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☆ Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +64 min

But prison patrol dogs aren't deployed for chases; they are used inside the prison walls. Tri-State Canines training facility, Warren, OhioVirginia Department of Corrections patrol dogs are typically Belgian Malinois, Czech shepherds, or German shepherds. Department patrol dogs are trained to bite once and hold to minimize flesh tears and lacerations. Patrol dog kennels, Virginia Department of CorrectionsThe patrol dog kennels are even smaller, at 6 feet by 10. A veterinary technician who treated patrol dogs at a clinic in Lebanon, Virginia, said she was told not to touch the patrol dogs in her care without their handler present.

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But even though the scam targeted Morgan Stanley clients and the advisor admitted using a Morgan Stanley product to carry it out, the firm has fought efforts to hold it responsible. "So, effectively, Morgan Stanley is lending money to the victims of this scheme and that money then gets diverted into Shawn Good's pocket," Easley said. Morgan Stanley, which topped earnings expectations Tuesday thanks in large part to its wealth management business, declined an interview request. But more important than all of that, she said, was that he worked for Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley was among 16 firms charged, all admitting they violated federal securities laws.

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☆ How DashCon gave us one of the most important social media lessons of the 2010s
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The result was DashCon, an attempt to bring together Tumblr users from different interests and fandoms for a single event. For all its (somewhat hilarious) failures, DashCon immediately became a core parable of our social media lore. Like so many other Tumblr users, O’Neil was just a nerdy teenager with cool interests looking for other people like her. A view of the iconic DashCon ball pit at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois. She said people still send her cosplays of the infamous ball pit, almost 10 years later.

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Tokyo, Japan CNN —When Kaneko Miyuki reported her sexual assault as a seven-year-old in Japan, she remembers the police laughing at her. Kaneko is among countless Japanese women who say their experiences of sexual assault and abuse were ignored because they “didn’t fit the criteria” of a victim. The previous age of consent, at 13, had been among the lowest in the developed world. It marks a major victory for sexual assault survivors and activists, some of whom have spent decades lobbying for these changes. “Survivors of sexual assault like myself cannot even work, or go about your life – you become mentally ill, and you can’t take care of yourself,” she said.

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☆ School Shooter’s Parents Will Hand Ownership of Writings to Victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The parents of the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school in March will transfer legal ownership of the writings their child left behind to the families of roughly 100 students, providing unexpected support to those families’ efforts to prevent the release of the documents. The surprise decision, outlined in a Tennessee courtroom on Thursday, could prove crucial in an increasingly fierce legal battle over whether the writings should be made public to shed light on the shooter’s motivations or kept private to shield the victims from further pain. The lawyer for the shooter’s parents, David Raybin, did not say in court how or why they had come to the decision. But speaking to reporters, he acknowledged that it strengthened the argument that the families should be allowed to participate in a lawsuit aimed at forcing the release of the writings as a matter of public record. The parents of students at the Covenant School, along with the school itself and the adjoining church, have said the writings should never be released, citing fears of inspiring another mass shooting and further traumatizing their children.

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☆ A mortician with 500,000 TikTok followers shared videos about applying makeup on the dead to remove stigma around death: 'It's just a part of life'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Heather Taylor was a mortuary makeup artist who gained 500,000 TikTok followers by sharing her work. Taylor posted videos about going to mortuary school and how makeup is applied on the dead. She was inspired by death work after her father passed and she wasn't able to reconstruct his face. She found the death industry appealing because she always had a "dark persona" and an "attraction to darker things." Her mortuary school ended up launching an online class because of the popularity of her TikToks.

☆ 'It's not people shoplifting': Why retail is focused on organized crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

watch nowIt's been hard to get an exact read on the rise in retail theft. But this quarter's batch of retail earnings have brought the theft issue to the forefront again. Target said organized retail crime will reach $500 million more in stolen and lost merchandise this year compared with a year ago. The National Retail Federation says organized retail crime is the main reason for retail "shrink" — a mismatch between actual inventory and what is on the books — which reached $94.5 billion in 2021, an increase of almost $4 billion year over year. But shoplifting is a big part of organized crime.

☆ ‘High Desert’ Review: Patricia Arquette, Chaotic Californian
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Matt Dillon and Patricia Arquette Photo: Apple TV+‘High Desert” establishes itself right away as a feel-good series, because you feel so good that you aren’t Peggy Newman. When we meet her, federal drug agents are raiding her Thanksgiving, traumatizing the family party as her husband ( Matt Dillon ) tries to jam the evidence down the drains à la Lorraine Bracco in “Goodfellas.” A long 10 years later, Peggy is still kicking around Southern California, still trying to kick drugs, and working as an actress/re-enactor in an Old West theme park called Pioneer Town. Her mother, Rosalyn (Bernadette Peters), is dead. And she gets her way mostly because people want her to go away.

