Juneteenth, once an obscure, informal holiday celebrating Black freedom, is now bigger than it’s ever been. It commemorates when the last enslaved people in Texas, the final Confederate state, were set free on June 19th, 1865. Today, on this year’s Juneteenth, countries around the world are reckoning with anti-Black…Read more......

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Summary List PlacementGood morning and welcome to 10 Things in Tech. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Let's get started. 1. Companies like Amazon, Twitter, and Goldman Sachs are pursuing vastly different post-pandemic office policies. Some are embracing an all-remote workforce, while others are encouraging employees to return to their office desks. Here's what some of the world's biggest companies have planned. 2. Mark Zuckerberg has fallen off Glassdoor's top 100 CEOs list for the first time since 2013. A survey of Facebook workers showed a drop in Zuckerberg's approval from 94% in 2019 to 89% in 2021. Why employee approval dropped. 3. A leaked memo shows Amazon is making it easier for employees to escape the "Focus" program. The program is often the first step to getting fired — there will now be limits on how long an employee can stay in it, and it will be easier for managers to remove them. Read more from our exclusive report. 4. Walmart, Target, Kohl's, and other stores will offer competing sales during Amazon Prime Day. Major retailers are once again lining up to compete with Amazon's annual deals, so we answered some FAQs about their sales. Here's what we know about them so far. 5. Apple wanted to open its own primary healthcare clinics in a project codenamed "Casper." The plan, which stalled after key people quit, would have also included hiring doctors. More on the (mostly) defunct project. 6. Twitter may now be held directly responsible for every single tweet in India. The company could lose its protection as an intermediary platform — meaning it would be held directly responsible for all posts. Get the full rundown here. 7. Amazon is launching a startup accelerator for Black entrepreneurs. It's committing $150 million over the next four years to give Black business owners financial support, business education, mentorship, and other resources. How the program could help fix one of venture capital's biggest problems. 8. Texas authorities threatened to arrest SpaceX employees. SpaceX's security staff may have broken Texas laws against obstructing public roads and impersonating a public official, according to the county's DA. Here's what else the DA said. 9. Arrival, the $11 billion electric-van maker, is ripping up Tesla's playbook with its microfactories. The company is pioneering a different approach to the assembly line by building vehicles in microfactories instead of Tesla-style megaplants. Take an inside look at a microfactory. 10. Salaries revealed: How much does Google pay its employees? New data reveals how much the tech giant is paying its engineers, designers, and SVPs. Check out their salaries here. Compiled by Jordan Erb. Tips/comments? Email jerb@insider.com or tweet @JordanParkerErb. Sign up for more Insider newsletters here.Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: One bite from this tick could ruin red meat for you — or even kill you...

Courtesy Brendan LeavyLooming over a busy interstate in Richmond, Virginia, is a billboard with an ominous message: “The safety of our city is in jeopardy.”Public safety, the billboard blares out in giant red letters, is in “crisis.”The culprit: a group that claims to represent nearly half the sworn officers in the state capital and functions much like a police union—right down to the inflammatory language.Read more at The Daily Beast....

