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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading medical research agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a 56-year-old physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, "to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.” “Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease," he wrote. The decision to choose Bhattacharya for the post is yet another reminder of the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic on the politics on public health. Bhattacharya was one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm. The document — which came before the availability of COVID-19 vaccines and during the first Trump administration — promoted “herd immunity,” the idea that people at low risk should live normally while building up immunity to COVID-19 through infection. Protection should focus instead on people at higher risk, the document said. “I think the lockdowns were the single biggest public health mistake,” Bhattacharya said in March 2021 during a panel discussion convened by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Great Barrington Declaration was embraced by some in the first Trump administration, even as it was widely denounced by disease experts. Then- NIH director Dr. Francis Collins called it dangerous and “not mainstream science.” His nomination would need to be approved by the Senate. Trump on Tuesday also announced that Jim O’Neill, a former HHS official, will serve as deputy secretary of the sprawling agency. Trump said O’Neill “will oversee all operations and improve Management, Transparency, and Accountability to, Make America Healthy Again,” the president-elect announced. O’Neill is the only one of Trump’s health picks so far who brings previous experience working inside the bureaucracy to the job. Trump’s previous choices to lead public health agencies — including Kennedy, Dr. Mehmet Oz for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator and Dr. Marty Makary for Food and Drug Administration commissioner — have all been Washington outsiders who are vowing to shake up the agencies. Bhattacharya, who faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was also a plaintiff in Murthy v. Missouri, a Supreme Court case contending that federal officials improperly suppressed conservative views on social media as part of their efforts to combat misinformation. The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in that case. After Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he invited Bhattacharya to the company's headquarters to learn more about how his views had been restricted on the platform, which Musk renamed X. More recently, Bhattacharya has posted on X about scientists leaving the site and joining the alternative site Bluesky, mocking Bluesky as "their own little echo chamber.” Bhattacharya has argued that vaccine mandates that barred unvaccinated people from activities and workplaces undermined Americans' trust in the public health system. He is a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an economist at the RAND Corporation. The National Institutes of Health falls under HHS, which Trump has nominated Kennedy to oversee. The NIH's $48 billion budget funds medical research on vaccines, cancer and other diseases through competitive grants to researchers at institutions across the nation. The agency also conducts its own research with thousands of scientists working at NIH labs in Bethesda, Maryland. Among advances that were supported by NIH money are a medication for opioid addiction, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, many new cancer drugs and the speedy development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. ___ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Amanda Seitz contributed to this report.Mics Picked Up Jameis Winston's Comical Four-Word Plea to Steelers' Defense - Sports IllustratedHALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 's government announced plans Thursday to temporarily lift the federal sales tax off a number of items and send checks to millions of Canadians who are dealing with rising costs and as a federal election looms. The measures come as a cost of living crisis has left voters unhappy with Trudeau and ahead of an election that could come anytime between this fall and next October. “Our government can’t set prices at the checkout, but we can put more money in people’s pockets,” Trudeau said at a press conference in Toronto. Under the plan, Canadians who worked in 2023 and earned up to 150,000 Canadian dollars (US$ 107,440) will receive a check for 250 Canadian dollars. Trudeau noted that even those earning at the high end of that amount have been struggling to get by. An estimated 18.7 million Canadians will receive the one-time check. The federal goods and services tax break would begin Dec. 14 and end Feb. 15. The government said the tax break will apply to a number of items including children’s clothing and shoes, toys, diapers, restaurant meals, beer and wine. It also applies to Christmas trees, a variety of snack foods and beverages and video game consoles. “Politically, it’s probably too little too late and it feels like a desperate move on the part of an unpopular government," said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal. “It’s also bad public policy, at least from a fiscal standpoint.” Trudeau