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☆ U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Escapes the Abyss—But Still Has Issues
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HARRISON, N.J.—At halftime of Sunday’s match against Germany, the U.S. women’s soccer team was staring into the abyss. Down 1-0 at Red Bull Arena, the Americans were on the brink of a loss that would have given them a four-game losing streak—the first in the team’s 37-year existence. Two young stars—Sophia Smith and Mal Pugh—scored goals two minutes apart early in the second half to rescue a 2-1 victory over the Germans in the U.S.’s final game of 2022.

☆ Elon Musk: A lot of people 'don't want to work' once they become wealthy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Bethany Biron | Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk made a surprise appearance at the Baron Investment Conference in NYC on Friday. "A lot of people once they become independently wealthy, they just can't bring themselves to work," the billionaire said. His remarks come on the same day that Twitter announced it is laying off up to 50% of its staff. "So as a company has prosperity and then people become wealthy, then for a lot of people once they become independently wealthy they just can't bring themselves to work or they just don't want to work," Musk said, speaking to a crowd of mainly affluent clients at the annual Baron Investment Conference. "I remember a good friend of mine saying starting a company is like eating glass, and staring into the abyss," Musk said.

☆ Italy's first female prime minister leads the most far-right government since the fascist era of Mussolini
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Giorgia Meloni has become Italy's first female Prime Minister. Her new government is set to be the most right-wing since the era of Benito Mussolini. She's previously said, "No to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration." Her new government has already shown signs of political tensions, with the leader of the Forza party, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, having left a note in public view at the opening of Parliament calling the new prime minister as overbearing, domineering, arrogant, and offensive, according to Politico. League leader Matteo Salvini, Meloni's other far-right ally, has also long been seen as a Putin admirer, reported the BBC.

☆ Anti-Xi protest spreads in China and worldwide as Chinese leader begins third term
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Obtained by CNNCNN spoke with two Chinese citizens who scribbled protest slogans in bathroom stalls and half a dozen overseas Chinese students who put up anti-Xi posters on their campuses. Chen had tried to share the Sitong Bridge protest on WeChat, China’s super app, but it kept getting censored. But as the widespread anti-Xi posters have shown, the rising nationalistic sentiment is by no means representative of all Chinese students overseas. In the day following the protest in Beijing, Jolie saw on Instagram an outpouring of photos showing protest posters from all over the world. But the extensive censorship around the Sitong Bridge protest also betrays its paranoia.

☆ The US is at a 'greater risk' of civil conflict now than during the Great Depression, according to a presidential historian
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Historian Jon Meacham said the US may soon experience a period of civil chaos. While he doesn't believe there will be armies, he does think "we are going to see it with violence." The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, who has an upcoming book about Abraham Lincoln, spoke about how Lincoln set an example by putting democracy ahead of politics. "I do not believe we're going to see the massing of great armies in the way we did in the 19th century. "The work we are about is more important than the will and the whim of a single man, or a single party or a single interest.'"

☆ Cramer’s week ahead: ‘I am urging you not to be a hero’ while the Fed battles inflation
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Wednesday: PepsiCoQ3 2022 earnings release at 6 a.m. Thursday: Delta Airlines, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Domino's Pizza, BlackRockDelta Air LinesQ3 2022 earnings release at 6:30 a.m. BlackRockQ3 2022 earnings release at 6:15 a.m. Friday: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, UnitedHealth GroupJPMorgan ChaseQ3 2022 earnings release at 7 a.m. UnitedHealth GroupQ3 2022 earnings release at 5:55 a.m.

☆ 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.

☆ LGBTQ Italians on alert as right-wing alliance triumphs in election
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

BERLIN — The triumph of a right-wing alliance in Italy’s election has raised concern among LGBTQ advocates, who fear nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni could adopt anti-gay policies as prime minister and set back their efforts to boost equality. What is Meloni’s stance on LGBTQ rights? Days before the election, however, a senior member of her Brothers of Italy (FdI) group suggested same-sex parenting was not normal. Despite lagging most of its EU neighbors on LGBTQ rights, a 2020 study by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center found 75% of Italians think homosexuality should be accepted. In the northern city of Verona, Stefano Ambrosini, a gay 28-year-old PhD student, said he feared Meloni’s election triumph could lead to an increase in homophobic violence.

☆ A look at Giorgia Meloni's ascent to power as a far-right leader set to become Italy's next prime minister
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Far-right politician Giorgia Meloni is poised to become Italy's first woman prime minister. The 45-year-old ascended to power after she joined the Italian Social Movement as a youth activist in her teenage years. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. "It's a victory I want to dedicate to everyone who is no longer with us and wanted this night," Meloni said to a crowd of supporters, according to the news outlet. One decade later, Meloni became Italy's youngest minister when she was appointed to the youth portfolio in 2008 during the reign of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

☆ Moscow "not threatening anyone" with nuclear weapons - Russia's Ryabkov
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that Moscow was not threatening anybody with nuclear weapons, and that open confrontation with the United States and NATO was not in Russia's interests, state news agencies reported. "We are not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons," the Interfax agency quoted Ryabkov as saying at a conference on Friday. President Vladimir Putin this week told the West he was "not bluffing" when he said would use nuclear weapons if Russia's territorial integrity was threatened. Under Russia's nuclear doctrine, this could permit the use of nuclear weapons if Moscow feels it faces as "existential threat". Medvedev said it had the option of using strategic - long-range - nuclear weapons.

