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boston.com April 22, 2024

For Biden, Kennedy Family’s Embrace Carries Deeper Meaning

Growing up in a proud Irish Catholic middle-class family, Joe Biden’s family idolized the Kennedys. They saw the Kennedys — successful, wealthy, attractive Irish Catholics — as the embodiment of […] The post Kennedy family members’ embrace carries deeper meaning for Biden appeared first on Boston.com.
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nytimes.com 26 minutes ago

Donors Stay Largely Silent Amid New Wave Of Campus Protests - The New York Times

Robert Kraft, an alumnus of Columbia, suggested he would withhold donations to the school. Other alumni are keeping quiet. : Robert Kraft, an alumnus of Columbia, suggested he would withhold donations to the school. Other alumni are keeping quiet. By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni Top American colleges are in turmoil, with dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters having been arrested at N.Y.U. and Yale amid new worries about antisemitism on campus. University administrators have been struggling to restore calm, and have taken heavy criticism from students and lawmakers alike.
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seekingalpha.com 27 minutes ago

Wall Street Breakfast Podcast: Unh: Personal Data Compromised

UnitedHealth (UNH) confirms personal data compromised in cyberattack. (00:28) China reportedly bought Nvidia (NVDA) AI chips embedded in Super Micro (SCMI), Dell servers. (01:24) New York Stock Exchange (ICE) gauging interest for 24/7 stock trading. (02:43) UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) said a preliminary review of data involved in February's cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit indicates that personal information was involved and that a "substantial proportion of people in America" could be impacted.
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fortune.com 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

Ai Startup Prime Intellect Raises $5.5M To Build High-powered, Decentralized Research Platform | Fortune

Prime Intellect announced a seed raise to help launch a decentralized platform on which researchers can collaborate and build open-source AI models.
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abc.net.au 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

Iea Says Global Ev Demand 'motoring Along' As Sales Tipped To Be One-in-five In 2024 - Abc News

Amid plans by some automakers to hit the brakes on EV expansion plans, the International Energy Agency says demand is set to surge in 2024.
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channelnewsasia.com 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

Philippines' Sm Investments, Sm Prime To Create Maiden $3B Notes Programme - Cna

MANILA :Philippine conglomerate SM Investments Corp and its property unit SM Prime Holdings Inc are tapping the overseas market via a maiden $3 billion Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) programme, company officials said on Tuesday. Tapping the overseas markets will help the company fund its future requirements, SM Investments Vice Chairperson Teresita Sy-Coson told Reuters. The companies, owned by the Philippines' richest family, are looking at issuing the entire $3 billion in the next three to five years, Sy-Coson said. The conglomerate has created an entity in Singapore to facilitate the issuance of the notes.
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forbes.com 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

Malaysian Tycoon Shamsuddin's Sapura Energy To Sell Gas Producer To Totalenergies For $705M

Malaysian tycoon Shahril Shamsuddin's Sapura Energy is selling 50% of natural gas producer SapuraOMV Upstream to TotalEnergies for $705 million.
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benzinga.com 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

Ray Dalio's Way Loses Shine As Investors Yank Out Billions From Risk-parity Funds After Disappointing Returns: But Is It A 'classic Investment Error?' - Spdr S&p 500 (arca:spy)

Large investors, including public pension funds, have withdrawn their investments, leading to a $70 billion decline in these funds from their peak three years ago. read more.
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scmp.com 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

Hong Kong's Small Businesses More Confident Of Growth Than Their Mainland China, Singapore Peers, Survey Shows | South China Morning Post

Hong Kong's SMEs are more optimistic than their peers in mainland China, Singapore and Australia when it comes to growing their businesses this year, thanks to government support and an increase in online sales, a survey shows.
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nytimes.com 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

Universities Struggle As Pro-palestinian Demonstrations Grow - The New York Times

Dozens were arrested Monday at N.Y.U. and Yale, but officials there and at campuses across the country are running out of options to corral protests that are expected to last the rest of the school year.
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nbcnews.com 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

People Taken Into Custody At Nyu As Pro-palestinian Campus Protests Escalate Across U.s.

Students at Columbia University, Yale and other universities are holding pro-Palestinian protests on campus. : California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, said campus is closed through Wednesday after protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza occupied Siemens Hall on the campus in Arcata. "The University is deeply concerned about the safety of the protestors who have barricaded themselves inside the building. The University is urgently asking that the protestors listen to directives from law enforcement that have responded and to peacefully leave the building," it said in a statement.
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