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☆ Some GOP lawmakers are tired of JD Vance's cat rumors
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewNo politician has done more than Sen. JD Vance to keep unverified claims of pet-eating Haitian immigrants in the news. "I think that conversation, overall, has been distracting from the real issue at hand," said Rep. Juan Ciscomani. That doesn't mean the Arizona congressman, whose district includes portions of the US-Mexico border, isn't supportive of tougher border security and immigration measures. "There's a lot bigger issues that should be focused on, and I think, obviously, in these conversations, showing respect for the Haitian community is important."

Persons: —, Sen, JD Vance, Juan Ciscomani, Harris, Mike Lawler, Donald Trump, Vance, Mike DeWine, Trump, DeWine, Springfield, YouGov, Mitt Romney, it's, Marc Molinaro, Molinaro, who's, Shelly Moore Capito, Biden, John Cornyn of, Josh Hawley, Hawley Organizations: Service, Biden, Business, Republican, PBS, Springfield Locations: Arizona, Mexico, tossup, Springfield , Ohio, United States, New York, Springfield, Utah, West Virginia, John Cornyn of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Springfield , Missouri

☆ German media empire Axel Springer to split in deal with KKR
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Passers-by walk in front of the main entrance to the Axel Springer high-rise. The two sides had reached a deal in the summer to split Axel Springer, a source told Reuters on Saturday. KKR and its partner CPP Investments currently hold a 35.6% and 12.9% stake in Axel Springer, respectively, while Doepfner and Friede Springer hold 21.9% and 22.5%. Axel Springer had been preparing to float Stepstone but the planned initial public offering was shelved when war broke out in Ukraine in 2022. KKR and CPP Investments are now likely to target an IPO in the second half of 2025, according to an industry source.

Persons: Axel Springer, Mathias Doepfner, Axel Springer's, Springer, Friede Springer, Axel's, Doepfner, Friede Organizations: Politico, KKR, Reuters, Investments, Friede Springer, Springer Locations: Hamburg, North America, Aviv, Ukraine

☆ Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan to remain blocked, federal judge orders
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration's latest student loan forgiveness plan, threatening the White House hope to provide financial relief to tens of millions of Americans ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential elections. In the meantime, Hall said he would review the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction against the Biden's relief plan, and the Biden administration's request to dismiss the case. The continuation of the restraining order is the latest setback for the Biden administration's efforts to cancel people's federal student loans. President Joe Biden began promising to alleviate people's education debts during his 2020 campaign bid, but Republican legal challenges have consistently stymied his attempts. The development stems from a lawsuit against the president's aid package brought by seven GOP-led states earlier this month.

Persons: Joe Biden, Randal Hall, George W, Bush, Biden, Hall, Ohio — Organizations: White, Biden, U.S, Republican, GOP, U.S . Department of Locations: Washington , DC, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia , Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio

☆ This star of 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' says her husband is related to Ben Affleck. The genealogy records we found tell a different story.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

And now, the show about a group of Mormon influencers has yet another controversy — this one involving Ben Affleck. Well, Ben Affleck probably shouldn't be involved at all (more on that later). William Preston Affleck was born in 1801 in Scotland and moved to England sometime before 1825, eventually settling in Preston. It's impossible to say definitively that Zac Affleck and Ben Affleck are not very distant cousins. What the public records show, however, is that Zac Affleck and Ben Affleck are not second cousins, or third cousins, or even fourth cousins.

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☆ MIND is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets. A dietitian who wrote a book on it shares 3 mistakes people make when starting out.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA dietitian who has written a book on the MIND diet spoke to Business Insider about the most common mistakes people make when starting to follow it. The MIND diet stands for the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, and combines the principles of the Mediterranean and DASH diets , with added foods for brain health and longevity. Research suggests the MIND diet can help reduce cognitive decline as people age. BI spoke to McGrane about the mistakes people make when following the MIND diet. Related storiesTrying to overhaul your diet overnightMcGrane said that you shouldn't try to completely switch to the MIND diet immediately.

Persons: —, Kelli McGrane, McGrane, You'll, I'd Organizations: Service, Business, US, American Heart Association, Research, Neurology, Harvard, Chan, of Public Health, Beginners

Amelia is the latest generative AI tool that Amazon has brought to market in the past year as it seeks to capitalize on the hype sparked by OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company has introduced an AI-powered shopping assistant named Rufus, a chatbot for businesses dubbed Q and Bedrock, a generative AI service for cloud customers. More than 400,000 of Amazon's millions of third-party sellers have used its AI listing tool, up from 200,000 in June, he said. With Amelia, Amazon is counting on generative AI to help with a key issue for third-party merchants — account troubleshooting. Amazon said the tool uses retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, a popular AI industry framework that combines generative AI with long-established methods of information retrieval.

