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☆ Trump cites Hunter Biden pardon in latest legal attempt to throw out hush money conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Paula Reid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Defense lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are using President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter to argue that Trump’s conviction in his Manhattan hush money case should be dismissed. “Yesterday in issuing a 10 year pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly prosecuted’ and ‘treated differently,’” Trump lawyers wrote in a motion filed Monday. Trump’s lawyers also want the conviction dismissed, but the DA’s office says it will oppose any effort to toss the case. In addition to the pardon argument, Trump’s attorneys also told the judge that his case should be dismissed given his reelection last month. “Even (Smith) has been forced to concede, by DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (‘OLC’ ), that President Trump’s status as President-elect mandates dismissal of the unjust prosecutions pending against him,” they wrote.

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☆ This 22-year-old once dreamt of becoming a software engineer—instead, she just directed her first TV commercial
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ash Xu once thought she'd grow up to be a software engineer just like her dad. Instead, the 22-year-old is fresh off directing her first TV commercial. Later that year, she landed her first paid gig to film a commercial for an online brand. She also started to realize "my dreams of becoming a commercial director aren't as far away as I thought." Her TV commercial directing debut taught her "I don't have to be the most knowledgeable or perfect person in the room," she says.

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☆ Salesforce surges on revenue beat, AI growth prospects – here's our new price target for the stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

But most importantly, the company showed that Agentforce, its new AI platform, may kickstart revenue growth in the future. CRM YTD mountain Salesforce's stock performance in 2024. With the stock up more than 10% to $360 per share in extended trading, we are increasing our price target to $400 from $300. Wall Street is willing to look past Salesforce's slight miss on adjusted EPS because of the upbeat revenue performance. Guidance For the fiscal fourth quarter, Salesforce expects revenues of $9.9 billion to $10.1 billion.

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Ilona Maher, America's biggest rugby star and "Dancing With the Stars" runner-up, has waltzed herself over to the United Kingdom to play for the Bristol Bears. Maher announced the move on her TikTok account Monday after months of speculation as to whether she might join the Premiership Women's Rugby league. The U.S. women's team won bronze at the 2024 Olympics, the furthest the team has ever gotten at the Games. Eric McCandless / Disney"I think I'm also doing it again to show that rugby players are so multidimensional," Maher told ABC's "Good Morning America" in September. The Premiership Women’s Rugby league is also going to be a slight change in format for what many are used to seeing Maher play in.

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☆ Four friends posed for a photo on vacation in 1972. Over 50 years later, they recreated it
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

For the four women in the photo, Marion Bamforth, Sue Morris, Carol Ansbro and Mary Helliwell, the picture is a firm favorite. “It’s always been our memory of Torquay,” Sue Morris tells CNN Travel. Fast forward to 2024 and Bamforth, Morris, Ansbro and Helliwell remain firm friends. “We always said, when we were younger, that one day we would go back to Torquay,” Ansbro tells CNN Travel. “But just make sure that you still make time for your friends,” Morris says.

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But more recently, Republicans have signaled plans to defang the agency, and Trump has named authors of Project 2025 — which calls for eliminating the CFPB — to influential posts. It has clawed back nearly $20 billion in consumer relief and issued a litany of rules and guidance aiming to rein in financial institutions. The financial services industry bristles at many of these efforts. Buy now, pay later protectionsAs BNPL services skyrocketed in popularity during the pandemic, the agency quickly built guardrails around them. Removal of medical debt from credit reportsThis summer, the agency proposed banning medical debt from appearing on consumers’ credit reports.

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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, and 48 others, overturning their verdicts in a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally. Rahman serves as the acting chairperson of Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party while in self-exile in London, and he could become Bangladesh’s next leader if his party is voted into power. A court sentenced 19 of them to death while Rahman got life in prison, with Zia’s party accusing the ruling of being politically motivated. Zia, who ruled the country as prime minister from 2001 to 2006, and Hasina are the country’s most powerful politicians and longtime rivals. Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, brother of one of the people acquitted, speaking at the Bangladesh High Court in Dhaka on Sunday.

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☆ Cramer calls Disney stock a 'great bargain' as CEO Bob Iger scores another big box office win
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Disney just broke some more box office records — signaling a blockbuster comeback that could fuel the company's revival and its stock price. That beat the $125 million Disney's "Frozen 2" made during its Thanksgiving weekend opening in 2019. Since opening, "Inside Out 2" has made nearly $1.7 billion worldwide and $653 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo . After its box office struggles in recent years, Disney's current and upcoming slate indicates a turnaround is afoot. Disney CEO Bob Iger is laser-focused on restoring the magic of Disney's movies, Jim Cramer said Monday.

