US President Joe Biden speaks during a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded restrictions on American investments in certain Chinese companies with alleged ties to the
Month: June 2021
New York’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production this summer of Merry Wives, a comedy adaptation by Jocelyn Bioh of the Bard’s Merry Wives of Windsor, will feature an all-Black cast including Jacob Ming-Trent (HBO’s Watchmen), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird) and Shola Adewusi (CBS’ Bob Hearts Abishola). The Public Theater announced the
WhatsApp has confirmed the rollout of several new features on its platform. This includes a new Disappearing Mode, a new View Once feature, and the anticipated multi-device support. These features were confirmed by none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart. They divulged this information through a unique WhatsApp chat with
Carole Baskin is blasting Diddy, and several other celebs at an Atlanta birthday bash, for posing with a white tiger … and she claims there are signs the animal was distressed. Diddy, Jack Harlow, Ray J, T.I., Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Teyana Taylor and 2 Chainz attended the party Thursday night for Quality Control Music
Worried about the wide array of scripted shows concluding for the season? If so, then FX may just have you covered. The streamer on Thursday dropped premiere dates for some of its most highly anticipated series. American Horror Story: Double Feature (Season 10) will premiere Wednesday, August 25, on the cabler. The cast of AHS
Nova Rex bass player and Quantum Records’ producer Kenny Wilkerson talks about his new cookbook “Rockin’ Recipes for Autism”! Kenny is a bass player with Nova Rex named one of the Top 50 Greatest Hair Bands by VH-1 and talks about how he got started with the cookbook including recipes from members of Ozzy Osbourne,
[The livestream is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. EDT. Please refresh the page if you do not see the player above] SpaceX plans to send the latest cargo mission for NASA to the space station on Thursday, with Elon Musk’s company going for its 17th launch this year. The company is targeting 1:29 p.m.
Though he was never inside Gilead, Luke (O. T. Fagbenle) has been through the wringer on The Handmaid’s Tale. After being separated from his wife and daughter for years, he learned that June (Elisabeth Moss) was alive but had been forced into sexual servitude by the regime. She had also begun a new relationship with
The astrophysicist Catherine Heymans has made history by becoming the first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland, an office that was created in 1834. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, she talks about her new role and how she will use it to show that science is relevant to everyone. One initiative she
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. I see a pediatrician’s office late in my wife’s pregnancy, a get-to-know you ritual to assess our fit. A three-minute drive from
“A Fisherman at Lake Dian.” Photo by Yu Jian. Reading Glasses I am no longer young, a half-blind Homer,wearing reading glasses to see the world.The calendar shows that it is autumn, but I don’t see it.The building across the street has no foliage.A face halfway through its plastic surgeryhas had glassy eyeballs reinstalled one too many
WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than three decades, NASA has announced it will send a robotic mission to Venus, selecting two proposals in the latest round of its Discovery program. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced at the end of a “State of NASA” speech at NASA Headquarters June 2 that the DAVINCI+
U.S. President Joe Biden gestures toward Senator Shelley Capito (R-WV) during an infrastructure meeting with Republican Senators at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden and Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito wrapped up a meeting on a possible infrastructure compromise Wednesday and agreed to speak again in
U.S. bonds yields were mixed on Thursday morning as investors looked ahead to a upcoming economic data this week. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 10 points to 1.5926% by around 2 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond dipped 11 basis points to 2.2774%. Yields move inversely to prices. Treasurys Investors are monitoring
Retail investing met marketing genius Wednesday as AMC Entertainment devoted a new area of its website to individual investors, stoking their love, doubling the stock price and — the company hopes — inflating membership of its AMC Stubs loyalty program. AMC has about 3 million individual investors now, 80% of its shareholders base. It was
Huawei Watch 3 Pro and Huawei Watch 3 have been announced and they run the company’s latest HarmonyOS 2.0. Both wearables feature 1.43-inch AMOLED displays. The Huawei Watch 3 series comes with 30 pre-installed watch faces with some animated faces along with an option to select from more than 1,000 faces from the Huawei Watch
Tesla China-made Model 3 vehicles are seen during a delivery event at its factory in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Tesla is recalling more than 700 units of its Model 3 electric car that were imported into China, the central government’s market regulator said Thursday. The announcement follows recalls
News Newport Jazz Festival 2021: Wynton Marsalis, Khruangbin, Mavis Staples, More Makaya McCraven, Robert Glasper & Terrace Martin, Andra Day, many more set for the summer event By Noah Yoo June 2, 2021 Facebook Twitter Newport Jazz Festival 2019 photo by Douglas Mason/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Newport Jazz Festival will return in 2021 after being