Before James Gunn was tapped by Warner Bros. and DC to revamp its superhero slate of films and TV series, Warner Bros. tried to poach someone else from Marvel: Kevin Feige. After Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s Justice League flopped in 2017 — it made about $660 million and has a
Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system.
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The fearsome “Axis of Autocracies” bent on disrupting the U.S. led global order — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — looks pretty brittle.
Vice President Vance will travel to Pennsylvania next week to tout the benefits of the massive reconciliation package signed into law last week by President Trump. Vance will visit West Pittston, Pa., next Wednesday, the vice president's office announced. He is expected to
A groundbreaking analysis of 750,000 household records by Heriot-Watt University reveals Black families accepted as statutorily homeless are less than half as likely to gain social housing as their white counterparts.
Officially, Brussels is cooperating with the government of national unity based in Tripoli. However, exchanges are also taking place with General Khalifa Haftar, who controls large swaths of Libya's east. The last visit turned into a fiasco.
Harrowing dashcam footage captured a horrific crash involving a semitrailer that left at least two people dead, and an unknown number of people injured Thursday morning in Riverside County, California.
In a letter to the FCC, the wireless carrier said it would end its diversity, equity and inclusion policies "not just in name, but in substance."
New research has found increasing levels of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants, with downstream impacts on the environment.
In many countries, there is an academic cheating crisis with students misusing artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to write essays, dissertations and other assignments. According to new research, certain personality traits make some students more likely to pass off
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas. “Trump calls me 'Newscum' — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on
The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their observed oscillations suggest that they do in fact have a mass, which is very low. A further characteristic of these particles is that they only weakly
“War,” as Thucydides once wrote, “is a violent teacher.” But it teaches in strange and terrible ways.
The mysterious firing of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds’ founders earlier this month keeps taking unexpected turns, and the latest is that the veteran game developers are now suing publisher Krafton over the dismissals, which occurred with a $250 million payout on the line
Aeroitalia, the Italian airline that launched with bold promises to shake up domestic and short-haul routes, is now facing public backlash over its management practices and decision-making. The airline has raised eyebrows across the aviation sector with a string of operational
Justin Bieber addressed his instantly memed paparazzi moment on his new album “Swag” — you know, the one where he says, “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business.” Throughout the album, he includes three interludes that play like therapy sessions with comedian
Sometimes you have to remind your diehard fans to be chill around the talent, and that’s just what Umamusume: Pretty Derby is doing after the horse girl gacha game has become a viral sensation. The game depicts real-life race horses as reincarnated high school student racers,
[The Conversation Africa] Winter in some parts of South Africa is a time of low (or no) rainfall and high fire danger. Sheldon Strydom studies the relationship between weather and fire, in particular how Berg winds, also known as mountain flow events, are linked to periods of
Footage from a rescue on a river in Utah shows a ranger and bystanders rescuing a paddleboarder.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed a measure Thursday repealing the state's guaranteed paid sick leave law, effective August 28, and ending automatic Consumer Price Index adjustments to the state's $15-an-hour minimum wage.
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail. The post The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus first
Glenn Martens’ debut as creative director for Maison Margiela was beautiful and claustrophobic: Models wore crystallized Saran wrap dresses, bejeweled face shields, and industrial gothic armor. Fittingly, part of the show was soundtracked by the Smashing Pumpkins, specifically
