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Title : Republican-controlled states target college students’ voting power ahead of high-
stakes 2024 elections.

By : Fredreka Schouten and Shania Shelton, CNN.

Republican-controlled legislatures contests – have appealed a court

around the country have moved to erect decision striking down additional
new barriers to voting for high school document requirements for those using
and college students in what state student IDs to vote.
lawmakers describe as an effort to
And voting rights advocates say a
clamp down on potential voter fraud.
longstanding statute in Georgia, which
Critics call it a blatant attempt to
bars the use of student IDs from private
suppress the youth vote as young
universities, has made it more difficult
people increasingly bolster Democratic
for students at several schools –
candidates and liberal causes at the
including Spelman and Morehouse,
ballot box. As turnout among young
storied HBCUs in Atlanta – to participate
voters grows, new proposals that
in Georgia’s competitive US Senate and
change photo ID requirements or
presidential elections. Gains for
impose other limits have emerged.
Democrats, The efforts to clamp down
Laws enacted in Idaho this year, for on student IDs and campus voting come
instance, prohibit the use of student IDs against a backdrop of gains for
to register to vote or cast ballots. A new Democrats among this demographic
law in Ohio, in effect for the first time in group. Exit polls analyzed by the
Tuesday’s primary elections, requires Brookings Institution found that people
voters to present government- ages 18 to 29 – especially young women
authorized photo ID at the polls, but – made a pronounced shift toward
student IDs are not included. Democrats in last year’s midterm
Identification issued by universities has elections, helping to blunt an expected
not traditionally been accepted to vote “red wave” for Republicans.
in the Buckeye State, but the new law
And voter registration among 18-24
eliminates the use of utility bills, bank
year-olds increased in several states last
statements and other documents that
year over 2018 levels – including Kansas
students have used before. A proposal
and Michigan, where voters decided on
in Texas would eliminate all campus
ballot measures on abortion, following
polling places in the state. Meanwhile,
the US Supreme Court decision to
officials in Montana – where Democrat
overturn Roe v. Wade, according to data
Jon Tester is seeking a fourth term in
from Tufts University’s nonpartisan
one of 2024’s highest-profile Senate
Center for Information and Research on
Civic Learning and Engagement, or One longtime GOP lawyer has discussed
CIRCLE. CIRCLE conducts research into ways to curtail youth voting. The
youth civic engagement. Washington Post, citing a PowerPoint
presentation along with an audio
An analysis by The Milwaukee Journal
recording of portions of the
Sentinel found that voting on college
presentation obtained by liberal
campuses soared in last month’s
journalist Lauren Windsor, reported that
election for a state Supreme Court seat
GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell recently
in Wisconsin. In that contest, the liberal
urged Republicans to limit campus
candidate who prevailed, Janet
voting during a private gathering of
Protasiewicz, had made protecting
Republican National Committee donors.
abortion rights a central feature of her
Mitchell, who tried to help former
campaign.
President Donald Trump overturn the
Among the voting wards in the city of 2020 election results in Georgia, did not
Eau Claire, for instance, the highest respond to a CNN interview request
turnout came from the ward that served through a spokesperson for her current
several University of Wisconsin dorms – organization
with nearly 900 votes cast, up from 150
in a Supreme Court race four years
earlier, the paper found. Protasiewicz
won 87% of those votes.

Prominent conservatives have

spotlighted these voting trends.

“Young voters are the issue,” Scott

Walker, Wisconsin’s former Republican
governor, wrote in a widely noticed
Twitter post following the state
Supreme Court election. “It comes from
years of radical indoctrination - on
campus, in school, with social media, &
throughout culture,” said Walker, who is
president of Young America’s
Foundation, which works to popularize
conservative ideas among young
people. “We have to counter it or
conservatives will never win
battleground states again.” In an
interview with CNN this week, Walker
said his group is not seeking to change
the ground rules for voting among
younger Americans. But, he said,
conservatives have been “overlooking
ways to communicate to young people
sooner than a month or two before the
election.”
Article 2

Title : A convicted sex offender was due in court the same day 7 bodies were found at his
Oklahoma home

By : Tina Burnside, CNN

Jesse L. McFadden, a registered sex offender who was thought to be traveling with two
missing Oklahoma teens, is believed to be among the seven people found dead at a
home on Monday, just hours after he missed a scheduled court appearance, records
show. The teens, 14-year old Ivy Webster and 16-year old Brittany Brewer, were also
believed to be among the bodies found at the home in Henryetta, about 90 miles from
Oklahoma City, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said, noting the medical examiner
would provide a final confirmation of their identities.

