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☆ When I quit my job, the CFO came to my house and kissed me. We've now been married for over 25 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Pauline Milner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. When I worked as an insurance agent for a brokerage, David was the CFO. A knock at the door changed everythingI liked my job, but I knew a good deal when I saw it. As he reached the door, David turned around, and his car keys slipped out of his hand.

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☆ A photographer spent years memorializing some 300 sites of fatal police shootings across America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Suyin Haynes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

110 of these images are published now in the monograph “My America;” quiet, monochromatic images of everyday sites like parking lots, rural roads and suburban sidewalks. Diana MatarMonique Deckard, 43, was shot and killed by police officers outside her apartment in Anaheim, California, on March 8, 2015. Two chairs on a sunny sidewalk in Los Angeles, California, indicate where 37-year-old Norma Guzman, 37, was shot and killed by police officers in 2015. Terence Crutcher, 40, was shot and killed by a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 16, 2016. Diana MatarClemente Najera, 38, was shot and killed by a sheriff's officer in Elsinore, California, on April 15, 2016.

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☆ TikToker Miranda Derrick says she has received death threats over 'Dancing for the Devil'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewTikTok dancer Miranda Derrick said she and her husband, James Derrick, have been sent death threats as a result of Netflix's "Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult." The controversy surrounding Derrick and Shekinah Church was originally brought to public attention when Derrick's sister, Melanie Wilking, made a viral video in 2021 claiming she lost touch with Derrick due to the church. AdvertisementShinn and Shekinah Church were placed under more scrutiny after the docuseries was released on May 29, and it rocketed straight to the top of Netflix's most-watched list. In a video posted to Instagram on Monday, Derrick said that some viewers have started sending her death threats because "Dancing for the Devil" depicted the couple negatively. In the documentary, Derrick's sister and parents claim that she abandoned them because of the church.

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☆ We went behind the scenes of a viral TikTok series in New York City that's part of a new wave of MTV-style social shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Dan Whateley | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"New media is having a moment here in New York City," Valentino told BI. Related stories"We have a development team pumping out pilots, new concepts, working new concepts," Fallen Media CEO Sol Betesh told BI. Fallen Media's production team optimizes audio and video on a noisy New York City block. Sydney Bradley/Business InsiderNew York City is a main characterFallen Media is a true New York City operation. Villalpando was recently on an episode of Fallen Media's "Bite Me," and Novi was on a recent segment of "Subway Oracle."

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☆ Trump's jury asked to re-hear the judge's 'rain metaphor' instruction — here's what that might mean
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe jury in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial had a specific request before starting deliberations on Thursday — they asked to hear again what they described in a note as the judge's "rain metaphor" instruction. It advises a jury that they can infer that it's raining — by seeing someone's wet umbrella, for example — even if they don't see the rain themselves. The "rain metaphor," as the jury note called it, is often used by judges in jury instructions. AdvertisementOn Wednesday afternoon, they asked for the judge to read back roughly a half-hour of testimony. After the judge completed his recitation of the jury instructions, two of the court stenographers re-read portions of the testimony.

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☆ Video shows man drive on sidewalk and allegedly try to hit pedestrians while yelling antisemitic slurs
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Samantha Lindell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ 18 Charged in Gang Violence That Killed Two 16-Year-Old Boys
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eighteen teenagers and young men who the authorities said belonged to street gangs were charged on Wednesday with unleashing a wave of gun violence in Brooklyn that killed two 16-year-old boys and injured 10 others over a three-year period. Some of the people charged were as young as 14 when they committed crimes that included firing guns at people, according to prosecutors. During a news conference, Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney, played a series of surveillance videos that showed young men and boys, wearing hoods or masks, opening fire on busy streets, often in broad daylight. One video showed a young couple walking with a stroller on a sidewalk just before shooting erupted. In another clip, people could be seen scattering, running into stores or ducking behind garbage cans to avoid bullets.

Persons: Eric Gonzalez Locations: Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Bedford, Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Flatbush

☆ Chile: Coldest May since 1950 grips capital region
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Santiago, Chile CNN —Bundled-up mannequins stand in the storefronts on the main shopping avenues off Santiago’s central Plaza de Armas. Thursday marked the coldest day of the year so far, with one weather station notching a frosty 30 degrees. A customer wearing a puffer jacket stands in front of a kiosk in Santiago, Chile, Friday, May 17, 2024. Esteban Felix/APA drone view shows San Cristobal hill during a season of low temperatures in Santiago, Chile, May 15, 2024. “It has natural protein and in this cold weather it gives you calories,” Salas, a nurse, said.

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☆ The iconic Mirage in Las Vegas is closing after 34 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and its instantly recognizable volcano, is soon shutting down after more than three decades in business. In addition to the volcano, the Mirage was also home to other quintessential Las Vegas features like the Siegfried and Roy’s white tigers show and a Cirque du Soleil show set to Beatles music. MGM Resorts bought the Mirage from Wynn in 2000 and sold it in 2022 for more than $1 billion to Hard Rock International. It’s the second time Hard Rock will have a presence in Las Vegas, with the brand previously owning the now-Virgin Hotel off the Strip. The Hard Rock said it will pay more than $80 million in severance.

