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☆ Nancy Pelosi scores yet another win with Harris' VP pick
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nancy Pelosi is a master at influencing the Democratic Party, and she scored another win this week with Kamala Harris' VP pick. "Tim Walz is wonderful," Pelosi told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, adding, "He has a great vision for our country. When asked about her power within the party, particularly on Biden's decision to drop out, Pelosi told Kelly that she wasn't the one instigating phone calls with other Democrats. Advertisement"I did not call one person," Pelosi told Kelly. Pelosi told Kelly that she has not spoken to Biden since he made his decision to drop out public.

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☆ Pelosi details 20-minute conversation with Trump ahead of first impeachment
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Annie Grayer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Hours before former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally launched the first impeachment investigation into former President Donald Trump in 2019, she received a call from the subject of the probe himself. During the September phone call, Pelosi said Trump claimed she would be impressed with his “lack of pressure,” that he “didn’t threaten anyone” and “there’s no reason” to impeach him. “I do not believe that the president (needs to directly) make a quid pro quo to intimidate a foreign leader,” Pelosi told Trump. “I didn’t do that,” Trump replied, to which Pelosi replied, “You withheld aid, and there is an inference drawn.”As Trump continued to claim that his call with Zelensky was “flawless,” Pelosi responded, “We’ll find out. “The call was perfect.”In her final reply to Trump before the end of the call, Pelosi said, “That call was perfectly clear.

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With only days to consider a range of contenders, Ms. Harris and her team were inundated with unsolicited advice — much of it public — about whom she should pick. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, who has also been vetted by the Harris team, appeared at a Harris campaign fund-raiser in Chicago. Mr. Biden was at home in Wilmington, Del., over the weekend while Ms. Harris interviewed prospective running mates in Washington. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether he had spoken to Ms. Harris as she finished her deliberations. Once she chooses, Ms. Harris will spend much of the next week with her running mate.

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☆ On Biden’s Exit, Pelosi Says She Was Driven by Need to Defeat Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To hear Representative Nancy Pelosi tell it, her quiet but firm push to get President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race was a simple matter of the ruthless political math that she has spent decades honing a talent for on Capitol Hill. “My goal is defeat Donald Trump,” Ms. Pelosi, the former speaker, said in a recent interview before the release this week of a book on her years in Congress. “And when you make a decision to defeat somebody, you make every decision in favor of that. She seemed willing to accept the consequences of anger from Mr. Biden and his inner circle considering what was at stake. The book, titled “The Art of Power,” is Ms. Pelosi’s retelling of major moments of critical decision-making during the Iraq War, a catastrophic financial meltdown, the passage of the Affordable Care Act and multiple clashes with former President Donald J. Trump, among other events.

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☆ Nancy Pelosi burst out laughing after being asked if Trump screwed up by picking JD Vance
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Nancy Pelosi laughed when asked about Trump's choice of JD Vance as his running mate. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFormer Speaker Nancy Pelosi laughed when asked whether former President Trump had messed up by choosing JD Vance as his running mate. In a Sunday morning CBS News interview, Pelosi was asked if Trump made a mistake. "I think it was a great choice," Pelosi responded before bursting out laughing.

Persons: Nancy Pelosi, JD Vance, —, Trump, Pelosi Organizations: CBS News, Service, CBS

Jenna Ellis, right, and Sydney Powell, attorneys for President Donald Trump, conduct a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in Arizona in their criminal cases against so-called fake electors and others who tried to reverse the 2020 election loss of former President Donald Trump, state Attorney General Kris Mayes said Monday. "I am grateful to Ms. Ellis for her cooperation with our investigation and prosecution." "Her insights are invaluable and will greatly aid the State in proving its case in court," the attorney general said. The remaining defendants are Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.

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☆ Taiwan is making a TV show about a Chinese invasion. And it’s hitting close to home
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Nectar Gan | Eric Cheung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The 17-minute trailer hit close to home in Taiwan, making headlines in local media and garnering more than a million views on YouTube. But Hsin-mei Cheng, the showrunner of “Zero Day,” worried that her fellow Taiwan citizens have grown “too numb” to the danger of an impending conflict. Hsin-mei Cheng, the showrunner of "Zero Day," says she hopes the show can serve as a wakeup call to the people of Taiwan. Cheng also assembled a team of 10 directors, each responsible for an episode in “Zero Day” that tells an independent story. In “Zero Day,” Chinese infiltration and cognitive warfare takes on many forms – from the lure of money and power to the threat of violence.

