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<ul class="summary-list"><li>This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter.</li></ul>Halfway to the weekend! What do you get when you create a livestream video portal connecting New York and Dublin? In a word, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/livestream-portal-between-new-york-and-dublin-descends-into-chaos-2024-5">chaos</a>.In today's big story, we're looking at Google's big event that's pitching <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-future-ai-agents-project-astra-2024-5">all the ways AI agents can make our lives easier</a>.What's on deck:<ul><li>Markets: Meme stocks <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meme-stock-rally-gamestop-amc-short-squeeze-gains-blackberry-sunpower-2024-5">haven't given up just yet</a>.</li><li>Tech: Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-leadership-shakeup-jan-leike-ilya-sutskever-resign-chatgpt-superalignment-2024-5">another exec quit hours later</a>.</li><li>Business: Punching a clock has never been cooler as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-collar-job-demand-growth-white-collar-layoffs-ai-2024-5">blue-collar jobs are booming</a>.</li></ul>But first, AI can help with that.If this was forwarded to you, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/insider-today">sign up here.</a><h3 id="3b31b1d5-e52f-4df4-84dd-49e586014778">The big story</h3><h2 id="53937b15-188a-41f7-b111-0d80c3a8235c">In our AI agent era</h2><div type="image" title="An eye with the Google logo in the iris" height="1500" width="2000" msid="110152648" hostid="261" sizebytes="452180"></div>Forgot where your glasses are? Need to return some shoes? Want to add stuff to your calendar? AI can help with that.Yes, I know you've heard some iterations of these pitches before. Since OpenAI's ChatGPT graced us with its presence, all anyone can seem to talk about is how AI is going to change everything.But now Google is saying these things in a very real way. And when a company that's historically been at the forefront of tech talks, people tend to listen.Google I/O, the tech giant's biggest developer conference, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-future-ai-agents-project-astra-2024-5">was heavy on the rise of so-called AI agents</a>, writes Business Insider's Hugh Langley, who was there in person.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI agents "think multiple steps ahead and work across software and systems all to get something done on your behalf and most importantly, with your supervision."Tuesday's event wasn't just about the new and shiny.Google's faithful, old search engine <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-ai-announcement-gemini-io-event-2024-5">got a noticeable facelift with the help of AI</a>, writes BI's Geoff Weiss. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-gmail-of-the-future-looks-incredible-integrated-ai-assistant-2024-5">Gemini-powered updates</a> were also on display for Gmail.AI Overviews — AI-generated answers at the top of Google Search results — combines what previously would have been a bunch of steps to answer a complex question into a single search.But what's good for the user could spell trouble for the rest of the internet. That type of feature could upend businesses built around search engine optimization.At the center of this movement sits Project Astra, which is what Hugh succinctly describes as "what the Google Assistant should have been all along."BI's Alistair Barr, who was also at I/O, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/project-astra-google-ai-agent-dancing-gemini-2024-5">got to test out Project Astra</a>, and chatted with Gregory Wayne, the head of the project.<div type="image" title="Google logo in a crystal ball" height="1500" width="2000" msid="110152650" hostid="261" sizebytes="87950"></div>The stakes for Google are high, as nailing AI agents opens up a massive business opportunity.For all the chatter AI has received, there hasn't been a singular application that has grabbed consumers' attention yet, writes Alistair. But Google's demos at the event give it a real shot at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-killer-ai-app-consumers-2024-5">finally creating a killer AI app</a>.But Google's AI ambitions also require people to let the tech giant into their lives in a big way.Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis described AI agents "that can see and hear what we do better, understand the context we're in and respond quickly in conversation making the pace and quality of interaction feel much more natural."That concept is equally impressive and terrifying.For AI agents to be so intuitive, they'll need access to seemingly every aspect of our lives. And with people getting increasingly protective over their data, that might be a tough sell.