Group Affirm Launches

‘Buy now, pay later’ group Affirm launches in the UK

Move comes as British government looks to bring the popular borrowing method under FCA rules

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

Boohoo chief to step down as fast-fashion group launches strategic review

Retailer says it remains ‘fundamentally undervalued’ and announces £222mn debt refinancing

Business - Financial Times - October 18

Democratic groups launch ad painting GOP as extreme on porn censorship

Two Democratic groups are rolling out a new ad featuring a fake Republican lawmaker who wants to ban porn nationwide, the latest installment of the group’s $2.5 million ad campaign accusing the GOP ...

Politics - The Hill - October 23

Democratic groups launch $2.5M ad buy attacking Republicans over reproductive access

Two Democratic groups are launching a $2.5 million ad campaign that aims to put Republicans on the spot over reproductive access as the 2024 election comes down to the wire. Progress Action Fund ...

Politics - The Hill - October 15

Gen Z advocacy group launches TikTok campaign against voting for Jill Stein

Gen Z advocacy group Voters of Tomorrow launches TikTok campaign against voting for Jill Stein

Post-Affirmative Action, Is Sustained Campus Diversity Suspicious?

There are perfectly legal explanations for why schools’ demographics might not change after the fall of affirmative action.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 16

Pope urged at LGBTQ meeting to reverse church ban on gender-affirming care

Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.

Harris says gender-affirming care decisions should be left to doctors and patients

Vice President Harris on Tuesday said decisions on gender-affirming care should be left to doctors and their patients in an interview with NBC News. The vice president said “we should follow the ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

Paxton accuses Texas doctor of providing gender-affirming care in violation of state law

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Thursday sued a doctor in Dallas, accusing her of providing gender-affirming care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of the state’s law. Paxton ...

Politics - The Hill - October 17

Texas attorney general sues second doctor under state's gender-affirming care ban

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing a second doctor of violating a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The lawsuit, filed in a ...

Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago

My mother nursed a life-affirming 25-year grudge. Hard as I try, I don’t have the attention span | Zoe Williams

It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?. The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a ...

World - The Guardian - Yesterday

The Gift of Group Intelligence

Three reasons to embrace lessons from The Hive Mind at Work.

Business - Inc. - 4 days ago

Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper

Investors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family's new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability issues interfered with a launch event.

Tech - Wired - October 16

Armie Hammer returns to public life — with a new podcast

Armie Hammer is back — in your earbuds, anyway, for those who are interested in tuning in to his new project that will in part document him “putting my life back together.”

Steve and Connie Ballmer on Ballmer Group

In a 60 Minutes interview, former Microsoft CEO and LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie share their vision for philanthropy and address whether they'd ever be in the market for ...

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