U.S.Associated PressVirginia Tech player indicted in Tinder date's beating death
A suspended Virginia Tech linebacker accused in the fatal beating of a Tinder match has been indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. Isimemen Etute, 18, who is accused in the death of 40-year-old Jerry Smith in May, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday, The Roanoke Times reported. Etute said he visited Smith's apartment in April after he was matched with someone named “Angie” on Tinder, and returned on May 31 to determine whether his match was male or female, attorneys and witnesses said at earlier hearings.
PoliticsHuffPostDonald Trump Jr.’s ‘Sick’ Stunt Earns Him Scathing New Nickname From New York Daily News
The New York Daily News slammed Donald Trump Jr. as the “SPAWN OF HATIN'” on its front page Tuesday. The tabloid ripped ex-President Donald Trump's eldest son for hawking shirts mocking actor Alec Baldwin over the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot with what Baldwin was told was an unloaded prop gun on the set of his new movie “Rust” last week.
U.S.AxiosTurning the page on Georgia's Stone Mountain
The state board that oversees Stone Mountain Park, the 3,200-acre park that glorifies the Confederacy and Antebellum South, has selected an entity — the only company to bid — to manage Georgia's most visited attraction. Why it matters: Stone Mountain has zero connection to the Civil War — no battles were fought there. The monadnock's mountaintop was the site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, and activists, residents, and visitors have called for the massive tribute to Confederate generals and white-washing of history to be removed.
U.S.Associated PressWoman in Thailand's high-rise cuts rope holding painters
A resident of a high-rise condominium in Thailand cut the support rope for two painters, apparently angry she wasn't told they would be doing work, and left them hanging above the 26th floor until a couple rescued them, police said Wednesday. The woman is facing attempted murder and property destruction charges, Pol. Col. Pongjak Preechakarunpong, chief of the Pak Kret police station north of the Thai capital, told The Associated Press.
BusinessMarketWatchElon Musk slams billionaire tax: ‘Eventually, they run out of other people’s money and then they come for you’
Elon Musk is among those finding fault with a proposed new annual tax on billionaires' unrealized capital gains, with the world's richest man agreeing with the view that this type of tax eventually would hit others as well. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX tweeted his critique of a proposal from congressional Democrats in response to another Twitter user's suggestion that “any new unrealized capital gains taxes will slowly make their way down to middle class retirement investments over the next several years.”
U.S.Fort Worth Star-TelegramMan opens fire at trail ride party — leaving 25-year-old ‘cowboy’ dead, TX sheriff says
A man was shot and run over by a car Saturday at a huge horseback trail riding party in Texas, and a suspect is now in custody, investigators announced Tuesday. According to the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, 24-year-old Deotis Gray was arrested on a charge of murder, after he allegedly opened fire at the party outside Waco with an AK-47 rifle, KXXV reported. Scotty Stephens, 25, was killed.
U.S.ReutersSlavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing
A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen's arrest under a Civil War-era law that was later repealed amid an uproar over the shooting. When the fatal encounter occurred on Feb. 23, 2020, it was legal in Georgia for people to arrest someone where they had "reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion" that the person had just committed a felony. Legal observers say prosecutors will seek to convince the jury that there was no felony over which to arrest Arbery, 25, and that the three men lacked the "reasonable and probable suspicion" required under the old citizen's arrest law.
U.S.Fox News‘Rust’ film armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed faces eviction from Arizona landlady: ‘I want her out’
Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the set of "Rust" where the cinematographer was accidentally shot and killed last week, may need to look for a new home. The "Rust" armorer's landlady revealed on Tuesday she's kicking out the 24-year-old because she "doesn't want her living there anymore." Reed's home in Bullhead City, Arizona, is a two-bedroom property close to the Colorado River.
U.S.Washington ExaminerTom Cotton swipes at Garland: ‘Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court’
In a tense exchange Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Tom Cotton told Attorney General Merrick Garland, “Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.” The remark was a swipe at Garland, who was nominated to serve on the Supreme Court by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. At the time, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who was then the majority leader, declined to confirm him, arguing that such a confirmation should not take place in an election year.
ScienceReutersHarvard's modern-day Darwin warns against humanity's downward slope
The Harvard University scientist who has called for setting aside half the planet as a nature preserve says the slope of human history will always be downward unless there is global cooperation to save existing species. Edward O. Wilson, a 92-year old naturalist hailed as the Darwin of the 21st century, said humankind is not too polarized to save the planet, even as some of the world's biggest polluters drag their feet on cutting carbon emissions and arresting global warming. He sees preventing catastrophic climate change -- the aim of U.N. climate talks starting in Scotland on Sunday -- and saving biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in the world, as two initiatives that must happen together.
U.S.Business InsiderLos Angeles is launching the US' biggest universal basic income pilot. The scheme will pay $1,000 a month to 3,000 families.
Los Angeles is launching a universal-basic income (UBI) pilot program with $1,000 monthly payments. Around 3,000 families will get the money for a year, and there are no rules for how they spend it. A council member said it would be the largest UBI program in the US' history.
U.S.INSIDERParents sue officials over ruling that their daughter's death by more than 20 stab wounds was a suicide
The parents of a woman who died with more then 20 stab wounds are challenging a ruling of suicide. Police said Ellen Greenberg was alone in her locked home, with no evidence of a struggle. The parents of a woman found dead with more than 20 stab wounds are suing the medical examiner's office over its declaration that she died by suicide, according to multiple reports.
