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| Work New York State Parks Worker Dies While Fighting Wildfire In New York, wildfires in New Jersey prompted a statewide smoke advisory on Friday, and a fire in Prospect Park in Brooklyn blanketed New York City in smoke on Saturday. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation placed the city, Rockland County and Westchester County under an air quality alert until midnight on Saturday. |
| Work Cosplaying social justice is the new elitist way of elbowing out the working class When Musa al-Gharbi first arrived in New York in 2016, what he most noticed was the operation of a ?racialized caste system? under which ?disposable servants? will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver prepared meals to you?. |
| Work Revealed: ex-director for tobacco giant advising UK government on cancer risks Ruth Dempsey, the ex-director of scientific and regulatory affairs, spent 28 years at PMI before being appointed to the UK Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (CoC). The committee?s role is to provide ministers with independent advice. |
| Work The cringeworthy cult of team building at work, from steel drums to face-planting in the mud Ping! An invitation has landed in your work inbox (is it really an invitation if attendance is compulsory, though?) The subject: ?Office team-building away day!? What follows is a packed itinerary mixing jollity and hardcore business strategy. Your morning call time is 7. |
| Work Taurid Meteor Shower 2024: Where, when and how to see it Sky watchers are looking forward to the next meteor shower, the Northern Taurids, which are set to peak on 11-12 November. The meteors can be seen from virtually anywhere on Earth but sightings will be affected by the phase of the Moon, and the weather conditions. |
| Work How the Sassoons of Bombay Became One of China?s Wealthiest Families In Shanghai?s busy downtown area, along the shimmering Huangpu River, one Art Deco building on the historic Bund stands out with its green pyramid roof: the Sassoon House. |
| Work Swiss burqa ban: What it means as new law takes effect from January 2025 Switzerland?s contentious ban on facial coverings in public, commonly known as the ?burqa ban,? will officially take effect on January 1, 2025. The announcement was made by the Federal Council in a statement cited by Reuters on Wednesday. |
| Work Counterfeit weight loss drugs sold online, feeding demand for cheaper options Slickly designed websites. Unbelievable markdowns. A simple online search for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic or Wegovy, can lead consumers down a rabbit hole of seemingly reputable online pharmacies in search of weight loss drugs at a discounted price. |
| Work Supreme Court overrules 1967 verdict, refrains from deciding whether Aligarh Muslim University is a minority institution The Supreme Court on Friday (November 8, 2024) overruled a 1967 verdict that held that the Aligarh Muslim University could not be considered a minority institution as it is a central university. |
| Work How to Grow a Forest: It Takes More Than Just Planting Trees Trees and forests are often seen as symbolic of nature, and for good reason: They are vitally important to both the planet and to people. More than three-quarters of the world?s terrestrial biodiversity occurs in forests. |
| Work The Dead Hang Delight: How This Quick, Surprisingly Simple Exercise Can Change Your Life Would you like to strengthen your upper body and core muscles, while improving your flexibility and breathing? Here?s how to do it. |
| Work This Man Owns The World?s Most Advanced Private Air Force After Buying 46 F/A-18 Hornets A conversation with the owner of Air USA about probably the most incredible private aircraft purchase of all time and the future of his adversary business. |
| Work 12 Literary Plagiarism Scandals, Ranked From Hellen Keller to Jonah Lehrer, some more legitimate than others. |
| Work The Secret to a Meaningful Life is Simpler Than You Think Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence. |
| Work The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies It turns out that the word ?innovation? is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The word can be uttered by a CEO speaking to employees or Wall Street analysts. |
| Work Book Clubs and the Blitz: How WWII Britons Kept Calm and Got Reading Books were an important weapon on the home front. |
| Work The Google, Samsung, Qualcomm XR devices are coming in 2025, not in 2024 if you were holding out hope. The apparent delay of the AI-infused eXtended Reality (XR) headsets manufactured by Samsung comes courtesy ofa slide from Sammy?s official earnings release. |
| Work Endangered icebergs and melting glaciers are prompting the rise of ?last-chance tourism? in Greenland ?The effects of global heating are at their most pronounced in the Arctic,? Michael Hall, a University of Canterbury professor and tourism expert, told AFP. |
