"The patients who came, they all looked great, were well-educated and very healthy. They wanted to have a child from, well, a certain kind of man. They saw that kind of father figure as the right one."
Kate Hudson has revealed that she nearly played Mary Jane Watson in Sony’s original “Spider-Man” movie in 2002, but she turned down the role that eventually went to Kirsten Dunst. The “Almost Famous” star confirmed that she had said “no” to the role and revealed the movie she
ANKARA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The Libyan army's chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey's capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government said, adding that four others were on the jet
Experts noted that the residential location suggests a personal dispute rather than terrorism.
Apex predators and people may get the highest doses The post How All Those Forever Chemicals End Up on Your Plate appeared first on Nautilus .
Frontman Bobby Vylan's chants of "Death, death, to the I.D.F." and "Free, free palestine" did "not meet the criminal threshold" for prosecution, authorities said
The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited.
A letter to Mayor Mamdani, medieval psalms at the Morgan, and divine chaos at The Met.
For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the process of getting inside and secured—in this case, in NASA's Orion spacecraft—requires help. That's the role of the Artemis closeout crew.
Can Hornet yell at every boss until they die?
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled President Trump may not deploy the National Guard to the Chicago area for now amid his push for military troops to patrol the streets of Democratic-led cities, a major loss for the president at the high court. After more than two months of
Lemme holler at your momma 'n' 'em about this one.
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has just announced its annual Word of the Year, and for the first time, two words were selected: "authenticity" and "agentic AI."
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) has canceled his Paramount Plus subscription over CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss's decision to not air a "60 Minutes" story she said was not ready to be televised. Critics, including the correspondent who reported the story about conditions
With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a Wall Street Journal article claimed an explosive mission in early 2025 was a greater danger to some flights than previously reported.
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The Trump administration in January will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default. The Department of Education said Tuesday that approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers will receive notices informing them of their status beginning the week of Jan.
Kevin Arkadie, the American television producer who created the police drama “New York Undercover” with Dick Wolf, has died. He was 68. Arkadie was born on Dec. 10, 1957. He grew up in Maryland and received his BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University in Dallas before
For months, President Donald Trump or members of his administration have used federal data showing a large increase in employment for U.S.-born workers and a decrease in employment among foreign-born workers to claim that “all net job creation” in his second term has been for
Signal was earlier lost with a jet that took off from Ankara with Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others on board.
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister” takes inspiration from an unlikely pair of genres: Disney fairy tales and Italian Giallo films. The movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was acquired by Independent
The Trump administration has quietly banned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents, including those who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. The ban followed a memo authored by Joshua Craddock, deputy
Rob and Michele Reiner died “minutes” after sustaining “multiple sharp force injuries,” the couple’s official death certificate confirms. Rob, 78, the legendary actor-turned-director, and his wife Michele, 70, were found dead on Dec. 14 in their Brentwood home. The death
A new Gallup survey found that among a baker’s dozen of U.S. leaders, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the most popular. More than 4 in 10 respondents to the poll, released Monday, said they approve of Powell’s job performance. That includes 46 percent of Democrats, 34
2025 marked a turning point for anime, as hits like Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Chainsaw Man ruled the box office and reshaped anime's future
“Sometimes I’m so fucking glad that I never have to be young again.” Film critic David Ehrlich’s brief review of Charlie Polinger’s “The Plague” on Letterboxd succinctly sums up scores of sentiments shared on social media. The film, which opens in theaters on Dec. 24 via
As “Stranger Things” comes to a close, with the Netflix hit’s series finale set for release on New Year’s Eve, its impact on culture over the last nine years is hard to ignore. The fifth and final season helped the show achieve new viewership records before it was even
There was more good health news about the COVID-19 vaccine for infants, kids and adults in December. There’s still time to get the shot this winter.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D), challenging a state law that aims to limit the scope of federal immigration action and protect people against unconstitutional conduct by agents during
Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the olfactory receptor repertoire of the hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri), a jawless vertebrate. This organism retains many primitive features yet possesses a highly developed
President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air traffic control system, which is complex and carries a history of planned upgrades and overhauls that stretches back decades. The post Sorting Out Competing
The US president has long denied any wrongdoing in relation to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of individual trapped cold atoms in Italy, introducing techniques that push
The Case for a Public Social Media Platform . “What if the United States government decided to, overnight, nationalize Facebook and make it a digital division of the post office. What would that look like?” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Dec 23 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over conditions for reviving nuclear talks, with the U.S. saying it remains ready for direct negotiations and Iran rejecting Washington's terms. The two countries held
From the weirdest little guys to the bravest heroes, here are our favorite characters from this year The post The Best Video Game Characters Of 2025 appeared first on Kotaku .
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday named former BlackRock financier Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's next ambassador to the U.S. Wiseman also previously served as president and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and chair of the board of the Alberta
Step inside the strange world of a superfluid, a liquid that can flow endlessly without friction, defying the common-sense rules we experience every day, where water pours, syrup sticks and coffee swirls and slows under the effect of viscosity. In these extraordinary fluids,
The jet lost contact after departing Ankara, with Turkish authorities launching search and rescue efforts.
When, on 10 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed the executive order suspending the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), companies previously involved in overseas corruption cases collectively gained around USD 39 billion. On average,
It’s official: December was the deadliest month for immigrants in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. This year was already the deadliest for those in ICE custody since 2004. In December, that trend continued, with seven immigrants dying in ICE
While millions of people make the effort to sort their recycling, buy fewer clothes and generally make greener choices, the world's wealthiest can emit the same amount of carbon as the average person does in a year by going on holiday just once.
[Ghanaian Times] Cairo will soon host an important political event: heads and officials of the foreign ministries of Russia and the African countries will gather in the hospitable capital of Egypt to assess the state of Russian-African relations and set out ways of their
After a long period of feeling frozen, the new year hints at signs of thaw and forward movement.
Researchers have developed a powerful computational framework that shows how carefully optimized nanotube shapes can amplify electromagnetic field concentration by more than 30 times compared to conventional circular nanotubes. This breakthrough opens new pathways for
An observational study found people who ate 50 grams or more of high-fat cheese enjoyed a lower risk of dementia compared with people eating less than 15 grams.
"He thought he knew more than everybody else," a former classmate of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente said.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was previously listed as a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s will, deepening his connection to the late millionaire. The Justice Department's release of thousands of documents linked to Epstein featured a
Exodus, a new space-faring RPG coming from Archetype Entertainment, features a sprawling sci-fi canon written by Hamilton, Tchaikovsky, and more.