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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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What Israel Has Lost - Foreign Affairs

The massacre of October 7, 2023, was one of the most horrific
atrocities perpetrated since World War II. On that day, Hamas-led
militants kidnapped Israeli children, raped Israeli women, beheaded
Israeli men, and burned alive entire Israeli families in their homes.
But beyond this human and moral calamity, the catastrophe that befell
Israel on a bleak Sabbath morning reverberates with historic
significance. Because it took place in the immediate vicinity of
Gaza—the one place in which Israel had dismantled settlements and
withdrawn to the 1967 border—this massacre was an attack on the idea
of a Jewish state in any part of the land of Israel. Because its very
essence was the slaughter of peace-loving kibbutzniks and
life-celebrating music festival attendees, it was an assault on the
existence of a liberal and cosmopolitan democracy in the Middle East.
And because it led to a surge of anti-Semitism the likes of which had
not been seen since 1945, it was a blatant act of aggression against
the Jewish people as a whole.

But if Israel had wanted to frame its war against Hamas in those
terms, its government should have contended with an albatross: the
Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Israel should have
avowed that it was waging war against Hamas and the other terrorist
proxies of Iran—and not against the Palestinian people. It should
have reached an understanding with the United States and NATO
concerning the essence of the war and how it would be waged. It should
have declared that its objective was not only security for Israel but
freedom for the people of Gaza, who deserve to be liberated from the
tyranny of Hamas. Israel should have committed itself to a diplomatic
process aimed at producing a just and realistic resolution of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It should have sought to bolster ties
with the moderate Arab world by signing a peace agreement with Saudi
Arabia. It should have captured the moral high ground before launching
a fierce military campaign.

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MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD what went wrong? -
New Scientist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
For years, it seemed MDMA-assisted therapy would revolutionise PTSD
treatment. But poor trial design and alleged misconduct ultimately
stopped the treatment from receiving government approval

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Challenging Big Oils Big Lie about Plastic Recycling - Scientific
American [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard
laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come
recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or bag,
expecting they will become something new.















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SoCreate wants to transform screenwriting software with AI imagery and
community sharing tools | TechCrunch
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The platform is free for all users, but if they want to access the
custom image tool and reviewer stats, they will have to spend
$10/month for the Professional subscription. There’s also a Personal
tier for $5/month, which includes unlimited projects and access to
SoCreate’s image gallery. 

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The Troubling Quiet of North Carolina's Cell Service Outages
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The outage adds to the burden the region is now facing as the death
toll from the storm has risen above 225 — more than half in North
Carolina — and many population centers are facing a near future with
no power or clean water. The loss of cell service has made solving
those problems even harder. Officials have described not being able to
reach family members of the people who died, delaying the
identification of their bodies.














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Campaigning for Harris, Women Share Their Abortion Stories With
Neighbors
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And then there are the women in this room in Wisconsin. They haven’t
made headlines with their activism for abortion rights, but they all
claim a deep connection to the issue. The Harris campaign is trying to
transform them into a hyperlocal organizing force who can drive their
friends, family and neighbors to the polls.

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AI doesn't know much about golf. Or farming. Or mortgages. Or... - WSJ
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Earlier this year, the PGA Tour’s digital chief witnessed ChatGPT
make the digital equivalent of a double bogey when the chatbot flubbed
a question on basic golf lore: How many times has Tiger Woods won the
Tour?














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U.S. Awards Up to $510 Million to Boost Production of Medical
Protective Gear - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
The Biden administration has granted up to $510 million to boost the
domestic production of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as
isolation gowns to restock the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) in
preparation for future public health emergencies, it said on Thursday.
The U.S. SNS, the countrys reserve of medical supplies for crisis
situations, is intended to provide life-saving equipment in
emergencies.

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Ras Baraka, Reasonable Radical - The New Yorker
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On an August day in 2011, a man stood outside City Hall in Newark, New
Jersey, exhorting a crowd through a wireless microphone. Stop giving
love to these psychopaths, he roared. The psychopaths were criminals;
a few days earlier, a twenty-nine-year-old teacher named Dawn Reddick
had been shot and killeda seemingly random crime, except that killings
in Newark had come to seem dispiritingly unrandom. The city was on its
way toward ninety-three murders that year, with a population of two
hundred and seventy-seven thousand peoplea rate five times that of New
York City, which sits less than ten miles east but often feels much
farther.














