AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a mass shooting on a crowded downtown Austin street left 14 people wounded early Saturday, two of them critically. The Austin Police Department said in a news release that the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force assisted in making the arrest, but it provided no other details other than to say it is continuing to follow up on leads for the suspect still at large. Interim Police Chief Joseph… Source link

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it will take an active role in developing Google’s plans to prevent websites tracking Chrome users. Under the proposals, the CMA would accept legally binding commitments from Google not to use its proposed replacements for tracking cookies, a set of technologies the search engine calls its Privacy Sandbox, in a way that would harm competition. It is thought to be the first time a competition regulator has been involved at such an early… Source link

Bronny James made his return Friday night for Sierra Canyon in front of his father and Drake. (Krysten Peek/Yahoo Sports) CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James didn’t make the second round of the NBA playoffs for the first time in 14 seasons after the Phoenix Suns eliminated the defending champions in six games last week. The Los Angeles Clippers are still in the playoffs (and playing at home tomorrow night) but it was the CIF Southern Sectional Finals between Sierra… Source link

A week before Lorraine Twohill applied to engineering school in her native Ireland, she found herself reviewing a brochure about a new degree called international marketing. Its promise of a year studying abroad led the math whiz to swap engineering for marketing. The last-minute shift three decades ago broke the heart of her father, a math teacher, but changed her life. Her studies at Dublin City University and year abroad in Spain put her on a path to become the chief marketing officer at… Source link

Lamar Odom had little trouble with Aaron Carter. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) Lamar Odom was once a professional basketball player and Aaron Carter was once a pop star. The pair spent Friday taking part in the most present of trends, a celebrity boxing match. To the surprise of few, the bout ended with the 6-foot-10 man beating up the man who is not 6-foot-10, with Odom defeating Carter via second-round TKO.  The footage of the fight is, um, bleak: Odom’s strategy for the fight… Source link

The note left by First Officer Chris Dennis in a Delta plane parked at the Victorville Airport. Delta Air Lines A Delta first officer discovered an early-pandemic letter left by a fellow pilot on a parked aircraft. The note, which was written in March 2020, predicted there would be “light … at the end of the tunnel.” “Amazing how fast it changed,” First Officer Chris D. wrote more than 400 days ago. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. As the world starts to creep back to normality after… Source link

(Bloomberg) — After weeks of profiting from the stock and debt of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., hedge fund Mudrick Capital Management ended up with a 5.4% loss after a derivatives bet went haywire. The fund, which specializes in distressed debt, suffered the losses on AMC after day traders pushed the movie theater’s shares up as much as 127% on a single day, derailing call options Mudrick had sold on AMC shares to hedge exposure to the company, according to a person with knowledge of… Source link

 On Friday, the fans at Roland-Garros and the viewers watching on TV were treated to all-timer clay court match between two of the greatest men’s tennis players in the history of the game. Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic played their hearts out for more than four hours in what might be one of the greatest tennis matches in recent memory. But someone had to win. And it was Djokovic who was left standing at the end, beating Nadal 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. He figured out how to beat Nadal on… Source link

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is expanding its complaint against Google to include three additional former employees of the company, according to Recode. When the agency first accused the search giant of illegally firing some of its workers for organizing, it took up the cases of two individuals. Recode reports the NLRB added Paul Duke, Rebecca Rivers and Sophie Waldman to the complaint. Those former employees allege Google fired them for protesting work it was doing with US… Source link

The Justice Department was recently able to recover $2.3 million worth of bitcoin (BTC-USD) extorted from Colonial Pipeline, suggesting that digital currency may not always be the best tool for criminals. “It’s not intuitive to a lot of people, but it’s a thing that the public is learning more and more,” Hunter Horsley, cofounder and CEO for Bitwise Asset Management, said about the rise in recovery of stolen cryptocurrency, such as part of the bitcoin ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to… Source link