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Ivanka Trump Cant Be Bothered to Care About the Election - The Cut She’s too busy working out with Gisele Bündchen’s boyfriend.
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WorkWorkThe Conservative Strategy to Ban Abortion Nationwide - The New Yorker In mid-October, at a bank in downtown Amarillo, the local chapter of the League of Women Voters hosted an educational forum about proposed ordinances that would be on the ballot in November. Most were proceduraladding members to the city council, changing the process for a recall votebut the real energy in the room circulated around Proposition A, also known as the Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance.
WorkWorkHow to Manage a Distracted Team - Harvard Business Review When the news is stressful and anxiety is high, the best managers adopt a more flexible and thoughtful leadership style. There are a few strategies emotionally fluent leaders can use to help their teams navigate the emotional ups and downs of a distracting news cycle: 1) Avoid anxious fixing; 2) give non-update updates; 3) provide a clear path forward; 4) prepare for your teams emotions; and 5) plan for a dip in productivity.
WorkEmployee Happiness Is Bouncing Back After a 4-Year Low - Inc After a bleak drop in employee optimism earlier this year, it seems companies might finally be succeeding in boosting team satisfaction. Employee happiness has ticked up 3 percent since the years second quarter, when it hit a four-year low, according to the latest Employee Happiness Index from BambooHR. WorkHow to free Elon Musks SpaceX from federal red tape - WSJ Tensions between SpaceX and its federal regulators have spilled into public view. The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking $633,009 in civil fines, alleging that the company neglected necessary paperwork for two 2023 launches. SpaceX has refuted those claims in a letter to Congress, arguing that the FAA is engaged in an arbitrary and politicized prosecution from an agency unable to keep up with the demands of commercial spaceflight. CEO Elon Musk has vowed to sue the FAA for regulatory overreach."
WorkGoogle looks more to what it can control - WSJ Some of them were on display in the third-quarter report from Alphabet, the parent company, late Tuesday. Revenue and operating income beat Wall Streets estimates thanks to strength in the companys core search business and its cloud-computing operation. Google Clouds revenue jumped 35% year over year, up 6 percentage points from the growth rate shown in the last quarter and the best for the unit in two years. The unit produced operating income of $1.9 billion, which was 77% ahead of analysts consensus targets, according to FactSet. WorkStarbucks tells workers to return to the office or risk getting fired - WSJ The company will be instituting an accountability process" in January to ensure corporate employees comply with requirements to work in the office three days a week, according to an internal message obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The message notes employees may face termination if they do not meet in-office requirements.
WorkWorkBritains Labour Party bets on big taxes, borrowing to boost economy - WSJ Standing in Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves Wednesday said her government will raise taxes by 40 billion, equivalent to around $51.9 billion, one of the biggest tax hikes in a generation, and borrow billions in the coming years to invest in the countrys infrastructure.
WorkScience is finding ways to regenerate your heart - WSJ Scientists are closing in on ways to help patients grow new heart muscle after a heart attack, as well as new lung tissue to treat fibrosis, corneas to erase eye pain and other body parts to gain a new chance at life. Work
WorkInside the Republican war over Trump tax cutsTo kick off his first term in Congress, he cosponsored legislation eliminating tax breaks for corporate mergers. He cosponsored another bill that would strip federal tax credits to auto-manufacturers who move jobs overseas. He appeared at a picket line last October, standing alongside autoworkers striking for better wages. Work
WorkThe existential campaign issue no one is discussingThe election is less than a week away and the stakes are higher than ever. Despite the need for strong independent journalism, it is under attack, both from politicians and from billionaires who hold power. At Vox, we lead with courage and call things as we see them. We know the stakes of this election are huge, and we believe you deserve to understand how the outcome will affect your life. Work WorkWorkWorkThese researchers critique bad science. Now their own paper has been retracted. - WSJ In the sprawling project, scientists in four labs designed and tested experiments and then tried to replicate one anothers work. The intention, according to the study, was to test methods aimed at ensuring the integrity of published research. But the group neglected to fully document key aspects of the project ahead of running the experiments, one of the practices the study was looking to test, leading to the retraction. WorkWorkElon Musks xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion - WSJ Silicon Valleys biggest AI startups are raising cash at breakneck speed to fund the intensive computing power needed to develop and run their technology. Earlier this month, OpenAI raised $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation in what was one of the largest private funding rounds in U.S. history. Perplexity, an AI search startup, is in talks to raise new funding that would more than double its valuation to $8 billion, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the RaceLast week, the right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong shared a survey with his 1.1 million followers on X. The forecast from a new polling company suggested, without sharing its methodology, that the former president would take 74.3 percent of the national