☆ I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Orna Guralnik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

They were generally deeply supportive of each other, but after she found out about his transgression, she was terribly upset and also confused. #MeToo rhetoric was woven into their discussions, functioning as a superego, shaping and inhibiting what they could even think. What did I do to just upset you?’”Couples work always goes back to the challenge of otherness. Michelle was aware of the way that Covid was devastating Black communities and wanted to be careful. In our sessions, Michelle sounded hopeless: She wanted him to understand how traumatizing Covid had been for Black people.

On Friday, that changed when the administration of President Joe Biden ended Title 42, a COVID-inspired provision that allowed the U.S. government to turn away asylum-seekers for public health reasons. At the same time Title 42 expired, the Biden administration implemented a new regulation that presumes most migrants will be ineligible for asylum if they failed to use legal pathways for U.S. entry like CBP One. "This is mostly for my children," Lupita said. Tens of thousands of migrants rushed to the border last week trying to enter the country before the new asylum rules took effect. Reporting by Daniel Trotta in Tijuana and Lizbeth Diaz in Mexico City; Editing by Mica Rosenberg and Diane CraftOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ 3 soft skills separate highly successful CEOs from most people, says workplace coach—here's how to master them
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

America has a problem, says Bonnie Low-Kramen: Many of the country's CEOs are losing their sense of humanity. Much of the problem stems from a lack of interpersonal skills, Low-Kramen says. Low-Kramen's fix, for any level of the workplace: Develop your soft skills. Three soft skills — the "three Vs" — particularly matter in today's environment, Low-Kramen says. The transparency didn't keep Hilton employees from feeling confused or unmoored at the time, but it helped provide them with a sense of stability, Low-Kramen says.

☆ A Black teen’s murder sparked a crisis over racism in British policing. Thirty years on, little has changed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Katie Polglase Sarah El Sirgany Ivana Kottasová Martin Bourke Oscar Featherstone | Katie Polglase | Sarah El Sirgany | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

His killing and the subsequent failure of the London Metropolitan Police Service to properly investigate the crime sparked a national outcry. Within days of his killing at a bus stop in southeast London, five White teens were identified as being involved. It took years of campaigning by the Lawrence family — and public support from the likes of Nelson Mandela and the national press — to get the investigation moving. While an initial investigation by then-police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission cleared the police of any wrongdoing, the Rigg family kept fighting. Matthew Brealey/CNNFinding peaceAs the Lawrence family and their supporters mark the 30th anniversary of Stephen’s killing, they are still fighting for his killers to face justice.

☆ What Walmart’s pullback from Chicago says about Corporate America’s limits
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —A line of Chicago mayors heavily courted Walmart over the last two decades, brushing aside community protests. Chains like Dollar General and Family Dollar are expanding in low-income areas, but they don’t sell fresh groceries. Walmart is closing neighborhood markets around the country, and three of the four stores closing in Chicago fall into that category. In Chicago, Walmart is closing in both low-income and high-income areas, a sign that it’s struggling across the city. But it’s the stores in low-income areas that will feel the loss most.

[1/2] A vehicle is towed from the property as community members pray while visiting a memorial at the school entrance after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 29, 2023. Security experts said the Covenant School apparently had good safety protocols. It was a grim reminder that any campus could be the target of gun violence, spurring educators around the country to review security protocols and try to reassure parents. Protective measures notwithstanding, Corcoran said the Covenant School shooting exposed how deadly such attacks can be even when school leaders "did everything right." It is not clear that hardening school security always works.

☆ The Ukraine war has killed hundreds of thousands of people. His job is to collect the bodies.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Katie Livingstone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

This could translate to tens of thousands of bodies left behind — and many years of work for the body collectors. In 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas region of Ukraine, Yukov helped start the Black Tulip mission. The retrieval process is identical for Ukrainian and Russian bodies, Yukov said. Ukrainian bodies are returned as quickly as possible to their grieving families, while Russian bodies are transferred to Ukrainian government hands so that they can be exchanged for Ukrainians in the possession of Russian forces. Denys Sosnenko, a former Ukrainian national kickboxing champion also from Sloviansk, was killed driving over a buried anti-tank mine while on a Black Tulip mission.

☆ Bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols' fatal beating will be released today. But many fear video will do more harm than good.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The police department fired the five officers, who are facing murder charges, and are expected to release video footage of the arrest on Friday evening. RowVaughn Wells, Nichols' mother, has refused to watch the video, and urged parents not to show kids the video when it's released. Video footage can be retraumatizingMembers of the Black community have similarly said they won't be watching the video of Nichols' death, and are urging the public not to share the video. Others have shared steps on limiting exposure to graphic video footage. Citizens in Memphis await the release of video footage of Tyre Nichols' death.

