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California parents and teachers who oppose school vaccine mandates are planning a statewide walkout Monday, according to reports. 

Patrick McGee / Financial Times : Analysis: Apple's Search Ads now account for 58% of iPhone app downloads resulting from an ad click; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business this fiscal year   —  iPhone maker's share of mobile app advertising market has tripled in six months  —  Apple's advertising business has more than tripled …

President Biden will undergo a physical examination soon but no specific date has been set, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a news briefing Thursday.d

Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal : Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups   —  Startup creators once tended to take little or no remuneration as CEOs.  Now, some are getting giant stock awards …

Ryan Reynolds announced he intends to take a "little sabbatical" from movie making after completing his latest project "Spirited."

Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney have reignited the rivalry between The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. Jagger responded to a comment made earlier this week by McCartney during a concert.

The Philadelphia City Council passes a bill aimed at closing racial inequalities that will ban police from making traffic stops for minor violations

FinSMEs : Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M   —  Convex, a San Francisco, CA-based software platform focused on digitizing the commercial services industry, raised $39m in Series B financing.

President Biden appears to be relying more on his former boss as the White House comes under increased pressure to improve the nation's economy and outlook on the future of the Democratic Party.

Four out of the eight members of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights have penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, chastising him for his recent memo regarding parents who protest school boards.

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green have reportedly decided on a settlement as they prepare to finalize their divorce. The couple has been married since 2010.

Former President Bill Clinton will remain in the hospital for another night to receive antibiotics and is expected to be discharged Sunday, according to his spokesperson.

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal : Some doctors in the US and other countries say TikTok videos about Tourette syndrome may be contributing to a rise in cases of teen girls with physical tics   —  When teens started turning up in doctors' offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media …

The Biden administration announced Friday that it is giving another $20 million to Mexico and Central America in aid for the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees in the region -- including money for healthcare, shelter, and legal aid.

Hillary Clinton was joined by her daughter Chelsea as they visited former President Bill Clinton in the hospital Saturday. Clinton remains in the hospital as he's treated for a urological sepsis infection.

Sean Penn's wife has filed for divorce after just one year of marriage.

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker : A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members   —  The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out.

An anti-President Biden rap song inspired by the viral “Let's go Brandon” trend is now sitting at the top of the iTunes hip-hop chart

Rapper Eve is expecting her first child with her husband, British entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper.

Alice Cooper is playing a number of live shows until November.

The new payments follow the nearly $70,000 Bush had spent on private security during the second quarter

Orange, CA - A spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton says that he will remain hospitalized Friday night after checking into a hospital on Tuesday for a urological sepsis infection.

Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian : Moscow introduces Face Pay in its metro system, which Russia says is the world's first mass-scale facial recognition payment system, across 240 stations   —  Campaigners say Face Pay, launched in over 240 stations, is ‘dangerous step’ in efforts to control population

Melinda Gates and Jennifer Gates were all smiles as they left a luncheon at The Plaza Hotel on Wednesday. The two have been in the city ahead of Jennifer's wedding to Nayel Nassar.

"Jump (For My Love)" singer and Pointer Sisters member Ruth Pointer was revealed to be the cupcake on "The Masked Singer."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki promised to “choose my words more carefully” following a Friday complaint from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which claimed she apparently violated the Hatch Act.

The leadership of several Biden administration departments is struggling to deal with the challenges confronting them.

EXCLUSIVE: A growing number of U.S. Navy SEALS who are seeking a religious exemption to the Department of Defense's (DOD) COVID-19 vaccine mandate are being threatened and, in some cases, harassed into submission, Fox News has learned.

Christine Hall / TechCrunch : Clarifai, which uses AI to help companies manage unstructured data, raises a $60M Series C led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total raised to $100M   —  Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists …

Chavi Mehta / Reuters : Jack Dorsey says Square is considering building an open source Bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon for individuals and businesses worldwide   —  Square Inc (SQ.N) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based …

Los Angeles is scrubbing the name of Junipero Serra, a Catholic saint and missionary, from a downtown Los Angeles Park, more than a year after activists vandalized statues of the 19th century priest.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE : Seven former employees detail Twitch's 2014 hack that forced it to rebuild much of its code infrastructure, and the hack's knock-on effects   —  Former Twitch employees shared details of the hack the company suffered in 2014, and how the company's approach to security evolved after it.

The superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools issued an apology and a school board member resigned on Friday as the district faces mounting backlash over its response to two alleged sexual assaults, one of which was allegedly carried out by a skirt-wearing male student in a girls' bathroom.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Spot AI, which makes software that can “read” video footage and make it searchable, raises $22M, including a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures   —  Security cameras, for better or for worse, are part and parcel of how many businesses monitor spaces in the workplace for security or operational reasons.

Zoe Schiffer / The Verge : Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special   —  The company suspects they leaked metrics about the Dave Chappelle special to the press  —  Netflix has fired a leader …

Bluebella’s support for the LGBTQ+ community was one of several motivating factors for Clara McGregor to appear in their Autumn/Winter 2021 campaign.

The actress was crossing a street in Los Angeles on Thursday when a car reportedly clipped her.

Border Patrol agents said Tuesday they found two little sisters, ages 4 and 6, wandering alone just south of the Morelos Dam at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Kellen Browning / New York Times : Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, says she was fired for deleting files off her work devices before handing them over for an investigation   —  A leader of an activist movement within Apple said she was fired by the company on Thursday.  —  Janneke Parrish …