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That won't happen for another 45 days, but Donald Trump, the president-in-waiting, isn't shying away from acting like the president-in-reality. This weekend, Trump will join French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after it was devastated by fire. “Given the weakness of the current president and the speed at which things develop in the modern world, Trump is, in effect, a presumptive president,” said Newt Gingrich, a Republican former House speaker and a Trump ally. But Trump and a few of his predecessors haven’t hesitated to dip a toe into real-time crises if so moved. When President George W. Bush invited Obama to a meeting of world leaders devoted to the downturn, Obama declined.

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Nearly 100 former national security officials signed a letter criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and called for closed-door Senate hearings to review any government information about her. In the letter obtained by NBC News, the officials urged the Senate to "carefully evaluate" whether Gabbard is "equipped" for the position, which requires Senate confirmation. "Following her trip to Syria, for example, Ms. Gabbard aligned herself with Russian and Syrian officials." The former officials also proposed closed-door hearings that would allow lawmakers to fully review any government files on Gabbard, a former Democratic House member from Hawaii. Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Gabbard on the Trump transition team slammed the letter, as well as the signers' credentials.

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A third Democratic lawmaker reported being told this week by Ocasio-Cortez, 35, that she was definitely running. The contest will serve as a gauge of whether the Democratic caucus still values seniority or truly wants generational change. “AOC is very collaborative on the committee and helps lift up all members,” Khanna said in a brief interview. The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which is closely aligned with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is planning to make recommendations for committee leaders later this month. After that, all 215 House Democrats who will serve in the new Congress will vote on who they want as their committee leaders for the 119th Congress.

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☆ John Mark Karr claimed he was with JonBenét Ramsey when she died. Here's where he is today.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementOnly one person has ever been arrested on suspicion of JonBenét Ramsey's murder: John Mark Karr. The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen, has transfixed the public since 1996. In the decades since the crime, there have been many theories about who killed JonBenét and even several false confessions. The suspect covered most widely in the media was John Mark Karr, who was arrested and cleared for the murder in 2006. John Mark Karr used the name "Daxis" to send emails to a JonBenét Ramsey documentarianJohn and Patsy Ramsey in May 1997.

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☆ As the search for Brian Thompson's killer continues, experts in NYPD murder manhunts explain why it's taken this long
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementThe man who shot UnitedHealthcare's CEO appeared to have planned carefully, experts in NYPD manhunts told BI. He took key precautions that delayed his capture, they said — including fleeing into Central Park. The park is the only part of Manhattan not blanketed by surveillance cameras, they said. They've shared crisp, full-color surveillance photos of the suspect and dangled offers of $10,000 for tips leading to his capture. "There are pockets of Central Park that don't have video," Illuzzi said, who is now of counsel at Perry Law in Manhattan.

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☆ YouTuber Connor Franta accuses business partners of siphoning more than $1 million from Heard Well. They deny it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Geoff Weiss | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementConnor Franta is suing his Heard Well business partners. YouTube star Connor Franta is suing his business partners, alleging in a lawsuit that they embezzled more than $1 million from the company they cofounded in 2015. He also names the company's business manager — who is the father of one of the cofounders — as a defendant, accusing him of turning a blind eye to the alleged theft. "The lawsuit filed by Connor Franta is without merit," Sullivan told Business Insider in a statement. Advertisement"Acting with integrity and respect in all my professional endeavors — especially with fellow creators — has always been a top priority for me," Franta told BI in a statement.

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☆ Billie Eilish says her childhood obsession with Brandy Melville contributed to body-image problems as a preteen
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementBillie Eilish says she developed body image issues after a preteen obsession with Brandy Melville. Billie Eilish says she developed body image issues as a tween because of her obsession with the one-size clothing brand Brandy Melville. "But when I got to be about 11, I got obsessed with this brand called Brandy Melville. Brandy Melville did not offer any comment to BI in 2021 in response to the allegations. Representatives for Eilish and Brandy Melville did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

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☆ I saved hundreds of dollars thanks to my local Nextdoor network. I've gotten repair and removal services for free.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I got a giant cabinet removed by a carpenter and my ice maker fixed by an appliance repairer for free. We particularly objected to a giant-size TV and entertainment center made of dark cherry wood in our family room. Courtesy of Jane RidleyStill, I wrote that it was up for grabs to anyone who could remove it for free. AdvertisementI got my ice maker fixed for freeAnother member asked people to send greeting cards to an older neighbor who rarely received any mail. The ice maker on our refrigerator hadn't worked for more than a year.

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☆ I hiked the Appalachian Trail with my family of 4. We ran out of water on the second day and faced a dire situation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Victoria Marie Lees | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementWhen my family of four hiked a part of the Appalachian Trail, we packed a lot and came prepared. We couldn't make the eight miles needed to reach the water source that first day. As a rule, hikers shouldn't drink untreated wild water in streams unless the water source has been marked as "potable" or "drinkable." AdvertisementThe Appalachian Trail map's next water source for the section we hiked was a nearby campground. We were ready the next time we backpacked the Appalachian Trail, and our packs were much lighter.

