• The Argentine Senate voted 38 to 31 against a proposed measure that would have legalized a woman's right to seek an abortion into the 14th week of pregnancy.
• Senators announced the vote results after an impassioned debate that ran into the early hours of Thursday.
• Women in Argentina are currently only legally permitted to seek abortions in cases of rape or if the mother's health is at risk.
• Uruguay and Cuba are the only Latin American countries that now have broadly legalized abortion.

Argentine senators rejected a bill to legalize abortion after an impassioned debate ran into the early hours of Thursday, pushing back against a groundswell of support from a surging abortion rights movement.

The Senate voted 38 to 31 against the proposed measure, which would have legalized a woman's right to seek an abortion into the 14th week of pregnancy. The bill had narrowly passed in the lower house in July.

Families and clergy in baby-blue bandanas gathered outside the congressional palace as the result came in just before 3 a.m., waving Argentine flags in support of the Catholic Church's anti-abortion stance in Pope Francis' home country.

"What this vote showed is that Argentina is still a country that represents family values," anti-abortion activist Victoria Osuna, 32, told Reuters.

Current Argentine law only permits abortions in cases of rape, or if the mother's health is at risk.

'This is not over'

Abortion rights supporters, clad in green bandanas that have become a symbol of the movement, danced to drum lines and swarmed the city's streets to the end, despite a biting wind and cold rain.

Many had camped in front of Argentina's National Congress since Wednesday night.

"I'm still optimistic. It didn't pass today, but it will pass tomorrow, it will pass the next day," said abortion rights supporter Natalia Carol, 23. "This is not over."

Demonstrations outside Congress were largely peaceful, but small groups of protesters clashed with police following the results.

Some protesters through firebombs and set up flaming barricades, according to the Associated Press. Police officers responded to the non-peaceful demonstrations with tear gas.

Uruguay and Cuba are the only Latin American countries that now have broadly legalized abortion.

In Brazil, the Supreme Court is set to consider whether current law, which allows terminating pregnancies only in cases of rape, fetal deformation or when the mother's life is in danger, is unconstitutional.

But passing a pro-abortion law will face hurdles in Brazil's increasingly conservative Congress, with a growing Evangelical Christian caucus that is staunchly opposed.

Women's rights advocates, however, hope that a more liberal judiciary in Brazil will at least decriminalize abortion to help avoid deaths from botched terminations in a country where hundreds of thousands of women resort to clandestine clinics each year.

Ahead of the Senate vote in Argentina, President Mauricio Macri called the debate "a win for democracy." Macri said he was personally against abortion, but would sign the bill if it passed.

"Regardless of the result, today, democracy wins," Macri said ahead of the vote.

Thousands of women have died in illegal abortions

Argentina's abortion rights movement, backed by feminist groups galvanized in recent years to stop violence against women, argued that the bill would end unregulated abortions that government data show as the leading cause of maternal deaths.

There are at least 350,000 illegal abortions in Argentina every year, the Ministry of Health estimates, though international human rights groups say the number may be higher, with dozens of women dying each year as a result. 

Activists have estimated that since 1983, at more than 3,000 women in the country have died of illegal abortions.

The move to legalize abortion in Argentina is a "public health and human rights imperative," said New York-based Human Rights Watch.

"Just because the bill got shot down, it will not stop the movement," said Paula Avila-Guillen, a director of Women's Equality Center, an abortion rights advocacy group. "We will be there at the next legislative opportunity."

Pope Francis, who is from Argentina, denounced abortion earlier this year, calling it the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program. He urged families to "accept the children that God gives to them."

Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2010.

The movement Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, was launched in the country in recent years to fight violence against women.

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• Dustin Johnson and his fiance Paulina Gretzky met through Gretzky's parents in 2009.
• The golf star and the pop singer-turned-model didn't go on their first date, however, until 2012.
• They've been together ever since, and now have two children.

Dustin Johnson wooed the entire Gretzky clan long before he took his future fiance Paulina Gretzky on their first date.

In 2009, the pro golfer met Paulina's mother Janet — the wife of legendary hockey player Wayne Gretzky— at the Hero World Challenge golf tournament. Afterwards, the Gretzkys had Johnson over for dinner.

GOLF reported that Johnson and Gretzky had "undeniable chemistry" from the get-go, but the timing was off. Both were already in relationships with other people.

"We became good friends," Gretzky told GOLF. "Actually, my whole family became friends with Dustin — my brothers and parents saw him a lot more than I did."

But the story didn't end there.

Here's a look inside the relationship between golf's reformed "bad boy" and the hockey heiress:

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First, here's some background on the pair. Johnson is currently ranked number one in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Source: Official World Golf Ranking, CBS

He won the 2016 US Open and has won five World Golf Championships.

Source: Official World Golf Ranking, CBS

Forbes estimated that he had a net worth of $27.6 million in 2017. Currently, he is the frontrunner in the 2018 PGA Tournament.

Source: Official World Golf Ranking, CBS

• Drowning is a leading cause of death for children.
• An alarming number of children don't know how to swim or have weak swimming ability.
• USA Swimming Foundation both supports up-and-coming competitive swimmers and promotes swimming instruction for younger people.

Summertime is water time. We head out for the seaside or the lakefront, we hop into rowboats and sailboats and powerboats, and we spend time cooling off at pools.

But as much as we love water, the stuff can be dangerous. Particularly for children.

According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "from 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day." 

Approximately one in five drowning deaths involve children 14 and younger, the CDC adds, and "for every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries."

I was taught to swim early in life, through frequent lessons at public pools. I've been swimming now for over four decades, and although I've never encountered anything dangerous, I've also enjoyed the confidence that comes from knowing I can handle myself in the water.

I have three children, and they've all learned to swim. My daughter is the most capable, but both my sons are able to deal with pools and the ocean. My youngest is still working on his skills, but he's coming along and he has a healthy respect for water.

The bottom line is that while I'm not fanatical about learning to swim, I don't think anyone who isn't physically disadvantaged should enter adolescence without being able to float, tread water, and undertake a basic breaststroke or freestyle.

I recently had the chance to discuss the issue with some serious swimmers to see what they thought about the topic.

8 in 10 child drownings happen in front of parents

"Water is a magnet for children," said Rowdy Gaines, who has won three Olympic gold medals in swimming. "But we've found a cure for drowning, and it's pretty simple."

Gaines believes that when a child learns to walk, they should learn to swim. And that's not just for the kid's benefit — it can provide parents with peace of mind. The 59-year-0ld former Olympian and well-known swimming analyst for broadcast TV serves as an ambassador for USA Swimming Foundation. He reminded me that 80% of child drownings happen in front of parents; hot tubs and bathtubs are notoriously dangerous.