Webster and Brewer had been the subject of an endangered/missing advisory issued by
the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which said they were last seen early Monday morning in
Henryetta and could have been traveling with McFadden, 39. The seven bodies were
found at a property where McFadden lived, Rice told the Tulsa World newspaper. It is the
same address listed for McFadden in the Oklahoma Sex Offender registry.

The bodies were found “not in the residence, but just on the property,” Oklahoma State
Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Gerald Davidson said Monday. Just hours before
authorities discovered the bodies while executing a search warrant, McFadden was set
to stand trial on charges of solicitation of a minor, according to court records. The court
date stemmed from charges filed in 2017, when McFadden was accused of using a cell
phone to exchange nude photos and videos with an underage girl, while he was serving
time for a 2003 rape conviction, according to CNN affiliate KOKI. The parents of Webster,
one of the missing teens, spoke with KOKI while the search for the girls was underway.
They said they were “shocked” to learn of McFadden’s past. “He should not have been
out and it’s our justice system that needs to be harder,” Justin Webster told the outlet.

School system is grieving ‘several of our students’ Henryetta Public Schools said it is
“grieving over the tragedy of the loss of several of our students,” in a message on its
website addressed to parents and guardians. “Our hearts are hurting, and we have
considered what would be best for our students in the coming days,” the school system
said. The system added that classes would not be canceled and that students would have
access to mental health professionals and faith-based clergy.

“We understand if you feel it is more appropriate to keep your student at home,” the
message continued. “Please continue to keep these families in your thoughts and
prayers.” Located in central Oklahoma, Henryetta had a population of 5,640 at the 2020
US census.
Article 3

Title : The Enhanced Fujita scale measures how strong tornadoes can get.

By : Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist and Madison Richardson, CNN.

The scale runs from 0 to 5 and rates tornadoes after they’ve hit by assessing damage to
determine wind speed. Estimates are based on damage to trees, institutional buildings
and homes, making it harder to gauge tornadoes that leave little damage or happen in
open space. The scale is named after Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, an engineer and
meteorologist who developed the original version of it in 1971. Here are the Enhanced
Fujita Scale ratings used today by the National Weather Service and the kind of damage
associated with each:

EF0: 65- to 85-mph wind gusts, These tornadoes are the least destructive and typically
break tree branches, damage road signs and push over small, shallow-rooted trees.

EF1: 86- to 110-mph wind gusts, With similar wind speeds to weak hurricanes, these
tornadoes can push moving cars off course, shift mobile homes from their foundations
and remove roof surfaces.

EF2: 111- to 135-mph wind gusts, Significant damage starts to emerge from these
tornadoes, which can snap or uproot trees, destroy mobile homes and tear roofs
completely off homes. They also can pick up small objects and turn them into dangerous
projectiles.

EF3: 136- to 165-mph wind gusts, These tornadoes produce severe damage, uprooting
nearly all trees in their path, blowing over large vehicles like trains and buses and
significantly damaging buildings.

Less than 5% of all tornadoes are rated EF3 or higher. One such tornado in March 2022
struck near New Orleans, hitting Arabi, Louisiana, with 160-mph winds. At least one
person was killed and eight hospitalized after the storm ripped through homes and
businesses, leaving a trail of destruction.

EF4: 166- to 200-mph wind gusts, Easily destroying homes, tossing cars and downing
large trees, these tornadoes can be devastating. One ripped through eastern Alabama in
2019 with top winds estimated at 170 mph. Blazing a track a mile wide, it killed at least
23 people, including three children. Another EF4 tornado was part of an outbreak that
tore through eight states just two weeks before Christmas 2021. It destroyed part of
Mayfield, Kentucky, and left at least 74 people dead in that state alone.

EF5: 200+-mph wind gusts, these monsters cause complete devastation, flattening nearly
everything in their path. They are rare, with only 59 have been recorded in the United
States since 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center. The most recent struck in
2013 in Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people, including several students at an elementary
school where only a few walls were left standing.
Article 4

Title : Bidding to Begin on the Most Expensive House for Sale in the U.S.

By : LIZ LUCKING

The 105,000-square-foot Los Angeles home, listed for $295 million, heads to auction this
week. The multimillion-dollar Los Angeles megamansion known as The One, is headed to
auction at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, marking the start of a four-day affair that will
see an ultra-exclusive audience bidding for the $295 million goliath with no reserve.

