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☆ Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail!’, dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Elwood Edwards, an announcer and local TV staffer who became internationally famous as the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” prompt to millions at the dawn of the internet era, has died, AOL announced. His daughter Sallie Edwards said the cause of death was complications from a stroke, the New York Times reported. Mimi Mollica / Shutterstock fileIn a 2016 interview with CNN’s Great Big Story, Edwards talked about his iconic AOL voice-over work. In a 2000 episode of “The Simpsons,” Edwards provided the voice of an online doctor delivering some bad news: “You’ve got leprosy!”Elwood Edwards. He noted good-naturedly that “You’ve got mail!” became a catchphrase that “I have a certain amount of trouble trying to escape.”

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By December 2, 2024, the Government shall file a status report indicating its proposed course for this case going forward," the judge wrote. Trump was indicted in the case in August 2023, but significant delays have kept it from going to trial. He's tentatively scheduled to be sentenced in the New York case on Nov. 26 after he was convicted earlier this year on 34 counts of falsifying business records, a low-level felony. The Georgia election interference case has been on hold as Trump and some of his co-defendants are asking an appeals court to remove the prosecutor in the case because of conflict of interest allegations. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the Georgia case as well.

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☆ Toyota says California-led EV mandates are 'impossible' as states fall short of goal
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A sign is displayed outside a Toyota Motor Corp. dealership on Jan. 30, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesDETROIT — Toyota Motor sounded the alarm Friday that California-led electric vehicle mandates that are set to start next year are "impossible" to meet and, if they're not changed, will lead to less customer choice in several states. Battery-electric, fuel cell and, to an extent, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles qualify as zero emission under the regulations. At this point, it looks impossible," Jack Hollis, chief operating officer of Toyota Motor North America, said during a virtual media roundtable Friday. Several automotive insiders previously told CNBC that the EV mandate issue needed to be addressed regardless of who won election this year.

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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. "Our primary focus is #Bitcoin," Dorsey proclaimed on Twitter. The name of the business unit would be TBD. Block called it Web5 and said the mission was to create a more decentralized, secure and private internet. Dorsey said in a tweet in mid-2022 that Web5 "will likely be our most important contribution to the internet."

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☆ Trump criminal election case paused as special counsel Jack Smith weighs fate of prosecution
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A judge on Friday paused proceedings in the criminal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, a move that reflects the expected end of the prosecution. Trump's win against Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week was considered a death knell for Smith's prosecutions of him. On Wednesday, NBC News reported that DOJ officials have been evaluating how to wind down the election case and another criminal case against Trump before he is sworn in as president. Trump has said he plans to fire Smith, and is expected to force the DOJ to end the prosecutions. And DOJ policy bars the department from prosecuting a president while in office due to the department's position in the executive branch of government.

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☆ Trump's election interference case is on ice after Jack Smith, defense, and judge agree to vacate deadlines
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors sought to vacate remaining deadlines in Donald Trump's election-interference case. Justice Department policy says a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office. AdvertisementA federal judge on Friday granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to vacate all pending deadlines for President-elect Donald Trump's federal election interference case. There is long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office. Over the last month, the federal judge overseeing the election interference case released a trove of prosecutors' evidence against Trump.

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☆ As Trump grasps unprecedented power, the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity looms large
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Immune, immune, immune.”Justice Department ‘problem’But just how far that immunity extends is murky. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision left many questions unanswered and lower courts have not yet wrestled with them. But the Supreme Court majority ruled that a president’s power to direct the Justice Department’s investigative and prosecutorial work is within his exclusive constitutional authority. While the Supreme Court granted former presidents wide immunity, the ruling made no such promises to aides in the White House or Justice Department. Even the conservative Supreme Court and several lower courts repeatedly blocked Trump, who according to a study last year had the worst win rate at the high court of any modern president.

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☆ Prince William said it's been the 'hardest year' of his life. It marks a shift for the royal family's image.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

William's openness marks a shift from the royal family's traditional PR approach. AdvertisementPrince William this week opened up about his "brutal" year amid King Charles and Kate Middleton's respective cancer diagnoses. By all accounts, it has been another difficult year for the Royal Family. The royal family wasn't initially as forthcoming about the Princess of Wales' cancer diagnosis. Kate Middleton and Prince William attended King Charles' coronation day in May 2023.

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☆ Fintechs Upstart and Toast soar on earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Chris Comparato, CEO, the Toast, Inc. IPO at the New York Stock Exchange, on September 22, 2021. Toast , which sells payments technology to restaurants, jumped 14%, closing at its highest since 2021. Toast is still well off its pandemic highs of 2021, but the stock has now more than doubled this year. The company's adjusted earnings forecast of $90 million to $100 million for the current quarter sailed past estimates. Coinbase shares jumped 48% for the week, their strongest performance since January 2023.