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As Lawmaker Claims Trump's Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges
Him
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Though he was left off a bipartisan House task force investigating the
shooting, the Republican leaders of the panel invited him and
Representative Cory Mills of Florida, another right-wing lawmaker who
has embraced conspiracy theories about the first assassination
attempt, to testify at their first public hearing. Mr. Mills is among
the Republicans accompanying Mr. Trump to a rally in Butler on
Saturday.

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Nuclear Rockets Could Travel to Mars in Half the Time, but Designing
the Reactors Isnt Easy - Discover Magazine [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of
traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the
chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear
thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power
a rocket that makes the trip in just half the time.














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Former New York governor and stepson attacked and injured on city
street
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In that case, witnesses claimed that Neely, 30, had been threatening
passengers, and millions of dollars have been donated to Penny’s
defense fund. Others have said that Penny, then 24, acted as an
overzealous vigilante, stirring memories of Bernhard Goetz, who shot
four African American men on a subway train in 1984.

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Widow of Man Killed in July Attack on Trump Returns for Rally
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Ms. Comperatore said she hoped to establish a foundation of some kind
in her husband’s name. “It’s been very hard,” she said of the
months since the shooting. “I don’t sleep very well at all —
maybe an hour here, an hour there. I lost someone I’ve been with for
34 years. That’s more than half my life.”














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Jobs report upshot: Economy, labor market are strong, Fed on track for
25-bp cut
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"This month, the labor market looks stronger than we previously
thought," Dan North, senior economist at Allianz Trade North America
said after the Labor Department's exceptionally strong September
nonfarm payrolls print.

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Tropical Storm Milton expected to wallop Florida days after Helene
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Separately, the NHC said another storm, already listed as Hurricane
Kirk, is generating swells in the Atlantic ocean affecting the east
coast of the US but not expected make US landfall, with another storm,
Hurricane Leslie, not far behind.














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30 Days Out, the Harris and Trump Campaigns Brace for 'Trench Warfare'
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“Anybody would be a fool to write Trump off,” said Julián Castro,
the former San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020. “I think
she’s going to win, but am I absolutely sure she’s going to win?
No. The 2016 experience taught all of us that you can’t count this
guy out.”

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Marvin Schlachter, Record Executive Who Championed Disco, Dies at 90
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Among Scepter’s biggest successes was Ms. Warwick, whom the label
paired with the songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The
Bacharach-David team wrote many of Ms. Warwick’s early signature
hits, including “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Walk On By” and
“Alfie.”













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5 Steps to Build a Climate-Literate Workforce - Harvard Business
Review [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
The factors that drive business decisions from market and risk
intelligence data, to local building codes, to employee safeguard
requirements were developed in the context of climate stability, based
on predictable bands of variation in weather patterns and
climate-related events. Today, scenario-planning based on factors
derived from the assumption of a stable climate will lead to
under-protection of assets and miscalculations of operating costs,
market size, and even customer preferences. Potential impacts of a
changing climate in a given location is knowable information if one
knows what to look for, where to look, and understands the basics of
climate change that underpin this data. Senior managers need to lead
the effort to become climate literate and to then enable all of their
employees, especially aspiring and rising managers, to do the same.
Armed with that capability, managers and all employees can make better
decisions for their companies and the societies that depend on their
goods and services.

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Northern Lights Update: Heres Where Aurora Borealis Can Be Viewed
Tonight - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
The Northern Lights can potentially be seen from several northern U.S.
states Saturday night, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration update, as space weather forecasters predict an
increase in geomagnetic activity capable of triggering a strong aurora
borealis.

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Amazon bets on selling cashierless technology to retailers after
pulling it from most U.S. stores
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"There's almost a viral effect that will occur over time," she said.
"It's just going to take a long time because you've got to cycle
through everybody in America having this experience, and for the most
part, it's just Amazon fighting this fight right now."

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Lego's website was hacked to promote a crypto scam
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"On 5 October 2024 (October 4 evening in the US), an unauthorised
banner briefly appeared on LEGO.com. It was quickly removed, and the
issue has been resolved. No user accounts have been compromised, and
customers can continue shopping as usual. The cause has been
identified and we are implementing measures to prevent this from
happening again."

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Retirement in America is a disaster for many. Is there hope?
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Kerry Hannon is a Senior Columnist at Yahoo Finance. She is a career
and retirement strategist, and the author of 14 books, including "In
Control at 50+: How to Succeed in The New World of Work" and "Never
Too Old To Get Rich." Follow her on X @kerryhannon.

