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The first flight operated by Russian carrier Nordwind took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday carrying over 400 passengers. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit to North Korea's new beach resort earlier this month, promised to encourage Russian tourists to visit the complex. The Wonsan-Kalma tourist zone, that can accommodate nearly 20,000 people, is at the center of Kim's push to boost tourism to improve his country's troubled economy. Work JPMorgan says fintech middlemen like Plaid are 'massively taxing' its systems with unnecessary pings JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, is preparing to charge fintech middlemen such as Plaid and MX new fees for access to customer data. Work A Healthy Lifestyle Can Help Your Brain, Large Study Finds The study found that a combination of exercise, healthy diet and other behaviors led to cognitive benefits. 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Work Yemen's Houthi rebels threaten more attacks on ships linked to Israel Yemen's Houthi rebels say they will target merchant ships belonging to any company that does business with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality, as part of what they say is a new phase of their operations against Israel. The Iran-backed Houthis launched a campaign targeting ships in the Middle East in response to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, saying they were doing so in solidarity with the Palestinians. Their attacks over the past two years have upended shipping in the Red Sea, through which $1 trillion of goods usually passes each year. Work Donald Trumps War with Jerome Powell and the Fed Is Far from Over - The New Yorker (No paywall) As a temporary distraction from the Jeffrey Epstein story, Donald Trumps visit last week to the headquarters of the Federal Reserve, an independent institution that previous Presidents largely stayed away from, served its purpose. Footage of Trump and Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman, wearing white hard hats and sparring about construction costs as they toured the site, which is under renovation, quickly made their way onto social media and the home pages of major news organizations. For the President, however, the visit was also about something more substantive: continuing his lengthy pressure campaign on Powell, who looked a bit uncomfortable as he walked Trump through rooms that had been stripped back to their walls and beams. Work Trump Acknowledges Mass Hunger Crisis in Gaza - Foreign Policy (No paywall) The U.S. president's comments mark one of his toughest criticisms yet of Israel's war. Work Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid. 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Work Harrowing photos show one B-17 bombing another The B-17 Miss Donna Mae II crashed into Berlin in May 1944 after it suffered a bomb strike from a member of its bomb group. Work How to Think About Pricing in the Tariff Era - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) With the looming specters of inflation and tariffs, pricing is especially tricky these days. However according to Rafi Mohammed, a pricing expert, companies aren't particularly good at setting prices to begin with. In this issue of the HBR Executive Agenda, he recommends adopting a "value-based" approach: Think like your consumers, who are weighing the best alternative to buying a product. Plus, does your company have a mission-critical challenge that you need to solve quickly? It might be time to implement a tiger team-a small, elite, cross-functional group tasked with moving quickly. Leadership consultant Ann Hiatt explains how to set one up. Work Seventeen killed as gunmen attack bar in Ecuador Police say a boy, 12, was among the victims of the latest mass shooting in a country plagued by drug violence. Work A divided Fed eyes future rate cuts but won't move this week - WSJ (No paywall) Federal Reserve officials expect they will need to resume lowering interest rates eventuallythey just arent ready to do so Wednesday. The questions dividing them center on what evidence they need to see first, and whether waiting for that clarity turns out to be a mistake. Work OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification test "This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step. Work Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. 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Work Dali's creative dream: Scientific evidence demonstrates the power of micro-naps Brief periods of sleep can drive creativity and help with problem-solving Work Study Reveals Turning Point When Your Body's Aging Accelerates The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Work Two-hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government The technology secretary tells Sky News he will make announcement on "compulsive" screen time, as a survey shows teenagers are spending hours a day scrolling. Work Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, a water crisis is battering Iran. Work 4 Dead After Gunman Attacks NYC Office Building: Live Updates - Intelligencer (No paywall) A lone gunman carrying an assault-style rifle opened fire at an office building in midtown Manhattan on Monday evening, killing at least four people, including NYPD officer Didarul Islam. The building, 345 Park Avenue, contains the offices of Blackstone, the National Football League, KPMG, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Rudin Management, which owns the building. The suspected gunman, 27-year-old Shane Tamura, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Below are the latest developments. Work Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I. Work China launches $500 annual baby subsidy in effort to boost births - FT (No paywall) Measure aims to address demographic crisis and increase families' spending power Work 'People Are Going to Die': Cuts Leave Domestic Violence Support Groups Reeling T-shirts decorated by survivors of domestic abuse hang on lines during a candlelight vigil to honor survivors and remember the victims of domestic violence at Veteran's Park in Shelton, Conn., on Oct. 8, 2024. Work New York shooting: gunman kills four people at Manhattan skyscraper This shooting is the 254th mass shooting in the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun-related violence, who defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, are killed or injured by firearms. Work Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights. Work The protests in Ukraine have put Zelenskyy on notice Within a day of signing a law that stripped two key anti-corruption agencies the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Office (SAP) of their independence, he climbed down in the face of mass protests. 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Work Alvaro Uribe, Ex-President of Colombia, Is Convicted of Bribery Mr. Uribe, a towering figure in Colombian politics, was accused of trying to bribe a former paramilitary to retract testimony damaging to him. Work Tributes paid to police officer after gunman kills four in shooting at Manhattan skyscrape US politics live The US justice department filed a misconduct complaint against a federal judge who has clashed with the administration over deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador over private comments first reported by a far-right publication. Work Why Japanese Developers Write Code Completely Differently (And Why It Works Better) - Medium (No paywall) While Western developers are obsessing over the latest JavaScript framework or arguing about tabs vs. spaces, Japanese developers are quietly building some of the most reliable, maintainable software in the world using principles that would make most Silicon Valley engineers roll their eyes. Editor's Note: This mindset shift is profound. Instead of "move fast and break things," Japanese developers follow "build slowly and fix nothing." Work As Trumps tariff regime becomes clear, Americans may start to foot the bill Given what inflation did to Joe Biden's electoral fortunes, and Trump's keen eye for populist policies, it's hardly a stretch to imagine those cheques - signed by Donald J Trump - landing in bank accounts in time for the midterm elections next November. Work Walmart salary data reveals some tech leaders can make as much as $416,000 - Business Insider (No paywall) The 63-year-old company has been the largest retailer in the world for decades and has held the top spot on the Fortune 500 list since 2013. But it has also invested heavily over the past several years in becoming a powerhouse of e-commerce and retail media. Work Opinion | Lina Khan: Democrats Can Learn from Zohran Mamdani Democrats abandoned America’s small businesses. 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