The hammer will drop on the Bel Air hilltop estate just weeks after it officially hit the
market in mid-January with that nine-figure price tag, though the developer of the
105,000-square-foot spread has previously estimated the value to be as high as $500
million. The online auction, which runs through Thursday, is being handled by Concierge
Auctions, in collaboration with real estate agents Aaron Kirman of Compass and Branden
and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates. “The time has come for this legendary
property, The One, to sell and make history,” Ms. Williams said in a statement. “And may
the best bidder win.”

Developed by film producer-turned-developer Nile Niami nearly 10 years ago, The One
sits on close to 4 acres surrounded by a moat on three sides and with panoramic views
of the Pacific Ocean, downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains. Festooned
with high-end features, the 21-bedroom palace boasts five pools, a massive nightclub, a
full-service beauty salon, a 10,000-square-foot sky deck, a home theater seating more
than 40 people and a 400-foot private outdoor running track with a glass-walled view of
the city.

There’s also a cigar lounge, a four-lane bowling alley, putting green, a juice bar, a
philanthropy pavilion, a tennis court, a 10,000-bottle wine cellar and a 30-plus car garage
with two car display turntables. In fact, its lengthy list of amenities may only be
surpassed by the column inches that have been dedicated to the embattled home. The
home was engulfed in a legal battle between the lenders, including Hankey Capital and
Lanes Management, and Niami-related limited liability company, Crestlloyd.

Crestlloyd LLC, which lenders accused of defaulting on loans, filed for bankruptcy in
October to keep the property from foreclosing. And a Los Angeles court appointed Ted
Lanes of Lanes Management as receiver, who is authorized to prepare the property for
the sale, Mansion Global previously reported. “The One is created for today’s billionaire
seeking a truly unrepeatable asset, and when it sells, it will be the most significant
purchase in the world,” Mr. Kirman said in a statement. “While in 2021, digital properties
like NFTs grabbed headlines for monumental one-of-kind-sales, 2022 brings us back to
the physical world with The One—a real estate property unmatched in size, scale, safety
and triumphant design.” If it sells for close to its listing price, it would set a record, not
only for Los Angeles but for the U.S., surpassing the $238 million billionaire hedge fund
manager Ken Griffin paid for a New York City condo in early 2019.
Article 5

Tittle : Queen Elizabeth’s Cousin Selling Historic Manor House for £4.75 Million

By : FANG BLOCK

The 27-acre property in Northamptonshire belongs to current Duke and Duchess of

Gloucester. Barnwell Manor, a Grade II-listed English manor house that belongs to The
Duke of Gloucester, the late Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, has come to the market for
£4.75 million (US$5.28 million).

The manor house, dating to the late 16th century, sits on roughly 27 acres in
Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England with extensive gardens and parkland,
as well as the ruins of Barnwell Castle, which dates to 1266 and is Grade I listed,
according to the listing brokerage Savills. The original estate, of which Barnwell Manor
and Barnwell Castle were a part, was granted by King Henry VIII in 1540 to then chief
justice Edward Montagu, whose family owned it until 1913, according to Savills.

In 1938, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and brother of
King George VI, the late Queen Elizabeth’s father, bought the estate. He then restored
the manor house with the help of architect Edward Richardson, a president of the Royal
Academy and founder of the Georgian Group, Savills said.

Prince Richard, the current Duke of Gloucester, spent his childhood on the estate. He and
his family moved to Kensington Palace and have rented out Barnwell Manor since 1995,
Savills said. “Barnwell Manor effortlessly brings together stunning architecture and an
illustrious history of ownership, which includes some of the most important families in
British history, past and present,” Crispin Holborow, country director of the private office,
said in a statement.

The main manor house has four reception rooms, a drawing room, a sitting room, eight
bedrooms and five bathrooms. The retained period features include molded paneling,
ornately plastered ceiling, solid wood floors and fireplaces, according to the listing.

Additionally, there are two staff apartments bringing the total accommodation to just
under 30,000 square feet. “Elsewhere, the outbuildings are extensive and lend
themselves to other potential uses should the new owners need additional space for
extended family or business opportunities,” Mr. Holborow said. “What’s more, with
Northamptonshire now being touted by many as a quieter, yet as-fashionable alternative
to the Cotswolds, Barnwell Manor is ideally situated for anyone looking for a country
home with access to all of the amenities available today.”
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Title : As Ukraine prepares counteroffensive, Russia appears in disarray

By : Analysis Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

Ukraine’s much-anticipated counteroffensive appears imminent – and the way each side
is preparing speaks volumes about their readiness. Kyiv’s front lines are abuzz with
vehicle movement and artillery strikes, with regular explosions hitting vital Russian
targets in occupied areas. Its defense minister has said preparations are “coming to an
end” and President Volodymyr Zelensky has assured a counteroffensive “will happen,”
while demurring on any exact start date. It may have already started; it may be weeks
away. We don’t know – and that fact is a strong measure of Ukraine’s success as this
begins. Moscow, on the other hand, is in the closing-time bar brawl stage of their war.
After losing Kharkiv and Kherson, they have had at least seven months to ready the next
likely target of Ukrainian attack: Zaporizhzhia.

