Foreign-flagged oil tanker “Bella” carrying Iranian cargo bound for Venezuela. Department of Justice WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Friday that federal agents seized a multimillion-dollar Iranian fuel shipment bound for Venezuela, in what it described as the largest-ever seizure of its kind. The U.S., with the assistance of foreign partners, confiscated a total of 1.1 million barrels
Month: August 2020
The Weeknd aired the most recent episode of his Memento Mori radio show on Apple Music last night, with a tracklist that featured previously unreleased demos and outtakes from the Kiss Land era. One of those tracks was a remix of Lana Del Rey’s “Money Power Glory,” a song from her 2014 album Ultraviolence. Take
People walk by a T-Mobile store in San Francisco, California Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Earlier this summer, players of a T-Mobile Tuesdays giveaway contest took to Reddit to discuss a strange discovery: The company in certain weeks gave away tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars in gift cards, prizes and cash to winners. In one
When Allie Goertz encountered Crocs for the first time as a dorky, Wayne’s World-obsessed 13-year old, she instantly despised their bulbous, stippled silhouette. “I remember thinking, ‘They’re so ugly, never in a million years would I wear Crocs,'” she says. Eighteen years later, the musician and writer was self-quarantining at home in Los Angeles due
In a new era of superpowered heroines, few female movie protagonists have kicked as much ass as Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, in Mad Max: Fury Road. In an interview for the New York Comic-Con, the director of the movie, George Miller, hinted that while Furiosa was the hero of his film, her future
Hope went back to the Salem PD and flirted with Rafe, Allie left a note and her baby behind, Eve planned Ciara’s murder, while Gabi tried to turn Jake into Stefan 2.0. Our TV Fanatics, Jack Ori and Christine Orlando, are joined by DoolFan4Life from MyHourglass a Days of Our Lives fan forum to debate
A small bottle labeled with a “Vaccine” sticker is held near a medical syringe. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The U.S. has doled out billions to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus that has infected more than 5.1 million people across the country, locking in a minimum of 800 million doses as soon as the immunizations
AMC Entertainment said it will charge 15 cents a ticket when it reopens theaters at more than 100 locations on August 20, celebrating the chain’s 100th anniversary. For a “Centennial Celebration, all AMC U.S. theatre locations that open on August 20 will offer all available seats for all movies that day for the 1920’s admission
WASHINGTON — Arianespace on Aug. 15 launched two communications satellites and a satellite servicer on an Ariane 5 rocket, completing the company’s first launch since the reopening of the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane 5 lifted off at 6:04 p.m. Eastern and deployed the spacecraft into geostationary transfer orbits over the course
President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 3. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) President Donald Trump is “ready to send” more coronavirus stimulus money. But it remains unclear if that is enough to move stalled Congressional negotiations forward so that Americans can see more money in their pockets. On Friday, Trump
Forget we’re in the middle of a make-or-break election … Cardi B is already setting her sights on 2024, because she’s got her eye on AOC. Cardi just tweeted that she wants Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to throw her name in the ring for President when she turns 35 … the required age under the Constitution.
A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask walks past the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg via Getty Images The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified on Friday that its updated quarantine guidance does not imply people who are
In July, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas became first-time parents when they welcomed a daughter, Willa, into the world. But Willa isn’t the only one who’s celebrating a birthday this summer. Today, Jonas turns 31 years old. To celebrate, Turner posted a black-and-white photo of her and Jonas on Instagram and added the caption, “Happy
Jon Favreau has revealed the influence he took from Marvel Studios when crafting The Mandalorian. Disney+ has a major hit on their hands with the first live-action Star Wars series and fans are eagerly awaiting season 2, which airs this fall on the streaming service. There were some worries that the public health crisis was
Memphis is the ultimate wildcard. He made it to the final two of Big Brother 10 without winning a single HOH competition. That’s pretty impressive, and whether he wanted to win the competion or not, he’s the person in charge of the nominations this week. Ahead of his nominations, he was adamant about targeting duos
Recreating the Sun: the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (Courtesy: Gwurden/CC BY-SA 4.0) A new mechanism that could reduce plasma turbulence in stellarators has been identified in computer simulations done by researchers in the US and Germany. A similar effect has already been predicted to occur in tokamaks, which like stellarators, confine hot plasmas using magnetic fields.
Robert Federico waited more than four months for his unemployment benefits to arrive. In the end, the payout was more than $23,000. But he endured financial hardship in the interim. Robert Federico Robert Federico’s situation was bleak — dire, even, by his telling. In March, the 52-year-old lost his job at a New York design
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck the U.S., young biotech company Verve Therapeutics was just months away from a pivotal development: studies in animals of its gene-editing approach to lowering cholesterol that would lead it to be heralded as a potential “cure for heart disease.” But Chief Executive Dr. Sekar Kathiresan had a problem: this isn’t
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