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☆ Man City have 'the mental strength' in home stretch, says Guardiola
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 2 (Reuters) - Manchester City have the mental strength to endure their packed schedule in the final stretch of the season as they target a possible treble of trophies, manager Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday. Everything is here, the mental strength, the best period we can live and we are not tired. I'm pretty sure he'll score more in the Premier League before the end of the season," Guardiola added. It is a surprise for us, but maybe not for him to do what he's done in this difficult league. Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Real-estate investor Anne Curry has built a 311-unit portfolio since obtaining her first rental property in 1997. She shares the no-money-down strategy she used to scale up— and how she eventually wor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Anne Curry started her real-estate investing journey in 1997. She laid out for Insider in detail the method she used to scale up, starting with hard-money lenders. By the time they were ready to move out, the property had just about doubled in value to $124,000, Curry said. According to property tax documents viewed by Insider, she now owns a 59-unit property, a 30-unit property, an 14-unit property, and two 12-unit properties, as well as several smaller multifamily properties. Curry said the property was a good deal because big commercial real-estate investing firms weren't interested because it was considered affordable housing.

☆ Leaked org chart shows the 15 most important leaders in Google's AI division as it races to catch Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Central to those efforts is its Research and AI group, led by senior vice president Jeff Dean. An internal org chart seen by Insider shows the 14 other leaders under Dean who drive Google's efforts to catch the sudden success of OpenAI. Jeff Dean, senior vice president, Google AI Thomas Samson/Getty ImagesReporting directly to Dean is Eli Collins, a VP leading work on Google's ChatGPT competitor, Bard. Collins also works on AI Test Kitchen, an app that gives select users access to some of Google's latest AI demos. Jay Yagnik, VP of research, oversees the biggest number of employees within Dean's organization.

☆ Michigan Attorney General Nessel says she and other Jewish officials were targeted for murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

EAST LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 16: U.S. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks at a campaign rally held by U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) designed to get Michigan State University students, faculty and staff out to the polls on October 16, 2022 in East Lansing, Michigan. The race between Congresswoman Slotkin and Michigan State Senator Tom Barrett for Michigan's newly configured 7th Congressional District is one of the two most expensive U.S. House campaigns in the country. In her tweet, Nessel wrote: "The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter." "Probable cause exists that [Carpenter] made threats to cause injury and death to Jewish members of the Michigan government," an FBI agent wrote in a complaint against Carpenter. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday that the FBI told her that she was among the group of Jewish state elected officials targeted for murder by a "heavily armed defendant" who has been arrested.

☆ Who is Matthew Kacsmaryk, the Trump-appointed Texas judge who could ban abortion pills?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Matthew Kacsmaryk is a Texas federal judge who was nominated by Donald Trump in 2017. Kacsmaryk graduated from Abilene Christian University in 1999 and received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 2003. The Post reported that it was during law school when Kacsmaryk focused on abortion rights. Kacsmaryk also served as the executive editor of the Texas Review of Law & Politics and received two Dean's Achievement Awards, according to the questionnaire. During his undergraduate years, studying political science, Kacsmaryk was outspoken about his conservative views and stances on abortion.

☆ Former Texas officer sentenced for killing Black woman in her home
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 20 (Reuters) - A former Texas police officer was sentenced to over 11 years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and killing a Black woman in her home in 2019. Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer, was sentenced in a Tarrant County court to 11 years, 10 months in prison, a court clerk said. Dean and his partner had gone to Jefferson's home after a concerned neighbor called police to say her front door was open. Jefferson's death took place about seven months before the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for over eight minutes. Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Former Texas officer found guilty in 2019 death of Black woman
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 15 (Reuters) - A former Texas police officer was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the death of a Black woman who was killed when he shot her through a window of her home in October 2019, prosecutors said. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was shot dead by Aaron Dean, a white Fort Worth officer, while standing in her home with a handgun after hearing noises outside. Jefferson's death took place about seven months before the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for over eight minutes. Fort Worth Police Department had said in 2019 that Dean violated a series of police policies. "Today's guilty verdict is one small step to delivering justice for Atatiana Jefferson and her family," U.S. Representative Marc Veasey from Texas said in a statement.

