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A Bed Bath & Beyond store. Michael Santiago/Getty Images A man who died after falling from a building in Manhattan was identified by police as Gustavo Arnal. The Bed Bath & Beyond CFO fell from the 18th floor on Friday, the NYPD confirmed to Insider. The retailer recently announced plans to close 150 stores and […]
UK-based ‘investigative’ group Bellingcat claims one of the the men accused by the UK authorities of being involved in the Salisbury poisoning affair is known as Aleksandr Petrov and is a doctor working for Russian intelligence. In another instalment of its running coverage about the two men London calls the Salisbury poisoning suspects, the open-source […]
The bonnethead shark may be the world’s first omnivorous shark, according to new research. While scientists have long known that this shark consumes seagrass, they thought it was incidental consumption when the sharks went after their bottom-dwelling prey. The researchers say this study may force a rethink about what it means to be a carnivore. […]
NOTE: This story will be updated as we learn victims’ names and more about them. Fifteen people are dead and 14 injured after the bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck on a highway north of Tisdale, Sask., early Friday evening. The team was on its […]
Law-enforcement sources cited by multiple local news outlets have reportedly identified the suspected shooter who opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters on Tuesday as Nasim Aghdam. Three people received gunshot wounds, including one man and two women. One other person was injured. The suspect died of a self-inflicted wound, police said. An investigation is underway at […]
SCIENTISTS have identified seven new genetic variants that could lower a person’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, it emerged today. The research studied 451,000 people involved in the UK Biobank to find variations in certain genes that were linked to levels of body fat.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images The US government recently released a list of 35 minerals that it deemed critical to the economic and national security of the country. The list included minerals like helium, cobalt, and aluminum. The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. What do cobalt, uranium, helium, titanium, and fluorspar have […]
Fundstrat Bitcoin is still too risky for many investors with a lot of money at stake. But there’s a handful of stocks that stand to benefit from bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology, according to Tom Lee, a strategist at Fundstrat and one of the most prominent advocates for the cryptocurrency. The basket of 12 stocks […]
While many of the male fighters who travelled to fight for Islamic State have yet to return, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has other worries. Hans-Georg Maassen is greatly concerned with the threat posed by their wives and children. “There are children who have been brainwashed and highly radicalized at ‘schools’ in IS-held […]
Slavin Vlasic/Getty Images Ex-NBC host Matt Lauer has been accused by multiple current and former colleagues of sexual misconduct. Lauer reportedly gave female colleagues inappropriate gifts, exposed himself, and quizzed them on who they had slept with in the office. Lauer was fired by NBC on Wednesday after the network received a complaint of “inappropriate […]
