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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 1, 2019 Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates his victory at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, after the final race of the Formula One Grand Prix season.  (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said he is “completely overcome with rage” about racial injustice in the wake of the death of George Floyd. It is the second time this week that Britain’s six-time world champion has spoken angrily about the death of Floyd, an unarmed black man who died on May 25 during an arrest in Minneapolis. “This past week has been so dark. I have failed to keep hold of my emotions,” Hamilton said in a statement posted Tuesday on his social media accounts. “I have felt so much anger, sadness and disbelief in what my eyes have seen,” he continued, after days of protests that have gripped cities across the US prompting curfews and the use of force by law enforcement agencies. “I am completely overcome … [Read more...] about Lewis Hamilton ‘overcome with rage’ over racial injustice

FILE – Numerous murals depicting Bryant and Gianna have been created around greater Los Angeles following their tragic deaths in a helicopter crash which left a total of nine dead. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP MANILA, Philippines — Black Lives Matter protests have filled the streets in the United States after the death of George Floyd last week. Not all rallies, however, remained peaceful as some took advantage of the situation to loot while some resorted to vandalism. That was the case in several cities like Los Angeles where riots have also escalated as the police clashed with protesters. But amid the chaos, there’s a common thing in the city that was left largely untouched. Murals of the late Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant were saved from the destruction. Vanessa Bryant, wife of the Los Angeles Lakers legend and mother of Gigi, couldn’t be more thankful after seeing how the murals have remained intact. Vanessa shared her appreciation on her … [Read more...] about Kobe, Gigi Bryant murals spared from violent Floyd protests in LA

Swiss 98-years-old veteran Alpinists Marcel Remy poses for a pictureat the indoor climbing centre in Villeneuve on the eastern shores of Lake Geneva, on May 31, 2021. – Climbing has always been major part of Remy’s life. Brought up on tales of the mountains, he never stopped going off to discover the great outdoors and the Alps became his playground. Though he mostly climbs indoors these days, Remy still does sorties into the mountains. In 2017, at the age of 94, he conquered the Miroir de l’Argentine, a Swiss climbing classic with its 500 metres of limestone wall. And he shows no sign of stopping. (Photo by STEFAN WERMUTH / AFP) VILLENUEVE, Switzerland — Marcel Remy is the grand old man of Swiss Alpinists, and with his sure and steady progress as he conquers a climbing wall, few would realize he is 98 years old. Every Monday morning, Remy drives his old Toyota to the indoor climbing center in Villeneuve on the eastern shores of Lake Geneva, where he meets his son Claude to plot a … [Read more...] about Swiss grandpa still scaling heights at 98

INQUIRER.net stock photo CITY OF CALAPAN — Anti-drug operatives arrested three people on Monday night (June 27) in a joint buy-bust operation by local police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in San Jose town in Occidental Mindoro province, a report from Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) police said. Police Colonel Simeon Gane Jr., provincial chief of police, said Lawrence Mariano, 46; Wowie Bernabe, 25; and Julius Quizon, 38, were arrested at 10 p.m. after allegedly selling a sachet of suspected “shabu” (crystal meth), weighing 0.3 grams and worth P1,000, to a poseur-buyer in Barangay (village) Central. Seized from the suspects, who were all residents of San Jose, were four sachets of shabu weighing about 13 grams and worth P104,000. Since January, police in Mimaropa reported 153 anti-illegal drug operations that resulted in the arrest of 172 drug suspects, yielding a total of 378.67 grams of shabu valued at P2,589,516. “Again, this is an … [Read more...] about 3 arrested, P100,000 ‘shabu’ seized in Occidental Mindoro buy-bust

A 29-year-old transgender woman beat out a 13-year-old competitor to win a June 25 skateboarding contest in New York City, according to the competition’s results. Los Angeles-based Ricci Tres, a biological man who identifies as a female, beat out five biological females in “The Boardr Open at New York City Women’s FINALS Presented by DC,” according to the organization’s results . Tres won the women’s division of The Boardr’s open street skateboarding competition and a $500 prize. The transgender adult beat out 13-year-old Florida native Shiloh Catori, who came in second place and won $250 in prize money. The 29-year-old also competed against Juri Iikura, a 10-year-old who took fifth place in Friday’s competition. Four of the six finalists listed on The Boardr’s results page are under the age of 17. Tres is globally ranked a 833, while Catori is globally ranked at 133, according to Boardr’s website. Male wins women’s skateboarding finals and money at the Boardr Open NYC … [Read more...] about Trans 29-Year-Old Beats 13-Year-Old Female In New York Skateboarding Competition

