Wahida Rahimi now lives in Vancouver, Canada with her husband and their three sons. Wahida Rahimi; Alyssa Powell/Insider Wahida Rahimi was one of 270 female judges trying to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban regained control. Rahimi was chosen by the Afghan Supreme Court to oversee Panjshir province’s court of domestic violence. “It was not meant to…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Simon Cowell’s SyCo produced The X Factor and manages artists including Camila Cabello and Louis Tomlinson. Willy Sanjuan/AP X Factor contestants say they plan to sue Simon Cowell’s production company, SyCo. A contestant told the Sunday Mirror she was bullied, mistreated, and neglected while on the show. The report made clear there were no allegations…
Shabree Rawls, 28, was fired from her job just days after her TikTok videos went viral. Shabree Rawls Shabree Rawls posted a series of Tiktok rants urging men to increase their ‘communication skills’. She was ultimately fired just days after receiving backlash on Twitter for her viral videos. Rawls says she wasn’t ‘given a reason’…
The Supertech apartments were demolished following a Supreme Court ruling that the buildings were unsafe. Getty Images Indian authorities demolished two buildings built illegally in a warning to developers, per Reuters. News18 reported that the apartments could have brought in $150 million for the developers. The demolition cost $2.6 million, per News18, and left 80,000…
Mesa Airlines Bombardier CRJ-900ER aircraft seen at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Alex Tai/Getty Images Mesa Airlines pilots are about to receive a massive pay raise, according to a Friday union announcement. The regional carrier will pay entry-level first officers $100/hr and first-year captains $150/hr. Mesa has been losing pilots to mainline carriers as labor…
Incumbent insurers have accelerated their use of mature AI deployments in the past year to meet changing customer expectations and better compete with insurtechs. Insider Intelligence details AI use cases within the insurance industry, and explores potential risks to this tech, in our AI in Insurance Report. Do you work in the Fintech industry? Get…
United States Senate The FBI seized classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. Sen. Roy Blunt told ABC’s This Week that Trump should have turned them over. Blunt was also critical that the intelligence committee was not informed of the raid and documents. Sen. Roy Blunt said he was concerned that the intelligence committee…
Hurricane season is currently in full swing across the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard. Following a disconcertingly quiet start in June, meteorologists still expect a busier-than-usual stretch before the windy weather (hopefully) winds down at the end of November. Meteorologists like Matthew Cappucci who, in his new book, Looking Up: The True Adventures of a…
Apple today seeded the sixth beta of macOS 13 Ventura, the next-generation version of the Mac operating system that’s set to launch this fall. The sixth beta comes over two weeks after Apple provided the fifth beta to developers. Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and once the appropriate profile…
Yumon has unveiled what it calls the first player-owned creator fantasy world.Read MoreRead More