UK passengers and conductors have been faced with some unruly passengers when a cluster of crabs attempted to board a train.

The crustaceans were caught on video scattered across a platform in Gateshead, England yesterday as a train conductor attempted to stop them from boarding the Metro carriage.

The crabs were reportedly being transported in a plastic bag by a passenger, but the bag split open and the opportunistic crabs made their bid for freedom, the Newcastle Evening Chronicle reports.

The human culprit left the scene without attempting to collect and regather the critters, a Metro worker said.

“This wasn’t an everyday occurrence and our staff acted quickly to remove the crabs from the train and platform,” a spokesman for the Metro said.

Unfortunately many of the crabs died in the incident – however, the four survivors were taken in by a sympathetic aquarium owner who has since adopted them.

It is unclear what kind of crabs were involved.

Do you have any news photos or videos?


William Hogarth's Rake's Progress shows Tom Rakewell inheriting his wealth from his miser father, and wasting it in a splurge of excess. It is an anti-fairy story: riches to rags, a rollercoaster of glamour, greed and despair. In eight plates the Rake ditches his pregnant fiancee Sarah, dons his new clothes, splashes out on high art and high living, and on low: the booze and whores of the Rose Tavern. As the money flies, his creditors gather and when he recoups his fortune by marrying a rich widow, he throws this away at the gambling table. From imprisonment in the debtors' prison, he tumbles to madness, Bedlam and death. On the surface then, A Rake's Progress is a stern moral tale, but Hogarth's vision of Tom's downfall is less judgment than lament, full of compassion for the fool at odds with the city. The timeless curve of the story and the blend of caustic wit and deep feeling make it a perfect model for exploring other ages of affluence and crash. How clever, then, of the Foundling Museum to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Hogarth's death in 1764 by showing the Rake alongside works by four modern artists inspired by Hogarth's prints. Clever too, to call the exhibition Progress, with its implied question mark.

The Foundling Hospital was important to Hogarth, both in his role as a benefactor and in his dogged determination to promote British art, and the exhibition reflects both these concerns. Upstairs and downstairs, we find different Rakes, each in a different medium. Here are David Hockney's etchings and aquatints, based on the sketchbook from his first trip to New York in 1961, when he was 24, thrilled by its glamour, gay bars, galleries and studios, and dazed by its Kennedy-era politics, the poverty of Harlem and the music and madness of the city. Here is Yinka Shonibare, casting himself as hero of his Diary of a Victorian Dandy, 1998, his posed photographs reminding us of the slavery that underpinned empire. "I chose Hogarth for his social commentary and the political aspect of his work", Shonibare explained when the Diary was shown at the Tate in 2007: "My series is a commentary on our times, but it is also about daring to parody the establishment – which was something Hogarth was very good at." Here, too, is Grayson Perry's Tim Rakewell striding among the taste tribes of today's Britain in the six tapestries of The Vanity of Small Differences. Commenting on these in 2012 Perry said: "Hogarth has long been an influence on my work. I identify with his Englishness, his robust humour and his depiction of, in his own words, 'modern moral subjects'."

The angry wit of those modern moral subjects is felt even when the Rake disappears. The youngest artist here, Jessie Brennan, felt anxious about not having a single protagonist, but her Fall of Ordinariness and Light, specially commissioned for the show, presents its own version of dream and collapse, an imploding pile of grandeur. Her spectral drawings of crushed photographs dramatise the demolition of Alison and Peter Smithson's 1960s "streets in the sky" housing estate, Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets – a metaphor both for the conflict over rejected modernist ideals, and for communities wrecked by gentrification. "A Rake's Progress", Brennan says, "had, and still has, the ability to confront what people's ideals of progress are". Today's Londoners are living through social upheaval, as Hogarth did: many have no hope of a home, while the super-rich buy mansions and leave them empty. There is plenty of development in London, but the utopian language of regeneration is at odds with the experience. "When a cynical government does nothing," says Brennan, "I can't understand why we don't all riot."

Hogarth made political points by eliding high life and low, like John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, a play that he painted over and over again as a young artist. Similarly, these works overturn stereotypes: Shonibare casts himself as a black dandy surrounded by obsequious white servants; Perry uses tapestries – the grand decor of the rich – to show the close weaving of taste and money. But the great allure of Hogarth's series lies in the precise placing of the story in the London of his day, the streets, salons and gaming houses of St James's, the taverns of Covent Garden, the churches of Marylebone, the Fleet prison and Bedlam. The men and women who bought the prints when they first appeared in 1735 could recognise every setting, and find the originals of many of the people, like Handel in his wig (another Foundling benefactor), with the cast list of his new opera. The plates throb with detail, deepening the satire. In the scene at the Rose Tavern portraits of Roman emperors hang on the walls: these are the idols of the so-called Augustan age, but on these murky walls all the portraits are defaced – except for Nero's.

The modern artists take up this suggestiveness, and make it their own. Hockney's etchings are full of specific references, often half hidden: Mahalia Jackson sings in Washington Square, a label on a bottle carries letters from "Lady Clairol", the dye that he first used to bleach his hair, and the plate's title echoes its advertisement – The start of the Spending Spree and the Door Opening for a Blonde. Perry's tapestries bristle with redolent objects: a graduation photo, Penguin Classics mugs, a cafetiere, an iPad. Shonibare's rooms are full of fantastic luxury goods and shimmering materials. Brennan's collapsing flats have washing hanging on their balconies. A Rake's Progress appeals to all, Brennan thinks, because of its playful quality, the way the narrative unfolds in time, and the details that make it human.

Hogarth's art is extravagant, ruthless, violent and tender by turns: he could mock and touch the heart at the same time. He understands the helplessness of the outsider, like Tom Rakewell, venturing into the tight cliques of the rich. But as an artist, he values the outsider's uncluttered view. This participant/outsider duality is felt in the later Rakes, in Hockney's reaction to New York, and in the Nigerian-born Shonibare's celebration of the dandy as an "outsider, who upsets the social order of things". Does it help artists not to "belong"? As Shonibare said in a recent interview, "That's what the artist is striving for, this independence of mind. I've always liked these Trojan-horse ideas, where you can camouflage, but then you can potentially cause a lot of havoc." Perry too, is in disguise, and not, this time, as his alter ego, Claire: "I have a thick crust of Islington," he told the Guardian's Charlotte Higgins, "but if you cut me, you would find Essex there. The tone of my taste decisions is often very Essex, but I put an Islington spin on them. That might be the deciding factor in my entire oeuvre – I am an exquisite punk."

As the show's curator Caro Howell says, Hogarth's work "acts like a lightning rod for other artists' particular concerns": the politics of sex, gender, race and class; of progress and disenfranchisement. Placing the original Rake's Progress in conversation with them makes them spring into relief. Hogarth often called himself a dramatist, and much of the work here has a cinematic quality, pulling us in. In the intimate space of the Foundling Museum, Perry's tapestries loom close, so that you seem to meet the men and women walking through them – as you do with Hogarth's series. The immediacy and recognition makes them both more overwhelming and more familiar. This doesn't feel like a static exhibition. It is mobile, dynamic. The very act of moving through the building reflects the narrative movement of the different Progresses, and imparts a feeling of translation, of conversation. The works seem "to fly around", as Brennan says, "reflecting off each other".

The show gains more than this from its setting. Hogarth was governor of three charitable hospitals, but the Foundling Hospital was closest to his heart, demonstrating what Howell calls his "benevolent engagement as well as his commercial marketing nous and awareness of the importance of branding – almost the first thing he did was to create a badge". He went beyond this, designing uniforms and supervising wet nurses, and he and his wife Jane, childless themselves, fostered several children over the years. He used his art – as he would later in Gin Lane and Industry and Idleness – as an instrument for social change.

Hogarth himself carried a shadow from his childhood. His father, an immigrant teacher from the north, was a publisher of Latin and Greek textbooks who tried to set up a Latin-speaking coffee house in Smithfield. Not surprisingly this failed, and – like the Rake - he was incarcerated in the Fleet prison for debt, taking his family with him. In Shonibare's view Hogarth's hatred of authority began here: "his work was irreverent towards the authority that imprisoned him". His career had the makings of a story: an apprentice silver-engraver who turned to printmaking, he married the daughter of the painter Sir James Thornhill and painted pioneering "conversation pieces" of high-ranking families. But the itch to mock authority always upset his courting of the polite world, and after the success of A Harlot's Progress in 1732, the first of his "modern moral subjects", he turned to engraving for the wider market, defiantly hanging a tradesman's sign outside his door.

Three years later, when the Rake was published, he won the first copyright act, Hogarth's Act, protecting engravers' work from piracy. By now he was a leading figure among the artists of Old Slaughter's Coffee House and the St Martin's Lane Academy, raging against an art market that favoured old masters and continental painters, and at connoisseurs blind to the talent outside their own back door. Sorely aware of the lack of exhibition spaces, he saw the potential of the Foundling Hospital when it was established in 1739, with its attraction for well-off visitors. His powerful portrait of the founder, Captain Coram, expressed his admiration but also shouted his claim that he could do grand-manner portraiture as well as any French court painter. In the hospital's Court Room, with its wonderful rococo interior, his painting of Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's Daughter took pride of place among works by London artists, including Hayman, Highmore and Wilson. All the artists were well established, except one, the 21-year-old Thomas Gainsborough, whose inclusion was a gesture of support for talent and optimism for the future of British art. There is a parallel in today's show: the three men are established, if far from establishment, figures, while Brennan is from the coming generation. Her inclusion highlights the importance the older artists place on such support, in schemes such as Shonibare's "Guest Works", where he lends his studio space to younger artists. And it's good, too, to have a woman's take on the Rake, especially one that refuses to be overtly gendered.

