Month: October 2019

Managers and senior leaders don’t always get along. Whether you’re a member of the CEO’s executive team charged with making the chief’s vision a reality, or a middle manager working on a project with another manager, disagreements and perceived slights happen, especially when the lines of authority are unclear or overlapping. The question is: How

A former soldier from Nepal has climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks in just over six months, smashing the previous record by over 7 years. Nirmal “Nims” Purja, 36, who served with the British Special Forces, reached the 8,027-metre-high summit of Mount Shishapangma, Tibet, on Tuesday morning local time along with three sherpa climbers. This

On Tuesday, Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, is expected tell House investigators that he had major concerns about the appropriateness of a July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. And that those worries led him to immediately flag the call to his superiors

An anthem for narcissism was immortalized in Carly Simon’s 1972 hit song, “You’re So Vain.” “You walked into the party / Like you were walking onto a yacht / You had one eye on the mirror / And watched yourself gavotte,” Simon sang. And of course, there’s the famous chorus: “I’ll bet you think this

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on Attorney General William Barr to recuse himself from “matters related to Ukraine” and the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Russia election interference investigation. “He’s the attorney general, supposedly of our country, but it becomes clearer every day he’s the lawyer for the President,”

Cats. When they’re not scratching up furniture (or your skin), they’re napping, purring, snuggling balls of joy. They’ll probably celebrate National Cat Day the same way. But unlike your beloved feline, you’ve only got one life instead of nine. So live life to the fullest or take a cue from a cat and laze about

John Cena is playing a firefighter in a new movie and wants to help some real-life first responders. On Monday the wrestler-turned-actor tweeted a video announcing his plan to donate $500,000 to those currently fighting the California wildfires. The actor portrays a firefighter in the forthcoming film “Playing with Fire” and tweeted “I’m asking that

On Sunday, Democratic Rep. Katie Hill of California announced her resignation from Congress, following recent allegations that she had an improper relationship with a campaign staffer before taking office. (She has denied separate allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship with a congressional staffer.) “This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do,

The stage has been set for a December general election in the UK after the opposition Labour Party swung behind the move, potentially paving a course out of the country’s paralyzing political impasse. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed his party would support Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt in Parliament on Tuesday to force an early

Two British tourists were injured in a shark attack in northeastern Australia on Tuesday morning, with one losing his foot. The two men, aged 22 and 28, were on a snorkeling tour boat near Airlie Beach in the state of Queensland, according to CNN affiliate 7 News. The boat took the passengers to Hook Passage,

California is in a state of emergency as wildfires rage through communities, leaving thousands displaced from their homes and searching for a safe place to stay. Airbnb is offering relief to some evacuees through its Open Homes program, an online tool where displaced people and relief workers affected by the Kincade and Tick wildfires may

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive and highly secretive leader of ISIS, died during a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said. The world’s most wanted man oversaw the militant group’s transformation from a ragtag insurgency to a global terror network that attracted tens of thousands of

Kourtney Kardashian has a message for those bothered about the length of her son’s hair: worry about your own kids. The 40-year-old reality star had a pithy response to a follower that commented on photos she posted of her 4-year-old son Reign Disick enjoying a weekend family getaway in Santa Ynez, California. Reign, who turns

Blame the fog of war, the Pentagon’s secrecy or the President whose tall tales often can’t be trusted, but Washington is still puzzling over the fuzzy details of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — and what comes next. What are the remaining US troops in Syria actually doing now? Officially, they