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Two transgender women were killed in New Orleans in 48 hours

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New Orleans' transgender community is on edge after two transgender women were murdered within 48 hours of each other.

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Two transgender women were killed in New Orleans in 48 hours

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported.

No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

"It's scary because like a lot of the girls in New Orleans, they're walking around like zombies, you know they have this little hidden fear that's inside them to even go anywhere and I hear a lot of them talking about like 'oh, I'm going to carry a gun," Dupree told the station.

"It's very heartbreaking and it's scary because it's too close to home, I mean it could happen to any of us but I'm like -- we hang in the same circles, we hang in the same area just like it happened to them it could happen to me."

'One is too many'

In a media conference broadcast by WDSU, police Cmdr. Doug Eckert said the two crimes in as many days showed an increase in violence against transgender people in the Louisiana city.

"I mean one is too many, and that's how we feel," Eckert said.

Eckert told WDSU that there was nothing to indicate the stabbing was a hate crime. "If we learn that it's a hate crime, of course, we'll pursue the charges of that," he said.

At Wednesday's briefing Eckert referred to the stabbing victim as a transgender woman but declined to name her.

Seven killings this year

The New Orleans deaths mean three transgender women were killed within a week in Louisiana. The third one was fatally shot in Monroe on February 19.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said it had responded to seven reported killings of transgender women of color in the United States in the first two months of the year.

"As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives," it said in a statement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center cited the Anti-Violence Project as saying the other four killings had been in Chicago; Canton, Mississippi; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Toledo, Ohio.

Last year, the deaths of 27 transgender people were reported, more than any other year, according to GLAAD and other advocacy groups.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programsresponded to the homicides of 23 transgender and gender nonconforming people in 2016, the most it's ever recorded, said Sue Yacka with the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported. No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

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New Orleans' transgender community is on edge after two transgender women were murdered within 48 hours of each other.

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Storm that spawned 24 tornado reports barrels east; 3 dead

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A powerful and wide-reaching line of severe storms barreled east on Wednesday threatening new damage, after spinning off as many as 24 tornadoes across the central U.S., killing at least three people.

Tornado reports emerged up and down the state of Illinois on Tuesday. Compact but strong storms known as supercells triggered widespread damage from Arkansas to Ohio, as wind-whipped wildfires destroyed homes in Texas.
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Parts of the eastern and southeastern U.S. could be in the crosshairs next. Tornado watches were in effect for parts of Kentucky and Tennessee through Wednesday morning.

In Ottawa, Illinois, state Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson said a tornado victim was killed by an uprooted tree. In nearby Naplate, storms ripped dozens homes into pieces and tossed some houses off their foundations.

"It was terrifying, it was absolutely terrifying. We don't have a basement accessible from the inside so we were in the bathroom. The tornado went right over the house," said Bob Bernardoni, who lives in Naplate.

About 225 miles south, near Crossville, an apparent tornado struck a building near a house, killing a 71-year-old man and injuring his wife, White County Coroner Chris Marsh said.
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Another person was killed when a tornado ripped through Perry County, Missouri, about 80 miles south of St. Louis. More than 100 homes around the small town of Perryville were badly damaged and winds were so strong that several vehicles were blown off of Interstate 55. Perry County Clerk Jared Kutz said search and rescue crews were going door-to-door and checking the highway to see if there were other victims.

Minor injuries were also reported at an Ottawa nursing home. Thompson said it wasn't clear how many people were hurt by the storm, but that it was relatively few.

"The warning systems worked well. People were notified and it's wonderful the way the residents in the community helped each other," Gov. Bruce Rauner said after touring Naplate.

A tornado was confirmed in Perry County, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said. Officials did not immediately release any information about the person killed.

The Oklahoma-based forecast center said 45 million people from Texas to Ohio faced some risk of bad weather. The highest threat level in effect, warning of a "moderate risk" for severe weather, covered the area from southwestern Missouri into Indiana.

Hundreds of people, including many school children, took shelter at Bald Knob High School in Arkansas after a tornado warning was posted for the area. The school is hosting a state basketball tournament for smaller schools this week. Moments earlier, the storm caused damage in Higginson, a town of 621, the White County Sheriff's Office said.

Photos posted on social media showed basketball fans on the floor in the school's designated safe area.

The Bald Knob storm was part of the same system that produced a wall cloud near Mayflower, Arkansas, which was hit in 2014 by a tornado with winds approaching 200 mph. The storm crossed Interstate 40 between Little Rock and Conway, but there were no reports that a funnel cloud touched down.

The Missouri Department of Transportation closed Interstate 55 in both directions because of storm damage in Perryville.

Drivers stopped along U.S. 60 east of Springfield, Missouri, according to the Wright County Sheriff's Office. The storm system pelted some areas with large hailstones, including some the size of baseballs in central Illinois.

Strong winds elsewhere in the Plains spread wildfires in Texas. Four homes were destroyed near Tulia, about 50 miles south of Amarillo, before firefighters beat back the flames. Texas A&M Forest Service spokesman Phillip Truitt said the fire prompted the evacuation of almost 1,200 homes.
Fox News' Matt Finn in Naplate and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A powerful and wide-reaching line of severe storms barreled east on Wednesday threatening new damage, after spinning off as many as 24 tornadoes across the central U.S., killing at least three people. Tornado reports emerged up and down the state of Illinois on Tuesday.

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Two transgender women were killed in New Orleans in 48 hours

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two transgender women were murdered within 48 hours of each other.Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported.