When I talked to Howell, as she ducked under ladders amid the bustle of preparation for the show, she was excited. She sees Progress as part of the museum's continuing dialogue between past and present. "So much of our work is with vulnerable, marginalised children," she says, "and so much of their experience is about feeling isolated, unloved, unacknowledged. It is amazing when they come here and realise that they have a history, that there were people in the past who were like them, and that those people are celebrated – they have a museum dedicated to them." Next week the museum holds its 10th birthday celebration, and behind it, on the walls of the museum, the Rake and his modern fellows walk through their stories of aspiration and fall, the dreams and madness of Hogarth's age, and our own.

• Progress is at the Foundling Museum until 7 September. foundlingmuseum.org.uk. Jenny Uglow is the author of Hogarth: A Life and a World (Faber).

Summary: On the 250th anniversary of Hogarth's death, Jenny Uglow explores how artists including David Hockney and Grayson Perry have been inspired by his riches to rags anti-fairy story


(Read more: Meet 'Bitcoin Jesus,' a virtual currency millionaire)

"There's no question that bitcoin has some inherent risk," Woo said. "But I think we also need to recognize the fact that bitcoin does have a role to play in countries where its citizens face high taxes, capital controls or even high confiscation risk. This is why China has seen massive growing demand for bitcoins."

Woo played down fears that bitcoin could fuel an underground economy of illicit drugs and untraceable transactions. Bitcoins, which are complex lines of code, contains a built-in code that produces a digital—and public—footprint, he said.

(Read more: US grabs $3 million worth of Bitcoins in Silk Road raid)

"From that point of view, I don't think bitcoin could become a big story in the criminal underworld," Woo said.

(Read more: Bitcoin's surge due to 'excess liquidity': Faber)

— By CNBC's Jeff Morganteen. Follow him on Twitter at @jmorganteen and get the latest stories from "Squawk on the Street"

Summary: Bitcoin could become a major means of payment for e-commerce, a Bank of America analyst tells CNBC.


America celebrated the first National Donut Day in 1938, but the beloved snack is still undergoing innovation, Dunkin' Brands CEO Nigel Travis said Friday.

The trend these days? Indulgence.

"You're seeing a trend toward more indulgent doughnuts," Travis said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Travis made his comments on the day America celebrates the deep-fried pastry. National Donut Day was inaugurated nearly 80 years ago as a fundraiser for the Salvation Army.

Read MoreDollars to doughnuts? US eats half a billion worth

The celebration coincides with the start of the pre-summer weeks, when Dunkin' Brands, operator of the Dunkin' Donuts chain of bakeries, begins to see an uptick in its business, Travis said.

Dunkin' is trying to meet demand for lavish treats by partnering with Mondelez to offer options like Chips Ahoy! cookie crumble and Oreo cheesecake square doughnuts.

"There is two levels to doughnuts. There is the indulgent, slightly higher ones like cheesecake doughnuts. They're slightly higher priced," he said, adding that these treats are for customers who want to spoil themselves on a special day.

Did someone mention carbs and calories?

Summary: Dunkin' Donuts is trying to meet the demand for indulgent treats by adding in Oreo and Chips Ahoy to its ingredients, CEO Nigel Travis says.


The people who take to Twitter to express distaste for their jobs tend to be from low-wage sector jobs like retail and food service, according to the data. Retail workers made up 37 percent of all dissatisfied tweets about their jobs, almost twice their portion of positive tweets. Retail workers also tweeted 19 percent of the positive tweets, probably an indication of their age and social media habits.

"Retail workers tend to be younger," Courtney said, "those positions also tend to be customer-oriented."

Tech workers were the least likely—among the broad industry categories studied—to express any emotion for their jobs. Only two percent of job-hating tweets were from tech, suggesting tech workers have a sense of the negative consequences that can come with publicly stating one's job frustrations.

"We live in kind of a fishbowl today," Courtney said. "You can see in and see out and as an employee you really have to be careful about what you are saying on social media, especially about your employer."

Geographically, Americans living in the west tend to express appreciation for their jobs more than their easterly neighbors. All but one of the top 10 states by ratio of love to hate tweets are west of the Mississippi. Maine is the lone East Coast holdout.

Read MoreWho treats workers better: Silicon Valley or Wall Street?

It's people in the Aloha State who express the most love for their jobs on Twitter. According to the data, Hawaiians tweet love for their jobs nearly 10 times as much as they tweet derision.

But sunshine doesn't make everyone happy: Floridians were the least likely to express love for their job through Twitter. There were fewer than three positive tweets for every negative one from the Sunshine State.

Summary: Everyone enjoys complaining about their job on social media. Surprisingly, people express love for their jobs more than hate, says new analysis.


The Federal Reserve could increase a key short-term interest rate to as much as 2 percent by the end of next year, JPMorgan Chief U.S. Economist Michael Feroli said Thursday, a day after the central bank concluded its two-day meeting hinting of a monetary tightening later this year.

The fed funds rate will "probably be more like 1.75 percent to 2 percent" by the end of 2016, Feroli said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"If we get to 2 percent, that would be accommodative by normal measures." To get there, he said, the Fed could hike rates "every other meeting perhaps" once the tightening cycle begins.

The Fed policy statement released Wednesday afternoon and subsequent news conference with central bank Chair Janet Yellen provided indications that near-zero percent rates are on track to move higher for the first time since 2006 sometime this year, with possibly two moves in store.

Read MoreFed leaves interest rates unchanged

The debate on Wall Street seems to be centered on the first increase at either the September or December meeting—both gatherings are also scheduled to conclude with Yellen news conferences.

Feroli said he's still betting on September for liftoff, though with "less conviction" after the latest Fed developments. "If it looks like the second quarter [economy] is going to be pretty decent, I think September can be right back as a frontrunner."

Summary: The Fed could increase a key short-term interest rate to as much as 2 percent by the end of next year, JPMorgan Chief U.S. Economist Michael Feroli tells CNBC.


He added that their productivity levels are particularly impressive given that they sell their goods at such low prices. According to data from eMarketer, T.J. Maxx and Marshalls pull in about $304 in average sales per foot, while Ross does about $288 in average sales per square foot.

That's much higher than the typical department store. J.C. Penney, for example, averages about $101 in sales per square foot, while Macy's averages about $158, according to the data.

"At their price point ... those productivity levels we view as very, very attractive," Freddo said.

Read MoreRetailers are closing up shop. Here's why...

A recent study by Sterne Agee found that the off-price sector remains highly attractive to female shoppers. The firm, which surveyed more than 1,000 women in the U.S., found that 65 percent of respondents have shopped at an off-price store over the last 12 months, with more than 80 percent of respondents saying they have shopped at either a T.J. Maxx or a Marshalls.

"Notably, customers who are shopping more at off-price (regardless of which concept) most frequently cited Macy's and J.C. Penney as chains where they are shopping less," analyst Ike Boruchow wrote in the report.

On the flip side, among those who are shopping less at off-price stores, Kohl's was the most frequently mentioned beneficiary, he said.

Read MoreStop blaming store size for weak results: DDR CEO

According to Sterne Agee's findings, the most common reason consumers were shopping less frequently at off-price stores was because they're shopping online more. That presents a significant challenge for the off-price retailers, which have a very small presence on the Web.

Summary: According to Jefferies, off-price retailers Ross Stores and TJX are getting the best return on investment for their real estate.


While many defend the euro's stability, including former ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, others wonder what impact Greece leaving the euro zone could have on the currency.

So far on the year, the euro has fallen nearly 9 percent, and bitcoin has fallen 20 percent in the same time. However, bitcoin spiked 13 percent in the month of June as the Greek debt talks deteriorated. Even then, bitcoin is far off the highs last seen in 2013 when it traded near $1,000. Now, a bitcoin is worth around $250.

Read MoreBitcoin needs better consumer protection

Armstrong remains bullish on the cryptocurrency.

"The potential downside or the cost of one bitcoin is only a couple hundred dollars; if bitcoin continues to grow like we've seen it do over the last couple of years, the potential upside is 1,000 times or more," he said.

Summary: With the state of the euro in question as Greece ponders a euro zone exit, is bitcoin the right place to turn?


Suspicion that the deaths may be part of a cover-up have prompted calls for the resignation of Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Madhya Pradesh chief minister and a senior member of Narendra Modi's governing BJP, which has long held power in the state.

India's opposition Congress party — which was ousted by Mr Modi and the BJP in the 2014 general election in part because of public disgust with years of corruption during its 10-year rule — has described Vyapam as "the biggest and most dangerous corruption scandal in modern India".

In a front-page editorial on Tuesday, Mint, the Indian business newspaper, called for an impartial investigation by authorities from outside Madhya Pradesh. "Even by India's weak standards of law and order, a murderous rampage is on," it said.

More from the Financial Times:

Indian ride-hailing service Ola appoints Arun Sarin to board India: Land in demand Bollywood star in hot water over Nestlé noodle row

Methods used in the scam included paying imposters to take exams for candidates seeking to join institutions such as medical colleges, the civil service and the police. The strategy is said to be in use across India and has even been depicted in a Bollywood movie.But the scale and centralized organisation of the scam in Madhya Pradesh was unprecedented, implicating senior officials as well as candidates and the students who impersonated them.