Persons: Nathan Stirk, Amelia, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Rufus, Anthropic, Andy Jassy, Jassy, Thos Robinson, it's, Dharmesh Mehta, Mehta Organizations: Getty, Central, CNBC, New York Times, Google, Microsoft, Merchants Locations: New York City, Seattle .

☆ Amazon's RTO policy is the right decision, according to a Gen Z founder who said most of his employees come in 5 days a week
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He founded an AI startup in 2023 and told BI the majority of his 14 employees come in five days a week. "Remote work benefits people who are more stable in their career at the expense of people who are junior," he said. BI has reported on multiple Gen Z employees who feel isolated and restricted by their remote working environment. Advertisement"If you're a new grad and you're starting a job and you just work a remote job, you're just shooting yourself in the foot," he said. He told BI, "Four or five years ago, this was the norm," adding, "Why are we even thinking remote work is normal?"

Persons: —, Jeffrey Wang, Wang, Everyone's Organizations: Service, Plaid, Harvard, Business, Tech, Networking, BI Locations: San Francisco, Hawaii

☆ Feds trying to build an attempted assassination case against man accused in Trump incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Zachary Cohen | Evan Perez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

So far, there is no evidence indicating the suspect was motivated or instructed by foreign elements to target Trump. But prosecutors and investigators have made clear that they view the incident as an apparent plot to kill the former president and are working to build a case with those additional charges. He had not made any threats, for instance, against the president or former president Trump,” Berger said. “You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh also wrote of Iran in the apparently self-published book. Those posts, on their own, would likely not be enough to charge Routh with attempting to assassinate Trump, according to Aronberg.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh’s, Routh, Routh didn’t, Ryan Routh, David Aronberg, ” Aronberg, ”, Chelsea Walsh, Walsh, Katrina Berger, Berger, Trump, ” Berger, HSI, Butler, “, ” Routh Organizations: CNN, Federal, Trump, FBI, Service, . NY, Beach, Customs, Border Patrol, Security Investigations, HSI, Capitol, Global Citizen Locations: Florida, Trump, West Palm Beach , Florida, North Carolina, Hawaii, Ukraine, Kyiv, Butler , Pennsylvania, Iran, Taiwan, North Korea, Afghanistan, Tehran, Moscow, “

☆ Eldest-Daughter Syndrome Is Real; Big Sisters Do More, Studies Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

But there may be more of a science to eldest daughters than meets the eye. When a mother needed help, biology caused her eldest daughter to step up and mature faster to provide that help. Most striking of all, maternal distress was not found to speed up adrenal puberty in sons or younger daughters. "I have a closer relationship with her, to this day, than I do with many of my other older siblings," he said. His wife grew up as part of a similarly large brood — and her eldest sister had a similar experience.

Persons: Lisa Doucet, Albert didn't, Doucet, Albert, I'm, " Doucet, babysitters, they'd, Molly Fox, Fox, Pamela Jakiela, aren't, isn't, Jonathan Westover, Mary Poppins —, Westover, We're, —, Lenette Azzi, Lessing, Jakiela Organizations: University of California, Fox, Center for Global Development, Williams College, University of Essex, Child, Utah Valley University, Boston University, Child Welfare League of America Locations: Rhode Island, Providence, TikTok, Los Angeles, Kenya, Utah

☆ Too small for the eye to see, microscopic images captured on camera
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Maya Blackstone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Video: His son is being held hostage by Hamas, hear his message to Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Ally Hill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Billionaire tech CEO says bosses shouldn't 'BS' employees about the impact AI will have on jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Corporate leaders can't "bulls---" their employees about the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce and the ways in which the technology will affect jobs more broadly, according to one tech billionaire. "If I could give any advice, it's that everybody should be a student of AI and tech and not be afraid of it." Even though it's a given AI will impact the workforce, "none of us have it all completely figured out," he said. "If anybody comes in and tells you, 'I can tell you exactly how this is going to impact jobs and how it's going to impact everything we're doing,' they're lying. Kavanaugh co-founded WWT in 1990 with fellow St. Louis, Missouri-based entrepreneur David Steward as a reseller of technology equipment.

