the hearing, David Smith pointed to his ex-wife’s record as he told the parole board that 30 years is simply not enough time for Susan Smith to spend in prison. The father said he questioned whether he could go on after Susan Smith killed their sons. Susan Smith’s attorney, Tommy A. Thomas, did not respond to a request for comment before or after Wednesday’s parole hearing. The parole board really listens to that,” said Hayden Smith, who conducts research for the state’s department of corrections and has interviewed Susan Smith while incarcerated. The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services Public Information Director Anita Dantzler speaks during a news conference after a parole hearing for Susan Smith on Wednesday.

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☆ DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome as remedy in landmark antitrust case
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

On Wednesday, DOJ officials in the antitrust division filed their proposal for remedies in the case. The DOJ wants Judge Mehta to force Google to sell its Chrome browser. Officials from the Department of Justice, in a Wednesday filing, urged District Judge Amit Mehta to force Google to sell its Chrome browser. AdvertisementMehta will consider the DOJ's proposal before he makes a final ruling regarding remedies in this case. "But if Google is able to control the company that buys Chrome, the impact of selling the business would be minimal.

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☆ Opinion | In America, if Everything Is a Public Health Crisis, Nothing Is
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Jeneen Interlandi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The best and worst developments in public health have always come from moments of crisis. But many of the elixir victims were very young children, and agency officials wasted no time spinning the incident up into a national crisis. The public grew skeptical of the effort when the vaccines were linked to an extremely rare but serious side effect. “It was supposed to be this great triumph,” says Joshua Sharfstein, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of “The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide.” “But it ended up seeding a generation of vaccine hesitancy instead.” The takeaway from these and similar parables is clear, Dr. Sharfstein says: Crisis can be a powerful catalyst for shaping policy and improving society. The United States is in what can only be described as an epoch of crisis.

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☆ Asian chip stocks slump as Nvidia's slowing revenue growth worries investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Anniek Bao | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesAsian semiconductor-related stocks mostly slumped on Thursday after Nvidia reported an earnings forecast that failed to meet the lofty expectations of some investors. The sentiment has spilled over to Asia, with stocks tied to Nvidia suppliers as well as other chip companies mostly falling. Selloff in AsiaSemiconductor testing equipment supplier Advantest , which counts Nvidia among its clients, dropped as much as 5.6% on Thursday, the largest chip loser on Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp , which manufacturers Nvidia's high-performance graphics processing units, slipped as much as 1.5%. The company has been a key supplier to Nvidia and is building the world's largest manufacturing facility in Mexico for assembling Nvidia's GB200 superchips, a key component of its next-generation Blackwell family computing platform.

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☆ Five things to look out for in NFL Week 12: A Super Bowl hangover and a head coach brothers’ clash
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Andy Scholes | Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Here’s five things to know for Week 12:Your Super Bowl favorite: the Detroit LionsFor the first time ever, the Detroit Lions are the favorites to win the Super Bowl. The games are obviously very hard always and tough to win and just rewind a week ago at Houston, how hard that win was. Head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked if there is anything to the Super Bowl hangover and said: “I don’t think there is an answer about a journey or Super Bowl hangover. The 49ers suffered their fifth loss of the season in Week 11 at the hands of Geno Smith (right) and the Seattle Seahawks. Steelers QB Russell Wilson has previously won a Super Bowl during his time with the Seahawks and lost in another.

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The woman who accused Hegseth of assault broke into tears when asked about the matter by CNN reporters last week and declined to comment. The report, which identifies the accuser as “Jane Doe,” summarizes police interviews with Doe, Hegseth, conference attendees and a hotel employee, and includes descriptions of video footage from the hotel viewed by police. There, a conference attendee told police that Hegseth had touched her knee and invited her to come to his hotel room. Doe told police that her next memory after the argument was being in a hotel room with Hegseth. He said that he was “buzzed” that night after drinking beer and remembered going back to his hotel room with Doe.

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☆ Why American Women Are Staying Single, Swearing Off Marriage, Dating
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Now, unmarried women are no longer part of an edgy cultural vanguard — they're the official status quo. As of 2021, a record 52% of American women were either unmarried or separated, according to a report by Wells Fargo Economics. Single women also have single men outnumbered: A Census Bureau analysis of 2019 data found that for every 90 unmarried men in the US, there were 100 unmarried women. In a 2019 survey from the Pew Research Center, only 38% of single women reported looking for dates or a relationship, compared with 61% of single men. Even before 1970, it was far from unusual to see American women working for a living.

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☆ How AI regulation in California, Colorado and beyond could threaten U.S. tech dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed California's bill at the end of September but signed into law another bill which requires transparency in generative AI systems. "A lot of the privacy risks associated with AI can be tackled through a comprehensive data privacy regime," she said. The U.S. has historically approached data privacy with decentralized, state-by-state legislation, which is where AI regulation is currently headed. Regarding Colorado's successful AI bill, Maroney wrote on Facebook, "It is unfortunate that Connecticut chose not to join Colorado as a leader in this space. Even a model approach, if done wrong, could pose a major risk to the U.S. "Everybody's looking at California, especially when it comes to tech," Elgendy said.