Politicians and commentators say the scandal tarnishes the anti-corruption reputation hitherto enjoyed by Mr Modi and the government among their younger supporters.

However, it could paradoxically strengthen the prime minister's hand within the BJP, given that many of those implicated in this scandal and a concurrent one involving the Indian Premier League cricket tournament are party rivals or opponents.

The corruption "reinforces the image that these [BJP] people are no different from the others", said one senior party member who asked to remain anonymous.

If the mysterious deaths — said by some to number more than 40 and by one Congress politician to exceed 150 — do turn out to be murder, "it would be a new low" in the way India deals with its corruption scandals, the BJP member said. "Even if five or 10 of those 24 or 42 deaths have taken place in unnatural circumstances, it's definitely too many."

Mr Chauhan announced on Tuesday that he was yielding to demands that he request a probe by the India's Central Bureau of Investigation. "I do not want to leave anybody in doubt over our intention to clean the system and punish the guilty," he said on Twitter.

Read MoreIndia stocks lag peers as investors lose patience

Siddharth Varadarajan, one of the founding editors of online news portal The Wire, said such a scandal affecting young job seekers would be "much more viscerally felt by people" than the cricket scandal. "For this cohort, which was a major contributor to Mr Modi's victory, I think for them this is a very big eye-opener.

"The system of recruiting people for government jobs and administering exams is clearly something that provides rich pickings, and it's not surprising that politicians would be involved in that," he added.

The BJP's Uma Bharti, India's water minister and a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, said that there was panic in the state over the deaths and that she was traumatized that her name had been mentioned in a statement to police by one of the accused. Denying involvement, she said: "It's a very deep conspiracy. The biggest example of the deep conspiracy is that my name is in it."

Summary: A decade-old corruption scandal in Madhya Pradesh has erupted following the sudden deaths of witnesses and an investigative journalist, the Financial Times reports.


Since the early 90s, I have been working with tracing. I go to specific locations to trace marks, stains and cracks on the ground on to architectural Mylar [polyester-based tracing film]. From these tracings I make drawings and paintings. I clean the original tracings and layer them on top of each other. Once I've piled up the tracings, I place several rectangles of drafting Mylar on top of them. This determines the size of the drawings I will eventually make. I then start to trace the layers of rubbings that are beneath the rectangles, with a different colour pencil for each layer, peeling back the layers one by one until I reach the bottom of the pile. The final drawings are always a surprise.

I was recently invited to do a residency at the Albright-Knox art gallery in Buffalo, New York. I traced for three weeks with nine assistants, for five days a week. We took tracings from a storage hall at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant, from a wading pool, a parking lot ... This working process is important - going out into the world.

My journey through tracing different sites, working with and meeting people and seeing their reactions to the work - all this has changed my understanding of representation and abstraction.

• Ingrid Calame was born in 1965 in the Bronx, New York.

Summary: My journey through tracing different sites has changed my understanding of representation and abstraction, says Ingrid Calame


(TheMIX) — Big Data is big business. Sensors, GPS tracking, math modeling, and artificial intelligence offer companies real-time market insights at massive scale and open the door to unprecedented ways of monitoring, targeting, and measuring employees and customers. Analyst firm Gartner predicts that enterprises adopting Big Data technologies will “outperform competitors by 20 percent in every available financial metric.”

Big Data might well be “the new oil,” but I would caution us not to worship it as the new religion. Amidst all the data frenzy, we are not only losing a more holistic view of business but also a part of our humanity. How much space do we leave for creativity if we equate better living with better algorithms?

I am not a dataphobe, but I am concerned about relying only on data. I am not against quantitative metrics, but I question their authority as the main indicators of business performance, prosperous societies, and meaningful lives.

Big Data comes with many benefits, but let’s complement it with Big Intuition. Here are six reasons why:

Big Data = Big Brother? The New York Times’ Steve Lohr describes Big Data as a descendant of Taylor’s “scientific management.” Instead of performance in the workplace, which was the focus of Taylorism, we are now measuring happiness and well being, our consumption preferences, social interactions, physical activities, our attitudes, moods, emotions, behaviors, and bodily functions — in other words, we are measuring our lives.

Sure, to some degree, “quantified self” apps may empower people to take more control over their decisions. However, by doing so, we are opening up once-private terrain to the business world, all under the mandate of self-improvement.

Big Data is not social. We humans are social animals. Research shows that relationships, especially friendship and marriage, are key factors of happiness and fulfillment. Our brains are wired to care, and our hearts and minds have developed an astounding capacity to empathize and sympathize with fellow humans. We can show compassion, sense mood swings, detect subtle non-verbal cues, tolerate or embrace, accept and reject, love and hurt, experience with all of our senses, act irrationally, and lose our self-control. These key traits of our humanity are threatened by the “mathematization of subjectivity,” as Leon Wieseltier calls it.

Recent social genomics studies suggest that not only our productivity, but also our evolutionary capacity to connect with others is diminished by digital overload.

Big Data creates small worlds. Morality is gained by way of empathy. Paradoxically, in our age of hyper-connectivity we are increasingly facing the challenge of connecting with people whose opinions, values, beliefs, faith, and culture may be unlike ours. As digital technology customizes our social experiences, online and offline, based on our preferences, we are increasingly stuck in our own worlds — the “Filter Bubble,” as Eli Pariser called it, designed by smart algorithms to serve us with content, culture, and company that we are already familiar with and that fall squarely within our comfort zones. We don’t “like” the people and things that are unlike us, feeding a vicious cycle of social and cultural narrow-mindedness.

Big Data makes us smarter, not wiser. Our data-driven worlds are not only becoming smaller, they are becoming faster. The real-time flow of information persuades us to react to feedback constantly and instantly. Playing on the title of Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock, Douglas Rushkoff calls our current state-of-mind Present Shock, lamenting “a diminishment of everything that isn’t happening right now — and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.”

Data might give us information fast, but for quick but profound decisions, intuition is much better. Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou, in a recent book, urge business leaders to move “from smart to wise.” They have a point. Smart organizations and leaders thrive on constant feedback. Smart is fast. Wise, however, is slow. Wise organizations and leaders need time and take it.

Big Data is (too) obvious. “You can only manage what you measure”—really? The financial crisis has shown that we manage poorly what we measure. And failed mergers, failed product launches, reputational crises, and social media disasters, indicate that we need to get better at managing what we cannot measure.

Leaders need to have “opposable minds,” as design thinker Roger Martin puts it. The business leader of the 21st century will no longer be judged by how much uncertainty he or she can eliminate but by how much uncertainty he or she can tolerate.

Big Data doesn’t give (or forgive). Data might be able to predict new problems or find new solutions to existing problems, but only human intuition and ingenuity can come up with groundbreaking new ideas. That is a uniquely human gift—one that goes beyond merely fixing a problem or meeting a functional need.

By the same token, if we quantify all of our relationships, we will not leave any wiggle room for human discretion. Because we often have mixed feelings about people and their behavior, our judgment can be more than just binary. This means we can assess and respond to ambivalent behaviors with more nuance, and we can choose to accept failure as a prerequisite of innovation. It is hard to see how we can make progress towards any goal without an ability to forgive.

Let’s resist the rush to data and take the time to lean back so we can be fast when it matters. Let’s grant ourselves a data moratorium from time to time that we can use to reflect on what really is important. Let’s use data to tell our stories, but let’s not allow data become our only story.

Summary: It might well offer many benefits to companies, but don’t worship it as the new business religion.


A tech start-up that wants to replace passwords with heartbeats just got some major backing.

Read More Forget passwords and pins, your body is now a key

Bionym, a Toronto-based company that develops authentication technology, announced Wednesday it has closed a $14 million Series A round of funding, led by venture capital firms Ignition Partners and Relay Ventures. Mastercard, Salesforce Ventures and Export Development Canada are also investors.

Bionym's wristband, which is called the Nymi, uses a wearer's heartbeat to unlock devices and online accounts. The $79 device is slated to debut this fall and already has more than 10,000 preorders.

Think of the Nymi bracelet as a combination key and ID. The device features sensors that capture a user's unique cardiac rhythm—electrocardiogram or ECG. The user, wearing the bracelet, can then seamlessly access devices and online accounts without having to enter a password or pin number. But the device can be used for more than just gaining access to devices.

Bionym CEO Karl Martin told CNBC in January that Nymi is a broad technology platform for a variety of applications. For example, a Nymi could be used to identify a user inside a retail shop to help create a more personalized shopping experience, he said.

Read MoreHow hackers could still get around Apple Pay security

Of course as security breaches mount, biometric authentication has been getting more attention.

Most recently, Apple said its Touch ID feature helps make its new Apple Pay system more secure. However, Touch ID is not required to access Apple's mobile payment solution.

Summary: Forget your fingerprint, pin number or password. Start-up's Nymi bracelet uses your heartbeat to unlock your digital life.


BRUSSELS — Responding to rising threats across Europe, France on Thursday sought to extend a sweeping state of emergency for three months, and Belgium proposed tough new measures to detain and monitor suspects who support jihadist groups.

The calls for a crackdown came as French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that the accused ringleader of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris was killed in a massive pre-dawn police raid Wednesday. The death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian militant of Moroccan descent, did little to calm European unease about the specter of more attacks. In Italy, officials said the FBI had warned of specific threats in Vatican City and Milan.

In an ominous address — echoing the debate in the US Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said authorities must imagine that the grimmest threats are possible.

