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☆ Ina Garten gave up a job at the White House to become an entrepreneur — without business experience. Here's what the risky move taught her.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Ina Garten gave up her White House job to buy a specialty food store called Barefoot Contessa. AdvertisementWhen Ina Garten gave up her job at the White House to buy a specialty food store in New York called Barefoot Contessa, she had never run a business. "I was too tired to go home, so I had cleared a space, wrapped myself in a sweater, and went to 'bed,'" Garten wrote. Related stories"I love when changing your behavior — in this case, how I dressed — changes everything without your saying a word," Garten wrote. Advertisement"Anna was important to me, so I didn't have a moment's hesitation in supporting her," Garten wrote.

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☆ CEO of $8 billion company worked 2 jobs at once to lead a civilian crew into space: ‘You don't sleep a lot’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaire Jared Isaacman spent 2½ years training for a historic 10-minute spacewalk — while simultaneously running a nearly $8 billion company. Isaacman, 41, financed and commanded a SpaceX mission last month that featured the first-ever all-civilian spacewalk, during which he personally floated outside a Dragon space capsule. Isaacman, who has an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion, says he didn't take a leave of absence during those two-plus years of training. The trip was Isaacman's second space venture: In 2021, he financed and led the SpaceX team that became the world's first all-civilian crew to reach orbit. Once in space, the crew worked around the clock, conducting dozens of research experiments in five days while monitoring the capsule and its systems.

Persons: Jared Isaacman, He's, I've, Isaacman, —, Get Organizations: SpaceX, CNBC, Revel Systems Locations: Shift4, Los Angeles

September had been a month of celebrating Bertha Mendoza’s birthday, as well as her son's and grandson's. “We just decided to throw a big birthday party on Saturday," Sept. 21, Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News in a phone interview. Bertha was proud of her four children: Emanuel Ibarra, Guillermo Mendoza, Clarissa Flores and Esteban Mendoza. Bertha told her that it would probably be their last conversation and that she loved her, Guillermo said. “If you just spoke to her a couple of minutes, you felt like she was your mom," Guillermo said.

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☆ Tesla reversed its sales slowdown, but not enough to calm investors' nerves
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Graham Rapier | Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla reported third-quarter sales on Wednesday. AdvertisementTesla reported third-quarter sales of 462,890 on Wednesday morning, its first quarter-over-quarter gains this year. Analysts had expected 462,000 vehicle deliveries for the period ending September 30. AdvertisementStill, Tesla will have to make monumental increases in the final three months of the year to put 2024's figures ahead of the previous year,Reversing the sales slowdown at Tesla is a much-needed win for Musk's car company. AdvertisementAnd as new vehicle sales fall regardless of powertrain, Musk has touted autonomy as the latest driver of Tesla's growth story and one that investors should pay more attention to than sales.

Persons: Tesla, —, Elon Musk, Dan Ives Organizations: Global EV, Service Locations: Wedbush

☆ Israel's clash with Hezbollah may be shaped by its past mistakes in Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Israel launched a ground incursion that risks repeating its past mistakes in Lebanon. From 1985 to 2000, Israel occupied a 15-mile-wide "security zone" in southern Lebanon, ostensibly run by a Lebanese Christian faction backed by IDF troops. Israel returned in 2006, when 30,000 Israeli troops crossed the border in retaliation for a Hezbollah ambush of IDF troops in northern Israel. AdvertisementAs Israel's prime minister in 1998, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep troops in southern Lebanon "whatever the cost." Currently two IDF divisions are operating in southern Lebanon, to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure there.

Persons: Israel, —, Benjamin Netanyahu, EFFI, Boots, 2S0qw1pBaJ — Emanuel, Mannie, Fabian, Hassan Nasrallah, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Lebanese Christian, IDF, Getty, Hezbollah, Hamas, Division, Egoz Commando, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Lebanon, Israel's, Lebanon's, Vietnam, Israel, Afghanistan, Soviet Union, —, Gaza, AFP, Forbes

☆ TV personality La La Anthony on why you should have multiple streams of income: You're 'crazy if you only do one thing'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

And TV personality La La Anthony says, "you'll be crazy if you only do one thing. You got to do multiple things and get multiple things going for yourself." "There was a time where you could only do one thing, or people only wanted you to do one thing," Anthony tells CNBC Make It. But I think now it's a different time, a different day, where everyone's doing multiple things." She suggests not allowing fear to creep in and cause you to think that you won't be able to balance multiple things you're passionate about.

