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The Catchup: 5 major politics stories this week, from a likely government shutdown to the UAW strike
Remember what matters and forget the noise. Here are the top five stories of the week in politics.
8 min read - PoliticsYahoo News
Zelensky returns to Washington to press Ukraine's case
Zelensky's second visit to Washington since the Russian invasion began was more fraught than the first.
3 min read - PoliticsYahoo News
Poll: 'Dread' tops list of Americans' feelings about 2024 election
Given a list of emotions to choose from, fewer than 1 in 3 Americans picked a positive one, such as “excitement” or “optimism.”
3 min read - PoliticsYahoo News
Trump legal news brief: Rudy Giuliani trial to start Dec. 11 to decide how much he must pay 2 Georgia election workers
Rudy Giuliani must appear in a Georgia courtroom to decide how much money he will have to pay two election workers he was found liable for defaming in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
37 min read - HealthYahoo Life
All labia look different — and their appearance can change over time. Experts explain.
Your labia may look different over time. Here's why that's usually not a cause for concern.
4 min read - USIn The Know by Yahoo
TikToker points out sign that the 'viral plane video' you're watching might actually be fake: 'I can always tell'
Here's what you should look for when watching the next "viral plane video" to make sure it's not staged, according to an actor.
5 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
What striking workers get wrong about automaker profits
The Detroit automakers aren't the runaway profit machines striking workers claim them to be.
5 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Housing economist warns of 8% mortgage rates after home sales disappoint
Sales of previously owned homes declined 0.7% in August from the month prior to an annualized rate of 4.04 million.
4 min read - NewsYahoo News Canada
'An attack on their autonomy’ or safeguarding kids?: What happened at '1 Million March' and counter-protests across Canada
Hundreds of demonstrators across Canada took to the streets to protest LGBTQ2S+ inclusive education in school curriculums and they were met with thousands of counter-protesters advocating for the rights of queer people.
5 min read - ScienceEngadget
NASA's James Webb Telescope may have found the source of Europa's carbon
Europa is one of the objects in our solar system that's under observation for potentially having the conditions to support life.
2 min read - HealthYahoo Life UK
What is Guillain-Barré Syndrome as Sufjan Steven is diagnosed with condition?
The singer/songwriter says he is learning to walk again following his diagnosis.
3 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
Intel (re)fined $400M by EU for 'naked restrictions' dating back to the noughties
Talk about old news: The European Union has reimposed a fine (totalling €376.36 million) on Intel for antitrust violations dating back decades. Veteran tech watchers may recall the chipmaker was slapped with a much bigger fine, of over a billion euros, by the EU back in 2009 which found Intel had abused its dominance in the market for chips to exclude rival AMD by paying PC manufacturers and retailers to delay, cancel or simply not sell products containing AMD's chips. Today's development foll
4 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
KB Home skips mortgage rate buydowns that other builders are promoting
KB Home is catering to buyers through customization and a rate lock.
5 min read - HealthYahoo Life
High schools across America are struggling to stop students from vaping in bathrooms — and locked toilets and vape detectors don't seem to be working
"You walk into the bathroom and it smells like fruit and people are passing around a vape and asking people who look chill if they want a hit," reports one teen, echoing the experience of many others across the country.
9 min read - NewsYahoo News UK
Crown Estates mapped: Every street, shopping centre and castle (of course) King Charles ‘owns’ near you
Yahoo UK breaks down the £16bn portfolio that Charles holds 'in right of the crown' - from motorway depots to private members clubs.
4 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Banks may lean on costly ‘hot money’ to get through higher-for-longer Fed campaign
The Federal Reserve's forecast of elevated rates in years to come could place more pressure on banks to rely on expensive brokered deposits known as 'hot money.'
5 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Stocks eye higher open but head for losing week: Stock market news today
Wall Street stock futures edged higher on Friday, after selling off amid the prospect of prolonged high interest rates.
2 min read - BusinessEngadget
Hyundai is offering a free EV charger and $600 off installation for a limited time
The deal is on select models until October 31.