<h2 id="667ee87b-b0d5-4400-b989-eef47c30a1e1">3 things in markets</h2><div type="image" title="gamestop" height="1333" width="2000" msid="110152651" hostid="261" sizebytes="352964"></div><ol><li>Meme stocks keep memeing. GameStop and AMC Entertainment <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meme-stock-rally-gamestop-amc-short-squeeze-gains-blackberry-sunpower-2024-5">have continued their massive rallies</a>, finishing Tuesday up more than 59% and 30%, respectively, following the re-emergence of Keith Gill, aka "Roaring Kitty." But not everyone is impressed, with one market guru calling it a "<a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-meme-stocks-roaring-kitty-wall-street-bets-jim-chanos-2024-5">speculation orgy</a>."</li><li>Another inflation report is coming. Here's how the market could react. All eyes are on today's April CPI report, which could dictate the timeline for interest rate cuts. A hot report might lead the S&amp;P 500 to drop as much as 2.5%, according to JPMorgan, while cooler data could mean June rate cuts are a possibility. Here are <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-april-cpi-report-trading-scenarios-inflation-this-week-2024-5">six scenarios the bank sees playing out</a>.</li><li>The head of Citi's fastest-growing wealth business is leaving. Naz Vahid, who heads a division devoted to serving rich law-firm partners and other rich executives, is exiting the bank after 38 years, according to a memo seen by BI. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/citi-wealth-unit-mehrnazz-naz-vahid-leaving-sieg-2024-5">Check out Citi wealth boss Andy Sieg's announcement</a>.</li></ol><h2 id="9619e410-5c39-4a7c-8185-0fd6504b61be">3 things in tech</h2><div type="image" title="AWS step down" height="1000" width="2000" msid="110152652" hostid="261" sizebytes="134456"></div><ol><li>Adam Selipsky is out at AWS. According to an internal memo, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-amazon-adam-selipsky-ceo-steps-down-2024-5">Amazon Web Services CEO is stepping down</a>, effective June 3. Selipsky's tenure was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-insiders-mixed-views-ceo-adam-selipskys-tenure-daparture-2024-5">marked by slow growth rates, major layoffs, and challenges in AI</a>. He'll be succeeded by Matt Garman, AWS's senior vice president of sales, marketing, and global services.</li><li>Mental health startups could face a reckoning this year. Facing tight funding conditions, the market is due for more deals. Healthcare analysts shared the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/13-mental-health-startups-ipo-acquisition-merge-buyout-2024-5">13 mental health startups that could IPO, make acquisitions, or get bought</a> this year.</li><li>Ilya Sutskever is leaving OpenAI. The OpenAI cofounder said in a post on X on Tuesday that he's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ilya-sutskever-leaving-openai-6-months-after-failed-altman-ouster-2024-5">stepping away from the company</a> after nearly a decade — and just hours later, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-leadership-shakeup-jan-leike-ilya-sutskever-resign-chatgpt-superalignment-2024-5">another top exec announced he'd also resigned</a>. Sutskever's position at the ChatGPT developer had been in doubt for the past six months after reports indicated he'd played a key role in last year's attempt to oust CEO Sam Altman.</li></ol><h2 id="796bfd12-a6c9-4555-a5f3-f94925f6b466">3 things in business</h2><div type="image" title="Photo illustration of a tombstone with a Peloton bike." height="2000" width="3000" msid="110152653" hostid="261" sizebytes="186410"></div><ol><li>Peloton might be headed for the fitness-fad graveyard. The connected-fitness company is struggling. Its CEO, who joined in 2022, is stepping down. It recently announced layoffs of 400 people. The stock is near a record low. In short, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peloton-earnings-stock-price-problems-ceo-leaves-layoffs-fitness-fads-2024-5">the road ahead is a rocky one</a>.</li><li>Blue-collar jobs are booming. The jobs, which don't require sitting in front of a screen, have again assumed a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-collar-job-demand-growth-white-collar-layoffs-ai-2024-5">competitive position within the American labor market</a>. Demand is high, opportunities abound, and companies like Walmart and UPS are offering six-figure salaries and flashy benefits.</li><li>Big TV isn't dead just yet. That's according to Nielsen, which has a new way of tracking attention among media companies, including digital upstarts. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nielsen-tv-new-ratings-streaming-traditional-peter-kafka-2024-5">BI's Peter Kafka breaks down the data</a>, which shows legacy TV companies are still drawing in viewers across various platforms.