Summary List PlacementMoney buys access. It's one of politics' oldest axioms. So how much money buys which level of access? The equation is often incalculable. But that's not the case with Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho. The four-term senator's campaign committee provided prospective donors a detailed list of pay-to-play deliverables at three price points, according to documents obtained by Insider. For a $15,000 "Gold Benefits Package" contribution, lobbyists, financiers, and representatives of other special interests are entitled to no fewer than seven exclusive events with Crapo, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Republicans' chief deputy whip. Events include: A "Max Out Reception" on July 20 in Washington, DC. The annual "Hook 'n Bullet" outing on August 17 to 18 at a luxury lodge in Sun Valley, Idaho. Two 30-minute "calls or briefings" — one September 29, the other on December 1. A "Max Out Lunch" on October 28 in Washington. A retreat on November 12 to 14 at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The Idaho Potato Fest Reception on December 8 in Washington. In previous years, Crapo's potato fest has been conducted at a Capitol Hill townhome owned by the alcoholic-beverage conglomerate Diageo, which typically spends between $2 million and $3 million annually lobbying the federal government, according to Senate lobbying disclosures compiled by the nonpartisan research group OpenSecrets. "Gold" contributors who donated earlier this year could have skipped the Greenbrier trip in favor of a Crapo fishing trip in Solomons Island, Maryland, or a golf outing in Bradenton, Florida, according to the documents. "Silver" contributors who donate $10,000 receive the same benefits, save for the potato-fest reception, for which they receive one ticket instead of two. For a $5,000 "Bronze Benefits Package" contribution, donors may select one out-of-town Crapo event plus a reception in Washington, or opt for access to a limited package of receptions and Zoom calls and a ticket to the potato fest. Crapo's Senate office and campaign committee did not respond to Insider's requests for comment. The money Crapo raises benefits both his reelection committee and the Freedom Fund, a leadership political action committee he operates, according to the documents. Crapo also gives supporters the option of raising money from friends and colleagues — as opposed to personally donating money — to score one of the three donor benefit packages. And while politicians from Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna have for varying reasons rejected corporate PAC contributions, Crapo invites such donations, even labeling his top contribution tier a "2021 PAC Max Out Package." Federal law allows individuals to contribute up to $2,900 per election to candidate committees and $5,000 per year to PACs, according to federal regulations. Meanwhile, PACs may contribute up to $5,000 per election to candidate committees and $5,000 per year to other PACs, such as a senator's leadership PAC. 'Particularly vulgar' From pseudo-lotteries to swag grabs to bogus "match" gimmicks, liberal and conservative politicians alike have long incentivized donors to give them cash, particularly as the cost of campaigning has grown evermore expensive. Donors-only lunches, brunches, dinners, and cocktail hours are de rigueur in Washington among members of Congress. But few are as specific as Crapo in how he guarantees his donors exclusive access to him. "This is a particularly vulgar display of what campaign fundraising from large donors is all about," said Craig Holman, a government-affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a liberal advocacy group that supports public financing of political campaigns. "He's offering a whole package of access to the very wealthy, and the more you give, the more he will listen to you." Meredith McGehee, the executive director of the bipartisan political-reform group Issue One, said Crapo's offerings were "the definition of 'the swamp'" and proof there was "an entry fee for all of the swamp creatures to play in the swamp." Paying for access to a senator, McGehee added, "elevates the voices of the wealthy" and "alienates people from their own government." For all of his fundraising, Crapo's financial needs aren't particularly acute. While he faces reelection in 2022, he represents a decidedly red state and is the overwhelming favorite to win a fifth term. In 2016, he won his fourth term after defeating his Democratic challenger by nearly 40 percentage points. And perhaps most importantly, Crapo's reelection committee had more than $4.26 million in its account as of March 31, according to Federal Election Commission records. That alone is likely enough to run a robust campaign in a state with small media markets and fewer than 2 million residents. Why continue aggressive fundraising, then? As upsets are always possible in politics — see Donald Trump — having tons of money helps defend against the unexpected while scaring off prospective challengers. This applies both to partisan opponents and to primary challengers. Crapo may also legally give limited amounts of surplus cash to other political candidates. And he may transfer unlimited amounts to Republican Party committees at the local, state, and national levels, thereby consolidating his power and reinforcing his position in the Republican Party firmament. In the weeks before his 2016 reelection, for example, Crapo's committee sent $50,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and another $1,000 to a local Idaho GOP committee, federal records indicate.Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Why we still haven't been able to find aliens...

It started 40 years ago, at school, when I was telling a story and saw a yawn begin stirring on my teacher’s face. I’ve been on red alert for stifled yawns ever sinceI have a visceral fear of boredom, not on my own account but on everyone else’s. I never get bored myself. This isn’t because I’m always super busy doing lots of interesting things. I’m not. It’s just that I can always fill the quieter minutes, hours and days, which could be boring, with dark thoughts of fury, anxiety, regret, sadness or outright panic about something or other. There’s so much rich material to draw on. I’m resourceful in these matters. It’s enervating, distressing and even crippling, but it has this much going for it: it’s never boring.My fear of boredom comes from a horror of being the source of anyone else’s boredom. I believe this started 40 years ago during a conversation with my history teacher, Miss Finney. I was banging on about something rather clever, I thought, when I saw the beginnings of a yawn stirring on her face. These stirrings soon hardened into a firm setting of her jaw. She had plainly resolved, bless her, to do everything in her power not to let this yawn out. I heard tedious words continue to tumble out of my mouth while I watched her face spasm in an ecstasy of desperate, tiny contortions. I wanted to scream: “Just yawn!” but I was too scared of her. Continue reading......

As The Blacklist nears its Season 8 finale, the most pressing questions might be coming from behind the scenes, following the news that Megan Boone will exit the series after Season 8. But there is an on-screen mystery that has needed solving since the NBC drama debuted in 2013: Who is Raymond Reddington, really? We know the real […]...

Oklahoma Historical SocietyI’ve been making films about civil rights history for over a decade, but nothing prepared me for the truth of Tulsa and the Red Summer massacres. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the massacre that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you haven’t yet heard this story, it bears repeating. On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland boarded an elevator occupied by a young white woman named Sarah Page. Some say he tripped and brushed up against her, others say they were secret lovers, but all agree that whatever happened in that elevator sparked one of the deadliest events in American history.Rumors began to spread that Rowland had attacked Sarah Page. Tulsa police arrested Rowland, angering the Black residents who headed to the courthouse to try and prevent a mob from killing him. In the restless crowd shots were fired, sparking a confrontation between Black and white. Two days later on June 1, 1921, the once prosperous section of Tulsa known as Greenwood was looted and burned by white rioters. Eyewitnesses recounted shocking acts of brutality. Hundreds were killed and over 800 people were injured. More than 6,000 Black Tulsans were interned in a refugee camp, some for as long as eight days. When all was said and done, some 35 city blocks were destroyed, and more than 800 people were treated for injuries. Historians now believe as many as 300 people may have died. Most people have never heard this history, relegating it to a whispered cautionary tale in Black homes across the city. Parents told their children of the atrocities to protect them from similar attacks, a gruesome echo of “the talk” that so many Black parents have with their children today.Read more at The Daily Beast....

