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Shanaz Hemmati, a veteran of two multibillion-dollar startups, says any prospective entrepreneur needs to remember one key lesson before launching a new business.No matter how confident you are in your business idea, seek out as many prospective customers or clients as you can and get their feedback before you commit to a business model, she says.Hemmati and Ross Buhrdorf are the co-founders of ZenBusiness, which makes artificial intelligence software aimed at helping first-time entrepreneurs navigate the regulatory processes of starting a small business. They launched the business in 2017, and it was most recently valued at $1.7 billion in November…

World leaders gathered in New York for day two of the United Nations General Assembly, in a week where Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the issue of Palestinian statehood dominated the agenda both among western nations as well as the global south. With Israel’s final foray into Gaza City leading to a full occupation of the enclave, an impending annexation of the occupied West Bank, and the bombing of five other countries in between, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been blamed for fomenting unrestrained chaos and destruction far beyond the region. Iran: Israeli aggression, European snapback sanctions ‘unlawful’ Iran’s…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Seven Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Amazon have denounced a government plan to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration, saying it threatens their ancestral lands and violates constitutional protections.The criticism targets a plan from the Ministry of Energy and Mines in August to auction the rights for 49 oil and gas projects worth more than $47 billion. Officials say the “hydrocarbon roadmap” is a strategy to modernize Ecuador’s oil industry, attract foreign capital and boost production. Their plan includes contract renegotiations and new licensing rounds that the government says comply with existing legal frameworks.Indigenous…

A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app.Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesRegulators are moving to dismantle one of the most controversial barriers for active retail traders — the $25,000 minimum equity rule for pattern day trading.The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Tuesday approved amendments that would replace the long-standing threshold, making active day trading more accessible to smaller accounts. The change is pending approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission.The $25,000 minimum equity rule mandates that traders must maintain a minimum account balance of $25,000 in a margin account to execute four or more day trades within…

Nikita Parris says Matt Beard “transformed” the women’s game in England when very few cared. The former Liverpool boss passed away last weekend aged 47, with an outpouring of current and former players and clubs paying homage to the manager who also took charge of Chelsea and West Ham’s women’s sides.London City Lionesses forward Parris, who came up against Beard teams on numerous occasions, said the two-time Women’s Super League winner made sacrifices for the women’s game when not many people cared about it.”He transformed women’s football in England just through sheer wanting to and caring,” Parris said on the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him. The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023 fatal shooting in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Columbus suburbs. She had been suspected of shoplifting bottles of alcohol when Officer Connor M. Grubb and another officer approached her car. Young, 21, partially lowered her window and…

Three of the nation’s largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday.The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools. In letters to the districts Sept. 16, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said the…

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Wednesday that it’s unconstitutional to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get funding for disasters, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general in May filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars of disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions. In a ruling granting a summary judgment to the plaintiffs and denying one for the federal government, U.S. District Judge William Smith found that the “contested…

For many workers, simply getting an email from their boss after hours is enough to spark anxiety.  Physically tensing up or emotionally reacting to small stressors could mean your mind and body are processing minor events with as much energy as you’d need to respond to major stress, according to Jamie Wood, CEO of biotechnology company Autonomic.But Wood — whose company offers users “neuroscience-based coaching” and technology to help people analyze their daily habits and work toward goals like reducing stress or improving focus — says you can decrease work stress and free up your mental energy by remembering a…

I look back to the days of the Guardian during which David Hirst, who died on Monday at the age of 89, was its distinguished Middle East editor with nostalgia. It was a newspaper that took non-Western opinion seriously and cared deeply about the Middle East and foreign news in general. It had one correspondent in Beirut, two in Jerusalem, and stringers in every Arab capital. The foreign desk had a dedicated team of sub-editors. But it also had its weird and wonderful ways. It was a writer’s newspaper, and correspondents set the agenda for the news desk; not, as…