Sabrina Carpenter was both the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live . She did as good of a job as she could with the sketches’ generally weak scripts. One sketch was cut from the episode for time, but SNL shared it on TikTok today. It finds Carpenter in the middle of a
In agreeing to participate in “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” this year’s acclaimed two-part HBO documentary about the pop superstar, Elizabeth Weber says that she was hearted that “Susan (Lacy, the co-director) really wanted to tell a story about the music. I mean, there’s
Lt. Joe Leaphorn has discovered his latest case in the first-look teaser for Season 4 of AMC and AMC+’s thriller series “Dark Winds,” returning on Feb. 15, 2026. The new season will consist of eight hour-long episodes. Based on the “Leaphorn & Chee” book series and adapted by
The antimicrobial triclosan is widely used in personal hygiene products, textiles and plastics, but when it enters the environment via wastewater, it poses a significant threat to aquatic organisms.
It looks like Stephen Miller’s quest to hire 10,000 so-called “Homeland Defenders” by January isn’t going so well. During a multi-agency meeting earlier this week, Miller voiced frustration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t bringing in deportation officers fast
New research reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef. Scientists have documented catastrophic mortality of these critically endangered corals following a record-setting marine heat wave in 2023 that marked the ninth mass bleaching event
As the government shutdown persists, funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are at risk in states across the country. SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, are funded by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The federal government shares
'The reason [AI] is so extraordinary right now is because what we have is a combination of metadata with a parlor trick; we're all going to get used to it.'
Vacancy , the third album from Ari Lennox, is coming soon. The follow-up to the singer’s 2022 album age/sex/location is set for release in January, and today we get a preview in the form of “Under The Moon.” The single leans into a retro retro R&B sound, complete with smoky
The San Francisco-based AI startup has allegedly skirted around Reddit’s data protections to swipe posts from the site, according to a lawsuit.
When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution inspectors for more than a month. Those workers had to stop their work of monitoring and inspecting industrial sites for pollution, and stopped enforcing
Body size evolution has long been a core topic in paleontological research. Cope's rule describes the tendency for body size to increase during the evolution of many lineages. However, a new study focusing on bryozoans, a group of modular organisms, has uncovered a different
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) revealed plans for its revamped GDC Festival of Gaming, which will welcome the gaming industry back to San Francisco from March 9 to March 13, 2026. The event will bring together game makers, publishers, investors, founders, technologists,
Vice President Vance fired back at former White House press secretary Jen Psaki after she suggested that second lady Usha Vance needed to be rescued from her husband. “I think it's disgraceful, but, of course, the second lady can speak for herself,” the vice president told
A disruption or delay could impact 42 million people, or 1 in 8 Americans, who rely on SNAP to buy food.
Stellan Skarsgård said in an interview with Vulture that his 13-year-old son gets picked on at school because his father is an actor. “Cruel kids” call his child a “nepo baby,” which has become the ubiquitous term to describe children with famous parents. “My 13-year-old,
Tired of your Fred and Wilma costumes? Your Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow cosplays feeling too tired? The perfect couples costumes — ones that are timely but not overused — can be hard to come by. But thankfully, the past year of shows, movies and viral pop-culture moments
Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate, and his home-state colleague, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), voted Thursday for a Republican bill to pay essential federal workers, including members of the military, during the government shutdown.
A year is not a lot of time for two campaign acts and five more classes.
On the heels of a delay announcement, Mouse: P.I. For Hire has announced when players can get their hands on the game next year.
A recently published research article indicates that fall-applied residual herbicides are among the best available options to use for glyphosate-resistant (GR) Italian ryegrass control.
A cosmic coincidence could give us an unprecedented look at a visitor from another solar system. If all goes well. The post Why Have We Never Sampled an Interstellar Comet? appeared first on Nautilus .
Strauss Zelnick shared his thoughts on the impact of AI on game development at today's Paley International Council Summit.