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☆ There are cracks forming in the US jobs market
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The pandemic threw the US job market into chaos, but four years later, things finally seem to be back to normal. Most indicators support the idea that the labor market is no longer overheated and could easily maintain a new normal of steady, but slower growth. The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 4.1%, according to FactSet consensus estimates. “This is a labor market that’s otherwise moderated,” Nick Bunker, director of North American economic research at Indeed, told CNN. The same goes for the prime-age labor force participation rate, which at 83.7% also is the highest in 23 years.

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☆ Opinion | The Far Right Doesn’t Own ‘The Lord of the Rings’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tolkien and “The Lord of the Rings.”These days, however, Tolkien isn’t just relevant to nerd world. Critical factions of the new right at home and the far right in Europe have latched on to Tolkien’s work. By “new right” I mean the post-Reagan right, a movement that embraces state power as a means of fighting and winning the culture war. But they’re getting Tolkien wrong, and the way in which they are getting Tolkien wrong matters for all of us. Last month, Politico’s Adam Wren wrote an extended analysis of the way that the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy shaped JD Vance.

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☆ Here's a non-exhaustive list of some things JD Vance said that have aged poorly
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewSen. JD Vance of Ohio said several inflammatory things in the past, and some of it's coming back to haunt him. AdvertisementOn a Fox News "Outnumbered" episode from 2021, Vance said that the media had turned the news of Biles quitting the Olympic team "into this act of heroism." Remember when JD Vance called Simone Biles weak when she withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics? JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. Representatives for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Fed Chair Powell just said the labor market is getting vulnerable. Friday’s jobs report could prove why
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The pandemic threw the US job market into chaos, but four years later, things finally seem to be back to normal. Most indicators support the idea that the labor market is no longer overheated and could easily maintain a new normal of steady, but slower growth. “This is a labor market that’s otherwise moderated,” Nick Bunker, director of North American economic research at Indeed, told CNN. Labor force participation/employment to population ratio: These metrics are key reasons why Bunker and others believe the labor market remains in good shape. The same goes for the prime-age labor force participation rate, which at 83.7% also is the highest in 23 years.

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☆ The Killing of a Hamas Leader Is Part of a Larger War - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Matthew Duss | Nancy Okail | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Indeed, within hours, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared his intention to attack Israel. The almost certain escalation from the Haniyeh assassination signals a fundamental flaw in President Biden’s Gaza policy: the hope that the Gaza war could be contained to Gaza. But for months, the war has already been spreading — to Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and now, to Iran. Some in the U.S. foreign policy establishment argue that since neither the United States nor Iran desires full-scale war, cooler heads will prevail. The current precarious moment is the result of a series of false assumptions that U.S. policy was built on since well before the war began.

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Nancy Martiny didn’t know what she was doing when she made her first saddle. It took her almost a year of stolen afternoons — between ranching, rodeoing and raising three children in rural Idaho — to complete it. But because she did it under the guidance of a renowned saddlemaker, Dale Harwood, that first saddle turned out well. “And that gives a man the confidence that I know what I’m talking about.” The orders started rolling in. And for more than three decades, they haven’t stopped.

Persons: Nancy Martiny didn’t, Dale Harwood, cowgirl, “, ” Martiny, haven’t Organizations: Idaho — Locations: Idaho

☆ Nancy Pelosi's husband just bought more Nvidia and trimmed his Microsoft stake
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy, purchased 10,000 shares of Nvidia last week. According to a financial disclosure form made with the Clerk of the House of Representatives on July 30, Paul Pelosi purchased more shares of Nvidia and trimmed his stake in Microsoft the prior week. In that disclosure, Paul purchased 10,000 shares of Nvidia stock in late June. In December 2021, Pelosi responded to the idea of a possible stock trading ban with, "We are a free-market economy. AdvertisementAnd in July 2022, Pelosi denied the idea that her husband had made stock trades based on information she shared with him.

