United States Postal Service (USPS) employee Brandis Neal delivers an Amazon Prime package in Houston, Texas, U.S., August 18, 2020. Adrees Latif | Reuters Nathan Geissel, who lives in rural Oregon, has been waiting more than nine days for a life-saving medication to arrive in the mail. As far as he knows, it’s stuck in
Series editor’s note: In Major Jackson’s new poem, “Think of Me, Laughing,” we meet a speaker who is well-acquainted with the habits of sorrow of inhabiting a black body. This is all utterly, devastatingly familiar, the collective rituals of shock, anger, grief, and mourning encapsulated in days of sobbing, protesting, pleading. The speaker asks, what
China was the big breakout this past weekend, leading the international box office for the fourth frame in a row and powered by the reissue of Warner Bros’ Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone in a 4K 3D restoration that conjured $13.6M on 16,000 screens over the three-day frame. With Monday and Tuesday’s Middle Kingdom
SAN FRANCISCO — Kepler Communications announced a launch agreement Aug. 18 with Exolaunch of Germany for two cubesats scheduled for flight in September on a Russian Soyuz rocket rideshare mission. Under the contract, Exolaunch will provide launch, mission management, integration and deployment services for Kepler’s two six-unit XL cubesats built by the University of Toronto Institute
Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Kamala Harris to speak on Day 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Getty Images | Reuters Sen. Kamala Harris will accept the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nomination, and former President Barack Obama will make the case for his own ex-running mate during the third night of the Democratic
Tears for Fears have announced a deluxe reissue of their 1989 album The Seeds of Love. The remastered album will be released in several editions: a deluxe box set, a 2xCD set, a picture disc vinyl edition, and a standard vinyl edition. The box set will include 22 unreleased tracks including outtakes, demo recordings, and
The Federal Open Market Committee expressed concern at their last meeting over the future of the economy, saying that the coronavirus likely would continue to stunt growth and potentially pose dangers to the financial system. At the July 28-29 session, the Federal Reserve’s policymaking arm voted to keep short-term interest rates anchored near zero, citing
Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. There’s something truly uncanny about looking at fashion week images right now, a reminder that on the streets of Copenhagen, stylish women were just cavorting in cute ensembles and attending runway shows. I’ve been clicking through the slideshows like everyone
Following on from the recently released teaser trailer, Netflix has now debuted a vibrant new poster for their upcoming movie Enola Holmes. Highlighting again a release date of September 23, the poster gives us a good look at the all-star cast that has been brought together for this literary adaptation. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby
The Winchesters are back at work! Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have arrived back on the set of Supernatural to shoot the final episodes of the long-running CW drama. The official production restart date was August 18, and we have a first look at the on-screen brothers in the Men of Letters Bunker. “When their
Nine Months Playing House in Beijing Diana Xin Share article 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. . “Sweet Scoundrel”by Diana Xin She knew before the lines appeared. She knew
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Target (TGT) – Target earned $3.38 per share for the second quarter, substantially above the consensus estimate of $1.62 a share. The retailer’s revenue also beat forecasts, with comparable-store sales up 24.3% compared with a consensus FactSet estimate of a 7.6% increase. Target’s
It’s not so much mischief managed as it’s magic managed: Warner Bros’ reissue of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone has become the second film in the franchise to cross $1B worldwide. The film, originally released in 2001, counts a global cume of $1,001,260,000 after debuting in a remastered 4K 3D version in China this
WASHINGTON — A long-running debate about how to launch a multibillion-dollar NASA mission to Jupiter is now further complicated by potential technical issues involving one of the vehicles. At an Aug. 17 meeting of NASA’s Planetary Science Advisory Committee, Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, said the Europa Clipper mission had recently discovered
WASHINGTON — Jill Biden made a passionate and personal argument for her husband, Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday at the second night of the Democratic National Convention. “How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole. With love and understanding-and with small acts of compassion. With bravery.
Play video content Really good at football. Really bad at singing!!! That’s how the Philadelphia Eagles players felt about rookie QB Jalen Hurts — booing the guy off the stage during a performance at the team facility … and the footage is hilarious!!! The former Oklahoma/Alabama star tried to best to perform Maze’s 1981 hit,
U.S. government debt prices were higher Wednesday morning as investors awaited the release of the latest Federal Reserve minutes, while monitoring developments on a new coronavirus relief bill in Washington. At around 1:50 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at 0.6590% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was down at 1.3788%. Yields
As promised, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took her 60-second time slot during the Democratic National Convention, and she made the most of it. The freshman congresswoman was scheduled to give a pre-recorded speech on the second night of the virtual DNC, nominating Sen. Bernie Sanders for president. (As she tweeted, convention rules require nominations for every