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline John Hinckley Jr., who gained notoriety for shooting former President Ronald Reagan in the chest in 1981, gave his first interview Tuesday since being released from court supervision earlier this month, sharing wide-ranging commentary including admiration for Reagan. Key Facts Hinckley told CBS News Reagan was a “nice man and a good president” and he has “true remorse” for his actions. In addition to Reagan, Hinckley also shot police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and Press Secretary James Brady, who was partially paralyzed in the incident and died in 2014 from his gunshot wound. The 67-year-old Hinckley called himself the “most scrutinized person in the entire mental health system for 41 years,” having spent 41 years under federal oversight, mostly at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital federal psychiatric institution, after a jury found him not guilty on charges related to … [Read more...] about ‘A Good President’: Attempted Reagan Assassin Hinckley Expresses Remorse In First Interview Since Freed

The resignation of Glossier CEO Emily Weiss inspired another wave of obituaries for young, female founders. Nevertheless, they persist—and refuse to be put on glass pedestals again. I n October 2021, Rent the Runway cofounder Jennifer Hyman took her 12-year-old subscription fashion company public at a $1.7 billion valuation, valuing her 5.1% stake at nearly $49 million. The 41-year-old CEO was one of only about 25 American women in history to go public with a company she had founded. But Rent the Runway’s IPO was even more unusual for not only having a female founder but also a female CFO and a female COO. Hyman celebrated the moment on a flowery Nasdaq podium surrounded by the key women on her team, her two daughters and a shower of pink confetti. But for all the femininity on stage, there is one word that Hyman would not use to mark the moment: “Girlboss.” “We've created a false narrative because we looked at two or three examples of women who were building businesses … [Read more...] about Why Female Entrepreneurs Welcome The End Of The Girlboss Era—Once And For All

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin After the last two years of pandemic, economic collapse, and the she-cession, it’s time to return to a topic near and dear to this columns’ heart: entrepreneurship. There is nothing that warms said heart quite as much as the idea of a bunch of ambitious young women out there forging their own paths and transforming the world. There’s excitement, heightened by the sense—even back in the 1990s, when I founded my company—of helping to break new ground. And in the decades since, it’s been a distinct pleasure to watch women like Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Jane Fraser, and Safra Catz rise up alongside a whole generation of female business leaders. But unfortunately, there’s no way to talk about the entrepreneurial spirit in 2022 without also talking about the pandemic and its consequences. Chief among those consequences, for our purposes, is the she-cession—but not the narrow, technical definition of the word—the slower job … [Read more...] about Why Female CEOs Gave Themselves Pay Cuts While Male CEOs Took Raises

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin I t’s hard enough for women to raise venture capital; of the more than $300 billion deployed to startups last year, women received just $6 billion, or 2%. And women of color get an even smaller piece of the pie; last year, according to Crunchbase , Black women received 0.35% of all startup venture funding. Mindright founder Ashley Edwards, 31, knows this reality all too well. But she’s also managing to beat the odds: Today she’s announcing a $1.8 million seed round for her company, which provides mental health services to underserved teens via SMS text messaging. Investors like Melinda French Gates and Lifeforce Capital were attracted to the company in part due to its team of specially trained coaches who check in with youth daily to help them manage the challenges of both crises and everyday stressors. The SMS structure of the service, which helps eliminate technical and financial barriers to traditional mental … [Read more...] about Is This 31-Year-Old The First Black Woman In New Jersey To Raise More Than $1 Million?

A drunken foreign man was caught on film sexually assaulting a female contestant at the recent Miss Universe Thailand beauty contest. The sex pest was captured harassing the woman at the competition, part of the Pattaya International Pride Festival 2022, last Sunday on a Facebook Live stream. Kasama “Tangkwa” Sue-tong, who was the third runner-up in the contest, told the Miss Universe Thailand director immediately after the assault, saying “This foreigner grabbed my arm and touched my bottom.” The incident was recorded by the Facebook page Jox Jox Nang Ngam, which was created to spread news and information about beauty contests in Thailand. The man in a blue shirt is seen viewing the proceedings around the 5 minutes mark. After the assault, the man tried to flee the scene, but the MUT Director, Piyakorn “Pui” Sankosik, and her staff dashed after the foreigner, apprehended him, and forced him to apologise to Tangkwa. The man was also forced to pay respect to the woman by … [Read more...] about Foreign sex pest caught on film assaulting Thai beauty contestant