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GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, who came very close to upsetting Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul last month in the predominantly blue state of New York, announced on Wednesday that he’s holding off – for now – on running for Republican National Committee chair, in what would be a direct challenge to current RNC chair Ronna McDaniel.Zeldin, who’s been mulling an RNC chair bid for nearly a month, made his announcement on Twitter and in a statement.”RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel should not run for a 4th term. I won’t be running for RNC Chair at this time with McDaniel’s reelection pre-baked by…

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual medicine offered a novel way for patients to see doctors during a lockdown and hope that technology could alleviate chronic pressure on a strained health system. For many in Nova Scotia, though, the early promise has proven illusory.Tim Neufeld, 28, from Dartmouth, N.S., has been on Nova Scotia’s wait-list for a family doctor for five years. He said in a recent interview that he was left frustrated after several unsuccessful attempts at securing a virtual appointment.“The biggest hurdle is just accessing the system, having to log on between 8:59 a.m. and 9:09 a.m.,” he…

General Motors is moving ahead with plans to install as many as 40,000 electric vehicle chargers in, mostly, rural parts of America. This comes as GM plans to sell exclusively zero-emission passenger vehicles by 2035. These will not be so-called “Level 3” fast chargers — the sort that can charge an EV to 80% of its battery capacity in 30 minutes or so — but will be slower “Level 2” chargers, albeit relatively powerful ones. They will go in places where EV drivers might leave their vehicles parked for a couple of hours such as parks, sports venues or downtown…

Rising tensions? Prince William and Princess Kate weren’t thrilled by the first teaser for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s Netflix docuseries, an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Kate and William were left flummoxed when the Netflix trailer aired during their trip to Boston,” the source says of the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 40. “It’s put a huge amount of strain on relationships that are already hanging by a thread.” The first teaser footage from the upcoming series dropped online on Thursday, December 1, as the future king and his wife were in the…

As if defenders of software supply chains didn’t have enough attack vectors to worry about, they now have a new one: machine learning models. ML models are at the heart of technologies such as facial recognition and chatbots. Like open-source software repositories, the models are often downloaded and shared by developers and data scientists, so a compromised model could have a crushing impact on many organizations simultaneously. Researchers at HiddenLayer, a machine language security company, revealed in a blog on Tuesday how an attacker could use a popular ML model to deploy ransomware. The method described by the researchers is…

Google has announced the launch of this mega release which will be available to anyone with one of the latest Pixel smartphones from today A host of new Android features will be arriving to many devices today, designed to ensure safer functioning and better phone calls. Some will even be able to open and start their cars with just their phone. Google has announced the launch of this mega release which will be available to anyone with one of the latest Pixel smartphones. There are several new features to try out including the launch of an in-built VPN. This new…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell:Campbell Soup (CPB) – Campbell Soup beat estimates by 14 cents with adjusted quarterly earnings of $1.02 per share. Revenue also beat consensus and the food producer said its results were helped by strong pricing, improved productivity and supply chain improvements. Campbell Soup rose 1.2% in the premarket.Pinterest (PINS) – Pinterest rose 1.2% in premarket trading after an official from activist investor Elliott Management was added to the image-sharing website operator’s board of directors. Senior portfolio manager Marc Steinberg will become Pinterest’s eleventh board member, and the company agreed to renominate him…

The Yankees are playing the waiting game, and their fans are getting cranky, wanting to see action. Right now, it’s all about Aaron Judge and the tension around the Yankees’ ongoing efforts to re-sign him. But bringing back the slugging MVP has to be the start of the team’s offseason, not the end. The Yankees could keep going by adding Carlos Rodon, the left-handed ace who spent last season with the Giants, or Carlos Correa, the former Astros shortstop who would lengthen the lineup, or both. There has to be at least one other major difference-maker added. Carlos Rodon is…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN Business  —  Nothing lasts forever, not even a good CEO. It’s been a nasty year for Fortune 500 companies and top executives are paying for it: CEOs are exiting in droves. But as the global economy sits on the brink of a possible recession, a new troubling pattern is emerging: In many cases, there’s no succession plan. What’s happening: High-profile…

Train travel in Italy is set to get a whole lot more luxurious with the launch of Orient Express La Dolce Vita.Although the service won’t hit the tracks until 2024, pre-reservations are now open and owner Accor Group has provided a sneak peek of the lavish carriages.The train will cross Italy from north to south on six routes, stopping at new Orient Express branded hotels in Rome and Venice along the way.What’s it like onboard Italy’s Orient Express La Dolce Vita?Interiors of Orient Express La Dolce Vita nod to the 1960s golden age of Italian design made famous in Hollywood.…