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☆ Susan Smith, who drowned her two children 30 years ago, is up for parole
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Juliette Arcodia | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Susan Smith, who shocked the nation 30 years ago when she rolled her car into a lake with her two children inside and watched them drown, will ask a parole board Wednesday to release her from prison. Almost 30 years ago to the day, Susan Smith made international headlines when she said she was carjacked late at night near Union, South Carolina, by a Black man. Smith, now 53, has had an eventful three decades behind bars in South Carolina, including multiple disciplinary actions. As of Monday, 471 people had written to the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services regarding Smith's hearing. Former lead prosecutor and current South Carolina State Rep. Tommy Pope is also expected to speak in opposition.

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☆ Kevin Hornburg missing from Jamestown, New York, since November 2021
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Nicolás Viñuela | Nicolás Viñuela Is An Associate Producer With Dateline Nbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

“He wouldn’t miss Thanksgiving dinner,” Susan Baldwin told Dateline about her brother, 57-year-old Kevin Hornburg. Kevin Hornburg Susan BaldwinAccording to Susan, for the prior few months, Bobby had been living in Kevin’s Jamestown, New York, apartment. Susan told Dateline that Brown was the last person to see Kevin around 4 p.m. that day. “He loves being with us.”The Hornburg family Susan BaldwinSusan says she made the 25-minute drive from her home to Jamestown on Thanksgiving morning to help look for Kevin. “Merry called and said, ‘Would you like some help?’ I said, ‘Of course I would,’” Susan told Dateline.

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☆ Warren Buffett wants his children to give away his $130 billion fortune. Does that set up a 'Succession'-style fight?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Looking at their individual organizations, the Buffett children could make for some strange charitable bedfellows once their father dies. AdvertisementWhat the Buffett children do nowSusie runs the Sherwood Foundation, which has given more than $1 billion to build equity in her native Nebraska across social justice, education, and healthcare. Howard Buffett is set to take the reins as Berkshire Hathaway non-executive chairman when his father Warren Buffett steps down. Leigh Vogel/Getty ImagesHowie, the middle Buffett, focuses his time on food security, as well as conflict mitigation and combatting human trafficking, through his Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Harold, the nonprofit expert, said the worldviews of the Buffett children should serve them well.

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☆ A boomer couple who retired early to Colombia explains their 'exit strategy' and how much they now pay in monthly expenses
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

John and Susan Pazera knew their retirement years would look a lot different if they chose to stay in California. In 2001, the couple took a three-year sabbatical and sailed down the West Coast to Central America, where they stopped in Panama. AdvertisementThey said that had they not moved abroad, early retirement would not have been a possibility. Advertisement"If we stay in the US, one of us gets really, really sick with some strange disease, and the insurance company says, 'Well, we don't cover that.' John and Susan are grateful that finances are not a concern for them as they continue to live abroad in retirement.

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☆ These 38 GOP senators just voted against protecting contraception. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe Senate failed on Wednesday to advance a bill designed to protect access to contraceptives nationwide. Just two Republican senators — Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — voted with Democrats to advance the bill. Advertisement"Do people really think that even a significant minority of the Republican conference is against access to contraception?" AdvertisementBut still — if Republicans aren't against contraception, why won't they just vote for the bill? Glenn Youngkin of Virginia vetoed a bill to protect access to contraception, arguing that it violated principles of religious freedom.

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☆ Judge scolds Trump lawyer after poorly-supported — and unsuccessful — bid to delay hush-money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An April 15 date has now been set for Trump's first criminal trial, his Manhattan hush-money case. At a pretrial hearing Monday, Trump watched as his lawyer asked for a long delay. "It's odd that we're even here," the judge told the lawyer, calling his delay bid unsupported. AdvertisementDonald Trump's lawyer asked a Manhattan judge on Monday to postpone his hush-money trial — but instead of a delay, the lawyer got a verbal drubbing. "The People went so far above and beyond what they were required to do that it's odd we're even here," Merchan told Blanche before calling a brief break in arguments.

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☆ Is the Pantyhose-as-Pants Look a Real Thing?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I thought pantyhose were dead, but now it seems as if they are being treated as the equivalent of actual pants. Are we really supposed to believe the pantyhose-instead-of-pants look I see on social media is going to be a trend? The fashion world became so attached to the End of Pantyhose that editors famously went to shows in February with bare legs and high heels, snow be damned. Then, in September 2022, Matthieu Blazy of Bottega Veneta sent a navy crew neck down his runway paired with only dark hose and heels. Just a few months later, Miuccia Prada largely tossed pants and skirts out the window in her Miu Miu show, subversively matching her librarian cardigans and beatnik polo necks with sheer hose and coordinating undies.

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☆ Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Don’t Cry for Me“I hate when people cry at funerals,” my mother said. “When should they cry?” I asked. But she cried, when she thought no one was looking, for my dead father, the love of her life, and for my brother, lost on the streets. Some mourners shed tears, despite the fact that I wrote “Don’t Cry!” on the cake, and propped a small, stern photograph of her in the blue icing. — Susan Parker

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☆ Wojcicki sisters among seven women pioneers getting their own Barbie doll
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York (CNN) Barbie isn't one to be pigeonholed into a profession just because she's a woman. She's had an impressive 200 careers on her resume — doctor, astronaut, computer engineer, CEO and even presidential candidate. Among them are the Wojcicki sisters — Susan (longtime CEO of YouTube), Anne (CEO of at-home DNA testing company 23andME) and Janet (professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco). Susan Wojcicki announced in February that was "stepping back" from her leadership role at YouTube after nearly a decade of running the video-sharing platform. She later became Google's 16th employee and has worked at the company for nearly 25 years.

☆ GOP Insider readers: Dump Trump!
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Kayla Gallagher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

Insider asked its Republican readers to send in their thoughts on Donald Trump following the GOP's dismal midterm performance. Subscribers to Insider's newsletter were asked two questions: Do you agree with the GOP insiders who blame Trump? Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Image— Joe S.I don't blame Trump per se. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images— Julia T.I think Trump, DeSantis AND the GOP are EXTREMELY dangerous for our Democracy. The Republican Party needs to get away from the extremists in the party or the Republican Party will no longer exist.

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