>>Ahead Of The Bell
(New York, NY) -- The opening bell rings this morning on Wall Street after stocks closed slightly higher on Tuesday. Nvidia shares advanced nearly one-and-half percent to help lift markets ahead of its highly-anticipated earnings report coming up today. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained nearly 10 points to end at 41-250. The S&P 500 added almost 9 points to close at 56-25. The Nasdaq rose 29 points to 17-754.
>>Zuckerberg: Biden-Harris Admin "Pressured" Facebook To Censor Americans
(Washington, DC) -- Billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter this week to the House Judiciary Committee, admits the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. He said the administration leaned on the social media company to censor COVID-19 content, and also acknowledged that it was wrong to block the coverage of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop. In the letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Representative Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg wrote that "senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured" Meta to censor content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. And he said he regrets complying with certain demands. Zuckerberg assured Jordan that Meta has put policies in place to ensure that similar censorship of stories doesn't happen again.
>>North Korean Remote Work Applicants Flood Online Job Applications
(New York, NY) -- Companies are being flooded with job applicants from North Korea. Tech startup Cinder says it suspects as many as four-in-five applicants from some job websites are part of a remote work scheme aimed to help fund the North Korean state, according to Forbes. A cybersecurity expert told the news outlet it saw one email account automated to apply to 300 different jobs, usually in IT. Once hired, they use AI to "do the work for them" and can make as much as 300-thousand-dollars a year.
>>Eli Lilly Offering Weight Loss Drug At Half Price
(Indianapolis, IN) -- Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is rolling out a new version of its weight loss drug at about half of its monthly price. Zepbound is administered by injection and is being offered for 399-to-599-dollars per month. The drug, as well as other comparable weight-loss drugs, typically run a thousand-dollars a month. Eli Lilly officials say they want to make the drug accessible to those without insurance or Medicare.
>>SAG-AFTRA Video Game Actors to Strike Outside Warner Bros Studio
(Burbank, CA) -- Video game voice actors plan to strike outside Warner Brothers Studio today. The SAG-AFTRA members want a new contract that protects against losing work to artificial intelligence. The strike against video game producers has been going on since July 26th.
>>Poll: It Takes $200K To Be Happy
(New York, NY) -- A new poll shows a majority of Americans believe you need 200-thousand dollars to be happy. The financial advice website Cardrates.com recently surveyed over 780 employed Americans between the ages of 18 and 43 to get their feelings on money and happiness. It found about 56 percent of those surveyed said they would be content with a liquid net worth of over 200-thousand dollars. That's grown since 2010, when a Gallup survey found working Americans valued happiness at 75-thousand dollars.
>>Minnesota Nurses Best Paid In U.S. When Cost Of Living Considered
(St. Paul, MN) -- A recent study shows it's a good time to be a nurse in Minnesota. The analysis of government data by the healthcare employment website HealthJob shows Minnesota registered nurses have an average salary of nearly 95-thousand-dollars a year. The amount ranks 12th in the national rankings before the cost of living in each state is factored in. Now factor in the cost of living and they're at the top of the list, while states with higher annual pay like California and Hawaii dropped to lower on the list.
>>Barnes And Noble Founder Leonard Riggio Dies At 83
(New York, NY) -- The founder of Barnes and Noble Booksellers is dead after battling Alzheimer's. Leonard Riggio was 83. A statement from his family calls him "a true son of New York," born in Manhattan's Little Italy. Riggio also founded Barnes and Noble College Booksellers, wholesale distributor MBS Textbook Exchange, and GameStop.
