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Democrats grappled Monday with the first major fraying of their coalition amid the government shutdown, with a federal employee union calling for them to stand down four weeks into the standoff. There was no immediate surrender from party leaders, but the union’s plea forced many Democratic lawmakers into a defensive crouch. Their No. 2 Senate leader said it would be a subject of internal conversations this week with bipartisan talks all but ground to a halt. “It has a lot of impact. They’ve been our friends,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters Monday, adding that Democrats “take them seriously.” The…
Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. LSU’s firing of head football coach Brian Kelly brings about a big issue other than finding the right replacement for him. Kelly was only in his fourth season of a 10-year, $100 million contract he signed to coach the Tigers after leaving Notre Dame. And of that $100 million, 90% of it was guaranteed money. So, LSU and Kelly are reportedly in negotiations about how the university is going to buy him out of his contract, and it is expected to be one of the highest in college football history. But not the highest. CLICK HERE…
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha argued that the venture industry isn’t an asset class, and that throwing more money into Silicon Valley doesn’t lead to better companies. “Investing in venture is a return-free risk,” Botha said during an interview on TechCrunch’s Disrupt’s main stage on Monday. “Anybody who’s studied the capital asset pricing model understands the joke of that. The reason I came up with this is, if you look at the history of venture capital, it’s an asset that’s uncorrelated with other asset classes.” “And so the thinking for many allocators was you should allocate…
4:59 PM: It’s not blocking traffic but the response soon might – a driver has gone onto the sidewalk and (reportedly lightly) hit the building on the northeast corner of 16th/Roxbury, as shown in the traffic-cam screengrab above. 5:06 PM: Live camera shows police now have the adjacent – westbound outside – lane on Roxbury blocked. 5:19 PM: Tow truck just arrived. Apparently no major injuries, since SFD canceled quickly. Source link
Aclara Resources CEO Ramón Barúa Costa addresses how his company is joining the U.S.’ push for rare earth independence from China on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Aclara Resources CEO Ramón Barúa Costa detailed a $277 million investment to build the first rare earth processing plant in America during an exclusive interview on “The Claman Countdown” Monday. “We are going to be breaking ground in the second half of next year,” he said on the future plant in Louisiana.Rare earth elements are critical for making everyday electronics, defense systems and more. WYOMING RARE EARTH MINING FACILITY TO BE FIRST TO OPEN IN…
Talifhani Banks is the founder of South African delivery firm Spaza Eats.Founded in 2023, Spaza Eats focused on serving the townships and rural areas that were being ignored by existing delivery firms. Now the firm has tens of thousands of customers and has given smaller food sellers a modern delivery platform. It has also generated data that is being used to develop a larger marketplace with more services, called AnalyticsX.This is the first in a six-part video series on technology in Africa. Source link
On October 21, KUOW published a story with the headline: “Katie Wilson can barely afford to live in Seattle. That’s why she wants to be mayor.” The story then goes on to reveal that while she “speaks the language of the working people,” there’s something missing from her campaign narrative: “Her parents give her money,” the reporter wrote. Harrell’s campaign seized on the idea that support from her parents undermines Wilson’s credentials as an advocate for working-class Seattleites. Two days after the KUOW article came out, Harrell sent out a press release with the headline: “Katie Wilson is Not Who…
Dozens of Democratic attorneys general and governors are planning to sue President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday over its decision to not tap emergency funds amid the government shutdown to keep food aid flowing to 42 million Americans next month, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of a public announcement. Trump officials concluded in a Friday memo that they cannot legally tap a $5 billion contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program amid the shutdown to pay benefits in November. Some in the administration believe, with $9 billion needed to fund SNAP payments for the…
Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler discusses the impact of the government shutdown on small business on ‘Kudlow.’ Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler says Democrats are having a “disgraceful moment” as the government shutdown reaches what she calls liberals’ intended effect of hurting small businesses. The federal government approached its fifth week of a shutdown after lawmakers failed to advance the continuing resolution a dozen times, according to a previous report. Disagreements over Obamacare remain at the forefront, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Democrats push to extend expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, while Republicans say…
Robots can be programmed to do a variety of tasks, like packing boxes and even performing surgery. But each individual movement or task requires its own specific training process, which makes it hard for robots to adapt in real-world scenarios. Mbodi wants to make training robots easier and quicker with the help of AI agents. The company will be showcasing this tech as one of the Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. New York-based Mbodi built a cloud-to-edge system, a hybrid computing system using both cloud and local compute, that is designed to integrate into existing robotic…