| Work The CPO of Lattice says CHROs need to rethink their CEO relationships: ?Alignment doesn?t necessarily mean agreement? A successful CHRO-CEO relationship has perhaps never been more important. Together, they can create a solid company culture, attract top talent, and help employees become more engaged. But getting other C-suite executives to listen to ideas, much less implement your policies, can be tricky. |
| Work The Trump administration transition starts now. Here?s what to know WASHINGTON (AP) ? Donald Trump?s impending return to the White House means he?ll want to stand up an entirely new administration from the one that served under President Joe Biden. |
| Work Inside the NBA Arena That?s Trying to Change How Fans Cheer The Los Angeles Clippers? Intuit Dome rewards fans for passion ? and boasts more technology (and toilets) than anywhere else. |
| Work Will South Africa Become First Country to Accept Controversial Form of Human Genome Editing? Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. |
| Work Foreign firms pull more money from China?s slowing economy BEIJING ? Foreign companies pulled more money from China last quarter, a sign that some investors are still pessimistic even as Beijing rolls out stimulus measures aimed at stabilising growth. China?s direct investment liabilities in its balance of payments dropped US$8.1 billion (S$10. |
| Work Why luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals When dairy farmer Patrick Holden sat down at his kitchen table to read his emails one day in July, he couldn?t believe his luck. A buyer, who claimed to represent a French supermarket chain, wanted to buy 22 tonnes of Hafod, his specialist cheddar. |
| Work UK, US carry out air strikes on Yemen, including Sanaa The United States and the United Kingdom have launched air strikes in Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa, a television station run by the Houthi rebel group has reported, with the Pentagon saying it targeted advanced weapons storage facilities in the raids. |
| Work LIVE: Israeli attack kills dozens in Gaza, including children A predawn strike by Israeli forces on northern Gaza?s Jabalia refugee camp kills 33, including 13 children. UNRWA says ?famine is likely happening in northern Gaza? as a doctor flags ?alarming cases of malnutrition? among children and adults. |
| Work Sting operations, whistle-blowers and detailed menus: China doubles down on food safety CHONGQING ? Eateries in south-western Chongqing will soon have to let their customers know how their dishes are prepared, including the ingredients used, right down to the exact parts of the livestock. |
| Work Spain floods: Protesters demand resignation of Valencia leader for bungling flood response Protesters filled the centre of Valencia demanding the resignation of regional government leader Carlos Mazon, the news agency Reuters reported on Sunday (Nov 10). |
| Work Spike in bad customer behaviour in Japan sees firms like 7-Eleven push back The Japanese are often said to be well regarded for their etiquette and social graces. But if this is especially true for those working in Japan?s service industry, the same cannot always be said of their customers. |
| Work 'SNL' shares its message to Trump after his election win "Two of the most polar-opposite people ever. It's like, 'Oh, let's see, what does the orange bigot have to say? What about the real estate agent who speaks through her nose?'" Burr added, doing his impression of an undecided voter. |
| Work Clark Atlanta to face Miles College for SIAC football title in Fairfield, Alabama Clark Atlanta University Panthers secure spot in SIAC title game with victory over Morehouse College. Read about their journey to the championship. |
| Work Monarch's dominant D ushers in football program's first playoff win since 2013 LAFAYETTE: Monarch’s Riley Montemayor throws a pass against Green Mountain in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs at Spangenberg Field Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. (Photo by Brent W. New/BoCoPreps.com) |
| Work CU Buffs vs. Texas Tech quick hits: Coach Prime's team now has clear path to College Football Playoff thanks to Robert Livingston's defense Complete control: The scoreboard in Lubbock wasn’t the only one that went CU’s way on Saturday. With Kansas upsetting No. 17 Iowa State 45-36 in Kansas City, the Buffs’ path to the Big 12 championship game is now this simple: Win out and CU will be playing for a conference championship and likely a College Football Playoff berth on Dec. 7 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Who would’ve seen that coming before Shedeur Sanders’ Hail Mary against Baylor? |
| Work Renck: 2015 Broncos showed how to make Arrowhead Stadium "go silent." What can Bo Nix, current team learn from it? “When the Broncos go there now, the Chiefs don’t respect us at all anymore. They’ve got us in a headlock. But it doesn’t have to stay that way,” Chris Harris said. “It would be huge to get a win. We did it. And all I can say is to shut that whole crowd up, to hear that stadium go silent, there is nothing like it.” |
