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☆ Texas town approves plans for new building to replace school shooting site
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Tyler Clifford | Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Uvalde school board in Texas has approved plans to replace Robb Elementary School months after the town decided to demolish the building where a teenaged gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in May. The school district did not immediately respond to a request for further details. Board members also agreed to install an interim leader of the school district's police department. In the past, he worked with Patterson at another Texas school district. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said the response was "an abject failure," adding that officers at the scene lacked sufficient training.

☆ Global financial giants and the New York Fed are rolling out a digital dollar test run as crypto reels from FTX's crash
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Large global banks are planning to pilot a digital dollar with the New York Fed. The test run will examine how a digital token can help expedite payments. Other firms also listed by the New York Fed include BNY Mellon, PNC Bank, Truist Financial, US Bancorp and TD Bank. All of the firms will participate in the project and use simulated data in a test environment. The test run follows the latest blow to the crypto sector, which was rocked last week by FTX's liquidity crisis and bankruptcy filing.

They poured onto the streets of Kherson early Saturday, hugging police officers and waving the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag to celebrate the city's second day of liberation. In a separate message on Friday, the documentary filmmaker said he was in downtown Kherson when a vehicle carrying Ukrainian soldiers swept by that afternoon. Residents celebrate after Russian forces evacuated Kherson, Ukraine on Friday. Elsewhere, Russian state news agency Tass quoted Aleksandr Fomin, an official in Kherson’s Kremlin-appointed administration on Saturday as saying that Henichesk, a city on the Azov Sea some 125 miles southeast of Kherson city, would serve as the region’s “temporary capital” after the withdrawal. But it did not “change the underlying factors that will eventually mean Russian or Ukrainian success,” he added.

☆ Biden faces scrutiny about America's future as he heads abroad
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Peter Nicholas Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

For the world leaders meeting with Biden over the next week, there’s no assurance that he'll be the president they’ll be dealing with for the next six years. The U.S. is unnerved by Chinese military exercises that threaten Taiwan and raise the specter of a future invasion. “Tuesday was a good day for America, a good day for democracy,” Biden said Thursday at a Democratic National Committee event. Another reason that Biden might find the trip more gratifying is that he averted the midterm wipeout that sitting presidents normally endure. Biden’s midterm test went much better.

University power plants are much smaller than their industry counterparts and thus produce fewer overall emissions. All fossil-fuel power plants produce these emissions, which are created when these fuels are burned. These facilities include large power plants owned by public utilities as well as private plants that provide electricity and heating for big consumers such as refineries, paper mills and colleges. Reuters identified 103 university power plants run by 93 four-year institutions among the facilities tracked by the EIA. NOx ComparisonsReuters turned to a different data set to obtain NOx emission rates for university power plants: pollution tests required by state and federal regulators.

CNN —Houston officials vowed to deliver justice in the killing of rapper Takeoff, with the chief of police calling the 28-year-old Atlantan a “peaceful” man and urging any witnesses to the shooting to come forward. There were roughly 40 people at the event, many of whom left “possibly out of fear,” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. “This great city, with our great citizens, with our police department – we will find who’s responsible for it. Finner was clear, however, that investigators do not believe Takeoff was “involved in anything criminal at the time,” he said. Rap star was on an upward trajectoryThe news of Takeoff’s death was a blow to the hip-hop community, still reeling from the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock in September.

☆ A Tudor-tinged library at Cambridge University designed to last for 400 years has been crowned Britain's best new building
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Cambridge University library has been awarded a prestigious prize as Britain's best new building. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA library at Cambridge University designed to last for 400 years has been named as Britain's best new building. The interior of Magdalene College library. It replaces the "cramped" study spaces from the 17th century Grade I-listed Pepys Library. Nick KaneMagdalene College, one of 31 colleges forming Cambridge University, was founded in 1542 by Lord Audley.