BusinessYahoo FinanceTruckers, port workers vent as supply chain frustration mounts: 'A lot of us are willing to work'
The great global supply chain crisis of 2021 — which has ensnared groceries, holiday shopping and everything in between — has bottlenecked West Coast ports, and drawn the involvement of the White House to address it. As the disruption reaches a boiling point and adds to rising price pressures, longshoremen, union representatives and truck drivers have pointed fingers over which party is best positioned to alleviate some of the strains. Cargo ships afloat in the Pacific Ocean demonstrate the convergence of strong consumer demand, and a widespread shortage of bodies to meet it.
PoliticsBarrons.comDemocrats Are Considering Several Significant Tax Hikes. Here’s the List.
Here is a look at tax increases that have been proposed and where they stand now: Minimum corporate tax On Tuesday, Senate Democrats proposed a 15% minimum tax rate on the income of corporations that make $1 billion or more annually for three consecutive years. The proposal, an alternative to raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 26.5%, has the support of Sinema, who has opposed any increase. Tax on unrealized capital gains of billionaires Lawmakers have also proposed taxing unrealized gains of the wealthiest taxpayers.
U.S.BuzzFeedPeople Are Tweeting Things Boomers And Millennials Love Saying, And They Are Funny Because They're True
We're back and better than ever with a new round of millennials vs. boomers.
U.S.In The Know by YahooWoman calls out husband over his ‘selfish’ lie about their marriage: ‘Why are you with this man?’
A woman was stunned when her husband threw her under the bus to impress his co-workers. She consulted Reddit's “Am I the A******” forum for help. Per her story: her husband always shows up late for work because he refuses to wake up.
ScienceBBCNeutrino result heralds new chapter in physics
The search failed to find the particle, known as the sterile neutrino. This will now direct physicists towards even more interesting theories to help explain how the Universe came to be. Prof Mark Thomson, the executive chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the UK's contribution to the Microboone experiment, described the result as ''pretty exciting''.
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Santa Fe police say 'live' round was in gun that killed Halyna Hutchins
At a press conference held on Wednesday, the Santa Fe Sheriff's Department and Santa Fe County District Attorney said the gun that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins contained a “live” bullet.
U.S.Associated PressNorth Dakota man enters Alford plea in killing of girl, 14
A North Dakota man entered an Alford plea in the death of a 14-year-old girl who authorities said was strangled and stabbed more than 20 times in a random attack outside a store in June. Arthur Kollie, 22, entered the plea Monday in the death of Jupiter Paulsen. Charging documents say a sanitation worker saw Kollie attack the girl the morning of June 4 outside a Party City store in Fargo.
BusinessNextSharkTrans activist's anti-Asian tweets resurface after Netflix walkout against Dave Chapelle special
Old tweets from a transgender activist who led the Netflix walkout following the Dave Chapelle comedy special “The Closer” have gone viral for expressing racist, anti-Asian sentiments. Background: The Netflix special drew heavy criticism for Chapelle's allegedly transphobic comments. According to Bloomberg, employees raised concerns that several of his jokes about gender-neutral pronouns and transgender anatomy was offensive and hurtful and felt disappointed that Netflix “continues to release programming with transphobic sentiments.”
U.S.Washington ExaminerFelony charge against Pennsylvania man who underpaid for Mountain Dew dropped
A Pennsylvania man who underpaid an Exxon gas station for a soda will not be locked up, a de-escalation of a heated incident worth less than 50 cents. Joseph Sobolewski, who was $0.43 short when paying for a Mountain Dew at a gas station in August, received a letter from his attorney on Monday notifying him his theft charge had been dropped. While his bond still remains at $50,000, he no longer faces up to seven years behind bars, according to PennLive.
BusinessReutersShares dive in blank-check company linked to Trump social venture
(Reuters) -Shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp, the blank-check company that plans to publicly list former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media venture, lost almost a third of their value on Tuesday, a second straight daily decline after a steep rally last week. The stock closed down 29.6% at $59.07 with its price swinging wildly between $55.50 and $91.35 during the session. The pullback followed a 845% rally last week after the company was linked publicly to Trump for the first time.
PoliticsHuffPostFox News's 'Craziest Trump Lie Yet' Revealed In 'Late Show' Segment
Neither Trump nor Biden have been especially fond of spending weekends at the White House. A new CNN analysis found that Biden spent all or part of 108 of his first 276 days in office away from the White House (including partial days, such as when he was in the White House on Friday but left for Delaware in the evening). Most of those days away were on weekends.
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96-year-old German woman tried for atrocities at WWII Nazi camp
In Germany, a 96-year-old woman is facing charges of accessory to the systematic murder of more than 11,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp where she served as secretary. Charlie D'Agata is at the courthouse and highlights how this case reflects a race against time in the hunt for justice, as both eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and those responsible for it succumb to old age.
WorldAssociated PressIn Haiti, the difficult relationship of gangs and business
Mevs and others dismiss nearly everything Barbecue says as posturing -- especially his claims that he is not corrupt but an enemy of corruption. He has been accused -- by the United Nations and other international organizations -- of participation in three massacres between 2018 and 2020. The bloodbaths, said to have been sponsored by high-ranking officials in the Moïse administration, left more than 200 people dead.
“Covid-19 placed systemic problems in sharp relief … What was a raw deal before became, for many, untenable.”
“It’s now going to be a workers’ market, and they’re empowered. I think they are starting to flex their collective muscle.”
“The Great Resignation is not a mad dash away from the office; it’s the culmination of a long march toward freedom.”
“Everybody, particularly if they are young and have a low income, has more freedom to quit jobs they hate and hop to something else.”
“The boost we’ve seen over the last several months could be the result of more than a year’s worth of pent-up resignations.”