HELSINKI — China has developed a vision for an international lunar research station and is seeking international involvement in the project. The project, named the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), is to be situated in the lunar south pole region. It will be developed through a number of upcoming robotic Chang’e missions across the 2020s
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A federal judge on Friday denied President Donald Trump‘s bid to temporarily block a ruling allowing a subpoena for his tax returns and other financial records. The decision came a day after the judge rejected Trump’s latest attempt to stop the Manhattan District Attorney’s office from enforcing a subpoena issued to his accounting firm. Trump’s lawyers
A rare Ella Fitzgerald live album has been announced. The Lost Berlin Tapes, recorded at Berlin’s Sportpalast in 1962, arrives October 2 (via Verve). Found within the private collection of Verve founder Norman Granz, the concert tapes were recorded two years after the Berlin concert that made up Fitzgerald’s iconic live album Mack the Knife:
Alex Karp, co-founder of Palantir Technologies Getty Images Data analytics software company Palantir Technologies lost $580 million in 2019, according to reports from The New York Times and TechCrunch, which had access to financial documents sent to investors earlier this week. The New York Times said its 2019 loss was on a par with 2018, even
Disney has been on a massive buying spree in the last few years, swallowing up major Hollywood entertainment productions and bringing them all under the umbrella of the Mouse Empire on Disney+. But a lot of the content belonging to those productions would be deemed too mature for Disney’s family-friendly brand. According to Bill Hunt
Lucifer has returned to LA. Or has he? In Lucifer Season 5 Episode 2, Lucifer comes back to LA, but he’s not exactly the same. For one, why does he walk lopsided like he has a broken back? This FauxLucifer that returns is met with a number of suspicions. That is, except with Ella. Ella: Wait,
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . In recent months, we’ve been overwhelmed with suggestions to read James Baldwin, Ibram X. Kendi, Audre Lorde. But it may be even
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Deere (DE) – The heavy equipment maker reported quarterly earnings of $2.57 per share, well above the consensus estimate of $1.26 a share. Revenue also came in above Wall Street forecasts and Deere raised its full-year outlook, although it said many uncertainties remain
by Regina Avalos, August 20, 2020 Drunk History was set to return for a seventh season after a renewal last summer, but now those plans have been cancelled. Production had started on the new season of the series just as COVID-19 shut down television and film productions in March. Deadline reported that ViacomCBS’ Entertainment and
Sony Pictures Classics has scheduled Azazel Jacobs’ drama French Exit for a Feb. 21, 2021 release in time for Oscars. The pic, which stars Oscar nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, is making its world premiere as the Closing Night feature at the 2020 New York Film Festival. Directed by Jacobs and written by award-winning novelist Patrick deWitt, based
The United States is the dominant space power and the “gains we possess are being threatened,” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Aug. 20 presided over a ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, where Space Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond relinquished command of U.S. Space Command and handed
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination Thursday with a pledge to serve “all Americans” as a uniter and a healer. “I’ll be a Democratic candidate,” said Biden, but “I will be an American president. I’ll work hard for those who didn’t support me, as hard for them as I did
Play video content Breaking News Megan Thee Stallion isn’t dancing around it anymore … she just came flat out and accused Tory Lanez, by name, of shooting her. It’s the first time she’s actually used his name and she blasted him late Thursday, saying … “Yes, this n***a Tory shot me. You shot me, and
U.S. government debt prices were lower on Friday morning, as investors closely monitored flash readings of purchasing managers’ index data for further clues about the pace of the economic recovery. At around 2:15 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was higher at 0.6525%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was
Sandra Mansour’s job is turning dream worlds into dresses. She pulls clouds down to earth via billowing tulle; she sews dawn dew from gardens into glass-beaded gowns. It’s a gift, as they say, but it comes with a cost—like, literally—because the hand-crafted pieces by the Swiss-born, Beirut-based designer are roughly (and rightly) the cost of
Sony is continuing to press forward with its own Marvel movie universe. The studio has set its sights on director J.C. Chandor for a Kraven the Huntermovie. It was initially revealed back in 2017 that Sony, who still controls the movie rights to Spider-Man and his surrounding cast of characters, was looking to develop a
This x-ray map is much more than a beautiful desktop background. By Allison Kubo On June 19, the eRosita instrument aboard the Russian-German “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma” (SRG) mission finished cataloging more that 1 million high energy x-ray sources more than had ever been recorded before this study. The image above shows our sky illuminated in x-rays, the
Zavion Davenport, a performer who rose to fame by appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race under the stage name Chi Chi DeVayne, has died at 34. EW revealed the news. Chi Chi opened up to fans in July about being hospitalized via an Instagram Live. “They think that I’m going through kidney failure.” She was also