has said he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election. No Canadian prime minister in more than a century has won four straight terms. Trudeau channeled the star power of his father in 2015 when he reasserted the country’s liberal identity in 2015 after almost 10 years of Conservative rule. But the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is now in trouble. Canadians have been frustrated by the cost of living coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberals trail the opposition Conservatives 39% to 26% in the latest Nanos poll. The poll of 1,047 respondents has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The holidays keeping you awake at night? These 5 secrets might help keep you sleepingIt takes money to make money. However, it doesn't require a lot of cash to get started generating passive income. Several high-quality dividend stocks cost less than $33 a share. Three great ones under that price point are Brookfield Renewable ( BEPC -0.70% ) ( BEP -0.26% ) , Invitation Homes ( INVH -0.59% ) , and Kinder Morgan ( KMI -0.26% ) . Because of that, you can buy one share of all three for less than $100. That would supply you with a growing stream of dividend income that you can add to as you have more cash to invest. A high-powered dividend stock Brookfield Renewable is a leading global renewable energy producer. Its shares currently fetch less than $29 apiece. The company pays a quarterly dividend of $0.355 per share ($1.42 annually). That gives it a nearly 5% dividend yield at the recent share price. The renewable energy giant has increased its dividend payment at a 6% compound annual rate since 2001. It aims to grow its payout at a 5% to 9% yearly rate in the future . Brookfield Renewable has ample power to achieve that growth plan. It expects to grow its funds from operations ( FFO ) per share at a more than 10% annual rate over the next decade. That growth is highly visible and secured through 2029 and increasingly visible and secured beyond that. It has multiple growth drivers, including inflation-linked rate increases on existing power purchase agreements, a vast pipeline of development projects, and acquisitions. Cashing in on the affordability gap Invitation Homes is a real estate investment trust ( REIT ) that owns and manages single-family rental homes. Its share price was recently just below $33. The landlord pays a quarterly dividend of $0.29 per share, which it recently increased by another 3.6%. It has raised its dividend every year since it came public in 2017. Its payout now yields 3.6%. The REIT has many growth drivers. Its existing portfolio should continue to supply a growing stream of rental income as it increases rents. It's benefiting from strong demand for rental housing due to the affordability gap between renting and buying a home (which is currently more than $1,000 a month in its markets). On top of that, Invitation Homes will continue to expand its portfolio, which consists of more than 110,000 homes it owns or manages. It has partnered with several leading homebuilders, which will deliver about 2,500 new homes to the REIT in the coming years. Invitation Homes also buys properties from various other channels, including purchasing existing homes listed for sale, acquiring properties and portfolios from other investors, and investing in joint ventures. For example, it recently invested $50 million into a joint venture that plans to deploy $500 million into buying newly constructed homes and communities in several high-growth markets. These growth drivers should enable the REIT to continue increasing its dividend. The fuel to continue growing Kinder Morgan is the country's leading natural gas pipeline operator. Shares of the pipeline company currently fetch $27 apiece. It currently pays a quarterly dividend of $0.2875 per share ($1.15 annually), giving it a 4.2% yield at the recent share price. The company has already unveiled plans to increase its dividend to a $1.17-per-share annualized rate next year. That will mark its eighth consecutive year of dividend growth. Kinder Morgan should have ample fuel to continue pushing its payout higher in the future. It currently has several billion dollars of expansion projects under construction that should come online through 2028 . The company expects to approve additional projects in the coming months to help meet the expected surge in natural gas demand by the end of the decade from catalysts like artificial intelligence (AI) data centers . Those future projects would enhance and extend its growth outlook, giving it even more fuel to increase its dividend. High-quality dividend stocks for fairly low prices Brookfield Renewable, Invitation Homes, and Kinder Morgan all currently have share prices below $33 apiece. That makes them very affordable stocks for those seeking to start generating some passive dividend income. The trio should be able to increase their dividends in the future, which will provide investors with a growing income stream that they can add to as they buy more shares.