The maker of the popular online video game "Fortnite" has agreed to pay a record settlement to resolve charges it violated children's privacy, exposed children and teenagers to potential harassment, and duped players of all ages into making unwanted in-game purchases. The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that North Carolina-based Epic Games will pay a total of $520 million to settle allegations that it collected personal data from children without first obtaining the consent of their parent or guardian. "The video game industry is a place of fast-moving innovation, where player expectations are high and new ideas are paramount. We accepted this agreement because we want Epic to be at the forefront of consumer protection and provide the best experience for our players." According to The Wall Street Journal, Epic was most recently valued at $32 billion.

☆ Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520 million in fines in FTC settlement
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Epic Games, the developer and publisher of the video game Fornite, will pay $520 million in fines to settle with the FTC over violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Epic will pay two fines, including a $245 million fine against Fortnite's in-game store and refund systems, and another $275 million fine to address child privacy concerns. Despite the deliberate decision to market to children, the FTC said Epic failed to "cure," or address, COPPA violations. "All the while, kids have been bullied, threatened, and harassed, including sexually, through Fortnite," the FTC complaint read. Only in 2019, "long after Epic obtained empirical evidence pointing to large numbers of Fortnite players" under the age of 13, did Epic introduce an age verification system.

☆ Fortnite's creator will pay a record FTC fine over allegations it vacuumed up private data about kids playing the hit video game
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Epic Games, which created hit video game Fortnite, was hit with a record-breaking $520 million fine to the FTC. The FTC alleged that the company violated a decades-old act protecting children's privacy. The agency also accused Epic of tricking young Fortnite users into buying in-game currency. Meanwhile, in a separate complaint, the FTC alleged that Epic Games tricked Fortnite users into making unwanted purchases by using "illegal dark patterns." The FTC settlement comes shortly after a Canadian Supreme Court judge authorized a lawsuit earlier this month against Epic Games.

☆ Organized retail crime has ballooned into a $100 billion problem — and store employees are dying over it
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Organized retail crime increased by 26.5% in 2021, according to the National Retail Federation. It's organized retail crime, and it's a nearly $100 billion problem for the industry. A 2022 study the National Retail Federation conducted found that organized retail crime at retailers surged by 26.5% in 2021 compared to the year prior. Organized retail crime is not the $10,000 jewelry heist you see in the movies, Jake Stauch, the director of product for the security company Verkada, said. The rise of e-commerce has, in large part, fueled organized retail crime.

☆ U.S. Congress passes landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

It is narrowly written to act as a limited backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, known as Obergefell v. Hodges. The measure would repeal a 1996 U.S. law called the Defense of Marriage Act, which among other things denied federal benefits to same-sex couples. The Supreme Court in 1967 declared prohibitions on interracial marriage unconstitutional. But the legislation would not bar states from blocking same-sex or interracial marriages if the Supreme Court allowed them to do so. About 568,000 married same-sex couples live in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

☆ Gay marriage bill wins enough votes for U.S. House passage
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The House vote was ongoing, with a majority already voting in favor. It is narrowly written to act as a limited backstop for the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, known as Obergefell v. Hodges. The Supreme Court in 1967 declared prohibitions on interracial marriage unconstitutional. But the legislation would not bar states from blocking same-sex or interracial marriages if the Supreme Court allowed them to do so. Republican supporters hailed its affirmation of protections for religious groups who disagree with gay marriage.

☆ Mother takes Pornhub parent company to court over 'traumatizing' rape videos of her teenage son uploaded to the site
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A mother is taking MindGeek, who owns Pornhub, to court after a man was convicted of raping her son, filming the content, and uploading it to the site. Her lawyer told Insider that the videos uploaded to the site were "clearly" of a minor. In a statement to Insider, MindGeek said, "MindGeek is aware that a lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Alabama. As well as owning Pornhub, MindGeek owns a number of other adult entertainment sites, including xHamster, RedTube, and YouPorn. In December 2020, an allegation that Pornhub hosts videos depicting child pornography sparked both Visa and Mastercard to launch investigations into the site and drop ties with the company.

☆ Author Sebastian Junger on his near-death experience and the "ultimate front line"
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Martha Shade | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Sebastian Junger is used to dodging bullets in war zones, so he didn’t expect to almost die in his own driveway. It was so dire, he needed a transfusion of about 10 pints of blood right into his jugular. A near-death experienceBesides making him an advocate for blood donation, the experience also caused the affirmed atheist to question what happens after death. And there was my dead father welcoming me, and I don’t know why.”The next day, an intensive care unit nurse told Junger he had almost died. That was the experience Junger seemed to have with his dead father.

☆ Nancy Pelosi announces leadership exit after 2 decades leading House Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she is stepping aside from her leadership role. The decision comes after Republicans narrowly won the House majority. The decision comes in the wake of Republicans narrowly winning the House majority, ending Pelosi's latest two consecutive terms as Speaker. "Never had I thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House Speaker," the California Democrat, first elected in 1987, said. At 82, Pelosi has long served alongside House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, 83, and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, 82, in leadership.

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