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☆ Judge withdraws from Medicare drug price case after stock ownership is revealed
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, right, shakes hands with Judge Thomas Rose of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio after taking his oath of office, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. A federal judge on Friday withdrew from a case that could block Medicare from negotiating over drug prices, just hours after a watchdog group revealed his ownership of stock in two pharmaceutical companies that would be directly impacted by the new program. He also owns Moderna stock worth between $15,000 and $50,000, the filing shows. The suit asked the court to rule that for Medicare to negotiate drug prices would be unconstitutional. Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca and the drugmaker lobby PhRMA have all filed complaints in different districts courts.

Persons: Mike DeWine, Judge Thomas Rose, Judge Thomas M, Rose, Biden, George W, Bush, Johnson, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Davis, Davis Organizations: U.S, District Court Southern District of Ohio, Southern, Southern District of Ohio, Johnson, AstraZeneca, Republican, Moderna, U.S . Chamber of Commerce, Department of Health, Human Services, Centers, Medicare, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Court, Circuit Court Locations: Cedarville , Ohio, Southern District

☆ World’s Lowest Birthrate Sinks Further Despite Cash Payouts to Parents
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Dasl Yoon | Timothy W. Martin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Opinion | People Are More Generous Than You May Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Are human beings fundamentally good or fundamentally bad? Are people mostly generous, or are they mostly selfish? Over the centuries, many of our leading lights have taken the view that people are basically selfish. On average, the participants spent more than $6,400 of it to benefit others, including almost $1,700 on donations to charity. Sounds pretty generous to me.

Persons: Machiavelli, Gordon Tullock, Gene, Richard Dawkins, “, Ryan J, Dwyer, William J, Brady, Elizabeth W, Dunn, Chris Anderson Organizations: TED

☆ Biden says he's 'forever grateful' to forces in Afghanistan on two-year anniversary of exit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"We also remember the hundreds of service members from allied and partner countries who lost their lives during this 20-year war. The conflict, which spanned over four administrations, claimed the lives of nearly 2,500 U.S. service members and more than 100,000 Afghan troops, police personnel and civilians. In April 2021, Biden ordered the full withdrawal of approximately 3,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of that year. Taliban forces stand guard in front of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2021. Evacuees crowd the interior of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, carrying some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan August 15, 2021.

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☆ All That Glitters: A Fresh Look at the California Gold Rush
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( W. M. Akers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

FORTUNE’S FRENZY: A California Gold Rush Odyssey, by Eilene LyonHow do we remember the forty-niners? The hundreds of thousands of gold miners who flooded California, displaced Indigenous people, remade the landscape and laid the ground for statehood? Perhaps we picture a grizzled prospector panning for gold, broke and desperate, praying for the mother lode. Whatever we imagine, according to a new book by Eilene Lyon, the reality was much worse. “Fortune’s Frenzy” traces the path of Henry Jenkins, an Indiana farmer who left for California in 1851.

Persons: Eilene Lyon, Henry Jenkins, Jenkins, Lyon, “, Susannah, ”, merriment ” Organizations: California, Rush Locations: California, Indiana, New Orleans, Panama, San Francisco

☆ Biden admin proposes regulation to eliminate 'gun show loophole'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ken Dilanian | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Thursday that the move is a result of the bipartisan law passed by Congress last year. The "gun show loophole" has been cited for years as a major hole in the federal background check system, allowing a vast number of private sales without background checks. The ATF currently licenses about 80,000 brick-and-mortar gun dealers, but gun sales are increasingly taking place outside that system, free of background checks. Earlier this year, Biden signed an executive order designed to expand background checks. Biden also noted that the law closed the so-called boyfriend loophole by keeping guns away from unmarried dating partners convicted of abuse.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, General Merrick Garland, Biden, Garland, Thursday's, Barack Obama, Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin Organizations: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Biden, Congress, Safer, ATF, NBC News, Justice Department, Sandy Hook Elementary, Senate, Republicans Locations: Washington ,, WASHINGTON, Midland, Odessa , Texas, Newtown , Connecticut