‘‘We know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or biological weapons,’’ Valls told Parliament during debate on extending the state of emergency. The temporary measure was enacted immediately after Friday’s deadly multi-pronged attacks on Paris, which killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 350.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned that now ‘‘it is necessary to move fast and hard.’’ He said that ‘‘all Europe must work together to defeat terrorism’’ and called for an emergency meeting of the continent’s interior ministers on Friday.

Some European leaders seemed prepared to sweep aside cherished traditions that protect rights to privacy and civil liberties.

In Belgium, Prime Minister Charles Michel pressed Parliament to pass tough new measures to imprison citizens returning home from fighting in Syria and to broaden law enforcement’s ability to tap phones and detain suspects for three days without charges. He called for shutting down websites that advocate jihad, or Islamic holy war.

The moves came as fears ratcheted up across Europe of more hidden terror cells preparing similar strikes.

Italy’s foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said security forces were ‘‘working to identify five people’’ who may be planning attacks on St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Milan’s Duomo, or the La Scala opera house.

The US State Department issued a travel warning to Americans traveling in Italy, calling those landmarks ‘‘potential targets’’ but also flagging possible threats to ‘‘churches, synagogues, restaurants, theaters and hotels’’ in Rome and Milan.

Gentiloni told the Italian state television network RAI that the FBI provided information about the five possible suspects.

FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that there is no credible threat to the United States and that investigators have found no links between the Paris attackers and the United States.

Appearing before reporters alongside Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Comey said he was aware the Islamic State group and its supporters regularly issue propaganda in videos and magazines, boasting about their plans and capabilities. But, he said, ‘‘that is not credible intelligence.’’

The FBI is closely tracking dozens of people whom agents are concerned could be particularly prone to violence, Comey said. In response to the Paris terror attacks, agents are giving extra scrutiny to individuals who ‘‘might be tempted to be a copycat,’’ but have not seen any evidence of Islamic State supporters dispatched to the United States for the purpose of committing attacks.

The three-month extension of emergency laws grants the French government powers to conduct stops and searches, ban large gatherings in public places, and put suspected extremists under house arrest.

After approval in the National Assembly, the measure now goes to the French Senate for expected final backing Friday.

In Belgium, police searched at least eight homes in connection with Bilal Hadfi, 20, one of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks, and Salah Abdelslam, 26, a fugitive who is believed to have been involved in the attacks but who slipped away amid the chaos.

Nine people were arrested, including friends and family of Hadfi, who blew himself up outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris during a soccer match between France and Germany. He and six other assailants died in the series of attacks on multiple targets, which included the Bataclan concert hall and several restaurants and bars.

Michel, the Belgian prime minister, asked Parliament for new measures that would require immediate jailing for citizens returning from presumed militant activity in Syria, where the Islamic State has some of its main strongholds.

Under the request, those on terrorist watch lists — about 800 residents in Belgium currently — would be forced to wear ankle bracelets to track their movements.

Further proposed measures called for the deployment of 300 troops and more leeway in conducting house raids.

Michel also called for stronger border controls — an appeal that highlights wider debates in the European Union about how to reconcile its policies of control-free travel with demands to combat the Islamic State and other militant factions.

Some of the proposed rules would affect ordinary citizens, including mandatory registration of all passengers boarding high-speed trains and planes.

The European Union planned a meeting Friday to focus on how to stem the traffic in firearms, much of it coming from the formerly conflict-ridden Balkans, and on setting common standards for deactivating old guns.

EU officials will also discuss ways to enable border police to check passports against a police database.

Another issue for the European Union is whether to allow security services to have access to passenger lists, as they do in the United States.

Summary: BRUSSELS — Responding to rising threats across Europe, France on Thursday sought to extend a sweeping state of emergency for three months, as Belgium proposed tough new measures to detain and monitor suspects who support jihadist groups.


12/14/2015 AT 04:40 PM EST

During a visit to PEOPLE Now,

), Allen Leech (Tom Branson) and Kevin Doyle (Joseph Molesley) shared their favorite memories from the show's six season run – including the lengths to which Smith will go for a cuppa.

, who plays the formidable dowager countess on the hit show, wanted a spot of tea, she was forced to hang her head out of a window to do so because cast members weren't allowed to bring food or drink inside

, the real-life house that served as the Abbey in the series.

Of course, after six seasons, there are a few other cast rituals going on on set too. Namely that

, who plays the stately

, does yoga every morning before the day gets going – in a leotard.

"You eventually just get used to it," Leech joked.

And for long days on set, the cast would pass the time with games. Bananagrams were a favorite for Smith and Penelope Wilton, who plays Isobel Crawley, and during dinner scenes, those around the table would play "Wink Murder" to pass the time.

The cast made up their own games, too, including a favorite, "Of course in

, that word means â¦", where they'd change the "meaning" of a word that appeared frequently in a scene – like swapping out "politics" for "nipples," as Bonneville once did to Leech.

Somehow, we can't imagine Lord Grantham would approve of the double meaning.

returns for its sixth and final season Jan. 3 on PBS

Summary: Cast mates Michelle Dockery, Allen Leech and Kevin Doyle revealed exactly how far the Dame will go for her cuppa


The price of bitcoin plunged $120 over the past week, and one analyst told CNBC the crypto currency will fall further as it becomes less sensitive to 'good news.'

Bitcoin dropped to $451 in early Asian trade on Tuesday from $571 a week ago, according to CoinDesk. On Monday, the price briefly plummeted to $309 on Bulgarian bitcoin trading platform BTC-e before recovering to $460, the New York Times reported, in what some analysts described as a 'flash crash.'

The move has gone largely unnoticed. A few months ago volatility was the focus of myriad bitcoin headlines after prices rose around 8,092 percent from the start of 2013 to early December and halved two weeks afterwards. The crypto currency has since fallen out of the spotlight, but as regulation efforts and speculation continue there's no dearth of opinions on what's next.

Read MoreEbay in talks to take bitcoins at payments unit: WSJ

Experts attribute some of bitcoin's recent losses to margin traders that were caught out by the price direction and sold into the market in an attempt to cover their positions, depressing prices further.

The New York Department of Financial Services' 'BitLicense' framework is another source of price pressure. Posted on July 17th and open to a 45-day notice and comment period to solicit public feedback, the framework aims to "strike an appropriate balance that helps protect consumers and root out illegal activity – without stifling beneficial innovation," Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of financial services said in a press release.

Initial responses to the framework suggest that some BitLicense regulations are stricter than current regulations for existing money transmitting businesses and could stifle innovation, undermining bitcoin's appeal.

Read MoreBitcoin gets bit by a summertime swoon

Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, believes bitcoin will fall further.

"The fact that prices have not rallied on recent good news, like eBay announcing it will accept payment in bitcoin, is a bad sign," said Schiff.

Bitcoin in a new payment method that is yet to be fully regulated and accepted internationally; previously news on developments in this area tends to move prices.

According to Schiff, as more merchants accept bitcoin payment, the impact on prices will likely be downward as "those merchants all sell their bitcoins as soon as they are spent. So if there are not enough new buyers the price will have to fall."

"Also, the recent move to regulate bitcoins is lessening their appeal with early adopters as is competition from 400 other digital currencies," he added.

He has a short-term price target is $350 and expects more downside in the long term prices have become less sensitive to "good news."

Summary: As bitcoin prices fall $120 over the past week, analysts say it's becoming less sensitive to 'good news.'


Oilfield services company Weatherford International WFT has become the latest energy firm to announce job cuts with plans to lay off 8,000 workers.

The company said Thursday it will downsize its workforce as a way to reduce spending following a sharp drop in oil prices that has caused much of the industry to curtail investment and halt new drilling.

Weatherford’s cuts, the vast majority of which are targeted in Western Hemisphere, will amount to 15% of its employees. The company expects the cuts to save around $350 million annually, according to the The Wall Street Journal.

“We are ready to react swiftly to a dramatically changing landscape,” said CEO Bernard J. Duroc-Danner. He added that “Market conditions will be exceptionally harsh, especially in North America.”

The move comes as a slew of oil companies have cut jobs in recent weeks. A study released Thursday showed that the industry last 21,000 jobs in January. Schlumberger SLB , Baker Hughes BHI , Halliburton HAL and ConocoPhillips COP have slashed positions.

Watch more declining oil prices effect on the economy from Fortune’s video team:

Summary: Weatherford International is just the latest in a series of high-profile energy companies to slash jobs.


The crisis around Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. deepened Thursday, as questions swirled about the future of Chief Executive Officer Michael Pearson and the company’s shares fell to their lowest level in 2½ years.

The uncertainty about Mr. Pearson’s tenure was sparked by comments from one of Valeant’s largest shareholders, hedge-fund billionaire William Ackman, who had expressed doubts in a page-one article Thursday in The Wall Street Journal about whether the CEO had the skills needed to manage the political and public-relations challenges around the company, though he ultimately articulated support for Mr. Pearson last week.

Valeant and Mr. Ackman’s hedge-fund firm, Pershing Square Capital Management LP, were deluged with calls from investors and others about plans for Mr. Pearson, people familiar with the matter said, after the comments were published online by the Journal late Wednesday.

Thursday afternoon, Mr. Ackman affirmed his confidence in Mr. Pearson in an email sent to the CEO with the subject line “You.” The hedge-fund manager called Mr. Pearson “one of the most shareholder-oriented CEOs I know.”

But he ended the note by saying, “You have assured me that you and the rest of the board are considering any and all alternatives that would benefit shareholders and other stakeholders,” which could be viewed as an indication the CEO should be prepared to step down or sell the company if more extreme steps become necessary.