| Work CSU Pueblo takes down Colorado Mines to claim RMAC football title The Thunderwolves totaled six sacks on the game as Mines struggled on third and fourth down, converting 4 of 16 attempts on the former and 1 of 4 on the latter. They also picked off Mines quarterback Joseph Capra twice, including on the Orediggers’ last drive of the game. |
| Work Keeler: CU Buffs, Travis Hunter overcome trashy Texas Tech fans, Big 12 refs, tortillas to control College Football Playoff destiny Rock Chalk in Kansas City will be the Buffs’ problem in two weeks, although it’s a delicious one. Because CU controls its own destiny now. And said destiny is on the express lane to Dallas, Coach Prime’s backyard, and to a berth in the Big 12 title game. |
| Work Avalanche stars power stunning surge, comeback victory against Hurricanes The Avs are still without key forwards but should get a couple of them back this week. They believe Valeri Nichushkin will play Nov. 15 against the Capitals, assuming his full reinstatement hearing with the league goes as they hope. And Jonathan Drouin could return before that from an upper-body injury. |
| Work Today in History: November 10, "Sesame Street" debuts In 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial, testifying that he was under attack and acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two men and wounded a third during a turbulent night of street protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (He would be acquitted of all charges.) |
| Work $28M 'library of the future' opens in Pacific Highlands Ranch The project was paid for using developer fees in four neighborhood Facility Benefit Assessment funds: Black Mountain Ranch, Del Mar Mesa, Pacific Highlands Ranch and Torrey Highlands. Idea lab supplies are being paid for using donations from Friends of the Pacific Highlands Ranch Public Library, which are matched by the city, Jones said. |
| Work 'I Can Still Recall One Subway Ride I Took After Moving to New York' A trip with an unusual passenger, voices from a Brooklyn past and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. |
| Work What a Trump Presidency Might Mean for Mayor Adams's Criminal Case “I don’t think it’s fitting to anyone to state that the former president is equal to being Hitler,” said Mr. Adams, who was briefing reporters about security plans ahead of Mr. Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden last month. |
| Work Hochul, in Unwanted Position, Says She Is Ready to Work With Trump It was a sharp tone shift away from that of other prominent Democratic governors. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California quickly stepped back into the role of opposition leader, announcing a special legislative session “to safeguard California values and fundamental rights.” In Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker mocked Mr. Trump’s competence and vowed to be “a warrior” for Democratic values. “You come for my people, you come through me,” he said. |
| Work Buffalo Bills Fans Buy Municipal Bonds to Help Fund New Stadium Kevin Hardwick, the Erie County comptroller, thought Bills fans, among the most devoted in the N.F.L., would like a chance to buy some of these bonds. They wouldn’t be able to call themselves “owners” like fans of the Green Bay Packers, a publicly owned team that issues essentially worthless stock to its shareholders. But he thought fans could express their loyalty and make a prudent investment by buying a bond or two. |
| Work If You Invested $1,000 In Bitcoin When Jay-Z & Jack Dorsey Opened The Bitcoin Academy, Here's How Much You'd Have Now Arrived Home's Private Credit Fund’s has historically paid an annualized dividend yield of 8.1%*, which provides access to a pool of short-term loans backed by residential real estate. The best part? Unlike other private credit funds, this one has a minimum investment of only $100. |
| Work Trump Victory Signals 'Golden Era' For Crypto, Says Binance CEO As Bitcoin Tops $79K For First Time Price Action: Bitcoin is trading at $79,167 on Sunday night, marking a 15.45% increase over the past week, according to data from Benzinga Pro. BTC surpassed the $79,000 threshold for the first time. |
| Work NextEra Energy CEO Says NuScale Energy's Business Model Isn't Worthwhile Reuben Gregg Brewer has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends NextEra Energy. The Motley Fool recommends NuScale Power. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Bitcoin on Cusp of $80,000 for First Time on Optimism Over Trump “Trump has promised supportive regulation, and the sweep of the House and the Senate makes the passage of crypto bills much more likely,” wrote Noelle Acheson, author of the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter. |
| Work Bitcoin Smashes $79K in Bullish Weekend Pump, With $280M Bearish Bets Liquidated A liquidation occurs when an exchange forcefully closes a trader's leveraged position due to the trader's inability to meet the margin requirements. Large-scale liquidations can indicate market extremes, like panic selling or buying. A cascade of liquidations might suggest a market turning point, where a price reversal could be imminent due to an overreaction in market sentiment. |