An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as CO-dark molecular gas, in one of our Milky Way's most active star-forming neighborhoods, Cygnus X. Their findings, using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), are
The interior of a cell is packed with proteins and nucleic acids, such as RNA, all of which need to perform specific functions at the exact right time. If they don't, serious diseases—ALS, Huntington's or many cancers—can result. But what exactly is happening inside the crowded
The perception among some police officers that fraud is a victimless offense can weaken investigations and the support given to those affected, a new study shows.
Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia released a joint communiqué on Thursday in Jakarta, describing the progress of the strategic partnership between the two countries. The document also addresses cooperation at both the regional and
President Trump's demolition of the White House's East Wing to make room for a $300 million ballroom has raised questions about who has the authority to allow the work. Since Monday, demolition crews and an excavator have been spotted tearing down part of the historic building.
The DualSense Edge has ruined me on other controllers, even this cool Kratos one The post All Video Game Controllers Need Back Paddles, Damn It appeared first on Kotaku .
A Florida State University marine biologist is enhancing conservation efforts by identifying areas in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts that expose protected marine turtles to the highest risk of being struck by vessels.
"Chinese criminals are recruiting Malawian orphans into the ivory trade."
The veteran producer, who has had a hand in more than 150 films during a decades long career, is relaunching 'The Producers Guide' with an focus on optimism at a critical time for the industry.
“Outer Banks” co-creator and director Jonas Pate has been accused of putting his hands on a young woman who works on the Netflix series as a production assistant. Allegedly, he grabbed and shook her while shouting in her face. A source tells Variety that “Outer Banks” star
Recently published research in the journal Weed Science shows that waterhemp resistance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor (PPO) herbicides can develop from soil-applied preemergence applications, and not just from postemergence herbicide use. PPOs are an important
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he thinks former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election because she didn’t focus enough on working-class voters. In a Tuesday interview on “The Tim Dillon Show,” the podcast host expressed frustration about the
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) went after fellow candidate and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (I) for comments he made during a radio show appearance. “Just disgusting,” Mamdani said in a post on the social platform X on Thursday, responding to another
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a former President Biden-era rule that extended federal health antidiscrimination protections to transgender health care. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled in favor of a
Donald Trump has free license to reshape the White House as he sees fits, according to his staff. With no warning, the president razed the White House’s East Wing this week to make way for a $300 million ballroom that he claimed would be “100 percent” paid for by himself and
Walmart is betting big on its membership program. Nearly five years into its Walmart+ program, the retail giant has quietly built one of the most wide-ranging membership packages in the market — keeping the price flat at $98 a year (or $12.95/month) while stacking on benefits
Professionals in creative industries should have some form of protection against others exploiting what they have created, even if it's not a tangible, physical object.
Keepers of the Flame will be a return to Breach, one of the game's oldest systems.
President Javier Milei has named current Secretary of Finance Pablo Quirno as Argentina's next Foreign Minister, replacing Gerardo Werthein, the Office of the President (OPRA) confirmed in a statement on Thursday. The appointment, effective Monday, October 27, follows
The Trump administration is opening up more drilling in a contentious Alaskan wildlife refuge that was restricted under the Biden administration. It’s also approving two other contentious projects in Alaska: Ambler Road, which will enable copper and cobalt mining; and Izembek
The Friday release of September's consumer price index report is pretty much the only game in town this month.
Researchers at Rice University have engineered living cells to use a 21st amino acid that illuminates protein changes in real time, providing a new method for observing changes within cells. The technique is effective in bacteria, human cells and live tumor models, making it
Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" within a molecule.
The rare nerf to coprophagia.
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) on Wednesday urged his fellow Republicans in the state to not give in to President Trump's pressure on red states to redraw their congressional maps to their benefit. "My home state of Indiana is on the national Republican target list for
Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial intelligence (AI), transforms the study of granular system dynamics and paves the
Three years ago, a fire broke out at the Biblioteca Amazónica in Iquitos, Peru, imperiling one of the world's most important collections of primary sources on Amazonian history, culture, and politics.