</li></ol><h2 id="c8d5dfc4-cfba-484b-b640-7a4833799981">In other news</h2><ul><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/all-that-lori-beth-denberg-nickelodeon-dan-schneider-2024-5">'All That' star Lori Beth Denberg says Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider showed her porn, initiated phone sex, and lashed out on set</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-creator-economy-startup-jellysmack-lost-its-way-2024-5">Jellysmack raised a 9-figure war chest as the creator economy soared. Insiders say it bit off more than it could chew</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-chapter-11-bankruptcy-filing-closed-stores-wsj-2024-5">Red Lobster could file for bankruptcy this month following the closure of 50+ stores: WSJ</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-really-love-targeting-your-food-delivery-accounts-2024-5">Hackers really, really like trying to take over your food delivery apps</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guy-fieri-weight-loss-healthy-aging-fat-burning-rucking-workouts-2024-5">Guy Fieri says rucking — the hot, new fat-burning workout — helped him lose 30 pounds</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rsa-conference-us-national-security-5g-infrastructure-ai-anne-neuberger-2024-5">5G and 6G are among 'the most strategic sectors' in the AI age, a national security advisor says</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photographer-nikita-teryoshin-offers-look-into-global-defense-industry-2024-5">Behind the curtain of the global arms trade</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-and-worst-outfits-at-the-cannes-film-festival-2024-5">4 of the best looks worn at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival so far, and 3 that missed the mark</a>.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-michael-cohen-hush-money-trial-cross-examination-2024-5">Kindergarten court: Trump lawyer grills Michael Cohen on insulting ex-president as a 'Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain.'</a></li></ul><h2 id="ed1052f2-73f1-4e7b-9edd-3088925f8569">What's happening today</h2><ul><li>Today's earnings: Cisco Systems and <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/earnings-calendar">other companies are reporting</a>.</li><li>Warner Bros. Discovery is hosting its upfront presentation, unveiling its 2024- 2025 program lineups.</li><li>Uber is holding its Go/Get product showcase, revealing new products across the platform.</li></ul>The Insider Today team: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/dan-defrancesco">Dan DeFrancesco</a>, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/jordan-parker-erb">Jordan Parker Erb</a>, editor, in New York. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/hallam-bullock">Hallam Bullock</a>, senior editor, in London. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/george-glover">George Glover</a>, reporter, in London.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Labor groups are pursuing a multipronged strategy attacking Amazon as it fights union elections.</li><li>Unions infiltrated Amazon construction sites in Oregon and Washington seeking regulatory violations.</li></ul>On a frosty morning in February 2021, Tom Tanner walked into an under-construction Amazon warehouse in eastern Washington seeking work. He had driven by, seen the steel framing for the warehouse going up, and wondered if the contractor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-builder-investigated-for-child-labor-and-wage-theft-2022-7">BZI Construction</a> needed any extra hands. BZI hired him almost immediately.But the relationship didn't last long, Tanner later told a state investigator. He quit two days later.Tanner wasn't just a footloose employee. He's an organizer for the Ironworkers' union, representing workers who build steel-framed structures. During his short-lived employment at BZI, Tanner was working undercover in an attempt to smear one of the most powerful companies in the world: Amazon.Campaigns to organize Amazon warehouse workers have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-union-vote-results-staten-island-new-york-bessemer-alabama-2022-3">grabbed national headlines</a>. But labor is simultaneously attacking Amazon less overtly. Unions are needling the company with a barrage of regulatory complaints, fighting Amazon in local zoning meetings, digging deep through federal data to attack Amazon's safety record, and even using undercover spies and drones to gather evidence.Experts say that pursuing a multipronged strategy against Amazon gives unions more chances to win. Those wins energize members, deepen ties with allies, and prove to Amazon and its workers that they should take unions seriously.Amazon spends <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-new-york-staten-island-alu-union-nlrb-vote-2022-4">millions</a> on union-avoidance consultants and employs <a href="https://www.lawcha.org/2021/02/02/12-facts-about-morgan-lewis-amazons-powerful-anti-union-law-firm/">high-powered labor attorneys</a> to fight union