2 min read - TechnologyEngadget
Google takes a snarky shot at Apple over RCS in its latest ad
Google just released a fake ad for the iPager, a made up retro-style beeper that shows off the limitations of Apple’s SMS text messaging platform. Apple’s continued reliance on SMS tech has impacted interoperability between iOS and Android devices.
2 min read - BusinessIn The Know by Yahoo
TikToker claims popular $1300 bottega earrings are made with less gold than $10 Amazon dupes – an expert weighs in
A jeweler on TikTok exposed how much gold is actually in designer earrings. The post TikToker claims popular $1300 bottega earrings are made with less gold than $10 Amazon dupes – an expert weighs in appeared first on In The Know.
3 min read - HealthYahoo Canada Style
Rosie O'Donnell missed the signs of a 'widowmaker' heart attack. A doctor says heart attack symptoms are harder to spot in women
Rosie O'Donnell revealed she entirely brushed off her heart attack symptoms in 2012.
4 min read - TechnologyEngadget
The best Xbox Series X and Series S accessories in 2023
Here are the best accessories to buy for the Xbox Series X and S, as chosen by Engadget editors.
5 min read - TechnologyEngadget
Engadget Podcast: iPhone 15 Pro reviews, Microsoft picks AI over Surface
This week, Cherlynn chats about her experience reviewing the iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Series 9. Also, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into Microsoft’s big Surface event in NYC, which actually ended up being more of an AI shindig.
1 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Microsoft one step closer to UK approval of Activision Blizzard deal
A UK regulator on Friday said a revised proposal from Microsoft 'opens the door' to clearing the $69 billion purchase.
2 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads from early next year
After Netflix and Disney+ introduced ad-supported plans last year, Amazon said in an update today that it will start showing ads on Prime Video early next year. Amazon noted that ads will be introduced in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Canada in early 2024. Prime Video users in France, Italy, Spain, and Mexico will start seeing ads later in the year.
2 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
South Africa's FinanceGPT simplifies financial analysis, set to interface in local languages
FinanceGPT is a generative AI startup built to help companies in their financial analysis tasks. Initially built for startups without in-house finance teams, and VCs looking to run financial health checks for their portfolios in Africa, FinanceGPT (Ipoxcap) says it has over the last two years grown to attract a diverse range of clientele including investment managers and finance officers out to fast-track their fiscal reporting. FinanceGPT, which is part of the 2023 Startup Battlefield 200 coh
2 min read - NewsYahoo News UK
Anglesey: Hundreds back call to refer to UK island by Welsh name only
Welsh language campaigners want Anglesey to be referred to as Ynys Môn.
4 min read - WorldYahoo News UK
Why Brexit is in the news... again
'Starmer lets cat out of bag on Brexit betrayal,' read the front page of Friday’s Daily Mail. It’s a headline which wouldn’t have looked out of place during the 'Brexit wars' of 2019...
4 min read - PoliticsYahoo News 360
Does the Senate really need a dress code?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision this week to have the upper chamber no longer enforce its unwritten code of business attire sparked a furor among conservatives — and even some Democrats.
6 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
HME Square aims to measure glucose painlessly with photoacoustics
People with diabetes have to monitor their blood sugar levels regularly by pricking their skin. Among them is a South Korean company called HME Square, which uses photoacoustics to test glucose levels noninvasively. HME Square was founded in 2020 by Yoonho Khang, who previously worked in semiconductors at Samsung companies for 20 years, and Sooah Im, a medical doctor.
3 min read - BusinessTechCrunch
Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents
Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian, who sold a previous big data startup called RelateIQ to Salesforce for $390 million in 2014. In its original guise, Airkit was a self-serve customer engagement platform that allowed businesses to integrate data silos and help with use cases such as
2 min read - USTechCrunch
Cruise would join the call to ban human drivers in city centers, says CEO
Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt posed a controversial question at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023: At what point does it still make sense to have human-driven cars in cities? "If you extrapolate forward and you see that [autonomous vehicles] decrease in cost, they continue to improve their safety performance, they get much better at adapting in ways that cities find agreeable and preferable, and you see more pooled rides, the question will be: Do we want as many human-driven cars on our roads?" sai
4 min read - TechnologyEngadget
Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds review: Spatial audio makes all the difference
The addition of Immersive Audio makes all the difference on Bose's latest noise-canceling earbuds.
