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It could be the last major bill that passes this year before Republicans seize control of the House on Jan. 3. He has pressured GOP lawmakers to vote against it, forcing Democrats to supply most of the votes to pass it in the House. Capitol Hill leaders decided to attach the election bill and Ukraine aid to ease the process of passage, on the belief that the combined package has the votes to pass. For Republicans, one incentive to pass the bill now is that it funds the military at a higher level than the nondefense budget. “This is a strong outcome for Republicans,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, arguing that the GOP persuaded Democrats to back down on their long-standing demand for “parity” between the two pots of money.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to pass a one-week stopgap bill to temporarily avert a government shutdown as congressional leaders finish work on a full-year government funding package. Just nine House Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic caucus to vote for the measure, an indication of the narrow margins House Democrats will face in trying to pass the full-year funding bill. On Tuesday, Capitol Hill leaders reached agreement on a bipartisan framework for a massive government funding bill to address modern needs and prevent federal agencies from functioning on autopilot, as they have for months awaiting congressional action. To become law, the bill requires a simple majority in the House and at least 10 Republicans to break a filibuster in the Democratic-led Senate. His leadership team was also encouraging GOP members to vote the stopgap bill down this week.

The fate of the bill is also linked to an election overhaul measure to avoid another Jan. 6, which Senate leaders hope to attach to it. The two parties are about $26 billion apart on domestic spending, Shelby said, which isn’t much considering the omnibus package would likely be more than $1.5 trillion. Although they control both chambers, they still need at least 10 Senate GOP votes to defeat a filibuster on a funding bill. The government funding bill is likely the last train leaving the station in the current session of Congress, and a number of other provisions could ride along. Senators have struck a deal on a bill that cleared committee on a bipartisan vote of 14-1 in September.

☆ Sinema's exit from the Democratic Party could hand Manchin back some power over Biden's agenda
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent. It changes the balance of power in the Senate, though Sinema sought to downplay the extent. But Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's announcement early Friday that she is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent soured that victory, and again altered the balance of power. Though that group already included two independents — Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Angus King — it was signed-up Democrats, Sinema and Manchin, who caused the most trouble. "Becoming an independent won't change my work in the Senate; my service to Arizona remains the same," she said in an op-ed announcing her departure from the Democratic Party.

☆ 7 real-life heroes you may have never heard of from the Pearl Harbor attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Daniel Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Doris Miller, who fired a machine gun at attacking fighters. US NavyCook Third Class Doris Miller was stationed on the USS West Virginia battleship when the Japanese attacked. Awake at 6 a.m., Miller was collecting laundry when the attack was launched. "It wasn't hard," Miller later said. Miller was killed in 1943 while serving on the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay, which was sunk by a Japanese torpedo.

☆ The remarkable stories behind 5 iconic photos of the Pearl Harbor attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Daniel Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Japanese fighter plane drops what's believed to be the first bomb on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Another Japanese fighter plane can be seen in the upper right corner. "It had a torn photo in it," Shemanski told the Press-Enterprise in 2015. The USS Oklahoma was a Nevada-class battleship that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shemanski told the Press-Enterprise that the picture was torn up in about 20 pieces.

At first we thought he might be a lesbian and was afraid to come out, but he wouldn't tell us. He confided to his sister first and a year later he told us he was transgender", Aslan's mother Beatriz Moya says. The bill would allow people to change their gender on identification documents without the need for psychological or other medical appraisals from the age of 14. Anyone aged 14 to 16 would need the agreement of their parents or guardians to change their gender. No scientific evidence has emerged that proves that self-identification laws lead to a higher rate of people seeking medical treatment to alter their bodies.

☆ If DeSantis doesn't get his 2024 decision timing right, he risks peaking too soon like Scott Walker or wasting his big moment like Chris Christie
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

But as he faces a decision over whether to run for president in 2024, DeSantis shares far more similarities with two other ex-GOP frontrunners: Former Govs. Like DeSantis, Walker and Christie once seemed like inevitable frontrunners for the White House. Walker seized the moment, while Christie let his moment pass. "That's a huge difference in my opinion in terms of that moment," DuHaime said. "There was a moment for Christie in 2012 and there is a moment for Ron DeSantis in 2024.

Over recent years, NATO allies and Russia have scaled up military exercises in the region; Chinese and Russian warships conducted a joint exercise in the Bering Sea in September. Four Arctic experts say it would take the West at least 10 years to catch up with Russia's military in the region, if it chose to do so. "NATO is increasing its presence in the Arctic with more modern capabilities," NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters. Now NATO and Arctic allies are changing their stance. Sweden and Finland have begun investing in surveillance and deterrence capabilities and military hardware including jets so their air forces can fight alongside Arctic NATO allies.