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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban in the United States. If ByteDance fails to sell TikTok by Jan. 19, the law would require app store companies, like Apple and Google, and internet hosting providers to stop supporting TikTok, effectively banning the app. "On the merits, we reject each of the petitioners' constitutional claims," the appeals court panel said in its opinion on the decision Friday. President-elect Donald Trump has not yet said whether his administration will enforce the ban when he takes office next month. In a September post on Truth Social, Trump said he wasn't "doing anything with TikTok, but the other side is going to close it up, so if you like TikTok, go out and vote for Trump."

Persons: Joe Biden, Jan, Troy Balderson, Donald Trump, Trump, Vance, Karoline Leavitt Organizations: U.S ., Washington , D.C, Apple, Google, Chinese Communist Party, Social, Trump, CNBC Locations: China, United States, Washington ,, Ohio

☆ Meta shares rise on potential TikTok ban in U.S., closing at record alongside Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta shares continued their extended rally on Friday, rising 2.4% and closing at a record after a federal appeals court upheld a law requiring China's ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective U.S. ban. Alongside Meta, Amazon also closed at an all-time high on Friday and is up 49% this year. TikTok said later Friday that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the appeals court decision. In its third-quarter earnings release, Meta reported a 19% increase in year-over-year revenue while warning of a significant acceleration in its infrastructure expenses in 2025.

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☆ Pennsylvania grandmother is found dead days after fall into sinkhole, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The body of a Pennsylvania woman believed to have fallen into a fresh sinkhole this week while searching for her cat has been found in a long-abandoned mine that the sinkhole exposed, state police said Friday. Elizabeth Pollard, 64, was found dead Friday in the mine in the southwestern Pennsylvania community of Marguerite shortly after 11:00 a.m., Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Trooper Steve Limani said. Crews still were working to recover her body early Friday afternoon, he said. “The family … kept telling us, ‘We really want to have the body back so we can lay her to rest,” Limani said. The sinkhole where Pollard was believed to have fallen is in an area with limestone bedrock and had almost no ground left, state police said.

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☆ Village People front man says ‘YMCA’ isn’t a gay anthem – and he’ll sue anyone who disagrees
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

is somehow a gay anthem,” Willis, who wrote the lyrics for the 1978 hit, said on Facebook on Monday. “As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life. It is not.”The song, from the band’s third studio album, “Cruisin,’” has spent years as an informal anthem of the LGBTQ community. Willis said that when writing the song he had no idea that the YMCA was “a hang out for gays.”He said: “I therefore wrote Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not.

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☆ DOGE's Musk, Ramaswamy want Congress to pass huge spending cuts. That's a tough sell
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Emily Wilkins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

watch nowWASHINGTON, D.C. — Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have an ambitious agenda to cut federal spending with the help of their outside advisory council, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Crisscrossing Capitol Hill together on a marathon day of meetings with lawmakers, Musk and Ramaswamy got warm welcomes from Republicans. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesBut there was also an elephant in the rooms they visited: An unspoken understanding that Musk's stated goal of slashing federal spending by $2 trillion is already D.O.A. "Those are the kinds of things that we're also going to be looking at," Scalise told reporters after his meeting with Musk and Ramaswamy. Benoit Tessier | ReutersOnly when Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, and Senate Republicans take control of their chamber, can plans really begin to move ahead.

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☆ Elliot Eastman: American vlogger abducted in Philippines presumed dead, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —An American man abducted in the Philippines is presumed dead after a witness claimed he was shot during a struggle with his captors, the Philippines News Agency reported, citing police. Regional police spokesman Lt. Col. Ramoncelio Sawan told media Thursday that the witness told them that Eastman was shot twice by his captors on the night of his abduction as they ferried him away from the scene. All of the information that we have points to that,” Sawan said, according to the Associated Press. Police have said the present case is unlikely linked to Muslim rebels, according to the Associated Press. The US State Department advises citizens to reconsider travel to Mindanao due to the risk of “crime, terrorism, civil unrest and kidnapping.”

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☆ How hustle icon Gary Vee found his inner Ted Lasso
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementVaynerchuk, also known as Gary Vee, has built a legion of fans, many of whom are young men, by evangelizing hard work. His schtick lands with a generation that's grown up with — and is now exhausted by — social media, which encourages constant comparisons with others. Advertisement"In the beginning, it was, 'That's dumb, that's dumb,'" Jon Halvorson, SVP of Mondelez and a longtime client, said of Vaynerchuk's rhetoric. CMOs no longer have to be convinced to embrace social media, and many have even bypassed agencies like VaynerX altogether to take that work in-house. Naysayers say his personal brand is still bigger than his company; Vaynerchuk has 22 times as many followers on X as VaynerMedia.

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☆ Social media stocks jump on a TikTok ban development. But it might be premature
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street.