No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

"It's scary because like a lot of the girls in New Orleans, they're walking around like zombies, you know they have this little hidden fear that's inside them to even go anywhere and I hear a lot of them talking about like 'oh, I'm going to carry a gun," Dupree told the station.

"It's very heartbreaking and it's scary because it's too close to home, I mean it could happen to any of us but I'm like -- we hang in the same circles, we hang in the same area just like it happened to them it could happen to me."

'One is too many'

In a media conference broadcast by WDSU, police Cmdr. Doug Eckert said the two crimes in as many days showed an increase in violence against transgender people in the Louisiana city.

"I mean one is too many, and that's how we feel," Eckert said.

Eckert told WDSU that there was nothing to indicate the stabbing was a hate crime. "If we learn that it's a hate crime, of course, we'll pursue the charges of that," he said.

At Wednesday's briefing Eckert referred to the stabbing victim as a transgender woman but declined to name her.

Seven killings this year

The New Orleans deaths mean three transgender women were killed within a week in Louisiana. The third one was fatally shot in Monroe on February 19.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said it had responded to seven reported killings of transgender women of color in the United States in the first two months of the year.

"As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives," it said in a statement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center cited the Anti-Violence Project as saying the other four killings had been in Chicago; Canton, Mississippi; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Toledo, Ohio.

Last year, the deaths of 27 transgender people were reported, more than any other year, according to GLAAD and other advocacy groups.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programsresponded to the homicides of 23 transgender and gender nonconforming people in 2016, the most it's ever recorded, said Sue Yacka with the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Chyna Gibson was gunned down Saturday night, while the second woman was found with multiple stab wounds Monday morning, CNN affiliate WDSU-TV reported. No arrests have been made in the cases, which police said appear to be unrelated, but transgender activist Daphanie Dupree told WDSU the situation was scary.

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The Uber CEO was caught on camera arguing with a Uber driver. He has since apologized and said "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was caught on camera arguing with his Uber driver. He apologized and said, "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. ( SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. This gives the social media giant a value of $23.6 billion.

The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion.

As Bloomberg notes, the $23.6 billion valuation for the company is based on 1.39 billion fully diluted shares outstanding, more than the 1.16 billion shares the company's filing indicates will be outstanding after the offering. This implies there are securities out there that can be converted into about 230 million new shares.

The debut of Snap, which in its prospectus called itself a camera company, not a social network, will be first tech IPO of 2017 and is the most highly-anticipated market debut since Alibaba. The last social media company to go public was Twitter back in 2013.

As Snap makes its debut in public markets, two issues are likely to be of concern for investors in the coming months and years: profits and voting rights.

Cost and user growth

In a post earlier this month, tech analyst Ben Thompson at Stratechery indicated that Snapchat has a burgeoning issue with its total costs per user rising and losses per user are also increasing.

"The biggest problem here is Snap's cost of revenue per user: it's going up, and it has been for a while," Thompson writes.

"This isn't quite as bad as it seems, because Snap's cost of revenue includes revenue sharing payments to publishers; once you back that out, though, the company has gone from paying ~$0.47/user in 2015 to ~$0.66/user in 2016, a 40% increase, and an amount (per user) that well exceeds that of Facebook or Twitter at the time of their IPOs. That means that to become profitable Snap has to not only grow users, it has to grow them faster than its costs are increasing, or grow revenue per users by that much more." (Emphasis added.)

The bull case for Snapchat, however, has been in the strength of its product team and the vision of its CEO Evan Spiegel. Innovation, then, is what's really being pitched.

In its prospectus, Snap disclosed that user growth slowed towards the end of the third quarter of 2016 as the result, the company said, of issues related to new products and app updates.

This, then, would seem to indicate that the required product innovation Thompson sees as necessary for the company to overcome its current cost issues are also at risk of costing the company the users it needs to be profitable.

That's why it's called a risk factor.

No vote for you

As for the voting issue, Snap's IPO will offer investors shares that have no voting rights.

In its filing, Snap said that Spiegel and co-founder Bobby Murphy will have control of 89% of the voting power at the company. "This concentrated control eliminates other stockholders' ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial," the company said in its filing.

"As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected."

In a post on Wednesday, Yahoo Finance's Ash Bennington outlined why some analysts see this as making Snap's shareholder structure "banana republic governance."

In short, academic research says companies with a single-share class structure outperform those that feature the multi-class structure Snap will offer (and is currently offered by Google and Facebook).

Additionally, dual-class structures are not seen as being friendly for shareholder rights because, well, shareholders don't get a vote. Sure, shareholders get a cut of future profits, but are also most junior in the capital structure and have no say in management. Then again, you don't have to buy these companies.

The headline excitement around Snap's debut is and will likely remain focused on the product itself and its wunderkind CEO. But one of the most interesting, if in-the-weeds, investment stories is also playing out.

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Myles Udland is a writer at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. (SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion

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Seven Baltimore police officers -- members of the department's Gun Trace Task Force -- were accused Wednesday in a federal racketeering indictment of robbing people, claiming fraudulent overtime and filing false affidavits.

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Seven Baltimore police officers -- members of the department's Gun Trace Task Force -- were accused Wednesday in a federal racketeering indictment of robbing people, claiming fraudulent overtime and filing false affidavits.

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A behind the scene look to the mental challenges that face a stand up comedian.

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It's a paradox: The men and women who make people laugh for a living often struggle with mental health challenges off-stage. Here's what science says about it.