In a statement issued before Mr. Ackman’s email was reported, Valeant said Mr. Pearson has the full confidence of Valeant’s board and is focused on running the business. The company’s core business “remains strong and is well positioned for growth,” Valeant said. A spokeswoman later said the company didn’t have any further comment.

For the second time in a week, an expression of support by Mr. Ackman failed to lift Valeant’s New York-listed shares, which fell $13.21, or 14%, to $78.77, as 57 million shares changed hands, more than three times the normal volume. Shares also fell last Friday, when Mr. Ackman defended the company in a conference call that ran for nearly four hours.

The company has shed more than $63 billion in market value since its shares hit an all-time high three months ago. It now has a market capitalization of $26.9 billion

Umer Raffat, an analyst at Evercore ISI, said the stock selloff is “all fear and uncertainty.” Most people seem to believe that Valeant’s stock will work its way back up, but “every day there’s something new that’s driving it down.” A lot of people are “looking to step in, but they’re not sure that there’s not another bad story coming out and that’s what’s holding them back,” he said.

One source of uncertainty is the lack of an obvious successor. Former Chief Financial Officer Howard Schiller, who helped Mr. Pearson build the company, stepped down this year, though he remains on the board. Analysts at BMO Capital Markets said Thursday that investors attribute Valeant’s strong performance to this point to Mr. Pearson personally. “We would urge caution against calls to replace Mr. Pearson at this time,” they wrote.

Mr. Pearson won fans on Wall Street by building Valeant into an unconventional drug company with a soaring stock price. He did it by emphasizing aggressive acquisition and pricing strategies over more typical research and development. But the gains have fallen apart amid questions about the company’s business practices, in particular relationships with specialty pharmacies that distribute its drugs. Valeant has defended its accounting and business practices, but it has cut its ties to one specialty pharmacy, Philidor Rx Services LLC, and has appointed a special committee of its board to investigate allegations surrounding the relationship.

In addition to Mr. Ackman’s comments, a variety of other concerns and uncertainties also hit Valeant’s shares Thursday, ranging from speculation that large shareholders might sell their stakes as their losses in the stock piled up to concerns about what a U.S. Senate committee’s investigation of Valeant’s drug pricing might find.

Valeant’s stock plunge has caused pain across Wall Street and has prompted some to pare back. This week, one of Valeant’s major shareholders, Weitz Investment Management, said on its website that as of the end of the third quarter, it had sold most of its position and by late October exited the rest. A Weitz spokeswoman said Thursday that the firm doesn’t currently own Valeant stock and has “nothing to contribute at this time.”

Others indicated they were holding on. Glenn Greenberg of Brave Warrior Advisors LLC said in an interview Thursday morning that he hasn’t sold any part of his position. Two weeks ago, as Valeant shares were dropping, he said he had increased his position to more than six million shares.

Valeant’s recent troubles have spotlighted the fact that some investors have large bets on the company. Sequoia Fund Inc., one of Valeant’s biggest shareholders, had nearly 29% of its assets in Valeant as of June 30, according to Morningstar data. Sequoia didn’t respond to a request for comment. In a recent letter to the fund’s shareholders, Sequoia executives defended Valeant as “an aggressively-managed business that may push boundaries, but operates within the law.”

Mr. Ackman, one of the company’s big believers, had a fifth of Pershing Square’s holdings in Valeant at one point. Even before Thursday’s drop, the firm’s total portfolio had lost about $4 billion in value.

Write to Monica Langley at monica.langley@wsj.com, Maureen Farrell at maureen.farrell@wsj.com and Michael Rapoport at Michael.Rapoport@wsj.com

Summary: The crisis around Valeant Pharmaceuticals International deepened, as questions swirled about the tenure of Chief Executive Michael Pearson and the company’s shares fell to their lowest level in 2½ years.


landed by helicopter at his Sunday night rally in Boca Raton, Florida, to the shouts and screams of his loyal supporters.

"Trump is the man who can reconstruct America," George Byk, 27, a visiting lawyer from Warsaw, Poland, tells PEOPLE.

"I came over to the U.S. because I am fascinated by the election process. Trump is a showman, and I like how he says, 'Washington, you're fired!' "

When Trump's lighted helicopter descended from the dark sky it looked like a scene out of

. With an alternating mix of opera, country and old rock music blaring in the background, the vibe was electric.

The packed rally, filled with supporters holding "Make America Great Again" signs, was held in 82-degree weather at Boca Raton's waterfront Sunset Cove Amphitheater in Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park.

Supporters were cheering the leading Republican presidential candidate because they believe he can protect America, create jobs and reignite the public spirit.

"Donald Trump has motivated America," a 23-year-old student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, tells PEOPLE. "And he has a solid chance of winning."

Just two nights after Trump called off his much anticipated Chicago rally due to thousands of protesters and concerns about safety, the Boca Raton event was peaceful with tight security and very few protestors.

Supporters at Donald Trump rally on March 13

"We want peace, we want happiness," Trump told the crowd while standing on stage in front of a massive American flag wearing his red campaign golf cap.

"In Chicago, we wanted everyone to go home really peaceful and really happy, so we said, 'You know what we'll do, we'll postpone it,' and it was a really wise decision."

Some supporters at the rally don't believe Trump's straight talk and oft-aggressive rhetoric are the cause of the recent protesting.

"This violence we had at rallies in the past few days was crazy, but it's disturbing to hear people blame Trump for it," Madeline Moreira, 28, a Miami lawyer, tells PEOPLE.

"Sometimes his style of talk frustrates me but I will take a rough honest man over a manicured puppet any day."

Hunter Akers, 16, a Palm Beach Gardens high school student, isn't worried about any more violence. He thinks Chicago was a different situation that won't likely be repeated.

"I feel secure here at the rally," he tells PEOPLE. "Trump has loyal followers, and I believe he truly loves America. He says what other candidates won't. Sometimes that upsets people."

Others at the rally talked about how they have read Trump's books, watched him build a successful business and host reality TV shows.

"Trump has become larger than life," a security expert tells PEOPLE.

"He has the most people at his rallies because they want to hear what he will say next. He does like to stir things up, but most of the violence with demonstrators comes from the demonstrators just acting up to draw attention to themselves."

Summary: Thousands gathered to support Donald Trump in the peaceful rally in Florida


FORTUNE — Apple’s AAPL share price was hit again Monday morning after several analysts reported that the company’s orders to its suppliers are down. According to Topeka’s Brian White, who monitors these things on a monthly basis, February’s report was the worst on record.

UPDATE: The stock recovered, to say the least, at the end of the day. See Apple shares spike suddenly on high volume.

Below: Excerpts from several analysts’ Monday notes, plus what CEO Tim Cook had to say about such reports at Apple’s January conference call.

Brian White, Topeka Capital: February Apple Monitor Sales Miss Seasonal Trends. Final February sales for the Apple Monitor fell by 31% MoM, much worse than the average 8% decline over the past seven years, or when excluding a January Chinese New Year, down 15%. The Apple Monitor delivered the worst February we have on record. Most of the preliminary Taiwan Monitors experienced weaker than average trends this February including Apple supplier Hon Hai Precision with a 25% MoM sales decline in February. Maintaining $888 price target.

William Power, Baird Capital: Concerns mounting near term. Checks by Baird’s semiconductor team suggest iPhone 5 and total iPad procurement orders near our shipment forecasts, but below consensus. This appears to be consistent with our growing demand concerns exiting Mobile World Congress and already below-the-Street estimates. Additionally, we now expect a higher mix of iPad Minis, negatively impacting revenue and margins. Maintaining $465 price target.

Avi Silver, CLSA: Curbing our enthusiasm. Weaker iPhone trends continue to dictate the trajectory of Apple shares. We are comfortable with our Mar-Q estimates but lower our Jun-Q forecasts, reflecting lower iPhone sales and weaker iPad mix. Following a Jun-Q product lull, we expect new products (including iPhone mini) to expand Apple’s emerging markets offering and return Apple to EPS growth in C2H. Also, increased cash returns could arrive in the next few weeks. However, a much-needed larger screen iPhone is unlikely in 2013, which could impact high-end smartphone share. Lowering price target to $505 from $575.

Tim Cook, From Apple’s fiscal Q1 2013 Earnings Call: “I know there has been lots of rumors about order cuts and so forth and so let me just take a moment to make a comment on these. I don’t want to comment on any particular rumor because I would spend my life doing that but I would suggest it’s good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor about build plans and also stress that even if a particular data point were factual it would be impossible to accurately interpret the data point as to what it meant for our overall business because the supply chain is very complex and we obviously have multiple sources for things, yields might vary, supply performance can vary. The beginning inventory positions can vary, I mean there is just an inordinate long list of things that would make any single data point not a great proxy for what’s going on.” (Transcript)

Summary: More selling pressure on Apple from reports that supplier orders have been cut


Stocks ended Monday’s session mostly unchanged as investors waited for first-quarter company earnings to start rolling in. Earnings reporting got underway with Alcoa. After the closing bell, it posted adjusted earnings of 7 cents a share, beating the loss of 2 cents per share that analysts expected. Later this week, banks will start reporting results. Expectations are low for this earnings season: Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect a decline of 9.1 percent overall from a year earlier, largely tied to the steep drop in the price of oil. If energy is excluded from the S&P 500, earnings in the index would be down 4.2 percent. Since many analysts believe the price of oil has found a bottom, there is hope that earnings later this year will make up for the first quarter. Investors were encouraged by data from China showing tame inflation there. That could give officials a reason to offer more stimulus to keep the economy from slowing further. In company news, Hertz Global fell 11 percent after cutting its full-year forecast, saying the car rental industry is suffering from too much competition. Yahoo rose 1 percent on reports the Daily Mail may buy the company.