8 min read - TechnologyAutoblog
Popular motorcycle brand pauses sales of all new and some used models
BMW Motorrad has issued a stop-sale order that applies to all new and some used motorcycles in North America due to an EVAP-related problem.
1 min read - USKLAS articles
Las Vegas teen expected ‘slap on the wrist’ for hitting, killing cyclist: ‘I’ll be out in 30 days, I’ll bet you’
The teen who police say intentionally struck and killed a retired police chief in Las Vegas said he would get a "slap on the wrist" for the incident after he was taken into custody, 8newsnow.com Investigators have learned.
3 min read - BusinessFortune
Bombshell report claims the 39-year-old Harvard Law prodigy with a historic $110 million CEO pay package quit amid horrific sexual abuse allegations
CS Disco CEO, Kiwi Camara, has been ousted after allegedly groping a young female worker and shoving meat into her face.
4 min read - BusinessBenzinga
Warren Buffett Cut Off His Granddaughter Who Spent Nearly Every Christmas and Spring Break With Him: 'I Have Not Emotionally Or Legally Adopted You As A Grandchild'
Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, is an American icon known for his savvy investment skills and frugal lifestyle. His name is synonymous with success, wealth, and philanthropy, but one lesser-known chapter in the Buffett family narrative is the story of his granddaughter, Nicole Buffett. Nicole is the adopted daughter of Warren's son, Peter, and she became a focal point of media attention when she publicly revealed that she was disowned by her famous grandfather. Nicole Buffett, an artist bas
4 min read - USFox News
Florida woman allegedly attacked 2 people at pool for doing 'inappropriate' stretches
Deputies in Florida say that a woman allegedly attacked two people at a pool for doing "inappropriate" stretches early Sunday morning.
1 min read - WorldINSIDER
A wingsuit flyer was decapitated when he jumped out of a plane and got struck by its wing
Nicholas Galy, 40, was killed just seconds after jumping from the aircraft over the French countryside, investigators said.
3 min read - PoliticsSalon
US general says Trump was angered by invite to wounded soldier: "Nobody wants to see that"
Trump questioned and criticized General Mark Milley's choice to have a disabled soldier sing at a welcome ceremony
4 min read - PoliticsINSIDER
Trump, who led the longest government shutdown in US history, calls on Republicans to let it happen again in 9 days so they can 'defund these political prosecutions against me'
Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to urge the GOP to hold the line on the"very important" government funding deadline on September 30.
3 min read - ScienceTheStreet.com
Neil DeGrasse Tyson shares an eye-opening take on recent alien findings
In June, David Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence officer, told NewsNation that UFOs are a regular presence in Earth's skies, adding that the U.S. government is in possession of crashed spacecraft complete with the bodies of their pilots. In late July, Grusch and two other whistleblowers — former Navy pilot Ryan Graves and former Navy commander David Fravor — testified before a congressional hearing meant to help Congress understand how to respond to these sightings of strange aircraft, dubbed
3 min read - BusinessThe Cool Down
Bill Gates speaks out on major overlooked contributor to Earth’s overheating: ‘The one that people are probably least aware of’
Gates is an investor in several companies aiming to come up with climate-friendly alternatives to the problem.
2 min read - BusinessUSA TODAY
Apple issues iOS 17 emergency iPhone update: What you should do right now
Apple has issued another emergency iPhone update to patch critical vulnerabilities just days after the splashy release of its latest operating system.
1 min read - USJalopnik
People Are Supposedly Falling For This Obvious ‘Pump Switching’ Scam
As if drivers didn’t have enough to worry about, here comes something else. 6ABC reports drivers are being warned about a new gas station scam out of Pennsylvania called “pump switching.” This cannot possibly be a real problem, and sounds like another fake police story, but here we go:
1 min read - USMiami Herald
Divers spot ‘blue shadow’ in Kenya. Then ‘amazing’ sea creature appears among sharks
“This is a beautiful sighting, showcasing the beauty hidden in the Watamu Marine Protected Area.”
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