BusinessFort Worth Star-TelegramCo-founder of billion-dollar, Dallas-based real estate firm killed in plane crash
John Kenneth “Den” Dunn, the co-founder of a real estate firm headquartered in Dallas, died July 26 in an airplane crash, The Rainier Companies said Monday. Dunn joined Tim Nichols in 2003 to create Rainier Capital Management as a platform for real estate investment. The firm has closed in excess of $2.5 billion of investment assets and currently has an operating portfolio valued at more than $1.6 billion, according to the company's website.
U.S.Washington ExaminerGroom still in his wedding tux accused of shooting two, including bride's alleged lover, in mid-traffic dispute
A Louisiana man was arrested in his wedding tuxedo over the weekend for allegedly shooting his friend and chasing his new bride down the interstate after accusing the two of having an affair, according to police. Devin Jose Jones, 30, was driving with his wife and friend after leaving their marriage ceremony on Saturday when the three got stuck in I-10 traffic near LaPlace in St. John the Baptist Parish, Sheriff Mike Tregre said. A second male victim in a nearby vehicle was also struck in the hand by a stray bullet, Tregre said.
SportsINSIDERA Canadian diver who scored a 0 with a feet-first flop with the finals on the line said she wasn't going to give up
The Canadian diver Pamela Ware scored a 0.0 with a feet-first dive in the Olympics. The failed dive knocked Ware out of competition for the event final. In an emotional video, Ware said she made a mistake but would not give up.
WorldBusiness InsiderIran's outgoing president says the country's authoritarian government doesn't always tell the truth
Iran's outgoing president said the government was not always truthful during his eight-year tenure. Iran's authoritarian government is not known for its transparency and has little tolerance for dissent. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is leaving office this week, on Sunday said the country's authoritarian government was not always truthful during his eight years in office.
U.S.The Daily BeastWoman Dies in Arizona Desert After Hike With Cop Who Has History of Lying
Angela Tramonte had been in Phoenix for less than 24 hours when she was found dead on a hiking trail last Friday. Tramonte, 31, had flown into the city to meet with Dario Dizdar, a Phoenix police officer, fire officials told The Daily Beast on Monday. Dizdar began a hike with Tramonte on Friday afternoon, but kept going when Tramonte became tired and “overheated,” fire officials said in a news release.
SportsAxiosFormer dancer Valarie Allman wins U.S. first Olympic track gold in Tokyo
Valarie Allman won Team USA's first gold track and field Olympic gold medal in Tokyo on Monday, in the discus throw finals. The big picture: Allman is the first American woman to medal in the discus throw since 2008. Her 68.98-meter throw beat German silver medalist Kristin Pudenz's throw by more than two meters.
U.S.Business InsiderAn unofficial Burning Man is happening in the middle of the desert without any medical services, private jets, or professionally serviced bathrooms
COVID-19 canceled Burning Man two years in a row. Without medical services, private jets, or bathrooms, "Renegade Man" attendees are on their own. Initially created as a desert rendezvous for free spirits and bohemians, Burning Man has grown into one of the world's most famous festivals.
U.S.INSIDEROnline creator Chris Chan arrested on incest charge after leaked audio alleged she had sex with her mother
Christine Weston Chandler, known online as Chris Chan, was arrested on a charge of incest. Christian Weston Chandler, known online as Chris Chan, has been arrested and charged with incest after a leaked phone conversation spread online. Chandler, 39, is currently being held in the Henrico County Jail after being brought in by police on Sunday afternoon.
HealthBusiness Insider24 vaccinated friends had a blowout vacation on Cape Cod. Though their symptoms were mild, 14 of them caught COVID-19, report says.
Twenty-four fully vaccinated friends had a weeklong July 4 getaway in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The cases were part of a bigger study that prompted the CDC to change its indoor masking guidance. Fourteen of 24 vaccinated friends who visited the Cape Cod town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, in July caught COVID-19, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.