"There's a 88% reduction in risk if they take swim lessons," he said.

What starts out as a safety measure can, in Gaines' case, become a fantastic career. But it call also lead to lifetime of fitness — a full-body workout that's a noted calorie burner and less stressful on joints than running. I used to play a lot of squash, another noted fitness-booster, but my back and knees ached after an hour on court. So I took to swimming five or ten laps as a sort of therapeutic cool-down, to great success.

Gaines told me that there are what he calls "swimming-kid personalities," so parents shouldn't get too hung up on whether their child isn't gliding around like a dolphin right away.

"Some kids have a slower process," he added. "It's around their emotional capacity."

You also want to carefully select your instructor. "If you take em to the wrong provider, it can create fear," he said. "But if you do it the right way, your child will learn how to float on their back, which is an essential lifesaving skill."

I've seen the swimming-kid personalities up close. My mermaid-like daughter swims without effort, learned quickly, but doesn't like to swim laps and has no interest in competition. My older son is more awkward, but he's been getting stronger in the water as he's aged. My youngest son in the slow learner, but he knows his limits and has benefitted from one-on-one private lessons.

Even great swimmers have something to learn

None of my kids are going to follow in Gaines' wake and pursue aquatic glory. But 18-year-old Reece Whitley is. The 6-foot-9-inch African-American swimmer was a junior standout and is now at the University of California, Berkeley. In February at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championships, he notched a pair of first-places in two different sections, and his has the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in his sights.

I talked with him about his life and career as USA Swimming Foundation was kicking off Water Safety Month in May, with some alarming stats in the foreground.

According to the organization, "nearly 64% of African-American children, 45% of Hispanic children and 40% of Caucasian children have no/low swimming ability, putting them at risk for drowning."

Like many kids, Whitley wasn't an immediate success in the water, but he was determined.

"I learned at age seven," he said. "But I failed a deep water test at summer camp. I don't like to be told no, so I told my mom I needed swim lessons."

Although his rise in junior swimming has been relatively swift — he's was on the national junior team at age 14 and was named Sports Illustrated Kids' SportsKid of the Year in 2015— he admits that he wasn't that great when he was young and that he only began to accelerate when he turned 13.

"We emphasize how important a life skill it is for people of all ages," he said, a reminder that if you didn't learned to swim as a kid, it's never too late.

"It's a life skill and and a survival skill," he said.

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• President Donald Trump is waging a trade war on many fronts, with tariffs on steel, aluminum, Chinese goods, and more.
• While Trump argues that the tariffs will make the US economy stronger, so far the duties are leading to layoffs.
• Small businesses across the US are grappling with the increased cost of goods, and some of them are resorting to layoffs to save money.

President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports of steel, aluminum, and some Chinese products have started pushing up prices for many US companies that rely on those items to create final products, forcing many firms to make tough decisions about where to cut costs.

Many large companies have for now decided to pass on those costs to consumers or absorb the losses into their profit margins. But some smaller US businesses have been forced to cut labor costs to offset the higher amounts they're paying for parts.

From Wisconsin to South Carolina, small businesses are starting to lay off employees, and they're citing Trump's tariffs. Many firms have warned that the worst is yet to come.

Some examples:

• Mid-Continental Nail, the largest US nail producer, laid off 130 workers after steel prices jumped. One of its plant managers said the entire business could shut down over the next few months.
• Element Electronics, a TV manufacturer, plans to lay off 127 workers from its South Carolina factory as "a result of the new tariffs that were recently and unexpectedly imposed on many goods imported from China."
• Brinly-Hardy, an Indiana-based maker of lawn-care equipment, laid off 75 workers. "We are collateral damage in this effort," Jane Hardy, the company's CEO, told The Washington Post.
• The Tampa Bay Times said in April that it was forced to lay off 50 people because of a tariff on Canadian newsprint. Other newspapers in small communities, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan's hometown paper in Janesville, Wisconsin, have also been forced to lay off staff.

Some businesses, such as Moog Music, which manufactures electronic musical instruments, have not taken action but have warned that the tariffs could eventually lead to layoffs. Other small businesses have furloughed workers or paused expansion plans while they wait and see how the trade fights play out. Small operators in industries from lobster fishing to metal shapers have curtailed workers' hours.

While the tariffs are causing acute pain for some companies, more widespread labor-market issues have not yet appeared. Trump's tariffs apply only to a concentrated number of industrial goods, and the total number of US imports hit with tariffs remains low.

The July jobs report showed a steady increase in employment and a strong labor market, but economists have warned that business concerns about tariffs could start to weigh on hiring growth if the trade battles continue to escalate.

According to a study by the Trade Partnership, a free-trade industry group, Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs will result in a net loss of more than 400,000 US jobs. Other estimates of the job losses are somewhat smaller.

Even more effects on jobs could come if Trump follows through on his threat to impose tariffs on imported cars and auto parts:

• Volvo warned the administration that it could scrap 4,000 planned jobs in South Carolina if the tariff goes into place.
• Other foreign manufacturers with plants in South Carolina, such as BMW, say they could also be forced to make layoffs.

A study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that a 25% auto tariff would lead to the loss of 195,000 US jobs over a three-year period.

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• Cinemark's $8.99 monthly movie-ticket subscription plan, Movie Club, has gained 350,000 subscribers since it launched in December.
• Cinemark CEO, Mark Zoradi, explained to Business Insider how his team came up with the plan, which could become the blueprint for a sustainable US theater-subscription service.

Though most in the movie-theater space are annoyed by the way MoviePass has disrupted the business, they cannot deny that audiences love the movie-ticket-subscription model.

With movie tickets now costing about $9.38 on average, paying a monthly fee to go to the movies has turned out to be very attractive.

That was evident when MoviePass changed its model dramatically last August. After introducing its $9.95-a-month plan to see one movie a day, the company became so popular that within a year of spending millions to reimburse theaters for the tickets, it had to cap the plan at three movies a month to try to stay in business. But MoviePass was hardly the only company to think about dabbling with a subscription model.

For years, the biggest US theater chains have been thinking of a way to offer customers a deal that would attract them to multiplexes while also making financial sense (and appease the Hollywood studios).

For close to a decade, AMC Theaters, the largest exhibitor in the world, has been toying behind the scenes with a subscription model. You can probably thank MoviePass' popularity for why it finally unveiled A-List in June, the latest option in its Stubs customer-loyalty plan. For $20 a month, AMC will let you see up to three movies a week (including large-format showings).