This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here . 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are Winning week for markets Major U.S. indexes rose on Friday to end the week in the green , despite mega-cap stocks Nvidia and Alphabet dropping. Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose on Monday . Mainland China's CSI 300 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index were the exceptions, with the former falling around 0.7%. Trump nominates Treasury secretary U.S. President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Scott Bessent , founder of the hedge fund Key Square Group, as his Treasury secretary. Like Trump, Bessent is in favor of gradual tariffs and deregulation to support domestic business and address trade imbalances. Bessent was chosen over former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and private equity executive Marc Rowan. China's central bank maintains loan rate The People's Bank of China kept its medium-term lending facility rate unchanged at 2.0%, according to the bank's statement on Monday. The rate affects around 900 billion yuan ($124.26 billion) worth of one-year loans to some financial institutions. Economists had expected the move, and forecast the MLF to drop to 1.2% at the end of 2025. Climate deal at COP29 At the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, developed nations pledged to provide $300 billion annually to poorer countries to tackle climate change. This deal replaces an earlier commitment to provide $100 billion a year. Meanwhile, Sir Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin, said that "we can overcome climate change" if "everybody focused together." [PRO] Interest rates back in focus This week, the October personal consumption expenditures price index, out Wednesday, will dominate attention . "This might be one of the last big key pieces of data" for the U.S. Federal Reserve before its December meeting, said a fund manager. Minutes for the November meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, releasing a day prior, will give investors more insight into the pace of future rate cuts. Money Report UniCredit offers to buy rival Italian lender Banco BPM for $10.5 billion Can Saudi Arabia keep pace with its ambitious mega-project spending spree? Big-name tech and chip stocks faltered last week. Despite almost doubling its third-quarter revenue , compared with a year earlier, Nvidia shares fell 3.2% on Friday, capping off a bumpy week during which the stock fluctuated between the red and the green. Google-parent Alphabet , meanwhile, ended the week almost 5% lower after the U.S. Department of Justice recommended the company divest its Chrome browser as a remedy to its antitrust case. And Amazon , its Big Tech counterpart, retreated 3.4% during the week. That said, major indexes managed to reverse the previous week's dip. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 2% higher for the week and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both climbed around 1.7%. Even though other Magnificent Seven stocks did contribute to that, buoyant markets mostly have companies less in the spotlight, like Super Micro Company , to thank. Likewise, small-cap stocks, which have languished behind their bigger cousins for years, seem to be staging a comeback as interest rates fall and Trump is poised to reenter the White House. The Russell 2000 ended the week 4.5% higher, outperforming the above three indexes. "Investors are rotating out of the previous high flyers of large-cap communication services and technology and into other cyclical sectors of consumer discretionary, industrials, and financials, as well as mid- and small-cap stocks," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. And bitcoin , once dismissed by most mainstream investors and institutions as an esoteric plaything that did not seem to have any inherent value, is close to shattering the $100,000 ceiling. That said, this inversion isn't likely to last. "On the back of strong expected revenue growth in 2025, we maintain our positive view on the AI compute industry and NVIDIA in particular," UBS analyst Sundeep Gantori wrote in a Thursday note. Despite a temporary dip, the AI play will likely remain the main theme for the markets next year. — CNBC's Pia Singh, Alex Harring and Jesse Pound contributed to this report. Also on CNBC Small- and mid-caps stole the limelight last week Expectations can move shares in strange ways — just look at Nvidia Expectations can be an irrational thing. Just look at NvidiaMineralys Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MLYS) Trading Down 4.1% – What’s Next?
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“The cruise ship season is projecting 179 cruise ship calls in 2025,” Minister of Transport Wayne Furbert said in the House of Assembly today [Dec 6]. The Minister said, “In 2025, Mr. Speaker, we are projecting 518,510 passengers @95% occupancy, accounting for weather cancellations, similar to 2024. Also, in 2025, there is a reduction in winter calls. There is one [1] call in January, one call [1] in February and eight [8] calls in March. “You might notice a reduction of eleven [11] calls overall from the 2024 season and there is a reason. Progress is the prime reason, and I know the Minister of Public Works will join with me in our exhilaration that the Kings Wharf pier is finally going to get its much-needed extension by 200 feet and become equal in size and stature to that of the Heritage Wharf pier in Dockyard. “The Kings Wharf pier will be under construction from the 2nd of October 2025 to March 31st 2026. In addition, this winter 2025 some pre-construction work will start.” Mr. Speaker, growth requires pause, and progress sometimes means rebuilding. While 2025 may see slightly fewer ships sailing to our shores, it’s all part of preparing for a spectacular 2026—a future larger, stronger, and more vibrant than ever. