I provide security for rich people on vacation. As a former Navy SEAL, I'm trained to do just about anything my clients need.

Mike (not his real name), 40, is a former Navy SEAL whose company provides security for wealthy clients' vacations. Mike's team inspects ports and yachts, finds secure restaurants, and runs background checks on local staff. Here's what his job is like, as told to freelance writer Claire Turrell.

Oregon High School Janitor Stockpiled Weapons for Mass Shooting: Cops

A janitor at an Oregon high school was prepared to gun down students and teachers at the school where he worked and made detailed plans for the shooting spree, local police said Thursday. Kristopher Clay, the 24-year-old janitor for South Medford High School, surrendered to the Medford police department on July 20, allegedly confessing to officers he had “homicidal thoughts.” Budreau said Clay had mentioned his plans and his homicidal intentions to other people who did not take him seriously and did not report him to the authorities.

Ted Cruz, in a Captain Morgan pose, once reportedly finished 3 beers 'in a matter of minutes' on Joe Manchin's houseboat

For example, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), while resting one foot atop a chair à la Captain Morgan, is reported to have once downed three beers "in a matter of minutes" while fraternizing with former senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, one of his "most liberal colleagues," per The Washington Post. Said former senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who was apparently awe-struck watching the moment: "[Cruz] was drinking those beers like water." And on the party deck punctuated by wrought-iron chairs and tables with umbrellas, colleagues who clash on the hill are seen sharing pizza and pasta platters, sipping on moonshine, and singing and dancing to music like "SOB" by Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, a re...

Rupert Murdoch hates Trump, but can't stop Trumpism on Fox News because he's lost control of the network, Murdoch biographer says in The 600-Word Interview

Your book makes it clear that Rupert Murdoch despises Donald Trump. This is surprising given how much his network, Fox News, helps the former president. Why does he allow that to continue?

Police arrest a woman in China who they say used her medical-technology company as a front for buying and selling babies

The head of a medical company in China is accused of running a child-trafficking business. A medical tech company in east China is under investigation on suspicion that it's a front for an illegal baby-trafficking business, the city of Weifang's Public Security Bureau said. Local police arrested the company's head on Monday after anti-trafficking advocate Shangguan Zhengyi conducted a sting operation with the help of Xia Ruchu from The Paper, a Shanghai news outlet.

Scientists fear a critical Atlantic Ocean system might collapse, triggering 'extreme cold' and sea level rise

Scientists are worried the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a "critical aquatic conveyer belt" that drives currents in the Atlantic Ocean, is at risk of near-complete collapse due to climate change, The Washington Post reports. A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could "bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, and disrupt seasonal monsoons that provide water to much of the world," the Post reports. "The mere possibility that the AMOC tipping point is close should be enough for us to take countermeasures," warns Levke Caesar, a climate physicist at Maynooth University.

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  Major Atlantic Ocean current system may be approaching ‘critical tipping point’

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  Climate Change Could Shut Down A Vital Ocean Current, Study Finds

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Jimmy Graham is ‘confused’ by NFL rule after he was ‘basically forced’ to get COVID-19 vaccine

Chicago Bears tight end Jimmy Graham expressed frustration over a National Football League policy that would require players who use or enter team facilities to get tested for the coronavirus every day. Graham shared a picture of the policy, which was announced by the NFL Player's Association on Wednesday, saying he was “basically forced into getting the vaccine.” The league is looking to follow the same coronavirus-related restrictions it imposed in 2020 to keep players, teams, and staff members safe, according to the statement.

Israel vaccinated fast and looked like it had beaten COVID-19. It just brought back a swathe of restrictions amid a Delta surge.

Daily new cases rose to 3,260 on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel - the country's highest level of new cases since March. Ministers on Tuesday approved rules that require mask-wearing at outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people. Close contact such as hugging and kissing and indoor socializing is discouraged, the paper reported.

Texas High School Principal Sees Racism in Calls to Remove Intimate Photos

In June 2019, shortly after James Whitfield, a Black educator, was hired as the principal of a middle school in Colleyville, Texas, an administrator with the school district called and asked him to take down photos on Facebook that showed him and his wife, who is white, embracing intimately on a beach. Puzzled why someone had dug up 10-year-old images of the couple celebrating their anniversary in Mexico, Whitfield nonetheless complied by changing the settings to “Only Me.” But the photos have now resurfaced amid a controversy over racism that erupted in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District after Whitfield on Saturday wrote a Facebook post about the request. When Whitfield, 43, asked in 2019 what was wrong with the photos, “The response was 'nothing,'” he recalled in an interview Wednesday.

An Ohio family accidentally threw out $25,000 while cleaning their grandmother's home but miraculously managed to recover it

A family in Lorain County, Ohio, accidentally binned $25,000 in cash while cleaning their grandma's home. They made an urgent call to the local waste collection agency to try to locate the garbage truck. Workers at a local recycling center sifted through six tons of trash to help the family recover the sum.

