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There isn't anything new and exciting about financial markets, but how about trading in sneakers? Transactions are anonymous: When a sneakerhead clicks "buy," the seller sends the shoes to StockX's Detroit headquarters where they verify the shoes are genuine and unused, then StockX delivers them.
In just two weeks, we will have a new president. And along with a new commander-in-chief comes a series of new cabinet members. But before we transition, let's take a look back. The outgoing Secretary of Education John King, spoke to Marketplace host Lizzie O'Leary about his time in the department.
A "Kanye-Western" themed party at UCLA on Tuesday evening is stirring a controversy after attendees showed up in what appeared to be blackface. The event was hosted by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority, both predominantly white. Guests reportedly arrived to the party with charcoal smeared faces, plumped lips, baggy clothes, padded bottoms, or as Kardashians.
On Aug. 26 last year, a woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a civil suit against NBA point guard Derrick Rose and two of his lifelong friends, manager Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen.
Over 40,000 people live on the streets of Los Angeles, and counting them takes three nights. Cities across the U.S. conducted their annual counts of their homeless populations during the last ten days in January. Most only spent one night on the task.
California's North Bay wildfires burned nearly every house in the Coffey Park neighborhood to the ground, leaving behind piles of ash and mangled metal. Now that there's nothing left to burn, recovery workers are left searching for the bodies of those who did not make it out alive.