Are you ready for the last of the Marvel Universe series to take its leave from TV? We’re not either! But we are ready for Ted Lasso to being on Apple TV+ and to see what horrors are uncovered on Lifetime when Jeffrey Epstein gets the R Kelly miniseries treatment in Surviving Jeffrey Epstein. Find
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Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine COVID-19, “focusing on lessons learned to prepare for the next pandemic”, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 23, 2020. Kevin Dietsch | Pool | AFP |
[embedded content] Above is a video by the physicist, YouTuber and quantum cartographer Dominic Walliman, who describes a map of quantum physics that he has created. The map introduces quantum mechanics by providing bite-sized chunks of information that are organized in a way that gives an overview of the quantum world and the academic disciplines
A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don’t) is the latest snub to an industry that’s been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19. Exhibition hasn’t been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish
Updated 7:30 p.m. Eastern with Blue Origin comment. WASHINGTON — Six years ago, SpaceX was the upstart launch company seeking to break United Launch Alliance’s monopoly on national security space launches. Now, it’s part of the establishment. When the U.S. Air Force announced Aug. 7 that SpaceX and ULA would split the National Security Space
The 2016-candidate Donald Trump speaks during a fireside chat with John Paulson, president of The Economic Club of New York, at the Economic Club of New York in New York, U.S., on Sept. 15, 2016. John Taggart | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump is set to attend a big-money fundraiser Saturday at the
Kanye West‘s Presidential run just got a death blow, at least in Illinois, where election officials say more than half his submitted signatures are invalid … and that means he’s off the ballot. TMZ broke the story … multiple people stepped up to object after Kanye submitted his petition to get on the ballot in
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, August 5, 2020. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | Pool via Reuters Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is denying congressional subpoenas for four key witnesses in a months-long investigation into his role in the firing of State Department Inspector General Steven
Another week of 2020, another week largely without movie theaters. Fortunately, it is a huge week for new movies making their way to streaming. While it may be from the comfort of home and not at a theater near you, there is no shortage of options when it comes to finding something to watch this
Every once in a while, all of the elements of a show converge to produce something that is truly special. Ted Lasso is the result of such a convergence. On paper, Ted Lasso should be an average show. It’s not a new concept, the plotlines are predictable, and the humor isn’t groundbreaking. But you put
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A FedEx logo on a delivery truck Jin Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. T-Mobile — Shares of the wireless provider surged more than 8% to a new 52-week high on Friday following its better-than-expected quarterly earnings. T-Mobile earned 9 cents on revenue of $17.67 billion, compared
When a severe drought threatened the settlement town of Grangeville with extinction, two angelic visitors saved the town, creating what is now called Visitation Lake, which sits high on the plateau above the town, to the west. Now, three hundred years later, Grangeville, renamed Angel Falls, faces a more ominous threat. An evil so powerful
Spencer Platt | Getty Images Desy’s is one of the last bars left standing in Morrisville, North Carolina. Owner Desislava Nikolova made her American dream come true by opening Desy’s and another bar in nearby Cary after immigrating to America from Bulgaria 11 years ago. While the coronavirus pandemic forced the majority of her counterparts in the local
The fight for freedom of the press and against the oppressive political regime in the Philippines takes center stage in Ramona S. Diaz’s A Thousand Cuts, which opens in theaters and in virtual theaters nationwide. As journalists around the world face threats and the term “fake news” is thrown around recklessly by world leaders, A Thousand Cuts puts Filipino
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the latest set of the company’s Starlink satellites, along with two BlackSky imaging satellites, Aug. 7 after weeks of delays. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 1:12 a.m. Eastern. After a pair of burns, the upper stage deployed BlackSky’s
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (L) leave after speaking to reporters following continued negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on a new economic relief bill in response to the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill on August 6, 2020