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☆ Years of scrutiny for a president’s son culminate in guilty verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, his ex-girlfriend, his brother’s widow – with whom he had an affair – and his daughter all testified. Hunter Biden was administratively discharged, which is standard procedure when an officer fails a drug test. Did Joe Biden profit from his son Hunter’s career? It is a trade-off Hunter Biden has been experiencing for years. When Joe Biden was tapped as Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008, they made a point about not consorting with lobbyists.

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☆ Dan Hurley declines Lakers head-coaching job, will return to UConn: Sources
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( The Athletic Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The UConn coach declined a six-year, $70 million contract offer from the Los Angeles Lakers to become the team’s next head coach, team and league sources confirmed Monday. Los Angeles would have made Hurley one of the NBA’s six highest-paid coaches. Lakers vice president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka and team governor Jeanie Buss made an aggressive pitch to Hurley in Los Angeles on Friday. The Lakers are open to any contract structure that will keep James in Los Angeles, league sources told The Athletic. History repeats itself for the Los Angeles Lakers.

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☆ UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fact-checked by his own government before election debate with Keir Starmer
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Independent Treasury officials have costed Labour’s policies and they amount to a £2,000 tax rise for every working family,” Sunak said. The Conservative Party leader later repeated the claim. But Bowler’s letter could undermine Sunak’s claim to lead with integrity — a pledge made when he became prime minister in October 2022 — as he battles a high-stakes election. In a statement Wednesday, Labour said Sunak had “lied eleven times to the British people” about the party’s tax plans. During the debate Tuesday, Starmer dismissed the £2,000 ($2,560) figure as “nonsense” and said it was based on “pretend” Labour policies.

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☆ House Republicans Issue Criminal Referrals of Hunter and James Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Luke Broadwater | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

House Republicans on Wednesday urged the Justice Department to charge Hunter and James Biden, the president’s son and brother, with making false statements to Congress in the impeachment inquiry against President Biden. The chairmen of three House committees recommended the action in a criminal referral sent less than a week after the conviction of former President Donald J. Trump on 34 felony counts in New York. Their allegations, which assert that both men made false statements to Congress about President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business dealings, appear to include misrepresentations of Hunter Biden’s testimony. They also accused Hunter Biden of perjury. The referrals carry no force of law, but House Republicans are hoping to influence the Justice Department, particularly if Mr. Trump takes it over, to carry out more prosecutions of the Biden family.

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Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives at the federal court on the opening day of his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 3, 2024. Top House Republicans on Wednesday sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress. In his prepared opening statement at the deposition, Hunter Biden pushed back at the basis of the committee's impeachment inquiry. NBC News has reached out to the Justice Department and a representative of James Biden for comment. Hunter Biden and his attorney were in court in Wilmington and could not immediately be reached.

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☆ Opinion: What we can glean from a prisoner who ran for president
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Opinion Thomas Balcerski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Donald Trump is the first former president to be found guilty of felonies, but he isn’t the first convicted person to run for president in the US. Despite having been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sedition, Debs incredibly received some 914,191 votes, a higher number than when he ran as a free man in 1912. 9653.”Even from prison, Debs cleverly electioneered through the new medium of motion pictures. Following the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, pressure was placed on outgoing President Woodrow Wilson to pardon Debs. They will choose whether the verdict at Trump’s trial undermined faith in our legal system or was justice being served.

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☆ Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI businesses, seeking billions in return
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Late Monday, Core Scientific announced a 12-year deal with cloud provider CoreWeave to provide infrastructure for use cases like machine learning. Core Scientific, which emerged from bankruptcy in January, has been mining a mix of digital assets since 2017. Butterfill said the the overlap is leading to a competition for rack space between bitcoin mining and AI activities. While AI operations require up to 20 times the capital expenditure of bitcoin mining, they're more profitable, according to a report from CoinShares. watch now"While we intend to remain one of the largest and most productive bitcoin miners, we expect to have a diversified business model and more predictable cash flows," Sullivan said.

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☆ Aston Martin gets a boost from Formula 1 and new high-performance models
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"We're now at a really transitional moment, with an inflection point for this company," Stroll told CNBC. Aston Martin has overhauled and improved manufacturing, shored up its financials to make investments in the future, and is now launching a fleet of new products defined by high-performance and luxury finishes. Aston Martin has teased a new super-powered V-12, expected to be called Vanquish, later this year. The $800,000 Aston Martin hybrid Valhalla. Courtesy: Aston Martin

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☆ Kate, Princess of Wales to miss major military display next month amid cancer treatment
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Max Foster | Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales, will not be returning to royal duties with an appearance at the Colonel’s Review, a military parade in London in early June, as she continues her treatment for cancer. It is not yet clear if Kate will also miss that annual military spectacle – a highlight of the royal calendar full of pomp and pageantry – at Horse Guards Parade in the British capital. Following the announcement, a royal source told CNN that she would not be returning to frontline royal duties until she has been cleared to do so by her medical team. There had also been speculation over whether King Charles would participate in next month’s Trooping the Colour as he continues his own cancer treatment. Charles announced his own cancer battle in February but recently resumed public-facing royal engagements as he continues his treatment.

