The ‘Bachelor’ electionHow the reality TV show became the pivotal demographic in the 2024 election
Ben Higgins, 35, could be your prototypical politician. Charming, handsome, and well spoken, Higgins uses his work as an entrepreneur and philanthropist to help fight poverty. He’s also an independent who doesn’t identify strongly with either side of the political spectrum. “It’s very topic by topic for me,” he said. “It’s very much understanding the…
Hezbollah pager attacks are a harbinger of a darker, more dangerous age of individualized strikes, military expert says
An ambulance rushing wounded to a hospital in Beirut, September 17, 2024, after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds. The simultaneous detonation of thousands of pagers in Lebanon on Tuesday is a harbinger of a darker and more dangerous age of individualized attacks, according to a retired general and warfare strategist. Wireless pagers used…
He was a theater and English major in the UK. Now, he’s one of Singapore’s 4 masters of wine.
Richard Hemming shares his career journey as an aspiring actor in college. Once a budding actor, Richard Hemming traded Shakespeare for chardonnay. Now, he’s a leading figure in Singapore’s wine scene. One of the country’s four masters of wine, Hemming oversees wine programs across Asia for 67 Pall Mall, a private club for wine lovers.…
Sam’s Club is boosting its starting wage to $16 and speeding up raises for nearly 100,000 workers
Sam’s Club says the scheduled changes will bring the average hourly wage to more than $19. Frontline workers at Sam’s Club are slated to get a raise ahead of the holidays. The Walmart-owned warehouse club said Tuesday it is bumping its starting wage from $15 to $16, as well as offering faster pay increases to…
Memo: Citi shakes up leadership after $136 million in fines for data quality issues
Citi’s new tech head Tim Ryan will oversee the bank’s data efforts alongside COO Anand Selva. Nearly four years ago, Citigroup was fined $400 million for its poor data management and risk controls. In July, regulators fined the bank $136 million for failing to fix its data quality issues quickly enough. Now Citi is taking…
The Archegos disaster isn’t over yet for banks as the feds reportedly revive criminal antitrust probe
Archegos Capital Management founder Bill Hwang (C) walks out of federal court Federal prosecutors are reexamining Wall Street banks that lost billions in the 2021 Archegos collapse, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. According to the people familiar with the matter, the US Department of Justice is investigating the degree to which these banks coordinated the collective…
Indictment against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs details allegations of ‘Freak Off’ sex performances
Combs was arrested Monday and charged with three felonies. An unsealed federal indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs alleges the music mogul arranged and filmed what he called “Freak Offs”: elaborate sex performances between female victims and male commercial sex workers. The rapper and entrepreneur was arrested Monday, and charged with three felonies: racketeering conspiracy, sex…
Trump has said he supports IVF. Now, Democrats want him to prove it.
Senate Democrats say with just a word from former president Donald Trump, Republicans would fall in line to support their IVF bill. With less than 50 days until the election, Senate Democrats are putting Republicans — and Trump — in the hot seat on IVF. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats are bringing the Right to IVF…
College football fans are already starting to foot the bill for their athletes getting paid
Fans of University of Tennessee Volunteers, led by quarterback Nico Iamaleava, will begin helping pay student athletes with new “talent fee.” In the new age of college football revenue sharing, the cost of paying student-athletes is already being passed off — at least in part — to fans. The University of Tennessee announced in an…