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☆ Trump has vowed to give green cards to college grads. Could that actually happen?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

At a recent career fair, he says he struggled to find companies willing to sponsor international students. It made him realize how precarious international students’ lives in the US can be. Illinois Institute of Technology President Raj Echambadi first came to the US as an international student 30 years ago. “There are no numerical limits on the admission of foreign students — who number about 1 million now — and foreign students are already a major profit center for schools large and small,” he wrote. Courtesy Metolo FoyetFoyet, the University of Florida geography student, says international students will be listening closely to what Trump says going forward.

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☆ Club World Cup: Donald and Ivanka Trump feature in draw, as Inter Miami discovers its fate
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Inter Miami will play Egypt’s Al Ahly in the first match of next year’s revamped Club World Cup, after the draw was made on Thursday. It’s being viewed as a warmup for when the United States hosts the World Cup in 2026, alongside Canada and Mexico. President-elect Donald Trump featured in the often chaotic draw, speaking to the audience via a pre-recorded video message. He was introduced world soccer governing body FIFA President Gianni Infantino as his “very special friend.”“The event is going to be incredible. I will try and be there if I can,” Trump said, before praising Infantino and looking ahead to the 2026 World Cup.

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☆ Bitcoin hit $100,000 this week—here's how much money you'd have now if you invested $1,000 in it 10 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bitcoin hit a big milestone: On Wednesday night, the digital currency's price crossed the six-figure threshold for the first time. If you invested one year ago Percentage change: 130%130% Total as of Dec. 5: $2,305 If you invested five years ago Percentage change: 1,272%1,272% Total as of Dec. 5: $13,717 If you invested 10 years ago Percentage change: 26,738%26,738% Total as of Dec. 5: $268,384 Here's how that compares with the S&P 500 index, which is often viewed as a benchmark of the overall stock market. Percentage change since one year ago: 33%33% Percentage change since five years ago: 95%95% Percentage change since 10 years ago: 193%What prompted bitcoin to hit its new all-time highOne potential reason behind the surge may be some of Wall Street's key institutions' embrace of bitcoin. Several large investment firms including Invesco, BlackRock and Fidelity Investments launched the first spot bitcoin exchange traded funds in January. With the availability of bitcoin ETFs, a larger number of investors can gain access to bitcoin.

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☆ We designed our dream home in Mexico for $270,000. It was cheaper than buying in the US but came with extra costs we didn't expect.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementMy husband and I moved from the US to Mexico because we were worried about our financial future. We bought a fixer-upper for $50,000 and spent $220,000 to turn it into our dream home. My husband and I happily live in our dream home in Mérida, Mexico but getting to this point took time, patience, and some extra costs we didn't anticipate. We were looking at buying a small place in Brooklyn but couldn't find anything for less than $500,000. One expense we didn't anticipateThe time and extra costs are worth it to live in our dream home.

Persons: Fabio Martinez, John Newton, John Newton The, Marc Locations: Mexico, Mérida, NYC, Brooklyn

☆ I tried 2 viral products meant to make long-haul flights more comfortable. I'd only pack one again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementI've taken a handful of economy long-haul flights but never loved the traditional travel pillow. I tried a foot hammock and an inflatable travel pillow. I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: Long-haul flights suck. I tested two viral products this year: a foot hammock and an inflatable pillow. I thought I'd prefer this sleeping position over craning my neck, so I went to Amazon and purchased the $21 Kimiandy inflatable travel pillow.

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☆ Adam Scott Talks Entertainment Career Instability, Working With Wife
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Jane Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A few decades later, Scott, 51, is doing the work his childhood self dreamed of. You've previously mentioned that you spent the first 15 years of your career "hanging on by a piece of floss." Was there an "I made it" moment in your career when you finally realized you were floss-free? I've had too many experiences over the years where things don't work out, and I think any actor has that feeling. That's really satisfying.

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☆ My son's soccer team only won one game all season. I helped coach, and losing brought us closer together.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Tara Calihman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementWhen my son asked to join a soccer team, I signed him up right away. I was asked to help coach the team, and though I knew nothing about the sport, I agreed. The team only won one game, but we all learned a lot about being resilient. Related VideoI was asked to help coach even though I knew nothing about soccerA few days after doing so, I received a call from the club's upper management. It turns out that soccer is an amazing game and one that I loved learning about over the course of the very long season.

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☆ Here's what to know before taking your first required minimum distribution
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Grace Cary | Moment | Getty ImagesAfter decades of building your nest egg, you will eventually have to start taking required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from pretax retirement accounts. The first deadline is April 1 of the year after you turn 73, and Dec. 31 for future withdrawals. Pre-tax retirement withdrawals incur regular income taxes. Two required withdrawals in one yearIf you wait until April 1 after turning 73 to take your first RMD, you'll still owe the second one by Dec. 31. That can trigger unexpected tax consequences, according to CFP Abrin Berkemeyer, a senior financial advisor with Goodman Financial in Houston.

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