☆ Return of pet projects in U.S. Congress crowds out funding for others
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Andy Sullivan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

A view shows the city of Glen Ullin, U.S., in this undated photo. Sept 29 (Reuters) - Glen Ullin, North Dakota, was first in line for money to replace its leaky water pipes before Washington cut funding by one-third this spring. The reason: Congress is yet again diverting money to pet projects known as "earmarks. That wasn't an option in North Dakota, whose congressional delegation did not submit any earmark requests this year or last. Glen Ullin probably won't qualify for infrastructure dollars because those are distributed using different criteria, officials say.

☆ Reliable Sources: Hannity radio producr reaches out to Trump with 'proof'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN Reliable Sources has independently obtained the same messages that McLaughlin sent to Meadows. Through a spokesperson, McLaughlin declined to comment. The messages underscore the intimate relationship that Hannity, his team, and the right-wing media writ large shared with the Trump White House. “Jim Jordon [sic] will gladly coordinate with the House team,” Meadows texted McLaughlin. And it’s no secret Hannity himself worked as a top informal adviser to Trump.

☆ Beto O'Rourke doubles down on confronting Gov. Abbott after Uvalde shooting: 'I don't regret being there'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Taylor Ardrey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Beto O'Rourke doesn't regret confronting Gov. He accused Abbott of "doing nothing" a day after 21 people were killed at Robb Elementary. I wanted to fight for those families in Uvalde, for our families across the state," O'Rourke said Saturday. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin responded to O'Rourke, calling him a "sick son of a bitch," as Insider previously reported. I wanted to fight for those families in Uvalde, for our families across the state.

IZYUM, Ukraine — The stench of death hangs over a small forest in northeastern Ukraine. Already, hundreds of bodies have been retrieved, including those of children, Ukrainian forensic technicians here say. Some of the graves bear wooden crosses, inscribed with the names of the dead and sometimes floral tributes. A forensic technician closes a body bag in a forest on the outskirts of Izyum, Ukraine, on Friday. During a video address late Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said investigators had discovered new evidence of torture.

☆ Remote work is killing Florida as a retirement paradise
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-11 | by ( Gadel Valle | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Housing prices, combined with the rise of remote work, threaten to end the middle-class dream of spending your final days in Florida. "It does put the retirement industry at risk because it's going to become more and more difficult" to retire in Florida, he told me. The political influence of Florida retirees is so significant that national publications send reporters to The Villages before elections to check its political pulse. The dream of a Florida retirement is dying as housing prices make it too expensive for most. And for people who are retiring now, the Florida retirement dream is starting to look a lot less sunny.

☆ Leaders from Walmart, AB InBev, Honeywell, Carlyle, and more share advice for getting started — and sticking to — sustainability goals
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Julia Hood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Sustainability leaders from Walmart, JUST Capital, Dow, Honeywell, Cognizant, Deloitte, Bank of America, AB InBev, and Carlyle participated. If you're just looking for a science partner, you're going to go and get the science. So then we started building debriefs for our portfolio companies, actually making them sit down and have a conversation with us. Because as long as you do it with integrity, you're going to probably get to the right place. I remember him saying when we talked about the idea, "what you're trying to achieve with that, is somewhere between really, really, really, really hard and impossible."

☆ 6 takeaways from the massive debate about the SEC's proposed new climate rule
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-12 | by ( Drake Baer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, told Insider the proposed plan is to make environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, reporting more formalized. The most popular is TCFD, a set of letters you should get used to if you're interested in climate policy. The task force developed its own set of international recommendations for climate reporting, with "core recommendations" centered around governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. How synced should ESG reporting be with preexisting quarterly and annual reports? "We believe ESG reporting will mature far more quickly but needs to follow a similar path."

☆ Execs at Bank of America, Cognizant, and Walmart share how they think about, measure, and finance sustainability goals on the path to net zero
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-15 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are not being met because the ESG bond market is way behind. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. But funding is still way behind when it comes to the environmental aspect, said Karen Fang, the managing director and global head of sustainable finance at Bank of America. Kathleen McLaughlin, the executive vice president and chief sustainability officer at Walmart, said that ESG issues are connected to the long-term prospects of any company. McLaughlin said that Walmart has high ESG ambitions as a company and eventually wants to become regenerative.