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☆ One key decision helped 'Moana 2' win at the box office and become Disney's 'hottest IP'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementDisney's "Moana 2" broke Thanksgiving box office records, bringing in $380 million globally. In previous years, Disney struggled at the Thanksgiving weekend box office with "Wish" and "Strange World." Originally created as a series, "Moana 2" was shifted to a film, boosting Disney's theatrical strategy. The latter is a new five-day Thanksgiving box office record, surpassing the $125 million "Frozen 2" earned in 2019. "Wish" tells the origin story of the wishing star seen in several Disney movies.

Persons: Disney, Jeff Bock, Bob Iger, codirector David Derrick Jr, Dwayne Johnson, Bock Organizations: Disney, Pixar Locations: Moana, Maui

☆ ‘Brain rot’ is Oxford’s word of the year
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Brain rot” took the title in a vote in which more than 37,000 people participated, as well as public commentary and analysis of OUP’s language data. “While England endeavours to cure the potato rot,” wrote Thoreau, “will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”All these years later, it seems brain rot is well and truly established. “’Brain rot’ speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time,” said Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, in Monday’s announcement. “I also find it fascinating that the word ‘brain rot’ has been adopted by Gen Z and Gen Alpha… These communities have amplified the expression through social media channels, the very place said to cause ‘brain rot,’” he added. The word, which means being reserved in appearance or behavior, had already been named word of the year by Dictionary.com last week.

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☆ 5 problems the next CEO of Jeep's owner will have to fix
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementStellantis is facing more upheaval after CEO Carlos Tavares resigned on Sunday. The Jeep and Chrysler owner is battling sliding sales and fierce competition from Chinese rivals. The owner of Jeep and Chrysler is facing further upheaval after its CEO departed on Sunday. Carlos Tavares has stepped down as Stellantis CEO. The president-elect has floated tariffs on European companies that could affect Stellantis' European brands.

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☆ Who is Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI director?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Jack Forrest | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI and an ardent supporter of the president-elect, has vowed to help dismantle the same organization he’s poised to lead. The FBI director must also be confirmed by the Senate, where members are already bracing for how they’ll navigate a slew of unorthodox Trump selections. As of late last week, some close to Trump believed it was a “toss-up” between Patel and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as to whom the president-elect would pick for FBI director, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Trump briefly floated Patel as a potential replacement for then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, whom he had considered firing after the 2020 election. Patel was also put in charge of the Pentagon transition effort for Trump’s first term, overseeing coordination with the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

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☆ Opinion | If Anyone Can Save the Democrats, It’s Ben Wikler
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Over coffee with Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, this summer, I was talking about my own unproductive tendency toward political despair, and my recurrent fantasies of moving abroad to give my kids a start in a less cruel country. I was reminded of this conversation when I spoke to Wikler on Sunday, after he’d announced that he was running for Democratic National Committee chair. But while Wikler admitted to the same anxiety many of us are feeling, he sounded animated, almost cheerful. The front-runner is reportedly Ken Martin, head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, mostly because he’s a consensus choice. “If he wins, the party won’t be electing him as a force of personality, but as a safe pair of hands,” wrote Politico.

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☆ France’s Prime Minister Pushes Through Budget Bill; Opposition Parties Call for No-Confidence Vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Aurelien Breeden | Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Prime Minister Michel Barnier of France pushed a budget bill through the lower house of Parliament without a vote on Monday — a risky move that sets the stage for a no-confidence motion this week that could topple the government. The prospect of a government collapse — and of a failure to pass a budget — has rattled financial markets, sharply increased France’s borrowing costs, and further deepened the uncertainty that has gripped the country since snap elections last summer yielded no clear parliamentary majority. Mr. Barnier’s move exposes his government to no-confidence motions — which both French left-wing parties and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party quickly said they would file, with a vote expected as early as Wednesday. The fate of Mr. Barnier and of his cabinet, both appointed by President Emmanuel Macron just three months ago, now rests in their hands.

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A blast of cold air is settling into the East Coast of the United States this week, even as people across the Great Lakes region continue digging out from a dayslong round of lake-effect snow that snarled Thanksgiving travel. Temperatures were expected to drop to below freezing in every state east of the Mississippi River early Tuesday morning, and a few places may even set daily records for low temperatures. High temperatures will struggle to reach much higher through the day, with temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below normal. It is one of the first true blasts of cold for the Northeast, where fall has felt more like summer as recently as a few weeks ago — and temperatures later in the week may be even colder.

