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Nearly 100 former national security officials signed a letter criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and called for closed-door Senate hearings to review any government information about her. In the letter obtained by NBC News, the officials urged the Senate to "carefully evaluate" whether Gabbard is "equipped" for the position, which requires Senate confirmation. "Following her trip to Syria, for example, Ms. Gabbard aligned herself with Russian and Syrian officials." The former officials also proposed closed-door hearings that would allow lawmakers to fully review any government files on Gabbard, a former Democratic House member from Hawaii. Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Gabbard on the Trump transition team slammed the letter, as well as the signers' credentials.

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Three climbers from the U.S. and Canada who went missing five days ago on New Zealand’s tallest mountain are presumed dead, authorities said. The two Americans and a Canadian climber were planning to summit Aoraki by using the Zurbriggen Ridge, but they never met their flight out Monday as planned, police said. Footprints and other evidence of where the group planned to traverse slopes beneath Zurbriggen Ridge have also been found, she said. “We believe they have taken a fall.”“This is certainly not the news we wanted to share today,” Walker said in the statement. "I would like to thank the teams who have given their all to this search," Walker said.

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Police investigate the shooting at Feather River Adventist School near Palermo, Calif., on Wednesday. He may have been looking at another school to target but ultimately chose the Feather River school. Litton had attended a Seventh-day Adventist school in the community of Paradise, also in Butte County, as a child. Laurie Trujillo, director of communication for the Northern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, said the school and the conference community are shocked. "Our church members here in the Northern California Conference continue to pray for all of those who have been affected by this tragedy."

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☆ 'Business as normal' in Korea despite martial law turmoil: AMCHAM Korea
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | 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 Email'Business as normal' in Korea despite martial law turmoil: AMCHAM KoreaJames Kim, AMCHAM Korea's President, says the international business community still has a lot of confidence in Korea, even though uncertainties remain over the political situation in the wake of the country's martial law chaos.

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Thompson's slaying also has spurred some major health companies, including UnitedHealthcare's parent company, to remove photos of executives and board members from their websites. And the health insurer Medica, which like UnitedHealthcare is based in Minnesota, closed its main campus in Minnetonka because of safety concerns for its employees. Centene, which announced the change to a virtual event Friday, is one of the largest Medicaid insurers and was scheduled to have its investor day at the New York Stock Exchange next Thursday. Centene in a statement said that "in the wake of the tragic loss of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson, Centene's Investor Day will now be hosted virtually." Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers," said Centene CEO Sarah London in a statement.

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☆ Trump has vowed to give green cards to college grads. Could that actually happen?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

At a recent career fair, he says he struggled to find companies willing to sponsor international students. It made him realize how precarious international students’ lives in the US can be. Illinois Institute of Technology President Raj Echambadi first came to the US as an international student 30 years ago. “There are no numerical limits on the admission of foreign students — who number about 1 million now — and foreign students are already a major profit center for schools large and small,” he wrote. Courtesy Metolo FoyetFoyet, the University of Florida geography student, says international students will be listening closely to what Trump says going forward.

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☆ Trump's nominee for IRS commissioner, former congressman Billy Long, receives mixed response from Washington, tax community
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former Representative Billy Long, a Republican from Missouri, speaks during a campaign event for former US President Donald Trump at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, US, on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Missouri congressman Billy Long to lead the IRS, which has triggered mixed reactions from Washington and the tax community. "Taxpayers and the wonderful employees of the IRS will love having Billy at the helm." Long worked as an auctioneer before serving six terms in the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2023. Trump's announcement signals plans to fire the current IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel before his term ends in 2027, which is permitted by law.

Persons: Billy Long, Donald Trump, Long, Trump, Billy, Daniel Werfel, Werfel, Joe Biden Organizations: Republican, Simpson College, Republicans, Finance, Taxpayers Locations: Missouri, Indianola , Iowa, Washington

☆ Bernie Sanders wants to put warning labels on ultra-processed foods — with RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement as an unlikely ally
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Mia De Graaf | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AdvertisementBernie Sanders is taking on ultra-processed food in his final weeks leading the Senate health panel. Sanders wants the US to catch up with other countries, which have cigarette-style warning labels for food. He is campaigning for legislation that would slap warning labels on the front of ultra-processed foods — a step other countries took years ago. Some argue mandatory warning labels would violate their right to free speech. Sanders hopes this discussion will harness the buzz around Kennedy's MAHA movement to make warning labels a policy priority.

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☆ How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Arthur Allen | Kff Health News | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“The litany of things that will start to topple is profound,” said James Hodge, a public health law expert at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. “One in 3,000 kids who gets measles is going to die. The U.S. has seen 16 measles outbreaks this year — 89% of cases are in unvaccinated people — and a whooping cough epidemic is the worst since 2012. “If you overturn the administrative state, the impact on public health will be long-term and serious,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. It would take years before enough children died before people said, ‘I guess measles is a bad thing,’” she said.