☆ Joe Biden’s First Term and the ‘West Wing’ Fantasy of American Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Adam Tooze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Franklin Foer’s “The Last Politician,” an account of Biden’s first two years in office, is the first draft of an answer. The problem is that, from Biden’s bleak inauguration to the surprise result of the midterms, we know the story in advance. Unless, as he seems at times to be hinting, the scripted, typecast feel that his book exudes is the truth about the present administration. One of the more telling cameos in the book describes how the Oval Office has been physically rearranged to create the stage for Biden’s presidential storytelling. A giant portrait of Franklin Roosevelt now takes “pride of place” above the office hearth.

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2024 election promises to feature several major battlegrounds, but for sheer breadth of competitive contests, North Carolina next year will be hard to beat. Recent presidential contests in North Carolina have been close: In 2020, Donald Trump won North Carolina by about 74,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast. In other words, in 2024, North Carolina will be one of the centers of the political universe – important in part because it’s a uniquely competitive state. “North Carolina has proved to be a purple state, but not necessarily a swing state,” says Cooper, the political scientist. For the better part of two decades, Georgia, like North Carolina, had voted consistently Republican in key federal races – until 2020.

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☆ Energy Dept. Announces $12 Billion to Help Factories Convert to Electric Cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Coral Davenport | More About Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Energy Department announced on Thursday that it had made $2 billion in grants and $10 billion in loans available to auto companies to convert existing factories that build gas-powered cars and trucks into plants that produce hybrid and electric vehicles. The money, provided under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is aimed at maintaining jobs in communities that have been defined by the auto industry. It comes as President Biden is seeking the endorsement of the United Auto Workers union, which has expressed concern over recent decisions by carmakers to ramp up electric vehicle manufacturing, which requires fewer workers, and to locate new factories in states without unionized labor. As part of his climate agenda, Mr. Biden is combining federal investments with an aggressive new regulatory proposal to try to ensure that two-thirds of all new cars sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032, up from about 7 percent today. Transportation is responsible for about one-third of the greenhouse gases generated by the United States, pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

Persons: Biden, Biden’s Organizations: Energy Department, United Auto Workers union, Transportation Locations: United States

☆ North Korea Conducts Tactical Nuclear-Strike Drill Amid U.S.-South Korean Military Exercises
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Timothy W. Martin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Giuliani Is Liable for Defaming Georgia Election Workers, Judge Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Rudolph W. Giuliani was liable for defaming two Georgia election workers by repeatedly declaring that they had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020 election. A lawyer for Mr. Giuliani declined to comment. Judge Howell’s decision came a little more than a month after Mr. Giuliani conceded in two stipulations in the case that he had made false statements when he accused the election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, of manipulating ballots while working at the State Farm Arena for the Fulton County Board of Elections. Mr. Giuliani later sought to explain that his stipulations were solely meant to get past a dispute with Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss about discovery evidence in the case and move toward dismissing the allegations outright. But Judge Howell, complaining that Mr. Giuliani’s stipulations “hold more holes than Swiss cheese,” took the proactive step of declaring him liable for “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy and punitive damage claims.”

Persons: Rudolph W, Giuliani, Beryl A, Howell, Donald J, Howell’s, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Mr, Freeman, Moss, Judge Howell, ” Organizations: Court, Farm Arena, Fulton County Locations: Georgia, Atlanta, Federal, Washington, Fulton

A new accounting shows that at least 523 institutions were part of the sprawling network of boarding schools for Native American children. ‘War Against the Children’ The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives. “The government was not done with war, so the next phase involved war against the children,” said Mr. Sherman, 83, a former aerospace engineer. Now 76, his voice grows shaky when he recounts the punishments children received — and how children were turned into punishers. Library of Congress, Chronicling AmericaA precise accounting of how many children died at Native American boarding schools remains elusive.

