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Olivia Munn Shows Her Mastectomy Scars in the Latest Skims Campaign - The Cut
“I’m done being insecure about my scars.”
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We’re in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing | The WalrusThe closest thing I have to a family heirloom is a black miniskirt. It’s perfect—above the knee but not too short. The pleating and A-line shape give it a modish look without being too era specific. My mother bought it for herself sometime in the 1970s. She passed it along to a younger cousin. My older sister had it next, before I appropriated it in my teens. The label reads “Gaytown Sportswear, Toronto.”
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Applications to MBA programs soar - WSJ
Applications to M.B.A. programs increased 12% in 2024, according to a new survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, a nonprofit that tracks application trends at leading graduate business schools worldwide.
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Breaking up Google is a fool’s game - WSJ
A word to the Justice Department, which is considering whether to push for a breakup of Google to spur competition in the online search market: Don’t. We’ve seen this movie before and it ended poorly. The 1984 breakup of AT&T was supposed to ignite competition and innovation but did the opposite. If we rush to dismantle Google, we risk undermining our global competitiveness against China and other adversaries.
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The secretive billionaire network funding ‘Stop the Steal’ 2.0 - WSJ
When Donald Trump refused to concede the 2020 election, he and his allies led a chaotic effort to overturn the results, spreading conspiracy theories, filing dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits and encouraging “Stop the Steal" protests that culminated in the assault on the Capitol.
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Netflix backs out of plan to develop blockbuster videogame - WSJ
The streaming giant earlier this month pulled the plug on developing its own high-end game—what the industry calls a Triple-A title—less than a year into development, a spokeswoman confirmed. The company laid off a team of about 30 people in Southern California, including high-profile veterans who worked on franchises such as Microsoft’s Halo and Sony’s God of War. The project was a multiplayer shooter game, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Watch out; Wall Street is finding new ways to slice and dice loans - WSJ
Goldman Sachs this month sold $475 million of public asset-backed securitization, or ABS, bonds backed by loans the bank makes to fund managers that tide them over until cash from investors comes in. The first-of-its-kind deal is a lucrative byproduct of the New York bank’s push into loans to investment firms, such as these so-called capital-call lines.
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Walmart Plans 30-Minute Prescription Deliveries - Inc U.S. retailer Walmart on Tuesday said it will start delivering prescription medicines and medication refills along with groceries and other items as a single order within 30 minutes, upping the ante in its delivery competition against Amazon Inc.
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Harris Calls Trump a 'Facist' in Speech at VP ResidenceVice President Kamala Harris delivered a rare public speech in front of her official residence in Washington on Wednesday to raise the alarm about Donald Trump’s stated desire to use the presidency to punish his political rivals and deploy the military “as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.”
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The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long?Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.Reston, Virginia-located Babel Street is the little-known firm behind Location X, a service with the capability to track the locations of hundreds of millions of phone users over sustained periods of time. Ostensibly, Babel Street limits the use of the service to personnel and contractors of US government law enforcement agencies, including state entities. Despite the restriction, an individual working on behalf of a company that helps people remove their personal information from consumer data broker databases recently was able to obtain a two-week free trial by (truthfully) telling Babel Street he was considering performing contracting work for a government agency in the future.
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The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference - The New Yorker The Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda, a vast office complex covered in vertical panels of maroon siding and mirrored glass, sits on a cliff overlooking the Potomac, surrounded by a forty-acre lawn and a tall wrought-iron fence. Roughly three thousand employees of various United States spy agencies work there. About two dozen of them are assigned to the Foreign Malign Influence Center—the command hub of the battle to protect the Presidential election from manipulation by foreign powers. The center, which opened in 2022, is responsible for deciphering, and defeating, surreptitious efforts to rig or tilt the American vote. The October before an election is the busy season.
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Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China - The Economist THROUGHOUT HER campaign, Kamala Harris has hewed to the foreign policy of President Joe Biden. But there is a little daylight between the two in at least one important area: America’s relations with China. To judge by her limited remarks on the topic, Ms Harris seems less hawkish than her boss. She is reluctant to treat China as an actual or potential enemy and, if elected, hopes to maintain a dialogue with its leader, Xi Jinping. Unlike her rival, Donald Trump, she is not interested in a trade war. This impression was reinforced by a senior adviser who told The Economist: “Conflict is not imminent. Our job is to ensure that it is not imminent.”
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Kamala Harris embraces fear. It should terrify TrumpKamala Harris' recent emphasis on the harm she believes a second Donald Trump presidency could do to American democracy is likely to resonate with swing voters, according to a study published by a social media monitoring company.
