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☆ A retired boomer who visited all 50 states ranks his top picks and least favorites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementHatfield ranked his top five favorite and least favorite states and national parks. They also have a cruise scheduled to American Samoa, home of the National Park of American Samoa, their last national park. Favorite and least favorite statesHatfield acknowledged his favorite states were also the ones with the most diverse national parks. Favorite and least favorite national parksHatfield said he enjoyed every national park, though some have more to offer than others. One of his earliest and most memorable national parks was Yosemite, which he visited 15 years ago.

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☆ Lack of worker heat protections despite rising temperatures leave patchwork of guidelines, put workers in danger
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Robert Ilich | Nic F. Anderson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Esteban Wood still remembers the time a 74-year-old Mexican farmer in Homestead, Florida, collapsed on the job from extreme heat. Such outdoor workers include lifeguards, transportation employees, ironworkers, agricultural workers and letter carriers. States like California, Colorado, Minnesota and Washington, have some heat protections for workers but they are not uniform or sweeping. For example, Minnesota’s protections only apply to indoor workers while California’s heat protections include both indoor and outdoor workers. The government must implement wage protections alongside heat protections, said Dr. Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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☆ Team USA holds off France for the women’s basketball gold in a game that was decided by inches
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Paris CNN —Team USA’s women’s basketball team only just held off France to win the gold medal on Sunday, escaping with a 67-66 win that was just inches away from being sent into overtime. Team USA takes home its eighth straight gold medal in Olympic women’s basketball. But the stars on Team USA fought back to level the game heading into halftime. But when Team USA wanted to get going, it could. The French fans celebrated – but then the Team USA bench began to jump and hug.

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☆ Opinion | Nancy Pelosi: ‘It Didn’t Sound Like Joe Biden to Me’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +55 min

And they know you’re going to act so they won’t mess with you. Put it in somebody else’s mouth because it was AI mean, it didn’t sound like Joe Biden to me. I think you’re I think you’re underselling this a little bit. And if they don’t, I’m going to keep my promise and send them 100 powdered wigs because they’re just living in a different era. All these other politicians, these career politicians didn’t know how to make a good deal.

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☆ Work Culture at the Gates Foundation: Bill Gates Was Domineering, Inspired Fear
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Every year, Bill Gates — and, until she left, Melinda French Gates — would hold multiple meetings with executives of the Gates Foundation to approve plans and budgets, and review strategies. For many, the meeting might be the only direct opportunity to interact with, and impress, Gates and French Gates. AdvertisementGates and French Gates followed the presentations closely, usually saving questions for the end. The former couple sought to maintain a professional relationship, giving themselves at least two years to see if they could work together, with the understanding that French Gates would leave if they couldn't. One former senior employee compared the style of discussion to the Socratic method, often used in law schools by professors who push students to reasoning through dialogue.

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☆ How the super-rich are building their luxury ‘safe house’ bunkers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Simon Usborne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Yet it’s no longer enough for the security-conscious billionaire to stick an impenetrable safe room in the basement where it might sit empty forever. Courtesy SAFEThe house itself, Corbi said in an interview via Zoom, is ultra-secure with the blast-proof doors, unbreakable windows and biometric door-entry systems. Even 50 years ago, he says traditional bunkers looked like high-end hotels — “kind of like the Ritz Carlton, underground”. For hundreds of thousands, prefabricated modular steel bunkers can be dropped into the ground under a new-build house. The days when you can throw a first aid kit in a prefab bunker and say you’re safe are long gone.”

Persons: “ We’ve, ”, Al Corbi, ” Corbi, Mukesh Ambani, Anant, Corbi, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Noemi Cassanelli, CNN Graham Harris, Harris, they’re, Covid, Naomi Organizations: CNN, SAFE, Ritz, Carlton, Ritz Carlton, Creative Home Engineering Locations: Virginia, Mumbai, Hawaii, London, Highgate, Arizona —

☆ Opinion: I’m a vaccine scientist. The devastating impacts of vaccine hesitancy have touched my life too
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Opinion Mohamed Bassyouni | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But when my eldest son was a young child, there was no vaccine for rotavirus. Mohamed Bassyouni Gates MRIIt just so happened that my research back then supported clinical trials evaluating a vaccine candidate for rotavirus. In Saudi Arabia, where we were living at the time, my two younger children received their rotavirus shots as their doctors recommended. And researchers at the National Institutes of Health in the US determined that the vaccine also “substantially reduced hospitalization and deaths in Africa.”The expectation was that many lives would be saved around the globe thanks to the rotavirus vaccine. This could be the first new TB vaccine in 100 years.

