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What Trumps Win Will Mean for NATO, Ukraine, Israel, and Iran - Foreign Policy Emma Ashford: Morning, Matt. We finally have an answer to the question the world has been asking for months. The next president will be Donald Trump—and he seems to have won, if not by a landslide, then by a healthy margin in almost every key swing state. It’s a clear mandate from the voters for another four-year Trump term.
Emma Ashford: Morning, Matt. We finally have an answer to the question the world has been asking for months. The next president will be Donald Trump—and he seems to have won, if not by a landslide, then by a healthy margin in almost every key swing state. It’s a clear mandate from the voters for another four-year Trump term.
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WorkBird flu infections in farmworkers are going undetected, study showsThe CDC said it is continuing to try to learn more about the extent to which H5N1 has caused unnoticed infections among people working closely with cows, in any way it can. In September, at the annual conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners in Columbus, Ohio, about 150 veterinarians provided blood samples to be tested for evidence of H5N1 antibodies. Work
WorkApple MacBook Pro 14-inch (M4, 2024) review: Windows PCs must feel sick right nowFor those who haven't been closely following the PCs vs. MacBooks battle in recent months, Windows laptops began to gain the upper hand with the introduction of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor. Machines with this new chip delivered shockingly long battery life and jaw-dropping performance — so much so that they began to eclipse the M3 MacBooks. Work
WorkWorkJack Smith will resign before Donald Trump fires himanalystsTrump vowed to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on October 24 that he will fire Smith "within two seconds" of taking office. Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as an independent special counsel to oversee the Republican's federal cases.
WorkTrumps win signals more confrontation with Beijing - WSJ BEIJINGDonald Trumps return to the White House injects new volatility into ties between the U.S. and China, threatening to transform a tense relationship between the worlds two main powers into something less predictable and more confrontational. WorkHow Trump won the economy-is-everything election - WSJ Roughly 40% of voters said the economy was their top issue, far outstripping any other issue, and those voters favored Donald Trump by 60% to 38%. Many werent thinking about the streak of robust economic growth or the Federal Reserves potential soft landing when they voted, but their grocery bills and out-of-reach ambitions.
WorkWorkThe miscalculations that sent Kamala Harris to a devastating loss - WSJ Heading into Election Day, Donald Trump kept making controversial comments they thought would play right into their strategy of showing voters he was unfit for another term. They were optimistic the vice president was on the precipice of victory in a race they viewed as on a knifes edge. Her final campaign appearance, on the iconic Philadelphia steps from Sylvester Stallones Rocky," would cap the arc of an underdogs rise.
WorkWorkCost-cutting lessons from Musk world for DOGE - WSJ Little is known about how exactly President-elect Donald Trump will use the worlds richest man in his coming administration beyond proposing to appoint him to a new government efficiency commission, as secretary of cost-cutting."
WorkHow the Democrats spent $1 billion and still lost - WSJ Vice President Kamala Harrislost her bid for the White House on Wednesday despite spending most of the funds on an expansive ground operation, staffing and a flood of ads. President-elect Donald Trump won a second term with half of what Harriss campaign spent. Work
WorkDont Overlook This Critical Skill When Interviewing Executives - Harvard Business Review Interviews with executive candidates cover a wide range of topics but decision-making is too often left off the list. According to an 11-country study of over 500 senior executives at large enterprise organizations across 12 industries, a full quarter reported never discussing decision-making during an interview before accepting a position. Those who did were more satisfied with their role. Further, 63% of senior executives reported resigned from a prior job or considered doing so as a direct result of frustration with the organizations decision-making. So, in addition to bringing up decision-making in an executive search, consider defining the companys current decision-making state with its ideal one, and be honest about the decision-making challenges the organization faces. This will better prepare the candidate for their new role, and increase the odds of their success. WorkSarepta discontinues next-generation Duchenne drugs - STAT My colleagues have gathered reactions from leaders across the biopharma industry about what a second Donald Trump presidency could mean. While Trump has positioned himself as business-friendly, hes also criticized high drug costs. And in the late stages of his campaign, he embraced Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whos signaled he wants to shake up to the FDA and