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The banality of ElonThe US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and we’re dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, it’s more important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members.
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The White House Bet Big on Intel. Will It Backfire?The doubts expressed by top tech executives show how far Intel has fallen at a moment when Ms. Raimondo is trying to rebuild American chip manufacturing. Her unofficial role as a chip salesperson underscores how much is riding on the success of Intel, a 56-year-old firm that is at the center of President Biden’s efforts to rev up domestic semiconductor production.
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Democrats' Best Shot at Flipping a House Seat Is in Upstate New YorkMr. Williams has received help from the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund, which the ad tracking firm Ad Impact says plan to spend more than $3 million on ads painting the moderate Mr. Mannion as dangerously liberal on issues like immigration and crime (one of them features John Walsh, the creator of “America’s Most Wanted”).
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Shiori Ito's Searing Documentary 'Black Box Diaries' to Open in U.S.Ms. Ito spoke during more than two hours of conversation over dinner in Fukuoka, in southern Japan, where she made a brief stop earlier this month between film festivals in Busan, South Korea, and Zurich. She described her emotional journey from despair at being betrayed by the police, prosecutors and the Japanese media to triumph when she performed a karaoke version of “I Will Survive” after the Sundance screening.
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Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments | TechCrunch“We evaluate solutions … that provide embedded finance,” Louisy said. ”It’s not our core business to perform risk assessment. On the other hand, what’s interesting is that we can bring them useful data for credit scoring that they don’t necessarily have when they just connect to one of our users’ accounts.”
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Fred Upton, Former G.O.P. Congressman Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Endorses HarrisMs. Harris is hoping that support from Mr. Upton, a moderate Republican in a critical battleground state, could help sway just the kind of Michigan voter she needs to peel away from Mr. Trump to win. She is working to appeal to G.O.P. voters who may have supported Nikki Haley in the primary and may still be reluctant to back Mr. Trump, but who are also on the fence about voting for a Democrat.
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Will an E. coli Outbreak Dampen the Appetite for McDonald's Quarter Pounder?In 1971, Al Bernardin invented the Quarter Pounder while managing a McDonald’s franchise in Fremont, Calif., the Oakland Tribune wrote after he died in 2009. Since then, after generations of marketing, the sandwich has become “iconic,” said William Hallman, a psychologist and a distinguished professor at Rutgers University.
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Elon Musk Plots His Final Moves for Trump“He’s going all in — and you see that with the amount of resources that he and his team and the group has provided,” said Mr. Gonzales, who said he didn’t know the size of Mr. Musk’s check to the super PAC. “But I would argue it’s, more importantly, time. There’s nothing more valuable than a person’s time. And Elon is literally campaigning every day in Pennsylvania.”
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Short on Time, Harris's Labor Allies Sprint to Reach Working-Class VotersAmong white voters without a college degree, that gap grew to a chasm: 58 percent favored Mr. Trump, 40 percent Ms. Harris. By a wide margin, 57 percent to 41 percent, college-educated voters said Ms. Harris would be better than Mr. Trump at helping the working class. But if educational attainment is a stand-in for class, the white working class trusts Mr. Trump; 56 percent say he would help them best, compared with 41 percent who say that about the vice president.
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Trump Calls Out Biden Remark on 'Lock Him Up'He then returned abruptly to his claims of election interference. “Biden is behind it all, believe it or not,” Mr. Trump said. “And he proved that yesterday with his stupid statement, and people are outraged by it.”
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Harris Calls Trump a Fascist: 6 Takeaways From Her CNN Town HallHer comments — which went a step beyond her previous agreement that Mr. Trump was a fascist — were intended to amplify the news this week that John Kelly, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief of staff, said he thought the former president met the definition of the word and worried deeply about the threat a second Trump administration posed to democratic institutions.
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Arizona Man Is Arrested After Shootings at Democratic Campaign OfficeIn the first shooting on Sept. 16, the Democratic Party office was struck about 13 times by BB gun pellets, shattering the building’s glass front door, according to court papers. On Sept. 23, and again on Oct. 6, the office was struck by gunfire, further damaging the building, the court papers said.
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Striking Boeing workers reject a new contract offer, extending a costly month-long strikeThe company’s much-needed investment-grade credit rating hangs on by a thread, and losing it would make the path to recovery steeper and more expensive should Boeing need to borrow more money along the way. Fitch Ratings said last week that Boeing’s cash-raising actions “support liquidity amidst continued operational challenges” — but only if Boeing can reach an agreement for its machinists to be back on the job by the end of the year.
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