Enlarge / The intersection of Interstates 10 and 610 in Houston, Texas, during evening rush hour. (credit: Getty Images) You often hear people say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I bring this up because of an interesting—if infuriating—thread I read this morning […]
Kim Kardashian is showing support for her estranged husband, even as their divorce continues to move along! The 40-year-old reality TV star showed out at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Thursday night, popping up as part of the audience to take in Kanye West‘s listening party for his new album, Donda. Named after his late mother, the […]
A cashier is dead and two people have been wounded after a shooting broke out inside a grocery store in DeKalb County Georgia on Monday afternoon. The incident took place near Candler Road in DeKalb County at a Big Bear grocery store at around 1:10 p.m. local time. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, a 30-year-old […]
You mean to say that a baseball franchise with a racially insensitive name, which does all it can to harm any argument that their name isn’t just insensitive, but outright racist, by encouraging its fans to do racist chants; which moved out of team’s location name’s urban core and into another county, in order to… […]
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] On Monday, rapper and singer Silentó (born Ricky Hawk) was arrested and charged for the murder of his cousin Frederick Rooks, who was fatally shot last month in Georgia. The DeKalb County Police Department shared the news via Twitter, explaining: “Today, Ricky Hawk, 23, was arrested for the murder of his […]
Good evening, Bull Sheeters. This is Fortune finance reporter Rey Mashayekhi, filling in for Bernard for the rest of this week with a special PM edition of the newsletter. Conventional thinking says that events like those that transpired at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday are bad for the markets. They’re supposed to wreak the sort […]
The pain from the news of charges not being filed by the Wisconsin DA against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake stemmed from how familiar it all felt. By this point, we all know that prosecutors and police work hand in hand, and it takes something truly perverse for the former to go against […]
This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning, Bull Sheeters. All eyes are on Georgia. And that’s putting investors in a risk-off mood. At 2 a.m. Atlanta time, Democrat Raphael Warnock was called as the winner of […]
The eyes of the nation tonight turn to Georgia, where voters will finally decide two U.S. Senate runoff elections that will determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill over the next two years. Though polls closed at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, more than 3 million Georgians had already cast their ballots in early voting—a […]
Given that most polls got the presidential election so wrong, folks are looking for a more reliable, scientific forecast for the crucial senatorial runoffs in Georgia. Thomas Miller, a data scientist at Northwestern University, is handicapping the races marshaling what he considers the most sophisticated, data-rich, bias-free model in the business. According to Miller’s analytics, […]