That has happened, with vast trench defense networks that can be seen from space.
That recognition of their enormity is not necessarily a compliment in 2023. They are big,
yes, but they are also something anyone can peruse on Google. That’s not great in an era
of precise rockets and speedy armored advances. But it’s the last 72 hours that have
perhaps most betrayed Russia’s lacking readiness. First, the apparent firing of the deputy
defense minister in charge of logistics, Mikhail Mizintsev. The Russian Ministry of
Defense has not spelled out his dismissal, merely issuing a decree that Aleksey
Kuzmenkov now has his job.

The “Butcher of Mariupol,” as Mizintsev is known, surely had enough failings over
Russia’s disastrous war to merit his firing. But this fails to satisfy the question: Why now?
By removing key ministers in the moments before its army faces Ukraine’s counter-
assault, Moscow sends a message of disarray. And then there’s Yevgeny Prigozhin’s new
round of criticism. The Wagner mercenary warlord chose Sunday to give another long
interview in which he laid bare the sheer extent of the issues his mercenaries face.

According to the Wagner head, his fighters are so low on ammunition that they may
have to withdraw from Bakhmut – the strategically unimportant city they have
squandered thousands of lives trying to take. Russia’s eroding ammunition supplies were
long known, but to suggest imminent failure just ahead of the counteroffensive smacks
of a major bid to shift blame. The bottom line is, the hours before Ukraine moves are
shrinking. The amount we know about their emotional state, or target, is almost zero.
And the extent of Moscow’s internal indecision, rivalries and disunity only grows.
Article 2

Title : Millions of Americans could suffer if debt showdown isn’t solved in next 30 days

By : Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

The jobs, benefits and financial security of millions of Americans could start disappearing
in less than a month as the Republican House leverages a debt showdown to try to force
big spending cuts on President Joe Biden. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday
issued a stark warning that the US government could run out of money to pay its
obligations as soon as June 1 unless Congress raises its borrowing authority. Failure to do
so could trigger a domestic and international financial catastrophe. Yellen wrote to
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that unless Congress acted, it would cause “severe
hardship to American families, harm our global leadership position, and raise questions
about our ability to defend our national security interests.

Experts have warned of a potential crisis on the scale of the 2008 financial meltdown,
with the threat of benefits not being paid to veterans and senior citizens, and halts to
military funding and vital government programs.

Her letter swiftly turned what has for weeks been a theoretical threat of a default
sometime this summer into a real-time nightmare with a flashing deadline, leaving little
time for McCarthy and Biden to find a way to save the economy. McCarthy has accepted
an invitation to meet with the president on May 9 about the debt ceiling, according to a
source familiar, setting the stage for the high-stakes moment. Biden on Monday invited
congressional leaders to the White House next week for talks on the crisis. The political
futures of both the Democratic president and Republican speaker may depend on
winning the showdown, and it is unclear whether there is room for a compromise that
could satisfy each of them. Yellen’s letter may also go some way to sparking alarm on
Wall Street about the situation after a period in which investors appeared sanguine that
the perennially dysfunctional Congress would likely step back from the precipice at the
last minute.

The gulf between the parties remains massive. Republicans want Biden to make huge
concessions on spending that would fundamentally reshape his legacy. They are using
the debt ceiling crisis and the possibility of a financial catastrophe to try to get the
spending cuts they hope could define their time in the majority. There is nothing wrong
with Republicans using power won in a democratic election to fight for what they say
they and their voters want – reductions to what they see as bloated federal spending
and efforts to slow the growth of the national debt, which currently stands at more than
$31 trillion. But the question they face is whether it is appropriate to use the prospect of
fiscal Armageddon to advance a partisan goal.
Article 3

Title : A Saudi Royal’s London Home Lists for £250 Million—the Most Expensive in the
Country

By : LIZ LUCKING

The palatial 40-bedroom home sits on a lake within London’s Regent’s Park. The most
expensive home in the U.K., a lakefront megamansion owned by a member of the Saudi
royal family in the middle of London’s famous Regent’s Park, is on the market and asking
for offers over £250 million (US$298.5 million).