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☆ Inside the life and career of Larry Page, Google's co-founder and first CEO
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

AdvertisementSo who is Larry Page and how did he get to where he is today? AdvertisementPage and Sergey Brin create GoogleGoogle co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met as students at Stanford. Google's parent company, Alphabet, has developed self-driving cars through Waymo, the company formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car project. Page's personal lifeGoogle cofounder Larry Page and his wife, the scientist Lucinda Southworth C Flanigan/FilmMagicThroughout it all, Page has kept information about his personal life closely guarded. Life after GoogleGoogle cofounder Larry Page bought Cayo Norte, an island in Puerto Rico.

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☆ Breastfeeding in public used to fill me with anxiety. A kind stranger changed my perspective
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I was proud to be a mom and loved feeding my daughter, so why was I acting so ashamed? I hadn’t brought my nursing cover, the tasteful shawl I made a point of wearing while feeding her in public. And besides, I was proud to be a mom and loved feeding my daughter, so why was I acting so ashamed? And once I started breastfeeding in public myself, most people didn’t really notice — or at least, they acted like they didn’t. But once she reached our stretch of the sidewalk, this stranger didn’t ask any of those questions.

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☆ The Battle for The Streets of New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

New York City streets and sidewalks have always been crowded, but it’s never been like this. But lately, New York City streets are teetering between lively and unlivable. Karsten Moran for The New York Times“I think this could be the catalyst for a streets renaissance in New York,” Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City’s former transportation commissioner, said in a recent interview. New York City’s population reached 8.8 million in 2020, and the New York region is now home to nearly 19 million people. Use this form to tell us what you think about the state of New York City’s streets.

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☆ Man Charged in Bronx Sexual Assault Partly Captured on Disturbing Video
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The video captures a disturbing sequence: A woman can be seen walking along a sidewalk in the Bronx on an early May morning, when a man, his face covered, approaches from behind. The scenes captured on the video sowed fear among many residents of the South Bronx. On Saturday, the police said they had arrested a man — Kashaan Parks, 39, also of the Bronx — in connection with the assault. Parks had been arrested two other times: Once in 2018 for domestic assault, and in 2013 for theft of service in the transit system. The woman, who was not named, went to Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx after the attack.

Persons: Kashaan, Parks, Joseph Kenny Organizations: Parks, 152nd, Lincoln Hospital, Police Department Locations: Bronx, Kashaan Parks, South Bronx

Orleck and Tamari are among at least 50 professors arrested at campus protests across the country, according to a CNN review of police records, court filings, and news reports. (Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.) Officials from several universities where professors were arrested in connection with recent protests declined to comment on individual cases. All the professors, Blair said, were “expecting to get arrested.” Though Blair himself was not arrested, at least four other UCLA professors were that day. “I want to say some of my colleagues, particularly at Emory and Washington University, were treated much more brutally.

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☆ Can Philadelphia Fix One of the Most Drug-Plagued Neighborhoods in the Country?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Campbell Robertson | Rachel Wisniewski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The vow was unequivocal: The city of Philadelphia was finally going to root out the drug trade that has long monopolized the streets of Kensington. Antonio Alvarez, 58, surrounded by grandchildren on his porch, believed the drug market would go quiet, temporarily, and then return as it always had. Harris Steinberg, 57, standing at the counter of his auto parts shop, said that everything along Kensington Avenue — the tents, dealers and stray needles — was already moving to the neighborhood’s back streets. But, she said, she was stuck on a waiting list for a shelter bed. No one except the drug dealers said that they were happy with how things were in Kensington, one of the most sprawling areas of open drug use and dealing on the East Coast.

Persons: Antonio Alvarez, Harris Steinberg, — Locations: Philadelphia, Kensington, Elizabeth, East

☆ Man Behind California Forever, Silicon Valley's City of the Future
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Hugh Langley | Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

He sees California Forever. And if he can't undo the damage, there may never be a California Forever. California Forever may be a subdivision, but it's precisely the kind of subdivision America needs right now. But here's the thing: California Forever may be a subdivision, but it's precisely the kind of subdivision America needs right now. Places like California Forever aren't being opposed by the people who are desperate for a place to live.

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One of the people arrested at Columbia University this week was a middle-aged saxophonist who headed up to the campus from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment after learning about the protests on social media. A third had been active in other left-leaning protests across the city but also happened to work as a nanny nearby. She went to the university gates on Tuesday and linked arms with other protesters in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the advancing officers, she said. After pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied a building on Columbia’s campus this week, demanding that the university end all financial ties with Israel, the New York Police Department moved in and arrested more than 100 people there. Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders have accused so-called outside agitators — professional organizers with no ties to the university — of hijacking a peaceful student protest and spurring its participants to adopt ever more aggressive tactics.