other health agencies. WorkWorkWorkOptus fined $12m after thousands could not call triple zero during 2023 outageJust before the shutdown of the Optus and Telstra 3G networks last month, the government issued a new determination requiring mobile network companies to block phones that the carriers say cannot make triple zero calls over 4G or 5G. Acma has estimated this would block more than 250,000 devices that were in use at the start of November, compared with the 30m phones in Australia in total. WorkBlink's new Sync Module XR extends wireless range far beyond the standard versionThe device also acts as a centralized system hub via the company’s proprietary app. This lets folks adjust any connected camera. Finally, there’s a MicroSD slot for clip storage. The Blink Sync Module XR is available for purchase right now in the US and Canada. It costs $60, though early adopters will get a free Outdoor 4 camera with a purchase. WorkWorkWorkUlysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations | TechCrunchSeagrass punches above its weight. The marine plant only occupies 0.1% of the ocean floor but can be credited with supporting marine ecosystems of plants and fish, filtering ocean water and capturing quite a bit of carbon. Seagrass is also being destroyed, due to climate change and other factors, with meadows reducing 7% globally each year. Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering wants to restore it. WorkWorkHow JPMorgan CISO's protects America's biggest bankThis year alone, cyberattacks have stung big industries ranging from healthcare to car dealerships to telecommunications giants. The average cost of a data breach in 2024 rose 10% to a record high of $4.9 million, according to IBM and independent researcher Ponemon Institute. WorkFather and son jailed over bungled plot to kill Birmingham shop ownerHannah Sidaway of the Crown Prosecution Service said it was a “methodical and well-planned attack” in which Nazir and Aslam tried to cover their tracks by using an accomplice. She said: “This was a complex investigation involving collaboration between West Midlands and Derbyshire police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the US authorities. It involved obtaining evidential material from the US including forensic samples to link the offenders with evidence from the crime scenes.” WorkWorkYelp just spent $80M on a site for car repair estimates | TechCrunchThe acquisition is a nice exit for San Francisco-based RepairPal, which managed to raise $21.3 million in funding from Cars.com, Tugboat Ventures, and others in the 17 years since the company’s founding. In its press release, Yelp didn’t say whether founders Aaron Tavistock, David Esser, and David Sturtz will be joining Yelp corporate. WorkStartup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements | TechCrunchAs we celebrate the achievements of this year’s winners, we are excited to see how they will shape their industries and drive innovation in the months and years to come. Congratulations to all the participants of the Startup Battlefield 200, and a special thank you to our judges and sponsors for their support in making TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 a resounding success. WorkI Absolutely Prefer a 401(k) to an IRA for Retirement Savings: Here's WhyIf you're like most Americans, you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets" could help ensure a boost in your retirement income. For example: one easy trick could pay you as much as $22,924 more... each year! Once you learn how to maximize your Social Security benefits, we think you could retire confidently with the peace of mind we're all after. Simply click here to discover how to learn more about these strategies. WorkDonald Trump has won and American democracy is now in grave dangerOur mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times. Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want you to believe. WorkSee a Map of the 2024 Presidential Race ResultsRepublican former President Donald Trump is poised to return to the White House after surpassing the 270 threshold in the Electoral College, as called by the Associated Press, after Americans voted on Tuesday, Nov. 5. WorkGermanys fractious coalition falls apartand how! - The Economist EARLY IN THE morning of November 6th, as Europe digested the result of Americas presidential election, three senior figures in Germanys government were huddling for crisis talks in Berlin. But Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, Robert Habeck, the vice-chancellor, and Christian Lindner, the finance minister, were not sketching a response to Donald Trumps promised tariffs, or working out how Germany might compensate for a loss of American support to Ukraine. Instead, they were deciding whether to blow up their fraying coalition. WorkHow America Embraced Gender War - The New Yorker The big two genders are said to be at war. The results of the Presidential election can hardly be read otherwise: in preliminary exit-poll data out of Pennsylvania, women aged eighteen to twenty-nine swung forty points for Kamala Harris, while their male counterparts swung twenty-four points for Donald Trump. The conflictthe dark, snarling, many-headed beast of indifference and contempt that emerges from these