victories. The company has been adept at combating organizing activity in its warehouses, quashing union votes in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-workers-reject-union-staten-island-warehouse-ldj5-sharp-reversal-2022-5">New York</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-union-vote-why-some-workers-voted-against-unionizing-alabama-2021-3">Alabama</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-union-new-york-staten-island-marijuana-cannabis-jfk8-2022-4">aggressively appealing</a> labor's sole successful union election at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island.Meanwhile, union elections, overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, take place on a regulatory playing field <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-union-vote-bessemer-alabama-labor-law-experts-takeaways-2021-4">tilted heavily toward employers</a>.<div type="image" title="Amazon warehouse workers cheer outside a fence and hold a picket sign that reads: Amazon Labor Workers Vote Yes." height="3439" width="4586" msid="94949988" hostid="261" sizebytes="2281280"></div>"It's really difficult if not impossible to win an NLRB election at Amazon under the current rules," said John Logan, a labor professor at San Francisco State University. Amazon warehouses often employ thousands of people, and turnover rates are high, while Amazon has "virtually unlimited resources with which to fight the union," Logan added.Janice Fine, a labor professor at Rutgers University, said that in the face of Amazon's "overwhelming power and ubiquity," organizers are "looking for things that are going to keep workers hopeful, that are going to keep them moving forward and getting somewhere.""Having campaigns along the way gives allies and volunteers a sense of their own power," Fine added.<h2>Spies and drones</h2>For months, Ironworkers in western states gathered intelligence linking BZI Construction, the company Tanner worked for in Spokane, to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist cult whose leaders have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flds-child-labor-cult-amazon-warehouses-2022-8">racked up allegations of wage theft and child-labor-law violations at companies they control</a>.Then the Ironworkers released footage, business records, and other information to regulators and the public, arguing that Amazon didn't adequately supervise who its developers and contractors hired to build its warehouses.Steve Pendergrass, the president of the Ironworkers Northwest District Council, said that if Amazon's warehouses were instead built by union labor, the company wouldn't have to worry about being linked to a cult."We're trying to leverage what we can to get Amazon to do the right thing," he said.Wendell Jeffson, a former FLDS member, has said BZI Construction has previously employed minors on Amazon job sites — Jeffson <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flds-child-labor-cult-amazon-warehouses-2022-8">told Insider he used to be one such teenage worker</a>.<div type="image" title="Wendell Jeffson Amazon warehouse Shelby, Michigan" height="1739" width="2319" msid="94949989" hostid="261" sizebytes="134730"></div>BZI previously told Insider that Jeffson had "misrepresented" his employment at the company but declined to say how. An Amazon representative told Insider that the company does "not tolerate any illegal labor practices" and expects its contractors and suppliers "to treat their workers with respect and dignity and to abide by respective local, state, and federal laws."Tanner said he didn't find much during the six hours he worked for BZI. He scanned the job site for evidence of safety and labor violations and photographed the sign-in sheet. Otherwise, he said, he left empty-handed.But he returned to the under-construction warehouse more than a dozen times over the subsequent three months, mounting a phone to the side of his car window to surreptitiously capture photos and videos of alleged labor violations on the site."You gotta get your hands dirty to be a good organizer," Tanner said. The Ironworkers sent Tanner's photos to Washington state's workplace regulator, urging it to investigate.Washington's investigation went nowhere; BZI had by that point left the state. The Ironworkers turned to another Amazon job site in Woodburn, Oregon, 30 miles south of Portland. As BZI erected the steel frame for what is set to be one of the largest Amazon warehouses in the country, another Ironworkers organizer, Paul Diaz, took to the skies. Diaz said he obtained a drone pilot's license and flew a camera over the job site for weeks, taking photos and videos that the Ironworkers believe suggest BZI was underpaying workers. (BZI has denied those allegations.)While BZI was hired by general contractors like Clayco and Layton to build Amazon warehouses in Spokane and Woodburn, respectively, Amazon previously told Insider that it was in regular contact with developers and contractors to oversee construction projects.