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☆ Who is Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media tycoon facing a life sentence in a national security trial?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now 77, he's facing a life sentence in a national security trial in Hong Kong. I would just relay to him what happened in Hong Kong when he asked me," Lai said in court, per Reuters. This mass sentencing of Hong Kong's activists was also based on charges under Hong Kong's national security law. Related storiesThe imposition of the national security law marked the effective end of Hong Kong's political autonomy from China. "Above all else, the implementation rules have the potential to radically criminalize online speech in Hong Kong," Woodhams said.

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☆ More than half of non-retired US adults expect to rely on Social Security in retirement
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Social Security is by far one of the most popular government programs in the United States because it is critical for so many retirees’ financial security. More than half of non-retired US adults (53%) overall said they expect they will need to use Social Security to pay for necessary expenses, according to a new survey from Bankrate. Social Security benefits only replace a portion of Americans’ pre-retirement income. Indeed, only 31% of the non-retired adults surveyed said they are not planning to rely on Social Security benefits in retirement, with just 14% saying they will “not (be) at all” reliant on them. Their “normal retirement age” is 67 for the purposes of collecting Social Security benefits.

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Where to watch The Sex Lives of College Girls in the USAll seasons of The Sex Lives of College Girls are available to stream on Max in the US. Check price at MaxWhere to watch The Sex Lives of College Girls in CanadaCrave is the streaming home of The Sex Lives of College Girls in Canada. Where to watch The Sex Lives of College Girls in the UKSeasons 1 and 2 of The Sex Lives of College Girls are available to stream on ITVX in the UK. Where to watch The Sex Lives of College Girls in AustraliaThe Sex Lives of College Girls streams on Binge in Australia. Check price at ExpressVPNThe Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3 trailerMax dropped the official Season 3 trailer at the end of October.

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☆ I moved from the US to Rome for a slower pace of life, but after 7 years I've realized there are some Italian ways I'll never fully adjust to
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I moved to Italy in my 20s after a summer study abroad in Rome during my senior year of college. The most shocking cultural differences are the little things in daily lifeA big part of the "la dolce vita" concept is that life moves slower. Italy isn't as "online" as the US, so you're better off going to a place in person rather than trying to call or email. AdvertisementThe traditional Italian home, which is pretty tiny, isn't designed for people to spend a lot of time there. Seeing the way Italians live, though, has left me in awe of the typical American home, decorated to personal taste with private green space.

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☆ The DOJ wants Google to sell its Chrome browser. Here are the winners and losers if that happens.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Hugh Langley | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked the judge in its antitrust case against Google to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. "Advertisers would find competitors for their business, rather than needing to pay a dominant search engine." When you open Chrome and type something into the search bar at the top, these words are automatically transformed into a Google Search. And when there's an option for users, Google pays partners billions of dollars to set its search engine as the default. For instance, if most people click on the third result, Google's Search engine will likely adjust and rank that result higher in the future.

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☆ I'm 27 and paid $156 for a buzzy health test, fearing I was unknowingly sick. It was reassuring but I felt scammed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementThe idea that testing and tracking your health will help you live longer is buzzy right now. I feared I had problems like high cholesterol or blood sugar and paid $156 for a direct-to-consumer health test. The author eating pineapple to feel less dizzy after the blood tests. AdvertisementDirect-to-consumer tests might seem like a good idea, but in most cases, you'd be better off letting sleeping dogs lie. AdvertisementMore testing isn't necessarily betterPeople tend to think that tests can only do good, but unnecessary health testing can actually be harmful, Plüddemann said.

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☆ Triller is hiring TikTok's former head of product to run its video app, as its other CEO hire falls through
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementTriller hired former TikTok product head Sean Kim to run its video app and a few other subsidiaries. Former T-Mobile marketing exec Kevin McGurn will no longer join as CEO of all of Triller Group. Triller, a media and marketing company that once positioned itself as a competitor to TikTok, announced it's hiring former TikTok product head Sean Kim to serve as CEO of its video app. Starting on December 2, he will oversee the Triller app, a short-video platform that functions similarly to TikTok, Instagram reels, and YouTube shorts. The Triller Group CEO title was meant to go to former T-Mobile marketing executive Kevin McGurn, as announced by the company in October.

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Together with her friend Mariah Allen, she started a company called Controlled Chaos in 2021 to sell pre-worn festival outfits. Getting thriftyThough she went to music festivals like Warped Tour when she was in high school, Karasack started regularly going to festivals, especially electronic dance music festivals like Electric Forest, in 2018. So in 2021, she decided to make her own festival outfits, using the sewing skills her grandmother had taught her as a child. In 2024, she'll attend eight music festivals, and she typically goes to nine or 10 per year. "The music festival scene is the most open and welcoming scene that there is — it is so much fun," she says.

