United Airlines CEO issues third apology over passenger removal after stock price tumbles
From ABC News au The CEO of United Airlines has issued an apology to a passenger after a video of him being forcibly removed from an overbooked plane on Sunday went viral. Key points: Viral video shows passenger forcibly removed…
Man dragged off plane: 5 key questions on United’s $800 mistake
By AJ Willingham, from CNN (CNN)By now, the video of a United passenger being dragged off a flight at Chicago’s O’Hare airport has made it around the world and undoubtedly inundated your news feeds. There are a million things to…
USA: The Retail Sector Lost 30,000 Jobs Last Month
By Ashlee Kieler From Consumerist We’ve focused a lot in recent months on the worrisome trend of retail bankruptcies and all the stores and malls being left vacant in their wake. But a new federal jobs report gives an idea…
A photo of a Syrian father holding his twins’ lifeless bodies epitomizes the devastation in the country
By David Choi From Business Insider In this picture taken on Tuesday April 4, 2017, Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib,…
This one-of-a-kind rocket is designed to reach space in just 5 minutes
By Rob Ludacer and Jessica Orwig From Business Insider This rocket is about to change space travel. The Haas 2CA rocket is designed by the ARCA Space Corporation. It’s set to be the cheapest rocket of its kind, and could…
The Oscars just made a huge rule change to keep TV out of the awards
By Jason Guerrasio From Business Insider The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday new rules for the Oscars going forward, and the one that jumped off the press release is that multi-part documentaries will no longer be…
US credit card debt has topped $1 trillion — here’s the most effective way you can pay it off, according to the Harvard Business Review
By Tanza Loudenback From Business Insider By and large, Americans are drowning in credit card debt. New data released by the Federal Reserve Thursday shows Americans’ collective credit card debt has eclipsed $1 trillion, reaching its highest level since January 2009 and up…
It’s official: People are having sexual fantasies about their digital voice assistants
BY JACK MORSE From Mashable Love is a mystery. But for a growing number of people, it’s a mystery based not in the vagaries of human emotion but rather in the ones and zeros of proprietary software. According to an…
Quadruplets got into Yale and Harvard. All four of them.
BY CHRISTINA CAREAGA From Mashable Imagine thinking you’re having twins, and ending up with quadruplets. Then, fast-forward 18 years, and imagine that all four of your sons get into two of the country’s most prestigious Ivy League schools. That’s what…
Sad baby monkey & teddy bear
Try not to cry looking at this sad baby monkey hugging a teddy bear BY MARTHA TESEMA From Mashable Sometimes, you just need to hug a teddy bear when you have a rough day. This baby monkey named Mongkood knows…