numbershas been building for decades. Women in America, as in nearly all industrialized democracies, used to be more conservative than men; in the nineteen-seventies, they began to shift leftward, then closed the partisan gap by the eighties, and during the nineties became firmly more liberal than American men. The simplest explanation for this is the most plausible one: women, acquiring education and workplace power and economic independence, drew closer to a party that valorized equality and away from a party that valorized hierarchy. With birth control, with safe and legal abortion, the story went, women gained control over their lives. WorkPollsters were blindsided by breadth of Trump win - WSJ WASHINGTON : Pollsters as a group had prepared Americans for a very close presidential race, and that is the way it turned out in several battleground states. But the polling performance was a big miss in another way: The pervasiveness of Donald Trumps popularity wasnt fully telegraphed to the public. WorkBob Dylan is on X. Is he messing with us? - WSJ The tweet by Bob Dylan landed on unsuspecting fans like a mysterious rune. People across the internet wanted to know: Was it actually him? Who was Mary Jo? And what made Americas most revered poet-lyricist, the elusive legend who turned pop music into literature and gave voice to a generation, suddenly embrace the social-media platform previously known as Twitter? WorkWorkRainwater Could Help Satisfy AIs Water Demands - Scientific American In late September Microsoft announced that it had reached a deal to reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its growing network of data centers. Reviving the plant, home to a partial meltdown in 1979, is one of several extraordinary moves that tech companies are willing to make to meet the increasing energy demands of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other technologies. Industry analysts at Transforma Insights predict the world will reach nearly 30 billion Internet of Things devices by 2030up from less than 10 billion in 2020. WorkTrump's Believers See a Presidency With God on Their SideWhile politicians have often invoked God or cited passages from the Bible to make their case, the country is entering a new landscape, one where Mr. Trump is not only the leader of the Republican Party but also the de facto figurehead of conservative American Christianity. WorkWorkTransgender Americans Voice New Anxiety About Trump AgendaDuring his campaign, Mr. Trump promised to impose restrictions on several aspects of life for transgender people, including issuing an executive order to cut funding for schools that he says teach “gender indoctrination.” He has said he would “keep men out of women’s sports” and withhold federal funding for Medicare and Medicaid from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors. It is uncertain exactly how Mr. Trump intends to carry out his agenda, and advocates for trans rights say legal challenges are likely. WorkWorkVoters to Reject Private School Vouchers in Colorado, Nebraska and KentuckyAbout 1 million American children use some form of a private school voucher, a number that has more than doubled since 2019. The issue is one that Republicans hoped would be popular with parents across lines of race and class this year — especially those who were dissatisfied with how public schools served their children during the pandemic. WorkBiden Vows a Peaceful Transfer of Power: 'The American Experiment Endures'Both Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris acknowledged the pain of losing. In her concession speech, the vice president said that “while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.” In his remarks on Thursday, the president said that “setbacks are inevitable” but added that “giving up is unforgivable.” WorkAfter Harris's Election Loss, Devastated Democrats Play the Blame GameThe results showed that the Harris campaign, and Democrats more broadly, had failed to find an effective message against Mr. Trump and his down-ballot allies or to address voters’ unhappiness about the direction of the nation under Mr. Biden. The issues the party chose to emphasize — abortion rights and the protection of democracy — did not resonate as much as the economy and immigration, which Americans often highlighted as among their most pressing concerns. WorkWorkHow Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference EffortsThis year’s election underlined how much foreign interference — and disinformation generally — has become baked into American politics. Increasingly unfettered social media platforms like X and Telegram, along with the country’s constitutional protections of free speech, have opened the door for foreign influence, even if American law prohibits it. WorkWorkWorkWorld Needs Much More Aid to Adapt to Climate Shocks, U.N. SaysThe question of what rich countries owe to poor countries has been a sticking point in international climate talks for years. Wealthy areas like the United States and Europe have historically pumped more heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the air than others by burning coal, oil and gas, while poorer countries, such as those in Africa, are more vulnerable to climate disasters. |
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