Summary List PlacementNew body-camera footage released Thursday shows a former member of the New York City Police Department attacking a police officer in Washington, DC, during the January 6 Capitol insurrection. The footage, obtained by CNN, shows Thomas Webster wielding a flag pole while assaulting police, eventually charging at and tackling an officer to the ground. Webster is a retired NYPD police officer and a former Marine. He was charged in February with multiple counts, including using a flag pole to assault a police officer, Insider's Charles Davis reported. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The video captures what was described in the criminal complaint. It shows Webster, who is wearing a red jacket, berating an officer and calling them a "piece of shit" and a "commie." Read more: The Justice Department is scrutinizing Arizona's pro-Trump vote audit as threats of violence and political fallout loom NEW: Justice Dept. just released horrifying new footage from 1/6. Feds say this is ex-NYPD officer Thomas Webster (red jacket) wielding a flagpole, rushing at police & tackling a cop to the ground. DOJ released this after legal action by CNN and other outlets. (warning: explicit) pic.twitter.com/yf7DQQFMWr — Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 17, 2021 Webster can then be seen aggressively pushing against the barricade and swinging the metal flag pole as police struggle to keep him and others back. The officer is able to wrestle the flag pole away from him, at which point Webster can be seen charging at the officer and tackling him to the ground. The complaint said Webster shoved the metal gate into the officer and struck him with the flag pole several times. It also featured images from other angles of Webster attacking the officer and attempting to pull his face mask and protective gear off, which the complaint said caused the officer to choke. A judge ordered the Justice Department to release the footage after legal challenges by multiple media outlets, including CNN. Prosecutors have been using body-camera footage, surveillance footage, and more in court cases, but some of it has not been released to the public.Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Why I'm throwing away every plastic thing in my kitchen ASAP...

When veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Jing brought the young actress Sabrina Qiu onto the popular Chinese talk show Roast in 2018, some audience members thought she might be the daughter of Chingmy Yau Suk-ching, a movie star who was scouted and nurtured to become a sex symbol by Wong in the 1990s.That was understandable – the actresses share the same surname in Chinese, and on Roast Qiu re-enacted a classic scene from Wong’s film God of Gamblers’ Returns (1994) in which Yau, dressed in a red…...

Summary List PlacementI started investing through an app. But, I wasn't doing it right. I wasn't consistent with it, and I was manually picking and choosing what I bought, which took a lot of time to manage. I thought actively managing an account was the allure of investing, but that strategy was actually holding me back. About a year later, I opened a different account. Seeing that I hadn't made much progress with the first account — and that it was taking up lots of time — I opted for a fully automated approach. My second account was with a robo-advisor, which chose where my money would be invested automatically. I set up an automatic deposit to keep money going in consistently. Then, I forgot about it. I didn't realize my first method had me making two mistakes until my new, second investing account doubled in value compared to the first, earning me thousands. I wasn't using automatic deposits the right way When I was actively managing my investment account, I did have a small automatic deposit turned on. But, it didn't do anything on its own except move the money — anything I put in would sit in the account not growing until I actively went into the app and chose where to invest it. That meant the money would sit for weeks if I forgot or didn't have time to manage it. It meant that I would open up the app, see red, and think that it wasn't the right time to invest anyways. Or, in extreme weeks, I'd cancel the automatic deposit altogether. What I didn't understand until I opened my automated account was just how powerful these deposits could be when made consistently. Not only were automatic deposits saving me time, but they also saved me the potential problem of looking at how the market was doing. When I started fresh with an account that used automatic deposits the right way, putting the money in the market right away, I saw my total balance grow in a way I never did before. I wasn't using a dollar-cost averaging strategy When I was picking stocks in the app, I would open the app and close it because it didn't seem like a good day to be investing: the prices could be too high, or the red or green line seeming too volatile. Something was always encouraging me to either wait it out or buy on impulse at that moment. When I opened my next account, I wanted to avoid that. I went for the expert-favorite dollar-cost averaging strategy instead. This strategy is simple: consistently invest the same amount every week or month, instead of trying to time your deposit to get the best price. The principle behind this is that shares are sometimes bought high, and sometimes low, but it all evens out in the end. The robo-advisor account put the money that I automatically deposited to work right away. It's not only saved me a lot of time, but it also helped to kickstart my account's growth. It suddenly didn't matter whether prices were low or what was going on in the market — my balance was growing. Related Content Module: More Financial Planner CoverageJoin the conversation about this story »...

“Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer” begins with workers marking off patches of green grass with orange paint. The beeps of a bulldozer sounded as excavation at the Oaklawn cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, got underway last summer. Forensic anthropologist had turned up data that suggested there might be a mass grave at the site. […]...