Persons: La La Anthony, Anthony, isn't, we've, Get Organizations: MTV, Starz, CNBC, Amgen

☆ Read the Special Counsel’s Newly Unsealed Evidence Against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Instead, after P15 delivered the news, the defendant looked at him and said only, "So what? Only after advisors had again urged the defendant to calm matters at the Capitol,663 the defendant at 2:38 p.m. posted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order-respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. P71 for the first time I'd ever heard him raise his voice, yelled at the president... 664 GA 948-949 (Donald J. Trump Tweet 01/06/2021).

Persons: Pence, “, …, I'd, you've, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Government, Capitol, Capitol Police, Law, U.S, Party of Law

☆ He left his corporate job to help his mom in the family's 90-year-old restaurant. He almost gave up but figured out how to turn it around.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He directs customers to find seats in Sabar Menanti, his two-story Malay restaurant, while ducking behind the counter to serve the restaurant's signature nasi padang. His grandparents opened Sabar Menanti in the 1920s and started selling nasi padang near a tombstone shop. But as his relatives had a handle on the business, Tambunan went on to work in the shipping industry. Dealing with rising costsAt a nasi padang stall, diners can choose from a variety of sides to eat with their rice. Tambunan told me he wanted her to remain active in her old age and encouraged her to return to help.

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☆ Mark Cuban drunkenly called American Airlines after selling his first company—and bought a lifetime flight pass for $125,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban took it a few steps further, spending six figures to buy a lifetime flight pass. Cuban didn't know if lifetime flight passes even existed, he said, but he grabbed a phone and dialed up American Airlines anyway. In 1994, American Airlines replaced the AAirpass with a similar membership, Airpass, which offered fixed-rate flights for frequent business travelers. Let's call American Airlines.'" "[Buying a plane] was my all-time goal because the asset I value the most is time, and that bought me time," Cuban told Money in 2017.

Persons: Mark Cuban, —, Shay Shay, Cuban, I've, I'm, Get Organizations: CompuServe, Airlines, Cuban, American Airlines, Yahoo, Gulfstream, CNBC Locations: Cuban, LA, Dallas

☆ Louisiana governor wants live tiger back at LSU football games
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Jeff Landry confirmed his support on Tuesday of restarting the tradition of bringing Louisiana State University’s live tiger mascot onto the football field ahead of home games. For years, the school’s live mascot would ride through the stadium in a travel trailer “topped by the LSU cheerleaders” before home games, based on information about the mascot on the LSU Athletics’ webpage. Following the death of the school’s tiger, Mike VI, in 2016, LSU announced that future Mike the Tigers would no longer be brought onto the field. In the past, animal rights groups have called on LSU to stop keeping live tiger mascots. Louisiana is not the only school that is home to a live mascot.

Persons: Jeff Landry, LSU’s, didn’t, Landry, “, ” Landry, ”, —, Mike VI, Mike, Mike VII —, Dan, University of Colorado’s Ralphie Organizations: —, Louisiana State, Tiger, University, Animals, LSU, PETA, Gov, Press, university’s School of Veterinary Medicine, LSU Athletics ’, Tigers, Yale, University of Texas, Longhorn, University of Colorado’s, Buffalo Locations: BATON ROUGE, La, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, U.S, Louisiana

☆ Julian Assange says he pleaded ‘guilty to journalism’ to secure his freedom in first public remarks since leaving prison
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

“I want to be totally clear: I am not free today because the system worked,” Assange told lawmakers. “I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”Assange was released in June after agreeing to plead guilty to a single felony charge in exchange for time served. The deal was finalized in a remote US court in the Pacific before he flew on to his native Australia. Before his deal with the US Justice Department, the Australian had been facing 18 criminal charges related to his organization’s dissemination of classified material and diplomatic cables, and a 175-year jail sentence. Assange, accompanied by his wife Stella and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson, appeared calm and at ease during his roughly 20-minute statement on Tuesday.

Persons: Julian Assange, “, ” Assange, Assange, Stella, Kristinn Hrafnsson Organizations: CNN, of Europe, Ecuadorian, US Justice Department, WikiLeaks Locations: United States, Strasbourg, Australia

☆ With Hezbollah weakened, Israel’s challenge becomes knowing when to pull back
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

It will take a remarkable amount of efficiency and discipline from the Israeli military and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to know when it is time to stop. The Israeli military are now walking into the ground trap that their adversary has been setting for them for well over a decade. And so, knowing when to stop is going to be key to this not becoming a quagmire for Israel. Does Israel’s Lebanon operation increase the chances of wider war with Iran? For Israel’s military endeavor to last weeks and not months, they will need extraordinary and rare success, discipline, and political wisdom.

