https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/02/investing/elon-musk-pay-package-rejected/index.html
Elon Musk’s record-breaking pay package for serving as Tesla’s CEO was rejected by a Delaware court, despite being approved by Tesla shareholders at a June meeting.
“The large and talented group of defense firms got creative with the ratification argument, but their unprecedented theories go against multiple strains of settled law,” McCormick wrote in a scathing opinion.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-trudeau-trump-tarrifs-bdf1b2ae23167fcd9654ea4a45d43404
Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border.
Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well.
Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.
Shemos (19:03) And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel;
Rashi citing the Mechilta says Beis Yakov is referring to the women
Rav Moshe ( Darosh Moshe page 55) notes that this means Torah was given first to the women. Why should this be since it is the men not the women that are primarily obligated in mitzvos and to study the Torah?
He answers that the Torah was given to the Jewish community for all generations and thus it needed to be accepted and sustained. The Torah was never going to be given again so its survival was dependent on chinuch (education) of the young children not the adults. Adults are already fixed in their ways and have trouble being educated (Bava Bara 21a). These children are prepared for the acceptance of Torah and mitzvos by their mothers who also encourage them after they start school as well as taking care of them for many hours of the day. That is why women were given priority in the giving of the Torah since they are the critically important factor for the Torah to survive over the generations. They teach proper faith and desire to keep the mitzvos so the children are prepared for their formal studies.
As Donald Trump pushed to re-open the US economy in weeks, rather than months, the lieutenant governor of Texas went on Fox News to argue that he would rather die than see public health measures damage the US economy, and that he believed “lots of grandparents” across the country would agree with him.
“You know, Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’” Patrick said. “And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in.”
“That doesn’t make me noble or brave or anything like that,” he added. “I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me.”
The lieutenant governor of Texas argued in an interview on Fox News Monday night that the United States should go back to work, saying grandparents like him don’t want to sacrifice the country’s economy during the coronavirus crisis.
Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, 69, made the comments on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after President Donald Trump said he wanted to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months.
Patrick also said the elderly population, who the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said are more at risk for COVID-19, can take care of themselves and suggested that grandparents wouldn’t want to sacrifice their grandchildren’s economic future.
https://www.newsweek.com/revenge-karen-1992120
Over the last decade, the idea of "canceling" someone—boycotting them over offensive or behavior deemed, by someone, to be problematic—has become commonplace. In that cultural moment, the term "Karen" came about to describe, in derogatory terms, a middle-aged white woman who is caught acting entitled, like she "wants to speak to the manager."
These days, society throws the "Karen" label at "any white woman who dares speak against [someone] or condemns them," Ernest Owens, journalist and author of "The Case for Cancel Culture," told Newsweek. "That's not what a 'Karen' is."
https://brookdale.jdc.org.il/en/publication/aging-and-corona/
That the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the pandemic is clearly indicated by the mortality figures for COVID-19. According to UN data, the mortality rate among the 80+ population is five times that of the worldwide average, as of April 26, 2020 (United Nations, May 2020). Israel’s 65+ population at the end of 2018 totaled about a million (Shnoor & Cohen, 2020) and is estimated to reach 1.1 million by the end of 2020.[1]
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/02/health/house-covid-subcommittee-report/index.html
The subcommittee, which is chaired by Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a podiatrist, will hold a markup session for the report Wednesday before submitting it to the congressional record.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5018188-house-select-subcommittee-covid-pandemic-report/
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report Monday, laying out numerous conclusions from its review of the federal pandemic response, including what the Republican-controlled panel believes to be the likely origins of the virus.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
But Hegseth’s record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world’s largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran—Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America—in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5017946-pentagon-pick-hegseth-misconduct/
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran due to mismanagement of funds, sexual impropriety and reports of intoxicated behavior, The New Yorker reported on Sunday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-celebrates-trumps-cabinet-picks-like-kash-patel/
“What an excellent team is coming along with Trump! Not with respect to Ukraine, but as far as everything else goes. If they are allowed to get in, they will quickly dismantle America, brick by brick. They are so great!” he said.
“We’ve got to put in all-American patriots top to bottom,” Patel says in the footage taken from a 2023 interview with Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser. Patel later adds: “We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.
