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☆ Meet a former potato factory worker who builds some of the world's craziest Airbnbs — from a jungle treehouse in Hawaii to a hobbit hole in Washington
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Kristie Wolfe worked $13/hour factory jobs in Idaho for years while living in a "shed on wheels." She used her savings to buy land in Hawaii off Craigslist for $8,000 and built a jungle treehouse. Since then, Wolfe has built four unique Airbnbs across the country — see photos of them all here. In an interview with Insider, Wolfe described her journey from making $13 an hour as a factory worker to becoming one of the most popular hosts on the Airbnb app. Despite the 14-hour shifts and low wages, Wolfe speaks fondly of her time working at the potato factory in Boise, Idaho.

☆ From Disney to Target to Boeing, retirement is a thing of the past for CEOs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 13: (L-R) Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, Dick Costolo, former chief executive officer of Twitter, Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, and Randall Stephenson, chief executive officer of AT&T, mingle during the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 13, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The average tenure for departing CEOs during that same time period was about 11 years, up from nine years in 2020. That's not surprising, because of the impact of the pandemic and [other] crises, where boards put CEO succession on hold," Anterasian said. "In our research, boards put CEO succession on hold during crises," Anterasian said. At Disney, Iger has said he will only stay on for two years before a successor takes over.

“You have to sample them all and analyze them all to see if they belong to victims or a suspect. The Moscow killings occurred in a three-story, six-bedroom rented house, about a half-block from the University of Idaho campus. The apartment house in Moscow, Idaho, where four students were stabbed to death held an enormous amount of biological evidence, experts say. “So, who could have left that DNA evidence? Before getting answers about DNA, investigators seek clues in the location of blood.

☆ Rupert Murdoch will be deposed in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Fox Corp . Chairman Rupert Murdoch is scheduled to appear for a deposition next week as part of Dominion Voting's defamation lawsuit against the company and its cable TV networks. In its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox, Dominion has argued that Fox News and Fox Business made false claims that its voting machines were rigged in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Earlier this year Fox's TV personalities, including Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro, appeared for depositions. Dominion has argued Fox and its top executives played a role in Fox's TV personalities spreading misinformation about voter fraud. And with the Dominion case moving closer to the trial's expected start date in April, neither side has shown signs of entering settlement talks.

☆ This graphic shows how many more stars you can see under truly dark skies vs. city, suburban, and rural areas
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Astronomers classify night skies from dark to bright using the Bortle Scale, ranked from one to nine. Light pollution is when artificial light washes out the night sky and makes it hard to see stars. While it might not be as potentially harmful as other kinds of pollution, light pollution can affect human health. Level four classifies the transition from suburban to rural areas, where you can see the Milky Way. The night sky is brimming with stars, making it harder to parse out faint constellations.

☆ A woman had to move out of her tiny home after 1 day because the city threatened to fine her $1,000 a day
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A woman is suing the city of Meridian, Idaho over its ban on living in mobile homes. Chasidy Decker bought her tiny home because she couldn't afford a traditional house. City officials told her she can't live in it legally despite her paying rent to park it in a yard. In May, a day after Decker moved in, a Meridian city code enforcement officer threatened both Decker and Calacal with criminal prosecution and fines of $1,000 a day unless she moved out, the Institute for Justice wrote in a blog post. Chasidy Decker is a 46-year-old woman who bought a 252-square feet tiny home.

☆ University of Idaho student slayings may not have been a targeted attack, police say, walking back their prior statement
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Police investigating the grisly killings of four University of Idaho students are walking back a prior statement, now saying it is not known if the residence or its occupants were "specifically targeted." Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were found fatally stabbed at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, and the killings remain a mystery. On Wednesday, the Moscow Police Department said this was a “miscommunication.”“Detectives do not currently know if the residence or any occupants were specifically targeted but continue to investigate,” police said. Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students in Moscow, Idaho. Such unclear answers may have given whoever fatally stabbed the students more time to flee, law enforcement experts say.

☆ University of Idaho Holds Vigil for Students as Killings Remain Unsolved
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Suryatapa Bhattacharya | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People attending a vigil for the four University of Idaho students who were killed last month, hold up their phones during a moment of silence on Wednesday evening in Moscow, Idaho. University of Idaho students and others gathered Wednesday evening for candlelight vigils honoring four students who were stabbed to death, as questions about the killings continue to swirl. More than two weeks ago, Ethan Chapin , 20 years old, Xana Kernodle , 20, Kaylee Goncalves , 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, were fatally attacked at an off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho. Each of the victims was likely asleep, and stabbed multiple times with a fixed-blade knife, according to police and the coroner’s report.

