Identifying talent and making the right hiring decisions are crucial to any organization. National Football League franchises are no exception. With the rise of computer-driven data analytics, the days of “gut decisions” made by scouts are long gone from the world of professional sports. But for the Indianapolis Colts, a […]
CNBC News
Here’s a map of where rural hospital closures are happening in the US
(Click to see an interactive version of this map.) There has been a total of 83 rural hospital closures in the United States from January 2010 to January 2018, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, a group which tracks rural hospital closures across the country. The majority […]
Meet the man who created Apple’s most iconic sounds: Sosumi, the camera click and the start-up chord
Some engineers at Apple were not happy with the change. “Our excuse was it’s too risky to take it back out at this point because something could crash,” he said. “We just made up some bulls—.” It stuck, and years later Apple even trademarked the start-up sound. It’s one of […]
Rural hospital shutdowns force communities to take care of their own
Crystal Harris was at her Virginia home one winter afternoon when she received a 911 call. As an unpaid volunteer of the Smith River Rescue Squad in Woolwine, a small town located in northern Patrick County, Harris needed to drop what she was doing and head to the nearest ambulance […]
Barack and Michelle Obama to Parkland students: ‘You’ve helped awaken the conscience of the nation’
Today, at least a half-million people are expected to attend the March For Our Lives demonstration in Washington, D.C. and over 800 sister marches across the world. To support the organizers of the march, former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama wrote them a special letter. “We […]
3 reasons Gen Z activists have changed the gun control conversation when no one else could
The student survivors of February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. are proving that more than any activists in a generation, they have managed to take over the conversation around gun control and American safety. “The world failed us and we’re here to make a […]
106 passengers stranded in Germany due to drunken co-pilot
A Portuguese airline has apologized for keeping more than 100 passengers stranded at Stuttgart airport in southwestern Germany after one of its flights was canceled last-minute because of a drunken co-pilot. Shortly before the TAP Air Portugal flight was to takeoff to Lisbon on Friday night, an airport employee noticed […]
French hero officer who swapped himself for hostage dies
A French police officer who offered himself up to an Islamic extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage died of his injuries, raising the death toll in the attack to four, and the officer was honored Saturday as a national hero of “exceptional courage and selflessness.” Col. Arnaud Beltrame was […]
China warns US it will defend its own trade interests
The United States has flouted trade rules with an inquiry into intellectual property and China will defend its interests, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a telephone call on Saturday, Chinese state media reported. The call between Mnuchin and Liu, a confidante of President Xi […]
These tax breaks are vanishing. Grab them while you can
Before you hand in your tax return to the IRS, be sure to go over your receipts: You could miss out on key tax deductions and credits that are about to go extinct. That’s because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect at the beginning of this year […]