U.S.NBC NewsComedian Tony Baker's son, 2 others killed in California crash
Actor and comedian Tony Baker's son and two others were killed after suspected street racers crashed into their car near Los Angeles, officials said. Investigators said the alleged street racers, in a Kia and a Mercedes Benz, hit a Volkswagen carrying the the victims. "When police officers and paramedics arrived, they located three individuals who had been ejected from a silver Volkswagen," the department said in a statement.
PoliticsThe WeekTed 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...
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.
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Cholesterol drug cuts coronavirus infection by 70%, researchers find
A drug meant to treat cholesterol was found to reduce coronavirus infection by 70% in lab studies, with researchers calling for additional clinical trials among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. A team of researchers from the U.K. and Italy published findings in the Frontiers in Pharmacology journal Friday, finding that fenofibrate and fenofibric acid resulted in a significant reduction in coronavirus infection in human cells when the drug was used in safe and approved concentrations, according to a news release posted Friday. "Our data indicates that fenofibrate may have the potential to reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms and also virus spread," Dr. Elisa Vicenzi of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan and co-author, said in the release.
U.S.INSIDERThe 'runaway bride' who once faked her own kidnapping to get out of a wedding is now divorced
Jennifer Wilbanks went missing three days before her wedding in 2005. After first claiming she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, she admitted she had run away. Sixteen years later, Wilbanks got divorced from a different man.
BusinessBusiness InsiderVolkswagen CEO's vacation snafu led to a scathing review of a rival to Tesla's supercharging network, highlighting the tough road to electric-car adoption
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess roasted Ionity for his poor experience with its charging network. The company is partially owned by VW and is part of a bid to compete with Tesla's Supercharger stations. The CEO's vacation mishap highlights several major advantages Tesla drivers have over others.
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.
WorldAxiosTaliban capture capital of Afghanistan's Nimruz province
The Taliban captured the city of Zaranj, the capital of Nimruz province in southwest Afghanistan, government officials announced Friday, according to the New York Times. Why it matters: Zaranj, which has at least 50,000 residents, is the first provincial capital to fall under Taliban control since President Biden announced a military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has coincided with large territorial gains by the insurgent group and a sharp uptick in violence. Zaranj is situated on the Afghanistan-Iran border and has been a hub for Afghans fleeing the conflict to Iran, according to the Times.
SportsCharlotte ObserverPanthers have found the missing piece to their offense. Get used to hearing this name.
It's a tongue-twister, but one that Carolina Panther fans may as well get used to saying: Darnold to Arnold. New Panther quarterback Sam Darnold has already found a third-down security blanket in this training camp in Dan Arnold — a rangy, 6-foot-6 tight end who was once a skinny Division III wide receiver from Wisconsin-Platteville. Dan Arnold isn't a familiar name to Panther fans yet.
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Signs You're Dealing With a Passive-Aggressive Person—and How to Respond
Or that you yourself are exhibiting some passive-aggressive tendencies.
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.
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.Washington ExaminerMissouri's COVID-19 conflicts continue as virus increases
As COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths rise in Missouri, conflicts continue regarding the strategies to prevent the spread of the virus. Earlier this week, Attorney General Eric Schmitt successfully won from a St. Louis County court a temporary restraining order against the county for implementing an indoor mask mandate. The cities of Kansas City and St. Louis recently announced indoor mask mandates.
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.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.
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.
HealthThe Daily BeastSturgis Rally Death Cult Pits Nurses Against Panicked Docs
Living in Sturgis, I do hear [of] people that live here that don't love the rally,” Plaggemeyer told The Daily Beast. If you don't like to live in Sturgis, and you don't like the Sturgis Rally, you shouldn't live here. It gives us great experiences in the ER and in the hospital, and I spend most of my time during the rally here.
U.S.Washington ExaminerWomen plead guilty to hate crimes for stealing boy's MAGA hat and assaulting others
Two women who were recorded on video stealing a 7-year-old boy's "Make America Great Again" hat and accosting his Trump-supporting family pleaded guilty to multiple misdemeanor charges on Monday, including hate crimes. Prosecutors said Tuesday that their plea agreements with Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy of Wilmington, Delaware, who also pleaded guilty to theft and child endangerment, were established with the "approval of the victims," according to the News Journal. The charges stemmed from an incident last August outside of the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, where the family was protesting then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.
U.S.INSIDERA 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.
U.S.Miami HeraldKeys tourists fight over woman in a wheelbarrow — then someone bit off a piece of ear
A bunch of friends were on vacation this week in the Florida Keys. James Lenn Williams, 45, of Port St. Lucie, bit off part of one friend's ear during the scrap that happened around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, deputies reported. Williams, who was taken to the county jail on Stock Island, faces charges of aggravated battery and domestic battery by strangulation, which are both felonies.
WorldAFPUN sounds alarm on Tigray harvest
The desperate need for food aid in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region will persist into 2022 because the harvest is set to fail, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths warned Friday. Griffiths, the United Nations' new emergency relief coordinator, sounded the alarm on the scale of the challenges facing the northern region, following a six-day visit to Ethiopia. He visited the capital Addis Ababa and Tigray and met Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen.
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Lawsuit filed by disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who once joked about his legal education, dismissed by one expert as ‘frivolous’
Rod Blagojevich used to joke that “he barely knew where the law library was” as he earned his law degree from Pepperdine University amid surfing the Pacific Ocean and mingling with movie stars in Malibu. Judging by the lawsuit the disgraced former Illinois governor filed this week challenging a ban on him running for state and local office, Blagojevich still has a penchant for skipping his legal homework, said experts who dismissed his action as baseless. “This is a frivolous lawsuit,” said Ann Lousin, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Illinois at Chicago law school whose lengthy legal background includes helping draft the state's constitution and chairing the Chicago Bar Association's constitutional law committee.
U.S.AxiosAide who accused Cuomo of groping files criminal complaint
A woman who accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of groping her breast last year filed a criminal complaint on Thursday, AP reports. Why it matters: The complaint is the first known instance of an official report made directly by an alleged victim with a law enforcement agency over the governor's conduct, per AP. Driving the news: "The end result could either be it sounds substantiated and an arrest is made and it would be up to the DA to prosecute the arrest," Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple told the New York Post.
U.S.Fort Worth Star-TelegramChase with carjacker ends when driver crashes through fence into pool, Texas cops say
Police are searching for an alleged carjacker who crashed a stolen vehicle into a backyard pool early Friday morning in Texas. A woman who had her car stolen at gunpoint in the Houston area around 1 a.m. Friday saw the two suspects in her car two hours later as Harris County Sheriff's deputies were filing a report, according to KTRK. The driver fled and deputies pursued after the car in northwest Harris County, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a tweet.
LifestyleINSIDERTikTok users are freezing entire bottles of corn syrup to eat as a snack, but a nutritionist says that much sugar can cause body shakes, sweating, and heart problems
A new trend is taking over TikTok where creators are freezing corn syrup and eating it. A nutritionist said eating excess corn syrup can lead to health issues. The corn syrup craze follows the frozen honey challenge, another controversial food challenge.
“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.”