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The Daily Beast The Fight to Clear a Montana Woman Who Killed Her Abusive Ex Courtesy Rachel BellesenJust before 8 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2020, a 911 dispatcher in Sanders County, Montana, received a strange phone call. The woman on the other end said she was calling from a gas station in Hot Springs—a tiny, rural town located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Her voice was shaky, her delivery broken. She could not give her exact address. But one thing came through loud and clear: “I need the… Source link

The New York Times Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Resist GOP Voting Laws Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. The approach is aimed at persuading… Source link

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including: Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here. Soundtrack: This week’s newsletter has been specially designed to be consumed while listening to Serge Gainsbourg’s “Requiem pour un con” This week: A last waltz for Yahoo and AOL … Source link

Welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest consists of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the end. You may join this multi-round MLB DFS contest at any point, but enter today to give yourself the best chance to take home the title. Click here to begin the… Source link

With corporate cash balances looking flush again as businesses recover from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Goldman Sachs (GS) strategist David Kostin thinks a stock buyback “bonanza” is on the horizon.  Kostin estimates a 35% increase in share buybacks this year and a 5% pop in 2022. Share buybacks from U.S. companies through April have tallied $484 billion, more than double the pace at this same point last year. It marks the quickest pace of U.S. buyback announcements to kick off a… Source link

Facebook Share Twitter Share In a recent edition of the Republican business section  an article appeared concerning the decision by Verizon to divest it’s Yahoo and AOL holdings, “Verizon to see off media brands Yahoo, AOL,” May 4, page A8. The Board of Directors of Verizon approved a $3 million bonus to the current head of Yahoo to assure that he remain in place for six months. Think of the absurdity of that number which works out be about $3 thousand per hour for a 40 hour week during… Source link

Yahoo and AOL, two seminal but damaged internet brands, are under new, private equity ownership. Yahoo’s decades-long decline is a case study in wasted opportunities, hubris and lack of clarity. The next chapter for Yahoo may not be glamorous but it won’t be fruitless either — at least for its new owner. See more stories on Insider’s business page. … Source link

Verizon confirmed earlier this week that its Verizon Media division would be sold to Apollo Global Management, only four years after it was founded. The subsidiary includes brands like AOL and Yahoo with all its various offerings. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, but at the cost of $5 billion for the transaction, it’s a fraction of the original purchase price. Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 for $4.4 billion and a year later made a $4.48 billion offer for Yahoo’s core… Source link

The Telegraph Disney’s problematic princess: why Snow White is forever being cancelled It’s a tale as old as Twitter. Disneyland’s new Snow White ride, which reopened this month after a year of Covid shutdown, faces criticism for its “non-consensual kiss” between Snow White and Prince Charming. Snow White’s Enchanted Wish is a reimagining of Snow White’s Scary Adventures, one of the park’s inaugural rides when it opened in 1955. And it retains many elements of the original:… Source link

The Week House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy apparently pays $1,500 to live in a 12-bedroom, 16-bath penthouse Tucker Carlson was right: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is living in the Washington, D.C., penthouse of Republican pollster and messaging maven Frank Luntz, and it does sound like a pretty sweet deal. Carlson was tipped off to the roommate arrangement, and McCarthy confirmed it Tuesday, telling Fox & Friends he has “rented a room from Frank for a couple of months, but… Source link