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Travis Kalanick's final months as Uber CEO reportedly included squirming on the floor 'on his hands

More than six months after Travis Kalanick was ousted as Uber's CEO, new details have come to light about how it all went down. Bloomberg on Thursday published a detailed report of Kalanick's fall from grace, a series of events described as "weirder and darker" than anyone imagined. The piece details the final months of Kalanick's regime, which included secretive lobbying and contentious meetings. Perhaps the most telling detail from the report was Kalanick's reaction to being caught on camera yelling at an Uber driver.

Twerking Queen Shot Dead In US

The YouTube sensation, who was known for her twerking skills, was reportedly gunned down on Wednesday, November 12 inside her apartment building in Atlanta. Security officers report that Betty and her boyfriend were walking to her home when they were approached by three men who shot at them. Betty was said to have died on the spot from a wound to the head while her boyfriend survived the attack.

Video Game Creators Are Burned Out and Desperate for Change

Spending on video games and related equipment reached an all-time high last year, with Americans shelling out $42 billion to immerse themselves in virtual worlds where they can steal cars, shoot cowboys, and fight Nazis with abandon. But as tens of thousands of video game fans and creators gather in Los Angeles this week for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, more commonly known as E3, a difficult truth about the gaming industry is beginning to emerge: what’s seen by outsiders as a fun, creative business is becoming psychologically and financially unbearable for those working in it.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Remove an Orange-Sized Neck Lipoma in Her Newest YouTube Video

The orange analogy is useful, because that's exactly the color of what comes out of this behemoth. Lee makes an incision across the lump, then squeezes out lumps of bloody, orange fatty tissue. (Hope you're not eating lunch while you read this!) From a viewer's perspective, some of it seems to come out fairly easily, while other bits require a little more tugging and snipping on Lee's part. When she's done, Lee stitches up the incision.

Who Owns the House? | TIME

The excitement this fall in Minnesota is that two families are trying to live in the same house. Senator Henrik Shipstead is a tall and mellow fellow, has spent 19 years in the Senate by mastering the ancient political trick of keeping both ears on the ground at once. In 1940 his overdeveloped ears gave him a warning and forthwith Henrik Shipstead moved out of the old Farmer-Labor Party, and became a Republican.

Why More Than One Valedictorian is One Big Problem

Let’s get this straight: I was never valedictorian, salutatorian or whatever they called the third person on the platform at high school graduation. However, if I were graduating this year, by virtue of not completely disgracing myself academically, I might have earned top honors. This year, Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, boasted a stunning 117 valedictorians — more than a quarter of the graduating class. Some schools have a more modest 20 or 30, while others did away valedictorians altogether.

Words With Friends 2: Everything You Need to Know

Zynga, a San Francisco-based gaming company, likes to tout the fact that people around the world are playing about 57 million “matches” on Words With Friends at any given moment. Impressive as the statistic sounds, given that this number is greater than the entire population Spain, it’s also one that has been holding fairly steady for years. With the hopes of attracting new users and making loyal players of the game more loyal still, Zynga announced on Wednesday that it is launching Words With Friends 2, the “biggest evolution of the product” since it debuted in 2009.

'I went way too far': Kathy Griffin apologizes for photo shoot that featured bloody Trump head

TMZ leaked the photo and reported that Griffin posed for it during a shoot with the photographer Tyler Shields. The outlet also posted a video of the shoot. The photo quickly trended online, and Griffin began to gain heat on social media. Representatives for Griffin and Shields did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. ADVERTISEMENT Hours after TMZ posted its story, the US Secret Service touted on Twitter its "

5 female celebs who changed their faith

She captioned it, "An Instructive Meeting Sunday at the Kingdom Hall towards Baptism and Evangelization Ministry as Jehovah’s Witnesses.” According to the Jehovah Witness beliefs it is not advised that a member marries a non-Jehovah Witness member. It's likely because of this that Clarion Chukwurah converted. The veteran actress is threading on familiar path. There are many female celebrities who have converted to their husband's religion after marriage.

5 ways dating a married woman can ruin your life

When a single man falls head over heals with a married woman, jealousy, guilty and misery takes centre stage in his life. Why does he become so sad instead? Having sex with a married woman could be just for the fun until the man falls in love with her body, the way she speaks, the way she carries herself, her elegance and the way she quickly spends on him. It takes less time for things to change for the worse… and life suddenly becomes miserable with the fear to ask her to divorce her husband running through your mind at every given minute.