| Work Foreign Firms Pull More Money From China's Slowing Economy Chinese companies such as BYD Co. have been rapidly increasing their overseas footprint to secure raw materials and build up production capacity in foreign markets. That trend is likely to continue and expand, as more countries put tariffs on some Chinese exports such as steel and the US threatens to impose punitive tariffs on all Chinese goods. |
| Work Exclusive-US ordered TSMC to halt shipments to China of chips used in AI applications, source says The U.S. has been delayed in updating rules on tech exports to China. As Reuters reported in July, the Biden administration drafted new rules on some foreign exports of chipmaking equipment and planned to add about 120 Chinese companies to the Commerce Department's restricted entity list, including chipmaking factories, toolmakers, and related companies. |
| Work Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle “We are afraid of what’s coming, but we are not going to back down,” Steve Capri, an organizer with Socialist Alternative, told WPXI TV. “Trump is an attack on all of us so we need to unite, we need to get organized, join movements, study and learn together.” |
| Work Republicans on the verge of clinching control of the US House Republican senators will decide next week who will serve as the party’s leader in the Senate in 2025, with John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott vying for the job. On Saturday, Senators Bill Hagerty and Rand Paul endorsed Scott over the more senior Thune and Cornyn, who have been viewed as favorites. |
| Work Trump wins Arizona to clinch sweep of seven battleground states Associated Press declares Trump victory in state, giving him expected final total of 312 electoral college votes |
| Work 'He hears me': Trump's Wall Street fixer prepares to assemble obedient administration During a recent two-hour podcast appearance, Lutnick was in the midst of a detailed account of his ascent in finance when he stopped to describe his relationship with Trump. "He hears me," Lutnick said of the president-elect. "He doesn't always listen to what I say. He didn't always do what I say. But he hears me." |
| Work Donald Trump wins Arizona as US House moves closer to Republican control ? US politics live An employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has been fired from her job and is being investigated because she told a disaster relief team she was directing in Florida after Hurricane Milton to avoid homes displaying election campaign signs supporting Trump, conduct that the agency head on Saturday called "reprehensible". |
| Work Plans for a new national park in Wales met with opposition from local residents The current consultation on a new national park states it would have the secure funding and planning to address problems such as nature restoration and the climate crisis. "The climate is changing ⦠and unless we give national parks the opportunity to address this crisis we're all going to be in trouble," said Roberts. |
| Work King Charles to lay wreath and lead nation in Remembrance Sunday silence Philippa Rawlinson, the director of remembrance at the Royal British Legion, said: “We owe those who choose to serve in the armed forces our gratitude and this weekend we encourage people to take a moment to reflect and remember their service.” |
| Work New film unravels mystery of the Russian 'spy whale' Hvaldimir was found dead earlier this year by two men fishing in Risavika Bay, southern Norway. Police opened an investigation after animal rights groups claimed he had been shot. However, an autopsy showed he had died after a stick became lodged in his mouth. |
| Work Cambridge could lose city centre cows if council cuts out-of-hours rescue service Cambridge city councillor Simon Smith said the council needed to save £6m annually to balance its books, due to its “substantial and growing budget deficit”. “There are difficult decisions to be made,” he said, and urged residents to participate in the consultation online. “The pinder service is just one of many services we are consulting on.” |
| Work Stefanos Kasselakis, ousted leader of Greece's Syriza, leaves party to launch new movement They openly derided him for his "post-politics" and one prominent party person even compared him to former US president Donald Trump and comedian Beppe Grillo, founder of the populist Five Star party in Italy. |
| Work Deleted tweets, missed warnings and calls for the 'hangman': the bitter political fallout from Spain's floods As well as the videos of cars spinning helplessly along torrents of mud-coloured water and pictures of sodden piles of furniture, one of the abiding images of the disaster will âbe of the thousands of broom-and-bucket clutching volunteers crossing a bridge in Valencia to reach those in need. When the waters finally recede and the last bodies have been reclaimed from the mud, their actions, at least, will be beyond reproach. |