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CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the retail giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats.
The company said Thursday that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years, nearly a tenth of its roughly 10,000 retail locations as it reduces store count density in some places.
The company said Thursday that it has been evaluating population changes, customer buying patterns and future health needs to “ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations.”(Snip) explosive growth of online shopping has blunted the demand for such in-person convenience.
CNBC,
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Sotheby’s is auctioning off an extremely rare and historic first-edition printing of the U.S. Constitution, and crypto investors are pooling millions of dollars worth of ether to buy it.
An organization known as ConstitutionDAO is raising the money using a digital crypto wallet with the aim of crowdsourcing enough funds to make the winning bid when the document hits the auction block on Thursday night.
The foundational text is valued at $15 million to $20 million. Since launching five days ago, the group has thus far raised 967 ether, or $4.3 million.
The exercise offers some of the first practical insight into how crypto infrastructure can be used to facilitate fractional ownership
New York Post,
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Callie Patteson
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The second-ranking general in the US military has sounded the alarm about China’s weapons development — warning that Beijing may soon have the capability to launch a surprise nuclear strike against America.
“They look like a first-use weapon,” Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News Tuesday. “That’s what those weapons look like to me.” (Snip) “From a technology perspective, it’s pretty impressive,” he said. “But Sputnik created a sense of urgency in the United States … The test on July 27 did not create that sense of urgency. I think it probably should create a sense of urgency.”
New York Post,
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Rebekah Koffler
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In September, the Biden Administration released back to Russia the world’s most dangerous cybercriminal, Alexei Burkov, after Trump’s Justice Department had taken great pains to extradite him from Israel. (Snip) Instead of serving a maximum sentence of 15 years in US prison, the cyber criminal was deported to his native Russia.
Russian cyber criminals like Burkov have extorted millions of dollars in ransom from US businesses in return for unlocking infected computer networks. But the main value of highly-skilled cyber criminals like Burkov for Russian President Putin is not how much ransom he can gain, but rather, what these hackers can do for their country.
Fox Business,
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Paul Conner
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Call it the battle of the billionaires. Ken Griffin, the Chicago billionaire who runs hedge fund giant Citadel and owns the enormous market-making firm Citadel Securities, says he’s "all-in" to back a candidate to try and defeat fellow billionaire and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois."I’m going to make sure that if he runs again, that I am all-in to support the candidate who will beat him," Griffin said Wednesday during comments he made at the DealBook Online Summit hosted by The New York Times. "He doesn’t deserve to be the governor of our state. "Griffin, a longtime foe of Pritzker, charged that the governor "called me a liar
New York Post,
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Andrew Court
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Morgan Wallen says he’s “blessed” despite losing out on a Country Music Association award and being banned from the awards show, which was held in Nashville on Wednesday night. (Snip) CMA organizers barred Wallen from attending the glitzy ceremony but still allowed his sophomore record, “Dangerous,” to be nominated in their Album of the Year category.
“Dangerous” was the highest-selling record among those nominated, but the crooner lost out to Chris Stapleton’s album “Starting Over.”Last week, Wallen took a swipe at the CMA Awards after his ban from the show was announced.
“PSA: Everyone is welcome to attend my shows,” he tartly wrote on Twitter.
Fox Business,
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Megan Henney
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American households are coping with the fastest price increases in more than three decades, with the cost of everything from cars to gasoline to food surging in October, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
The consumer price index, which measures a bevy of goods ranging from gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, jumped 6.2% from the year-ago period – the highest since December 1990.(Snip)The increases were most pronounced for different meats, with staggering year-over-year increases for steak (24%), bacon (20%), pork chops (16%), fish (11%) and chicken (9%). Egg prices climbed 12% compared to last year, while milk and coffee were both up 6%.
New York Daily News,
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Michael F. Cannon
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Last week, the United Kingdom approved a new antiviral pill (molnupiravir). Studies show the drug reduces the risk of hospitalization and death among high-risk COVID patients by half. U.S. taxpayers funded molnupiravir’s development. Yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration isn’t even meeting to consider approval until Nov. 30.
Molnupiravir is the latest example of the FDA denying patients their most important health care right — the right to make their own health decisions — by prohibiting them from getting drugs that have received approval in other advanced countries.(Snip)Between 2000 and 2010, the FDA blocked U.S. patients from accessing a total of 37 novel drugs available in Canada and Europe.
RedState,
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Jennifer Van Laar
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As our Jennifer O’Connell reported earlier today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-French Laundry) hasn’t been seen in public since October 27, the day he received his COVID-19 vaccine booster. Newsom was scheduled to fly to Glasgow to attend the COP26 climate change conference two days later, but his trip was abruptly canceled. Initially some speculated that perhaps he realized how silly it was to fly across the globe to speak at a climate change conference when he could simply participate virtually.(Snip) Newsom planned to fly to Glasgow to advocate for ending the use of fossil fuels, but ended up enjoying every luxury possible – thanks to Big Oil money.
Associated Press,
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Warsaw, Poland (AP) — Hundreds if not thousands of migrants sought to storm the border from Belarus into Poland on Monday, cutting razor wire fences and using branches to try and climb over them. The siege escalated a crisis along the European Union’s eastern border that has been simmering for months.
Poland’s interior ministry said it had rebuffed the illegal invasion and claimed the situation was under control. (Snip) Belarusian political analyst Valery Karbalevich told the AP that the Moscow-backed Lukashenko regime seemed to be trying to use the migrants “to scare” the EU.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Harriet Johnston
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Prince Harry discussed 'climate anxiety' with psychiatrists and physicians as part in a 'realizing a compassionate planet' forum this weekend.
The Duke of Sussex, 37, who is currently living in his $14 million mansion in California having stepped back from royal duty last year, took part in the virtual discussion in conjunction with Archewell partner Stanford University on Friday. A tweet shared by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University account read: 'Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, welcomed Realising a Compassionate Planet delegates (Snip) In a second tweet, it posted: 'Physicians, psychiatrists, and compassion scholars explored the nuances and meanings of climate anxiety,
New York Post,
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We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the essence of problem-solving, enabling us to thrive in our careers. We owe much to our alma mater and have donated to it regularly.
No more.
The current MIT administration has caved repeatedly to the demands of “wokeness,” treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at large. (Snip)Will they redeem themselves by standing for merit and truth, or will they forfeit the support of countless alumni and donors by surrendering to wokeness?