Persons: Jim Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, David Steward Organizations: CNBC, Forbes, U.S, team Locations: Louis , Missouri, Los Angeles

☆ Olive Garden strikes a deal with Uber to deliver its food
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Once a holdout on using third-party services, Olive Garden is reversing course and will use Uber to deliver breadsticks and pasta. Olive Garden already offers delivery through its website and app, delivered by the restaurant’s employees. Even during the height of the pandemic, Olive Garden didn’t use the services, although the services benefited their competitors. The partnership likely alleviated some of the pain of a dismal quarter for Olive Garden, which reported a 2.9% drop in same-store sales for the quarter. Olive Garden doesn’t offer many discounts, like its competitors do.

Persons: Uber, Olive Garden, Olive, ”, Rick Cardenas, ” Darden, Darden, Ruth Chris Organizations: New, New York CNN, Darden, it’s, Olive, Longhorn Locations: New York, Olive

☆ Japan's Nikkei leads Asia-Pacific markets higher as investors digest outsized Fed rate cut
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Anniek Bao | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is displayed outside Two International Finance Centre in Hong Kong on June 19, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 led Asia-Pacific markets higher Thursday, as traders assessed the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by a half-percentage point. The Fed lowered its benchmark borrowing rate by a half percentage point, bringing its target range to 4.75% to 5%. In lockstep with the Fed, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority cut its interest rate by 50 basis points to 5.25, as the city's currency is pegged to the greenback. Hong Kong markets will return to trade after being closed for a public holiday on Wednesday.

Persons: Hong Organizations: Hong, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, International Finance, Japan's Nikkei, Nikkei, U.S ., Fed Locations: Hong Kong, Asia, Pacific

☆ Hong Kong investigators say Cathay Pacific’s A350 engine defect could cause ‘extensive’ damage
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hong Kong CNN —Hong Kong aviation investigators say an engine problem that caused Cathay Pacific to ground its entire fleet of Airbus A350 jets for inspection earlier this month could have escalated into “extensive damage.”Cathay canceled dozens of flights in early September, citing the need to inspect its A350 planes after the engine issue forced a Zurich-bound flight to return to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff on September 2. The airline had previously identified an engine component failure on the affected aircraft, though it stopped short of revealing what the problem was. The AAIA recommended the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to require Rolls-Royce, the engine maker behind the popular A350 long-haul jets, to “develop continuing airworthiness information” on the problem. Following the incident, Cathay conducted a thorough inspection of its 48-strong A350 fleet and replaced components on 15 of the planes. CNN has reached out to Cathay and Rolls-Royce for comment.

Persons: Royce Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Hong, Cathay, Airbus, Accident Investigation, European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Royce, Trent, CNN Locations: Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific, Zurich

☆ Elon Musk’s X and Starlink face nearly $1 million in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's X faces steep daily fines in Brazil for allegedly evading a ban on the service there, according to a statement from the country's supreme court on Thursday. The court said it would continue to impose "joint liability" on Starlink, the satellite internet service owned and operated by SpaceX, Musk's aerospace venture. Brazil previously withdrew money for fines it levied against X from the accounts of X and Starlink at financial institutions in the country. X said it wasn't intending to restore access for Brazilian users. Before the suspension, X had an estimated 22 million users in Brazil, according to Data Reportal.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Brazil's, Alexandre de Moraes, X, de Moraes, Darth Vader, Harry Potter, Voldemort, Musk, Correio, Cloudflare didn't Organizations: Supremo, Federal, SpaceX, Cloudflare, CNBC Locations: Brazil, India, Turkey, Hungary

☆ Rauen: This cut boosts our confidence to invest, hire, and grow.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRauen: This cut boosts our confidence to invest, hire, and grow. Tom Rauen, Founder & CEO of 1-800-T-SHIRTS, discusses how the rate cut benefits both customers and the business by easing credit card rates and improving consumer confidence."

Persons: Tom Rauen

☆ Fortune 500 CEO shares the No. 1 piece of career advice that helped her get ahead—it's 'especially' important right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Thasunda Brown Duckett has an urgent piece of career advice for anyone who doesn't love their job: Don't run from the challenge. "Be OK with hard," Duckett, president and CEO of insurance giant TIAA, recently told LinkedIn's "This Is Working" podcast. "Make sure along your career, especially early on, you sit in hard, meaning, 'I may not have a manager that's amazing. Career coach Joyce Guan West agrees: Challenge yourself, but don't endure work environments that cause you emotional harm. If you want to get ahead in your career, West says cultivating professional relationships and skill building can help fast-track you.

Persons: Thasunda Brown Duckett, Duckett, LinkedIn's, TIAA, Joyce Guan West Organizations: CNBC

☆ My family of 4 ate dinner at Hooters for the first time. Our $93 meal was a surprisingly good value.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Terri Peters | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I take my family to chain restaurants in search of good value. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . At the same time, rising fast-food prices seem to only be making sit-down chains look like a way better value. Although I was never a big fan of sit-down restaurant chains, I recently began taking my family of four out to eat at them more often in search of good food and great value.