A week after AMC, the popular Alamo Drafthouse chain announced it would begin a beta version of its subscription model, Alamo Season Pass, at its Yonkers, New York, location soon (no price has been announced yet).

The one subscription service that hasn't received major attention, however, was the first by any of the big exhibitors: Cinemark's Movie Club. Since December, the third-largest exhibitor in the country has offered its customers an $8.99-a-month plan that gets you one standard-format ticket, a 20% discount on concessions, and no fees if you order tickets online. Plus, your one-movie credit will roll over to the next month if you don't use it.

On paper, it doesn't sound as sexy as the other deals out there, but when you take a look behind the curtain, Cinemark may have figured out a movie-ticket subscription model that can outlast its competition.

Attracting the casual moviegoer is key

On an earnings call Wednesday, Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi revealed that Movie Club had 350,000 subscribers, doubling its number of active members since the first quarter and representing 6% of Cinemark’s box-office revenue for the year.

If that doesn't sound as impressive as the more than 3 million people who have subscribed to MoviePass since last August, or the more than 175,000 subscribers AMC has nabbed in five weeks, here's the dirty secret about movie-ticket subscription plans: Having a lot of members can actually lose you more money, depending on the circumstances.

In the case of MoviePass, it has to pay the exhibitors the full ticket price at most theaters. And when exhibitors offer their own plans, a large percentage of those tickets sold go to the studios and distributors of the movies.

Zoradi was aware of all this, and for close to eight months before Movie Club launched, his team researched a model that would be right not just for Cinemark customers but for Cinemark.

"Myself and members of the marketing team were just looking at the business and realized nobody had a viable subscription program in the US for theaters," Zoradi told Business Insider on Wednesday.

So they went out and looked at various subscription models — how the movie-theater subscription model is done in Europe (unlimited plans that inspired the creation of MoviePass), how Netflix is done, gym memberships, Amazon's Audible — along with talking to consumers and the movie studios to find a deal that would work.

Zoradi acknowledged that talking to the studios was an interesting chat, but he got their blessing when Cinemark divulged that a concessions discount would also be in the deal, proving this wasn't just a way to sell cheaper tickets (which in turn meant cheaper returns back to the studios).

And what they found from moviegoers was that most wanted to go to the movies only about two times a month — but didn't want to be restricted to just that. That's when the rollover option was born.

"Consumers responded tremendously to it," Zoradi said. "It gave them flexibility to say, 'Well, there's not a movie I want to see this month, but maybe there's going to be two or three next month,' and they get to roll it over. That was a real key element."

Zoradi believes that — along with having the option for Movie Club members to add a companion ticket for $8.99 more and upgrading for a large-format showing for an added charge of $2.50 to $3 — covers all of his customers' wants. He seems extremely happy with the service.

"We haven't had to make major adaptations to it since December because we researched it so well," he said.

And the past year seems to have proved Cinemark did it right: Keeping away from attracting the die-hard movie buffs is the most viable path to doing monthly ticket subscription in the US.

MoviePass' movie-a-day model proved to be too good to be true. Its CEO was clear on that when his company changed to three movies a month earlier this week, noting that MoviePass had begun to focus on the "occasional moviegoer."

"A small amount of our subscribers, that 15% that would go to four or more, go to a lot of movies," Lowe told Business Insider. "A lot! It's almost half of our cost of goods, like 40% of our cost of goods are used by that 15%."

Because Zoradi had Cinemark's plan cater to the casual moviegoer from day one, his company may have become the North Star in the subscription-model craze.

“The broad audience in the United States, that's the sweet spot,” he said.

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• Left-handed people face everyday challenges that their right-handed counterparts never have to worry about, like hand smudges while writing and using scissors made for righties.
• Though only 10% of the entire population is left handed, many influential people throughout history have been lefties, like Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Babe Ruth.
• Though left-handed people may seem at a disadvantage, their handedness may lead them to be more creative, perform better athletically, and have certain health benefits.

Being left-handed comes with a handful of downsides that I'm all too familiar with as a lefty myself. My right-handed counterparts never have to worry about hand smudges while writing or the struggle of using righty scissors.

Many things, like the number pad on the side of a keyboard or gas pedals in cars, aren't made with southpaws in mind, most likely because only about 10% of the human population is left-handed, as Business Insider previously reported.

That 10%, however, includes some of the most influential people in history, ranging from presidents like Barack Obama, entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, and media moguls like Oprah Winfrey. It's easy to wonder if the less-popular handedness is associated with some advantages.

As it turns out, some scientific studies suggest that sinistrality (the medical term for when left-side body parts work better than those on the right side) could positively impact your life.

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1. Lefties can be more creative

Left-handedness is associated with "superior divergent thinking," a process of thought that explores possible solutions and generates creative ideas based on existing information, as Business Insider previously reported. However, the study referenced only supported this conclusion for men.

Additionally, University of Liverpool researchers Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet reported in a 2017 roundup for The Conversation that lefties are more likely to have a more highly developed right hemisphere of the brain, which performs tasks related to creativity.

The right brain hemisphere is associated with creativity because it controls non-verbal, conceptual, holistic, intuitive, and imaginative processes, according to Scientific American.

2. Lefties can be better athletes

Babe Ruth's athletic success may have actually been linked to his left-handedness.

In 2017, Biology Letters published a study showing that left-handed men and women are overrepresented in elite sports, including baseball, table tennis, cricket, and other interactive games where players have to react quickly.

3. Lefties may face challenges better

A small study published in 2013 in A Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology tested the performance of 47 right-handers and 50 left-handers on a series of executive-related tasks, like.

The results suggest that left-handed people have better mental flexibility, as The New Yorker reported, which can help them adapt to new situations.

• Two children flying alone on Frontier Airlines last month were taken in a vehicle with an airline employee to a hotel room after severe weather diverted their Orlando-bound flight to Atlanta, their parents told news outlets.
• The parents told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Frontier customer service could not give them information and that they heard from their children only because another unaccompanied minor let them borrow a cellphone to call that night.
• Frontier said its employees followed "standard procedure" for the handling of children flying alone. 

Two children flying alone on Frontier Airlines last month were taken in a vehicle with an airline employee to a hotel room after severe weather diverted their flight to Atlanta, their parents told the Orlando Sentinel and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The children — Carter Gray, 9, and Etta Gray, 7 — traveled unaccompanied on Frontier Airlines Flight 1756 on July 22 from Des Moines, Iowa, where they were visiting their grandparents, to their hometown of Orlando, Florida. The flight, which was scheduled to arrive at 10:46 p.m., circled Orlando International Airport for 45 minutes before diverting to Atlanta because of storms, the Sentinel reported.