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☆ Social media star Brittany Broski says the real power of content creators comes from community, not followers
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Broski rose to fame in 2019 with a viral kombucha video and now has millions of followers. Social media star Brittany Broski says she has always leaned into building her community over worrying about her follower count. Related Video Ulta Beauty's CMO says the brand's most effective influencers are its store associates"I think the real power comes from community, the people that you can bring together." Broski, whose real name is Brittany Tomlinson, rose to fame in 2019 following a mega-viral moment in which she tasted kombucha for the first time. "I really like leaning into this sort of silly nature of, I'm going to make you wear a cape and a hat, and you're going to like it," she said.

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☆ I'm a dad in Australia. I'm worried about the way the social media ban will affect my 14-year-old.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Paul Chai | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He's not convinced that a social media ban on young teenagers is what Australian parents want. His older brother, who just turned 18, has been receiving his work shifts via social media chats for a few years. Paul ChaiAustralia's government has said the social media ban will apply to Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram, and X. Related stories"We know social media is doing social harm," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in the November media release. In June, just a few months before the social media ban was passed, Australia's eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, suggested that a ban on social media for kids may not be a cure-all.

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CNN —The National Basketball Association (NBA) is taking a first step back into the huge Chinese market with two preseason games set to take place in Macao next October, five years after the league was effectively blocked from China. “Bringing preseason games to Macao will showcase the excitement of the NBA to fans in one of the world’s emerging hubs for sports,” NBA deputy commissioner and COO Mark Tatum said in a press release. Deputy commissioner and COO Mark Tatum announces the NBA's preseason games in Macao. According to Reuters, 17 NBA teams played 28 games in China between 2004 and 2019. “We always love the opportunity to compete on the global stage and we are grateful to participate in the NBA China Games 2025,” said Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks.

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☆ Pennsylvania grandmother is found dead days after fall into sinkhole, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The body of a Pennsylvania woman believed to have fallen into a fresh sinkhole this week while searching for her cat has been found in a long-abandoned mine that the sinkhole exposed, state police said Friday. Elizabeth Pollard, 64, was found dead Friday in the mine in the southwestern Pennsylvania community of Marguerite shortly after 11:00 a.m., Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said. Crews still were working to recover her body early Friday afternoon, he said. “The family … kept telling us, ‘We really want to have the body back so we can lay her to rest,” Limani said. The sinkhole where Pollard was believed to have fallen is in an area with limestone bedrock and had almost no ground left, state police said.

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☆ Village People front man says ‘YMCA’ isn’t a gay anthem – and he’ll sue anyone who disagrees
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

is somehow a gay anthem,” Willis, who wrote the lyrics for the 1978 hit, said on Facebook on Monday. “As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life. It is not.”The song, from the band’s third studio album, “Cruisin,’” has spent years as an informal anthem of the LGBTQ community. Willis said that when writing the song he had no idea that the YMCA was “a hang out for gays.”He said: “I therefore wrote Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not.

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☆ Man leaps on polar bear to save wife from attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A man is recovering from serious injuries after leaping onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled by the animal, according to police in Canada’s Ontario province. The bear then attacked the male, causing serious but non-life-threatening injuries to his arm and legs,” the service added. While the man grappled with the animal, “a neighbour arrived with a firearm and shot the bear several times. At the time of the attack, “maybe this bear was a little hungrier than usual,” she added. “If you’re attacked by a polar bear, definitely do not play dead — that is a myth,” she added.

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☆ Trump’s pick for NASA chief: Jared Isaacman has close ties with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Isaacman, who has twice traveled to space on private missions and has close ties to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk but lacks experience in government or academia, is an unorthodox selection. If confirmed, Isaacman would be only the fourth of 15 NASA administrators to have actually traveled to space. Isaacman’s relationship with SpaceXIsaacman’s close ties with SpaceX and Musk are likely to raise questions about conflicts of interest. Trump, Musk and Isaacman’s visionDespite Isaacman’s close relationship with Musk, the two have adopted starkly different tones regarding politics. “I don’t need to have a public opinion on his politics because there is much more to the man and his companies,” Isaacman said of Musk in an October 11 post.

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More than two dozen transgender people and their allies staged a sit-in at a U.S. Capitol bathroom Thursday to protest a proposed policy that would prohibit the country’s first openly trans member of Congress from using the women’s restrooms in the building. More than two dozen transgender people and their allies staged a sit-in at a U.S. Capitol bathroom on Thursday. This is about safety for anyone, for women or otherwise.”Following the protest, Mace shared a video on social media addressing the demonstrators by calling them an anti-trans slur. Standing outside of what appeared to be a Capitol police station, she then read the protesters their Miranda rights using a megaphone. We didn’t start this fight, but we are together now.”McBride did not immediately return a request for comment about the protest.

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Vice President-elect JD Vance is expected to travel Friday to Fairview, North Carolina, to survey Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, a source familiar with the trip told NBC News. Vance is scheduled to meet with first responders and visit a home renovation project, this person added. He also will meet with the family of Tony Ray Garrison, a fire battalion chief who died while rescuing victims of a Helene-related mudslide in late September. Outside of meetings and events surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s transition efforts, the North Carolina visit will be Vance’s first trip since last month’s election. Vance surveyed Helene damage during an October campaign trip, touring storm-battered Damascus, Virginia.