If the trophy home sells for that price tag, or even close to it, it will rank as the priciest
property ever sold in the country, besting the current record holder—a 20-bedroom
mansion in Knightsbridge that sold in April 2020 for £210 million—by some £40 million.
Built in 1818, the opulent 40-bedroom spread, known as the Holme, is owned by a
member of the Saudi royal family who uses it rarely, according to a source with
knowledge of the property.

They’ve owned the home for more than 30 years, since 1988, property records show,
which confirm ties to the Saudi royals. The mansion is now in the hands of receivers to
be sold as soon as possible following a loan default, the source said. Mansion Global
couldn’t identify exactly who in the royal family is involved in the transaction. Set on 4.5
acres of landscaped, terraced grounds alongside the park’s boating lake, the opulent
manse is considered to be one of the most desirable private homes in London and bears
a striking resemblance to the White House, which predates the Regent’s Park property
by about 20 years. The 29,000-square-foot mansion boasts all the usual lifestyle
amenities you expect from a billionaire’s home.

That includes a grand dining room, a library, an all-weather tennis court, eight garages, a
sauna and elevators, according to The Times. The pool of buyers who will be able to
afford such a high-priced investment will be small, taking into consideration not only the
price tag, but also the taxes and cost of maintenance, which in this case would likely
include gardeners, cleaners, lake upkeep and security.

A buyer from the U.S., Abu Dhabi or Saudi Arabia, is the most likely scenario, sources
said. The house is on the market with Beauchamp Estates and Knight Frank. Both
agencies declined to comment. The Financial Times first reported the news.
Article 4

Title : Fact check: Trump’s own campaign can’t find proof for his ‘mental institutions’
immigration story

By : Daniel Dale, CNN

On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump
has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately
emptying their “insane asylums” and “mental institutions” to send the patients to the
United States as migrants. In each version of the dramatic story, Trump has claimed he
recently read about a doctor at a South American mental institution who said he used to
be busy but now has no work to do because all of his patients have been released into
the US.

In a mid-April speech to the National Rifle Association, Trump said: “I read a story not
long ago where a man who takes care of a large segment of people in a mental
institution in a South American country, a doctor, sounded like a great man actually – he
said he no longer has anything to do. He used to work 24-hour days. He said, ‘All of our
patients have been released into the United States of America.’” Trump added more
color to the story in a Thursday campaign speech in New Hampshire: “There was a story
recently about a psychologist. Or psychiatrist. But a psychologist. Who worked in mental
wards in South America. And he said, ‘I worked 24…’ – a good man – he worked 24 hours
a day taking care of very mentally ill people. And he was sitting there reading a
newspaper and they asked him, what – what’s he doing? He said, ‘I have no more work.
The people have all been let go into the United States.’ Can you believe? This is what
we’re doing.”

But Trump has given listeners no reason to believe him on this.

rump’s campaign was unable to provide any evidence of the existence of a news story
about a no-longer-busy doctor at a South American mental institution – and the
campaign also failed to provide any evidence that South American countries are
emptying mental health facilities to somehow send patients into the US. Representatives
for two anti-immigration organizations told us they had not heard of anything that would
corroborate any of Trump’s story, as did three experts at organizations favorable toward
immigration. CNN’s own search did not produce any evidence. The website
FactCheck.org also found nothing.

It is extremely difficult to definitively prove that a news article about an unnamed mental
institution in an unnamed country doesn’t exist, so, in the interest of caution, we won’t
declare with certainty that Trump’s story is a fabrication – and we will update this article
if someone does provide belated proof. At the very least, though, people should treat his
story with great skepticism.
Article 5

Title : China factory activity unexpectedly cools in April

By : Reuters

China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly shrank in April, official data showed on

Sunday, raising pressure on policymakers seeking to boost an economy struggling for a
post-Covid lift-off amid subdued global demand and persistent property weakness. The
official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) declined to 49.2 last month
from 51.9 in March, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, below the
50-point mark that separates expansion and contraction in activity.

That missed expectations of 51.4 tipped by economists in a Reuters poll and marked the
first contraction since December, when the official manufacturing PMI was at 47.0. The
world’s second-biggest economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter thanks to
robust services consumption, but factory output has lagged amid weak global growth.
Slowing prices and surging bank savings are raising doubts about demand. The Politburo,
a top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, on Friday stressed that
restoring and expanding demand is the key to a durable recovery and cautioned the
current improvement is mainly restorative “with weak momentum and insufficient
demand.”“A lack of market demand and the high-base effect from the quick
manufacturing recovery in the first quarter” were among factors that led to the
contraction in April, said senior NBS statistician Zhao Qinghe.

