"But the ideological divide among House Republicans is now attracting attention in the upper chamber after GOP anger over Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville stalling military promotions erupted on the Senate floor.Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Dan Balz, a chief correspondent at The Washington Post; Adam Harris, a..."
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"That’s a normal (if sometimes nasty) process, but in a year when a sociopath who instigated a violent insurrection is promising that his main platform is to exact vengeance on his enemies, a Democratic Party brawl doesn’t make much sense.An irony in the worries about Biden is how much they ignore Trump’s own unpopularity: A poll released this week found that nearly two-thirds of Americans would..."
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"“I was here at 5,” another would answer, in a daily game of early-bird one-upmanship that sounded like a young-American version of the “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch.I would go to my desk and growl at anyone who came near me before 9:30 a.m., but I was also the guy who was able to whip up a brief or a floor statement in the early evening, when the morning scolds were already glassy-eyed."
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"And while Musk ruthlessly slashed 80% of the workforce at Twitter after acquiring the company late last year, at one point mocking a fired employee with a disability before backpedaling—he soon faced a flurry of lawsuits and other legal actions over benefits owed and the manner of the terminations—Nvidia avoided the large layoffs seen elsewhere in the tech industry."
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"The lawsuit (and two others) could lead to a 30% reduction in the $100 billion that Americans pay each year in real-estate commissions, said Ryan Tomasello, a real-estate industry analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, in a research note on the case, reported the Wall Street Journal."
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"Still, at a news conference Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that any evidence that the economy is running too hot “or that tightness in the labor market is no longer easing” could hinder further progress on inflation and justify additional rate hikes.Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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"After all, some prominent conservatives have openly praised nations that have reshaped higher education, such as Hungary—which, as my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote, “is the only European country to have shut down an entire university, to have put academic bodies (the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) under direct government control, and to have removed funding from university departments that the..."
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"A Trump spokesperson would later deny that the venue selection was at all related to the massacre that took place there almost exactly 30 years earlier—he claimed Waco was chosen solely because it was “centrally located” and “close” to big cities such as Dallas and Houston—but plenty of rally attendees drew the connection between the setting and Trump’s central campaign message.“[Trump’s] makin..."
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"You can have a job if you want a job.”—Elon Musk tells British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak where he sees AI going.IN CASE YOU MISSED ITFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of all charges in ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in American history’, by Leo SchwartzTim Cook keeps giving the same answer about Apple’s generative AI plans, and it’s falling flat with investors, by Rachyl JonesCo..."
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"Because of Israel’s intensified blockade, Gaza’s only power plant ran out of fuel on October 11th, further reducing internet connectivity as well as damaging other crucial infrastructure such as desalination plants."
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"And while isolation has long been the thematic through line in Coppola’s films, here she illustrates the way one of the most storied romances in American history produced a delicate, terrible loneliness.Like much of Coppola’s work—think of the muted pastels of Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, or the faded glow over The Beguiled and The Virgin Suicides—Priscilla seems soft to the touch,..."
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"In an opinion piece on Bloomberg, columnist Jonathan Levin argued that the billionaire’s move “seems to be largely personal” and “isn’t a repudiation of tax policy in Washington state, nor is it a sign that Florida has created the policy recipe for others to follow,” conceding that “most of us struggle to believe it can be that simple with billionaires.”"
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"What young and mature workers can teach each other We are incredibly optimistic about a future where our young people, who are already mission-driven, leverage the power of incredibly intuitive technology in generative AI to attack problems that have been too complex for us to resolve in the past."
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"Manufacturing” In addition to those people mentioned and quoted in the text, the author would like to thank the following: Hunt Alcott, Nick Bloom, John Cochrane, Mark Duggan, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, Matthew Gentzkow, Edward Glaeser, Adam Gorlick, Anna Grummon, Preeti Hehmeyer, Jesse Jenkins, Scott Lincicome, Annamaria Lusardi, Chris Meserole, Chris Miller, Emi Nakamura, Julia Nielson..."
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"President Joe Biden called the head of the United Auto Workers union to congratulate him this past week on getting a new contract with General Motors and to wish him a happy 55th birthday — a sign of how the relationship had evolved since their first get-to-know-you meeting in the Oval Office on July 19."
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"“With regards to future purchases, except for a few remaining properties that Flannery has under contract and will close on in the coming weeks, Flannery has assembled all the land it needs and does not anticipate making any additional purchases,” the company said in a statement."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: The ‘Big Stay’ isn’t going away as the labor market stops rewarding job hoppers, according to ADP payroll data Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers ar..."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: The ‘Big Stay’ isn’t going away as the labor market stops rewarding job hoppers, according to ADP payroll data Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers ar..."
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"On Thursday, Beyond Meat said demand for its faux meat products was weaker than expected, causing it to reduce full-year revenue forecast for the second time in three months."
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"In the case that they’re giving their child money for a down payment, with no expectation of repayment, parents should consider either utilizing the lifetime gift tax exemption mentioned above, or the annual gift tax exemption, which for this year is $17,000 (or $34,000 for married couples)."
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