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Security Is Tighter for Trump Rally at Site of July Assassination
Attempt
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Members of the Secret Service team that typically guards President
Biden — called the presidential protective detail — have assisted
with the planning of the event. Members of Mr. Biden’s advance
detail have been on loan to both Mr. Trump and Vice President Kamala
Harris, his rival in the presidential election, in the aftermath of
the first Butler rally.

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Super Micro Computer's big stock split, Costco rises, and Bitcoin
falls: Markets news roundup
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UBS (UBS) said that while the boom in Miami housing has “somewhat”
cooled thanks to higher mortgage rates, prices in the city have risen
by almost 50% since the end of 2019. Seven percent of that growth
happened in the last four quarters.

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First Opinion readers on Hatch-Waxman, new-patient visit times, mpox,
and more - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=74640&nl=daily]
First Opinion is STATs platform for interesting, illuminating, and
provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by
biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others.

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New York tech investor and serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan explains
when to sell your company | TechCrunch
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Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a pivotal force of New
York City tech. He's the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp,
which has

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Missing People, Power Outages, Ruined Roads: Issues Across the
Southeast After Helene
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In the western part of the state, many families’ greatest concern is
their unaccounted loved ones. But looking for them in mountain-ringed
towns and rugged ravines has been a daunting task for search teams,
and the effort has been hampered by poor cell service and widespread
power losses.

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As 23andMe Struggles, Concerns Surface About Its Genetic Data
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The company has said that it is committed to customer privacy, but
people who have submitted tests to discover ancestry lines or for
health care research can potentially leave their information
vulnerable to threat actors.

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The Cost of a New War in the Middle East
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Markets are on edge about the risk of another oil shock. The price of
crude has been relatively stable over the past year, apart from brief
spikes, including after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel. When
Iran fired a well-telegraphed wave of missiles at Israel in April, it
didn’t lead to prolonged price increases either. (Saudi Arabia’s
oil minister has even reportedly warned that prices could drop to as
low as $50 a barrel.)

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Georgia Power restores power to over 1.3M customers following
Hurricane Helene (NYSE:SO)
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Georgia Power, a unit of The Southern Company, restores power to 95%
of customers impacted by Hurricane Helene, with efforts ongoing in
hardest hit areas.

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What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult
of the Lamb's first arc wraps up
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Running a cult is complicated stuff, as anyone who has played the game
can attest, and the comics get into the emotional ins and outs of that
burden. It’s just as cute-yet-horrifying as you’d expect a Cult of
the Lamb comic to be. Issues 1-4 are being collected in a volume
called The First Verse that’s due to come out in December, but you
can find them individually at your local comic store or in digital
form.

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Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election - The Economist
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In a brewery in Pittsburghs East End, six guys lounged on barstools
talk about brawls and about women. We cant stand by, weve got to get
in the fight, says one. Another adds that as a husband it is natural
to go into defence mode when his wife is under attack. The others nod
vigorously. The government should not be in the business of putting
their hands on womens wombs, he concludes, to loud applauseand some
spilled beerat the tables around them.

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UK 'resolutely committed' to its overseas territories, says foreign
minister
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On Friday, Starmer was asked to guarantee that no other British
overseas territories would be signed away, and he responded: "The
single most important thing was ensuring that we had a secure base,
the joint US-UK base; hugely important to the US, hugely important to
us.

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Pro-Palestinian Group Is Relentless in Its Criticism of Israel, and It
Isn't Backing Down
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New Yorkers have become familiar with the tactics of Ms. Kiswani and
Within Our Lifetime, the group she co-founded in 2015, even if they
don’t know her by name. Their marches have shut down the Brooklyn
and Manhattan Bridges and snarled Midtown traffic. Their chants of
“Long live the Intifada!” outside an exhibition memorializing
victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, drew condemnation from
as high as the White House. Protesters in her orbit sometimes burn
Israeli flags and fly the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah.

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What an Escalating Middle East Conflict Could Mean for the Global
Economy
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The biggest risk is a sustained increase in oil prices.

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Brazilian Supreme Court says X remains banned after paying fines to
wrong bank: report
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Brazil's Supreme Court keeps X banned after fines paid to wrong
bank.