☆ AI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web. 'We're in a different world.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Kali Hays | Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementAI is undermining the web's grand bargain, and a decades-old handshake agreement is the only thing standing in the way. Now, though, generative AI and large language models are changing the mission of web crawlers radically and rapidly. Without a supply of potential consumers, there's little incentive for content creators to let web crawlers continue to suck up free data online. It's also open to manipulation, especially given the voracious appetite for quality AI data. Because robots.txt is voluntary, web crawlers can also simply ignore the blocking instructions and siphon the information from a site anyway.

Persons: Microsoft's Bing, Joost de Valk, It's, de Valk, Nick Vincent, Valk, OpenAI, robots.txt, Jason Schultz, Catherine Stihler, Archie, NYU's Schultz, Steven Sinofsky, who's, Andreessen Horowitz, De Valk, Stihler Organizations: Big Tech, Google, Wordpress, NYU's Technology, Policy Clinic, AWS, Creative Commons, Creative, Microsoft, Nvidia, Star Wars, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Marvel, Disney, Atlantic, Meta Locations: CCBot, EleutherAI

☆ Prigozhin’s Death Leaves Putin Weaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Persons: Holman W, Jenkins, Mr, Gerald Loeb, William Smith Organizations: Street, William, William Smith Colleges, Northwestern University, University of Michigan Locations: New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Hobart

☆ Ex-CIA employee's conviction in big secrets leak is largely upheld
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Following the conviction, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan called the theft "one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history." In a 14-page decision, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan found "more than sufficient" evidence to support Schulte's espionage and hacking convictions. Prosecutors have said Schulte was motivated to leak materials out of spite over how he thought the CIA treated him prior to his November 2016 resignation. Prosecutors said they found the material in Schulte's Manhattan apartment, in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection, during the CIA leaks probe. The case is U.S. v. Schulte, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

Persons: George W, Bush, Joshua Schulte, Damian Williams, Jesse Furman, Schulte's, Aguilar, Furman, Schulte, Prosecutors, Williams, Jonathan Stempel, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: U.S . Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI, WikiLeaks, Prosecutors, Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention, Court, Southern District of, Thomson Locations: Langley , Virginia, U.S, Manhattan, Brooklyn's, Southern District, Southern District of New York, New York

☆ Why Racist Violence Keeps Happening - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Esau Mccaulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Anti-black racism and white supremacy are frequent topics of research in history, law, anthropology, economics, sociology and religion. Racism resides in the mind, the heart, twisted imaginations and long-festering resentments that surge in times of perceived loss of power. Addressing anti-Black violence would require that we take seriously the disease of racism that has infected our Republic since its founding. You can close all the doors and shut the windows, but the truth will seep in through vents and chimneys. Americans must let the truth into the house or it will suffocate itself on the toxic fumes of malice and false memories.

Persons: “, Du Bois, James Baldwin Locations: America, Republic

☆ 2 millennials who have bought a combined 22 properties with friends and family explain how they got into real estate without waiting on a spouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Two millennials who bought homes with friends say "houses before spouses" is the way to go. They bought a beach house, lake home, and ranch house with friends, which they use for vacations. Since then Modares has purchased eight properties with friends and family that have variously served as rental properties and primary residences. Modares and Douglass run a "buying with friends" minicourse to encourage clients to explore less-conventional real-estate partnerships. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe critical part of homebuying with friends, they said, is the operating agreement, which outlines the terms and conditions of a real-estate partnership.

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☆ Trump and the courts are on a 2024 election collision course
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Currently the front-runner for the GOP nomination, Trump has already pleaded not guilty in a case he’s slammed as 2024 election interference. Meadows wants to move his case to federal court, where he may have a better chance of having it dismissed. Biden has nothing to do with the trial date being set. (The fact that television coverage is not allowed in federal court could be important here). Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott are among the candidates who have equivocated over Trump’s legal quagmire – preferring to attack Democrats for “weaponizing” justice.

