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He Was a Banker on the Rise. Then a Colleague Began Crying
His Boss Showed Him Her
Breast, He Ended Up Ruined
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Jul 28, 2018 5:00 PM CDT

His Boss Showed Him Her Breast, He Ended Up Ruined

Mike Picarella's attempts to report the alleged sexual harassment killed his career

(Newser) - Think your job is bad? Brace yourself for the tale of Mike Picarella. When he joined HSBC in May 2011 after a two-decade Wall Street career, the future looked bright. He reported to Eileen Hedges, and the intention was for him to become her—to eventually assume her managing director...

One Detail May Sink a Theory on Otto Warmbier
The Story You've Heard About
Otto Warmbier May Be Wrong
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Jul 28, 2018 3:30 PM CDT

The Story You've Heard About Otto Warmbier May Be Wrong

Doug Bock Clark writes that his timeline suggests there was no torture

(Newser) - Doug Bock Clark begins a lengthy piece for GQ on the fate of Otto Warmbier with a bold assertion: That what happened to the 21-year-old American college student "is even more shocking than anyone knew" and that he had the "untold story." So does he? The piece,...

Yes, Gwyneth Really Can Smoke Just a Few Cigarettes a Year

And more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner's in-depth article on the actress and her business

(Newser) - Somewhere in the middle of her New York Times Magazine article on Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop, the controversial lifestyle business she founded, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner sits in the actress's home and smokes a cigarette with her because she once read that Paltrow smokes a single cigarette a week. The...

He Said He Needed Toilet Paper. It Was a Ruse to Escape

Michael Scott Moore's attempt to flee Somali pirates didn't work

(Newser) - He said he needed to use the bathroom, and that he had toilet paper downstairs—he just needed permission to get it. There was some verbal tussling, but then Michael Scott Moore was given the OK to retrieve it. It was all a ruse, and the downstairs location he headed...

The Family Was Gone, the Bed Was Made. That Was Troubling

Stacy Perman revisits the 1982 vanishing of the Salomon family

(Newser) - When an LAPD officer entered the Salomons' Northridge, Calif., home on Oct. 13, 1982, the family wasn't there but all seemed normal, down to the fact that the master bedroom's bed was made. That detail freaked Dorene Laffer out. She was Elaine Salomon's cousin, and the two...

What You Do When Your Own DNA Gives Up a Secret
She Thought It Was a Goof on
Her Family Tree. It Was a Secret
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Jul 22, 2018 2:30 PM CDT

She Thought It Was a Goof on Her Family Tree. It Was a Secret

'The Atlantic' looks at how at-home DNA test kits are revealing decades-old secrets

(Newser) - After Catherine St Clair used AncestryDNA's test, she took to bed crying. What she initially thought was a goof on the part of the company was actually the revelation of a secret that had never occurred to her: Her brother wasn't appearing properly on her family tree because...

Months Before Death, Bourdain Talked to Me About Everything
Months Before Death, Bourdain
Talked to Me About Everything
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Jul 22, 2018 7:07 AM CDT

Months Before Death, Bourdain Talked to Me About Everything

Maria Bustillos spent hours with Anthony Bourdain in February

(Newser) - When Maria Bustillos reached out to Anthony Bourdain's assistant to see if she could secure an interview with him, she got a quick reply: the following Friday, Feb. 16, worked. They were to meet at 3pm at an unfussy Manhattan bar called Coliseum. Bustillos assumed she'd get 15...

Best Buy&#39;s New Strategy: Be Your Personal Tech Officer
Best Buy Defied Doomsayers.
Now, a New Strategy
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Jul 20, 2018 10:42 AM CDT

Best Buy Defied Doomsayers. Now, a New Strategy

Company is training team to be your 'personal chief technology officer'

(Newser) - Big-box retailer Circuit City went belly up in 2009 thanks largely to the encroach of Amazon. The widespread expectation was that rival Best Buy would soon follow. But it's now about a decade later, and, surprise, surprise, the chain is actually "thriving in the age of Amazon,"...

&#39;One of the Most Elaborate Scams to Ever Hit Hollywood&#39;
'One of the Most Elaborate
Scams to Ever Hit Hollywood'
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Jul 15, 2018 6:33 AM CDT

'One of the Most Elaborate Scams to Ever Hit Hollywood'

Con artists impersonate female execs and dupe victims into turning over money

(Newser) - It's a con job that sounds straight out of Hollywood—and this time, that is literally true. Scott Johnson of the Hollywood Reporter reveals a bizarre international scheme in which a very talented con artist impersonates some of the film industry's top female executives and dupes people out...

Meet Japan&#39;s &#39;Hero Househusbands&#39;
Meet Japan's 'Hero
Househusbands'
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Jul 11, 2018 6:00 PM CDT

Meet Japan's 'Hero Househusbands'

Stay-at-home husbands and dads have gotten an image makeover

(Newser) - Around the turn of the century, if you bumped into a Japanese man in a suit picking through produce at the market, it may have been an early "househusband," a once-frowned-upon role in Japan; the suits these stay-at-home spouses may have donned were meant to make it appear...

