Author: Gesi Lloyd

LinkedIn is preparing to cut roughly 5% of its workforce, adding another major name to a growing list of technology companies scaling back staff in 2026 despite strong revenue growth and aggressive investment in artificial intelligence. The Microsoft owned professional networking platform informed employees about the layoffs Today, according to reports from Reuters and internal company communications reviewed by Business Insider. LinkedIn employs more than 17,500 people globally, meaning the reductions could affect hundreds of workers across multiple divisions. The company said the restructuring is tied to shifting resources toward areas where business demand is growing. Teams impacted reportedly include…

Former NBA center Jason Collins, whose decision to come out publicly in 2013 reshaped conversations around identity in professional sports, has died at 47 after battling brain cancer. Collins spent more than a decade in the NBA building a reputation as a dependable defensive presence. Yet his influence stretched far beyond box scores and locker rooms. His name became permanently tied to one of the defining moments in modern sports culture when he became the first openly gay active player in a major American professional team sport. His family confirmed that Collins died after an extended fight with glioblastoma, an…

Sony’s a7R series has always been the line you buy when you want the most detail possible. Speed was someone else’s problem. The a7R VI changes that in a significant way, and the result is one of the most capable cameras Sony has ever built. Priced at $4,499 and available beginning June 2026, the a7R VI replaces the a7R V with a new 66.8-megapixel fully stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor, the first of its kind in the a7R lineup. That switch is the engine behind nearly every meaningful improvement in this camera. Resolution meets the a7R VI’s new stacked sensor…

The Trump administration has tapped David Venturella, a former official at a private prison contractor, to serve as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the appointment Tuesday. Venturella, who most recently oversaw DHS contracts for immigration detention facilities, will assume the role on June 1, when current acting director Todd Lyons officially retires. Lyons announced his departure in April after leading the agency through one of its most turbulent stretches in recent memory. A quieter approach after a year of chaos The Trump administration selection reflects a deliberate shift in direction at DHS…

“The Roast of Kevin Hart” on Netflix was built on the kind of sharp, boundary-testing humor that roast specials are known for. What nobody anticipated was that a single joke from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe would overshadow the entire production and land the special in a controversy that stretched well beyond comedy circles. Hinchcliffe’s set at the roast of Kevin Hart  included a punchline referencing George Floyd’s final words. The audience audible reaction was immediate. Clips spread rapidly across social media, and within hours the backlash had moved from viewer discomfort to formal condemnation from Floyd’s family. Floyd’s family responded directly…

North Texas is heading into Mother’s Day with unsettled skies and a severe weather threat of storm that is expected to build throughout the afternoon and peak after dark. A powerful cold front sweeping across the region Sunday is forecast to produce large hail, damaging winds, and the possibility of isolated flash flooding before clearing out overnight. Saturday offered a preview of the contrast ahead. After a mostly cloudy morning, skies gradually cleared and temperatures climbed to around 87 degrees before dropping to 68 at night. Sunday will not be nearly as forgiving. What to expect and when The storm…

For most of the American medical system, the story of a pregnancy ends in the delivery room. The months of prenatal appointments, the monitoring, the careful attention to fetal development, all of it builds toward a single event. Once the baby arrives and the mother leaves the hospital, the level of care drops sharply. That drop is killing people. Two thirds of maternal deaths in the United States occur after childbirth, during the weeks that follow a woman home from the hospital and into a period the healthcare system has never adequately tracked or treated. The country spends more on…

Mother’s Day is a time to acknowledge the women who shaped us, and for millions of fans, that circle extends beyond family and into the artists whose music soundtracked entire lifetimes. Some of the most iconic figures in recording history were also mothers, raising children while selling out arenas, cutting platinum records, and pushing through personal hardship that would have stopped most people cold. The idea that women in the music industry had to choose between a career and a family was never true. These four legends proved it, loudly and repeatedly. Tina Turner (1939 – 2023) Few artists in…

On May 6, FBI agents conducted a court-authorized search of Virginia state Senate leader Louise Lucas’s office and her nearby cannabis business, the Cannabis Outlet, which she opened in 2021. Sources familiar with the matter indicated the investigation is related to corruption, though no charges have been filed and no further details about the specific allegations have been made public. Agents were seen entering Lucas’s office, which also houses her disabilities services business, and carrying out boxes and bags from both locations. A court-authorized search of this kind requires a judge to find probable cause that a crime has been…

The Voting Rights Act did not collapse on a single day. When the last of its meaningful protections were effectively eliminated on April 29, 2026, the outcome had been in the making for more than 60 years. What appeared to some as a sudden loss was, in fact, the final chapter of a sustained legal campaign to dismantle a law that changed American democracy when it passed in 1965. Understanding where things stand today requires tracing the sequence of court decisions that methodically stripped the law down to its foundation before removing the foundation itself. The first  Voting challenge Opposition…