The children's mother, Jennifer Ignash, said she was left waiting at the Orlando airport, completely in the dark about what had happened to them.

"This was the first year I said OK, they're old enough to fly on their own, they know their phone number, they know their address," Ignash told The Journal-Constitution. But when the flight got diverted, she added, "it was like, OK, panic."

Ignash said she was not able to learn anything about her children's whereabouts from Frontier's customer-service line that evening and that she did not receive a call from a Frontier employee until the next day.

The parents said they heard from their children only when, shortly after midnight on July 23, an older unaccompanied minor on the flight let Carter borrow his cellphone to call his father.

"Without that child, we would have had zero idea where our kids were," Ignash told The Journal-Constitution.

Ignash said a Frontier employee took her children in a personal vehicle to an Atlanta hotel, where Carter, Etta, and four other unaccompanied children from the flight stayed in adjoining rooms.

"We never gave approval for that to happen," Chad Gray, Etta and Carter's father, told The Journal-Constitution.

After providing the children a breakfast voucher for McDonald's, Frontier continued the flight to Orlando the following morning, and the children landed safely there at 1 p.m., Gray told the Sentinel.

Alan Armstrong, an Atlanta aviation attorney the parents retained who has been handling their public statements, did not confirm in a call with Business Insider whether they were seeking legal action against Frontier, but he did say he hoped to bring attention to what he described as a neglected issue.

"The real thrust of this is to make Frontier and the entire airline industry aware of the gross deficiencies in their procedures for dealing with unaccompanied minors and children," Armstrong told Business Insider.

Frontier said that the parents' going to news outlets was surprising and that its employees followed standard protocol.

"It has been more than two weeks since the flight diversion, but the family never contacted us," a Frontier representative, Jonathan Freed, told Business Insider. "The first we learned of their concerns was as a result of their lawyer calling media."

Freed said in a statement to Business Insider that in keeping with Frontier's "standard procedure" for unaccompanied minors, the children were accompanied at all times, placed in a hotel room overnight, and provided food.

"We understand how an unexpected delay caused by weather can be stressful for a parent, and our goal is to help passengers get to their destinations as quickly and safely as possible," Freed said.

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• Laura Ingraham sparked outrage on Wednesday when she said on her Fox News show that the "America we know and love doesn't exist anymore" due to "demographic changes."
• Many took to Twitter to respond, with some critics labeling "The Ingraham Angle" host "racist."
• The show has been the subject of multiple advertiser boycotts since it launched in October.

Laura Ingraham has come under fire for comments she made about immigration on her Fox News show Wednesday.

At the top of "The Ingraham Angle," she weighed in on a recent interview that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic candidate for a House seat in New York City, gave on a podcast.

In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez said the upper-class, moderate Americans that many in the Democratic party try to pander to no longer exist.

After commenting on the amount of times the 28-year-old said "like" in the clip, Ingraham commented that she's "kind of right in a general sense."

"In some parts of the country it does seem like the America that we know and love doesn't exist anymore," Ingraham said. "Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. And they're changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don't like."

She continued: "From Virginia to California, we see stark examples of how radically, in some ways, the country, has changed. Now much of this is related to both illegal — and in some cases — legal immigration, that of course progressives love."

Though she said "it's not about race or ethnicity" at the end of the monologue, critics quickly lambasted Ingraham on Twitter, saying her comments played into the white nationalist rhetoric that has been sparking tensions across the country.

Some even renewed calls for an advertising boycott. Since "The Ingraham Angle" premiered in October, it has been the subject of two waves of boycotts for her often controversial comments.

The first boycott came in March, after Ingraham said Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg was "whining" when he spoke about getting rejected by his top college choices. Hogg responded by tweeting a list of companies that advertised on Ingraham's show, encouraging people to contact them to complain.

Advertisers started pulling out almost immediately, and by the following month, she had lost over two dozen.

Hogg called for a second boycott in June after Ingraham described detention centers at the border used to hold immigrant children separated form their parents under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy as being like "summer camps."

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke tweeted Wednesday's clip, calling it "One of the most important (truthful) monologues in the history of" mainstream media, and later deleted the tweet, The Daily Beast reported.

Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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• The New York Post on Wednesday published a profile of Lisa Fiekowski, a Brooklyn millionaire who collects cans as a hobby.
• Fiekowski owns more than $8 million worth of real estate around New York City and has an MBA from the University of Chicago, the Post said.
• She says it's a good way to keep active, but her neighbors and family aren't pleased about it. 

Lisa Fiekowski is a secret millionaire with an intriguing exercise routine: collecting trash.

The New York Post on Wednesday published a profile of Fiekowski, a 60-something resident of Brooklyn's upscale Prospect Heights neighborhood.

Fiekowski owns more than $8 million worth of properties around New York City, including a $1 million co-op next to Prospect Park, the Post said, citing records. But at least one of her investments is uninhabitable, thanks partially to her unusual hobby — the Post reported that she had packed one residency with an old microwave, an umbrella, toys, carpets, and other trash.

Fiekowski has been collecting cans for about a decade, telling the Post she generates $20 to $30 for a few hours of work. She said she enjoys it because she can keep active, talk to her neighbors, and keep her area clean.

"Mostly, it's physical activity," she told the Post.

Meanwhile, Fiekowski has an MBA from the University of Chicago, and her husband makes about $180,000 a year, the Post said. She's worked as a marketing analyst and a stockbroker, and her parents were high-ranking economists in the US government.

"My family thinks this whole thing is horrible, but I think it's so funny," she said.

But while her family may not be pleased with how she chooses to spend her days, Fiekowski defends her hobby. She said the outrage around it just showed how judgmental New Yorkers have become.

"I'm an old-fashioned bohemian," Fiekowski told the Post. "To me, what's sad is New York used to have acceptance of people being eccentric, but now it's like, 'Heaven forbid!'"

Last month, the report says, the city towed Fiekowski's 1993 Toyota Camry, which is also filled with junk, dented, and covered in graffiti. But Fiekowski said she had parked it legally.

"People were so upset that this terrible car was in the neighborhood," Fiekowski said. "It shows you how intolerant that area is."

Fiekowski is hardly the first ultrawealthy person to maintain a frugal lifestyle. Ingvar Kamprad, the billionaire founder of Ikea, drove the same Volvo for two decades and preferred to fly coach, Business Insider's Tanza Loudenback previously reported.

