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A year after deadly submersible implosion, deep-sea exploration continues

Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 8:54 am

( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “and four others.”

The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Family, friends and fellow sea explorers plan to hold both public and private ceremonies this week to honor the victims.

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VERBATIM: Tuesday marks one year since the Titan vanished on its way to the historic wreckage site. The U.S. Coast Guard quickly convened a high-level investigation into the disaster, but officials said no results will be released for at least another two months. The implosion killed the submersible’s operator, Stockton Rush, and four others.

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WALL STREET BUSINESS REPORT 6-17

Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:36 am

WALL STREET BUSINESS REPORT 6-17

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VOYAGER I

Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:13 am

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending science data again.

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ABORTION LAWSUIT

Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:11 am

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging federal rules to accommodate abortions.

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Biden to nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero as FDIC chair after abrupt departure of predecessor

Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 9:04 am

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President Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Gruenberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Correspondent Jeremy House has more on the story.

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VERBATIM: The announcement from the White House came after Gruenberg’s tenure became marred by allegations of workplace abuse that led to him to resign. Goldsmith Romero is currently a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the nation’s financial derivatives regulator. Gruenberg last month said he would resign from the FDIC after an independent report by a law firm found incidents of stalking, harassment, homophobia and other violations of employment regulations, based on more than 500 complaints from employees…JH reporting.

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Yellen says China’s trade policies could ‘interfere significantly’ with US bilateral relationship

Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 9:03 am

( ) -q-28- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “among other issues.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Chinese “overconcentrated supply chains” pose a threat to U.S. jobs and recent investments meant to build up the U.S. green energy sector.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Yellen spoke Thursday at the Economic Club of New York.

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VERBATIM: The treasury secretary says there is particular concern that China’s green energy products will undermine massive climate-friendly investments made through the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law in August 2022. Yellen pointed to the share of Chinese manufacturing firms losing money. She also cited high savings rates for China in comparison to other OECD countries and restrictive investment policies, among other issues.

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Supreme Court, siding with Starbucks, makes it harder for NLRB to win court orders in labor disputes

Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 9:02 am

( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “orders, or injunctions.”

The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.

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VERBATIM: The high court was acting on a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks. The justices tightened the standards for when a federal court should issue an order to protect the jobs of workers during a union organizing campaign. The court rejected a rule that some courts had applied to orders sought by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of a higher threshold, sought by Starbucks, that must be met in most other fights over court orders, or injunctions.

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Senator Daines: “Shocking” There’s Been No Terrorist Attack “Yet”.

Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 7:23 pm
A GOP senator says President Biden’s lax border policies nearly led to a deadly terrorist attack. Senator Steve Daines made the charge at the Republicans weekly press conference. This week, eight suspected ISIS terrorists were arrested in the U.S. after coming across the southern border.  Daines told reporters back in February Central Asian visitors warned him that thousands of people from that region were flooding across the border.  Says Daines. “ The only thing more shocking than our unsecure southern border is that we haven’t had a terror attack on our soil. Yet.”
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Democrats Block GOP Bill To Protect In Vitro Fertilization

Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Democrats have blocked a Republican version of a bill to protect In Vitro Fertilization. The bill, put forward by senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Katie Britt of Alabama sought to protect individuals seeks in vitro fetrility treatment. It would bar states that ban IVF from recieving federal medicaid money. Democrats say the bill doesn’t go far enough. Their own bill is expected to be rejected by Republicans Thursday for going too far in what the GOP calls an unnecessary attack on freedom of religion. Senator Cruz says it’s all about Democrats planning to run tv ads falsely claiming Republicans oppose IVF,
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Poll: Despite Conviction, Trump Leading Biden By 5 Points In Georgia

Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Despite his conviction by a New York jury, Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by FIVE points in a new survey of Georgia voters. 49% of respondents to a Quinnipiac University poll say they would for for former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to head matchup while 44% say they would vote for Biden. Independent voters are evenly split 45% say they would vote for Trump, 45 for Biden. Trump gains an additional point over Biden in an additional SIX candidate race.
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Manchin Leads Challenge To Biden Border Rules For “Sponsors” Of Unaccompanied Minors

Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:59 pm
Former Democrat-now Independent- Senator Joe Manchin is leading the charge against new immigration rules he says put unaccompanied minor at risk. He’s leading some 45 Republicans on a resolution that would overturn new Bide rules on the care of unaccompanied minor. When such minors are arrive in the U.S., they are nornally given into the custody of a sponsor. Manchin says the administrations latest vetting process for such sponsors is so lax it leaves the children at peril of winidng u in the costody of child traffickers and criminals. Manchin says the Biden rules fail to address what he calls the “cycles of exploitation” that are empowered by illegal immigration.”
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Senate GOP Hopes To Advance House Passed ICC Sanctions Bill

Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:33 pm
Senate Republicans are pushing a bill to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The bill comes even as the ICC ponders whether to grant an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The bill passed the House on Tuesday, with the support of 42 Democrats and all Republicans. It enjoyed greater bi-partisan suppport until President Biden expressed opposition, which led most Democrats to reject the bill. It’s not expected to pass the Senate where it’s likely to get full support from the GOP but none from Democrats.
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Cruz Has Sideline Meeting With Hanks, Spielberg In Normandy

Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 3:36 pm
Senator Ted Cruz [R-TX] says he got a chance to meet with two master storytellers in Normandy on Thursday to mark the D-Day invasion.  Cruz says he met with director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks, also in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of allied invasion of occupied France. Along with a picture of himself alongside the Hollywood stars Cruz wrote on X ““Ran into Steven Spielberg & ⁦@tomhanks, two master story-tellers who have done a beautiful job chronicling the incredible heroism of the Greatest Generation,” Hanks starred in and Spielberg directed 1988’s Saving Private Ryan, depicting the allied landing on Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944.
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Trump Leading Biden By 5-Points In Quinnipiac Poll

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 5:42 pm
A new Georgia poll shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by FIVE points. 49% of respondents to a Quinnipiac University poll say they would for vor former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to head match, while 44% say they would vote for Biden. Independent voters are evenly split 45% say they would vote for Trump, 45 for Biden. Trump gains an additional point over Biden in an additional SIX candidate race.
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GOP Whip Thune: “I Don’t Disagree” With WSJ Report On Biden’s Declining Mental Health

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 1:07 pm
Republicans are pointing to a Wall Street Journal report that raises questions about President Biden’s performance during meetings in recent years. The report chronicles several instances in which those present say the president had to read from notes, deferred questions to aides, or was barely audible when he spoke. The Senate’s number TWO ranking Republican John Thune told reporters “I don’t disagree” when asked. In his words: “  Obviously you all see it on a daily basis. … It’s an issue,”  At 81 Biden is the oldest person ever to hold the office, and his mental fitness has been questioned on numerous occasions.
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Sheehy Vs. Tester As GOP Aims For Red-State Flip In Senate Race

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 11:54 am
The battle lines are drawn in Montana, a key state Republicans hope to flip in their bid to reclaim the Senate majority. Businessman Tim Sheehy has won the Republican primary. He’ll face off with rare Red State Democrat incumbent Jon Tester, who also won his primary on Tuesday. Republicans hoping to improve their number in the upper chamber consider Tester vulnerable. He remains the only Democrat holding statewide office in Montana and Joe Biden lost to Donald Trump there in 2020.
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GOP Senator Britt Blasts “Fearmongering” In Democrats’ Contraception Bill

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 11:50 am
Republican Senator Katie Britt [R-Ala] is blasting the Democrats’ “Right To Contraception Act”.  Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, Democrats have been using the issue to rally pro-abortion voters. Now Senator Katie Britt says Democrats are engaged in what she calls a “Summer of scare tactics”  and “fearmongering”, by suggesting the need for new legislation. Britt notes that contraception remains available in every state and that she and other Republicans support it. Access to contraception is also protected nationwide by two landmark Supreme Court rulings.
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Former prosecutor settles lawsuit against Netflix over Central Park Five series

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 9:53 am

( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “later this month.”

Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein (FAIR stine) and Netflix have announced they’ve settled the defamation lawsuit she filed four years ago.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Fairstein will not receive any money but a disclaimer will be shown. Netflix has also agreed to donate $1 million to the Innocence Project.

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VERBATIM: The lawsuit was filed over Fairstein’s portrayal in the streaming service’s miniseries about the five Black and Latino teenagers known as the now-exonerated Central Park Five. She had argued that the 2019 four-part series “When They See Us” defamed her by portraying her as a “racist, unethical villain.” The case was expected to go to trial later this month.

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Amazon Labor Union moves to affiliate with the Teamsters union amid struggles

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 9:52 am

( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “standard Teamsters chapter.”

The Amazon Labor Union has agreed to affiliate with the Teamsters union.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls says the labor group was combining forces “with one of the most powerful unions to take on Amazon together.”

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VERBATIM: The Amazon union is a grassroots labor group that won a major victory at an Amazon warehouse two years ago. If the proposed affilation is ratified, the agreement said members of the ALU will join the Teamsters as an “autonomous” local union. That union has the same rights and duties as a standard Teamsters chapter.

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Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 9:51 am

( ) -q-28- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “without adequate caution.'”

A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers are calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.

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VERBATIM: An open letter asks tech companies to establish stronger whistleblower protections. That would enable researchers to raise concerns about the development of high-performing AI systems internally and with the public without fear of retaliation. Former OpenAI engineer Daniel Ziegler, one of the organizers behind the open letter, says the development of more powerful AI systems is “moving fast and there are a lot of strong incentives to barrel ahead without adequate caution.”

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GOP Senators Warn Judge Not To Sentence Trump To Jail

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 5:06 am
GOP senators are warning the judge in the Donald Trump case not to sentence him to jail. Several Republicans is warning judge Juan Marchan against the advisability of sentencing Trump to either jail or home detention. They say anything that hinder his mobility will hurt the presumptive GOP nominees ability to campaign for president, and may raise major questions about the fairness of the upcoming election. Senator John Cornyn [R-TX] – former state Supreme Court judtice in Texas-says jailing Trump would amout to -quote-“a further abuse of power”. North carolina Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said it would be -in his words-“foolish” for the judge to sentence Trump to jail or House arrest..
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Cotton Joins Chorus Of Republicans Predicting Successful Trump Appeal

Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:27 pm
Senator Tom Cotton [R-Ark] is among a chorus of Republicans predicting the Donald Trump conviction will be easily overturned on appeal. Cotton says you don’t have to be a lawyer to see flaws in the trial, including a prosecutor-Alvin Bragg-who campaigned on a promise to prosecute Trump, and a judge who violated New York law by contributing to Democrat causes, including Biden for President , and the group Stop Republicans.
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Senator Cornyn Blasts NY Trump Trial, Verdict as “dangerous”

Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 12:08 pm
Judicial expert Senator John Cornyn [R-TX] says the New York verdict against Donald Trump is a dangerous step in the wrong direction for the U.S. judicial system. Though he thinks the conviction will be easily reversed on appeal, Cornyn says there’s a much bigger danger in the politically motivated process, the partisan weaponization of the courts.
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Menendez Leaves Democrats, Will Run For Re-election As Independent

Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:07 am
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (I-NJ) has left the Democrat party and registered as an Independent. Senator Menendez is embroiled in a corruption scandal, and faces numerous charges after prosecutors alleged he and his wife accepted payment in exchange for influence. The senator said in March he would not run to retain his seat as a Democrat. Now referring to himself as an “independent Democrat” Menendez hopes to win re-election based on his track record since enterring the Senate in 2006.  He wirtes in a post on X “Simply put, I have delivered for New Jersey and will continue to do so,”
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