<div type="image" title="Construction on an Amazon warehouse in New York." height="3648" width="4864" msid="94949991" hostid="261" sizebytes="637086"></div>Earlier this year, the Ironworkers launched a website, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alarmingamazon.com%2F">AlarmingAmazon.com</a>, detailing BZI's links to the polygamist cult. The website asks readers to sign a petition demanding Amazon "sever ties with their unsafe, exploitative, and extreme project partners" and hire "safe and reliable contractors who treat workers with dignity and respect."Another Ironworkers council in California operates a similar website, <a href="https://grimdelivery.com/">GrimDelivery.com</a>. "Does Amazon do any due diligence on the companies it brings into our communities to build their fulfillment centers?" the website asks.The Ironworkers' complaints prompted an ongoing investigation from Oregon's labor bureau into whether BZI committed wage-theft violations at the Woodburn job site.Experts say that regardless of the investigation's outcome, its existence is a win for unions. James Brudney, a labor professor at Fordham University, said that each blow against Amazon galvanizes union members and deepens support for organized labor.Tanner added, "Everybody wants to be part of a victory."<h2>Zoning battles</h2>Other battles are fought in more prosaic arenas.Unions, particularly the Teamsters, whose diverse membership includes 340,000 UPS delivery drivers, are weaponizing local zoning boards to derail new Amazon facilities. The Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of national labor unions that includes the Teamsters, has been at the forefront of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-says-workers-better-off-without-union-2022-4">analyzing federal workplace-safety data</a> indicating that Amazon's logistics operations injure workers at disproportionately high rates.An Amazon representative said the company is making "measurable improvements" in reducing injuries and disputed the labor coalition's methodology, saying the company's recordable injury rate declined by more than 13% from 2019 to 2021.<div type="image" title="A crowd of UPS drivers in brown uniforms" height="1042" width="1393" msid="94949993" hostid="261" sizebytes="129634"></div>The Teamsters' campaign focuses on halting the construction of Amazon warehouses and air hubs that could take jobs from UPS drivers and on slashing tax breaks local jurisdictions would otherwise offer to Amazon. Other unions, including the United Food and Commercial Workers, representing grocery-store workers, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, representing warehouse workers, have also campaigned against new Amazon facilities."We're not doing the traditional organizing way. We're making sure Amazon is being held accountable in cities and states," Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters president, told Insider. "And if they're not going to do the right thing in those communities, we're going to stop them from settling down in those communities."Labor can't stop every new Amazon facility, though it had some success upsetting Amazon's building plans in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/business/economy/amazon-newark-airport-new-jersey.html">New Jersey</a>, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8943/the-teamsters-are-coming-for-amazons-tax-breaks">Colorado, and Indiana</a>. In <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-amazon-delivery-stations/">California</a>, labor groups successfully pushed for <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpmak/san-francisco-proposes-moratorium-on-new-amazon-warehouses">moratoriums on new warehouse construction</a> that targeted Amazon specifically. And <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/amazon-faces-probe-by-federal-prosecutors-osha-into-warehouse-safety.html">federal prosecutors this summer opened investigations</a> into whether Amazon's pace of work leads to high rates of worker injuries. An Amazon representative said the company would cooperate with investigators and believes it will show the concerns are "unfounded."Meanwhile, momentum for more union votes at Amazon facilities is growing, even though union organizers have so far notched only one, tenuous election victory. Workers at a facility in <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/amazon-workers-at-california-facility-seek-to-join-upstart-union">California's Inland Empire</a> last week filed for a union vote.Racking up victories outside of union votes, Fine said, helps convince labor supporters that even in the face of Amazon's vast resources, "it's not inevitable that you're going to lose."Do you work at Amazon? Got a tip? Contact reporter Katherine Long via phone or the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-206-375-9280) or email (klong@insider.com).

