Things are getting worse at Better. More executives have resigned from Better.com nearly three months after the online mortgage lender laid off 900 employees via Zoom and as the company prepares for more layoffs, according to multiple sources familiar with
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BasiGo secures $4.3 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya
Kenya-based EV startup BasiGo has closed $4.3 million in seed funding, three months after setting up operations in East Africa’s biggest economy, to provide clean-energy mass transit vehicles in a country that is heavily-reliant on fossil-fuel buses. The startup said
Oxford school district denies wrongdoing on day of mass shooting
Two months after a deadly mass shooting devastated an entire community, Oxford school officials, through their lawyer, denied engaging in any wrongdoing that day, maintaining their actions were “lawful” and “proper,” and that they’re immune from liability. “Defendants deny that they
Australian Police Barge into Catholic Mass to Check for Mask Compliance
Police officers in protective face masks patrol a street in Melbourne, Australia, July 2020. (Sandra Sanders / Reuters) West Australian police barged into a Catholic mass Friday to check for mask compliance. St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Mount Hawthorn, Perth
Weapons of Mass Migration
How Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is waging war on his western neighbors NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B elarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is waging war on his western neighbors, European Union members Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. But he’s not using tanks and
China Disneyland Mass Tests over 30,000 Tourists after Theme Park Reported One Positive COVID Case
Performers at a ceremony marking the reopening of Shanghai Disneyland following a shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai, China, May 11, 2020 (Aly Song/Reuters) Shanghai Disneyland closed down temporarily on Sunday after it was discovered that a visitor
LA Sheriff Promises Vaccine Mandate Will Cause ‘Mass Exodus’ Of Cops
The Los Angeles County Sheriff said the COVID-19 vaccine mandate meant to protect the public will cause nearly half of his department to quit. In a Thursday letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Sheriff Alex Villanueva lamented
Guilford Residents Accuse Pro-CRT School Board Candidates of Illegally Mass Mailing Absentee Ballots
Amid the heated school board fight over critical race theory that has roiled the sleepy town of Guilford, Conn., community members are alleging that Democratic and independent school board candidates mailed illegitimate absentee ballots to constituents. Five parents new to
36,000 gigatons of carbon heralded history’s biggest mass extinction
Enlarge / Some of the massive volcanic deposits that are part of the Siberian Traps. The end-Permian mass extinction was a big deal. It was the largest mass extinction event ever and occurred 252 million years ago. A whopping 90
New observations show that rocky exoplanets have exactly half the mass of Venus.
This artist’s impression shows L98-59b, one of the planets of the L98-59 system, 35 light-years away. The system contains four unidentified rocky planets, the fifth possible farthest from the stars. In 2021, astronomers measured the mass of L 98-59b using