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• People are donating their frequent flyer miles to help reunite separated immigrant families.
• Donations have spiked this week after a University of Michigan professor's tweet went viral.
• According to Miles4Migrants, one of the organizations that helps facilitate the award flights, they've received more donated miles during the last week than they have over the past 23 months.

As the American Civil Liberties Union and the federal government work to reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, road warriors and business travelers are donating their frequent flyer miles to help cover the cost of reuniting children with their families.

Although more than 1,400 separated families have been reunited as of a court-imposed July 26 deadline, at least 711 children were unable to be reunited with their families, including at least 431 who have not yet been reunited because their parents may have already been deported, according to the federal government.

As nonprofit organizations attempt to help with the reunification process, families have had to pay as much as $2,000 or more in airfare in order to be reunited, which includes the cost of a round-trip ticket for a family escort, and a pricey one-way for each child.

Several organizations — including Miles4Migrants and Michigan Support Circle— have been accepting donations of frequent flyer miles to help book those flights for families and children.

"Flights can be incredibly expensive, especially last minute," Seth Stanton, one of the directors of Miles4Migrants, told Business Insider. "Using miles helps us book these tickets to make reunifications possible."

Although both organizations have been soliciting donations of frequent flyer miles since the current crisis began, they've seen an explosion of donations over the past several days, thanks to a viral tweet by University of Michigan Law School professor Beth H. Wilensky. Wilensky learned about the option to donate miles from a post in Michigan Support Circle's Facebook group.

"At last count, we have commitments from about 175 volunteers," Rosaline Lochner, Michigan Support Circle's founder, said in a phone interview with Business Insider Tuesday afternoon. "Before Beth's tweet started to spread, we had around 8-10." 

Wilensky's husband, Jeff Wilensky, is the Vice President of global marketing for ProQuest, a multinational education technology company, and has amassed more than 600,000 Delta frequent flyer miles over the course of his work travel. He donated 75,000 of them through Michigan Support Circle, which helped reunite a three-year-old boy and his father, and fly them from Michigan — where the boy had been taken after being separated from his father at the border — to their extended family.

According to Andy Freedman, another director at Miles4Migrants, Wilensky's tweet — which has been retweeted over 30,000 times and liked more than 138,000, as of press time — and several follow-up tweets have had an immediate impact.

According to Freedman, once the tweet began spreading, miles started pouring in. "We've had more than 3.6 million miles donated by 112 separate people since the tweets," he said.

According to Stanton, the average cost of an award flight booked with miles to reunite a family is 20,000 miles, meaning the 3.6 million miles can be used for around 180 flights.

"For reference, since we founded Miles4Migrants in September 2016, we've booked just over 150 flights," according to Stanton. "We've more-than-doubled our capacity to help in just a day."

One of those donors was Tonia Ries, a marketing executive based in New York City. Ries learned about Miles4Migrants when someone she follows retweeted Wilensky's tweet, leading her to donate 50,000 American Express points that she earned by using her card for business expenses.

"This was an easy way to make a difference," Ries told Business Insider. "The recent family separation policy has made an issue I already cared about even more critical, so I was delighted to find an easy way to help. This is an ingenious way to let people use something that many can easily afford to share to help address an urgent need."

Michigan Support Circle began as a local grassroots organization primarily focused on helping separated families who had been relocated to Michigan, while Miles4Migrants has typically had a more global view, working with partner organizations that identify cases where miles can be helpful — since the border crisis gained attention, separated immigrant families within the US have become a focus of the organization. Any flights that Miles4Migrants books are for cases that are legally-approved, in cases where any necessary visas and paperwork are already arranged.

Because most airlines and credit card loyalty programs add significant fees or place restrictions on transferring miles to another user, both Miles4Migrants and Michigan Support Circle rely on pledges from donors to use their miles when needed. When a partner humanitarian organization identifies a case, the groups contact a pledged donor with instructions and information, and that individual can book the tickets.

The use of frequent flyer miles to reunite families is not the first time that airlines have come into the story as the spotlight has grown on the forced separation of children from their parents at illegal border crossings.

In June, as outcry grew, American Airlines issued a statement asking the federal government not to use its services to transport children who had been separated from their families. United quickly followed suit, with Frontier and Southwest following.

While the airlines don't have any direct involvement with individuals or organizations using miles to book flights for migrants, the process of helping a pledged donor book the tickets through their own account has a strong upside.

"Donors end up knowing exactly who they're helping," said Freedman. "It makes the experience less abstract, more real, and more tangible for donors."

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• Etiquette standards for previous generations look very different than today's.
• Technology etiquette guidelines are murky, leaving people uncertain about acceptable behavior for using devices at work, to form relationships, and for basic communication.
• According to experts, there are at least 15 etiquette questions your parents never had to ask, but you certainly do.

Etiquette adapts to each technological innovation. In the digital age, the ways we communicate seem to be constantly shifting — and standards for politeness change with it.

While our parents and their parents only had to worry about misdialing their dates' landlines or letters getting lost in the mail, younger generations are overwhelmed with questions about texting guidelines, dating app protocol, and email etiquette.

Business Insider consulted two communication experts, who weighed in on 15 difficult etiquette questions your previous generations never had to ask:

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1. Can I keep my phone on the table during a meal?

"Unless you are dining alone at a roadside fast-food chain, your mobile device should be off and away," Jodi RR Smith, president of Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting, told Business Insider. "Your phone should not buzz or distract you from interacting with your tablemates."

"If you are with friends and 'must' take pictures of your entrees, you may explain what you are doing, take the picture, and then put the phone away," Smith said. In the case of a debate amongst friends, "you may ask to check the internet to keep the conversation moving, and then put your phone away," she said.

2. Can I answer a text or call during a date?

"I prefer for phones to be out of sight during a date," dating expert Meredith Golden told Business Insider. If something comes up, like an emergency or childcare issue, it's polite to explain to your date the reason why your phone is out, she said.

"Other than this, the date is the time for the two people to connect. It's not the time to for catching up on your texts," she said.

3. How long can I go without answering an email?

A professional email should be acknowledged within 24-48 hours, even if it's only by an automatic message, Smith said. For social emails, you can wait up to a week, unless it is time sensitive.

President Donald Trump is taking a working vacation this week at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Since the weather at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida isn't ideal in August, Trump spends his summer weekends at his other favorite luxury property in Somerset County.

Occasionally referred to as "Camp David North" and "The Summer White House", Bedminster is one of the few golf clubs in the Trump family business that the president built from the ground up instead of purchasing and renovating. As a result, it holds a special affinity with Trump.