Persons: — Organizations: Hooters, Service, Business

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Mobileye Global, Darden Restaurants and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tech stocks — Key tech names rallied a day after the Federal Reserve's supersized rate cut decision. Coursera — The online education platform jumped more than 8% on the back of Bank of America's initiation at a buy rating. Uber shares rose 3%. NextEra Energy Partners — The stock rose more than 3% on the heels of Jefferies initiating coverage with a buy rating. Crypto stocks — Stocks tied to bitcoin's price climbed as the cryptocurrency moved more than 4% higher following the Fed's rate cut on Wednesday.

Persons: Tesla, Meta, Coursera, Uber, DoorDash, Jefferies, Stocks, MicroStrategy, Alibaba, Alex Harring, Samantha Subin, Lisa Kailai Han, Pia Singh, Michelle Fox Organizations: Tech, Federal, Nvidia, Therapeutics, Intel, Bank of, Darden, DoorDash, NextEra Energy Partners, JPMorgan Locations: Mobileye, Olive

☆ Like digital locusts, OpenAI and Anthropic AI bots cause havoc and raise costs for websites
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

One study estimated that the world's supply of usable AI training data could be depleted by 2032. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company's bot was querying Coates' website roughly twice per second. But hungry AI botnets scrape first, ask questions later. "Utterly sick"Coates says his Game UI Database is back up and running and he continues to add to it. But Coates' story is emblematic of a bigger question: When AI comes to change the world, who bears the cost?

Persons: —, Edd Coates, Coates, Jay Peet, We've, Joshua Gross, Gross, Jennifer Martinez, Anthropic, Senecal, botnets, robots.txt, Roberto Di Cosmo, Di Cosmo, Tania Cohen, Cohen Organizations: Service, Business, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Software Heritage, Software Locations: It's

☆ Opinion | The Fed’s Big Rate Cut Wasn’t Political. It Was an Economic No-Brainer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In one sense, you could say that Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to cut rates was of minimal importance. The interest rate the Fed more or less directly controls — the federal funds rate — is the rate at which banks lend one another money overnight. For one thing, Fed rate changes tend to percolate into longer-term interest rates that really do matter for the economy. For example, the series of rate hikes the Fed undertook in 2022 and 2023 drove 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates up to almost 8 percent from about 3 percent. Most of their decisions are based on the same data about unemployment, inflation and so on available to anyone with an internet connection.

Persons: Jerome Powell, don’t Organizations: Federal Reserve

☆ Walkie-talkie firm probes link to 2nd wave of Lebanon blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Mithil Aggarwal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah infrastructure and a weapons storage facility in southern Lebanon in overnight airstrikes. Israeli artillery also struck several areas in southern Lebanon, the IDF said in a statement. In northern Israel, at least eight people were injured by anti-tank fire from across the Lebanon border, health authorities said early Thursday. While Israel has not taken responsibility for the attacks, the militant group and Lebanese officials also pinned the blame on Israel. Whether original Gold Apollo products were tampered with, or entirely fake ones manufactured, was still being investigated, a spokesperson for the Taiwanese Economic Affairs Ministry told NBC News.

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Lloyd Austin, Israel, Abdallah Rashid Bouhabib, NNA, Icom, Yoshiki Enomoto, Enomoto, didn't, Cristiana, Gold, Arcidiacono Organizations: Hamas, Israeli, NBC News, United Nations Security Council, Lebanese Telecommunications Ministry, Reuters, Icom, NBC, Consulting, Taiwanese Economic Affairs Ministry Locations: Beirut's, Lebanon, Japan, Iran, Gaza, Israel, U.S, New York, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Beirut, Osaka, East

☆ OKX President: Crypto regulations will continue to evolve
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOKX President: Crypto regulations will continue to evolveHong Fang of OKX says it is working to establish regulatory clarity in various jurisdictions through Asia, adding that the cryptocurrency exchange remains committed to long term investment in the region.

Persons: Crypto, Hong Fang, OKX Locations: Asia

☆ Read the memo 23andMe's cofounder sent to staff after the entire board quit
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

23andMe's board resigned over a 'distracting difference of view' with cofounder Anne Wojcicki. The board rejected an earlier proposal by Wojcicki to take the company private. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Advertisement23andMe's entire board of directors resigned from the company over cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki's ongoing plans to take it private.

Persons: 23andMe's, Anne Wojcicki, Wojcicki, —, Anne Wojcicki's Organizations: Service, Business

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