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‘Existential' Is Dictionary.com's Word of the Year
Climate change, gun violence, the very nature of democracy and an angsty little movie star called Forky helped propel “existential” to Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The choice reflects months of high-stakes threats and crises, real and pondered, across the news, the world and throughout 2019. “In our data, it speaks to this sense of grappling with our survival, both...
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New Jersey-Based Arts and Crafts Retailer A.C. Moore Closing All 145 Stores
New Jersey-based arts and crafts retailer A.C. Moore will close all 145 of its stores, parent company Nicole Crafts announced on Monday.
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McDonald's CEO Pushed Out After Relationship With Employee
McDonald’s chief executive officer has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday. The fast food giant said former president and CEO Steve Easterbrook demonstrated poor judgment, and that McDonald’s forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect subordinates. In an email to...
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McDonald's CEO Pushed Out After Relationship With Employee
McDonald’s chief executive officer has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday. The fast food giant said former president and CEO Steve Easterbrook demonstrated poor judgment, and that McDonald’s forbids managers from having romantic relationships with direct or indirect subordinates. In an email to...
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Dallas Mavs CEO Tells Community, ‘We Play for You'
In an open letter printed in the Dallas Morning News and titled We Play for You, Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall announced a season-long campaign to make community, philanthropy and charity initiatives a driving force in decisions.
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WeWork Shelves Plan for IPO, Tries to Rebuild Battered Image
WeWork’s new leaders shelved plans to enter the stock market Monday as they sought to repair the battered image of a company that appeared to revolutionize the office-rental industry and was poised just weeks ago to go public with a valuation of nearly $50 billion. The decision came less than a week after co-founder Adam Neumman stepped aside as chief...
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WeWork CEO Adam Neumann to Step Down Amid Controversy and Retain Chair Role
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down amid controversy over his role, the company has confirmed. Vice Chairman Sebastian Gunningham, a former Amazon exec, and CFO Artie Minson, formerly of AOL and Time Warner Cable, will take over as co-CEOs, while Neumann will be non-executive chairman, the company said. The new CEOs are not taking over on an interim basis,...
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Texas Opens New Athletics Hall of Fame Inside Football Stadium
Texas has long paid tribute to its greatest athletes and coaches by placing their names in its hallowed Hall of Honor. Now it finally has a physical Hall of Fame to help Longhorns fans celebrate them.
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How to Opt Out of Facebook Messenger Audio to Protect Your Conversations
If you’ve used Facebook’s popular Messenger app, there’s a chance that someone working for Facebook has listened to recordings of your audio chats. A report by Bloomberg found that Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from its users, citing “people with knowledge of the work” who were told to transcribe the audio without...
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Experts: Mental Illness Not Main Driver of Mass Shootings
President Donald Trump’s focus on “mentally ill monsters” oversimplifies the role of mental illness in public mass shootings and downplays the ease with which Americans can get firearms, experts said. “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,” Trump said Monday , addressing weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed 31 people.
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Russia Probe Witness Arrested on Child Porn Charges
A businessman who helped broker a meeting between an ally of President Donald Trump and an official of the Russian government has been arrested on child pornography charges, federal prosecutors disclosed Monday. George Nader, a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation who is mentioned in his 448-page report, was arrested Monday after he arrived at John F. Kennedy...
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Russia Probe Witness Arrested on Child Porn Charges
A businessman who helped broker a meeting between an ally of President Donald Trump and an official of the Russian government has been arrested on child pornography charges, federal prosecutors disclosed Monday. George Nader, a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation who is mentioned in his 448-page report, was arrested Monday after he arrived at John F. Kennedy...
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Planet Fitness to Offer Teens 15-18 Free Summer Workouts
Planet Fitness is offering teens age 15 to 18 to work out free at any of its locations as part of a nationwide Teen Summer Challenge. The New Hampshire-based company is building on last summer’s pilot program in the state. It said Friday more than 2,500 teens had logged nearly 12,000 gym visits at New Hampshire’s 18 Planet Fitness locations....
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Arlington Woman Names John Peter Smith Hospital, thyssenkrupp in New, $1 Million Lawsuit Alleging Elevator Injury
An Arlington woman is suing for $1 million after she says she was injured in an elevator at Fort Worth’s John Peter Smith Hospital in 2017.
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Dallas' The Sixth Floor Museum Hosts ‘An Evening With Bobbie Wygant'
Dallas’ The Sixth Floor museum will host “70 Years of Television: An Evening With Bobbie Wygant,” Monday, April 22.
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Nurse Crushed by JPS Elevator Out of Coma, Mouths ‘I Love You' to Family
A nurse injured last month when she was crushed in an elevator accident at Fort Worth’s John Peter Smith Hospital is out of a coma and out of the intensive care unit.
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Millennial Brides Force David's Bridal, Fresh Out of Bankruptcy, to Try Something New
David’s Bridal already has something old: 60 years in the bridal industry. Now, having emerged from three months in bankruptcy proceedings, it is trying something new as start-up competition and millennial brides upend its market. The retailer filed for bankruptcy in November, saddled in debt that partially stemmed from its $1.05 billion sale to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier &...
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Death Toll Rises for Police Officers on Duty
Study finds more police officers have died in the line of duty in the US this year compared to 2017.
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FBI Concerned by Money Mules Roped Into Fraud Schemes
The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that night when the executive, hours after the money had been transferred and still puzzled by the out-of-the-blue demand, texted the owner...
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US Reverses Policy on Migrant Children's Sponsors
The Trump administration is changing the way it reviews sponsors who want to care for migrant children in government custody — backing off a requirement that all people in the house are fingerprinted.