McGlown, you have two options when entering real estate: "Do you want to be an investor, or do you want this to be your occupation?" McGlown, a software engineer and self-made millionaire, wanted to get into real estate investing as a way to earn passive income. When he bought his first investment property in 2019, he knew that he was strictly looking to grow his wealth, and not make this his new job. Saving for the investment wasn't easy, but it also wasn't new to him. So, he employed the same strategies he used back then to save up for his investment property.

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William Barr said in his confirmation hearings to become Trump's attorney general, that he might recuse himself on overseeing matters related to Epstein. A photo from 2000 shows Trump, Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss), Epstein, and Maxwell at the resort together. The photo at the top of the page is of the two together in Palm Beach in 1997. The entry for Donald Trump as it appears in Jeffrey Epstein's "black book" that was published by Gawker in 2015. The complaint, brought against Trump and Epstein, alleged that the victim attended multiple parties at Epstein's residence in the summer of 1994, that Trump also attended.

☆ Simone Biles says she is 'still scared to do gymnastics' after getting the 'twisties' — a disorienting condition — during the 2020 Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-21 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Simone Biles says she's "scared to do gymnastics" after getting the "twisties" at the Olympics. She says she doesn't do twists during performances in her "Gold Over America" tour. "I watch the other girls do it and it's not the same," she said of seeing other gymnasts to twists. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSimone Biles says she's "still scared to do gymnastics" after getting the "twisties" — a condition that causes athletes to get disoriented in the air — during the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year.

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☆ Un pacient a fost externat, după ce a stat intubat aproape jumătate de an
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Cazul unui bărbat bolnav de COVID a devenit o poveste de succes pentru medicii unui spital din Scoţia. Pacientul a fost externat după ce a stat intubat aproape jumătate de an. Acesta a fost petrecut acasă în aplauzele personalului medical.Neil McLaughlin, de 63 de ani, a devenit o adevărată vedetă a spitalului. A trebuit să fie sedat mai multe săptămâni, iar ulterior a fost intubat. A fost o luptă grea pentru el.

Persons: McLaughlin, Neil, Crăciun Locations: Scoţia

I was a bit naive about money when I started "Broke Millennial," but reading it has been a big help. What started as a blog titled "Broke Millennial" has now turned into three books, online courses, and multiple presentations about personal finance as it relates to young adults. As a young adult myself, I'd been aware of Lowry's books for a while, and recently sat down to read the first book in her "Broke Millennial" series. I liked that "Broke Millennial" promised to do more than just cover credit cards, debt, investing, and budgeting. "Broke Millennial" certainly lived up to these promises.

Persons: Erin Lowry, —, Lowry, I'd, you'll, George Mason Organizations: Service, George, George Mason University, Temple University, Quicken

Trump's Save America PAC released a photo showing the former president meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on January 28. It added: "President Trump will always and forever be a champion for the American People." Millions of Trump supporters would likely follow Trump to a new political party — if he chose to break away from the Republican Party. Afterward, McCarthy predicted intraparty peace, saying in a statement: "President Trump committed to helping elect Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022." "President Trump has agreed to work with Leader McCarthy on helping the Republican Party to become a majority in the House."

☆ Trump claimed that the California wildfires were fueled by trees that 'explode'
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-15 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President Donald Trump said during a briefing on Monday that "explosive trees" may have helped fuel the record-breaking wildfires. Trump has argued that wildfires could be eliminated if forests were cleaned of dead trees, leaves, and debris. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump said during a briefing on Monday that "explosive" trees helped fuel California's record-breaking wildfires. He claimed that dry trees can "just explode" — part of a longtime argument he's made that wildfires could be eliminated if forests were cleared of dead trees and debris. With — as they say — more explosive trees than we have in California."

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, —, he's, we're, Wade Crowfoot, Chris Field Organizations: Service, Fox, Trump, Stanford Woods Institute for, Associated Press Locations: Europe, California, West Coast, Washington

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