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  A ray of hope in dark skies

  Business Insider - Emily Stewart

  I do not know anyone who heads to the airport and thinks to themselves, "Oh man, I bet this is going to be an awesome experience." Just booking a flight means contemplating a sliding scale of unfortunate scenarios. What if my bag is lost? What if the flight is overbooked? What do I do if it's …

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  Russians are spending big on travel and cognac. But the boom is just one 'last growth spurt,' says an analyst.

  Business Insider - Huileng Tan

  Russian consumers are spending large and feeling big about their finances. In June, Russia's consumer sentiment hit a high not seen since the 2000s, according to Levada Center, Russia's last major independent pollster. Levada's consumer sentiment index has been moving steadily upward since April …

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  America's subscription trap nightmare could be coming to an end

  Business Insider - Ayelet Sheffey

  Sick of spending hours trying to cancel your gym membership or get money back on a flight? A solution might be coming your way. On Monday, President Joe Biden's administration announced a new effort to crack down on hard-to-cancel subscriptions and bad customer service in a series of proposals known …

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  5 hours ago

  Trump is falsely claiming that Kamala Harris' rally crowd is AI generated. Unfortunately for him, the hype for Harris is very, very real.

  Business Insider - Aditi Bharade

  Former President Donald Trump has advanced a new line of attack against Vice President Kamala Harris. He's now falsely accusing Harris of using artificial intelligence to generate an image of a large crowd in Michigan, further claiming that there was "nobody waiting" for her at the airport on …

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  Biden said he dropped out of the 2024 race because his Democratic allies believed he'd hurt their own campaigns

  Business Insider - Matthew Loh

  President Joe Biden said Democratic lawmakers pressured him to withdraw from the November election because they feared he would damage their own political campaigns. Speaking to CBS' Robert Costa in an interview aired on Sunday, Biden led with that reason when asked about the intraparty push for him …

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  Elon Musk is hosting a live interview with Trump on X, and he's trying really hard to avoid a repeat of the Ron DeSantis campaign launch meltdown

  Business Insider - Kwan Wei Kevin Tan

  It looks like Elon Musk is pulling out all stops to ensure that his upcoming interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday doesn't go awry. "Am going to do some system scaling tests tonight & tomorrow in advance of the conversation with Donald Trump," Musk wrote in an X post on Sunday night. …