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17 award-winning editorial cartoons from 2015 everyone should see

BusinessInsider.com 

Jack Ohman/The Sacramento Bee/Courtesy of Pulitzer Prizes

The following 17 award-winning editorial cartoons come from the portfolio of Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee.

Ohman, a staff cartoonist, won the 2016 "Editorial Cartooning" Pulitzer Prize.

"His drawings ranged from the bold to the masterfully understated. His touching statement on the day the US Supreme Court legalized marriage equality is a cartoon that will echo for years," wrote Joyce Terhaar, executive editor of The Sacramento Bee... Читать дальше...

AP Exclusive: Immigrant kids sent to adults lacking status

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Department of Health and Human Services provided data showing that 80 percent of the 71,000 mostly Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were sent to sponsors who were not here legally. Читать дальше...

Goldman results highlight Wall Street's pain

MarketWatch.com 

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported sharp drops in first-quarter profit and revenue, highlighting the fundamental problem facing Wall Street: It isn't making enough money. After five of the six biggest U.S. banks posted shrinking revenue in the quarter from a year earlier, analysts are starting to raise tough questions about the future ability of big investment banks to generate the same revenue they used to.



US 'Seeks War in Middle East to Save Its Fracking Industry From Collapse'

RIA Novosti  

On Sunday, negotiators from the world's major oil-producing countries, including both the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members and the non-cartel producers, failed to reach an agreement on freezing production levels in talks in Doha, Qatar.

Yahoo's former exec, who lost his job to Marissa Mayer, is now trying to buy the core business (YHOO)

BusinessInsider.com 

LinkedIn

Ross Levinsohn is a former Yahoo exec who briefly served as the company's interim CEO in 2012.

He was the front-runner to become Yahoo's full-time CEO until activist investors gave the role to current CEO Marissa Mayer instead, as described in Nicholas Carlson's book "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo."

Now, Levinsohn is trying to get back in the company as part of a group of investors placing a bid for Yahoo's core business, according to Re/code's Kara Swisher. Читать дальше...

IBM plunges, drags down market

CNBC 

Shares of IBM fell more than 6 percent, taking the major U.S. stock indexes off their session highs.

Former beauty queen discloses painful sickness she’s lived with for many years

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

Ex-beauty queen and TV host Nike Oshinowo has disclosed that she has suffered from endometriosis  for decades, more specifically since the age of 13. The 50-year-old made this known at the recently organized Gala Night of Fun and Fund Raising for Endometriosis put together by the Endometriosis Support Group of Nigeria on Saturday, April 9 at […]

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Lange Frans en Lil' Kleine in de clinch om pegels

Tubantia 

Rapper Lange Frans (35) en rapper Lil' Kleine (21) liggen met elkaar in de clinch over publiciteitsrechten die verbonden zijn aan hun platenlabel Top Notch. Lange Frans - die Lil' aan een rapcarrière hielp - zou nog geld tegoed hebben van zijn pupil. Lange Frans' ex-partner Daniëlle van Aalderen mengt zich in de battle.

Viacom's stock is tanking because 13 million people are about to lose its channels

BusinessInsider.com 

Tim Whitby/Getty Images

Viacom's cable networks are in danger of getting dropped by Dish Networks, and its stock is getting crushed.

The owner of such networks as MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central launched a website Tuesday to pressure Dish 

"We are extremely disappointed that DISH has not engaged in a serious way to reach an agreement for Viacom’s number one family of cable networks," said the header on the website Keep Viacom.

Television providers and content producers... Читать дальше...

Designers Costa, Zucchelli out at Calvin Klein

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

The parent company aims to develop a $10 billion global retail sales business. The Calvin Klein empire spans women's dresses and suits, jeans wear, underwear, handbags and home furnishings.

The Story Behind Why This Mom Is 'The Meanest Mom In The World'

The Huffington Post 

"So... I am the meanest mom ever... Like... Ever."



That's the bold opener to Jamie Primak Sullivan's viral Facebook post where she described the way she taught her three kids an important lesson about "basic human decency." In the post from April 17, the publicist and producer explained she took her kids to Dairy Queen for ice cream after dinner and was unhappy with the way the kids treated the worker who gave them their dessert.



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If Magic Leap is really that good, Apple should buy it (AAPL)

BusinessInsider.com 

Have you seen Magic Leap?

RAW Embed

It really is a magical concept: Put on a pair of goggles and watch lifelike virtual objects invade your real world.

We've heard about this device for years but have still never seen it — we have no idea what it looks like. But according to the lucky few who's tried the mysterious device, it is "so badass you can't believe it."

Wired published a long feature story about Magic Leap on Tuesday. Of all the virtual and augmented reality headsets out there and in development... Читать дальше...





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