New export orders edged down to 47.6 from 50.4 in March, the PMI showed.

The manufacturing sector, which employs about 18% of China’s workforce, remains
under pressure due to slack global demand. Some exporters told Reuters at the country’s
biggest trade fair they have frozen investments and some have cut labor costs in
response. To boost trade and employment, the cabinet last week unveiled plans,
including supporting auto exports, facilitating visas for overseas businesspeople and
providing subsidies to firms that hire college graduates.

Confidence in the property sector, for years a pillar of China’s growth, remains fragile.
Multiple crises since mid-2020 have included developers’ debt defaults and stalled
construction of pre-sold housing projects. While policy support measures have helped
improve conditions in the industry, pockets of weakness remain and a full recovery
appears some way off. Despite the recent strength in consumption, the non-
manufacturing PMI edged down to 56.4 versus 58.2 in March.

Data showed retail sales growth quickening in March to near two-year highs, but that
was off a low base and economists are cautious on the sustainability of such strength,
The composite PMI, which includes manufacturing and non-manufacturing activity,
dropped to 54.4 from 57.0. The PMI readings, along with other mixed economic signals,
including robust holiday travel and muted property market activities, “will likely keep the
pressure on the government to continue its supportive fiscal and monetary policies in
Q2”, said Zhiwei Zhang, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.
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Course : Content Writing For Business and professional

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Title : The French château with more than 100 fighter jets

By : Miquel Ros, CNN

The sleek, dark-gray lines of a F-16 Fighting Falcon jet, flanked by two other veterans of
the Cold War skies, a French Dassault Mirage IV and a F-104 Starfighter, is not what you
would usually expect to come across when walking into the courtyard of a 700-year-old
French château.The conspicuous presence of this triad of combat aircraft in such an
unlikely setting offers a foretaste of what this historical manor has in store for its guests.
Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune, in the little Burgundy village of the same name, dates
back to the 14th century and would be just one more of the many wine-growing estates
that dot this historical region of France was it not for the personal passions and initiative
of one man, Michel Pont. A winegrower, car racer and avid collector, Pont bought the
château in 1979 and over the following four decades, until his passing in 2021, turned it
into a treasure trove for all those interested in mechanics and engineering.

By the late 1970s Pont had already accumulated a significant collection of vehicles,
comprising 10 Abarth racing cars and more than 300 vintage motorcycles. He was,
however, just getting started. That initial batch of cars and motorcycles kept getting
larger and larger and it soon started branching out.

Record-breaking private collection.

In the mid-1980s, Pont, who was ex-military, made inquiries with the French Air Force
about the possibility of getting one of their decommissioned Mirage III fighter jets to
exhibit at the château. The request was granted and six months later what would
become the kernel of the world’s largest private fighter aircraft collection was on its way
to Savigny-lès-Beaune. It’s not an exaggeration to say that quite a few national aerospace
museums would be envious of what’s on display: around 100 aircraft of different makes
and provenances all perfectly lined up in the grounds of the château. The list reads like a
“who’s who” of 20th-century military aviation: several different versions of French
Mirages and Mystères, American F-100 series fighters and Soviet-made MiGs and
Sukhois are among the many types of airplanes and helicopters you can find here.

For years, Michel and Christophe Pont scouted the whole of Europe and beyond in order
to expand their collection. Those aircraft they could procure were then dismantled and
brought over to Château-Savigny to be reassembled on site. As the exhibits kept growing
in size and scope, the word spread and the Pont family soon started to get offers to take
in all sorts of machinery.
Article 2

Title : One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to
work in the fields

By : Laura He, CNN

As the jobless rate among China’s youth soars, the country’s richest province has offered
a highly controversial solution: Send 300,000 unemployed young people to the
countryside for two to three years to find work. Guangdong, the manufacturing
powerhouse that abuts Hong Kong, said last month it will help college graduates and
young entrepreneurs to find work in villages. It also encouraged rural youth to return to
the countryside to look for jobs there. The announcement followed President Xi Jinping’s
call last December for urban youth to seek jobs in rural areas in an effort to “revitalize
the rural economy,” in an echo of a previous campaign launched decades ago by former
leader Mao Zedong in which tens of millions of urban youth were effectively exiled to
remote areas of China. Guangdong’s plan, which was widely panned on social media,
coincided with the rate of urban unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds surging to
19.6%, the second highest level on record.