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named co-campaign chair Susie Wiles as his White House first chief of staff, one of the most important non-elected posts in Washington. “Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,” Trump said in a statement Thursday. After Trump’s resounding victory Tuesday over Vice President Kamala Harris, there was an overwhelming sense that Wiles was the frontrunner to be White House chief of staff. “I’m told you know something about Florida,” Trump told Wiles when they first spoke on the phone, NBC News reported in March. Response to Wiles’ hire as chief of staff was overwhelmingly positive from Republicans.

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☆ How Trump broke both parties — and where Democrats go from here: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

In today’s edition, senior national political reporter Jonathan Allen explains why Democrats need to retool their economic message during Donald Trump's second term. Plus, senior national politics reporter Matt Dixon writes that the battle to succeed Trump in four years is already underway. How Trump broke both parties — and where Democrats go from hereBy Jonathan AllenOver the course of the last decade, President-elect Donald Trump broke both national political parties. Before Trump, Democrats nominated — and the country twice elected — Barack Obama, a candidate who ran against leaders that walked the country into forever wars and a finance-and-housing crisis that nearly toppled the economy. Harris’ economic policy offerings were largely expansions of Biden proposals, such as more generous homebuyer and child tax credits than he called for.

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☆ Tex-Mex recipes that are cheesy and delicious
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Leah Scalzadonna For Food Network | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

In the United States, Tex-Mex can often get confused with authentic Mexican recipes. However, Tex-Mex cuisine has evolved into its own category, and can be distinguished by heartier ingredients like cheese, beef, powdered spices and flour tortillas. Whether you’re serving up a plate of sizzling fajitas or a pile of cheesy nachos, Tex-Mex is always welcome on the table. Air Fryer Taquitos and Charred SalsaTaquitos are the ultimate finger food—mini rolled tacos that are warm, cheesy and super crunchy! Matt Armendariz/Food NetworkGet the Recipe

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In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump kept supporters at a Michigan rally waiting for hours after he detoured to Texas to record Rogan’s show. And then many of them suddenly found themselves running Harris’ campaign. “This has been an historic partnership in which these teams have worked together extraordinarily well,” said a White House official who has been there from the beginning. “Not enough people understand the importance of that,” a Trump campaign official said of the Kennedy nod. It was the first energizing move that the campaign had since the switch-out.”A Democrat close to the Harris campaign said: “Brat summer had to end.

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Several people, including children and college students, have reported receiving racist text messages from unrecognized phone numbers in recent days. CNN has reached out to state officials for additional information on the text messages. “My initial reaction was probably like disbelief, like I thought it was like a joke,” said Jones, who forwarded the text message to her loved ones. “I feel like it’s a spam message (and) I do feel disappointed about the message they’re sending a day after the election,” Burwell said. Officials in Washington, DC, and Virginia told CNN Thursday they are looking into the racist text messages.

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It was not immediately clear who sent the messages, and there is no complete list of whom they were delivered to. “My initial reaction was probably like disbelief, like I thought it was like a joke,” said Jones, who forwarded the text message to loved ones. The “racist and vile spam text messages” have also spread to Louisiana, Republican state Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed said Thursday via X. And in Washington, DC, the attorney general’s office also is “aware of racist text messages being sent to residents there, condemning them unequivocally,” spokesperson Gabriel Shoglow-Rubenstein said. If you believe your safety is at risk, please contact local law enforcement,” he said in a statement to CNN.

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☆ NFL midseason predictions for every team: Kirk Cousins wins comeback award; NFC East champ is …?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( The Athletic Nfl Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +28 min

Our NFL writers addressed these topics and more in making one prediction for every team heading into the season’s second half. The fourth-year back is on pace to finish with 1,256 yards, which would be the fourth-highest total in team history. Every other NFL team has put a player in at least one of those categories during that stretch — and most teams have checked both boxes. Minnesota has one of the most productive defenses in the NFL and an offense loaded at the skill positions. And the Eagles have managed to win games despite bad luck and bad decisions.

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As time is winding down to the event’s arrival, there are a few strategies for how to buy Jingle Ball 2024 tickets. The 2024 Jingle Ball Tour will kick off on Tuesday, December 3, in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for how to get tickets to the 2024 Jingle Ball Tour. iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball 2024 tour scheduleThe 10 stops on this year’s iteration of iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball Tour take some of today’s top artists all around the nation. How to buy tickets for iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball 2024 concert tourYou can buy standard original tickets for iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball 2024 tour on Ticketmaster.