Director Moved to Vietnam for Peace. He Was Nearly Killed

Jordan Vogt-Roberts of 'Kong: Skull Island' and his quest to ID his attackers, as told to 'GQ'

(Newser) - GQ writer Max Marshall traveled to Vietnam last year to profile American director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who made it big with Kong: Skull Island and then decided to ditch living in Hollywood and move to Vietnam instead. Soon after his visit, however, something happened that would dramatically change the story:...

Before It Was Mature Facebook, Infant Facebook Was 'Wild'

'Wired' takes a closer look at Zuckerberg and his team during the social media giant's early days

(Newser) - It's true that Mark Zuckerberg jump-started Facebook in the spring of 2004 while attending Harvard, but it was in the infant firm's new home in Silicon Valley just a few months later where endless hours of frenetic coding, partying, and a "brogrammer 'tude" started to transform...

Billionaires&#39; Honeymoons Are More Eye-Popping Than You Think
Billionaires'
Honeymoons Are
More Eye-Popping
Than You Think
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Jul 8, 2018 11:00 AM CDT

Billionaires' Honeymoons Are More Eye-Popping Than You Think

Ovation Vacations goes to extremes for its clients

(Newser) - In describing his "consulting crash course" with "a leisure travel consultancy" that plans eye-popping honeymoons for billionaires, Brandon Presser explains that the first order of business is signing a nondisclosure agreement. And yet his piece for Bloomberg still manages to be replete with truly amazing examples of...

Children of Dead Billionaire, His Wife Hunt for Answers
2 Elements of Billionaires'
Deaths Their Kids Found Odd
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Jul 7, 2018 1:10 PM CDT

2 Elements of Billionaires' Deaths Their Kids Found Odd

How could it be murder-suicide if Barry Sherman's legs were so neat?

(Newser) - Toronto police in late January revealed that, after a six-week investigation, they believed Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered in a targeted killing. One of the couple's four children tells the Wall Street Journal he thinks police would have said something quite different had he and his...

The Super-Wealthy Are Prepping for a Cataclysmic Future

The 'future of technology' has devolved into a view of humans as liabilities

(Newser) - Douglas Rushkoff opens his Medium article with a pretty intense anecdote: Rushkoff is regularly invited to give talks on the future of technology and was offered a massive fee to be a keynote speaker last year. But this was no normal speech. He was led into a room that consisted...

She Prays for Death Daily, Doesn't Love the Baby in Her Arms

Rohingya rape survivors share their stories with the AP

(Newser) - First the media reported on the rapes. Now, more than 10 months later, the babies. Writing for the AP , Kristen Gelineau profiles several Rohingya Muslim women who were raped by Buddhist soldiers in Myanmar and became pregnant; one is just 13. It's a fate seemingly just as bad as...

HelloFresh&#39;s Wild Success Story Is a Complicated One
HelloFresh's
Wild Success Story
Is a Complicated One
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Jul 1, 2018 10:30 AM CDT

HelloFresh's Wild Success Story Is a Complicated One

How the No. 1 meal-kit company on the planet got to the top

(Newser) - Blue Apron's fall from grace is well known: Since its 2017 IPO, shares are down 70%. So why is competitor HelloFresh sitting so pretty? That's the question Burt Helm seeks to answer for Inc. , a question that took him to Berlin to meet the company's 32-year-old co-founder...

He Had a Knack for Finding Meteorites. Then Things Got Crazy

Steven Curry fancied himself a pro, then it all fell apart

(Newser) - "He's found outlines of crustaceans, snails, and sea worms inside his meteors," the Grand Junction, Colo., news report declared. "Proof of alien life." That would be something, if only it were true. Writing for the Verge , Brendan Borrell has the lengthy story of Steven Curry,...

Even in Private, Obama Rarely Brings Up Trump
Behind Obama's Silence:
a Focus on the Long Game
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Jun 28, 2018 1:10 PM CDT

Behind Obama's Silence: a Focus on the Long Game

A 'New York' profile says former president sees what's happening as a 'blip' in history

(Newser) - Gabriel Debenedetti sets out to answer a question raised in the headline of a lengthy piece in New York magazine: "Where Is Barack Obama?" In one sense, the answer is easy: He's traveling the world giving speeches, having visited every continent but Antarctica since leaving office. But in...

She Drove for Amazon Flex, Quickly Came to Regret It

What it's like to (very briefly) be an Amazon Flex driver

(Newser) - Parking in downtown San Francisco is no picnic, a fact Atlantic writer Alana Semuels rued during her single day as a driver for Amazon Flex. That's the delivery service Amazon operates that pays independent contractors to ferry packages to homes and businesses in some 50 cities, and Semuels decided...

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