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Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign, is advising the GOP nominee to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy pivots in their upcoming debate.Harris “has already shown that she is trying to move away from her record, move away from her positions,” Gabbard said in a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”Gabbard is part of a small group of Trump advisers who are helping the former president prepare for the debate, scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC. Trump’s campaign insists that the candidate does not engage in traditional role playing…
Elon Musk’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump was meant to buoy the candidate’s chances in November. But more than a month after Musk officially put his weight behind Trump, a series of Democratic attacks have suggested that the endorsement has exposed a vulnerability. Since the tech billionaire endorsed Trump on July 13, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked Musk for his anti-worker stances. The campaign has called Musk and Trump “self-obsessed rich guys” and reposted audio from an event on Musk’s social media app, X, in which the two laugh together about firing striking workers. Harris allies including…
More than 10,000 hotel workers at 24 hotels stretching from Boston to the West Coast to Hawaii went on strike early Sunday morning, disrupting travel during a busy Labor Day weekend. The hotels are reportedly still open but guests will deal with a skeleton staff unable to provide full services. UNITE HERE, the union representing the striking workers, says they are striking not just for better pay but also better working conditions, including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many hotels dropped during the pandemic. “We’re on strike because the hotel industry has gotten off track,” Gwen Mills,…
Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) continues to be in a correction mode after hitting a June peak of over $225. The stock is currently trading at over 20% below the recent peak despite beating revenue and earnings estimates in the recent earnings. However, the stock is quite cheap when we look at some of the key tailwinds in various business segments. The automotive business reported an 87% YoY growth and has seen good growth projections for the future as the auto industry tries to build “smarter cars”. The IoT segment reported an 8% YoY decline in revenue, but new XR categories like Meta’s…
A British technology start-up which had promised to build the world’s first space plane is in last-ditch talks to secure new financing after two of its backers wrote down the value of their investment. Reaction Engines, which was founded in 1989, is in detailed talks with the UAE-backed Strategic Development Fund (SDF), one of its existing shareholders, about a new injection of capital, according to two people familiar with the situation. The SDF led a £40mn funding round in January last year. The British start-up is also backed by several aerospace giants, including BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce, as well as financial…
Former US attorney on what he expects from the next Trump election subversion hearing Former US attorney Harry Litman explains what he expects from the upcoming hearing to decide what parts of special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case against former President Donald Trump is not included in the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. Read the full article here
Get there first. That’s the best parenting advice I ever got, and it applies to every one of the most important values we choose to pass on to our children, as well as all the thorniest issues we choose to address—sex, alcohol, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and yes, money. For all of us parents, there are things that we hope to impart to our kids, right? There are values we hope to instill in them, lessons that we hope they learn, experiences that we want them to have, and other experiences that we hope they’ll avoid. But when and how…
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For over 100 years, Hollywood has transported audiences to worlds outside their own, from the slick streets of New York City to the yellow bricks of Oz. Hundreds of acres of land in Los Angeles are dedicated to crafting stories for the biggest and smallest screens, and movie studios are offering more ways than ever for cinema lovers to get a behind-the-scenes peek at how — and where — the magic is made.”Touring the studios, being able to go where this stuff happened, to be in the physical space of all these things that for over 100 years now people have…
Growing up, Payton Martin’s family went on a lot of cruises and she became fascinated with them. The now 23-year-old Oklahoma native says back then she’d dreamed about working and living on one.”I always wondered about what the guests don’t see and what was going on behind closed doors,” Martin tells CNBC Make It.Fast forward to the summer of 2021, Martin was getting ready to go on yet another cruise with her family. This one had been rescheduled several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin’s experience on that trip made her realize that if she was ever going to…