Trump also held meetings at Bedminster during his time as president-elect between the election and his inauguration. Most of his time there is spent playing golf and mingling with club members and guests.

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at where the president will be spending his August getaway:

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The property is located approximately 45 miles west of New York City.

Source: Google Maps

Trump bought it from a course developer in 2002, reportedly for "much less" than $35 million.

Sources: NorthJersey.com, The New York Times

Formerly known as Lamington Farm, the property was once the estate of famous automaker John DeLorean.

Source: NorthJersey.com

• Costco jobs can be rough sometimes — especially when employees find themselves dealing with difficult members and annoying habits.

• Some customers are egregiously rude, while others have habits that are just quietly aggravating.

• Blocking the front entrance, leaving out perishables around the store, and trying to start fights over warehouse policies are all sure to annoy Costco employees.

Costco jobs aren't always a cakewalk.

Sometimes, that's due to the behaviors of Costco members.

A 2018 study from the University of British Columbia found that the promise of deals can "lead consumers away from fully recognizing the human qualities of employees."

The finding doesn't exactly bode well for workers at Costco, which is known for touting bargains through buying in bulk, as well as cheap eats.

While the retail chain made Glassdoor's list of best places to work in 2017, employees have still occasionally taken to social media to complain about bad behavior from shoppers.

"There are some really pleasant regulars that come in, but the negative ones outweigh the good for sure," wrote one seven-year Costco employee in a 2013 Reddit AMA.

"It's crazy how rude the American shopper is to people they don't know — who are helping them," a Costco employee from Utah told Business Insider.

However, one California-based Costco worker told Business Insider that they haven't had too many problems with members. "We get paid incredibly well to deal with the members, so unless they're being crazy — admitting to stalking you, being racist — we'll deal with it," the employee said.

Here are 24 annoying behaviors that are sure to irk Costco employees:

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Treating employees poorly — then expecting them to 'bend over backwards' for you

Rude customers are a problem that most retail workers come up against. Costco employees are no exception.

In a 2013 Reddit AMA, a Reddit user who said they'd worked at Costco for seven years estimated that they hated 80% of the members that visited the store.

"Because people pay a membership fee to shop there, they feel entitled to treat us like s--- and expect us to bend over backwards for them," the employee wrote.

A Costco food court employee wrote in a 2014 Reddit AMA, "I'm not some indentured servant. I'm a person that has lived a life just as full as yours. I just so happened to end up on the other side of the counter today."

A Costco employee based in Ontario told Business Insider that members "pay a small fee for amazing deals — not a bunch of slaves."

A Costco employee in Texas, as well as a Costco optical department employee, also reached out to Business Insider to say that they wished some customers would drop their "belittling" and "entitled" attitudes.

Trying to shop at Costco without a membership

Costco employees are sometimes forced to deal with non-members trying to shop at the warehouse.

In a 2016 Reddit thread, a Reddit user who said they'd worked at Costco for eight years wrote that their go-to response to indignant non-members was, "I do apologize, but it is Costco's policy. It is a membership-based warehouse, and if you are not a member then you cannot shop here."

Causing problems at the front of the store

Costco members can easily make life difficult for employees monitoring the front entrance of the store.

A Reddit user who said they'd worked at Costco for eight years as of 2016 wrote that annoying behaviors include customers failing to show their Costco member card, blocking the front entrance, and "pulling the 'but I've shopped here for year' excuse' in lieu of a card.

A California-based Costco employee told Business Insider that they wished members would stop "giving attitude when asked to see their membership card."

An Ontario-based employee told Business Insider that they wished members wouldn't get annoyed when asked to show their membership card at the front of the store.

"We don't do that because we're judging you or because we think everyone is a criminal," the employee told Business Insider. "If we let anyone in with or without membership, we'd have incidents where people will fill their buggy to the rim, proceed to check out, and, when the cashier asks for their membership, they act like they never knew that they needed one."

• Casey Affleck gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he publicly addressed for the first time the allegations of sexual misconduct raised against him by two women in a 2010 civil lawsuit, regarding his alleged behavior on the set of his 2010 film, "I'm Still Here."
• Affleck settled the suits for an undisclosed amount in 2010, and the allegations resurfaced when he was nominated for (and subsequently won) the Oscar for best actor in 2017 for his performance in "Manchester by the Sea."
• In the interview, Affleck said that the fact that he had been "involved in a conflict that resulted in a lawsuit is something that I really regret," before giving an indirect admission about how he had conducted an "unprofessional environment" on the set of the film.

Casey Affleck gave an uncomfortable interview to the Associated Press in which he addressed the #MeToo movement in relation to the civil lawsuit he settled in 2010 that included allegations of sexual misconduct.

Affleck apologized and said he had some culpability in the situation, but stopped short of admitting to the sexual harassment he was accused of.

The interviewer, Lindsay Barr, asked Affleck pointedly about whether the rise of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements had changed his perspective of his alleged misconduct on the set of his 2010 film "I'm Still Here," where two women accused Affleck of sexual harassment. 

According to the complaints filed in 2010, one woman alleged that Affleck crawled into bed with her without her consent while she was sleeping, while another woman alleged that Affleck pressured her to stay in his hotel room and "violently grabbed [her] arm in an effort to intimidate her into staying" when she refused. The women also said that Affleck was verbally abusive and instructed a male crew member to expose himself to one of them. 

Affleck settled the suits for an undisclosed amount in 2010, and the allegations resurfaced when he was nominated  for (and subsequently won) the Oscar for best actor in 2017 for his performance in "Manchester by the Sea."

In the interview, Affleck said that the fact that he had been "involved in a conflict that resulted in a lawsuit is something that I really regret," and that he wished he "had found a way to resolve things in a different way," before giving an indirect admission about how he had conducted an "unprofessional environment" on the set:

"I was a boss. I was one of the producers on the set. This movie was (shot in 2008, 2009) and I was one of the producers. And it was a crazy mockumentary, (a) very unconventional movie. The cast was the crew and the crew was kind of the cast and it was an unprofessional environment and, you know, the buck had to stop with me being one of the producers and I have to accept responsibility for that and that was a mistake. And I contributed to that unprofessional environment and I tolerated that kind of behavior from other people and I wish that I hadn’t. And I regret a lot of that. I really did not know what I was responsible for as the boss. I don’t even know if I thought of myself as the boss. But I behaved in a way and allowed others to behave in a way that was really unprofessional. And I’m sorry."