vote — a landslide unprecedented in American history. WorkMcDonald's Seeks to Resolve E. Coli Crisis and Return Focus to ValueJeff Farmer, an analyst at Gordon Haskett Research Advisors, said in a research note that foot traffic at McDonald’s in the United States was down 9.5 percent late last week from year-ago levels. He added that states with more reported E. coli cases had greater declines: 33 percent in Colorado and 26 percent in Wyoming. WorkRadical Plans for Public Housing Stir Up Hope, and DoubtNew York City has lately come around to the virtues of adding subsidized housing to architecturally remodeled public library branch sites. NYCHA is a vastly larger owner of public land than the library system. It retains some 80 million square feet of unused development rights across the city. Even a fraction of that could accommodate thousands of new apartments. Work8 Supreme Court Justices in Mexico to Resign Ahead of Contentious ElectionSupporters say the measure will help curb corruption within the judicial system. Critics say it will undermine judicial independence and give the Morena party control over a key check on its power. It has been met with more than 500 legal challenges by federal judges and other critics, some of whom say it violates the Constitution. WorkWorkRobert Jenrick criticised over use of government cars during driving banIn May, Jenrick published a report calling for a cap on the number of people entering the UK on health and care visas at 30,000 a year. However, in the video filed on 8 November 2022, Jenrick says the visa “has been very successful and we now see tens of thousands of doctors and nurses coming to the UK”. WorkWorkSan Francisco Mayor London Breed Faces Tough Election FightMs. Breed is a Black woman whose opponents are white men, a distinction she considers important in a city where Black residents have much higher rates of poverty and health problems than other residents and lean more heavily on government programs. She is a renter running against homeowners. Her rivals include an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, a venture capitalist and a Telegraph Hill landlord. WorkA Fiery Bernie Sanders Courts Blue-Collar VotersMr. Sanders has stumped across swing states for months, and the 83-year-old independent said in an interview that with the campaign’s end in sight, he planned to hold rallies through Election Day. His fiery speeches aim to win over voters leaning toward former President Donald J. Trump by acknowledging working-class anger over the economy. Short of that, he hopes to motivate reliable Democratic voters to turn out. WorkTrump Says He'll Protect Women, 'Like It or Not,' Evoking His History of MisogynyMs. Harris quickly sought to respond, writing on X: “Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not.” Her campaign posted a series of videos on social media emphasizing Mr. Trump’s remarks. And it sent out a news release that blared: “In Wisconsin, Trump reminds women how little he values their choices.” WorkApple earnings are today. Here's what to expectiPhone 16 sales in China were up 20% in the first three weeks of the launch compared with the iPhone 15 series, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Counterpoint Research. And Chinese consumers opted for the more expensive Pro and Pro Max models, according to the data, with sales of those models rising 44% year-on-year. WorkWorkSamhain to Soulmass: The Pagan origins of familiar Halloween ritualsThe need for ritual, connectedness and community is at the heart of many Halloween traditions, says Baylis: "One of the most important aspects of Halloween for us is remembering loved ones. We light a candle, possibly say the name of the person or put a picture of them on an altar. It's a sacred time and ceremony, but you don't have to be a Pagan to be involved. The important thing is that it comes from a place of protection and love." WorkChina's BYD overtakes Tesla revenue for first timeIts domestic car industry has grown rapidly over the past two decades and its brands, such as BYD, have begun moving into international markets, prompting fears from the likes of the EU that its own companies will be unable to compete with the cheaper prices. WorkWarning workers' pay will be hit after BudgetHealth, education and transport will see spending increases, with the biggest hike in funding for the NHS since 2010 - £22bn extra for the front line and another £3bn for equipment and buildings. WorkInflation Is Basically Back to Normal. Why Do Voters Still Feel Blah?Confidence has crept back up as inflation has cooled, but it remains much lower than it was the last time the economy looked as solid as it does today. That is true for both the University of Michigan’s confidence index and a separate measure produced by the Conference Board, an organization that conducts business and economic research. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Volkswagen Lost Its Way in ChinaChina’s state-owned banks and local governments have been pumping money into local automakers, allowing some manufacturers to sell cars far below the cost of making them. Volkswagen executives say that they refuse to join the price-cutting war and that they have relinquished market share as a result. WorkWorkHow Public Health Could Be Recast in a Second Trump TermMr. Trump echoed these themes at a rally in Wisconsin: “We’ll take on the corruption at the F.D.A., the C.D.C., World Health Organization and other institutions of public health that have dominated, and really are dominated by corporate power, and dominated really by China.” WorkWorkSuper Micro's $50 billion stock collapse underscores risk of AI hype"The chances of a stock going up 10 or 20 times in a year or two and then having an indigestion moment is extremely high," said Barry, who co-founded Cantata this year. "You're moving out of a low volatility stock into a higher volatility stock, when tech already represents the largest sector by far in the index." |
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