Persons: Paul Pelosi, Nancy, —, Nancy Pelosi, Paul, Pelosi Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Microsoft

☆ Vermont flooding forces water rescues after 1-in-1,000-year rain
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Scientists are very confident that climate change is increasing rainfall rates – how hard the rain is falling – and the amount of rain a storm can produce. Floodwaters have washed out roads and several state road closures are in effect. A team was heading out to survey the damage, which included “quite a bit” of structural and road damage, National Weather Service meteorologist Seth Kutikoff told the Associated Press. Northeast Vermont and other portions of the state are also still recovering from more extensive flooding just over a year ago. Last year’s flooding caused numerous road and bridge washouts, land and mudslides resulting in significant property damage and loss.

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☆ The Olympics are getting a luxury makeover this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Madeline Berg | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

From the custom Louis Vuitton cases presenting the Olympic medals and torch, to Armani attire donning Team Italy, luxury and beauty brands will be all over the Paris Games. LVMH is one of the biggest brand partners of the Paris Games, with the conglomerate spending about $160 million, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementThe Paris Games also represent a return to form, with the crowds back for the first time since the pandemic. "A large amount of the global population will be watching" the Olympics, Fflur Roberts, the global head of luxury at Euromonitor International, told BI. The Olympics are also a high-stakes chance to prove luxury is "worth it" following a recent backlash against sky-high prices.

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☆ Kamala Harris: How her warp-speed campaign launch has changed the 2024 race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —The five days since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launched at warp speed have remade the 2024 race – and given Democrats new hope of preventing a second Donald Trump presidency. Fundraising exploded, with Harris’ campaign saying she raised $126 million between Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening. And Democrats were more eager to devote their own time to working to elect Harris: More than 100,000 people signed up to volunteer for her bid, and more than 2,000 applied for campaign jobs, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a Wednesday memo. The strength of Harris’ launch has at times surprised even the former Biden campaign staffers who on Sunday suddenly found themselves working for what was converted into the Harris campaign. Biden’s campaign believed his path to 270 Electoral College votes ran through the “blue wall” states – Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Nancy Breland, 72, Georgia Retired and taking care of her husband, Breland has seen rising prices for everything from groceries and utilities to insurance and home maintenance eat into her fixed income. She has also seen her friends struggle with inflation, as well, through the church she volunteers at. At 72, Breland has been doing much of the upkeep around her home after her husband fell ill several years ago. Fixed income is very hard when inflation is so high.”Primary source of income: Combined, Breland and her husband have around $7,600 in monthly income from their retirement accounts and pension and Social Security payments. While Social Security checks have increased relative to inflation, other sources of income for retirees, like pension payments and retirement savings accounts, haven’t necessarily kept up for many.

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☆ A Southwest flight came 150 feet from crashing in the sea. Experts suspect 'pure human error.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA Southwest Airlines flight that was diverted after a dangerously low descent was likely down to "pure human error," aviation experts said. A Southwest flight came dangerously close to the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa. A dangerous patternIt's not the first time a Southwest flight has descended to a dangerously low altitude. In June the FAA said it was investigating a Southwest flight that dropped to 525 feet when it was 9 miles from landing in Oklahoma City. The FAA is also looking into another Southwest flight that descended to 400 feet above the ocean off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, in April.

Persons: —, Max, Richard Curran, Mark Stephens, Curran, Courtney Campbell, Sridip Kumar Mishra, Stephens, Nancy Allen, it's, Robert Katz, Katz Organizations: Service, Airlines, Boeing, Business, Air Traffic Control, TV, Fox, Aviation Administration, Aviation Management, City University of London, Delta Air Lines, aj Airbus, Tampa Bay Times, Tampa International Airport, FAA Locations: Columbus , Ohio, Tampa , Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Oklahoma City, Kauai, Hawaii, Southwest

☆ Opinion | Strong Women Are Driving Donald Trump Crazy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s always a good idea to pay attention to Nancy Pelosi and to judge where things are going by which direction she’s nudging them in, but that was especially true over the past few weeks. And I realized that Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t face any competition for the Democratic nomination when Pelosi endorsed her. In other words, Pelosi, a woman who so ably foiled Donald Trump when he was president and she was House speaker, helped make it possible — and then confirmed — that another woman, Harris, would lead the charge to foil him from becoming president again. It’s a veritable Hollywood movie. Women are scripting what will happen to Trump, who has treated women with such cruelty and contempt.