☆ Former officer Aaron Dean found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Daniella Silva | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean attends the first day of his murder trial on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in Fort Worth. Dean fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in 2019 during a police call at her home. Aaron Dean, a white Fort Worth police officer, fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who had been playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew before she was shot. During his testimony, Dean said that after he shot Jefferson, he was briefly blinded by muzzle flash. Prosecutors have also argued that Dean shot Jefferson "not a second" after shouting for her to put up her hands, without giving her time to process and follow his commands.

☆ I called out my aunt, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, after she made a homophobic speech in tears. Since surviving conversion therapy, I want people to know they don't have to accept the hateful rhetoric of thos
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Andrew Hartzler spent years in conversion therapy and attended a religious institution. He called out his aunt, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, after she spoke out against the Respect for Marriage Act. During my second year of college, however, my perspective changed when I came across a HuffPost article that revealed my aunt hosted a conversion therapy group at the US Capitol in 2019. Attending a religious university and experiencing conversion therapy led me to a life of advocating for LGBTQ peopleThe first time I went to conversion therapy, I was 14 going on 15. Conversion therapy makes you feel like you're using 50% of your mind to hide a fundamental part of who you are, and you're told to hate that part of yourself.

Officer Carol Darch and Dean had been responding to a call at Jefferson’s home when Dean, who is white, fatally shot Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew. Darch said Dean took the lead as they approached the house and moved toward Jefferson’s backyard. According to police and body camera footage, Dean failed to identify himself before firing his weapon and striking Jefferson. Aaron Dean arrives to the 396th District Court in Fort Worth on Dec. 5, 2022, in Fort Worth, Texas, for the first day of his trial in the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean, who resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department before his arrest, was indicted by a Texas grand jury in December 2019 on a murder charge.

Aaron Dean, a white former Fort Worth police officer, is on trial in the 2019 killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew. Dean fatally shot Jefferson after a concerned neighbor noticed a door had been left ajar and called a nonemergency police line. During opening arguments, prosecutors said Dean shot Jefferson through the window into her chest “not a second” after shouting, “Put your hands up! At issue in the trial is whether Dean saw Jefferson's gun and whether he believed it was pointed at him. Jefferson's death echoes that of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot by police in March 2020 in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment.

☆ Jan. 6 defendant spared prison after judge finds his Asperger's Syndrome played a part in him joining the riot
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A January 6 defendant who broke two windows in the Capitol was spared prison on Wednesday. A federal judge sentenced Nicholas Rodean to home confinement instead, Politico reported. The judge said that Rodean's Asperger's Syndrome influenced him to join other rioters that day. But on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Trevor McFadden sentenced him to 240 days of home confinement instead, saying that his Asperger's Syndrome made him "particularly susceptible" to the influences that day, Politico reported. "I am really sorry about breaking the window," Rodean told McFadden, according to Politico.

☆ Fortnite developer Epic Games just backed a $30 million round into Hadean, a startup that wants to fix the metaverse's infrastructure problems
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hadean aims to give the metaverse scale, security and interoperability with distributed computing. Check out the 28-slide pitch deck used to raise over $30 million from investors including Epic Games. A British deeptech startup that aims to make building apps for the metaverse cheaper and more efficient has raised over $30 million in a round backed by Fortnite developer Epic Games. "When we think about those ideal virtual worlds they are unbounded, at a huge universe level scale, that scale today is extremely limited," she said. "These symbiotic physical virtual worlds – we imagine moving between them seamlessly but that interoperability doesn't exist today."

☆ Maren Morris may not attend the CMA Awards after social media dispute with Jason Aldean's wife
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Megan Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

(CNN) Country music star Maren Morris is nominated for album of the year at the upcoming CMA Awards, but right now she wouldn't feel "comfortable" attending the November ceremony. "I'm very honored that my record is nominated," Morris said of her CMA nomination. But as of right now, I don't feel comfortable going." Morris described feeling a need to stand against bigotry in the country music community. "I hate feeling like I need to be the hall monitor of treating people like human beings in country music," Morris told the publication.

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