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☆ Sheriff Mark Lamb Enters GOP Race for Arizona Senate
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden Must Tread Rocky Path in Belfast Before Tending His Irish Roots
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Though Mr. Biden deplored I.R.A. The events became one of the most infamous episodes of the Troubles, known as Bloody Sunday. Mr. Powell said Mr. Biden had made his own contribution later on by pressing the British government to break an impasse with the European Union over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. In doing so, he fulfilled a promise he made to Mr. Biden when the two met last fall at a summit in Indonesia, during which the prime minister vowed to resolve the issue. “It is possible that Biden could be seen as adding more pressure on the unionists,” said Katy Hayward, a professor of politics at Queen’s University in Belfast.

☆ Just months after buying the platform, Elon Musk is officially the biggest account on Twitter, leapfrogging former president Barack Obama to reach 133 million followers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk overtook Barack Obama on Thursday to become Twitter's most followed account. Five months after buying the social-media platform, Musk has over 133 million followers. The Twitter CEO posted 72 times on Monday, and has his tweets boosted by engineers, per Platformer. According to the follower-tracking site SocialBlade, Musk saw the biggest increase last April – the month he first offered to buy Twitter – gaining 9.7 million followers. The Twitter CEO became the sixth-user to cross the 100 million mark last June, according to The Verge, which first reported the news.

☆ 3 financial red flags that may mean your spouse is thinking divorce, according to a CFP: 'Start looking for money movement'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

La Spisa is not a therapist or a lawyer. "Start looking for money movement," La Spisa advises. Mark La Spisa CFP2. You don't know where the tax return went If your tax return "disappears," that is another sign that your partner could be preparing for divorce, according to La Spisa. A good rule of thumb, La Spisa says, is if you feel like something is off it probably is: "It's all the stuff you'd look for if your spouse was cheating."

☆ EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Kate Abnett | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The approval from EU countries' energy ministers means Europe's main climate policy for cars can now enter into force - after weeks of delay caused by last-minute opposition from Germany. The EU law will require all new cars sold to have zero CO2 emissions from 2035, and 55% lower CO2 emissions from 2030, versus 2021 levels. The EU policy had been expected to make it impossible to sell combustion engine cars in the EU from 2035. "The direction of travel is clear: in 2035, new cars and vans must have zero emissions," EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said. Germany's late intervention, after EU countries and lawmakers had already agreed the 2035 phaseout last year, irked some EU diplomats, and stoked concerns that governments may try to block other carefully-negotiated deals on climate policies.

☆ How to maintain financial independence in a long-term relationship
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Four in five Americans believe that women stay in unhappy relationships due to lack of financial independence, according to data from Bumble's State of the Nation 2023 survey. If independence is important to you, it would be wise to maintain some financial distance from your partner, whether or not you feel your relationship is on shaky ground. "If your value system is to be able to be independent, then you've got to create that independence," said Mark La Spisa, a certified financial planner and president of Vermilion Financial. Mark La Spisa CFPMore tips for maintaining financial independenceHaving your own credit cards is also important, La Spisa said. "People are willing to sacrifice their happiness, in a lot of cases, for security or for stuff," La Spisa said.

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc is owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Brown-Forman Corp (BFb.N). "I'm concerned about the First Amendment implications of your position," conservative Justice Samuel Alito told an attorney for Jack Daniel's, referring to the constitutional provision enshrining free-speech protections. "Could any reasonable person think that Jack Daniel's had approved this use of the mark?" Jack Daniel's also contested a finding by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. "This is a standard commercial product," Kagan told a lawyer for VIP Products, Bennett Cooper.

☆ Samsung wins jury trial in 'S10' trademark lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Blake Brittain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO: A Samsung employee poses with the new Samsung Galaxy S10 5G smartphone at a press event in London, Britain February 20, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd convinced a Los Angeles federal jury on Friday that its Galaxy S10 phones do not violate the trademark rights of a talent-management agency that also uses the “S10” name. S10 Entertainment, which manages the pop singers Anitta and Normani, said it began using the S10 name in 2017. “As a result of confusion between Samsung’s S10 phone line and S10 Entertainment’s S10 mark, the value and goodwill of S10 Entertainment’s Instagram and social media footprint has been severely diminished,” the lawsuit said. The case is S10 Entertainment & Media LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, No.