Unions are using drones and secret agents to investigate Amazon's labor practices

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3581499" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Steve-Bannon">Steve Bannon</keyword>, a former Trump campaign adviser, was charged with fraud by federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday and arrested by agents from the US Postal Inspection Service.</li><li>Prosecutors charged Bannon and three others with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a private campaign to build a border wall.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/1296445655699918857">CBS News</a> and <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/former-trump-campaign-manager-steve-bannon-indicted-for-fraud-in-ny/2576990/">NBC New York</a> reported that federal agents from the Postal Inspection Service arrested Bannon aboard a boat off the coast of Westbrook, Connecticut.</li></ul>Steve Bannon, a former Trump campaign adviser, was charged with fraud by federal prosecutors and arrested by agents from the US Postal Inspection Service on Thursday.The arrest came as the Trump administration faces accusations that it's trying to undermine the Postal Service in a crucial election year.<a href="https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NY-We-Build-The-Wall-082020.pdf">Postal Inspection Service agents</a> arrested Bannon aboard a luxury mega yacht, the $28 million Lady May owned by Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, off the coast of Westbrook, Connecticut, <a href="https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-bannon-arrested-connecticut-20200820-aogsf64fr5axpheyas2xhsst7u-story.html">according to the Hartford Courant</a>. Bannon <a href="https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/1296540844766498826">pleaded not guilty</a> on Thursday afternoon and <a href="https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/1296541929572900864">will be out on a $5 million bond</a>, the terms of which include no travel abroad and no travel on private planes or yachts, like the one he was arrested on, without court approval. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands">announced on Thursday morning</a> that they had charged Bannon, Brian Kolfage, and two others with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with a multimillion-dollar campaign to raise money to build a wall on the US's southern border.Prosecutors said Kolfage and Bannon defrauded donors out of millions of dollars and used their donations to enrich themselves, funneling the money through a complicated web of shell companies and nonprofits.The US Postal Inspection Service, or USPIS, is the <a href="https://www.uspis.gov/about/what-we-do/">investigative and law-enforcement arm</a> of the Postal Service, tasked with investigating a wide range of crimes including narcotics trafficking, mail and identity theft, cybercrime, money laundering, and fraud and scams involving the mail.US attorneys' offices work with several federal investigative agencies, such as the USPIS, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, to bring federal criminal charges against defendants.Over the past few weeks, the Postal Service has been the focus of a substantial amount of attention and controversy. It's facing serious financial difficulties from a significant drop-off in mail volume because of the coronavirus pandemic. While the Postal Service, which <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/jul/24/american-postal-workers-union/postal-service-claim-not-fully-target/">doesn't take taxpayer money</a>, is expected to remain solvent through next year, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-postal-service-delay-funding-crisis-mail-election-trump-explainer-2020-8">its financial state is a long-term problem</a>.Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a shipping-and-logistics executive and GOP donor, has imposed cost-cutting measures that Democrats and critics have argued will lead to unacceptable mail-delivery delays in a crucial election year.DeJoy has asserted that the Postal Service is more than prepared to handle an influx of election mail and said it would <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/postmaster-general-will-suspend-service-changes-until-after-election-2020-8">suspend operational changes until after the election</a>, but Democrats in Congress are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-will-vote-saturday-on-bill-for-usps-2020-8">considering additional measures to shore up the agency</a>.President Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/postal-service-funding-crisis-could-harm-voting-by-mail-coronavirus-2020-4">rejected giving emergency funds or grants</a> to the cash-strapped Postal Service. In an August 13 interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo, Trump said he would reject emergency funding for the agency in a COVID-19 relief bill over his opposition to mail-in voting. He later <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walks-back-threat-block-covid-relief-over-usps-funding-2020-8">walked back his comments</a>.In addition to criticizing the US Postal Service for the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-post-office-mail-vote/2020/08/15/27a2ffd4-de5f-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html">rates it charges customers like Amazon for package delivery</a>, Trump has spread false claims that voting by mail is inherently fraudulent. In reality, <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/494189-lets-put-the-vote-by-mail-fraud-myth-to-rest">rates of fraud are extremely low</a>, and there's no evidence that expanding voting by mail <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-is-no-evidence-that-voting-by-mail-gives-one-party-an-advantage/">hurts or benefits either political party</a>.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="62795" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="TSA">TSA</keyword> is facing a staffing crunch ahead of an expected surge in summer <keyword id="6354692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Travel">travel</keyword>. </li><li>The agency is asking office workers to volunteer at airports for 45-day stints, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/06/09/tsa-checkpoints-summer-travel/">The Washington Post</a> reports. </li><li>The agency said it is "well-positioned" for the spike in <keyword id="6354691" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Air-travel">air travel</keyword>. </li></ul>As travelers return to the skies in large numbers, the <keyword id="34991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="transportation">Transportation</keyword> Security Administration is facing a staffing crunch.Ahead of an anticipated burst in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flight-attendants-are-looking-forward-to-post-covid-summer-travel-2021-6">air travel this summer</a>, the agency is taking extreme measures to ensure that airports across the country are properly staffed up with agents, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/06/09/tsa-checkpoints-summer-travel/">The Washington Post</a> reported on Wednesday. In a May 30 memo viewed by the Post, the TSA's acting administrator, Darby LaJoye, asked the agency's office employees to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-asked-its-corporate-workers-to-volunteer-at-airport-2021-6">volunteer</a> to work airport checkpoints. Volunteers would help out with lines and administrative work, but would not be able to screen passengers, the memo said. The assignments would last 45 days. "With this increase in volume, TSA must maintain operational readiness and ensure that the screening workforce is available to perform screening functions," LaJoye wrote in the memo, according to the Post.According to internal documents obtained by the Post, the TSA identified 235 airports that were short-staffed by at least 5%. Five of the country's largest hubs had 10% fewer agents than needed. In all, the agency had a 2,500-officer gap as of the beginning of June. The TSA previously said it aims to hire 6,000 employees by the end of the summer, and has already recruited about half that number in recent months, the report said. In an effort to stretch its existing human resources, the agency has shifted some part-time employees to full-time, increased overtime hours, and required some agents to work extra days each week, the Post reported. At airports that are particularly short on staff, the TSA is offering monthly bonuses of $500. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-logistics-exec-raises-8-million-startup-help-the-competition-2021-6">An exec who spent 19 years building Amazon's supply chain just raised $8 million for a startup helping retailers match Prime's delivery speed</a>A TSA spokesperson told Insider that it's normal for the agency to ramp up hiring ahead of the busy summer season and offer various incentives as part of that effort. "The Transportation Security Administration is well-positioned to meet rising traveler volumes. As in years before, the agency began a concerted recruitment effort this past winter in anticipation of increasing volumes and is on pace with established benchmarks to meet hiring goals. The agency continues to leverage established, creative recruitment strategies to meet personnel needs, including nationwide recruitment incentives and targeted retention incentives in strategic markets," the spokesperson said. The <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput">number of travelers</a> passing through TSA checkpoints each day has steadily risen in recent months as vaccines have become more available and the pandemic has receded across much of the country.The TSA is screening at least a million more travelers per day than it did at this time in 2020, but passenger volumes are still significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels. Are you a TSA or airline employee with a story to share? Contact this reporter at tlevin@insider.com.