That translates to about 11 million jobless youth in China’s cities and towns, according to
CNN calculations based on the most recent available data from the National Bureau of
Statistics. (China only releases urban employment figures.) The youth unemployment
rate could increase further, as a record number of 11.6 million college students are set to
graduate this year and seek jobs in an already crowded market. “If the earlier Covid-19
protests reveal anything, it’s that large numbers of angry, well-educated youth in China’s
cities could present big problems for the ruling Chinese Communist Party,” said Alex
Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation, referring to demonstrations in
November 2022.

Surging unemployment among young people is largely a result of China’s economic

slowdown.

The government’s now-defunct draconian Covid policy hammered consumer spending

and hit small business hard in the past three years. A regulatory crackdown on internet,
real estate and education companies also hurt the private sector, which provides more
than 80% of jobs in China. No good choices

China’s youth are the most educated in decades, with record numbers of graduates from
colleges and vocational schools. But they also face a growing mismatch between their
expectations and opportunities as the economy slows significantly. Frustrated by
mounting uncertainties and a lack of social mobility, young people are increasingly losing
hope that a college degree can bring the same returns it once did.

Kong Yiji, a famous literary figure from the early 20th century, has been one of the
hottest memes on China’s social media since February. Kong was a highly educated man
living in poverty because he was too proud to do manual labor. Young college graduates
joke that they have been trapped by their education and stuck between difficult choices:
pursue a white-collar career and risk unemployment or “take off their scholar’s gown”
and work a blue-collar job they had hoped to avoid through education.

Artile 3

Title : 14 million jobs worldwide will vanish in the next 5 years, new economic report
finds

By : Julia Horowitz, CNN

uge disruptions will rock the global job market over the next five years as the economy
weakens and companies boost adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence.

That finding comes from the World Economic Forum, which on Sunday published a
report based on surveys of more than 800 companies.

which hosts a gathering of global leaders in Davos, Switzerland, every year — found that
employers expect to create 69 million new jobs by 2027 and eliminate 83 million
positions. That will result in a net loss of 14 million jobs, equivalent to 2% of current
employment. Many factors will feed labor market churn during that period. The shift to
renewable energy systems will be a powerful engine for generating jobs, while slower
economic growth and high inflation will drive losses. The rush to deploy artificial
intelligence, meanwhile, will serve as both a positive and a negative force.

Companies will need new workers to help them implement and manage AI tools.
Employment of data analysts and scientists, machine learning specialists and
cybersecurity experts is forecast to grow 30% on average by 2027, according to WEF. At
the same time, the proliferation of artificial intelligence will put many roles at risk, as
robots replace humans in some cases. There could be 26 million fewer record-keeping
and administrative jobs by 2027, WEF predicted. Data entry clerks and executive
secretaries are expected to see the steepest losses.

Despite the recent sensation surrounding tools like ChatGPT, automation has expanded
slowly in the early part of this decade. Organizations polled by WEF estimated that 34%
of all business-related tasks are currently performed by machines. That’s just a hair
above the figure from 2020.

Expectations for the pace of future adoption have also been revised down. In 2020,
employers thought 47% of tasks would be automated by 2025. They now expect that
number to reach 42% by 2027. In the meantime, companies are rethinking what skills
their employees need. Firms now value “the ability to efficiently use AI tools” more than
computer programming, according to WEF.
Article 4

Title : ‘Succession’ turns the Roy boys from princes into power-mad kings

By : Brian Lowry, CNN

There was so much to love about the sixth episode of “Succession,” in the most cringe-
worthy of ways, it’s frankly hard to decide where to begin. The most indelible image,
though, with apologies to “Game of Thrones,” was one of the Roy boys becoming power-
mad kings in the wake of their father’s death, yet somehow snatching victory from the
jaws of defeat.

The episode opened with the familiar face of Logan Roy (they’re still paying Brian Cox,
after all, so why not?) crankily pitching a real-estate brand, Living+, via a posthumous
video, which the company intends to present at its Investor Day. Yet their soon-to-be
owner, Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård, revving up his Emmy campaign), is sour on
the idea, using sister Shiv (Sarah Snook) as a back channel to express his dissatisfaction
after the contentious negotiations with brothers Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman
(Kieran Culkin). As visuals of “Succession”-level excess would go, it’s hard to top Matsson
strolling across the tarmac, barefoot, from one private jet to another, where he referred
to Shiv as his “girl on the inside.” Even after Matsson’s enriched bid to acquire Waystar
Royco, Kendall and Roman are still trying to undermine the deal, and perhaps more
significantly, demonstrate their ability to fill their father’s shoes. In one of the more overt
expressions of that angst, Roman schlepped out to Hollywood, impulsively firing the
head of the company’s movie studio (guest Annabeth Gish) during a meeting, then
bristling when Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron) told him he couldn’t do that.