Summary: Stocks ended Monday’s session mostly unchanged as investors waited for first-quarter company earnings to start rolling in. Overseas markets gained as investors hoped for more stimulus in China, the world’s second-largest economy.


04/12/2016 AT 09:20 AM EDT

has a ton of respect for

– and not just for her skills on the dance floor.

"I want to commend Marla on her grace," Chmerkovskiy told reporters after Monday's episode of

. "I hope she leaves with a great feeling. She had a great showing, and it was sad that she had to go."

Chmerkovskiy – who, along with his partner

, tied for Monday's highest scores – thinks there's one aspect of the show that Maples dealt with particularly well: being introduced as "the former Mrs.

"This is Hollywood, and people tuning in every week don't always remember what happened the week before, so we want to introduce our celebrities in the most [succinct] way," said Chmerkovskiy, 30. "But having said that, I think she has other things I think we could celebrate outside of her being the former Donald Trump's ex."

But Chmerkovskiy believes the actress dealt with her introductions "like a champ."

"She held her head high and she never stooped down to make that a thing. That, for me, is one of the more impressive things about how she was on our show," he said. "I probably would not have handled it with that much grace."

Even after being eliminated, Maples, 52, handled her defeat with an air of positivity.

"I don't want to stop performing," Maples told PEOPLE minutes after getting the news of her elimination. "I'll be looking for projects that really give me the chance to do that. Maybe [my partner

] and I can do something fantastic together. We had fun."

airs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.

Summary: "I think she has other things I think we could celebrate," says Chmerkovskiy


Laura Bush (left) and Jenna Bush Hager

05/10/2016 AT 04:05 PM EDT

Safe to assume this is

The former first lady and first daughter, now a

show correspondent, were on a media tour Tuesday to promote their latest collaboration –

– when they fondly recalled hiking out of the Grand Canyon on a girls' trip several years ago.

"The first night, there was a crazy sandstorm. And my mom wears you know, 1980s hard contacts, so she had to wear goggles. And all I remember was a lot of dust and me kind of leading my mother along, and an open bottle of tequila," said Jenna, laughing, on

"She no longer drinks, but there

an open bottle of tequila."

Her mother demurely replied: "That was the other mothers who were with us."

The cover of Jenna Bush Hager and Laura Bush's new children's book, Our Great Big Backyard

Laura Bush, who co-chairs with First Lady

, has taken a ladies-only

every year for the past 30 and says she wanted this newest book co-written with her daughter to be a celebration of the outdoors they all have enjoyed.

Jenna says the book's message to kids is to "look up" – from the smart phone, the tablet, the video game. "My mom taught me and [my sister]

to look up because our world has all of this magic in it and if you're constantly looking down, you'll miss out."

But maybe the moral of this book tour will prove to be: What happens in the Grand Canyon should stay in the Grand Canyon.

Laura and her friends "took their daughters one year and then they never took us again," admits Jenna. "Too much mother-daughter drama."

Summary: Jenna Bush Hager and Laura Bush have written a new children's book


host Brian Dunkleman and estranged wife Kalea are both making serious claims of abuse while they enter a legal battle over the custody of their 3-year-old son Jackson.

In a petition for legal separation filed by Kalea's lawyer on May 9 and obtained by PEOPLE, Kalea claims Dunkleman took Jackson to New York without her knowledge and obtained "an emergency order" granting him sole legal and primary physical custody of their son. In the papers, she alleges that Dunkleman only allowed her to speak to her son via FaceTime just a few times for the first two weeks of their time apart.

Kalea also states in the documents that Dunkleman has accused her of being "abusive, an unrepentant alcoholic, a danger to both Brian and Jackson and in some sort of improper relationship with a drug dealer" but that "the truth is markedly different."

A rep for Dunkleman did not respond to a request for comment.

Through the course of Kalea's lengthy declaration, the former culinary publicist chronicles her nine-year marriage to Dunkleman.

According to the papers, the couple suffered a miscarriage shortly before conceiving Jackson in 2012, and Kalea was put on strict bed rest just 25 weeks into her pregnancy because of a physical condition related to a surgery she underwent after contracting HPV (a virus she says Dunkleman unknowingly passed on to her).

Due to other complications, Jackson was born at 35 weeks along.

According to the papers, Kalea had been the "consistent financial backbone" for their household during most of the relationship, and because she had used most of her allotted maternity leave time while on bed rest, she had to return to work just seven weeks after giving birth.

"The stress of going back to a highly demanding job, being a new mother, and still trying to be the same wife/friend/daughter/and sister I had been before overwhelmed me," she says in her declaration. "Though I didn't recognize it at the time, and it took much longer for me to see the connection, I began to self-medicate my anxiety and stress with alcohol."

With no family history of alcoholism, Kalea says in the papers she did not recognize the signs of the disease until she was admitted to a hospital by a neurologist because of nerve damage. Diagnosed as an alcoholic, Kalea went into detox and began to aggressively combat the disease.

"It has made me question tenets I once held true and friends I once held dear," Kalea says in the documents of her alcoholism. "It has never, never made me question my love for my son or my devotion to him. It has never affected my ability to care for him; it has never tarnished my unending determination to carve out the best life for him."

"Alcoholism is an insidious, cunning, powerful disease, but it has never overtaken the relationship between me and Jackson," she continues in the papers. "We are two peas in a pod."

Kalea characterizes her estranged husband in the papers as "previously a loving and caring father" and believes "he loves Jackson deeply and wants what is best for him" but "Brian's behavior has changed."

Claiming Dunkleman is "almost constantly angry and/or volatile," Kalea claims in the documents that over the past year he "has emotionally and physically abused me and our son."

Brian Dunkleman in April 2016

Kalea goes on to explain the alleged instances of the abuse in detail.

"He has picked me up by the shoulders and thrown me into a couch while Jackson watched," she says in the papers. "He has screamed at me, fist raised within an inch of my face, saying that he hates me; he has grabbed my arm, whipped me around and thrown me against a wall causing large bruises to my leg (of which I have a picture) just because I was leaving the house in the morning to meet a friend for coffee and, it seemed, he was too tired to take care of Jackson. On this particular morning he screamed after me, with Jackson standing next to him, saying, 'Get ready to have hell rain down on your head.' "

"Brian has locked me out of our house while Jackson looked at me through our back door, screaming for me, and done nothing," she continues. "He has refused to let me go into the house and use the restroom, forcing me to urinate in the ivy in our backyard, smirking while I did so."

She also states in the papers that Dunkleman has "not valued my serenity nor supported my sobriety in an effective way for over a year, which has led to relapses and despair."

Kalea has asked for joint custody of Jackson with "equal parenting time."

"I do not believe there is an immediate future for me and Brian, and to continue to keep Jackson 3,000 miles away from everything he has ever known...is simply a way to punish me," she says in the papers. "By extension, he is punishing Jackson. He deserves to sleep in his bed, go to the school he loves, attend soccer practice, start swim lessons, and continue thjs life he's known here. I am not a danger to my son, nor have I ever been."

Though the petition states Kalea's request that Jackson be returned to California by May 15, the document lists May 20 as the deadline for a response from Dunkleman.

Summary: Dunkleman's estranged wife claims he emotionally and physically abused her in legal documents


Asked about the hiring, Modern Markets Initiative spokesman Kevin Madden said, "The MMI members welcome perspectives based on experience when it comes to countering many of the misperceptions folks have about HFT."

In a 2010 speech before the High Frequency Trading World USA conference, Chilton weighed into the debate for the first time: "HFT trading is part of our trading today, but should it remain the same?" he asked. "Is this type of trading outside of—or is it even inimical to—the fundamental purposes of capital formation and risk management in these markets?"

Read MoreInvestor files US lawsuit over Barclays 'dark pools'

In a 2011 speech entitled "Caging the Financial Cheetahs," Chilton likened high-frequency traders to the fleet-footed felines of the African prairie. "If markets are going to be efficient and effective and less volatile, we need to cage the cheetahs," Chilton said at the time. "I'm not saying they should be extinct, and overly burdensome regulations shouldn't endanger them as a species, but they need to be confined."

Chilton's speeches generally focused on the need for regulation and fairness in high-frequency trading, not the elimination of it.

Today, Chilton says his policy views have remained consistent in his new role. "The HFT guys don't particularly like that I called them cheetahs, but at the same time, it's not inconsistent with the policy I've always espoused," he said. And Chilton added that he is prepared to register as a lobbyist if his new role meets the legal threshold for doing so.

Read MoreCitadel CEO: HFT firms need to be secretive

Will he continue to refer to high-frequency traders as "cheetahs" from his new perch at DLA Piper?

"Probably not as much," Chilton said.

—By CNBC's Eamon Javers. Follow him on Twitter: @eamonjavers

Summary: Former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton, who has blasted high-frequency traders as "cheetahs," has gone to work with a leading HFT association.


It all started with a box of cookies.

Maersk said this week that it successfully delivered a small box of cookies to one of its tanker ships in a seaport town in Denmark. The shipping giant touted it was the first time a drone was used to deliver goods to a vessel.