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☆ Ron DeSantis faces new leadership test as Hurricane Idalia barrels toward Florida
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —With the eyes of the country on Hurricane Idalia as it spins toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential ambitions are also under the spotlight as he puts his campaign on hold to manage the crisis at home. The Florida governor is also staving off a field of GOP contenders, who must now also balance sensitivities around Hurricane Idalia with their attempts to overcome DeSantis in the polls. DeSantis has also asserted that he could send his “Florida people” to the southern border to build a wall. “The governor of our state of Florida has created an environment ripe for this.”

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All of these were ways to find meaning and solace in three lives snuffed out in an all-too-familiar American story that began with an angry man with an AR-15. But coming on the 60th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington and his “I have a dream” speech, it was hard for some not to see a larger context as well in the lives lost in Saturday’s shooting in Jacksonville, Fla. His life was marked by “resilience and positivity, even in the face of adversity,” his brother, Quantavious Laguerre, wrote online. never had a record, never received a referral in school and never got into a fight,” Quantavious Laguerre wrote on a GoFundMe page. “He was a kindhearted and gentle soul who loved playing video games and supporting his family and friends.”Ms. Carr and Mr. Gallion both lived lives shaped by their church and family.

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☆ Giuliani’s Upper East Side Apartment Is For Sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Anna Kodé | More About Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Apartment 10W at 45 East 66th Street went up for sale for $6.5 million in July. The prewar apartment includes “an abundance of sunshine, high ceilings, and beautiful hardwood floors,” according to the listing. The seller, Rudolph W. Giuliani, could certainly use the cash. There “are a lot of bills that he’s not paying, from a $57,000 phone bill to significantly more,” Mr. Katz said at the hearing. “I think that this is very humbling for Mr. Giuliani.”

Persons: ”, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Adam Katz, “, Mr, he’s, Katz Organizations: Smartmatic, Fox News

☆ It should be easier now for student borrowers to apply for public service loan forgiveness. Here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Drazen Zigic | Istock | Getty ImagesNavigating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program has been famously difficult. Fortunately, student loan borrowers may find that the process is getting a little easier. watch nowOnce the process is complete, the form should automatically be delivered to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA). That's the student loan servicer that currently handles PSLF borrowers (previously FedLoan did so). Try to fill out this form at least once a year, Kantrowitz added, and keep records of your confirmed qualifying payments.

Persons: Drazen Zigic, Mark Kantrowitz, George W, Bush, you've, servicer, Kantrowitz Organizations: Istock, Getty, Public, U.S . Department of Education, Consumer Financial, Bureau, Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, Education Department Locations: Missouri

☆ Opinion | We Have Unfinished Business With These Three Killer Diseases
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Richard Conniff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

As with so many infectious diseases, lack of determination is the real stumbling block. The United States and other donor nations could argue that we already do more than our share, contributing billions annually to the fight against TB and other infectious diseases. The realities of modern travel mean that none of us is protected from a TB resurgence until we have protected people everywhere. That ought to serve as a reminder that an estimated 247 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide in 2021, and 619,000 people died. They have eliminated wild poliovirus from major cities and Taliban-dominated regions where it was still circulating just a few years ago.

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☆ Former Bush advisor Karl Rove slams Vivek Ramaswamy's first GOP debate performance as 'robotic' and 'over-the-top'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Karl Rove called out Vivek Ramaswamy over what he said was a "robotic" GOP debate performance. "Chris Christie got off one of the better lines of the night that he sounded like ChatGPT," he said. While Rove said Ramaswamy "on points had a good evening," he also said that the candidate "had a bad evening" when it came to substance. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has so far been unable to dethrone former President Donald Trump from the top of the GOP presidential perch, had "a good night" at the debate. This was important for him to have a good night."

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