“I need you to believe that I am as good as my dad,” Roman snapped, to which Gerri
responded, cuttingly, “Say it or believe it?” While Roman wrestled with apparent
delusions of grandeur, Kendall was exhibiting his own, seizing upon Living+ as the lifeline
that would boost the company’s stock price and potentially allow them to retain control
over the company. Gung ho about the idea, Kendall sought to engineer a last-minute
presentation to pitch it, complete with questionably spun profit projections and a vision
for an on-stage replica of Living+ that couldn’t be fabricated in time. The naysaying led
Shiv to question Kendall’s “hare-brained schemes,” Roman to back away from endorsing
the idea and everyone else in the Waystar hierarchy to prepare for the worst, especially
when Kendall incorporated footage of his late father during his stammering opening. And
then, shockingly, the presentation actually went well, causing the Waystar brain trust to
abruptly change their tunes, and Kendall to exult with a cleansing dip in the ocean that
certainly didn’t suffer for a lack of symbolism. It was as if he was washing off the stain of
failure, establishing himself, finally, as his own man. Even that recap doesn’t really do
justice to the episode, which incorporated a number of smart moments, including the
suggestion that Waystar’s conservative news division, ATN, created a toxic environment
for wooing talent to the movie studio, an issue that arose in the past during Rupert
Murdoch’s stewardship of Fox.
The writers also continued to explore the complicated interactions between Shiv and
Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who keep flirting with and hurting each other (literally, in
one moment) in near-equal measure. Plus, there was that little throwaway line in which
Gerri says about Matsson, “Nobody minds a genius acting weird,” which carries with it
plenty of recent real-world echoes, adding, “His reputation is priced in.” Where do the
Roy boys and Matsson go from here? That remains to be seen, but there’s already been
plenty of genius in the buildup, during an hour that should only enhance the price of
“Succession’s” awards stock. HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Article 5

Title : Disney has a ‘strong case’ against DeSantis over his ‘retaliatory campaign,’ First
Amendment experts say

By : Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN

Disney just cast Ron DeSantis as the villain in a story of good versus evil.

After more than a year-long battle with the bombastic Florida governor, the
entertainment behemoth filed a blistering lawsuit in federal court, not mincing words as
it alleged that it had been the victim of a “targeted campaign of government retaliation”
for having the gall to speak out against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “Disney regrets
that it has come to this,” the company said in its lawsuit, arguing that it found itself in
the “regrettable position” because it “expressed a viewpoint the governor and his allies
did not like.” Disney added, “In America, the government cannot punish you for speaking
your mind.” The lawsuit, the culmination of ever-growing hostilities between the Magic
Kingdom and Sunshine State, was filed moments after a DeSantis-appointed board
moved to recover power it had lost over Disney’s special taxing district. Earlier this year,
Disney quietly outmaneuvered the board and struck a decades-long deal to ensure it
retained authority over the land around its sprawling Orlando-area theme parks.

DeSantis responded to the lawsuit by issuing a statement through his communications

director, Taryn Fenske. “We are unaware of any legal right that a company has to operate
its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the
state,” Fenske said. “This lawsuit is yet another unfortunate example of their hope to
undermine the will of the Florida voters and operate outside the bounds of the law.”
Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem Thursday, DeSantis blasted Disney, saying
the company did not “want to pay the same taxes as everybody else.” “I don’t think the
suit has merit. I think it’s politica “It’s a serious First Amendment case,” Floyd Abrams,
the renowned First Amendment attorney of Pentagon Papers fame, told CNN. Abrams
said he expected the case to survive a motion to dismiss by Florida.

The irony in all of this, as pointed out by RonNell Andersen Jones, the Lee E. Teitelbaum
Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, is that
corporations enjoy expanded speech rights because of conservative justices on the
Supreme Court. “This lawsuit flips the political script and gives us a corporate free-
speech suit that doesn’t fit the pattern of advancing that conservative agenda,” Jones
said. While DeSantis faces an uphill legal battle, the anti-Disney narrative has played well
in the right-wing media universe, where facts take a back seat to hyperbole. In this
alternative ecosystem, Disney has been portrayed for months as a “woke” organization
seeking to “groom” children with what they characterize as a radical LGBTQ agenda.

Yes, really. The family-friendly, fun-for-everyone, intentionally inoffensive brand has been
demonized by politicians like DeSantis and others who have played to the Fox News
cameras to raise their own profiles. The truth is that characterizing Disney as a creepy
company that aims to morally bankrupt kids has become a mainstream position in GOP
media circles.