A giant, inflatable IUD is going to travel across the country to help educate people about birth control this coming election season, after it made its first appearance in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station June 5, the day the Right to Contraception Act was brought before the Senate. The bill is set out to protect a person's right to access birth control, and a medical provider's right to prescribe it. However, Senate Republicans blocked the bill. The 20-foot inflatable garnered a lot of attention online when people began to post photos of it and jokes on social media. "It's going to be making appearances across the country in important areas and states for a member election," said Americans for Contraception's spokesperson. "It's also gonna be in places where folks might not expect to see it, like in the South." Read Julia Gomez's full story: https://lnkd.in/ehFcsjCM
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From me for USA TODAY: Investors who own Nvidia stock when trading closes Thursday afternoon are set to be impacted by the chipmaker's upcoming stock split. The split will occur a day after the tech giant passed Apple to become the second most valuable company in the world. Nvidia's valuation passed $3 trillion on Wednesday, putting the company only behind Microsoft, which is valued at $3.14 trillion. Read more at:
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What is your favorite microfeminism? Refusing to step aside for a man on the sidewalk? Greeting women first in a meeting? Making sure women get credit for their ideas? These everyday acts of defiance are turning into a powerful online movement. The only ones not so thrilled about it? “Neck-beards living in their mothers' basements who feel that any act of feminism is an act of war against the male species,” says Tennessee attorney and microfeminist Katie Wood. #microfeminism #feminism #girlsgirl Tessa West Vanessa McGrady Mahlet (Mahi) Yared Ashley Chaney
Welcome to the 'microfeminist' revolution: Women clap back at everyday sexism on TikTok
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🍎 Pssst. We have some rumors... With the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) just around the corner, we've heard whispers about #AI integration within iOS. Jonathan Limehouse describes some of them: 📱 Imagine Siri enabling you to command all app features with just your voice 😜 AI-generated emojis based on what you're texting 🗣️ Voice Memos able to transcribe and summarize audio in real-time 🤖 ChatGPT-like chatbot Tim Cook is expected to kick things off with a keynote on June 10 at 10 a.m. PT and our reporters will be bringing you all the updates.
AI-generated emojis? Here are some rumors about what Apple will announce at WWDC 2024
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Caitlin Clark may not be joining USA Basketball this summer for the Paris Olympics -- and I think it's the right call from a basketball/roster standpoint -- but she did have her best game as a pro Friday night in D.C. My story from Capital One arena:
Caitlin Clark heats up with best shooting performance of WNBA career: 'The basket looks bigger'
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📚 The $1.50 hot dog is staying but the large stack of books in the middle of your nearest Costco Wholesale may not be around much longer. The wholesale retailer plans to stop regularly selling books year-round starting in January 2025. Instead, Costco will consistently sell books only during the last four months of the year, when holiday shopping picks up. Costco may not be the country's largest #bookseller but the shift is a symbolic blow to an industry that has already been struggling to keep up with rising operating costs. Bailey Schulz has more:
Costco is switching up how it sells books. What it means for shoppers.
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Welcome back to Betty Lin-Fisher's #UncomfortableConversations, this time: how to tackle financial infidelity? #Financialinfidelity usually happens when there’s “likely something that's happening in that relationship that's making it not safe or acceptable to be honest or transparent about how you're spending money,” said Edward Coambs, CFP®, LMFT, CFT-I™. Examples: 👠 A wife with a habit of buying – and hiding – expensive shoes from her husband. 🎲 A husband with a secret online gambling addiction. 💳 A partner racking up credit card debt for purchases the other partner doesn’t know about. In a 2021 study, the National Endowment for Financial Education found that two in five (43%) people in a relationship confess to having committed some act of financial deception, with 85% of those individuals stating the indiscretion affected the current/past relationship in some way. So how does someone who has committed financial infidelity come clean? Coambs said most patients have told him they want to be able to talk to their partner in a safe, accountable and respectful way. More on what to: https://lnkd.in/e2u3KkjH
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Red Lobster could close additional restaurants if it is unable to renegotiate their leases, according to bankruptcy documents. The company listed 228 rejected leases it says will keep losing money if they continue operating as they currently are. The list of restaurants includes at least some of the restaurants it has already closed. As of May 22, the company's website listed 99 closed locations across 28 states. This means that an additional 129 restaurants are in danger of closing. Gabriel Hauari has the full list of the 228 rejected leases:
Nearly 130 more Red Lobster restaurants are in danger of closing: See list of locations
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📉 Stock influencer Keith Gill's first livestream in three years failed to spark enough investor enthusiasm in GameStop on Friday to reverse a nearly 40% slump in the shopping mall retailer's #stock after it unveiled a share sale to raise up to $3 billion. On a livestream with more than 600,000 viewers, Gill, the key figure behind an eye-popping rally in the struggling company's stock in 2021, joked about memes and interspersed his discussion of GameStop with various disclaimers. Known on YouTube as "Roaring Kitty," he warned viewers they could “lose it all” and that his “aggressive style of investing, it is almost certainly not suitable for you all.”
GameStop tanks almost 40% as 'Roaring Kitty' fails to spark enthusiasm
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💰 🐟 What a luck! A couple in New York City might have hit the jackpot when they discovered a safe with almost $100,000 while magnet fishing in a pond in Queens. James Kane and Barbie Agostini were magnet fishing at a pond in Queens when they captured a muddy safe. The couple, who regularly document their finds on social media, was stunned when they opened the safe and found hundreds of drenched bills, estimated to be worth $100,000. Read their story:
NYC couple finds safe containing almost $100,000 while magnet fishing in muddy Queens pond
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