Some companies have expressed concern that a ruling against Jack Daniel's would weaken their control over their brands and reputations. The toy mimics Lynchburg, Tennessee-based Jack Daniel's famous whiskey bottles with humorous dog-themed alterations - replacing "Old No. "Jack Daniel's loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone," the company told the justices in a brief. "But Jack Daniel's likes its customers even more, and doesn't want them confused or associating its fine whiskey with dog poop." VIP Products has said a ruling favoring Jack Daniel's would make it easier for trademark owners to stifle free speech.

☆ This couple bought an abandoned inn near Saguaro National Park for $615,000 and turned it into a desert oasis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Sara and Rich Combs bought the abandoned inn for $615,000 and poured over $500,000 into renovations. The couple already owned and operated The Joshua Tree House, a property comprised of individual guest homes in California. This space was only about a six-hour drive from Joshua Tree and offered a different, but still natural setting. The rooms in Joshua Tree House: The Posada range from $210 to $427 a night. Sara and Rich Combs

☆ Corporations are keeping food expensive because they can
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

To be sure, food manufacturers have to factor in costs of labor and transportation, which remain elevated compared with a few years ago. Anyway, it isn’t just food companies taking advantage of the inflationary moment. Many food companies are forecasting that they might slow down or pause price increases — but not lower them, Danielle explains. But [companies] have, I think, taken price increases that exceed that,” said Mark Lang, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Tampa who specializes in food marketing. Lower prices could, for example, make people think food quality has gone down — or make them think they were paying too much in the first place.

☆ Food is getting cheaper. But not for you
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

When food producers started raising prices a few years ago, they blamed their own costs, including higher ingredient prices. Many food companies are forecasting that they might slow down or pause price increases — but not lower them. But ingredients typically make up a small portion of overall food costs. Companies are maintaining elevated prices, or continuing to increase them, at a time when many Americans are already struggling to pay for food, especially as pandemic-era food stamp benefits expire. So people keep buying food at the grocery store, despite higher prices — giving producers an opportunity to convince retailers that those higher prices won’t drive customers away.

☆ Why a small-business owner is waging an expensive battle for its name against Oura, the $2.5 billion health-tech company
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Oura Inc. and Oura Health are in a legal battle over their names. Last March, Oura Health filed a petition with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel Oura Inc.'s trademark, claiming that the trademark could dilute Oura Health's brand and confuse consumers. If Oura Health prevails, Oura Inc. could lose its federal trademark, which would make it difficult to continue running the business without changing its name. Oura Health told Insider that both companies operate in the health and wellness industry, thus creating confusion. A representative for Oura Health said in a statement: "We first used our Oura mark long before Oura Inc. or Ouragin, Inc. were formed.

REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File PhotoHOUSTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Russia's decision to cut crude oil production by 500,000 barrels per day reflects its inability to sell all of its oil, Ben Harris, a U.S. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary, said on Thursday. Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak last week said it would voluntarily cut production beginning next month following the start of Western price caps on Russian oil and oil products on Feb. 5. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have pushed for lowering the crude oil cap. There have been no American companies involved in trading Russian oil above the price cap, he said. Phillips 66's (PSX.N) Chief Executive Mark Lashier said the company's base assumption is that Russia's crude and oil products will find their way into the marketplace.

One of the really interesting questions here – this will be fascinating – the core of linear TV is sports rights. When you look at the size and scope of the linear TV business, it's huge. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesByron Allen, Entertainment Studios founder and CEO: I think linear TV will exist for a very, very long time. Simmons: I believe Apple, out of nowhere, will start making their own awesome televisions that have Apple TV embedded in them. We are witnessing early stages of this dynamic with deals like "NFL Sunday Ticket" on YouTube and the MLS deal with Apple TV.

Google said the new DOJ case, filed jointly with eight states last month, which also alleges advertising-related abuses, overlaps with multidistrict litigation in New York that formed in 2021. Google has disputed the claims in the new lawsuit, saying it "duplicates an unfounded" one that Texas filed and now is part of the New York litigation. "They just want DOJ versus Google, nobody else," Vladeck said. Fox also said there is a new federal law that gives state plaintiffs their preference for venue in antitrust litigation. The case is In re Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1:21-md-03010-PKC.

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego announced Monday he will run for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat currently held by centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in December to become an independent. In his statement Monday, Gallego said: “The problem isn’t that Senator Sinema abandoned the Democratic Party — it’s that she’s abandoned Arizona. Karrin Taylor Robson, who narrowly lost to Lake in the 2022 primary after spending $20 million of her family’s money, is seriously considering a Senate run, a source close to her said. And Mark Lamb, the Pinal County sheriff, is also considering a Senate run in 2024, said an Arizona Republican source. A Gallego adviser said he's prepared for a two-way race if Sinema steps aside or a three-way race if she chooses to run.