☆ 'Four beautiful kids': Community remembers slain University of Idaho students at vigil
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Fighting back tears, parents of slain University of Idaho students shared moments of laughter and sorrow Wednesday as students and faculty members gathered for a vigil for the four lives lost. We’re going to figure this stuff out,” Steven Goncalves, Kaylee’s father, said at the ceremony at the university in Moscow, Idaho. The unsolved killings have put some students at the university, in a city of around 25,000, and the community on edge. "That’s the only thing that’s going to heal us. That’s the only thing that’s going to heal you."

☆ Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to face questioning as part of Dominion Voting's $1.6 billion lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Corp., attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 11, 2019. Fox Corp . CEO Lachlan Murdoch is slated to appear for a deposition on Monday as the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against the company and its cable networks moves forward. Dominion's lawsuit against Fox, which is seeking $1.6 billion in damages, has argued Fox News and Fox Business made false claims its voting machines rigged the results of the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A Fox Corp. spokesman declined to comment on Thursday. Fox has previously asked the court to keep all collected materials private, claiming Dominion mischaracterized what the documents show as actual malice.

Candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 15. Now, the homicide in Moscow, Idaho, of the four University of Idaho students — friends Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 — has become a fresh mystery for internet sleuths to speculate over. Officers investigate a homicide at an apartment complex south of the University of Idaho campus. Four people were found dead at a residence near the University of Idaho, police in the city of Moscow said. Jeremy Reagan, a University of Idaho law student who lives near the crime scene in Moscow, is all too familiar with being wrongly named.

The number of same-sex couple households in the United States has surpassed 1 million for the first time, according to recently released government data. There were more than 1.2 million same-sex couple households across the country in 2021, up from 540,000 in 2008, an increase of 120%, the data, taken from the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey, showed. Approximately 710,000 (59.2%) of the same-sex couple households were married, and about 500,000 (41.7%) were unmarried. The number of married same-sex households started to outnumber unmarried same-sex households in 2016, following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling, which effectively legalized gay marriage across the U.S. Hawaii has the highest percentage of same-sex couple households of any state, at 1.4%, followed by Oregon and Delaware, both at 1.3%, the Census Bureau data reveals.

☆ Kim Kardashian gets $200,000 monthly child support settlement from Ye - media
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Though they will have joint custody of their children, ages 3, 4, 6 and 9, Kardashian will receive $200,000 a month in child support, as they will spend most of their time with her, the New York Post reported. The celebrity couple were married in 2014, and Kardashian filed for divorce last year, citing irreconcilable differences. Ye has courted controversy in recent months by publicly ending major corporate tie-ups and making outbursts on social media against other celebrities. His Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted, with the social media platforms removing some of his posts that users condemned as antisemitic. Details of their divorce settlement were reported by several media outlets, citing Los Angeles County Superior Court documents.

Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said Wednesday he was slow to come around to advertising on the streaming platform because he was too focused on digital competition from Facebook and Google . "So Google and Facebook were going to mop up the world — and they have in non-TV advertising." Advertisers were "desperate" for avenues in connected TV and internet, Hastings said, but Netflix was still on the sidelines. "We didn't have to steal away the advertising revenue. There are also free streaming services, such as Paramount's Pluto and Fox Corp.'s Tubi, which make revenue solely through advertising.

☆ I couldn't let my mom sell our family's drive-in theater, so I took over. Now I work with Universal, Warner Brothers, and Paramount to bring hit movies to the cornfields of Idaho.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

She says she never thought she'd come home to run her family's drive-in theater. Of course when you're young, you don't realize how special something like our drive-in really is. When I was younger I never imagined I'd run my family's drive-in theater one day — but I couldn't let my mom sell itMy parents had sold their indoor theaters over the years, so the drive-in was the last one my mom was still operating. With any drive-in theater, weather is the biggest determinant of turnout. The drive-in really brings the community together.

MOSCOW, Idaho — Four college students who were fatally stabbed last weekend were likely killed in their sleep and some had defensive wounds, authorities said Friday. Each of the victims was stabbed multiple times, the Moscow Police Department said in a statement, citing autopsies completed by Thursday by the Latah County coroner. There was no sign of sexual assault in the Sunday killings of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, the department said. Authorities did not receive a 911 call until 11:58 a.m., when someone reported an “unconscious person” at the home, authorities said. I mean, Just nothing.’”More than two-dozen local patrol officers and detectives are investigating the case with the help of 22 FBI investigators and 35 officers from the Idaho State Police, the Moscow Police Department release said.

☆ University of Idaho Students Were Stabbed to Death, Autopsy Confirms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The killings have rattled the community of Moscow, Idaho, a college town of about 25,000 people. Autopsies of four University of Idaho students killed in an off-campus home over the weekend confirmed they were stabbed to death in a homicide. Police continue to search for a suspect in the killings, which have rattled the community of Moscow, Idaho, a college town of about 25,000 people.

