A high school math teacher at St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, Michelle Blouin Williams, was looking for ingenuity when she and her colleagues set a school-wide math contest with a challenging bonus question. That bonus question asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry, using trigonometry. The teachers weren’t necessarily expecting …
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After private equity firm KKR bought Potter Global Technologies, a manufacturer of fire protection equipment in St. Louis, employees learned they were being given an ownership stake in the company. The goal is for KKR to sell Potter Global Technologies five or so years later, for a profit. If that happens, workers will get payouts tied to their tenure, on …
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway gathered for its first annual meeting in an Omaha arena on Saturday, bringing together shareholders for the first time since the death of longtime vice chairman and right-hand manCharlie Munger. Tens of thousands of shareholders filled the arena eager to vacuum up tidbits of wisdom from billionaire Buffett, who famously dubbed the meeting “Woodstock for Capitalists” …
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NEW YORK —The Met Gala is Monday in New York City, and we’re counting down with some of the most iconic looks from the best dressed stars, like the one and only Rihanna and two ofthis year’s co-chairs Bad Bunny and Zendaya. Follow our coverage of all the red carpet arrivals here. Bad Bunny’s all white look, 2023 Met Gala …
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Costume Institute Benefit, known around the globe as the Met Gala, took place this year on Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York City. The Spring 2024 exhibition, titled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” highlights the sensory experience behind clothes and their transitory nature. But the dress code of the 2024 Met Gala — typically related …
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It was 1 p.m. on May 8, 2018, when Massachusetts State Police detectives arrived at a farmhouse in Westfield. 51-year-old Amy Fanion lay dead in the dining room from a single gunshot wound to the head. Amy Fanion’s husband, Brian Fanion, a detective in the Westfield Police Department, had called 911 minutes earlier, reporting that his wife had shot herself. …
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MOUNT HOREB, Wis. —Police in Wisconsin fatally shot a student who had pointed a pellet rifle in their direction outside a middle school, according to the state’s Department of Justice. On Saturday, the Wisconsin DOJ released an update to its ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting outside Mount Horeb Middle School. The DOJ said someone called 911 shortly before 11:15 …
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What do Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. have in common beyond a common tongue? Try a dearth of nurses, mechanics and electricians. That’s according to a recentanalysisby career site Indeed.com that ranks the 10 job sectors with the most sought-after job candidates by employers and recruiters based on what resumes they searched for in 2023 across the four …
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Hiring across the U.S. slowed in April, a sign the Federal Reserve’s efforts to shackle economic growth and curb inflation is chilling the labor market. American employers added 175,000 jobs last month, well below expectations of roughly 232,000 and off dramatically from the blockbuster job creationin March, when employers added a surprising and upwardly revised 315,000 jobs. The nation’s unemployment …
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Honolulu — Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer’s deadly Maui wildfires, they would’ve used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said in a lawsuit. Alerts the county sent to cellphones warning people to immediately evacuate were never received, unbeknownst to the county, the lawsuit said. Maui officials failed to …
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