☆ Nationalist Meloni set to smash Italy's glass ceiling, become premier
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-29 | by ( Crispian Balmer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Leader of Italy's nationalist Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) party and frontrunner to become prime minister Giorgia Meloni, holds a closing rally in Naples, Italy, September 23, 2022. Fast forward three years, and the nationalist leader is also poised to become Italy's first female prime minister. It is from tomorrow that we must prove our worth," the 45-year-old Meloni told party faithful early Monday morning. All the tough talking inevitably draws comparisons in the Italian press between Meloni and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Just as Thatcher shattered Britain's glass ceiling to top office 43 years ago, so Meloni looks set to follow suit in Italy.

☆ Cum arată cea mai adâncă piscină din lume, construită în Europa (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Cu un volum total de peste 42.000 de metri cubi, echivalentul a 17 bazine olimpice de înot, Blue Abyss ţinteşte către titlul de „cea mai adâncă piscină interioară din lume”, scrie mediafax.ro. Blue Abyss, construită de compania britanică ce poartă acelaşi nume, va avea o adâncime de 50 de metri. Potrivit estimărilor Daily Mail, piscina va măsura pe verticală aproximativ jumătate din mărimea Turnului Elizabeth din Westminster, care găzduieşte celebrul Big Ben. După cum se vede şi în imaginile publicate recent, piscina va fi construită în interiorul unei clădiri aparte, în formă de lacrimă, proiectată de arhitectul britanic Robin Partington. Recordul mondial pentru cea mai adâncă piscină este deţinut de Deepspot din Mszczonów, Polonia, care are o adâncime de 45 de metri şi a fost deschisă în noiembrie 2020.

Persons: Blue Abyss, . Totuşi, Aceştia, Johnson, Tim Peake, britanic Robin Partington Organizations: Blue, NASA, Blue Abyss Locations: Rusia, Cornwall, Westminster, Houston, Texas, englez, britanic, Mszczonów, Polonia, Montegrotto Terme, Italiei

☆ В Англии построят самый глубокий в мире бассейн для исследований
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Самый большой и глубокий исследовательский бассейн планеты появится в аэропорту графства Корнуолл. Он будет предназначен для морских и космических исследований, а также для развития подводной робототехники, обучения астронавтов и водолазов. Конструкция длиной 50 метров и шириной 40 м будет иметь максимальную глубину 50 м. Разместится объект в зоне Aerohub Enterprise Zone аэропорта Ньюки-Корнуолл. Этот огромный бассейн – детище бывшего инструктора по подводному плаванию Джона Викерса, который является исполнительным директором Blue Abyss. По словам Джона Викерса, центр станет крупным исследовательским активом для аэрокосмической отрасли, морской энергетики, подводной робототехники, оборонной сферы и изучения физиологии человека.

Persons: Abyss, Джон Викерс, Робин Партингтон, Тим Пик Organizations: Aerohub, Международная космическая станция Locations: –, Корнуолл, НьюкиКорнуолл, Лондон

☆ Bill Walton’s Long, Strange Tale of N.B.A. Survival
▼ + stars: | 2016-03-27 | by ( Sam Anderson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Walton arrived at the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a large black chair. It’s so large that it made even Walton, one of basketball’s dominating giants, look small. We were standing inside the building, near the skeleton of a dinosaur (Allosaurus fragilis, the sign said), watching him approach. I had come to San Diego to speak with Walton about his life: the magic rainbows interweaving over the bottomless, flaming abyss. It suggests an existence largely shaped by dark matter — all the things that didn’t happen, that never coalesced, that went missing.

Persons: Bill Walton, Walton, —, — Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Bird — Organizations: San, San Diego Natural History Locations: San Diego

☆ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction
▼ + stars: | 1992-04-19 | by ( Richard B. Woodward | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Finished off with one of his twinkly-eyed laughs, this mealtime anecdote has a more jocular tone than McCarthy's venomous fiction, but the same elements are there. Each of his five previous novels has been marked by intense natural observation, a kind of morbid realism. A cult figure with a reputation as a writer's writer, especially in the South and in England, McCarthy has sometimes been compared with Joyce and Faulkner. Says the historian and novelist Shelby Foote: "McCarthy is the one writer younger than myself who has excited me. I told the MacArthur people that he would be honoring them as much as they were honoring him."

Persons: McCarthy, wildness, blurbed, Joyce, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Shelby Foote, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Hemingway Organizations: MacArthur Locations: hovels, East Tennessee, American, England, Texas, Mexico

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