Persons: Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hassan Nasrallah –, we’re, Netanyahu, Jim Urquhart, Nasrallah, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Netanyahu’s, Israel Organizations: CNN, Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, –, Time, Israel Locations: Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Europe, Metula, Lebanese, Tyre, Gaza

☆ These are the 10 most valuable college degrees—all but 1 help grads earn six figures
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Electrical engineeringMedian salary: $115,000$115,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 47.6%2. Computer engineeringMedian salary: $112,000$112,000 Unemployment rate: 2.1%2.1% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 38.8%3. Petroleum engineeringMedian salary: $100,000$100,000 Unemployment rate: 0.9%0.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 39.2%4. Aerospace engineeringMedian salary: $105,000$105,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 48.9%5. Mechanical engineeringMedian salary: $100,000$100,000 Unemployment rate: 1.9%1.9% Percentage of workers with advanced degrees: 38.9%7.

Persons: Bankrate, It's, Get Organizations: Survey, Computer, Petroleum, Aerospace, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Actuaries, CNBC

Israel’s military forces crossed the border into southern Lebanon on Monday to conduct what its military described as “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Follow here for live coverage"A few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon," Israeli officials said in a statement. Israeli soldiers spent roughly a week southern Lebanon pushing the PLO north of Lebanon's Litani River. Israel then invaded southern Lebanon in 1982, once again chasing after Palestinian Liberation Organization fighters that had made the country a base. Within Lebanon, Hezbollah is also a political party with seats in the country's parliament and provides social services to civilians.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel, Joe Biden, Nasrallah, Ali Khamenei Organizations: Hezbollah, U.S, Biden, IDF, Israel’s, NBC News, Litani, Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, State Department, Iranian, United Nations Locations: Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Lebanese, Iranian, U.S, Union, ”, Beirut's, Tel Aviv, Lebanon's Litani

☆ Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky used to stay up until 4 a.m. checking his work email: ‘I was enslaved by my inbox’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Daniel Lubetzky says his days of choosing work over sleep are long gone, and he's more productive because of it. Lubetzky, the billionaire Kind Snacks founder and newest permanent investor judge on ABC's "Shark Tank," was once a major night owl — perhaps involuntarily, he says. "I have a little bit of an obsessive personality," Lubetzky, 56, tells CNBC Make It. "That's helped me get better quality sleep," Lubetzky says. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours [of sleep per night]."

Persons: Daniel Lubetzky, Lubetzky, That's, It's, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, I've, Musk, Gates, nighters, Get Organizations: CNBC, Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health Locations: United States

☆ Madrid derby descended into chaos as players pleaded for peace with fans in balaclavas
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Dermot Corrigan | Guillermo Rai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

It is one of Spanish football’s most iconic fixtures, but Sunday’s 1-1 draw between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. AdvertisementIn the second half, the referee suspended play and both teams were taken off due to home fans throwing objects at Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. The ‘Frente Atletico’ fans group was formed in the 1980s and has a reputation for holding radical right-wing views and being involved in violence. There was also tension when some fans passed by wearing Real Madrid shirts against the backdrop of a heavy police presence. AdvertisementCristiano Ronaldo was hit by a lighter thrown by Atletico fans at their old Calderon home in February 2014.

Persons: Vinicius Junior, Thibaut Courtois, Angel Correa, Eder, Courtois, Mateo Busquets Ferrer, Busquets Ferrer, Koke, Jose Maria Gimenez, Diego Simeone, Gimenez, Simeone, gestured, Courtois ’, Florencia Tan Jun, Correa, Marcos Llorente, Fran Garcia, Aitor Zabaleta, Vicente Calderon, Javier, Jimmy ’ Romero Taboada, Calderon, Miguel Angel Gil Marin, Vinicius Jr, “ Vinicius, Vinicus Jr, Dennis Agyeman, Enrique Cerezo, ”, “, Oscar del Pozo, Joan Jordan, Benito Villamarin, Valencia, Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno, Carlo Ancelotti Organizations: Atletico Madrid, Atletico’s Estadio Metropolitano, Real Madrid, Atletico, Metropolitano, Liga, Atletico ‘, Spanish Football Federation, Play, Frente Atletico ’, Real Sociedad, Frente Atletico, Deportivo La Coruna, Deportivo, Real Betis, Europa League, Marseille, Sport, Atletico de, Spanish TV, Cuatro, Players, Copa del Rey, Europa Press, Getty, Athletic, Madrid, La Liga, Champions League, Belgian, Courtois, Copa, Rey, Sevilla, Benito, Betis, €, Valencia, Aitor Alcalde, Villarreal, Real Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Real’s, Bernabeu, “ Atletico Madrid, Real Locations: Spanish, Real Madrid, balaclava, Nazi, Madrid, AFP, Spain, Valencia, ” Madrid

☆ 'Saturday Night Live' season 50 premier reflects a reenergized election season
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Dennis Romero | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

"Saturday Night Live" kicked off a historic 50th season by having beloved show veterans join its contemporary talents to present a satirical view of the reenergized election season. For the cold open, Maya Rudolph reprised her role as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president. Before introducing Harris, Muir said he'd give equal time to live coverage of rallies held by each candidate. Show veterans Andy Samberg (as Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff) and Dana Carvey (as President Joe Biden) shared the stage with Rudolph. "I miss Joe Biden.

