PoliticsBusiness InsiderRupert 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?
U.S.Kansas City Star‘A straight up monster.’ World record 125-pound bighead carp caught by Missouri man
A Missouri man is a new world-record holder after a behemoth fish he caught last month — but not without a little help. The Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed Thursday the 125-pound, 5-ounce bighead carp shot by Matt Neuling shattered the previous record of 104 pounds, 15 ounces. Neuling said he and his friend initially thought it was a 30-pound grass carp they both shot.
U.S.Miami HeraldWhat happens when you allow hundreds of snake hunters in the Everglades? You get a winner
Gov. Ron DeSantis, in between battling with President Joe Biden about mask mandates, announced that the 2021 Florida Python Challenge has a new king. The 10-day event, from July 9-18, resulted in the removal of a record 223 invasive pythons from South Florida, DeSantis said.
WorldINSIDERPolice 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.
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University of Wisconsin removes rock seen as sign of racism
The University of Wisconsin was removing a 70-ton boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism. Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925.
LifestyleBusiness InsiderI 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.
U.S.The New York TimesTexas 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.
ScienceThe WeekScientists 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.
U.S.INSIDERAn 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.
BusinessBusiness InsiderBig 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.
U.S.NBC News6 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.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderA new poll shows California Gov. Newsom is in danger of being recalled in the heavily Democratic state
51% of likely California voters would vote 'yes' to recall Gov. Newsom, according to a Survey USA poll. A majority of voters supporting the recall cite Newsom's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrat Kevin Paffrath and Republican Larry Elder led the pack of those running to replace Newsom.
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Mexican police fear U.S. gun used by drug cartels
The flow of high-caliber arms smuggled across the porous U.S. border has alarmed Mexican officials, and few weapons are as powerful as the U.S.-made M82 semiautomatic rifle increasingly favored by the powerful drug cartels.
SportsINSIDERAll but one of the US women's soccer starters knelt to protest racism ahead of the team's Olympic bronze-medal match
All but one of the US women's soccer team players knelt before the Olympic bronze-medal match. Carli Lloyd stood as her teammates took a knee before kickoff - after the national anthem played. Players from teams around the world have knelt during the games to protest racism and inequality.
EntertainmentTimeHow The Suicide Squad End-Credits Scene Sets Up the Future of the DCEU
The new DC movie The Suicide Squad is a classic James Gunn flick: Like Gunn's other franchise for rival studio Marvel, The Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad is very weird and features violent talking creatures—just sub out a raccoon and tree for a shark and a weasel. 2021's The Suicide Squad is a soft reboot of David Ayer's Suicide Squad from 2016.
WorldBusiness InsiderIsrael 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.
PoliticsWashington ExaminerSean Spicer: Trump’s running
Signals have been pouring out of former President Donald Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey, resort that he's heading in the direction of another run for the presidency. It was sparked by reports from former chief of staff Mark Meadows that Trump was meeting with his 2024 “Cabinet” to judge the field he might face. And now, his former press secretary and adviser, Sean Spicer, is just saying it.
SportsAxiosAmericans April Ross, Alix Klineman "finally" win Olympic gold in beach volleyball
Ross is also the first beach volleyball player to win an Olympic medal with three different partners, per NBC. She won a silver medal with Jen Kessy in 2012 and a bronze medal with Kerri Walsh Jennings in 2016. Klineman only switched from playing on the court to the sand in 2017 after being passed up several times for the women's indoor Olympic volleyball team.
U.S.INSIDERProsecutors will seek the death penalty against Chad Daybell, the 'doomsday couple' husband accused of killing his ex-wife and children
Idaho prosecutors will seek the death penalty against "doomsday cult" husband Chad Daybell, who is accused of killing his ex-wife and the two children of his current wife, according to a Madison County court record viewed by Insider. Daybell and his wife, Lori Vallow, have been indicted on murder charges in connection with the deaths of Vallow's children, Tylee Ryan, 17, and 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow. The children hadn't been seen for two months before their grandparents reported them missing to police in November 2019.
BusinessBusiness InsiderObama picks a meat-free menu for his 60th birthday party, serving Eat Just and Impossible's plant-based food, a report says
Former President Barack Obama has picked a meat-free menu for his birthday party, a report says. Dishes include Spam Musubi made with Impossible Foods' fake beef and pork products, per Bloomberg. Obama is holding his scaled-down 60th birthday party this weekend in Martha's Vineyard.
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Commentary: Getting information right is crucial to solving the border crisis
We work at the George W. Bush Institute on challenges that would appear to be disconnected: modernizing America's immigration system and promoting a reliable flow of information. But they come together directly and forcefully at America's southern border, which remains the epicenter of the nation's immigration debate and has emerged as a new front line in the need for truth-telling over “fake news. We see border issues and disinformation converging in three ways: smugglers spreading false information about border security, those same smugglers spreading disinformation about the safety of trips to the border, and a Russian campaign to spread misleading narratives.
SportsAxiosU.S. Olympic beach volleyball duo one step away from realizing gold medal dream
Alix Klineman and April Ross are guaranteed to earn at least an Olympic silver medal after defeating Switzerland 2-0 in the Tokyo Games on Thursday morning local time. The big picture: When Klineman switched from indoor to beach volleyball in 2017, Ross had already won two Olympic medals on the sand. After being left off Olympic rosters for indoor volleyball year after year, Klineman's tenacity matched with her partner's prowess led to the realization of her Olympic dreams.
U.S.Washington ExaminerHackers attempt to breach Illinois State Police FOID website
The Illinois State Police said they have added additional online security requirements to FOID online application system after hackers attempted to breach the site. Specifically, the ISP is restricting the use and access of personal information that FOID card applicants submit in their online FOID account that could match Illinois resident personal identification information unlawfully obtained from any number of previous cyber breaches. The personal information did not come from ISP systems and servers, according to a news release.
BusinessBusiness InsiderGoogle fired 80 employees for abusing user data and spying on people, with some even sharing personal information outside the company, a new report says
Google fired dozens of employees from 2018 to 2020 for accessing users' personal data. Motherboard reports that some employees used the tools to access other employees' information. Other tech companies, like Facebook, have reportedly experienced similar situations of data abuse.
HealthWashington ExaminerMissouri 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.
“If nothing else, Tokyo 2020 may end up being remembered as the wake-up call everyone needed.”
“Cancel the Olympics—for good.”
“Olympians haven’t really changed. These athletes still showcase extraordinary human achievement from around the world.”
“Delivering more excellence and less sideshow will probably require giving athletes a bigger voice in how the Olympics are run.”
“The Olympics were conceived in 1896 as a sporting event, and they’ve become a construction event.”