Persons: Mohamed Bassyouni, Melinda Gates Organizations: Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, CNN, rotavirus, National Institutes of Health Locations: Saudi Arabia, Africa, United States, Pakistan

The GOP’s 2024 party platform calls for the repeal of President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI, which Republicans say "hinders AI innovation." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to NBC News from the balcony of his Capitol office on Thursday, Aug. 1. “We have lots of AI proposals in the defense bill because AI has national security concerns,” Schumer told NBC News. It would require federal agencies to assess the potential risks of using AI before purchasing or deploying AI systems. But it also has real problems,” Schumer said, referring to the Future of AI bill.

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☆ Crowds Swarm Prime Minister’s Residence after Bangladesh Leader Flees
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Eve Sampson | More About Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Exuberant looters made off with furniture, bedding and potted plants as they swarmed the Bangladesh residence of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned her office and fled the country, according to local broadcast footage. People scaled the residence’s black gates, the videos showed, throwing items against walls inside, bashing portraits and helping themselves to a spread of food in catering dishes. The footage showed many people with hands and fists raised in celebration and some jumping for joy on the street. Many in the crowd appeared to be filming the event on their own cellphones. Social media posts and live television footage also showed people taking animals from the residence, including chickens, ducks and rabbits, and some people posing with the animals.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina Locations: Bangladesh

☆ What to watch at Olympics today: Simone Biles’ final act in Paris and 15-foot drops in a kayak
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Hunter Patterson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The Paris Olympics are entering their final week already, with the closing ceremonies just six days away. ET, 4:55 p.m. in Paris (women’s final); 11 a.m. ET, 10 p.m. in Paris (women’s final), 4:30 p.m. AdvertisementSurfing gold up for grabsAmerican Caroline Marks is one of four surfers looking to earn the women’s gold medal. 100M GOLD MEDALIST.

Persons: — Simone Biles, —, Biles, Lee, Chiles, Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, “, ”, V:, ault, abby, homas,, aris, arn, risa H ennessy, ake Organizations: Paris, USA, Olympics, aris, edina, ust Locations: Paris, Los Angeles

☆ Tech stock sell-off may herald the long-awaited AI reckoning
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementThe tech slide follows a dramatic sell-off in Asia, with Japan's main stock market index, the Nikkei 225, ending 12.4% lower and other AI heavyweights such as SoftBank slid hard. By the end of the year, the company expects to spend up to $40 billion on AI research and product development. That's because AI's been touted as a technology as revolutionary as the internet and smartphones by tech luminaries like Bill Gates. If others really start to believe that's the case, it could mark the beginning of the end for the AI rally.

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☆ Our backyard is a free-for-all hangout spot for neighborhood kids. Everyone follows the same simple rules, or they go home.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Bethaney Phillips | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

If my kids are inside, they may knock on the door to see if they can play. My kids get play dates without us having to schedule or drive anyone, and more often than not, everyone plays by the rules. Adults often stop by to chat, too, which is also nice for me; our backyard has become something of a neighborhood hangout. There are rules, and all the kids have to follow themIt's simple enough: everyone needs to be having fun. Other parents on my block also let kids come by to play, and each household (and yard) may have slightly different rules.

Persons: they've, It's, littles Organizations: Service

☆ Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 1991, Mary Gates, the mother of the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, convinced her workaholic 35-year-old son to spend the July 4 holiday at Hood Canal, a scenic, outdoorsy location about two hours from Seattle that had long been the family getaway. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was among the guests. When Mrs. Gates tried to introduce her son to Mr. Buffett, however, he brushed her off, saying that he didn’t want to meet a “stockbroker.”But the two men hit it off immediately. Mr. Gates was surprised by the penetrating questions Mr. Buffett directed at him about the software business, and found himself warming to the avuncular Midwestern billionaire. Once, recounting the story of their meeting to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mr. Gates called it an “unbelievable friendship.” Mr. Buffett quipped, “The moral of that is, listen to your mother.”

