U.S.In The Know by YahooBride-to-be sparks outrage with her $27,000 wedding day demand: ‘What gives you any right?’
She expects her brother, who is a doctor, to give her $27,000 so she can have her dream wedding. He refused. Decode and demystify Gen Z's latest online slang terms with In The Know's new glossary.
HealthUSA TODAYAfter my unborn son's fatal diagnosis, doctors seemed determined to change my 'choice'
My son Matteo was born weighing just under 3 pounds and crying faintly. In 2015, for two of the most precious hours of my life, my husband and I cradled him. What followed was a flurry of phone calls and doctor appointments and second opinions and more ultrasounds, all of which confirmed the news that my son had Trisomy 18, a life-threatening condition that is usually fatal before birth or within the first year of life.
BusinessBusiness InsiderA software engineer spent 8 hours daily applying to entry-level coding jobs for 6 months. She was rejected 357 times before receiving an offer.
After working in the restaurant industry for six years, Sophia Cheong decided to learn how to code. "I fell in love," Cheong told Insider. Like the millions of Americans who quit their jobs during "The Great Resignation," the pandemic gave Cheong the opportunity to exit the restaurant industry and switch career paths, something she had been wanting to do for some time.
BusinessYahoo FinanceThe surprising factor when it comes to whether an employee decides to leave
With a record number of workers quitting their jobs recently, many companies have been re-examining their retention strategies. Has their leadership been failing workers? “We've been talking about the topic of empathy in the workplace for quite some time and a few months back, looking at the stress levels within society, everything that's happened with Covid, looking at the increased levels of turnover within our clients and within our profession, we decided to [do a] study,” Marcelo Bartholo, deputy vice chair of consulting at EY, told Yahoo Finance.
U.S.Lexington Herald-LeaderLap dances at Hazard homecoming: Don’t schools already have enough problems these days?
For homecoming this year, they put on a boffo event in the gym, including what appears to be girls in Hooters t-shirts carrying glasses of (I assume, but hey, maybe not!) make-believe beer. The pictures were posted on the Hazard High School Athletics page earlier this week, then quickly taken down after some spoilsports noticed and raised a stink. The Courier Journal described it as a “Man Pageant” during Homecoming.
U.S.DeadlineAbby Huntsman Finally Reveals Real Reason She Left ‘The View’ On New Podcast
When Abby Huntsman, who was one of The View's conservative co-hosts along with Meghan McCain during her relatively brief 2018-20 tenure, announced her departure from the oftentimes controversial ABC daytime talk show, the former Fox News personality said it was because she wanted to join and assist the Utah gubernatorial race of her father Jon Huntsman. Rumors quickly spread on social media that the real reason Huntsman was leaving the show was its much-discussed “toxic” workplace environment, a reason Huntsman now confirms as true. In her new podcast called I Wish Somebody Told Me with friend, comedy writer and media producer Lauren Leeds, debuting today, Huntsman says she had decided to leave The View because the show's workplace environment “did not reflect my values” and was “rewarding people for bad behavior.”
U.S.Associated PressVirginia Tech player indicted in Tinder date's beating death
A suspended Virginia Tech linebacker accused in the fatal beating of a Tinder match has been indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. Isimemen Etute, 18, who is accused in the death of 40-year-old Jerry Smith in May, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday, The Roanoke Times reported. A hearing is scheduled Nov. 18.
U.S.HuffPost LifeHere's The Difference Between A Cemetery And A Graveyard
Church graveyards filled up, and there was a need for new burial grounds. Thus, independent sites called “cemeteries” became more common as designated final resting places. Cemeteries are typically not affiliated with a specific church, so you don't have to be a congregant to be buried there.
PoliticsHuffPostRep. Madison Cawthorn's Question About 'The Biggest Lie' Backfires Spectacularly
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) asked a question on Twitter and his critics were ready with some answers ― almost certainly not the ones he had in mind. “What's the biggest lie a politician has ever told?” Cawthorn asked as he attempted to slam President Joe Biden.