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☆ Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL’s iconic greeting ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL’s email greeting, ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ has died, according to his former employer. More than 30 years ago, Edwards recorded four iconic lines for what was then a little-known company called America Online. His wife, Karen, worked at Quantum Computer Services, which eventually became AOL, Edwards said in an AOL YouTube video in 2012. She volunteered her husband, and Edwards recorded the phrases on a cassette deck in his living room. “I didn’t enjoy being on camera as much as I enjoyed being behind the scenes,” Edwards said on the podcast.

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☆ Army drill sergeant rates 11 more boot camp scenes in movies and TV
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Margaret Guzman | David Ibekwe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Retired US Army drill sergeant Lamont Christian rates more boot-camp scenes in movies and TV shows. He additionally looks at US Army basic training scenes in "In the Army Now" and "Biloxi Blues," starring Christopher Walken and Matthew Broderick. Christian served in the US Army for 33 years as a combat infantryman with a cumulative experience of 11 years working in various positions within the basic training environment. He retired in 2018 as the command sergeant major of Fort Jackson, the Army's main training center for basic combat training. He is now the director of the Warrior PATHH program at the Big Red Barn Retreat, where he helps veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress.

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☆ How a former unhoused New Yorker helps combat food insecurity in his city
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

New York City is experiencing its highest level of homelessness since the Great Depression, according to the non-profit group Coalition for the Homeless. Another New York non-profit, City Harvest, says nearly 1.3 million residents are food insecure, including 1 in 4 children, in America’s most populous city. Is there anyone on this train who’s hungry?” Thomas bellows from the center of the car. But with the number of unhoused and hungry people in New York City only growing, the task often feels daunting. The food is saving someone’s lifelong term, but for him I was helping him live, right there on the spot.”Henry Thomas distributes food in the New York City subway.

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☆ Trump thinks presidents have near-total power: there will be little to stop him in his second term
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Donald Trump believes presidents have almost absolute power. In his second term, there will be few political or legal restraints to check him. It’s not guaranteed that just because Trump has massive power he will spurn constitutional checks and balances. No other president has come into office armed with a Supreme Court ruling that grants significant immunity to presidents for official acts. Attempts to prosecute Trump’s political foes on spurious grounds, meanwhile, could theoretically see mass resignations of Justice Department staff.

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☆ Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th century have sold for £9.6 million ($12.5 million) at auction, smashing their estimate of £1 million ($1.3 million). “This remarkable result makes it the highest priced Chinese work of art sold at auction worldwide this year,” said Sotheby’s. Part of the lot’s appeal was the fact that this was the first ever appearance of a complete pair of fish jars with covers at auction. There is only one other covered pair known to be maintained together, and they are held by the Musée Guimet in Paris. Tristan Fewings/Getty ImagesIn addition, there are only three known single jars that still have covers, all of which are in private collections.

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☆ Block shares plunge 11% on revenue miss
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Block shares tumbled 11% in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported third-quarter revenue that trailed Wall Street expectations. Earnings per share: 88 cents adjusted vs. 87 cents expected88 cents adjusted vs. 87 cents expected Revenue: $5.98 billion vs. $6.24 billion expectedBlock, formerly known as Square, posted $2.25 billion in gross profit, up 19% from a year ago. Analysts tend to focus on gross profit as a more accurate measurement of the company's core transactional businesses. The company reported net income of $283.7 million, or 45 cents per share, after losing $88.7 million, or 15 cents a share, a year earlier. The company said gross profit for the fourth quarter will increase 14% to $2.31 billion.

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Being elected president will likely result in the federal criminal cases against him being dismissed, while his state criminal cases could at the least be frozen until after he leaves office. Trump’s legal team, meanwhile, is evaluating its next steps for how to get all four criminal cases resolved, and plan to argue soon that all of the cases “must stop immediately,” according to a source directly involved in the discussions. Here's a look at where the various legal cases against Trump stand — and how they could be affected by his victory. They argue that some of the evidence presented to the grand jury and at the criminal trial should not have been allowed in the wake of the high court's ruling. Trump's victory likely won't impact his pending appeals of the civil judgments against him that total more than $550 million.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Justice Department on Sept. 27. Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesHow Trump’s legal jeopardy has unfolded over the past year, in terms of both the criminal charges and his sweeping election victory, is unprecedented. The immediate goal of Trump’s legal team is to get that postponed indefinitely or otherwise dismissed. The Georgia election interference case against Trump remains tied up on appeals over ethical issues surrounding the district attorney. “The American people have re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to Make America Great Again," Trump Campaign Spokesman Steven Chung said in a statement.

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