Persons: Mary Gates, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Gates, Buffett, —, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Microsoft, University of Nebraska Locations: Hood, Seattle, Omaha, Lincoln

☆ Thousands were arrested at college protests. For students, the fallout was only beginning
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Officers use pepper spray on demonstrators at George Washington University, on May 8, 2024. Sage Russell / AP fileTwenty-three of those arrested were students. Protesting George Washington University students celebrate as they break through a police barrier on April 29, 2024. Arrests put students’ degrees on holdFor some students, the impact on their academic careers has affected them more than any legal jeopardy. At Washington University, conduct hearings for arrested students began recently but have yet to result in disciplinary decisions.

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☆ Melinda French Gates' weekly walks with 3 close friends help her make difficult decisions: 'They are my truth counsel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Alex Koller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Whenever billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates contemplates a tough decision, she seeks input from her three closest friends of more than 30 years. "If you're in town, you walk," French Gates said. For example, the trio of friends was the first to know when French Gates began to consider ending her marriage to Bill Gates after 27 years, she said — and they offered her unanimous support. French Gates learned the importance of quality over quantity in friendships early in life, she said. "You might realize that you have plenty of people you have fun with, but no one to confide in," Schulz and Waldinger wrote.

Persons: Melinda French Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Gates, French Gates, Bill Gates, —, There's, Marc Schulz, Robert Waldinger, Schulz, Waldinger, " Schulz, It's Organizations: Research, Harvard University, CNBC Locations: French

☆ Andy Murray says goodbye to tennis, like only he can
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When Andy Murray announced he would retire from professional tennis after the Paris Olympics, the script seemed to be set. I was emotional because it’s the last time I will play a competitive match,” Murray told reporters after the match. Murray climbs to his friends and family after winning the Wimbledon title in 2013. Anja Niedringhaus/Pool/Getty ImagesHis best professional year was arguably 2016, though, where Murray won his second Wimbledon title and became the world No. — Andy Murray (@andy_murray) August 1, 2024But Murray will clearly miss tennis and tennis will miss Murray: his dedication, his famous roar and his stoic mom who always seemed to be cheering her son on from the stands.

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☆ Meet Melinda French Gates, one of the world's most influential and richest women
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates ranks 10th on Forbes' The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. French Gates, worth $13.4 billion, co-founded the Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Foundation. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMelinda French Gates is a renowned philanthropist, which has helped earn her the spot as the 10th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes' The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. French Gates is worth $13.4 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, which ranks her 157th among the world's richest billionaires, as of Friday, August 2.

Persons: Melinda French Gates, Gates, Bill Gates, Melinda, Kamala Harris, —, Forbes Organizations: Forbes, Melinda French Gates Foundation, Service, Business

☆ Melinda French Gates recreated her 'very middle-class' upbringing to raise her 3 kids: 'I thought that was a good principle to have'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Melinda French Gates' three children grew up in one of the world's wealthiest families. Not wanting to raise entitled kids, their parents worked to give them something resembling a "middle-class" upbringing, French Gates says. And I thought that was a good principle to have," French Gates told The New York Times on Sunday. "First of all, they had an allowance, so we absolutely did not just buy them things," French Gates said. French Gates told The New York Times.

Persons: Melinda French Gates, Gates, Bill Gates, relatable, who'd, Coventry Edwards, Pitt, Mark Cuban, Steve Harvey, STEVE, Amy Morin, Morin Organizations: New York Times, Microsoft, Duke University, CNBC Locations: Dallas, Cuban

☆ Southport stabbings: Far-right disinformation fuels riots across UK
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Kara Fox | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Far-right demonstrators chanted anti-migrant, anti-Muslim slogans at the London rally that turned violent on Wednesday. He added that, while the algorithm played a part, there was also a “huge amount of organizing happening” in a variety of different places that are not algorithmically oriented – for example in far-right groups on the instant-messaging platform Telegram. Like what was being shared on X and other platforms, the Telegram group “Southport Wake Up,” also posted false information about the alleged suspect. Hours after the attack, the group’s creator sent out the details for the first protest: Meet near a Southport mosque on Tuesday. The “Southport Wake Up” group is still active, and on Thursday, posted calls for similar disruptions at Muslim centers in other cities across England.