Maersk operates a large fleet of tankers that ship flammable materials, such as crude oil and gas, across seas and oceans. Typically, when one of its tankers needs spare parts or mail delivered to workers, the company sends out a flat-bottomed boat called a barge to ship the goods to the tanker.

The company is looking to use drones to cut down on the costs it takes to use barges for deliveries, and it said it could save $3,000 to $9,000 per vessel each year.

Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.

“It’s a totally new step in delivery to vessels,” said Captain Peder Georg Kastrup Christensen, in a statement. “Today it’s cookies. Another time it might be medicine which we need to treat someone on board.”

It took about one-and-a-half minutes for the drone to deliver the cookies across a distance of one kilometer.

Besides experimenting with drone delivery, Maersk revealed it is also experimenting with using the flying robots for installations, inspections of cargo tanks, and monitoring for pirates.

Maersk isn’t the only company exploring the use of drones for delivery.

Amazon amzn , Google goog , and Walmart wmt have all sought approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to let them test drone deliveries.

For more on drones, watch:

Compared to other countries like France, Denmark, and Canada, the United States is more stringent regarding the commercial use of drones. U.S.-based companies must be certified on a case-by-case basis with the FAA before employing drones. Even when they win approval, they must comply with many rules, including not flying the drones at night and out of site of the operator’s eyes.

That’s partly why Amazon has been testing drones for deliveries outside the U.S. in places like United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Summary: The shipping giant said it was the first time a drone was used to deliver goods to a vessel.


WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - With U.S. Republicans sharply split over a front-runner they cannot unite behind, a new group is trying to push the country's top elected Republican, Paul Ryan, into the White House race.

The Committee to Draft Speaker Ryan filed papers as a Super PAC with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, adding to the groups of mainstream Republican leaders and donors with a shared goal: stopping Trump.

SEE MORE: COMPLETE 2016 ELECTION COVERAGE FROM AOL.com

Ryan, the House of Representatives speaker who spoke out against Trump for not quickly rejecting white supremacist support, did not appear ready to take on the role.

"He is flattered, but not interested," Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said in an email on Friday.

See Paul Ryan through the years:

Republicans in tailspin, group forms to draft Ryan for US president

Speaker of the House Denis Hastert (L) administers the oath of office to Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin as his family looks on January 6, 1999 at the start of the 106th Congress. The oath is a recreation as the formal oath is administered to the entire congress as a body on the floor of the House. (photo by Rex Banner)

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 12: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at a news conference in which House Republican leaders called for Permanent Tax Relief. (Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images)

KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SOCIALSECURITY-DISCUSSION KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE BRIDGES/KRT (April 14) Conversation on Social Security between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), shown, and William Novelli, head of AARP, April 5, 2005 (lde) 2005 (Photo by George Bridges/MCT/MCT via Getty Images)

In this photo taken Dec. 1, 2015, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.Talks on a massive, government-wide spending bill hit a snag Wednesday as Republicans pressed demands to block new power plant rules, weaken financial services regulations and make it more difficult for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

UNITED STATES - JULY 22: MEDICARE BRIEFING--Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., speaks at a Cato Institute briefing on Medicare reform in the Rayburn House Office Building. Tom Miller, director of Health Policy Studies at Cato, looks on. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 24: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) questions Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, during a hearing on Capitol Hill about the impact of recent market turmoil on the federal budget on September 24, 2008 in Washington, DC. Orszag reported that while the impact is currently unknown, it is likely to be substantially less than $700 billion. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - APRIL 27: House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) delivers an opening statement during a conference committee meeting with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) (L) and House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-SC) in the U.S. Capitol April 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. House and Senate lawmakers have already struck a tentative deal on the FY2010 budget resolution and they hope to file a conference report after today's meeting. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - MARCH 19: (L-R) U.S. House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) listen during a news conference on the health care legislation March 19, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House will vote on the Health Care Reform Legislation on Sunday, March 21. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. U.S. House Republicans today unveiled a plan to overhaul the federal budget and slash the deficit in coming years by about three-quarters, with a $6-trillion cut in spending and 25 percent cap on tax rates. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) left, and moderator David Gregory, right, appear on 'Meet the Press' in Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 10, 2011. (Photo by William B. Plowman/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

MILWAUKEE, WI - APRIL 01: Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) jokes with U.S. Rep Paul Ryan (C) (R-WI) during a pancake brunch at Bluemound Gardens on April 1, 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With less than a week before the Wisconsin primary, Mitt Romney continues to campaign through the state. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is introduced before speaking about 'America's Enduring Promise,' and the federal budget, in a speech at Georgetown University April 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. During his speech, Ryan said that his proposed budget confronts the nation's growing $15 trillion debt before it impacts future generations of Americans. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

NORFOLK, VA - AUGUST 11: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (L) jokes with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) after announcing him as the 'next PRESIDENT of the United States' during an event announcing him as his running mate in front of the USS Wisconsin August 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Virginia. Ryan, a seven term congressman, is Chairman of the House Budget Committee and provides a strong contrast to the Obama administration on fiscal policy. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 14: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Vice Presidential candidate, waves to the crowd after addressing the Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Woodley Park. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - SEPTEMBER 18: Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), pauses as he speaks during a campaign rally at Christopher Newport University September 18, 2012 in Newport News, Virginia. Ryan continued to campaign for the upcoming presidential election. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

MIAMI, FL - SEPTEMBER 22: Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) hugs waitress, Lourdes Alcerro, during a campaign stop at Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood on September 22, 2012 in Miami, Florida. Ryan continues to campaign for votes across the country. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) and running-mate Paul Ryan share a laugh as they are introduced at a campaign rally September 25, 2012 at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GettyImages)

Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, arrives at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Ryan said he'd be willing to run for speaker of the U.S. House if Republicans unify behind him now, end leadership crises and let him continue spending time with his family. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, center right, walks down the steps of the U.S. Capitol building following a vote in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Ryan is under heavy pressure from fellow Republicans to run for U.S. House speaker after a hard-line faction forced Speaker John Boehner to resign and his top lieutenant to drop out of the race. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis., leaves his office before a House GOP meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, walks to a meeting in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Ryan is set to meet with a group of House conservatives Tuesday as he weighs a potential run to replace Speaker John Boehner under pressure from fellow Republicans. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. leaves his office before a House GOP meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, center, talks to the media after walking out of the U.S. Capitol building following a vote in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Ryan is under heavy pressure from fellow Republicans to run for U.S. House speaker after a hard-line faction forced Speaker John Boehner to resign and his top lieutenant to drop out of the race. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. leaves his office before a House Republican meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 20 - Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at a news conference following a House Republican meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Ryan is stating that he will run for speaker only if he receives enough GOP support by the end of the week. (Photo By Al Drago/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., center, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, following meetings with House Republican leaders and the Freedom Caucus members. Ryan seeking unity in a place it's rarely found, is telling House Republicans he will serve as their speaker only if they embrace him by week's end as their consensus candidate. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, awaits the arrival of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for a meeting at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, December 10, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 10: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) holds his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill on December 10, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Paul Ryan spoke on topics including Donald Trump and the spending bill. (Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, (R-WI) speaks during a Politico interview at the Grand Hyatt on December 15, 2015 in Washington DC. Ryan was interviewed by Politico's Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen during a Politico Playbook Breakfast. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. welcomes Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Politico first reported the formation of the draft-Ryan PAC.

Mitt Romney, the Republicans' losing presidential candidate in 2012, also said he was not interested.

"There are no circumstances I can foresee where that would possibly happen," Romney said on NBC's "Today" show on Friday, a day after he excoriated Trump as a fraud ill-equipped for the White House.

The Republican Party may need more than a hero as it grapples with its deepest divisions in decades.

Those splits were on display again on Thursday night as Trump took on his two closest challengers, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz of Texas, in a debate marked by the yelling, name-calling and vulgarity that has tainted the 2016 Republican race.

Trump's rivals said they would support the ultimate nominee but it was clear on Friday that would be easier said than done.

"That is the quandary I'm trying to avoid the Republican Party having to face," Rubio said on CNN on Friday.

While the anti-Trump movements proliferated, some Republicans have urged party leaders to respect the will of the voters.

Trump spokesman Sam Clovis seized on that message on Friday, warning on CNN that it was dangerous for Republican leaders to "call American voters stupid" because they support Trump.

"You have record turnout in every state so far. Record turnout. That doesn't happen by accident, said Clovis, national campaign co-chairman.

Trump is "tapping into what is going on in this country like no one else has in a long, long time. I haven't seen anything like this since Ronald Reagan."

Columnist Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, had a different lament in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. "I think we are seeing a great political party shatter before our eyes," she said.

"But we are witnessing history. Something important is ending. It is hard to believe what replaces it will be better. No one knows where this goes. The top of the party and the bottom have split."

More from AOL.com: Police are reportedly investigating newly uncovered evidence in the O.J. Simpson murder case NYPD is sued for using sound cannons at Eric Garner protest Donald Trump roasted on NY Post, NY Daily News covers

Summary: The Committee to Draft Speaker Ryan is trying to push the country's top elected Republican, Paul Ryan, into the White House race.


Apple will likely seek to invoke the United States’ protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week.

The company on Thursday was granted three additional days by the court to file a response to the order. Apple aapl will now have until Feb. 26 to send a reply, a person familiar with matter told Reuters.

The tech giant and the Obama administration are on track for a major collision over computer security and encryption after a federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles handed down an order on Tuesday requiring Apple to provide specific software and technical assistance to investigators.