☆ There are 2 types of jealousy. Here's the one that makes us 'miserable and nasty,' say career experts
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Liz Fosslien | Mollie Duffy West | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Luckily, with the right tools, you can decode what your jealousy is trying to tell you, and then turn your emotions into positive action. But benign envy motivates us to work harder, while malicious envy makes us miserable and nasty. Use these phrases to shift your thinking from malicious envy to benign envy: "I'm inspired by _____. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Illustration: Liz FosslienYou may not always be exactly where you want to be, but chances are you're not where you used to be, either. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Illustration: Liz Fosslien

☆ The US saw Russia moving to possibly test Putin's nuclear-powered 'doomsday' torpedo, but it looks like something went wrong: CNN
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russia may be preparing a test of its nuclear-powered Poseidon torpedo, CNN reported Thursday. The Poseidon torpedo was unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018. Russia's claims to use nuclear power to propel Poseidon potentially solve this in an unprecedented way — if it actually works. There are no yet signs that it does, however, and a US official told CNN it appears Russia is having trouble even trying to see if it does. Some are skeptical the Poseidon torpedo will ever work, believing it impossible to reliably fit a working nuclear reactor into something the size of a cruise missile.

☆ Divers find Challenger space shuttle wreckage off Florida coast
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Dan Whitcomb | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] The NASA logo hangs in the Mission Operations Control Center at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File PhotoNov 10 (Reuters) - Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded and broke apart shortly after its launch in 1986, NASA said on Thursday. The find marks the first time in 25 years that a piece of the Challenger has been located. The Challenger erupted into a ball of flame 73 seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986. It remains one of the worst disasters in the history of the U.S. space program.

REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Two in five U.S. voters say they are worried about threats of violence or voter intimidation at polling stations during the country's midterm elections, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. But officials in Arizona, a key battleground, have already asked the federal government to probe a case of possible voter intimidation, after people casting ballots were conspicuously filmed and followed. Kathy Boockvar, a former top election official for Pennsylvania, said fears of voter intimidation and violence run counter to American tradition. Among the registered voters polled by Reuters/Ipsos, 43% were concerned about threats of violence or voter intimidation while voting in person. About two-thirds of Republicans and one-third of Democrats think voter fraud is a widespread problem, the Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

☆ Chinese scientists say they're working on an anti-ship missile that can fly as high as an airliner and dive as deep as a submarine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Chinese scientists say they're working on a ultra-fast weapon that is both missile and torpedo. It will fly at supersonic speeds and use supercavitation to reach high underwater speeds, they say. But the Chinese weapon appears to be a missile that turns into a rocket-propelled torpedo once it hits the water. In the 1950s, the US Air Force and Navy examined boron-based jet fuel — "zip fuel" — for aircraft such as the proposed B-70 supersonic bomber. A visitor tours a torpedo room in a submarine that served the Chinese Navy in 1960s at a Navy museum in Qingdao in September 2012.

☆ A rout by the US in an air battle around Taiwan led Japan to adopt desperate tactics in World War II's final months
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Their goal was to destroy as much of Japan's air and naval strength before US troops landed on the Philippine island of Leyte. A diversionA Japanese heavy cruiser after being bombed by US Navy aircraft during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. But Japan's air and naval power were still major threats, and to ensure the Philippines could be liberated, they had to be degraded, if not eliminated. By 1944, Japanese military leaders recognized their situation and devised a plan to prepare for US invasions of Japanese-held territory. Japanese attempts to attack the carriers were fruitless, with 42 more Japanese planes shot down trying to conduct attack runs.

☆ 80 years after launching the first drone from an aircraft carrier, the US Navy is planning to fill its flattops with them
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Navy officials now say that they hope to have drone aircraft compose 60% of their carrier air wings. That distinction belongs to Naval Aircraft Factory's TDN-1, which on August 10, 1943 became the first US Navy drone to take off from an aircraft carrier. The first carrier droneA TDN-1 drone on its first piloted flight over Traverse City in Michigan on May 19, 1943. A TDN-1 drone aboard US Navy training carrier USS Sable off of Traverse City on August 10, 1943. On August 10, three TDN-1s made history when they took off from the training aircraft carrier USS Sable in Lake Michigan.

The Fed's relentless interest rate-raising campaign, and resulting worldwide surge in the dollar, is tightening global financial conditions at an alarming pace. Many feel this should put global financial leaders on the highest contagion alert. China's central bank has asked major state-owned banks to be prepared to sell dollars overseas to stem the yuan's descent. chartchartEINSTEIN & INSANITYThere are signs that the recent global market turmoil is opening eyes in Washington. Perhaps surprisingly then, the last time G7 central banks acted together in FX was in 2001, selling yen for dollars.