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☆ Where is Miranda Wilking, the dancer accused of being in a TikTok cult?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

TikTok and social media star Miranda Derrick (née Wilking) is at the center of the story. She and her younger sister, Melanie Wilking, are both dancers who previously branded themselves together as The Wilking Sisters. However, Miranda became involved with 7M via her boyfriend, James Derrick — and her family says in the series, distanced herself from her. Here's where Miranda Derrick is today. "Miranda Derrick is a successful businesswoman and a loving wife and daughter who cares very much about her family.

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☆ Chinese ships spend record amount of time near Japan-controlled islands, Tokyo says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The Japanese government chief spokesperson did not say how often Chinese ships entered Japan’s territorial waters, though foreign ships are allowed “innocent passage” through such waters. A contiguous zone extends another 12 nautical miles beyond a country’s territorial waters, the area that stretches 12 nautical miles from the shore. Foreign warships are allowed into contiguous zone waters – so the Chinese Coast Guard hasn’t broken any international agreements – but the continuous presence of the Chinese vessels there is seen as a provocation. It has frequently dispatched China Coast Guard and other government vessels to the waters around the islands to assert those claims. Hayashi, the Japanese government spokesperson, said Monday that Tokyo is answering the Chinese presence around the islands with vessels of its own.

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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMy Korean restaurant brings in $1.8 million a year—here's what it costs to runAt 27, Ji Hye Kim quit her job at a medical administration company to become a cheesemonger at Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Eight years later, she opened her own Korean restaurant, Miss Kim. Ji Hye is now a James Beard Award semifinalist. In 2023, her restaurant brought in $1.8 million in sales. Ji Hye passes much of that revenue on to her staff, paying them $12-$15 per hour and sharing the restaurant's profits with them.

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☆ How Celtics’ clutch defense won Game 4 to sweep Pacers, advance to NBA Finals: 4 takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( The Athletic Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Jaylen Brown posted a game-high 29 points along with six rebounds, three steals and four 3-pointers to lead the Celtics. Game 1 of the NBA Finals will be played in Boston on June 6 against either the Dallas Mavericks or Minnesota Timberwolves. Celtics execute down the stretchThe longstanding question about the Celtics has been: How they will execute at the end of close games? The Pacers elevated their game in every way after losing Haliburton, forcing Boston to hone its end game execution and defensive effort. Down 3-0 in the series without Haliburton, the game could have easily turned into a blowout and the Celtics could have cruised to the NBA Finals.

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☆ Buy quality tech stocks that are immune to high inflation and rates, Trivariate Research says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

As inflation lingers at a generational high, some stocks stand out for their ability to help investors hedge against the effect of high interest rates better than others. "What ensued was a massive negative correlation between the perception about interest rates and the valuation of growth companies from late in 2021." While a basket of high-quality growth stocks used to be negatively correlated to inflation, meaning their stock prices suffered as inflation turned higher, Trivariate says the relationship has since changed. "Today, the correlation of the high-quality growth basket to our inflation basket is zero," the firm said. In the same report, Trivariate Research shared its basket of high-quality names in the technology sector that have a near-zero correlation to its inflation basket.

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☆ Defense Strategy in Gilgo Murder Case: Blame a Corrupt Police Chief
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After Rex Heuermann was arrested last summer and then charged with murdering four women whose bodies were found in 2010 along Gilgo Beach on Long Island, prosecutors disclosed a barrage of details to support their case, including genetic evidence and sadistic porn sites they said Mr. Heuermann visited. Now, with the trial still months away, the defense’s strategy is beginning to take shape. Brown, has begun to float an alternate theory about the case: that the investigation into the murders was tainted years ago by the involvement of a now-disgraced Long Island police chief. At a hearing last month following a procedural court appearance by Mr. Heuermann, Mr. Brown repeated his client’s claims of innocence. He also suggested that the real killer might have eluded arrest years ago when Mr. Burke was running the investigation.

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☆ Opinion | A Consequential President for All the Wrong Reasons
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Thomas B. Edsall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When historians and political scientists rank presidents from best to worst, Donald Trump invariably comes out at the bottom. This year, to give one example, the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project released the results of a survey of 154 current and former members of the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. The highest ranked included no surprises: on a scale of 0 to 100, Abraham Lincoln (95.03), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (90.83), George Washington (90.32), Teddy Roosevelt (78.58) and Thomas Jefferson (77.53). Dead last: Donald Trump (10.92), substantially below James Buchanan (16.71), Andrew Johnson (21.56), Franklin Pierce (24.6) and William Henry Harrison (26.01).