Persons: JD Vance, Helene, Vance, Tony Ray Garrison, Donald Trump’s, Glenn Youngkin, ” Vance, Joe Biden's, “ Organizations: NBC News, Gov, Republican, Senate Locations: Fairview , North Carolina, North Carolina, Damascus, Virginia, Appalachia, Ohio, East Palestine

In a post early Thursday on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: "CONGRATULATIONS BITCOINERS!!! Cryptocurrency advocates are not pushing back on the idea that Trump deserves some credit for the latest price rally. Up only," wrote David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin Conference, in a post on X. "It’s impossible to express the magnitude of the shift we’re likely to see at an SEC run by Paul Atkins," wrote Jake Chervinsky, chief legal officer for financial technology group Variant. “We will have regulations, but from now on the rules will be written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry,” Trump said at the time.

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☆ Under-the-radar destinations worth visiting in Thailand
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Victoria Barauna | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —When it comes to holiday destinations, Thailand is one of the most popular countries in the world. Chiang Dao district, Chiang MaiA Buddhist shrine next to the entrance of the Chiang Dao caves complex, which stretches more than 10km and contains shrines, statues and Buddha images. The town of Chiang Dao itself is small but offers travelers an authentic, local Thai experience. The area’s most famous attraction is the Chiang Dao Cave complex (Tham Chiang Dao), which is made up of dozens of caverns, some of which are illuminated and decorated with Buddha statues. When it comes to temples, Wat Phumin is Nan’s most famous and has been around for more than 400 years.

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The central issue the justices are considering is whether Tennessee’s law discriminates on the basis of sex. If the court rules it doesn’t, then Tennessee’s law and similar restrictions in 25 other states would most likely stand. Vienna Cavazos, 18, said the court will have blood on its hands if it decides Tennessee's law doesn't discriminate based on sex. Yates said he wanted to attend oral arguments “because I support the trans community.”“This is f------ hate,” he said of Tennessee’s law. Nadine Seiler, 59, said she traveled to the Supreme Court from Maryland to show solidarity with trans people.

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☆ Trump's SEC pick and Bitcoin's $100K milestone are two big wins for the crypto community
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President-elect Donald Trump lived up to his self-appointed title of "crypto president" by picking a big supporter of digital assets to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission . Atkins has been a part of the Token Alliance, an advocacy group for crypto, since 2017. Atkins, if confirmed, is a stark contrast to current SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who already announced his intentions to step down in January. Howard Lutnick , Trump's pick for commerce secretary, found success beyond the financial services firm (Cantor Fitzgerald) and the brokerage (BGC Group) he runs. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Scott Bessent , Trump's Treasury pick, is also unsurprising.

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☆ A 'risk-averse' lawyer quit his job to write for TV. Now, he's adapted his own novel into a Hulu show.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementCharles Yu adapted his 2020 novel, "Interior Chinatown," into a Hulu series starring Jimmy O. Yang. "I didn't have to worry about where the mortgage payment was coming from, so I could just write when I got to write," Yu told Business Insider. Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu in episode four of "Interior Chinatown." Mike Taing/HuluBefore you got staffed on "Westworld," you had a pretty lengthy law career. "Interior Chinatown" is now streaming on Hulu.

Persons: Charles Yu, Jimmy O, Yang, Yu, Charles Yu's, Columbia Law School grad, Cromwell, Belkin, Willis Wu, Mike Taing, He's, we'd, Willis, Ronny Chieng, Hulu Organizations: University of California, Columbia Law School, Sullivan, Cromwell LLP, Business, United Talent Agency, HBO, Writers ', Disney, Hulu Locations: Berkeley, Hulu, LA, Orange County

☆ Healthcare leaders react to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's fatal shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementLeaders in the healthcare industry were shocked by the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sent shockwaves through the healthcare industry. Michael J. Alkire, President and CEO of Premier Inc."When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's life was tragically taken in Manhattan this morning, the country lost a leader committed to improving patient care," Alkire wrote in a LinkedIn post. Related storiesRob Davis, CEO of Merck & Co."I am saddened to hear about the tragic loss of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. My thoughts are with the Thompson family and all those who worked alongside him," Davis wrote in a LinkedIn post.

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☆ Jamie Foxx declares ‘I’m back’ in trailer for new Netflix special chronicling 2023 hospitalization
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Jamie Foxx is setting the record straight about a health crisis he experienced last year in his upcoming Netflix comedy special. A trailer for the special, titled “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” was released on Thursday, showcasing the Oscar-winning actor and comedian taking the stage in front of a cheering audience, saying, “I’m back!”“And I’m so glad to see you all here, I’m so glad to be here,” Foxx adds. Foxx will set the record straight about his health crisis “with humor and vulnerability,” according to an official synopsis for the special. Jamie Foxx in 'What Had Happened Was.' “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was” will be available to stream on Netflix on December 10.

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