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.
SportsAxiosFormer dancer Valarie Allman wins U.S. first Olympic track and field 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.
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.
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Minnesota man's yard is now a destination for all the dogs in his neighborhood
When he moved into his new home, Keith Roles found a surefire way to become the most popular person in the neighborhood — he started handing out dog treats from his front yard. "I never thought — ever, ever thought — it would turn into this," Roles told KARE 11. Keith and his wife, Linda, live in Apple Valley, Minnesota, and thanks to those treats, quickly got to know their neighbors.
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.
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.
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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.
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Tom Ricketts issues a letter to Chicago Cubs season ticket holders after ‘difficult’ moves at the trade deadline
Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts issued his first extended comments since the organization dismantled its core at the trade deadline in an email to season ticket holders Monday morning. Ricketts, who called the last week extremely hard on everyone, stated that “while we believe the decisions we took were right for our organization, they were nonetheless difficult to make. He commended Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Báez for the joy they brought to fans and as ambassadors to the franchise and city as well as their successes that included awards, franchise records and a World Series title.
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.
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Florida mom shot and killed in front of her two ‘terrified’ children: police
St. Petersburg police in Florida responding to the scene of a shooting Saturday evening found a 27-year-old mom dead inside her vehicle and her two children still alive and "terrified." The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m., the St. Petersburg Police Department said. Department spokeswoman Sandra Bentil told Fox News that officers arrived on scene and found Joana Peca "deceased inside her vehicle, suffering from what appears to be an apparent gunshot wound."
HealthThe Guardian‘No one’s invincible’: fresh mask mandates and rising Delta cases hit California
A surge in Covid-19 infections, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, has prompted San Francisco and six other counties in California's Bay Area to reimpose mask mandates for indoor spaces, less than two months after experts in the highly vaccinated region celebrated what they hoped would be a return to normal. In recent days, San Francisco's infection rates have surged to nearly 20 times what they were at their lowest point in June and two of the city's hospitals have reported that more than 200 of their own workers have tested positive for the virus. “It teaches us that no one is invincible,” said Dr Peter Chin-Hong, an associate dean at UCSF who specializes in infectious diseases.
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.
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.
SportsReutersOlympics-World record on the track as IOC probes Belarus over sprinter
The Olympics governing body was probing Belarus's treatment of an athlete seeking refuge in Poland while Norway's Karsten Warholm smashed a world record on the track and Simone Biles was set for a highly anticipated return to the gymnastics stage on Tuesday. The International Olympic Committee said it expected a report https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2020-ioc/update-1-olympics-ioc-awaiting-report-from-belarusian-olympic-committee-idUSL8N2PA0F4 later in the day from the Belarusian team on the case of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who sought refuge https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/belarus-athlete-in-hands-authorities-ioc-2021-08-02 in the Polish embassy on Monday after refusing her team's orders to fly home.
U.S.Associated PressTennessee won't incentivize COVID shots but pays to vax cows
Tennessee has sent nearly half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years. But Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who grew up on his family's ranch and refers to himself as a cattle farmer in his Twitter profile, has been far less enthusiastic about incentivizing herd immunity among humans. Even though Tennessee has among the lowest vaccination rates in the country, Lee has refused to follow the lead of other states that have offered enticements for people to get the potentially life-saving COVID-19 vaccine.
U.S.NBC NewsU.S. hits 70 percent Covid vaccination goal — a month later than Biden had hoped to
Seventy percent of American adults have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, officials said Monday, reaching a goal President Joe Biden had hoped to reach a month ago. The goal was ambitious, but Monday's development is a good step, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. As of Monday, more than 180.7 million people in the U.S. ages 18 or older, or 70 percent, have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.
HealthBBCCovid-19: The mystery of rising infections in India's Kerala
The southern Indian state of Kerala accounts for more than half of the country's new Covid-19 infections. The BBC's Soutik Biswas and Vikas Pandey report on why cases continue to rise in the state, months after the waning of the deadly second wave. In January 2020, Kerala reported India's first Covid-19 case in a medical student who returned from Wuhan, in China, where the pandemic began.
U.S.Business InsiderWhat it's like to work in Death Valley, where businesses face 130-degree weather, flash floods, and dwindling tourists
Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth. From a rural opera house to a Mexican meat market, see what it's like to work in Death Valley. When Jenni Williams went to snap a picture of the Death Valley thermometer reaching what looked like a record-breaking 135 degrees, her camera broke.
HealthCBS NewsDelta variant drives COVID surge, prompting new mandates
Healthcare workers in Missouri are bearing the brunt as hospitalizations among people with COVID-19 have nearly doubled in a month. The hardest hit area includes Springfield, where there's been a dramatic rise of COVID-19 patients in one hospital system since mask mandates were lifted before two big holiday weekends. As bad as the situation is in Missouri, it's worse in several other states, including Florida, where more than 10,000 are hospitalized.
PoliticsPoliticoPelosi turns tables on White House, urges eviction ban extension
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team on Sunday urged President Joe Biden to immediately renew and extend the eviction moratorium until Oct. 18 after House Democrats failed to marshal the votes to prevent its lapse this weekend. Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) issued a joint statement Sunday night putting the ball back in the Biden administration's court, after the White House on Thursday said it could not extend the eviction ban and urged Congress to do it. The statement from House leadership marked the latest escalation of tensions between congressional Democrats and the Biden administration over the fate of the eviction moratorium, which ended Saturday after being first implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September.
“[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."