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WorkWork WorkWorkWorkDont use Venmo as your checking accountSome people collect coins or stamps. For a time, I collected debit cards. Not stolen ones! Each one of them had my name on them, right below the logo of the latest banking app Id decided to try out: Venmo, Cash App, Chime, Varo, Current, Acorns. WorkCan Evangelicals Get Behind Harris? - The New Yorker During a recent online strategy session, Jim Ball, an evangelical minister and founder of Evangelicals for Harris, lifted the United States up in prayer. We pray for the healing of our country, he offered. We pray that we can be the folks who help bring people back together. Behind him, in his basement in Vienna, Virginia, two placards leaned against each other, reading, in English and Spanish, Faithful, Compassionate Evangelicals Exercising Our God-Given Citizenship. WorkWorkData Collectives Are the Next Frontier of Labor Relations - Harvard Business Review The AI boom and the growth of gen AI in particular has introduced new points of conflict between employees and companies. Some of these have already started to play out, such as in the Writers Guild of America strike over how AI can and cant be used in the entertainment industry. But others are still on the horizon. As AI becomes more integrated into business, high quality data for training AI becomes more valuable and a more important part of employees contribution. Companies need to navigate if and how employees will be compensated for their data, as well as questions such as who owns and controls that data. One potential solution is data cooperatives, an organizational model that enable individuals to pool their data with the purpose of gaining bargaining power with the companies analyzing their data. These have the potential to mutually benefit companies and employees, and build a positive, collaborative relationship around a potential future flashpoint in labor relations. WorkBill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90He was organizing the workers for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees when he and the Rev. Malcolm Blackburn, the white minister of Clayborn Temple, were brainstorming what message to place on the protest signs the church had promised to print. They then recalled how the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., another lion of the movement, had defined racism a few days before. WorkStrike on Hezbollah Deepens Disconnect Between Biden and NetanyahuVice President Kamala Harris later issued a statement along similar lines, using the same phrase about a “measure of justice” for Hezbollah’s victims. “Hassan Nasrallah was a terrorist with American blood on his hands,” she said. While emphasizing her “unwavering commitment to the security of Israel,” she echoed Mr. Biden’s call for de-escalation, saying that “diplomacy remains the best path forward.” WorkDish and DirecTV Near a Deal to Combine (Again)The television landscape looks nothing like it did 22 years ago. Back in 2002, the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission worried that a merger between Dish and DirecTV would hurt rural subscribers. But many out-of-the-way pockets of the United States no longer rely on the satellite companies as the sole providers of TV. Broadband access has exploded as companies like Comcast and Charter have expanded further. WorkOn 'Downton Abbey,' Maggie Smith Made an Icy Aristocrat IrresistibleFew TV shows achieve that kind of instant saturation, so we might all be excused for thinking that these characters were ours. But how exactly did we warm to Violet Crawley, the wary and imperious dowager who despises any intrusion of democracy (America, Ireland) or modernity (telephones, swivel chairs) and who sincerely wants to know what a weekend is? WorkSeventeen killed in two mass shootings in South African townSouth Africa’s murder rate is about 45 in every 100,000 people, compared with around 6.4 in every 100,000 in the US. Most European countries’ homicide rates are about 1 for every 100,000 people. South Africa, which has a population of about 62 million people, recorded more than 27,000 homicides in the 12 months from 1 March 2023, more than 70 a day. WorkAt least 50 dead and millions without power after Helene devastates south-eastern USAtlantic storms have become deadlier as the planet warms – and are disproportionately killing people of color in the US, according to one landmark study. About 20,000 excess deaths – the numbers of observed rather than expected deaths – occurred in the immediate aftermath of 179 named storms and hurricanes which struck the US mainland between 1988 and 2019. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkEngadget review recap: iPhones, AirPods, Pixel Buds and an early look at the PlayStation 5 ProIt's hard to keep up with all the stuff that big tech companies keep launching and want you to buy, but we do our best. We're anticipating just a few more events coming this year, and are getting ready for the holiday shopping season, too. I'm sure people outside the tech industry are feeling a similar ramp up in work and life. Hopefully, we all get some time to rest and take care of ourselves soon. As always, we appreciate your time and wish you the best. Until the next Engadget Review Recap, good luck. WorkAs Hezbollah Threat Loomed, Israel Built Up Its Spy AgenciesThat success is a direct result of the country’s decision to devote far more intelligence resources in targeting Hezbollah after its 2006 war with the Iran-backed terrorist group. It was a defining moment for Israeli intelligence. The Israeli army and the intelligence agencies failed to score a decisive victory in that 34-day conflict, which ended with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire and allowed Hezbollah, despite heavy losses, to regroup and prepare for the next war with Israel. Work'This Is a Disaster': Western North Carolina Reels From HeleneChristie Kafka, 52, had tried to flee Asheville on Friday for Charleston, S.C., but standstill traffic and side roads blocked by landslides made her and her husband turn back to downtown Asheville, where a crowd looking for cell service had gathered at a fire station. WorkWorkThe Fans Want to Watch Football. Trump and Walz Will Be There, Too.Mr. Trump and Mr. Walz cannot reliably assume they will be Saturday’s star attractions as the campaigns encroach on a sport that is a cultural mainstay and surpasses Washington for ancient feuds and partisan obsessives. But their visits have been designed to invite a crush of local news coverage and social media posts and, their allies hope, cameos during national broadcasts that will soak up viewers in Michigan and Georgia. WorkTrump Voters Drive a Rise in Ticket SplittingWhile the dynamics are not identical, many of the races feature long-serving Democratic senators who have been able to chart a moderate course, even as Mr. Trump and his brand of politics won support in the state. WorkWorkWorkCan Lina Khan Hold On?Some Democratic donors connected to finance and tech, however, have publicly campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris to remove Ms. Khan as chair of the F.T.C., if she wins the presidential election in November. Her campaign declined to comment on whether she would support Ms. Khan’s staying in the position. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe Surprising Place Analysts Look to for Election ForecastingBut Washington state and the country don’t just move in the same direction. They also tend to move one way or another by similar degrees. If after every Washington primary election between 2000 and 2022 you predicted that the country as a whole would shift left or right by the same level as the state’s primaries, you would have been off by less than three percentage points, on average. Pretty good! WorkWork3 Monster Stocks That Can Crush the S&P 500 Over the Next 5 YearsJohn Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Jennifer Saibil has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Jeremy Bowman has positions in Amazon and Starbucks. John Ballard has positions in Dutch Bros. 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