U.S.The TelegraphDaughter of rape victim helps bring conviction 46 years on
She had told her parents that Bennett was the father, but no action was ever taken to hold him to account. Explaining why she did not give a statement to the police at the time, the victim said: "I had suffered and I wanted to get on with my life." It was only when her daughter turned 18 that she tracked down her birth mother and then, by obtaining her social services record, she found Bennett named as her father.
SportsAssociated PressTeenagers make 200 final in Olympic testosterone controversy
Two 18-year-old Namibian runners threw track and field's contentious testosterone issue back into the Olympic spotlight Monday when they blazed into the women's 200-meter final in Tokyo just weeks after being barred from the 400-meter race. One of them, Christine Mboma, broke the world under-20 record twice in the span of about eight hours at the Olympic Stadium on the way to the 200 final. Mboma finished second behind Elaine Thompson-Herah, the defending Olympic champion.
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Vaccine mandates & dorm food, the new college tour
NYU is starting in-person college tours again for the first time in 16 months. Normally questions about admissions dominate the conversation, but this year student tour guides also have to be ready to answer vaccines mandate questions. Aug.
BusinessBusiness InsiderA Waffle House waitress who worked a double shift while looking after her baby says she received a $1,000 tip from a country-music star who was impressed by her work ethic
A Waffle House waitress said she received a $1,000 tip from a country-music star. A Waffle House waitress said a country-music star left her a $1,000 tip because he was so impressed by her work ethic. Shirell Lackey told Fox 8 News, a Fox affiliate in Greensboro, North Carolina, last week that the musician, who she wanted to keep anonymous, had found out she was working a double shift while looking after her baby daughter at the restaurant.
U.S.INSIDERA 4th officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 has died by suicide
Officer Kyle DeFreytag is the fourth Capitol riot officer to die by suicide. Officer Gunther Hashida was found dead on July 29, while officers Howard Liebengood and Jeffrey Smith died in the month following the Capitol insurrection. A fourth law enforcement officer who defended the Capitol in the January 6 insurrection has died by suicide, said the Metropolitan Police Department.
U.S.Washington ExaminerUS considering ‘next steps’ as it warns Iran it will respond to deadly attack on oil tanker in international waters
The new categories include: Afghans who work or worked as employees of contractors, locally employed staff, interpreters/translators for the U.S. government, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force or Resolute Support; Afghans who work or worked for a U.S. government-funded program or project in Afghanistan supported through a U.S. government grant or cooperative agreement; Afghans who are or were employed in Afghanistan by a U.S.-based media organization or nongovernmental organization.
LifestyleUSA TODAYGreat Wolf Lodge, known for its indoor water parks, will have $84 rooms. Here's how to book the deal
Great Wolf Lodge is bringing back its popular 8/4 sale, a nod to the 84 degrees to which its indoor water parks are temperature controlled. The deal offers families a chance to stay at a bargain rate with prices starting at $84 and is good at all U.S. locations except Great Wolf Lodge Northern California. The company's indoor water park resorts can be found in 17 states.
LifestyleBusiness InsiderI'm a personal trainer in the Hamptons. The job perks are incredible, but every now and then I'll get an odd request that has nothing to do with my job.
When it comes to working with the 1%, convenience is a key factor, so I often train my clients virtually or in their homes. It's best to meet them where they're at, and in my case, that's the Hamptons. I launched Hamptons Wellness on Wheels in 2016 with my boyfriend Ross Youmans.
U.S.Fort Worth Star-TelegramSecurity removes ‘Trump won’ flag unfurled at Texas Rangers game; fans asked to leave
Texas Rangers security removed a “Trump Won” flag from the upper stands at Globe Life Field during Sunday's game. A video uploaded by Elan News to YouTube shows a man at the railing in the stands near the foul pole in right field as several security team members approach and remove the flag. The flag was hung during the seventh inning of the Rangers' 4-3 win.