Persons: Eric Adams, — Organizations: Columbia University, New York Police Department Locations: Israel

☆ Chinese Scientist Who Shared Covid Sequence Protests Lab Closure
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Keith Bradsher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A well-known Chinese scientist who defied a Chinese government gag order by being the first to disclose the genome of the Covid virus to a global database four years ago held a rare protest this week in Shanghai after being locked out of his lab. The scientist, Zhang Yongzhen, had run a laboratory in Shanghai since 2018, but found over the weekend that the facility had been sealed off with one of his colleagues locked inside, according to a Chinese news outlet. Dr. Zhang’s key card had been canceled and the elevators had been turned off. On Sunday evening, he began sleeping outdoors on flattened cardboard in front of locked blue doors at the sidewalk entrance to the lab, photos posted online by students showed. At least five security guards could be seen in one of the photos.

Persons: Zhang Yongzhen, Zhang’s, “, ” Locations: Shanghai, Shandong Province

☆ A Mysterious Flier, a Tiny Charity and a Disinformation Campaign at the Border
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Ken Bensinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The two men rang the bell at the Resource Center Matamoros, a migrant aid group in the Mexican border city, and, speaking in broken Spanish, said they were looking for volunteer work. Security footage shared with The New York Times shows the pair standing on the sidewalk in shorts and flip flops as they talked via speakerphone with Gaby Zavala, the center’s founder. After about half an hour, they left. Ms. Zavala didn’t know it yet, but the men were not volunteers. They were provocateurs building an online following with hidden camera exposés and ambushes that claim to uncover abuse and election fraud in the American immigration system.

Persons: Gaby Zavala, Zavala didn’t Organizations: Resource Center, The New York Times Locations: Resource Center Matamoros, Mexican

Has South Africa Truly Defeated Apartheid? U.S.A., 2020 – 63% U.K., 2019 – 62% 60% 49% 40% 20% 1994 2004 2014 2019 Sources: Collette Schulz-Herzenberg, "The South African non-voter: An analysis"; Konrad Adenaur Stiftung, 2020 (South Africa); Pew Research (United States and U.K.)On a continent where coups, autocrats and flawed elections have become common, South Africa is a widely admired exception. −4% −6% Sources: Harvard Growth Lab analysis of World Economic Outlook (South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa) and World Development Indicators (upper-middle-income countries). 50% unemployment rate 40% Black unemployment rate 30% The unemployment gap between Black and white South Africans remains wide. In 2022, about 6 percent of South Africans aged 18 to 29 were enrolled in higher education, according to Statistics South Africa.

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☆ Middle East Crisis Israel Will Expand Civilian ‘Safe Zone’ if It Invades Crowded Gazan City, Official Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Adam Rasgon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Palestinians who have sought shelter in Rafah have been bracing for an Israeli incursion for months, huddling in crowded tents, schools and apartments. Israeli officials have repeatedly said that the army will enter Rafah to fight Hamas battalions there, bucking international pressure to back off any operation. It was unclear how much Israel would expand Al-Mawasi but the area is already packed with people. Imagery taken on Thursday shows more than 100 tents in the area, while imagery captured on Sunday shows more than 400 in the complex. The Biden administration has repeatedly urged Israel to hold off on a major military assault on Rafah, including in a virtual meeting last week.

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☆ Opinion: Why gardens and poems rhyme
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

This year, particularly, I’ve been meditating on the fact that gardens and poems share critical, linked invitations. And because even as the planet warms, gardens and poems help cool us off, practically and emotionally. I don’t think I’m overstating the case to say that time spent with poems and gardens build pathways that actually repair us. In their own small plots, poems build diverse networks as well: Sinking into the rhythms and pleasures of literature stimulates the parts of our brains attuned to empathy, helping us build attention, kindness, compassion, regard. Gardens and poems invite that kind of dwelling.

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☆ Shoplifting's biggest enablers might be the retailers themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Alex Bitter | Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But Walmart, Target, and other chains's own policies and practices could be worsening the problem. From conflicting policies to understaffing, retailers can make it hard for workers to prevent theft. That's because major retailers, including Walmart, Target, and others, have policies that sometimes prevent their own staff from addressing shoplifting at their stores, current and former employees told Business Insider. Among the report's recommendations for retailers: Hire enough employees at stores, and make sure they aren't constantly overworked. Do you work at Walmart, Target, or another major retailer and have a story idea to share?

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☆ Iranian currency plunges to record low against dollar after strikes on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Two men are holding Iranian banknotes on a sidewalk in Tehran's business district, in Tehran, Iran, on April 13, 2024. Iran's currency, the rial, briefly plunged to a record low against the dollar on the unofficial market, after Tehran launched an expansive missile and drone attack on Israel on Saturday night, exacerbating tensions in the Middle East. The exchange rate was at 705,000 rials / USD on the open market around 10:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, according to data from foreign exchange monitoring site Bonbast. The government set an official exchange rate of 42,000 rials / USD in 2018. The development marked the first instance of a direct attack on Israel from Iranian territory, and Tehran now runs the risk of being hit with further trade and diplomatic restrictions.

Persons: Joe Biden, Iran's rial, Donald Trump's, Biden Organizations: Israel, . Security Locations: Tehran, Iran, Israel, Damascus, U.S

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