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☆ President Joe Biden issues pardon for son Hunter in federal gun, tax cases
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden issued a pardon for his son, Hunter, for federal gun and tax evasion charges. Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to and was convicted of 12 counts carrying a max sentence of up to 42 years. President Joe Biden has issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, for federal gun and tax evasion charges. "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden said in a statement released Sunday. AdvertisementJoe Biden had previously — and repeatedly — insisted he would not use his pardon power to protect Hunter Biden from the verdicts in his cases.

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Learn moreCyber Monday is your last chance to cash in on some of the season's best sales, including the Peacock Cyber Monday deals. Peacock's Cyber Monday deal offers discounts on the Peacock Premium plan, which is the base ad-supported tier. View at Peacock What we like Check mark icon A check mark. People already subscribed to Peacock Premium or Peacock Premium Plus aren't eligible for Peacock's Cyber Monday deals. What is the difference between Peacock Premium and Peacock Premium Plus?

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☆ Negotiate on the budget or we'll bring you down, France's far right tells government
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

President of Rassemblement National parliamentary group Marine Le Pen (L) speaks to French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN party's President and lead MEP Jordan Bardella during the French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN party's parliamentary seminar at the French National Assembly in Paris on September 14, 2024. Erlend Robaye | Erroba | Getty ImagesIf France's political turmoil comes to a head and Barnier's government is toppled, it's uncertain what could happen next. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier (C) ahead of his general policy statement to the French National Assembly in Paris on October 1, 2024. "If the new and still very much minority government reaches agreement with National Rally and passes the 2025 budget, then it will produce some relief in markets ... "With the end of ultra-low interest rates, France's debt servicing costs are projected by the ECB to rise above 4% by 2034, which would cause a major and persistent debt crisis.

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☆ Elton John says he has lost his eyesight
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Elton John says he still cannot see, months after suffering a severe eye infection. Speaking on stage at a gala performance of “The Devil Wears Prada” musical in London on Sunday, John thanked his husband, David Furnish, saying he “has been my rock.”“I haven’t been able to come to many of the previews because, as you know, I have lost my eyesight. But I love to hear it and, boy, it sounded good tonight,” said John. In an interview with Good Morning America last week, John said the issue has been affecting his ability to work. “I unfortunately lost my eyesight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the south of France and it’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see, and my left eye is not the greatest,” he said.

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☆ At the epicenter of culture: how TikTok maximizes success for brands
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Sponsored Tiktok For Business | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

For millions of people across the globe, these words form part of a bigger movement: culture, and it all starts on TikTok. So, for brands, the challenge isn't simply to follow trends but to embed themselves meaningfully within these cultural conversations. On a platform where creativity reigns, the brands that take risks and facilitate culture are the ones that thrive. Trends are a powerful driver of culture — just ask KFC, whose TikTok Ad Award-winning campaign turned viewers into advocates. TikTok provides a unique platform to supercharge engagement and achieve cultural relevance.

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☆ Meet the Press – December 1, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +56 min

ANNOUNCER:From NBC News in Washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. He credited President-elect Trump with this ceasefire, Jake, saying, quote, "Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump." The second dynamic to watch is, Kash Patel is on the record for the retribution agenda that Donald Trump ran on. I will never forget when you asked former President Trump – President-elect Trump and President Biden during that last presidential debate in 2020 about 545 children who were still separated from their parents. And before we go, the newest member of the Meet the Press family, Frankie Alice Katz was born at 12:23 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Bob Bryar, the former drummer for famed rock band My Chemical Romance, has died. Bryar was My Chemical Romance's longest serving drummer, playing with the band from 2004 to 2010, during which time they released their hit album "The Black Parade" in 2006. He was working as a sound engineer for The Used when he met the members of My Chemical Romance while on tour in 2004. My Chemical Romance went on to break up in 2013, before getting back together — without Bryar — in 2019. They're set to return to the stage next summer across North America on the "Long Live The Black Parade" tour.

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☆ 'Moana 2' snares $221 million in its five-day domestic opening, fueling the biggest Thanksgiving box office of all time
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

It was all feast and no famine at the Thanksgiving box office this year. "Moana 2" led the frame with $221 million for the five-day period, a significant overperformance compared to the $100 million box office analysts had initially expected. It is now the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation of all time at the domestic box office. This year's overperformance at the box office during the Thanksgiving period has also helped narrow the gap between 2024 and 2023's hauls. Heading into this holiday period, the 2024 box office was down 11% compared to the previous year's numbers.

Persons: Paul Dergarabedian, Shawn Robbins, Ralph Organizations: Fandango, Comcast, CNBC Locations: Hollywood, NBCUniversal

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