Don’t you wish your 401(k) was being run by the same highly-paid geniuses who manage big institutional pension funds? Me neither. Early last year, when stock markets collapsed and stocks everywhere were fire-sale cheap, the big money crowd slashed their clients’ exposure to stocks to near-record lows. After all, who wants to own risky stocks … Read more
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge upheld a 20-year prison sentence on Monday for former police officer Michael Slager in the killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina, rejecting Slager’s claims his lawyer did a poor job. Slager had appealed his sentence, saying his lawyer … Read more
The offseason training for the 2021 NFL season has officially begun. Some Carolina Panthers players reported to the team’s facility at Bank of America Stadium for the start of voluntary offseason training Monday. An exact number is not known, but not every player was in attendance with many still spread throughout the country. Panthers players … Read more
A whistleblowing teacher who ripped his Manhattan private school for “indoctrinating” students with extreme progressive politics has been booted from his classroom for the rest of the year — as the educator accused the school’s of privately expressing doubts about the curriculum himself. Staffer Paul Rossi sparked an inferno at Grace Church School last week … Read more
Enlarge Image Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as prosecutor Jerry Blackwell delivers the rebuttal to the defense closing arguments during Chauvin’s trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg MINNEAPOLIS — Jurors in the murder trial of … Read more
Ed Boon liked to keep secrets. During the development of the original Mortal Kombat, he quietly sneaked in a hidden character named Reptile — a green-colored palette swap of Scorpion — without telling anyone. “It was sort of an experiment to see how long it would naturally be discovered,” Boon told me about his hidden … Read more
Insurance company Geico suffered a data breach earlier this year that exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers for more than a month, according to a data breach notice filed with the attorney general of California. First reported by TechCrunch, Geico says in the notice that it has fixed the security issue that led to the breach. … Read more
United Airlines Holdings Inc. lost more than $1.3 billion in the first three months of 2021, but executives claimed that an adjusted cash flow metric flipped to positive and promised that new international routes to countries that allow vaccinated travelers will help the airline recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday afternoon, … Read more
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A man might’ve taken his own life on Okeechobee Road in Northwest Miami-Dade in January, but also might’ve given up his identity in the process. Florida Highway Patrol want the public’s help in restoring the latter. On Monday, FHP released a postmortem artist’s reconstruction from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office of the Black man, who … Read more