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share with my Honourable colleagues a preview of the cruise season for 2025 and provide a snapshot of the projections for the remainder of the year. Mr. Speaker, you will be aware that the Ministry of Transport released a joint press release with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Limited last week and just recently the 2025 Cruise Ship Schedule. I would like to share a little more detail at this time. Mr. Speaker, the cruise ship season is projecting 179 cruise ship calls in 2025, a few more than the 2024 season will end with year at approximately one hundred and seventy-two 172 calls, after eighteen [18] cancelled calls, thus far. In 2024, these cancelled calls are attributed to both weather events and preplanned itinerary changes. Thirteen [13] weather, and five [5] itinerary changes. There are still five [5] more cruise ship calls before the end of this season before the final numbers will be tallied. In 2025, Mr. Speaker, we are projecting 518,510 passengers @95% occupancy, accounting for weather cancellations, similar to 2024. Also, in 2025, there is a reduction in winter calls. There is one [1] call in January, one call [1] in February and eight [8] calls in March. Mr. Speaker, you might notice a reduction of eleven [11] calls overall from the 2024 season and there is a reason. Progress- Progress is the prime reason, and I know the Minister of Public Works will join with me in our exhilaration that the Kings Wharf pier is finally going to get its much-needed extension by 200 feet and become equal in size and stature to that of the Heritage Wharf pier in Dockyard. The extension is between the terminal building and the current dolphins. 100 feet each side of the terminal building. This news may not mean much to many, but to those who know, it is a significant milestone. This project will significantly help Bermuda attract certain ships, and the Bermuda Land Management Corporation [formerly WEDCO] will be postured to better service ships at Kings Wharf. Most importantly, this enhancement will help the Department of Marine & Ports and Ships Agent manage the cruise ship schedule more efficiently as both piers will be equal in size and the upgrades will allow guests during the disembarkation and embarkation process to have a better passenger experience because more hatches will be deployed, allowing more gangways to be used. Mr. Speaker, this construction project would not be possible without the Ministry of Transports collaborative efforts with the Bermuda Land Management Corporation, the Ministry of Public works and the sincere support, and partnership of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Limited, a dedicated partner to Bermuda for decades. Mr. Speaker, the Kings Wharf pier will be under construction from the 2nd of October 2025 to March 31st 2026. In addition, this winter 2025 some pre-construction work will start. Mr. Speaker, the good news does not finish here. Norwegian Cruise Lines has committed to deploying some of its newest ships to Bermuda and a third ship starting regularly from 2026, thereby calling 7- days a week in peak season. Mr. Speaker, in 2026 passenger projections will increase again. Deployment bookings today for 2026 include 199 cruise ship calls, estimating 575,000 passengers. It is in 2026 that our [2] new Marine and Ports 550 passenger ferries will also be in service. Mr. Speaker, these numbers remain fluid, but we are preparing for a future larger, stronger, and more vibrant than ever. Mr. Speaker, the 2025 Cruise Ship Schedule is on-line at Mr. Speaker, thank you. : , ,Thanks to this week's snowfall, Camp Fortune in Chelsea, Que. was able to open to the public on schedule. Two hills (Allen's Alley and Pineault) and one lift were available Friday, which staff say is normal for opening day. Staff worked throughout the week and morning to ensure the snow was packed for riders. Dozens of people, including children, came out for their first runs of the season. Camp Fortune opened its doors Friday at noon and operates until 4 p.m., and remains open through the weekend, opening at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Fortune is not the only hill benefiting from the snowfall. Sommet Edelweiss opens Saturday at 9 a.m., then Mont Cascades and Vorlage at noon. Along with the beneficial snowfall, Camp Fortune implemented a TechnoAlpin fan gun, which can produce 35 gallons of snow per minute. Staff say more snowmaking will be taking place of the next couple of days to ensure skiers are able to have a smooth ride. More details to come. Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop. Read about us. 