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☆ Mysterious exploding craters started turning up in Siberia 10 years ago. Scientists say more are likely.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tucked away in the frigid northern corner of Siberia are giant craters, some deep enough to fit a 15-story building. It's been fairly clear from the beginning that the craters are caused by some type of explosion deep underground. Researchers widely agreed that when these hydrates are damaged, they release methane gas, which is what's triggering the explosions in Siberia. AdvertisementMore exploding craters to comeSiberia will likely have more explosive craters in the coming years as global temperatures continue to warm. It's unclear exactly how much methane these explosions release, but in the grand scheme of climate change, they're a small matter.

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☆ First close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy may reveal impending supernova
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The star, known as WOH G64, is 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Van Loon has observed WOH G64 since the 1990s and studied it as a student at the European Southern Observatory. The Hubble Space Telescope soon revealed it had indeed been a red supergiant in the past, perhaps 20,000 years before the explosion. “If this is what we are seeing (WOH G64) doing, then a spectacle awaits us soon,” van Loon said. It’s nowhere near as bright or variable as WOH G64, van Loon said, and only experienced a brief hiccup compared with what WOH G64 is undergoing.

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☆ I've always known I don't want kids. It's made dating in my 30s difficult.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

She finds dating apps are irritating as a woman who doesn't want children. Dating in my 20s and 30s is differentAs I headed into my mid to late 20s, girlfriends started to settle down and have kids. But then they all started having children and moving into the suburbs. In my 20s, men weren't sure about kids anyway so dating was pretty straightforward and easy. I wish dating apps would let me filter people who do want kidsI also started using dating apps regularly.

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☆ The fate of MSNBC could be in Trump’s hands
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

It’s true that analysts expect the Trump administration to generally be less hostile to mergers. Yet it’s also true that some Republicans – including some tapped to join the Trump administration – have been described as “Khanservatives” because they’ve called for tougher, not weaker, antitrust scrutiny. Earlier this year, Gaetz told NOTUS that the FCC chair’s work “inspired me” and he expressed hope she stays in power for a Trump administration. As Gaetz fights to survive a tough nomination process to be attorney general, Comcast dropped a bombshell in the media industry by spinning off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen and other networks. “It’s hard not to look at the spinoff of CNBC and MSNBC as potentially a response to the new administration,” said Petro.

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☆ Ukraine says Russia just became the first country to use an ICBM in war, but the West isn't so sure
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementUkraine's military said Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at the country Thursday. Ukraine says Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at the country early on Thursday. The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched the ICBM at the centrally located city of Dnipro from its southeastern Astrakhan region, several hundred miles away. Related Video Russia flaunts intercontinental ballistic missile in new videoSome Western officials are pushing back on the Ukrainian claims, asserting that Russia launched a ballistic missile but not an ICBM. pic.twitter.com/DIwGVLQPlo — Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) November 21, 2024Western officials are challenging the Ukrainian ICBM claims, telling multiple outlets that Russia launched a ballistic missile but not an ICBM.

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☆ Trump team maps out Latin America strategy as part of mass deportation plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Priscilla Alvarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Deportation often hinges on diplomacy – and has been a steep challenge for the US when dealing with countries where there are frosty relations. Taken together, it’s a return to a hardline approach meant to get countries receiving deportees to comply and attempt to curb migration. But sources close to and involved in discussions argue they’ve identified the incentives and pressure points to have countries cooperate. The executive actions and reviews underway by the Trump team include the return of the program informally known as “remain in Mexico,” which requires migrants to stay in Mexico during their immigration proceedings in the US. “A second-term Trump administration will expand ‘burden-sharing’ deals with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador that cut off pathways to the US for asylum-seekers.

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☆ DOGE wants to trim a $500 billion list of federal 'zombie' programs that includes veterans' healthcare, Pell grants, and NASA
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Andy Kiersz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal detailing their vision for cutting government costs. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are eyeing recommendations to trim a list of government programs that include veterans' healthcare, childcare grants, and NASA. The programs' funding authorizations have lapsed because they were established or renewed by legislation authorizing Congress to allocate funds for a set number of years. Advertisement"If the spending isn't authorized, then we shouldn't be spending it," Ramaswamy wrote on X on Thursday. GOP Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers introduced legislation in 2016 — the USA Act — which would sunset what she called "zombie government spending programs" in three years and establish a commission to review all mandatory spending programs.

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☆ It looks like Donald Trump will get to fly on his cut-price Air Force One after all
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementDonald Trump renegotiated a deal with Boeing for a new Air Force One in his first term as president. Following years of delays, billions of dollars, and his return to the presidency, Donald Trump is set to fly on the new Air Force One after all. In 2015, the Air Force again chose Boeing to build two new planes, this time based on the larger 747-8. The VC-25B project is known as the "Next Air Force One." Courtesy of the Air ForceWhile the government is paying $3.9 billion for the new jets, Boeing has suffered from the Next Air Force One.

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