Big Tech salaries revealed: How much engineers, developers, and product managers make at companies including Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Uber, IBM, and Salesforce

So, to get a sense of what salaries in the industry are like these days, Business Insider analyzed the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification's disclosure data for permanent and temporary foreign workers to find out what companies pay employees in key roles, including engineers, designers, and salespeople. When you're done checking out this industry data, take a look at Insider's searchable database of over 250,000 salaries from more than 250 companies so you can know how much you should be paid. Google's software engineers can make more than $300,000.

People are changing their Tinder locations to Japan so here are more Olympic athletes the internet can’t get over

People are setting their Tinder locations to Olympic Village in the hopes of finding love with one of the world's top athletes. A TikTok trend: Kassie Yeung made headlines in May when she, a self-proclaimed “petty” ex-girlfriend, shared her 5,953-mile journey to Seoul to remove a “love lock” that she and her ex had once attached to a symbolic fence on Namsan tower. In a video posted Monday, she's seen swiping through a new feed after setting her Tinder location to the Olympic Village in Japan.

6 dead after sightseeing plane in Alaska crashes

Six people died after a sightseeing floatplane carrying cruise ship passengers crashed in southeast Alaska on Thursday, authorities said. Everyone on board the de Havilland Beaver was killed in the crash in the Misty Fjords area, the U.S. Coast Guard said. An emergency beacon was activated around 11:20 a.m., and a search helicopter found the wreckage on a ridgeline at 2:37 p.m.

A woman says she was told to wait outside a car-inspection station because her shirt was 'inappropriate'

Tia Wood said on TikTok that she was asked to wait outside a car-inspection station over her outfit. A TikTok user named Tia Wood said she was told to wait outside a car-inspection station in Lakewood, New Jersey, because her outfit was "inappropriate." In a TikTok video posted on July 20, Wood is seen wearing a crop top, denim shorts, and white sneakers.

Mary Trump says Trump used his infamous 'it is what it is' dismissal when she brought up concerns about her father's burial

Mary Trump wrote that Donald Trump's use of the phrase "it is what it is" to dismiss COVID-19 deaths brought back a childhood memory. Mary, the daughter of Trump's late brother Freddy, said her family used the phrase to minimize others' suffering. Mary Trump, former President Donald Trump's niece, wrote in her newly-released book, "The Reckoning: Our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal," that her uncle's use of the phrase "it is what it is" to dismiss the rising COVID-19 death toll last year brought back a chilling childhood memory.

Financial advisor fired for alleged ‘no Blacks’ comment exposed in TikTok video

LPL Financial has reportedly fired affiliated adviser Eileen Cure amid allegations of racism after TikTok videos surfaced of her admitting that she does not interview Black job applicants. Cure, president of Cure and Associates in Nederland, Texas, was exposed after one of her staffers reportedly forwarded screenshots of Skype messages to popular TikToker Denise Bradley, who goes by the handle auntkaren0. Bradley shared the messages in several TikTok videos posted to her more than one million followers.

Amazon delivery drivers say there's a 'giant war' between them and the company as they struggle to meet package quotas

Drivers for Amazon delivery partners usually have 170-350 packages to deliver per shift. Insider interviewed three drivers who expanded on the difficulties of such a fast-paced job. The drivers confirmed many things that have been reported before, included peeing in water bottles.

He was adopted and raised by a gay dad. Now he's an Olympian and symbol for LGBTQ rights.

Watching Jordan Windle execute a perfect dive from the 10-meter platform — analogous to jumping headfirst from a three-story building — you'd never know he was scared of anything. The 22-year-old diver, who was adopted at 18 months old from Cambodia by a single gay American man, has spent the last 15 years preparing for this moment. “On the 10-hour flight here, I could not sleep,” Windle said.

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  This dad adopted his son from Cambodia at 18 months old and is now watching him compete in Tokyo Olympics

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  The story of an Olympic diver and his gay dad who got him to Tokyo

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Missouri coroner says he omitted COVID from death certificates after family requests

A Missouri coroner reportedly omitted COVID-19 as a cause of death from multiple death certificates after family members requested the virus be struck from documentation. Brian Hayes, Macon County's coroner, claimed he altered at least six coronavirus death records where another medical complication was present, such as pneumonia, at the request of grieving family members, he told the Kansas City Star. The practice has left Macon with 19 deaths from the disease, though the total should likely be over 30, the outlet reported.

The first woman has passed Naval Special Warfare's selection course. Here's the grueling 72-hour final test it took to do it.

In July, the first woman sailor passed a Naval Special Warfare selection and training pipeline to become a commando. The sailor will become a Special Warfare Combatant-Craft crewman, one of the smallest special-operations career fields. Here's the rigorous training that sailor went through - including the arduous final test.

After her arrest on an incest charge, Chris Chan is being categorized as male in jail despite being a trans woman

Online creator Christine Weston Chandler, known online as Chris Chan, is in quarantine due to COVID-19 protocols at the Central Virginia Regional Jail after she was arrested on an incest charge, according to the jail's Captain Hoffman. Despite being a transgender woman, the jail has categorized Chandler as male, Hoffman confirmed to Insider. "I've had an interaction with inmate Chandler and it's been fine," Captain Hoffman told Insider in response to a question about Chandler's well-being.