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By Lindsay Middleton A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843. Over the course of the 19th century, his depictions of the Christmas turkey and charitable spirit were reprinted thousands of times in Britain and America, cementing the fascination with and commodification of Christmas we are familiar with today. But what about the food eaten at the Victorian dinner table, beyond the (now) traditional turkey? These three recipes, which are both familiar and different to the Christmas menu we now know and love, show how Christmas foods and traditions were being explored and adapted over the course of the 19th century. Some recipes were more extravagant than our typical modern Christmas dinner, like the Yorkshire or Christmas Pie from The Modern Cook by Charles Elme Francatelli (1846), which featured five different birds (pheasant, partridge, woodcock, snipe and grouse), bacon, tongue and French truffles. Here are three slightly less complicated offerings to try at home. From The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1861) English writer Isabella Beeton’s soup essentially involved simmering the bones and leftover meat of your Christmas turkey into an existing stock to enrich it, before using a thickening agent to make it even richer. Her reference to Harvey’s Sauce demonstrates how common it was to buy branded, mass-produced foodstuffs by this point in the 19th century. A thin, strong-tasting ketchup flavoured with anchovies, garlic and cayenne, the punchy sauce was the brain-child of culinary expert Peter Harvey in the early 1800s. Beeton, despite authoring one of the most prolific cookbooks of the Victorian era, compiled recipes and information from other sources in her cookbooks, rather than writing them on her own. Below this soup recipe, she included an excerpt on the history of turkeys, which she notes were “introduced to England, in the reign of Henry VIII” and were “one of the most difficult birds to rear, of any that we have”. Ingredients: two quarts of medium stock, the remains of a cold roast turkey, two oz. of rice-flour or arrowroot, salt and pepper to taste, one tablespoonful of Harvey’s Sauce or mushroom ketchup. Method: Cut up the turkey in small pieces and put it in the stock. Let it simmer slowly until the bones are quite clean. Take the bones out, and work the soup through a sieve; when cool, skim well. Mix the rice-flour or arrowroot to a batter with a little of the soup; add it with the seasoning and sauce, or ketchup. Give one boil, and serve. From Bow Bells: A Magazine of General Literature and Family Reading (1893) This recipe, taken from a popular, London-based periodical that included items of fashion, literature, current events, recipes and domestic advice, is typical of the 19th-century recipe form. In contrast to Beeton’s organised recipe, most recipes came in one or more paragraphs. Victorians had to read the entire piece to understand what ingredients and equipment they required. The recipe also relies on the reader knowing that a “quick” fire meant a fiercely burning fire, ascertaining when the bird was cooked and making gravy without instruction. If you were capable of doing so, you could enjoy an alternative to the ever-popular turkey. In Scotland and the north of England, roast goose is a favourite piece de resistance for Christmas, and, in good sooth, when the bird is young, fat, and well-cooked, there are few viands to beat it. Take sage and wash it, pick it clean, chop it small, with pepper and salt role them with butter and put them into the belly. Never put onion in anything unless you are sure that everybody likes it. Take care that your goose be clean-picked and washed. Either singe or scald the bird. The best way is to scald a goose, and then you are sure it is clean and not so strong. Let your water be scalding hot, dip in your goose for a minute, and all the stumps of feathers will come off clean. When it is quite clean wash it in cold water, and dry it with a cloth; roast it, and baste it with butter, and when it is half-done through some flower [sic] over it, that it may have a fine brown. Three-quarters of an hour will do it with a quick fire, if it is not too large, otherwise it will require an hour. Always have good gravy in one tureen and apple sauce in another. From Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches by Eliza Acton (1845) English food writer Eliza Acton’s book Modern Cookery was highly popular over the 19th century. She introduced structure to her recipes before Beeton, though many claim the latter was the first to organise recipes in a way that’s more recognisable to modern readers. What’s most intriguing about this festive recipe, however, is the inclusion of potatoes in the Christmas pudding. Potatoes are used to bulk up the more expensive flour, as a cheap, relatively flavourless base for the stone fruit and spice that characterise Christmas puddings. The contrast between the inclusion of potatoes and the expensive spices and fruit speaks to the desire, whatever your location or circumstances, to eat special food at Christmas. Food with more flavour, variety and luxurious ingredients than you might eat at other times of the year. Flour, 1 1⁄4lb; suet, 14 ozs; raisins stoned, 20 ozs; currants, 4 ozs; sugar, 5 ozs; potatoes, 1⁄4 lb; 1⁄2 nutmeg; ginger, salt, cloves 1⁄4 teaspoonful each; eggs, 4; milk, 1⁄2 pint: 4 hours. A pound and a quarter of flour, 14 ounces of suet, a pound and a quarter of stoned raisins, four ounces of currants, five of sugar, a quarter-pound of potatoes smoothly mashed, half a nutmeg, a quarter-teaspoonful of ginger, the same of salt, and of cloves in powder: mix these ingredients thoroughly, add four well-beaten eggs with a quarter-pint of milk, tie the pudding in a well-floured cloth, and boil it for four hours. Lindsay Middleton is Food Historian and Knowledge Exchange Associate, University of Glasgow. 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