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Hi! Welcome to the Insider <keyword id="35666" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="advertising">Advertising</keyword> daily for January 15. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/insider-advertising">Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday</a>. Send me feedback or tips at <a href="mailto:ljohnson@businessinsider.com">LJohnson@businessinsider.com</a>.Today's news: <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword> administration staffers struggle to find next jobs, a guide to hiring an <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> agency, and the <keyword id="6354777" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Media">media</keyword> free agents from <keyword id="6868021" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="WarnerMedia">WarnerMedia</keyword>.<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-anyone-hire-white-house-comms-staff-2021-1"></a></h3><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-anyone-hire-white-house-comms-staff-2021-1">Trump administration staffers are getting snubbed while hunting for jobs. One recruiter tried to place six of them and couldn't land any interviews.</a></h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-anyone-hire-white-house-comms-staff-2021-1">Departing Trump White House communications staff are getting the cold shoulder from some corners of the job market, report Claire Atkinson and Sean Czarnecki.</a></li><li>One PR recruiter has been unable to place candidates, and Trump staffers are viewed as lacking credibility.</li><li>Those who stood up to President Donald Trump might find an easier route than those who stood by him, though.</li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-anyone-hire-white-house-comms-staff-2021-1">Read the full story here.</a></h3><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-anyone-hire-white-house-comms-staff-2021-1"><div type="image" title="A delivery person pushes a cart full of Amazon boxes in New York City, U.S., February 14, 2019. 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Meet 6 leaders who have left the company and are now free agents on the job market.</a></h3><ul><li>WarnerMedia's ongoing internal shake-up means some of its key leaders who helped the company through transformational moments have exited the company and are now free agents.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/warnermedia-execs-to-hire-on-job-market-content-marketing-finance-2021-1">Ashley Rodriguez identified six respected former WarnerMedia execs on the market.</a></li><li>The list includes former WarnerMedia executives Kevin Reilly and Blair Rich.</li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/warnermedia-execs-to-hire-on-job-market-content-marketing-finance-2021-1">Read the full story here.</a></h3><h3>More stories we're reading:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/headspaces-head-of-marketing-leaves-company-for-lululemon-2021-1">Lululemon has quietly snapped up an Uber and Headspace marketing vet as it pushes into e-commerce and connected fitness</a> (Business Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ispot-acquires-ace-metrix-to-improve-tv-ad-measurement-2021-1">Tech firm iSpot is acquiring Ace Metrix to get ahead in the race to fix TV ad measurement</a> (Business Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grubhub-hires-cargill-devry-boughner-vorwer-chief-corporate-affairs-officer-2021-1">Grubhub just hired a new head of corporate affairs to help the delivery app take on Uber and DoorDash</a> (Business Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-facebook-data-signal-download-telegram-encrypted-messaging-2021-1">Signal downloads skyrocketed 4,200% after WhatsApp announced it would force users to share personal data with Facebook. It's top of both Google and Apple's app stores.</a> (Business Insider)</li><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/axios-wants-to-help-companies-write-like-its-reportersfor-10-000-a-year-or-more-11610632800">Axios wants to help companies write like its reporters-for $10,000 a year, or more</a> (Wall Street Journal)</li><li><a href="https://digiday.com/media/ecommerce-platforms-still-struggling-with-hateful-listings/">'On a learning curve here': E-commerce platforms still struggling with hateful listings</a> (Digiday)</li></ul>Thanks for reading and see you on Monday! You can reach me in the meantime at <a href="mailto:ljohnson@businessinsider.com">LJohnson@businessinsider.com</a> and <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/advertising-insider">subscribe to this daily email here</a>.

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