U.S.Washington ExaminerFlorida university spends $16 million to forgive student debt
Florida A&M University provided its student body with more than $16 million in debt relief during the 2020-2021 school year, the school's president revealed on Saturday. University President Larry Robinson made the announcement at one of four commencement ceremonies for the class of 2020 held over the weekend, telling the audience the aid was made possible by the CARES Act, which Congress passed in March of last year. Some of you will be leaving us with a whole lot of debt that some of your predecessors and I want you to understand how much, how important that is to us, allowing you to go out into the world and get off to a much better start than you might otherwise.
PoliticsAssociated PressBipartisan bill leaves out key climate, clean energy steps
The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package unveiled by the Senate includes more than $150 billion to boost clean energy and promote “climate resilience” by making schools, ports and other structures better able to withstand extreme weather events such as storms and wildfires. But the bill, headed for a Senate vote this week, falls far short of President Joe Biden's pledge to transform the nation's heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one and stop climate-damaging emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035.
LifestyleChicago TribuneAfter decades of invisibility, asexuals are speaking up and gaining ground: ‘I don’t need to be fixed because I’m not broken.’
When you look out at the world and you don't see anything that looks like your experience or sounds like your experience, the world is like a funhouse mirror. It's reflecting a distorted version of what's true, so you feel like a broken version of yourself. Asexuals made up 1% of the population in an influential analysis of survey results from more than 18,000 British people that was published in the Journal of Sex Research in 2004.
EntertainmentBuzzFeed NewsThese Photos Show The Enormous Turnout For Lollapalooza Despite Delta Concerns
Lollapalooza was held this past weekend in Chicago, with an estimated 100,000 people flocking to the city's Grant Park for each day of the four-day music festival. After the festival was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, revelers enjoyed sets from acts such as Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, the Foo Fighters, and Megan Thee Stallion. The festival went ahead despite surging cases of the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus both in Chicago and across the country.
SportsTimeGabby Thomas Is the Harvard Grad and Epidemiologist Who Could Win Olympic Gold
Graduates of Harvard University have gone on to become presidents, governors, senators, and movie stars, but if American sprinter Gabby Thomas wins the women's 200 m in Tokyo on Tuesday, she will have something that no other Harvard graduate has—a track-and-field gold medal from the Olympic Games. Thomas is a strong medal contender in the women's 200 m. At the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in June, Thomas ran the 200-m race in a stunning 21.61 seconds, the third-fastest 200-m sprint of all time. It made her the second-fastest woman in the history of the race; The only woman in the history of the sport who has run faster than Thomas is the legendary Florence Griffith-Joyner, who set the 200-m world record back in 1988.
SportsCBS NewsDaughter of NFL legend makes a leap of faith at Tokyo Olympics
Vashti Cunningham was determined to win gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Vashti took a deep breath, closed her eyes, then tried to focus on one thing: a 4-pound, white bar — the only thing that stood between her and a shot at earning a medal. Vashti left wanting to quit the sport, and as her teammate embraced her, she broke into tears.
U.S.Business InsiderMaricopa County Board of Supervisors condemns election audit and new subpoenas: 'There was no fraud'
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors issued a pointed response to Arizona state Senate Republicans, who issued a new series of subpoenas to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on July 26 related to their audit of the 2020 election. Board Chairman Jack Sellers condemned the audit in his portion of the response, stating that the board has "little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land." In early 2020, the state's Senate chose Cyber Ninjas, a private firm with no previous election experience, to carry out another count of ballots in Maricopa County.
“[The program] stands likely to leave millions of families — disproportionately the poorest and most fragile ones — behind.”
“[Paying] families monthly, instead of one lump sum ... will provide parents with more stability knowing when cash is coming.”
“More parents will disappear from the workforce, and more children will be locked into dependency.”
“Poverty is a political choice, not an inevitability.”
“Time is running out. There are only six months until monthly payments of the credit cease."