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Medicare quality bonus payments to drop after years of gains
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After years of steady increases, health insurers will witness a
decline in federal bonus payments granted for their Medicare Advantage
plans in 2024, health research organization KFF said in a recent
report.

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Hundreds of Storm-Ravaged Roads, and No Timeline for Fixing Them
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“People’s lives and livelihoods are on the line, and there’s
going to be very little patience for delay,” said Tabitha Combs, an
assistant professor focused on transportation planning and policy, at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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3 Unstoppable Growth Stocks to Buy Before 2025
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John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary,
is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Jennifer Saibil
has positions in MercadoLibre. Jeremy Bowman has positions in Amazon,
MercadoLibre, and Redfin. John Ballard has positions in MercadoLibre.
The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon, Home Depot,
MercadoLibre, and Redfin. The Motley Fool recommends the following
options: short November 2024 $13 calls on Redfin. The Motley Fool has
a disclosure policy.

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Gilead Agrees to Allow Generic Version of Groundbreaking H.I.V. Shot
in Poor Countries
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The generics makers — three in India, one in the United States, one
in Pakistan and one in Egypt.” — are expected to sell it for much
less. Researchers at Liverpool University found the drug could
profitably be produced for as little as $40 per patient per year, if
it were being purchased in large volumes.

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Kamala Harris Visits North Carolina to Check on Hurricane Response
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While the deadly storm and the conflict in the Middle East have at
times diverted Ms. Harris from the campaign trail as she turns to her
official duties, her aides and allies have said they believe having
voters see Ms. Harris act as the vice president could make her appear
presidential and empathetic to voters in a key battleground state.

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The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating
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“We’re realizing more than ever how deadly inland flooding is,”
said Carl Schreck, a hurricane researcher at North Carolina State
University, who was in his home near Asheville, N.C., when Helene
struck.

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Why WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech
investing giant Silver Lake
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Mullenweg may be openly enthusiastic and grateful for the employees he
still has on board, but the WordPress community is a mess. Many WP
Engine customers are suffering, and Automattic is gearing up for a
legal fight against a private equity firm with over $100 billion in
assets.

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Italy investigating two companies over noncompliant parts supplied to
Boeing contractor
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Two Italian aerospace companies and seven individuals are under
investigation for allegedly supplying non-compliant aeronautical
components to Leonardo-Aerostrutture to be used in the production of
Boeing’s (NYSE:BA) 787 Dreamliner, Italian news agency Ansa reported
Saturday.

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Google's theft protection features have started showing up for some
Android users
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Offline Device Lock, on the other hand, can automatically lock the
screen after a thief has disconnected the phone from the internet. You
can already remotely lock your phone with Google’s Find My Device,
but the third feature, Remote Lock, lets you do so without having to
scramble to figure out your Google account password. All you’d need
for this is “your phone number and a quick security challenge using
any device.”

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Trump holds Pennsylvania rally at same venue of first assassination
attempt, joined by Musk, Vance
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Going into Saturday's rally, the Secret Service said it beefed up its
security plan after facing intense scrutiny following the July rally
shooting and another assassination attempt against Trump in September.

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What to Know: How Israel Could Retaliate Against Iran
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When asked on Thursday if he would support a strike by Israel on
Iran’s oil infrastructure, President Biden said the possibility was
“in discussion” — an offhand remark that sent the price of oil
higher. Brent crude, the international benchmark, had a weekly gain of
more than 8 percent, the largest increase in two years.

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How China's stimulus could provide a boost to new CEOs at Nike and
Starbucks down the line
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The new executives are taking over companies that have significant
sales exposure to China, but Wall Street is cautious about the impact
of the stimulus.

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A new Blue Origin: CEO Dave Limp is bringing urgency and
'decisiveness' to Jeff Bezos' space company
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"Let's have the financial discipline to build a business that we love,
and let's make decisions quickly, knowing that we'll make some
mistakes. But let's not make the same mistakes, and let's cure them
quick," Limp said.

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Italgas to acquire 2i Rete Gas in $5.8B Deal
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Italgas (ITGGF) said Saturday it will acquire 2i Rete Gas for 5.3B
euros ($5.8B), including debt, according to media reports.

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Executive reshuffles: ZM, OPEN and KBH Companies in focus (NASDAQ:ZM)
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Stay updated on recent management changes in major companies including
Zoom, Opendoor, KB Home, and more with this insightful article.

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