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On Tuesday, a Vietnamese court sentenced an environmental activist to 14 years behind bars for allegedly abusing his democratic freedom and disagreeing with officials on duty.

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Snap's stock soared after hours Tuesday following an unexpected beat in its fourth-quarter earnings report. The stock was up as much as 30%.

Here are the results compared to Wall Street's expectations (via Bloomberg):

• EPS (adjusted): -$0.13 vs. -$0.16 expected
• Revenue: $285 million vs. $252.8 million expected

Snapchat announced last year that it would redesign its app in order to help juice user growth and make it easier to use for newcomers. Читать дальше...

Snap

Snap, the company that makes the Snapchat app, will report its fourth-quarter 2017 earnings on Tuesday shortly after the markets close.

Here's what Wall Street is expecting, according to Bloomberg analyst estimates:

• EPS (adjusted): -$0.16
• Revenue: $252.8 million

Snapchat announced last year that it would redesign its app in order to help juice user growth and make it easier to use for newcomers. But that was three months ago, and the redesign still hasn't rolled out to most users. Читать дальше...

Facebook/Kaila Methven

• Entrepreneur Kaila Methven calls herself a KFC heiress.
• Methven's family owned Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that at one time supplied 90% of KFC's chicken.
• Methven now runs two high-end lingerie brands: Madame Methven and LDKM. 

You could be forgiven for not knowing that KFC has an heiress, because it doesn't. But lingerie designer Kaila Methven is the next best thing. 

Methven is the granddaughter of the founder of Rainbow Chicken Unlimited... Читать дальше...

Facebook/Kaila Methven

• Entrepreneur Kaila Methven is marketing herself as a KFC heiress.
• Methven's family owned Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that at one time supplied 90% of KFC's chicken.
• Methven now runs two high-end lingerie brands: Madame Methven and LDKM. 

You could be forgiven for not knowing that KFC has an heiress, because it doesn't. But lingerie designer Kaila Methven is the next best thing. 

Methven is the granddaughter... Читать дальше...

• In 2017, Apple issued a software update that began slowing down older models of iPhone when their batteries got old. 
• This software does not affect the newest iPhone models introduced in the last year, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X, according to Apple.

In a letter to Congress released on Tuesday, Apple that the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X aren't affected by software updates that slow down iPhones with old batteries.

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• In 2017, Apple issued a software update that began slowing down older models of iPhone when their batteries got old. 
• This software does not affect the newest iPhone models introduced in the last year, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X, according to Apple.

In a letter to Congress released on Tuesday, Apple that the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X aren't affected by software updates that slow down iPhones with old batteries. Читать дальше...

On Monday, stocks got clobbered. Tuesday, they’ve been twitchy—fluctuating up and down like the needle on a seismograph.

Magic Johnson has always enjoyed the spotlight, but the NBA would like him to stop talking about other teams’ players now that he is president of the Lakers. The Lakers were fined $50,000 for tampering, the NBA announced Tuesday, because of comments made by Johnson in “a recent media interview.” The comments, in an article...

Paris (dpa) - Winterwetter mit Schnee und Eis hat im Großraum Paris ein Verkehrschaos ausgelöst. Wie der Radionachrichtensender Franceinfo berichtete, stauten sich die Autos am Dienstagabend auf einer Länge von über 740 Kilometer - das sei ein neuer Rekord. Der Busverkehr in Vororte der Hauptstadt kam in den Abendstunden weitgehend zum Erliegen. Das Wahrzeichen der Stadt, der Eiffelturm, wurde vorsorglich für Besucher geschlossen. Das Winterwetter trifft laut Wetterdienst Météo France die Nordhälfte Frankreichs. Читать дальше...

WTP kicks off their "Weekenders" series with Jordan Godwin going to work on the infamous Hollywood High rail. Need I say more?

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• Millennials have been buying Snap more than they've been selling it. 
• Baby Boomers also own a lot of Snap. 
• Wall Street isn't so optimistic on the social media company. 

Snap is set to report earnings following Tuesday's closing bell, and both millennials and baby boomers seem to like the stock. Shares are up more than 1% ahead of the results, trading just above $14 apiece.  

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While Busy Philipps and Jessica Chastain have turned to social media to slam Quentin Tarantino, Diane Kruger has stepped in to defend him.

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• Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will not be testifying on Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee as had previously been scheduled.
• The committee has decided to postpone his interview until next week to allow time for the committe and the White House to agree on the terms of the interview.
• The White House seeks to invoke executive privilege in order to limit which questions Bannon will answer, but only the president can assert this privilege. Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines appears to be backing down from a demand to get credit for money donated to a fired employee's GoFundMe account. The change of heart comes after a union accused Southwest of abusing the generosity of the man's co-workers. Southwest fired Dallas mechanic Ken Hackett a year ago and accused him of helping organize a boycott of overtime assignments. In December, an arbitrator ordered the airline to reinstate Hackett with back pay minus any income he earned from other sources. Читать дальше...

SpaceX launched their Falcon Heavy at 3:45 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was originally slated for 1:30 p.m., but was delayed to wait for winds in Earth’s upper atmospheres to die down.

We have been told there is no danger of fire or explosion. Crews were seen working on West 10th between Peach and Sassafras.

SpaceX launched their Falcon Heavy at 3:45 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was originally slated for 1:30 p.m., but was delayed to wait for winds in Earth’s upper atmospheres to die down.

The North American Soccer League has further escalated its legal battle with the U.S. Soccer Federation, filing a lawsuit alleging the directors on the USSF board are acting to protect personal interests. The suit alleges that the board members, motivated by conflicts of interest and economic considerations, breached their fiduciary duties to the NASL by "arbitrarily refusing to sanction the NASL as a Division II league for the 2018 season." It says that decision was made to protect the board members'...

NEW YORK (AP) — Like Prince William and Kate Middleton before them, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are now getting a Lifetime movie about their relationship. Murray Fraser and Parisa Fitz-Henley have been cast as the couple in "Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance." It tells the story of the courtship between the British royal and American actress. Production begins this week. The film is slated to air before the actual May 19 wedding. "William & Kate: The Movie" starred Nico Evers-Swindell and "Grey's Anatomy" actress Camilla Luddington.

It’s not even July yet.

The NBA league office has slapped the Los Angeles Lakers with another hefty tampering fine on Tuesday for comments made by president of basketball operations Magic Johnson on rising star Giannis Antetokounmpo in an interview with ESPN’s Nick Friedell in late January.

Here is the full quote from Johnson from the ESPN interview:

“Oh yeah,” Johnson told ESPN recently. “With his ball-handling skills and his passing ability. He plays above the rim I never could do that. Читать дальше...

China's detention of Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai while he was being accompanied by Swedish diplomats could set a dangerous precedent for other EU citizens, Germany's ambassador to China said Tuesday.

President Trump quarreled with "one of the most vulnerable House Republicans" on Tuesday after she called him out on urging a government shutdown, The Washington Post's Robert Costa reports.

“Games of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films, Lucasfilm announced on Tuesday. These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” “David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and... Читать дальше...