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Parenting expert Dr. Becky warns the potential cost of not setting screen-time boundaries for your kids ‘has never been higher’

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“If you can’t say no to a cupcake, you’re not going to be able to say no to TikTok,” says psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky.

https://fortune.com/well/article/dr-becky-potential-cost-of-not-setting-screen-time-boundaries-for-kids-has-never-been-higher/

Exclusive: Gili Raanan’s Cyberstarts raises $60 million for fourth seed fund

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Cyberstarts has now raised $60 million for its fourth seed fund, Fortune has exclusively learned.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/exclusive-gili-raanans-cyberstarts-raises-60-million-for-fourth-seed-fund/

With CVS’s ouster of CEO Karen Lynch, GM is now the largest Fortune 500 business led by a female CEO

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CVS CEO Karen Lynch lost her job in a surprise ouster on Friday.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/cvs-ouster-ceo-karen-lynch-gm-now-the-largest-fortune-500-business-led-by-female-ceo/

Traditional leadership development for managers isn’t working anymore—Here’s what CHROs should do instead

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It’s time to ditch the lectures and seminars.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/traditional-leadership-development-managers-not-working-managers-hr-alternatives/

Biden announces plans for free birth control without a prescription

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The current U.S. health care law requires most insurance plans to cover contraception at no cost, but allows them to require a prescription.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/biden-plans-free-birth-control-without-prescription/

CVS needs ‘realistic targets’ it can exceed says analyst after CEO dismissal

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The company's approach to guidance this year led to continual cutting of goals.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/cvs-realistic-targets-analyst-karen-lynch-dismissed-ceo-cfo/

Cubans incensed about ‘a country in ruins’ on third day of countrywide blackout

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The power grid failed in a chain reaction Friday due to the unexpected shutdown of the biggest of the island's eight decrepit coal-fired power plants.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/cuba-incensed-country-in-ruins-third-countrywide-blackout/

Millennials ‘scarred from the Great Recession and COVID’ are financially outperforming Gen Xers and boomers at the same age

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A new study from LendingTree found millennials have a higher net worth than Gen X and baby boomers at similar ages.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/millennials-outperforming-baby-boomers-gen-x-assets-earnings/

CEO of Amazon-owned Ring says ignoring fear got her to corner office: ‘Successful people just drown out all the noise’

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The CEO of Amazon-owned home security device Ring discusses what got her to the C-suite and her leadership philosophy.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/amazon-ring-ceo-founder-leadership-lessons/

NHTSA investigating Tesla full self-driving

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Tesla’s FSD has been installed in some 2.4 million vehicles.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/nhtsa-investigating-tesla-full-self-driving/

Harris gets help from Stevie Wonder as she urges Black churchgoers in Georgia to head out to vote

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Harris visited two Atlanta area churches as part of a nationwide push known as “souls to the polls."

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/harris-help-stevie-wonder-urges-black-churchgoers-georgia-vote/

Arnold Palmer’s daughter calls Donald Trump’s references to her father ‘a poor choice of approaches’

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One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer's daughters calls Trump's references to her father's genitalia “a poor choice of approaches" to honoring his memory.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/arnold-palmer-daughter-donald-trump-reference/

$2 trillion Norway oil fund CEO Nicolai Tangen says AI stock boom has created a concentration risk ‘we have never seen before’

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Nicolai Tangen's $2 trillion oil fund holds billions in AI companies, but he thinks they're emerging as a key risk area.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/21/2-trillion-norway-oil-fund-ceo-nicolai-tangen-ai-stock-boom-risk/

Election immigration fight could upend Nevada’s economy from the desert to the Strip

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Nowhere are the complicated economic and social realities behind the searing-hot political divide on immigration more clear than in Nevada.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/election-immigration-fight-upend-nevada-economy-desert-strip/

Most Americans think the economy is bad but they’re split on whether Trump or Harris can fix it

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About half of voters have a very or somewhat favorable opinion of Harris, while 46% see her unfavorably. Meanwhile, about 4 in 10 voters have a positive view of Trump and about 6 in 10 have an unfavorable view.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/most-americans-think-economy-bad-split-on-whether-trump-harris-can-fix/

China mainland shares rise on rate cut as U.S. markets await big earnings week

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China's mainland shares posted modest gains as a central bank lending rate cut boosted real estate stocks, but investors awaited more details on government stimulus.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/premarket-stock-futures-dow-sp500-nasdaq-19/

7 in 10 office workers say they have a ‘work wife’ or ‘work husband’—here’s why experts warn they probably shouldn’t

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While the quirky phrase might be shorthand between pals, it's a red flag for everyone else.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/19/office-work-wives-husbands-phrase-career-friendships/

Robinhood is bringing its risky leveraged trading product that made Redditors millionaires—and left others broke—to the U.K.

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Redditors' favorite trading platform is allowing U.K. customers to trade on leverage, but risks abound.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/21/robinhood-bringing-risky-leveraged-trading-to-the-uk/

Investors pour into photonics startups to stop data centers from hogging energy and to speed up AI

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U.K. startup Oriole Networks secures a $22 million Series A investment for its radical vision of a fully photonic data center.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/21/oriole-networks-series-a-22-milliion-photonics-startups-ai-data-center-energy-demands/

Southwest looks for truce with Elliott after major policy tweaks

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Elliott Investment Management has proposed a framework that would give it representation on Southwest’s board but not control.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/20/southwest-airlines-board-seats-activist-elliott-investment-management-talks/