U.S.In The Know by YahooWoman calls out husband over his ‘selfish’ lie about their marriage: ‘Why are you with this man?’
A woman was stunned when her husband threw her under the bus to impress his co-workers. She consulted Reddit's “Am I the A******” forum for help. Per her story: her husband always shows up late for work because he refuses to wake up.
BusinessBusiness InsiderA crypto wallet shows an investor made an $8,000 shiba inu coin purchase last year. Today it is worth $5.7 billion.
Shiba inu coin is up more than 7 million percent since its debut in August 2020. In what's being dubbed the greatest individual trade of all time, a crypto investor turned about $8,000 into about $5.7 billion by buying trillions of shiba inu coin shortly after it debuted. The series of trades began in August of 2020, when the investor bought about 70 trillion shiba inu coins, according to its associated crypto wallet. Shiba inu coins began trading on August 1, 2020, and the investor took note that day and made their first shiba inu purchase, buying some 70 billion coins.
U.S.Kansas City StarBear vanished from Wisconsin hunter’s sight — then he felt it breathing down his neck
High up in his tree stand, a Wisconsin deer hunter thought he had gone unnoticed by a black bear wandering near him in the woods — right until it stopped at the base of his vantage point. Dalton Roach, 25, spotted the bear while bow hunting earlier this month, he told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. Roach, who in addition to being an avid sportsman is a pitching prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals, felt he was safe and secure.
HealthAssociated PressCheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19
A cheap antidepressant reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19 in a study hunting for existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat coronavirus. Researchers tested the pill used for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder because it was known to reduce inflammation and looked promising in smaller studies. “If WHO recommends this, you will see it widely taken up,” said study co-author Dr. Edward Mills of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, adding that many poor nations have the drug readily available.
WorldGOBankingRatesThinking of Retiring Abroad? You Won’t Be Able To Collect Social Security in These Countries
See: You Should Check Your Social Security Balance Regularly — Here's Why Countries Where Payments Are Completely Restricted If you are living in North Korea or Cuba, Social Security benefits will be completely restricted. The good news is that if you are a U.S. citizen, payments will be withheld and can be sent if you later move to a country where payments are not restricted. However, that only applies to U.S. citizens.
WorldThe Daily BeastThis Dream Vacation Hotspot Is Spiraling Into a Deadly Cartel Battlefield
Two foreign female tourists were caught in a crossfire between rival crime groups and shot to death last Thursday in the high-end resort town of Tulum, Mexico. Three other people were also wounded when the firefight broke out in the popular restaurant, La Malquerida, not far from the beach. “They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and got caught in an exchange of gunfire between competing drug traffickers,” said a high-ranking Mexican police commander, who agreed to speak with The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity.
U.S.ReutersSlavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing
(Reuters) - A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen's arrest under a Civil War-era law that was later repealed amid an uproar over the shooting. When the fatal encounter occurred on Feb. 23, 2020, it was legal in Georgia for people to arrest someone where they had "reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion" that the person had just committed a felony. Legal observers say prosecutors will seek to convince the jury that there was no felony over which to arrest Arbery, 25, and that the three men lacked the "reasonable and probable suspicion" required under the old citizen's arrest law.
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Yum! Brands CEO: the whole world is opening up to KFC
Yum! Brands CEO David Gibbs joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the company's earnings, the labor shortage, and the impact of supply chain issues.
U.S.HuffPostGOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Catches Hell For Biblical Quote About Secrets
Lauren Boebert's (R-Colo. tweet of a biblical passage about secrets could come back to haunt her, critics predicted. On Wednesday, the conspiracy theory-endorsing lawmaker shared Luke 8:17, which in the Bible's New King James Version reads: “For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.