Persons: It’s, Nancy Pelosi, Biden, he’d, Kamala Harris wouldn’t, Pelosi, Donald Trump, Harris, Trump Organizations: Democratic

☆ Benjamin Netanyahu Congress: Families of hostages held in Gaza slam Israeli PM for leaving ceasefire deal out of speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Families of hostages held captive in Gaza condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United States Congress, as pressure grows on the Israeli prime minister to agree to a deal to secure their release. Rather than mentioning a deal, a bellicose Netanyahu told Congress: “The war in Gaza could end tomorrow if Hamas surrenders, disarms and returns all the hostages. Families of Israeli hostages demonstrate ahead of Netanyahu's address to Congress, at the National Mall in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. An hour of talking without saying the one sentence: ‘There will be a kidnapping deal.’”But Netanyahu’s speech was lauded by members of his government. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesDemocratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the lone Palestinian-American congresswoman, held up a black-and-white sign during Netanyahu’s speech.

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☆ What to know about the 25th Amendment and Joe Biden as Republicans allege a ‘cover-up’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Even before Biden dropped out of the race, Rep. Chip Roy, the Texas Republican, filed a resolution in June after the president’s disastrous debate performance, calling on the 25th Amendment to be used against Biden. After Biden withdrew from the race, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican, wrote letters to Harris and the Cabinet officials in the Biden administration, asking them to remove Biden from office. To forcibly wrest power from a sitting president, the vice president would have to be on board, according to the text of the amendment. Why do we have the 25th Amendment? That was before the 25th Amendment, so there was no constitutional rule.

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☆ The elephant not in the room for Netanyahu's speech: Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

That is a strategic political calculation, because she knew — and her people knew — that you will not reach the White House if you frolic with war criminals." Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesThe California Democrat argued that Harris should look toward the example of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Advertisement'A very tenuous feeling'If Netanyahu's speech on Wednesday was any indication, there's plenty of wiggle room for Harris to pursue a less deferential approach to Israel than Biden. Dozens of progressives issued statements affirming that they were boycotting the speech, engaged in other events, or like Harris, simply came up with convenient scheduling conflicts. He's literally the Trump of Israel," Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida told me.

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☆ Kamala Harris has entered the U.S. presidential election. What that could mean for crypto
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The outcome of the U.S. presidential election and its implications for the crypto industry got more uncertain this week after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race following President Joe Biden's exit. Many are now wondering what a Harris administration could mean for crypto – especially following years of an anti-crypto crusade led by Biden-appointed SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. On Tuesday, a day after Harris launched her campaign, billionaire Mark Cuban said her advisors had begun reaching out to him about crypto policy . Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, had recently seen a boost as Trump incorporated crypto into his platform. The crypto industry sees itself as nonpartisan, and in recent weeks has bipartisan support for crypto in Congress has been growing.

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☆ Netanyahu Delivers a Forceful Defense of Israel to Applause in Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday issued a full-throated defense of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, during an address to Congress that laid bare deep divisions in Washington over a war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. The fact of Mr. Netanyahu’s speech was almost as notable as anything he said. In the face of increasing international censure and dissent both in Israel and in the United States, Mr. Netanyahu was seeking to use Congress to lift his sagging political fortunes — and leaders in both parties obliged with a bipartisan invitation to receive him. Vice President Kamala Harris declined to preside, as is traditional for the vice president, citing a scheduling conflict. And Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan and the first Palestinian American member of Congress, held up a sign as Mr. Netanyahu spoke that read “war criminal” on one side and “guilty of genocide” on the other.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, “, ” Mr, Israel, —, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Rashida Tlaib Organizations: Israel, Democratic Party, Democratic, Palestinian Locations: Gaza, Washington, United States, Iran, Israel, Michigan, Palestinian American

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