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☆ 3 phrases the most successful employees never use at work, from CEOs and psychologists
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sometimes, what separates successful people from everyone else isn't what they say — it's what they don't say. Other sayings, like "keep me in the loop" or "just checking in," can unintentionally come across as passive-aggressive, Slack executive Jaime DeLanghe told CNBC Make It in 2022. In particular, the best employees typically steer clear from these three phrases and sayings, according to CEOs, psychologists and linguistics experts:'It is what it is'There's one phrase bosses and colleagues don't want to hear when they're facing a problem at work: "It is what it is." Using it, however, can appear highly passive to other people and tarnish their trust in you, McWhorter said. That means there's one sentence that can frustrate such CEOs: This is how we've always done it.

Persons: Duolingo, Slack, Jaime DeLanghe, John McWhorter, Bill Gates, You've, McWhorter, Cortney S, Warren, it's, Jason Buechel, Buechel, Jamie Dimon, Andy Jassy Organizations: LinkedIn, CNBC, Columbia University, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase

Recent unrest at two Israeli military bases has highlighted a growing divide among Israelis about the conduct of their soldiers, and revived a deeper and older battle over the nature of the Israeli state and who should shape its future. Two of the soldiers were later released. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the base in solidarity with the detained soldiers, including at least three far-right lawmakers from the ruling coalition. Hundreds later massed outside Beit Lid, a second base in which the 10 men had been brought for interrogation. The incidents were widely broadcast across Israel, spreading an image of disunity at a time when the country is fighting enemies on multiple fronts.

Locations: Palestinian, Israel

☆ How Satya Nadella created a 'learn-it-all' culture at Microsoft to help it become a $3 trillion powerhouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWhen Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft in 2014, he was on a mission to transform the company's culture. A decade later, it's clear that Nadella followed his own counsel as he seeks to establish Microsoft as a dominant force in AI. So, by 2016, Microsoft ditched its mobile business and sold the Nokia phone line to follow Nadella's new vision for the company. This cemented Nadella's vision to build up its open-source software offering, solidifying Nadella's vision to boost Microsoft's open-source software offerings. CFO Amy Hood said on Tuesday that Microsoft's AI bets will be monetized "over 15 years and beyond."

Persons: —, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Steve Ballmer, Ballmer, Kevin Scott, Bill Gates, OpenAI, Bing, Nadella isn't, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Carol Dweck's, Amy Hood Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, Nokia, Work Conference Locations: reenergize, OpenAI, ChatGPT

☆ Israeli Troops Held for Questioning in Prisoner Abuse Investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Vivian Yee | Johnatan Reiss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israeli military police detained at least nine military reservists on Monday at an Israeli army base where thousands of Palestinians from Gaza have been held, taking them in for questioning as part of an investigation into “suspected substantial abuse of a detainee” there, the military said. Several Israeli media outlets reported that the Palestinian detainee had been hospitalized with a serious injury to his anus; some outlets reported that the reservists were accused of sexually abusing the detainee. The reservists’ detentions soon sparked a crisis at the base, called Sde Teiman, where videos posted on social media showed reservists shouting in anger about the raid — a rare instance of Israeli soldiers confronting their own. The tensions escalated, videos showed, when a crowd of flag-waving civilian protesters broke into the base through its metal gates in support of the detained reservists. By late afternoon, the military said police and soldiers had driven the protesters out of the base.

Organizations: Palestinian Locations: Gaza

☆ Melinda French Gates says MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex, helped her with parenting kids that were raised 'down the street' from each other
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMelinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott have a lot in common besides once having been married to a billionaire tech titan. French Gates revealed in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday that she and Scott share similar parenting styles. French Gates told The Times that she and her then-husband, Bill Gates, didn't want their children to grow up spoilt and entitled. Both French Gates and Scott have gone all in with their activism and philanthropy after divorcing their ex-husbands, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos respectively. AdvertisementRepresentatives for French Gates and Scott did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, Gates, Scott, Bill Gates, didn't, French Gates, MacKenzie, It's, Jeff Bezos, I've, — Elon, Musk, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Biden Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Times, Business, The Times, Democratic, Business Insider Locations: French

☆ How billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk are enjoying the 2024 Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Billionaires have made their way to Paris to watch the 2024 Olympics in person. Here are some of the world's richest people who have been spotted at the 2020 Paris Olympics. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Every four summers, they take a break from their busy lives to tune into the Olympics and cheer on their home team. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: —, Maxime Lallement Organizations: Service, Olympics, Highstay, Business Locations: Paris

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