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• Chipotle is adding bacon to the menu in eight restaurants, with plans for a national rollout if the test goes well. 
• Bacon is just one of a number of new menu tests and deals that would have been unthinkable at Chipotle until recently.
• Chipotle is undergoing a period of intense change. A number of executives have left the chain recently, and Brian Niccol, previously CEO of Taco Bell, became Chipotle's CEO in March.

Chipotle is adding bacon to the menu. 

The fast-casual chain announced on Thursday that it is adding Applewood Smoked Bacon to the menu in eight restaurants in Orange County, California, after a successful trial in the New York City test kitchen. 

"We found consumers added bacon to their traditional bowls, burritos, tacos and nachos while also enjoying new items such as the BLT quesadilla with bacon, lettuce, tomato and cheese grilled to perfection," Chris Brandt, chief marketing officer at Chipotle, said in a statement. 

If the bacon does well in Orange County — the region where Chipotle is moving its headquarters later this year — the meaty add-on will go national. 

Chipotle, known for its "food with integrity" motto, has long resisted adding new items to the menu, a strategy that is quickly changing under the leadership of new CEO Brian Niccol.

The company also announced on Thursday that it is expanding its test of build-your-own nachos in Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul this October. Chipotle has been serving nachos in the test kitchen since 2017. 

Chipotle also announced two new deals, in another new strategy from the chain.

From Thursday through September 30, customers in Miami and Dallas can order tacos for $2 with the purchase of any drink after 8 p.m., with locations staying open until 11 p.m. to satisfy expected demand. In select Philadelphia and Indianapolis restaurants, customers will be able to add chips and a drink to their order for $3.

"Available in-restaurant and for a limited time only, the promotions are being tested via Chipotle's new stage-gate process, which allows the company to test, learn, listen to customer feedback, and iterate extensively before moving ahead with a national launch," the company said in a statement. 

The abundance of new menu tests and deals would be unthinkable for Chipotle even a year ago. However, the chain has continued to struggle to overcome its sales slump since it was linked to an E. coli outbreak almost three years ago. A recent food-poisoning outbreak linked to Chipotle has reignited concerns as investigators remain unable to trace the source of the outbreak. 

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• "Crazy Rich Asians" is an extravagant, hilarious, and poignant examination of Asian American and Asian cultures. 
• It is a new kind of rom-com for many reasons.
• The cast is wonderful, and shows that Constance Wu and Henry Golding can carry a movie with their charm and outstanding talent in both comedy and drama.
• Awkwafina and Michelle Yeoh are other highlights. 

It’s a shame that it took decades of filmmaking to get a delightful yet poignant movie like “Crazy Rich Asians” made. It’s an incredible, moving, and hilarious film that is just as rich in details and clever social satire as Kevin Kwan’s 2013 best-selling novel of the same name.

Director Jon M. Chu says that “Crazy Rich Asians” is “not just a movie, it’s a movement.” It’s also an experience — of lavish food, culture, interiors, fashion, and Singapore itself. You might look up flights to Singapore as you walk out of the movie, like I did.

The film is hilarious, emotional, and educational as it examines the differences between Rachel Chu (played by Constance Wu, a natural lead), an Asian American woman who grew up with a Chinese single mom, and her boyfriend, Nick Young, who comes from and incredibly wealthy and traditional Singaporean family. The problem? Nick never bothered to tell Rachel about his family.

Though screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim take some narrative departures to make the story tighter, the movie follows the book's story quite religiously. After some convincing, Rachel accompanies Nick to Singapore for his best friend's wedding which, unbeknownst to her, is basically a Singaporean royal wedding.

Rachel visits her best friend from college Goh Peik Lin, played by a scene-stealing Awkwafina, and then she meets Nick's family. Once that happens, there's tension between Rachel and Nick's mother Eleanor Sung-Young (played by Yeoh). Rachel quickly realizes that friends and family look down on her for being an Asian American and assume that she's just after Nick's money. 

The beloved characters from the book are brought to life by its perfect cast: from Constance Wu to Michelle Yeoh to its all-Asian supporting characters and extras. Everyone involved in this film had the time of their lives filming it, and that joy shows in every frame.

“Crazy Rich Asians” is not only significant as the first major theatrical release starring Asian Americans in 25 years, since 1993’s “Joy Luck Club,” but for its vast and entirely Asian cast.

What’s also refreshing is its story. Movies, especially romantic comedies, often tell the same story: a workaholic 26-year-old white blonde woman, who is played by an actress in her 30s, can’t find love because she’s too obsessed with her job. Then, in comes a white man played by an actor in his 40s to make her reconsider her personality.

“Crazy Rich Asians” ignores many tropes set for rom-coms. At the beginning of the movie, the main characters have already been dating for over a year. And their relationship's obstacles — family and money — are more real than most romantic comedies.

If Hollywood listens, “Crazy Rich Asians” absolutely has the potential to bolster a change for Asian actors, filmmakers, and stories. It’s a necessary push for inclusivity in the film industry. Like February’s “Black Panther,” it makes a lot of people who’ve largely been ignored feel seen. It also proves these specific stories work for everyone, even if they don’t look the same as the people on screen.

“Crazy Rich Asians” is a blast, and within minutes it will immerse you into its extraordinary extravagance and extraordinary talent.

The movie comes to theaters August 15.

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• Logan Paul has expressed interest in entering the UFC octagon.
• In an interview with TMZ, his brother Jake Paul said, "I think it'd be dope to see one of us fight McGregor," to which Logan responded, "That's what I was thinking!"
• Logan Paul is due to fight fellow YouTuber KSI on August 25 in a boxing match that has been built up with trash talk that's gone too far at times.
• The event will also see Jake take on KSI's brother, Deji.
• Logan said he and his brother would have to prove themselves in the ring first before taking on the likes of McGregor.

Logan Paul's war of words has finally extended beyond fellow YouTuber KSI, who he is due to fight in a highly-anticipated boxing match this month.

Speaking to TMZ at Los Angeles International Airport, Paul expressed interest in becoming a UFC fighter, saying he doesn't want his career to be "one and done."

Asked who he would like to fight in a mixed martial arts arena, Paul said, "Dana White, are you watching this, bro? Pick a fight for me."

His brother Jake Paul, who is fighting KSI's brother Deji as the undercard to their older brothers' fight, said, "I think it'd be dope to see one of us fight McGregor," to which Logan responded, "That's what I was thinking!"

"We've got to prove ourselves first," Logan said.

