The 2024 Met Gala is live and the fashion is in full bloom. Anna Wintour’s co-chairs for the evening are Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and Chris Hemsworth. This will be Hemsworth’s first time attending the ball, while the other three co-chairs have participated in
The CEO of the hedge fund trying to buy Paramount thinks the United States economy has rounded a corner from its high-inflation days and is poised for smoother sailing. Read more...
Defense-tech company Palantir Technologies beat analyst expectations for revenue in its first-quarter earnings report Monday, citing demand by U.S. companies for its bootcamps and technology products. Read more...
Hades 2 is now in Early Access , ready to overtake your evenings, lunch breaks, and weekends for the foreseeable future. Playing as Melinoë, you’re tasked with defeating Chronos, aka time itself, to rescue her family and defend Olympus. It’s quite a lot to take in, especially
Keanu Reeves is more than confident that he and Sandra Bullock could pull off a third “Speed” movie. Jan de Bont’s action thriller “Speed” became the fourth highest-grossing movie of 1994 with $350 million worldwide, largely in part to the sizzling chemistry between Reeves and
When a family or group of friends sit down to play a familiar game they've played many times before, they generally don't need to refer to the rules—unless someone breaks them. The values of liberal democracy have been transgressed in numerous forms in the last decade, yet many
A quarrel with a co-worker, task overload, a difficult relationship with the boss; each of us reacts slightly differently to problematic events in our professional lives. Such events often result in decreased work motivation and engagement.
A tokamak in France set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer, and at higher energies and densities than carbon tokamaks. Read more...
The Transgender Film Center has unveiled the first-ever Career Development Lab cohort. Eight creatives working in film and TV were selected by the nonprofit, which focuses on advancing the work of transgender film creators, to participate in this intensive 12-week career
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The painter and sculptor reoriented the North American arts landscape, defying any strict characterizations of his work as it evolved across concepts and media.
Kendrick Lamar fans have renamed Aubrey “Drake” Graham’s famed mansion in the Bridle Path region of Ontario to “2024 Kendrick’s House” on Google Maps, as the rappers enter their fourth consecutive week of lyrical combat . DJ Akademiks, a live streamer closely following the rap
The gendered feud over the temperature setting in the office or at home might be overblown, new government-led research suggests. The study found little difference between how men and women self-reported the chilliness of their surroundings. There was also no major distinction
Once upon a time, developer Vicarious Visions was working on a follow-up to 2020's excellent remake collection, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 . The project would’ve consisted of remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4, which would’ve been dope. Unfortunately, according to a new
Boeing told US regulators it might not have properly inspected its 787 Dreamliner jets.
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Russia’s government has notified the State Department of a U.S. soldier’s detention in Vladivostok, near its borders with China and North Korea.
4Batz claims he has no issues with Drake following online chatter about the two falling out amid the OVO leader's ongoing beef with Kendrick Lamar.
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A recent study at the Hebrew University examines the impact of memorial days in Israel on national unity amidst political polarization.
Nobody was having a good time during Helldivers 2's catastrophic weekend.
Warner Bros. Discovery is staying on the sidelines of the Paramount Global acquisition drama — at least for now. That was the signal sent Monday by WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav during his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. Zaslav was pressed
Young people's perfectionism is manifested as concern over their competence and fear of making mistakes.
The financial outlook for Medicare improved in the past year, and the program’s funding to pay all the costs for hospital services of older and disabled beneficiaries won’t run out until 2036, five years later than last year’s estimated date. A stronger than expected economy
Former President Obama took a side in the ongoing rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake long before it began, predicting in a 2016 interview that Lamar was his pick in a theoretical battle between the industry giants. The topic came up in an interview with YouTube
The Mercosur/European Union trade and cooperation agreement, "is a complicated process but it is a also matter of time and timing", according to Rupert Schlegelmilch, chief EU negotiator of the accord who recently visited Mercosur country and associate members to meet
James Gunn’s first official look at David Corenswet in 2025’s “Superman” brings a new version of the Man of Steel and his iconic costume to the big screen. Hollywood has been depicting Superman in the live-action format for 76 years and counting, as the first actor to assume
This is clearly ambitious, and there is no guarantee that a Gaza-first approach will work. Any decision about Gaza-first must be made comparatively. Policy makers must ask: "Is there another, more credible, path to the two-state solution?"
Andrew McCarthy, Faye Dunaway and Harvey Keitel have been tapped to lead the cast of Jonathan Baker’s supernatural love story “Fate,” which begins shooting later this month for Baker Entertainment in Vancouver. Baker’s previous credits include Gina Gershon and Nicolas Cage
A judge agreed with the Mötley Crüe drummer that the lawsuit so far fails to show the necessary elements of a "coverup," but the court gave the Jane Doe plaintiff 20 days to try again
Japan’s Kansai airport , located on a slowly sinking artificial island in Osaka bay, opened in September of 1994 , and despite handling millions of bags per year, has never lost a single piece of luggage . According to reports from Forbes , the airport prides itself in its
The United Kingdom GDP growth is projected to remain sluggish at 0.4% in 2024 before improving to 1.0% in 2025, reflecting the waning drag from past monetary tightening, according to the latest report from OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The FAA has been scrutinizing Boeing’s production since the Jan. 5 midair blowout of a door plug on a 737 MAX jet.