☆ Women’s Telehealth Firm Favor Changes Name Back to Pill Club Following Lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Katie Deighton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Favor, a women-focused telehealth company that rebranded last year from the Pill Club, is reverting back to its old name after an unfavorable initial ruling in a trademark lawsuit. The telehealth company last March changed its name to Favor from the Pill Club in a bid to communicate the breadth of its services beyond contraception, Chief Executive Liz Meyerdirk said. The judge ordered the telehealth company to cease using the Favor mark until a final judgment could be reached. NeighborFavor described 11 instances in which Hey Favor’s customers had contacted the delivery company in error. Hey Favor, which rebranded from the Pill Club months before the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

[1/2] U.S. Supreme Court police officers stand on the front steps of the Supreme Court building prior to the official investiture ceremony for the court's newest Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the start of the court's 2022-2023 term in Washington, U.S. September 30, 2022. The report said the Supreme Court's information security environment was "built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information." But it called the court's information security policies "outdated" and recommended that it overhaul its platform for handling case-related documents and remedy "inadequate safeguards" for tracking who prints and copies documents. The Supreme Court's IT systems operate separately from the rest of the federal judiciary. U.S. judiciary officials have said the systems used by federal appellate and district courts also are outdated and need modernization.

Kyle Davies and Su Zhu are listed under the founding members slide of a pitch deck obtained by CNBC for a distressed debt marketplace called GTX. Davies and Zhu founded Three Arrows Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund that was ordered to liquidate by a British Virgin Islands court. It aims to appeal to the more than one million FTX depositors that are now involved in a bankruptcy proceeding, a slide in the pitch deck said. GTX said in its pitch that, once scaled, the platform could fill a "power vacuum left by FTX" within crypto trading and move into the securities lending market. Mark Lamb and Sudhu Arumugam, co-founders of crypto trading platform CoinFLEX, are listed alongside Davies and Zhu as founding members.

☆ Phillips 66 buys public units of pipeline operator DCP Midstream for $3.8 bln
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The deal, the first major move by Mark Lashier who took over as chief executive of Phillips 66 in July last year, will double the company's stake in DCP Midstream to 86.8%. The Houston, Texas-based refiner is buying the public units for $3.8 billion, or $41.75 per share, compared with its previous offer of $34.75 per share. DCP Midstream's shares rose nearly 6.4% to $41.84, while those of Phillips 66 were up 1.1%. The DCP deal is expected to generate an incremental $1 billion of adjusted EBITDA for Phillips 66, the refiner said in a statement. Phillips said it expects to save at least $300 million by integrating DCP into its existing midstream business.

☆ Final farewell: From Sidney Poitier to Pope Emeritus Benedict a look back at the influential figures who died in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +55 min

Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77. A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice. A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.

Dec 12 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. So far this month we have had 'hawkish' hikes from Australia and India, countered by a 'dovish' hike from Canada. chartBut as China's COVID curbs fade, China's health system will be severely tested and the impact on its 1.4 billion population remains to be seen. Annual inflation in India is expected to have slowed to 6.4% in November from 6.77% in October, which would be the lowest since February. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

☆ Euro zone inflation rate eases slightly to 10% as surge in energy prices slows
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Silvia Amaro | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Markets track the latest inflation data out of the euro zone ahead of a new ECB meeting. Inflation in the euro zone slowed slightly in November, according to preliminary figures out Wednesday, with prices coming off record highs and missing analyst expectations. Inflation rose above the 10% mark last month, highlighting the severity of the cost-of-living crisis in the bloc. The initial data Wednesday from Europe's statistics office showed headline inflation at an annual 10% this month — representing a 0.6 percentage point fall from October. Energy and food continued to contribute to the lofty inflation figures, but with a noticeable drop in the former.

☆ Refiner Phillips 66 to boost investor returns by up to $12 bln
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Arunima Kumar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Companies Phillips 66 FollowNov 9 (Reuters) - Refiner Phillips 66 (PSX.N) said on Wednesday it plans to return up to $12 billion more to shareholders by end-2024 through dividends and stock buybacks, sending its shares up 2.3%. Phillips posted a bumper $5.4 billion profit for its third-quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $402 million a year earlier. It also returned $1.2 billion through share repurchases and dividends during the quarter. Analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co, however, said Phillips' total capital return yield severely lagged that of peers, despite larger-than-expected buybacks in the third quarter. Phillips' hefty investor-return plan comes at a time President Joe Biden has demanded that energy companies invest their profit into boosting production before considering shareholder returns.

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