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Cleveland Cavaliers swingman Iman Shumpert's fiancée, Teyana Taylor, announced the birth of her daughter over Instagram on Thursday, and the lengthy caption revealed a rather unbelievable birth story.

"Not knowing I was in labor until I felt her head ... it took two ten count pushes with my fiancé playing Dr and she entered this world into his bare hands!" explained Taylor.

That's right — "Shump" delivered a baby with his bare hands!

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About six weeks ago, my girlfriend Rebecca and I signed up for Purple Carrot, a vegan meal kit company.

We're not vegans. We're not even vegetarians. We like to eat meat! But we wanted to cook more, and eat food that was healthy and tasted good.

We heard about Purple Carrot when Mark Bittman, the cookbook author and former food columnist at The New York Times, announced in November that he'd taken a job there to work on recipes, source food, and write newsletters for members. Читать дальше...

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It's not easy training to survive in a galaxy far, far away. 

The new, younger cast members of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" spent months with grueling work preparing to join the franchise. And for the returning veterans like Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher, the process was very much the same. 

For some, preparing meant a pep talk with Harrison Ford, and for others, it involved intense training with stunt coordinators and physical trainers. Читать дальше...

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Martin Shkreli is free on $5 million bond, Bloomberg News reports.

Shkreli, 32, was arrested on Thursday morning by federal authorities on charges of securities fraud involving his former hedge fund, MSMB Capital, and Retrophin, the publicly traded biotech company he founded in 2011 and led until September 2014, when he was ousted by the board as CEO.

Prosecutors alleged that Shkreli carried out three interrelated fraudulent schemes by money from Retrophin to repay investors in MSMB Capital. Читать дальше...

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How do CEOs who sleep for only four to five hours daily and manage to function and run multimillion-dollar companies? originally appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are republishing an answer from Alexandra Damsker, a CEO of a successful startup.

I don’t have a multimillion-dollar company (yet), but I’m one of those CEOs who function on three to five hours of sleep.

No, there aren’t any drugs involved, nor is there poor management (as far as I know). Читать дальше...

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Thanks to the Dark Web, criminals and their customers can enjoy their own holiday shopping sprees.

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The New York Jets didn't exactly tip the scales in March when they traded for Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick was coming off a quietly solid season with the Texans that ended in an injury, and the Jets were looking for a backup quarterback.

The Jets sent a seventh-round draft pick to the Texans in exchange for Fitzpatrick, with the condition that the pick would turn into a sixth-round pick if Fitzpatrick played 70% of the snaps for the Jets this season.

Fitzpatrick has reportedly hit that mark... Читать дальше...

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President Barack Obama said Thursday that the US has entered "a new phase of terrorism," during remarks at the National Counterterrorism Center in Virginia.

Obama sought to "reassure a jittery nation," as The New York Times put it, with his speech on US counterterrorism policy, one of several similar addresses he has given since terror attacks hit San Bernardino, California, and Paris in recent weeks.

"We are in a new phase of terrorism, including lone... Читать дальше...

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Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli was arrested on the morning of December 17th on charges of security fraud. He first gained notoriety back in September, after raising the price of a life-saving AIDS drug from $13.50 to $750 a pill.

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California native Lauren Gerrie moved to New York City to become a dancer—but ended up with her own catering business instead. And then she met Marc. The two were introduced by friends, and as luck would have it, Marc Jacobs—familiar with Gerrie’s catering company Big Little Get Together—asked her to be his private chef in his New York home. Two years later, she spends her days in the designer’s stunning kitchen while still continuing to run Big Little Get Together with her partner Flannery Klette-Kolton. Читать дальше...

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Much like the New York Giants, my picks this season have been all over the place, showing flashes of both brilliance and complete, dumbfounded stupidity.

I've enjoyed the highs of picking the Packers -3 against the Lions and watching them cover via Hail Mary (if Aaron Rodgers' had thrown that in Dallas, he'd have hit the JumboTron!!!), and I've felt the crippling self-hatred that comes with betting, and losing, on Austin Davis and the Cleveland Browns.

Many people have berated me via email... Читать дальше...

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Holiday time puts a strain on everybody's wallet, no matter what kind of budget you're working with.

Factor in all of the under-the-radar expenses that everyone always forgets, and you're in danger of becoming a Grinch.

Prepare yourself to better handle some of these hidden holiday-season costs so your spirit can stay merry and bright.

Postage for holiday greeting cards

I used to spend hours and hours signing, sealing,... Читать дальше...

Nebraska sheriff's deputies were chasing a runaway tractor trailer on December 2nd, after the driver apparently passed out behind the wheel.

During Business Insider's 2015 IGNITION conference, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget asked General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt about the most exciting things happening at the company. 

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President Barack Obama's top spokesman suggested on Thursday that Donald Trump may not want Russian President Vladimir Putin's endorsement.

Earlier in the day, Putin praised Trump as a "very talented" candidate, according to Reuters.

"He is an absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today," Putin added.

Asked about Putin's comments, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said "it sounds pretty close" to a campaign endorsement for the Republican front-runner. Читать дальше...

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Despite what the weather would indicate, we are just eight days away from Christmas. And while Santa may not have any harsh deadlines for accepting wish lists, if you are ordering gifts from Amazon, there are certain shipping dates you need to know if you want your presents to arrive in time for the holiday.

If you've put off buying presents for your loved ones this year, don’t fret, there is still time. Put these dates on your calendar and start crossing some names off your list, stat. Читать дальше...

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A week after Google's former communications head cleaned house at Uber, Rachel Whetstone has already made a new hire: Niki Christoff. 

Christoff joins Uber from Google, where she had spent eight years running the East Coast media team and supervising former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's press appearances. Christoff worked for Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and has worked as a litigator in DC. 

Christoff joins Uber as Director of Public Policy... Читать дальше...

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Bert and John Jacobs, the brothers who cofounded the $100 million Life is Good T-shirt company, grew up the youngest of six children in a lower middle class family in Boston. 

When the brothers were in elementary school, their parents were in a near-death car accident from which their mother managed to escape with just a few broken bones — but their father lost the use of his right hand.

The stress and frustration from his physical therapy caused him to develop a harsh temper... Читать дальше...

In the more than 200 years since the US declared independence from the English in 1776, the uniforms of those serving in the US Army have changed drastically. 

In an ideal world, we wouldn't have distractions keeping us up at night, or end up hitting the snooze button repeatedly in the morning.

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Science fiction movies of artificial intelligence (AI) are abound with plots of benign robots and computers that suddenly gain sentience and emotions, leading them to destroy all of humanity.

The seemingly helpful HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey" is suffocating astronauts in their sleep by the end of the movie.

The latest in a long history of murderous robots, "Ex Machina's" Ava kills one man and leaves another for dead in her quest to escape.

But these stories of... Читать дальше...

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If your strategy for calming down before a job interview or big presentation is to pace up and down, muttering, "You got this!" until you almost, sort of believe it, then we've got good news.

There's a simpler and more effective way to beat anxiety. The trick? Remind yourself of what you value most.

In her new book "Presence," Amy Cuddy, the Harvard psychologist who popularized the idea of "power posing" to increase confidence, offers a simple exercise to get over your nerves. Читать дальше...

Volkswagen has hired lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to help bring a resolution to the company's emissions cheating scandal.