Persons: Maya Rudolph, Kamala Harris, James Austin Johnson, Donald Trump, David Muir, Muir, Andrew Dismukes, Harris, he'd, Rudolph's Harris, " Harris, Doug, Jim Gaffigan, Tim Walz, Walz, It’s Kirkland, Andy Samberg, Doug Emhoff, Dana Carvey, Joe Biden, Rudolph, Samberg's, Bowen Yang, Sen, J.D, Vance of Ohio, Trump, I’m, Yang's Vance, Carvey's Biden, Johnson's Trump, Biden, Joe, ”, Devon Walker, Eric Adams, Adams, Alex Spiro, Walker’s Adams, Michael Che, “, Jean Smart, Max, Jelly Organizations: Democratic, ABC, Minnesota Gov, Costco, New, New York City, SNL, NBC, NBCUniversal Locations: Springfield , Ohio, New York

☆ Devastation on the streets of Lebanon after days of Israeli bombardment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Tamara Qiblawi | Jomana Karadsheh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Umm Mohammed and her five-year-old son escaped the Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon, displaced to a tarpaulin on a seaside boardwalk. When Israeli bombs hit the south of the capital on Friday, the streets of west Beirut filled with people throughout the night. Internally-displaced people sit beneath a Lebanese flag in the Dahieh neighbourhood on September 28, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. “The assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has brought Lebanon and the region to a new phase of violence. “We sleep on sidewalks because we have no choice,” said Umm Fawzi, from southern Beirut.

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, ”, Hassan, “ He’s, ” Abu Mohamad, Nasrallah, “, ” Nasrallah, Umm Mohammed, Karadsheh, cradled, –, Carl Court, Jomana Karadsheh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Bechara Boutros, Rahi, Saad Hariri, ” Hariri, Umm Fawzi, Charbel Mallo Organizations: Beirut CNN, CNN, Maronite, Hezbollah Locations: Beirut, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Lebanon’s, Gaza, Dahieh, Jomana, ”, Martyr’s

☆ Rhyker Earl: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Rhyker Earl’s family says he had been living with seizures for more than seven years. But what began as a routine encounter with Jasper County Sheriff’s deputies and EMTs from nearby Keener Township that evening ended in tragedy. Less than 30 minutes after deputies arrived at his home, video shows Earl stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated. The footage shows first responders discussed whether Earl had taken illicit drugs because the sedatives were not working. For the Earl family, justice for Rhyker starts with ensuring an encounter like this doesn’t happen again.

Persons: Earl, Jasper County, “ Mr, White, Ben Crump, “, ” Crump, Connie Widner, Earl’s, ”, Rhyker Earl, ” Widner, Chuck, Widner, EMTs, “ we’re, Miracle Gawlinski, he’d, Gawlinski, ” Gawlinski, Earl “, Crump, Stephen Wagner, ” “, ” Wagner, Jeanne A, Allison Nichol, Nichol, ” Nichol Organizations: CNN, Gatorade, Indiana State Police, EMT, Sheriff’s, Mayo Clinic, Carpenter Epilepsy Legal Defense, Morehouse College of Medicine Locations: DeMotte , Indiana, Jasper, EMTs, Keener, Jasper County, Rhyker

☆ Around 48 migrants missing, nine found dead, after boat sinks off Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Nine people, one of them a child, have been confirmed as dead after their boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, emergency and rescue services said. “After what happened yesterday and if the forecast for the arrival of the migrant boats happens, then it will be the biggest humanitarian crisis to happen to the Canary Islands in 30 years,” Candelaria Delgado of the Canary Islands government, told reporters on Sunday. Three of those rescued suffered from hypothermia and dehydration, rescue services said on Sunday. As hopes of finding more survivors diminished, police installed a morgue on El Hierro, authorities said. Three other boats reached the Canary Islands during the night, carrying 208 migrants.