You can watch the full interview here:

The build-up to Paul's fight with KSI (real name Olajide Olatunji) has been a ludicrous affair, with insults traded between the two arguably going too far on a number of occasions.

During a press conference earlier this month, KSI suggested he would make a better lover than Paul, who is missing part of his testicle due to a stunt gone wrong. That was to background chants of "She's a hoe!" from the crowd.

In a video titled "DEAR KSI, HERE'S WHY I WALKED OFF STAGE...", Paul pointed to KSI's problematic history of making insulting and sexist remarks. He specifically referenced his ban in 2012 from Eurogamer events after he made lewd remarks to women.

Paul's infamous filming of a dead body in Japan's "suicide forest" has also proved to be popular ammunition for KSI in their disputes.

BBC Radio 1, which is targeted at 15- to 29-year-olds, decided not to air an interview with Logan Paul and KSI after a backlash from listeners. It was one of the few media interviews the pair were scheduled to carry out ahead of their fight, a spokesman for KSI told Business Insider earlier this month.

The match, which takes place in Manchester Arena on August 25, will be livestreamed for $8 (£6).

If each of the pair's collective 35 million fans watched, it would net them $280 million from streams alone.

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• A new study has shown how blue light can cause macular degeneration — one of the leading causes of blindness.
• Blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye's retina.
• The study found blue light turns a molecule in the eye into a cell-killing poison.
• It kills photoreceptor cells, which do not regenerate.
• Special sunglasses that filter blue light might hep, but specialists are undecided about how much good they actually do.

Staring at screens all day isn't good for us — we know this. It can cause eye strain, sometimes called computer vision syndrome, and the light is so bright it can mimic sunlight, mess with our hormones, and prevent us from feeling sleepy.

The blue light tablets, smartphones, and laptops emit is so bright we can see our screens on a sunny day. It's not natural to be looking at such intense light all day long, so it's no wonder research is starting to find how bad it is for us.

According to a new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, this blue light might speed up our chance of becoming blind. Previous studies have shown how harmful blue light is, but researchers from The University of Toledo have shown the mechanism of how it can make molecules become "toxic."

The team found that shining blue light on eye cells transforms vital molecules into cell-killing poison — which can lead to age-related macular degeneration, one of the biggest worldwide causes of blindness.

"We are being exposed to blue light continuously, and the eye's cornea and lens cannot block or reflect it," said Ajith Karunarathne, assistant professor in the UT Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and one of the authors of the study.

"It's no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye's retina. Our experiments explain how this happens, and we hope this leads to therapies that slow macular degeneration, such as a new kind of eye drop."

Macular degeneration occurs when photoreceptor cells in the retina die. They do not regenerate, so "when they're dead, they're dead for good," said Kasun Ratnayake, a PhD student researcher and another author of the study.

Retinal — a substance formed by oxidation of vitamin A — changes and kills photoreceptor cells by dissolving some of their membranes.

The team added retinal molecules to other body cells, like cancer cells, heart cells, and neurons, and they also died when exposed to blue light because of the retinal becoming poisonous. Without the retinal, blue light had no effect on the other types of cell.

"No activity is sparked with green, yellow or red light," said Karunarathne. "The retinal-generated toxicity by blue light is universal. It can kill any cell type."

Normally, there's a molecule in our eyes called alpha tocopherol, which is a natural antioxidant, and it stops photoreceptor cells from dying. But as we age, or our immune system takes a hit, we lose the ability to fight against the toxic retinal attack — and that's when the damage occurs.

Karunarathne said you can use special sunglasses that filter both UV and blue light to try and combat the effects, but experts are unsure whether they do that much good.

You can also try and avoid smartphones and laptops when it's dark — something you should be doing anyway if you want to get a good night's sleep.

"Every year more than two million new cases of age-related macular degeneration are reported in the United States," Karunarathne said. "We hope to find a way to protect the vision of children growing up in a high-tech world."

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Critics are praising Spike Lee's latest film, "BlacKkKlansman," as the best work in years from the acclaimed filmmaker. 

The movie is based on the true story and memoir of Ron Stallworth, the first African-American detective to work in the Colorado Springs police department, who in the late 1970s devised a plan to infiltrate and expose the Klu Klux Klan. 

"BlacKkKlansman" was developed and produced by Jordan Peele (the Oscar-winning director of "Get Out"). Peele brought the project to Lee as a working concept in 2017, and critics are calling the resulting work a dynamic mix of crime drama and comedy, as well as a sharp social commentary on both the past and present.

The film, which stars John David Washington and Adam Driver, currently has a 98% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Here's what critics have said about "BlacKkKlansman," which opens nationwide on Friday:

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"Spike Lee returns to form with a true-life story that works as comedy, crime drama and political alarm-bell all at once."

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

"Spike Lee's hellraiser about a black cop who infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s is also an incendiary indictment of our current Trump moment and one of the best films of the year. A cinema giant has found his voice again and the power to make it heard."

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Its fiery message couldn't be more timely - and its rage more justified."

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

•  To find the best places to visit in September 2018, Business Insider looked at climate data, cultural calendars, and peak travel times.
• September is shoulder season for many top tourism destinations, and savvy travelers are already planning their trips.
• The best places to visit in September include American natural wonders like the Grand Canyon and New Hampshire's White Mountains, as well as the romantic Indian city of Udaipur and metropolises like London and Melbourne.

The summer is nearly over, but that doesn't mean you have to put your travel dreams on hold.

September is shoulder season in much of the world, and savvy travelers know that's often the best time to visit must-see locations.

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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

September is the perfect month to visit the Grand Canyon, one of the America's most famous natural wonders. With summer vacationers and road-trippers out of the picture, you'll be competing with far fewer people for the best vantage points.

On top of that, temperatures are much more comfortable this time of year. While summer temperatures at the bottom of the Grand Canyon often reach triple digits, in September they fall to the 80s and 90s, and even as cool as the high-60s at the top of the canyon. Meanwhile, if you visit the national park after autumn, many areas will be shut down until the weather heats up again.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is always busy, but the end of summer does see a slight reduction in tourist traffic. The big draw for Vegas in September is the temperature, which drops to around 70 degrees at night. Wait one more month, and you'll need a warm jacket. Wait one more, and you start to compete with holiday visitors.

Outer Banks, North Carolina

North Carolina's famed Outer Banks have a more laid-back and local feel once the annual wave of summer tourists starts to dissipate.

The 200-mile stretch of islands entices visitors from all over with its vast beachfronts, historic lighthouses, and wild horses that roam the landscape. History buffs will also appreciate the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk and various dedications to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the modern-day United States.