U.S.Associated PressThai police: Woman cut rope holding painters 26 floors high
A resident of a high-rise condominium in Thailand cut the support rope for two painters, apparently angry she wasn't told they would be doing work, and left them hanging above the 26th floor until a couple rescued them, police said Wednesday. Col. Pongjak Preechakarunpong, chief of the Pak Kret police station north of the Thai capital, told The Associated Press. Pongjak did not say what prompted the suspect to cut the rope, but Thai media reported that she was apparently frustrated when the workers appeared outside her room and hadn't seen an announcement by the condo that they would be doing work on Oct. 12.
U.S.AxiosTurning the page on Georgia's Stone Mountain
The state board that oversees Stone Mountain Park, the 3,200-acre park that glorifies the Confederacy and Antebellum South, has selected an entity — the only company to bid — to manage Georgia's most visited attraction. Why it matters: Stone Mountain has zero connection to the Civil War — no battles were fought there. The monadnock's mountaintop was the site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, and activists, residents, and visitors have called for the massive tribute to Confederate generals and white-washing of history to be removed.
U.S.Madame NoireNew Orleans School Bus Driver Assaulted On Video By 3 Mothers Over Bullying Allegations
A school bus driver is ready to take legal action against a group of parents who assaulted her on video. New Orleans, Louisiana school bus driver Andrea Anderson told Fox 8 Live that while she was dropping off children at Franklin Avenue and North Dorgenois Street, a group of angry mothers were waiting for her. In a video recorded by a student, the parents are seen aggressively approaching Anderson and screaming at her as they hovered over her.
ScienceReutersDNA from Sitting Bull's hair confirms living great-grandson's ancestry
A sample of Sitting Bull's hair has helped scientists confirm that a South Dakota man is the famed 19th century Native American leader's great-grandson using a new method to analyze family lineages with DNA fragments from long-dead people. Researchers said on Wednesday that DNA extracted from the hair, which had been stored at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, confirmed the familial relationship between Sitting Bull, who died in 1890, and Ernie LaPointe, 73, of Lead, South Dakota. "I feel this DNA research is another way of identifying my lineal relationship to my great-grandfather," said LaPointe, who has three sisters.
HealthBusiness InsiderPeople are getting psychosis after COVID-19, prompting scientists to investigate if the body is mistakenly attacking the brain after infection
Some patients develop symptoms of psychosis after COVID-19 infection. It is possible that the stress of the pandemic is causing the psychiatric problems. But some scientists think it could be the virus causing the body to attack the brain.
U.S.Miami HeraldActor on ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘CSI’ vandalized George Floyd statue, NY cops say
An actor who starred in small roles on “Parks and Recreation” and “CSI: New York” is accused of defacing a statue of George Floyd in New York City this month, police said. Micah Beals, who uses the stage name Micah Femia, was arrested on criminal mischief charges Monday, the NYPD's Hate Crime unit confirmed on Twitter. Surveillance video captured the 37-year-old splashing paint on the face and base of a statue honoring Floyd in Manhattan's Union Square Park on Oct. 3, according to police.
ScienceReutersHarvard's modern-day Darwin warns against humanity's downward slope
The Harvard University scientist who has called for setting aside half the planet as a nature preserve says the slope of human history will always be downward unless there is global cooperation to save existing species. Edward O. Wilson, a 92-year old naturalist hailed as the Darwin of the 21st century, said humankind is not too polarized to save the planet, even as some of the world's biggest polluters drag their feet on cutting carbon emissions and arresting global warming. He sees preventing catastrophic climate change -- the aim of U.N. climate talks starting in Scotland on Sunday -- and saving biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in the world, as two initiatives that must happen together.
“Covid-19 placed systemic problems in sharp relief … What was a raw deal before became, for many, untenable.”
“It’s now going to be a workers’ market, and they’re empowered. I think they are starting to flex their collective muscle.”
“The Great Resignation is not a mad dash away from the office; it’s the culmination of a long march toward freedom.”
“Everybody, particularly if they are young and have a low income, has more freedom to quit jobs they hate and hop to something else.”
“The boost we’ve seen over the last several months could be the result of more than a year’s worth of pent-up resignations.”