Apple CEO Tim Cook called the request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation unprecedented. Other tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet’s Google have rallied to support Apple.

Apple has retained two prominent, free-speech lawyers to do battle with the government, according to court papers: Theodore Olson, who won the political-speech case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010, and Theodore Boutrous, who frequently represents media organizations.

Government lawyers from the Justice Department have defended their request in court papers by citing various authorities, such as a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that upheld an order compelling a telephone company to provide assistance with setting up a device to record telephone numbers.

The high court said then that the All Writs Act, a law from 1789, authorized the order, and the scope of that ruling is expected to be a main target of Apple when it files a response in court by early next week.

But Apple will likely also broaden its challenge to include the First Amendment’s guarantee of speech rights, according to lawyers who are not involved in the dispute but who are following it.

Compared with other countries, the United States has a strong guarantee of speech rights even for corporations, and at least one court has ruled that computer code is a form of speech, although that ruling was later voided.

Apple could argue that being required to create and provide specific computer code amounts to unlawful compelled speech, said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society.

The order against Apple is novel because it compels the company to create a new forensic tool to use, not just turn over information in Apple’s possession, Pfefferkorn said. “I think there is a significant First Amendment concern,” she said.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles declined to comment on the possible free-speech questions on Thursday.

A speech-rights argument from Apple, though, could be met with skepticism by the courts because computer code has become ubiquitous and underpins much of the U.S. economy.

“That is an argument of enormous breadth,” said Stuart Benjamin, a Duke University law professor who writes about the First Amendment. He said Apple would need to show that the computer code conveyed a “substantive message.”

In a case brought by a mathematician against U.S. export controls, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California, found in 1999 that the source code behind encryption software is protected speech. The opinion was later withdrawn so the full court could rehear the case, but that rehearing was canceled and the appeal declared moot after the government revised its export controls.

The FBI and prosecutors are seeking Apple’s assistance to read the data on an iPhone 5C that had been used by Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 people and wounded 22 others at a holiday party.

U.S. prosecutors were smart to pick the mass shooting as a test case for an encryption fight with tech companies, said Michael Froomkin, a University of Miami law professor. That is because the shooting had a large emotional impact while also demonstrating the danger posed by armed militants, he said.

In addition, the iPhone in dispute was owned not by Farook but by his employer, a local government, which has consented to the search of the iPhone. The federal magistrate who issued the order, Sheri Pym, is also a former federal prosecutor.

“This is one of the worst set of facts possible for Apple. That’s why the government picked this case,” Froomkin said.

Froomkin added, though, that the fight was enormously important for the company because of the possibility that a new forensic tool could be easily used on other phones and the damage that could be done to Apple’s global brand if it cannot withstand government demands on privacy. “All these demands make their phones less attractive to users,” he said.

Summary: The stakes are huge if it loses.


Could one of music's most powerful couples really be over?

Multiple sources are telling ET that pop star Taylor Swift and DJ/mega-producer Calvin Harris have broken up.

The couple started dating in March 2015 and were very public with their affection. They posted several photos and videos on social media, including one of themselves celebrating their one-year anniversary on March 6 with a cake and Swift once said, "I love you," to Harris from stage at a concert. Swift also owns a heart locket with the date "3.6.2015" etched into it. The pair went on a beach vacation in March as well and shared photos from the trip.

The 26-year-old singer and 32-year-old DJ have stayed quiet on social media about the reported breakup. Harris was in a car crash on May 21 and had a brief stay in the hospital, forcing him to cancel two concerts in Las Vegas.

© 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Summary: The two started dating in March 2015


With the United States is currently producing record amounts of oil and natural gas, thanks to fracking and other new technologies, the government is eyeing the possibility of conducting offshore seismic testing of the ocean floor off the Atlantic Seaboard for future oil drilling. A primer:

The Atlantic Ocean’s floor has remained off-limits to oil drilling since 1982, due to congressional and presidential orders. In 2011, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), an agency within the US Department of the Interior, estimated a mean of 3.30 billion barrels of oil—approximately half of what the US consumes each year—sit under the ocean’s floor.

Where exactly is that oil?

The BOEM’s estimate applies to the entirety of America’s eastern seabed, usually called the ocean’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). As of now, BOEM marked the area between Delaware and central Florida, along a line about 200 nautical miles from shore, for seismic testing. That is, if the government lifts the testing ban.

Why does testing precede drilling?

Gaining permission and preparing for oceanic drilling can take years. That process begins with seismic testing, a necessary precursor to actually drilling for crude oil or gas.

Seismic testing confirms if natural resources do indeed reside under the Earth’s surface. In the test, geophysicists send energy waves into the ground, and record the time reflections take to return.

For aquatic seismic testing, boat-towed air guns shoot blasts of compressed air every ten seconds through the water and several miles into the ocean, according to ocean conservation organization Oceana. Audio receptors floating on the water’s surface wait for energy reflections, and record the data.

Do we need that untouched oil?

Proponents see the Atlantic’s crude oil as a buried treasure of hydrocarbons. They advocate for offshore drilling in the ocean to enhance America’s energy security and boost job creation. “Development of the Atlantic OCS could have the potential to generate up to 280,000 jobs and add $195 billion in private investment,” said Doug Lamborn (R-Co.), the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee chairman who ran a Congressional hearing in favor of seismic testing.

Opponents say recent booms in hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and other extraction technologies on land, in states like North Dakota and Texas, have made drilling in the Atlantic unnecessary.

What are the downsides to testing and drilling?

There are a multitude of potential environmental hazards. BOEM lists factors such as noise, drilling debris, sea bottom disturbance, air emissions, explosives and oil spills caused by oceanic testing and drilling, all of which can impact the planet’s environment, aquatic life and people living near the coast.

Even seismic testing without drilling has its negatives. Testing poses a threat to the hearing, and therefore survival, of 361 endangered right whales still living in the Atlantic, according to Glen Besea, director of Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Besea also worries that drilling for more oil will only increase the American appetite for fuels, leading to more carbon emissions and more global warming.

“At a time when we’re facing sea level rise and severe storms such as Hurricane Sandy, why would we be looking to expand our carbon pollution emission by drilling for gas?” asked Besea, noting that some companies have ceased inland drilling because of oil’s unprofitable excess in the national market.

When will a decision on testing be made?

Although the Obama Administration, which has the final say, is expected to release its position on Atlantic Ocean seismic testing in upcoming months, the timeline remains murky. The US Interior Department showed support in March 2010, that doesn’t mean that President Barack Obama—already under fire by greens over the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline—would support offshore drilling in the Atlantic.

Summary: The pros and cons of seismic exploration in the Atlantic


While the search for AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 continues, here’s what you should know about the airline that operated the flight.

What is AirAsia? AirAsia is a low-cost airline based in Malaysia that primarily serves Southeast Asia and its surrounding regions. The airline began small — the airline had two planes when current management took over in 2001 — but has grown rapidly and is considered an important player for air travel in the region. AirAsia now flies to 88 destinations.

What’s the difference between AirAsia and AirAsia Indonesia? You may have noticed that some news stories are specifying that the lost plane belonged to AirAsia Indonesia, while others are simply saying it was an AirAsia flight. There’s actually a subtle distinction between the two, which is worth noting. Indonesian law requires that the country’s citizens own at least 50% of any airline based in the country. So, AirAsia owns 49% of AirAsia Indonesia, which operated Flight QZ 8501, and the remainder of the airline is owned by Indonesian investors. AirAsia works with a number of affiliated airlines through similar arrangements, including Malaysia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia and AirAsiaX, which operates long-haul fights for the group. Still, for the average flyer, there’s little noticeable difference between the eight AirAsia airlines.

Does AirAsia have a clean safety record? AirAsia has had a pretty spotless safety record, with no major incidents reported prior to the loss of QZ 8501. Nonetheless, the European Union banned flights operated by the carrier from operating in the E.U. because of safety concerns in 2007 before reversing the ban in 2010.

Who runs AirAsia? AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes took charge of the company in 2001, when the airline had just two planes, and led its transformation from a small outfit to a powerhouse. In that time, he’s also cultivated a public persona that has been likened to that of Richard Branson. Fernandes, who dresses casually and maintains an active Twitter presence, worked in the music industry before focusing on airlines. He even played the role of boss on an Asian version of The Apprentice.

How is AirAsia connected to Malaysia Airlines? Both airlines are based in the same region and have lost planes in the past year, but, in short, the two aren’t connected.

Summary: The airline flies to 88 destinations


Many animals, especially marine animals like zebrafish and sea urchin as well as some birds, can create their own sunlight protection compound, according to a new study. It may one day be possible to use this process to create a better method of sun protection for humans.

In a new study published in the journal eLife, Oregon State University researchers show that zebrafish can produce a compound called gadusol which protects them from ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Even in the deep blue sea, marine animals can be exposed to sunlight. The researchers looked at how the zebrafish produced gadusol and were able to reproduce the process in yeast. The hope is that one day the science could lead the production of a pill or an ingredient added to cosmetics that would provide the same benefit for humans.

Their study reveals what the researchers call the “unexpected discovery” that fish can produce gadusol themselves, while previously it was believed that the compound was obtained through their diet. They found that the same pathways for synthesizing gadusol is present in other animals like birds and reptiles.

Humans don’t have the same genes that encode for the production of gadusol, but since the process can be replicated in yeast it’s possible that the science could eventually lead the creation of an ingredient that could provide humans with extra sun protection.

Summary: A new study shows many animals can make their own sunscreen, which could help humans down the line