MOSCOW, Idaho — With no one apprehended in the brutal slayings of four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home, it "certainly is possible" there may be more than one suspect, a local prosecutor said Thursday. The description of the attack frustrated families of the victims and University of Idaho students who said that without a suspect in police custody, they continued to feel unsafe. In addition, a livestream from a late-night food truck appears to have recorded two of the students ordering food early Sunday. The livestream was broadcast on the platform Twitch by Grub Wandering Kitchen, which owns the food truck. This still from video appears to show two Idaho victims at a food truck before the incident.

☆ Police Continue Search for Suspect in Idaho Killings
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Suryatapa Bhattacharya | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The police chief in Moscow, Idaho, told local residents to stay vigilant and aware of their surroundings while a suspect for the killing of four students remains at large. Police said a suspect remains at large in Moscow, Idaho, three days after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. “We do not have a suspect at this time, and that individual is still out there,” Moscow Police Chief James Fry said at a news conference on Wednesday.

☆ A late-night food truck camera appeared to show 2 of the Idaho victims hours before they were found dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

MOSCOW, Idaho — A livestream from a late-night food truck appears to have recorded two college students ordering food hours before authorities found them and two others fatally stabbed at an off-campus home, video obtained Wednesday by NBC News shows. The video appears to show the University of Idaho students ordering “mac of the week” and carbonara at the food truck amid a rush of customers early Sunday. The livestream was broadcast on the platform Twitch by Grub Wandering Kitchen, which owns the food truck. Joseph Woodall, who manages the truck, said they appear to have been there between 1:30 a.m. and 1:40 a.m.A video still appears to show two of the Idaho victims at a food truck before the incident. GrubTruckersWoodall described the downtown food truck as one of Moscow’s only late-night options for hospital workers and students going to house parties or bars.

MOSCOW, Idaho — The father of one of the four slain University of Idaho students found brutally stabbed in an off-campus home is urging law enforcement and the school to provide more information, saying their silence has only added to the family’s “agony” after three days with an assailant still at large. Still, with no known suspect or motive, students and members of the community are uncertain why police have suggested there is no immediate danger. "For Ethan and his three dear friends slain in Moscow, Idaho, and all of our families, I urge officials to speak the truth, share what they know, find the assailant, and protect the greater community." Candles and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 15, 2022. The University of Idaho canceled classes on Monday and was making additional security and counseling available this week.

In the 13 races in six battleground states where an election denier was on the ballot for governor, secretary of state or attorney general, 12 lost, according to the latest NBC News projections. Arizona — along with Michigan and Alabama — was one of three states where election deniers advanced to be the GOP nominees for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, Republican Doug Mastriano — who was one of the most high-profile election deniers — lost the race for governor to Democrat Josh Shapiro. “But voters sent a very clear message that Americans deeply care about democracy and don’t want extremists running our nation’s elections.”The defeats of election deniers spanned well beyond swing states. All 14 races where election deniers won were in states that voted to elect Trump in both 2016 and 2020.

☆ Fact Check-Most Democrat wins for U.S. Senate races were called by Nov. 9; Dems did not ‘only’ win in states with mail in voting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For the midterm election on Nov. 8, there were 35 states that had Senate races. Delays were seen in Arizona and Nevada, where the Senate races were called for Democrats on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 respectively. All four projected Democrat wins for the Senate races on election night, after the polls closed. In Illinois and Maryland, known as “Solid Democratic” states, the Senate race was called on election day. Only two of 14 U.S. Senate races resulting in Democrat wins in states that allow mail-in voting were not called by Nov 9.

☆ What we know about the 4 Idaho college students found dead in an off-campus home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The killings of four University of Idaho students Sunday elicited shock and sadness on campus, in the college city of Moscow, Idaho, and beyond. Mogen planned to move to Boise after graduating this spring, family friend Jessie Frost told the Idaho Statesman newspaper. Chapin had just turned 20, and was a triplet, his parents, Stacy and Jim Chapin, told NBC affiliate KING of Seattle. “Everything we do, is all of us, together,” Stacy Chapin told the station. “I am lucky to have had her as a sister,” her sister, Jazzmin Kernodle, said in a statement.

☆ Idaho college town scared — and frustrated — after four students found dead near campus
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

MOSCOW, Idaho — In this college town mourning four students killed in a quadruple homicide, the fear and frustration are hard to miss. University of Idaho students said Tuesday they were frightened because the culprit in the attack not far from campus had not yet been caught and frustrated at what they viewed as too little information about the killings from officials. Officers on Monday investigate the deaths of four University of Idaho students at an apartment complex south of campus. So many students left that school officials canceled a vigil planned for Wednesday, according to an email from the dean of students. Candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday.

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