☆ Young Black activists are done waiting their turn for political office. They're taking on the 'John Lewis generation' of elder lawmakers who they say are out of touch.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Elvina Nawaguna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus are twice as old as the median Black person living in the US. The Congressional Black Caucus, a powerful voice for Black Americans, is significantly older than those it speaks for. Clay had replaced his father, William Lacy Clay Sr., a civil-rights icon and founding Congressional Black Caucus member who had represented the area since 1969. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe Congressional Black Caucus is reckoning with a leftward shift it's struggled to embrace. A spokesperson for the Congressional Black Caucus did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Factbox: Companies potentially affected by Italy's election
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A woman walks at a polling station during the snap election in Rome, Italy September 25, 2022. read moreHere is a list of companies that could be affected by the outcome of the election. The change of government and calls by Meloni to revisit Italy's national recovery plan could threaten Italy's ability to meet the commitments to which European Union post-pandemic funds are tied. Brothers of Italy welcomed CDP's decision to wait for the election before filing its non-binding bid for TIM's network. read moreBrothers of Italy has called for the new government to be allowed to make a final decision on ITA.

☆ How a remote lagoon and a 'secret weapon' allowed the US Navy to overwhelm Japanese forces during World War II
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In September 1944, the US Navy captured Ulithi Atoll and used it to support the Allied advance. US NavyService Squadron 10 oversaw the rearming, resupplying, and repairing of Navy ships and aircraft, and otherwise supported the war effort's logistical needs. In all, the unit had over 400 vessels, including repair ships, tankers, floating dry docks, crane ships, desalination ships, tugs, floating barracks, and floating workshops. US NavyBy the end of the war, Ulithi was the world's largest naval facility, hosting as many as 617 vessels. An airfield and a high school damaged by Typhoon Maysak on Falalop Island in Ulithi Atoll in December 2015.

☆ Curious why you didn't get that job? HR execs reveal ways they warn other employers not to hire train-wreck candidates.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-28 | by ( Ebony Flake | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some HR pros use coded language to warn counterparts about train-wreck job candidates. There are discreet signals human-resources pros flash to one another to warn about job candidates who look good on paper but are disasters in the workplace. This HR Morse code, often undetectable by job seekers, can determine whether someone lands a job or gets ghosted by a would-be employer. Loose lips can sink careersWhile employers are generally permitted to provide truthful information about former employees to prospective employers, Barreto advises clients to avoid discussing how former workers performed. Kelley warns that employers who make hiring decisions based on word of mouth risk missing out on strong candidates.

☆ Forul european de fotbal: Niciun eveniment sportiv desfășurat sub egida sa nu va avea loc în Belarus, în 2021
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Anunțul a fost făcut de Kevin Lamour, secretar general adjunct al UEFA, care a dezvăluit că deciziile au venit ca urmare a scandalului internațional provocat de deturnarea avionului care zbura de la Minsk la Vilnius.Astfel, campioana Șahtior Soligorsk, dar și BATE Borisov, Torpedo-BelAZ Jodino și Dinamo Brest, formațiile care vor reprezenta Belarusul în cupele europene vor fi nevoite să joace meciurile de pe teren propriu în altă țară.Cel mai probabil va avea de suferit și echipa națională a Belarusului, care în toamnă are de disputat trei meciuri pe teren propriu în calificările pentru Campionatul Mondial din 2022: cu Țara Galilor, Belgia și Cehia.În plus, mai este programat un meci amical cu Lituania, în noiembrie. În urmă cu o lună, oficialii lituanieni au făcut cerere către forul continental pentru ca meciurile tuturor loturilor naționale în Belarus să fie suspendate.

Persons: Kevin Lamour Organizations: UEFA, Șahtior Soligorsk, BATE Borisov, Torpedo, Dinamo Brest Locations: Minsk, Vilnius.Astfel, Belarusul, Belarusului, Țara Galilor, Belgia, Lituania, Belarus

☆ Leaked documents show White House blocked government website used to recruit election workers during the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Government emails and documents exclusively obtained by Insider reveal an internal fight within the Trump administration over whether to create the poll-worker recruitment website HelpAmericaVote.gov. The White House's Office of Management and Budget initially rejected the Election Assistance Commission's request to create the website. EAC officials immediately resubmitted their HelpAmericaVote.gov request. In a separate statement to Insider, the General Services Administration, which had overseen distribution of ".gov" website domains since 1997, confirmed it was no longer involved in approving or denying federal agencies' website requests. Hovland added his agency's request for the HelpAmericaVote.gov website contained all the information OMB required and that he was "surprised" approval was so difficult to obtain.

Doi minori cu vârsta de 15 ani, originari din raionul Strășeni, au fost reținuți de ofițerii secției investigare infracțiuni a Inspectoratului sectorul Centru din cadrul Direcției de Poliție a municipiului Chișinău, pentru comiterea unui furt din automobil. Prin acces liber tinerii, au pătruns în interiorul automobilului de model „ Crysler”, de unde din torpedo au sustras un portmoneu în care se aflau mijloace bănești. La fața locului bărbatul a comunicat că nu a încuiat unitatea de transport și a uitat să ia portmoneul în care se afla suma de bani. Bărbatul a estimat suma prejudiciului la 12 790 lei. Urmare a acțiunilor de investigație și urmărire penală întreprinse de polițiști, suspecții în comiterea infracțiunii au fost reținuți și escortați la inspectorat.

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