Persons: El, Frontex, ” Candelaria Delgado Organizations: Spain Reuters — Patrol, Rescuers, Spanish coastguard, Reuters, Channel, Canary Locations: El Hierro, Spain, Africa, Canary, Spanish, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, West Africa, Turkey, Greece, Britain, Lanzarote

☆ I tried every popular workout but nothing stuck. Orange Theory helped me finally become a fitness lover.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Jessica Tzikas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I discovered Orange Theory through a friend, and I just completed my 250th class. My best friend had recently started Orange Theory classes and was trying to get me to join. I finally tried Orange TheoryAfter months of my friend wearing me down, and slightly out of desperation, I signed up for a trial class. AdvertisementI now love working outIt has now been over a year since I first walked into Orange Theory. In the past, I worked out and attended fitness classes to lose weight.

Persons: —, twirling Organizations: Service, barre, Orange

☆ My mother and I were still estranged when she died in 2019. I went to a medium to connect with her and it brought me closure.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Hayley Folk | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When my mother died in 2019, we were estranged. I've always had a spiritual side and decided to book a session with a medium to connect with her. So when my estranged mother died in early 2019, it was only natural for me to explore an unconventional path: hiring a medium to reach out to her from the other side. She keeps saying 'mom,' 'mother,' 'mom,'" Balesky continued. I understand some people's skepticism about mediums, but it felt authentic, as if Balesky was genuinely connecting with my mom.

Persons: I've, —, Amie Balesky, she's, Balesky's, Balesky, Rob, Robby, Robert, She's Organizations: Service Locations: New York City

☆ Hezbollah leader’s killing creates another balancing act for Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Kevin Liptak | Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2024. “It’s welcome,” one senior administration official told CNN after both the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah confirmed Nasrallah’s death. But Hezbollah has been “decimated,” and Iran — which backs the militant group — has also been “much weakened,” the official said. Angry senior US officials were convinced that Netanyahu was reacting to backlash at home from far-right members of his government. Israeli officials, meanwhile, attributed the confusion to a “miscommunication.”Whatever the case, by Friday any talk of an imminent ceasefire had quieted as Israeli warplanes dropped bombs on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut.

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, Joe Biden, Biden, he’s, hadn’t, Nasrallah, ”, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, —, Pamela Smith, “, I’m, ” “ Hassan Nasrallah, Kamala Harris, Anwar, ” Biden, Harris, Ron Dermer, Jake Sullivan, CNN’s Samantha Waldenberg Organizations: CNN, Hezbollah, Israeli, United Nations General Assembly, White House, Israel Defense Forces, US, Anwar Amro, Getty, UN Security Council, State Department, Saturday, Ibrahim Amro, Biden Locations: Israel, Gaza, United States, France, Lebanon, Beirut, Delaware, Iran, ”, AFP, People, Beirut's, Netanyahu’s, Dermer

☆ Commerzbank and UniCredit set to meet as takeover prospect looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Sophie Kiderlin | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Commerzbank AG bank branch, in the financial district of Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCommerzbank and UniCredit are set to begin talks Friday, with the German bank on the defensive over a potential takeover after its Italian counterpart unexpectedly increased its stake earlier this month. Speaking at a financial conference, Orlopp said the German bank was open minded, but that the speed of synergies and risks needed to be considered. The potential for a takeover or merger has been met with opposition from Germany's government and several senior figures at Commerzbank. Orlopp herself earlier this month told journalists that the process had taken Commerzbank by surprise, but urged a calm approach.

Persons: Krisztian Bocsi, Bettina Orlopp, Orlopp, Commerzbank, Manfred Knof, Germany's, Jens Weidmann, Stefan Wittmann Organizations: AG, Bloomberg, Getty, Reuters, CNBC Locations: Frankfurt, Germany, Commerzbank

☆ OpenAI's CFO is trying to get the company's investors to keep calm and carry on
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar emailed investors the day after three top execs suddenly left, per CNBC. Friar sought to soothe investor worries, saying the firm is still "laser-focused" on AI that can bring them returns. AdvertisementOpenAI's chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, is trying to assure investors that the company is still in good hands despite the sudden exit of three top executives, according to an email reported by CNBC. The outlet's Kate Rooney cited an email from Friar to OpenAI investors on Thursday night, a day after the firm saw the departure of its chief technology officer, Mira Murati. Murati, McGrew, and Zoph left OpenAI just a month after other top leaders stepped away from the company in August.

Persons: Sarah Friar, execs, Friar, OpenAI, —, Kate Rooney, Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, helming Nextdoor, nix, Sam Altman, Zoph Organizations: CNBC, Service, Research, Post, Bloomberg, Business Insider Locations: OpenAI

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