Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Scouted/AmazonI’ve survived plane rides and train rides without headphones. Crowded subways, working in an office, or working out — all were bearable without noise canceling or music blasting or podcast droning. Call me a sadist, but it never really bothered me that I didn’t wear or care about headphones all that much, until I started working from home. The myriad of distractions, plus never having the room to myself, made it nearly impossible to get work done or be on a Zoom call without headphones. I originally opted for a giant pair of over-ear ones that did the job fairly well, but they were heavy and hard to keep on all day. Then, I invested in a pair of Jabra Elite Active 65t Earbuds. I’ve never been much of an earbud-wearer (I’ve only liked one...

Luke Sims, 12, offered all his money to bring his therapy dog home (Picture: Sheila Sims/Caters)Sickening thugs have threatened to decapitate an autistic boy’s therapy dog if his family do not pay £10,000. Luke Sims, 12, was inseparable from Pippa, a three-year-old Cavapoochon, who played with him and helped manage his autism and anxiety. When she disappeared two months ago, Luke offered all his birthday money – £90 – for information to help find her. But cruel thugs have called the family, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, saying they will chop off Pippa’s head unless they pay a £10,000 ransom. The family have gone to extreme lengths to find Pippa, including a drone search of the local area, but mum Sheila is convinced she was taken by thieves. She said: ‘I received a call in t

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastFor months, far-right voices like Rush Limbaugh and Texas GOP head Allen West have floated secession as a potential means of escaping Democratic control in Washington. This week, that chatter transformed into something concrete – and nearly unprecedented. In Austin, Republican Kyle Biedermann of the Texas House of Representatives, previously best known for dressing up as “gay Hitler,” became the first American legislator in nearly a century and only the second since the Civil War to file a formal bill calling for state-level secession from the United States. Dubbed the “Texas Independence Referendum Act,” his bill would allow Texans to vote this November on a referendum “on the question of whether this state should leave the United States...

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast/Photos GettyMIAMI—On Tuesday evening, a trio of young women approached the back gate of Lagniappe, a tree-lined, outdoor patio wine bar near Wynwood, a trendy neighborhood of Miami that has served as Florida’s COVID-19 epicenter since the pandemic washed over the state. From the sidewalk, it was easy to see the popular drinking spot was full. Nearly all of Lagniappe’s circular patio tables were packed with maskless people sharing bottles of pinot grigio, rose, and merlot. On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that 92 out of 293 known U.S. cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, or the “U.K. variant,” a potentially more contagious strain of the coronavirus, were found in Florida. For comparison, California, which has nearly double...

GettyAs the Senate prepares for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial over the Capitol riot, the ex-president’s allies in the right-wing media remain hard at work creating a range of defenses that absolve him from the violence triggered by months of lies and deception. In the logic of an argument that’s been embraced by pro-Trump cable networks, it was impossible for the first wave of rioters to hear Trump’s speech on the White House Ellipse in person because they started attacking before he was finished speaking. Therefore, Trump couldn’t have incited them to attack the Capitol. Unless, that is, everyone carries cellphones that can livestream speeches as they happen. at The Daily Beast. ...read more Source:: The Daily Beast...

Summary List Placement Mark Cuban's 11-year-old-son made money trading with the WallStreetBets forum, the billionaire said. The subreddit went private for an hour on Wednesday after a deluge of new participants joined the group. The SEC said it is monitoring ongoing market volatility amid a surge in GameStop and other stocks. Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell. Entrepreneur Mark Cuban said Wednesday his 11-year-old son made money by trading with r/WallStreetBets, and that he loves how the Reddit day-trading forum became the central catalyst to an epic short-squeeze. "I got to say I LOVE LOVE what is going on with #wallstreebets," Cuban said in a tweet. "All of those years of High Frequency Traders front running retail traders, now speed and dens...

Six people were shot, one fatally, Jan. 27, 2021, in Chicago. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesA man was fatally shot in the 3500 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue. Six people were shot, one fatally, Wednesday in Chicago including a 26-year-old man who was fatally shot in Oakland on the South Side. The man was inside a building about 3:25 p.m. in the 3500 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, when a person approached him and fired shots, Chicago police said. He was struck multiple times in the body and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released information on the fatality. Detectives have brought a man in for questioning about the shooting. In non-fatal shootings, two people were shot in Gresham ...

DEAR ABBY: I’d like to alert your readers to something that happened to me so it may keep it from happening to them. Jeanne Phillips In her later years, my dear mother was afflicted with dementia. When it became clear she could no longer live alone, I went to live with her. One day, I went looking for the albums of photos from when my brothers and I were kids, family vacations, etc. After searching high and low and not finding them, I asked Mom what had happened to them. Turns out, she threw them out because she didn’t remember any of the people in the pictures! To say I was devastated would be an understatement. Related Articles Dear Abby: My bestie and I have sex, and that intimidates my boyfriend Dear Abby: He’s the only man for me, and I’m t

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Two astronauts have completed a spacewalk to install a British-built broadband hub that will beam scientific research back to Earth. The technology marks the UK’s first major industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS). Called ColKa, short for Columbus Ka-band Terminal, the system will allow astronauts to communicate with Earth at home broadband speeds. It will revolutionise scientists’ ability in the UK and Europe to access the results of space-based experiments, from investigations into the effects of radiation on seeds to biomining research. The results will help researchers to understand things like ho...