The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, six days before the midterms, but two officials, including Governor Lisa Cook, whom US President Donald Trump is trying to fire, voted for a hike, with inflation at 3.7% and investors still braced for a rise in
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year , including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
For the past few weeks, the cast and creator of the Netflix hit comedy “Nobody Wants This” have been trading takes on the Israel-Palestine conflict via the press. First, star Adam Brody, who plays “hot rabbi” Noah Roklov and one half of the show’s central couple, told GQ that
A new entity billing themselves as John Stamos and the California Sound have been formed to take the place of the Beach Boys at Disney World on November 11 and 12
Research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that childhood poverty, poor living conditions and gender can have lasting impacts on employment opportunities and earnings in India.
Jennifer Lawrence revealed on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she once discovered while filming a nude scene that there were crew members on set who were not approved to be there during the filming of such intimate material. The incident prompted Lawrence to “come down hard”
From Sky News in Arabic to Egypt's Al-Rad – it was an exceptional night in the scope of attention devoted to Israel
Shopping for the men in your life can be a challenge, especially when their wish lists are either nonexistent or impossibly specific. But whether you’re buying for a fashion obsessive, a self-proclaimed cinephile or someone who takes his morning coffee a little too seriously,
UEFA has brought forward kick-off to 4.30pm on Wednesday 4 November because of a general strike called by French unions the next day.
Tucked away inside a limestone cave in southeastern France lies some of the oldest artwork in existence. Known as Chauvet Cave, the site is so historically important—and fragile—that its location is kept secret and the cave is locked behind a huge steel door. And now,
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central. The news comes
Resident Evil's next ten years could bring change and even a conclusion to the series following Requiem's release.
The BBC's Esyllt Carr explains how the chancellor's spending plans impact young people.
One major question remains: Will Instagram compensate creators for their videos the way YouTube does?
Athanasia is an immersive sim with dinos, secret passages, and codes hidden in emails
We finally have a solid launch date, and it's not in 2026 as planned but it's not too far off, either.
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The My Morning Jacket frontman will release his debut memoir One Wonders in April with reflections on his musical career and mental health journey
Harry Styles wraps up his Madison Square Garden residency this weekend with his annual “Harryween” celebration on Oct. 31. Officially the “Harryween Fancy Dress Party,” the one-night-only event invites fans to dress up in costume to attend the singer’s concert, which will mark
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Wednesday as a “real genius.” Putin was listening to a presentation from his digital development minister, Maksut Shadayev, who said that Russia was working on its own satellite system like Starlink and had already
Using advanced new simulations, a team of astronomers in the U.S. has developed a promising new theory for how giant, gaseous exoplanets migrate into stiflingly close orbits around their host stars. Led by J. J. Zanazzi at The Pennsylvania State University, the team showed how
The creator economy is a growing global industry that Goldman Sachs Research reports could be worth $480 billion by 2027. But what is a creator, and what is the difference between a creator and an influencer, a celebrity or everyone else who posts online?
In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens that just went on sale today. Xreal and Google
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allow compounding pharmacies to manufacture and sell peptides that have not yet been added to the list of approved substances, advancing access to the those championed by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. HHS
Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim. A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials
Conservative influencer James O’Keefe was charged in Minnesota Wednesday after he and fellow right-leaning commentator Cam Higby misrepresented themselves using registered voters' names at polling places during the state’s primary election earlier this year. Hennepin County
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As expected, Apple finally showed off its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros at its recent "Pro and Tell" event. The long-awaited laptops feature a Tandem OLED display with full touch capabilities, while also cutting some weight and bringing back the glowing Apple logo. While less
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will speak to reporters Wednesday after the central bank voted to hold interest rates steady at 3.75 percent to 4 percent, despite persistent inflation and mounting economic pressures ahead of the midterm elections. The decision comes six weeks
The Grand Prairie Independent School District (GPISD) in Texas was hit with a Title IX lawsuit this week after it canceled its production of "Little Shop of Horrors" when a female student was cast to play the male lead. Student Ana Mota, who was cast as Seymour, sued her
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Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady Wednesday despite stubborn inflation. The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted 10-2 to keep the benchmark federal funds rate range at 3.75 percent to 4 percent. Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook
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The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, even as inflation data has been worsening – but the central bank is largely expected to issue a quarter-point hike in December.
Auroch Digital deleted its initial layoff announcement
Modern Warfare 4's multiplayer innovates and impresses, but it isn't without problems, including some disappointing maps and broken spawns.
A large-scale survey of adults in the U.K. shows that hugs are commonly remembered for comfort, support and understanding, according to a study published in PLOS One by Anna Lena Dueren of the University of Bristol, U.K., and colleagues. Notably, individual differences in
In September 2024, Storm Boris brought extreme precipitation and severe flooding to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Poland, Czechia and Austria were particularly affected. In some areas, several hundred millimeters of rain fell within a few days, and numerous rivers
Caltech scientists have published the first detailed analysis of the atmospheric particles in the smoke plume from the Eaton Fire that devastated much of the town of Altadena in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley and the surrounding areas in January 2025.
Earlier this year, we convened a meeting of some of the most influential figures in modern happiness research to discuss what they had learned in their 600 combined years of research and professional experience.
New York’s Town Hall venue is providing some alternative programming for Election Night — a revival of a cult streaming series. “Difficult People,” the sharp sitcom that aired for three seasons on Hulu, from 2015 to 2017, is reuniting its cast on Nov. 3 for a staged reading of
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the
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Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to optimize for touch, though: Most of the touch action will be in the apps themselves, it
Here's how to get Tifa and Barret's outfits in Final Fantasy 14, and how to participate in the Keybound Brawler event, the Final Fantasy 7 event.