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☆ The chilling parallels a woman sees between the Trump trial and her accusations against Harvey Weinstein
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

I reported him and then I just tried to follow the justice and what they told me to do,” Battilana Gutierrez told CNN in a recent interview. Battilana Gutierrez says she sees chilling parallels between the alleged conspiracy surrounding a hush-money payment connected to Trump and what happened to her. “It would be very interesting to see if he had to speak about the Harvey Weinstein trial,” Battilana Gutierrez said of Pecker. Of Battilana Gutierrez, he added, “Harvey wishes her well and hopes only for happiness and success for her.”Eventually, Battilana Gutierrez did sign a non-disclosure agreement with Weinstein’s legal team. Mark Peterson/Redux“Both Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump were ‘FOPs’ – Friends of Pecker,” Cartwright told CNN.

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☆ Tim Hetherington captures a moment of brotherhood between two soldiers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The photograph, taken in 2008 by the late British photographer Tim Hetherington, is from a time when nearly a fifth of all combat in Afghanistan was taking place in the six-mile valley. Tim HetheringtonBoth Hetherington and Junger became “enamoured with the opportunity to show the intimacy of a platoon in combat,” Junger said in an interview via telephone. “My examination of young men and violence, or of young men… It’s as much a journey about my own identity as it is about those young soldiers,” he wrote. ‘It took a little bit from his soul’In this process, Hetherington worried about how photography could be extractive. He wrote of the young men he met there: “They are grimily happy that we are here to help them.

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☆ Bill Gates names his top book recommendations of the summer—and the one that's a 'must-read'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"I didn't intend to go deep on the idea of service, but it's certainly as relevant today as ever," Gates wrote. 'The Women,' by Kristin HannahHannah's bestseller, released in February, is a work of historical fiction set during the Vietnam War. In his new book, Anderson argues "that we need to expand our definition of generosity," Gates wrote. "Oldman plays the head of Slough House, who's basically the polar opposite of James Bond," wrote Gates. "More than a guide to better conversations, it's a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of living," Gates wrote.

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We recently got an in-depth look at how mattresses were made on a tour of the 3Z Brands factory in Glendale, Arizona. With the extra capacity, 3Z Brands also makes mattresses for other companies, including Nectar, GhostBed, Allswell, and Nest Bedding. Here's a detailed account of our tour of the 3Z Brands factory and a look into how mattresses are made, from sewing to packaging. AdvertisementConstructing the pocket coilsThe pocket springs found in hybrid mattresses arrive at the factory in huge coils. AdvertisementAssembling the mattressOnce the foam, pocket springs, and mattress covers are ready, it's time to assemble all the components together.

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☆ He fell in love with Thailand while traveling in his 20s. Now 40, he's back and has built his dream 'James Bond' luxury villa.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe first time Johnny Ward went to Chiang Mai, Thailand, he was 22. Johnny Ward on a scooter in front of his house in Chiang Mai, Thailand. But after traveling the world, Ward realized that Chiang Mai still had his heart. Johnny Ward/onestepforwardWard said he spent 13 million Thai baht building the home and another 3.5 million Thai baht furnishing it, or about $460,000 in total. It would have been difficult for him to have all the things he wanted if he had bought an existing home in Chiang Mai, Ward said.

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☆ 10 actors who quit their hit TV shows too soon — and 4 who left at the perfect time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Gabbi Shaw | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

When a star leaves a TV show in its prime, it's often to try to become a movie star. Even though an actor may be beloved on TV, that doesn't always translate to box-office success. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Bob Menendez: 4 big questions as senator’s corruption trial enters its second week
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Here are four big questions facing Menendez, his lawyers and federal prosecutors as the trial intensifies. How hard does the defense lean on Nadine Menendez? The other half of their telling, in short, is that Nadine Menendez was the one pulling the strings — and hiding it from her husband. Republicans have been surprisingly absent from the hoopla around the Menendez trial. This dynamic could change later this week or next when Trump’s trial is expected to reach its denouement.

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☆ Billionaire defense entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has a home like a Bond villain's lair — complete with helicopters, a giant fish tank, and an underground missile base filled with video games
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Palmer Luckey's startup Anduril is producing futuristic weapons of war. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe defense tech startup Anduril is making some of the most futuristic autonomous weapons on the market as it tries to reinvent the military's wheelhouse. But the company's forward-thinking vision hasn't stopped founder Palmer Luckey from amassing his own collection of older military-grade vehicles and boy's toys.

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