Outlander packed a lot into its fifth season. Weddings! babies! attempted murder! actual murder! locusts! But through it all, one character emerged as the true hero of the season: Lauren Lyle’s Marsali Fraser. From training as her stepmother Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) apprentice to offering words of wisdom to struggling family members, Marsali—inquisitive, quick-witted, and perpetually
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 15, 2020. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week to prevent coronavirus infection even though it is not yet
It’s beginning to look like the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement is about to see the fruit of their labor. We have heard rumors for at least two years now about Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League. It has trended on social media multiple times, sometimes even more than once in a month, and fans have held strong
Liz’s worst nightmare became a reality on Roswell, New Mexico Season 2 Episode 10. After living her entire life in fear that Arturo would get deported, an ICE agent at the hospital takes him to a detention center. With a misdemeanor preventing her from being his sponsor, Liz’s inability to help her father leaves her in
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Three-year-old Sansa, a black dog with a white spot on her belly, spent nearly a year in a Rio de Janeiro animal shelter before the coronavirus pandemic restricted visitors, making her odds of being adopted even dimmer. A worker takes Dorothy to a car before her adoption at a shelter
A security personnel stands guard at the opening session of Baidu’s annual AI developers conference Baidu Create 2019 in Beijing, China, July 3, 2019. Jason Lee | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Moderna — The biotech company’s stock fell 2% in extended trading after Moderna announced that it is proposing a
Moderna in Cambridge, MA is pictured on Feb. 28, 2020. David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe via Getty Images Biotech company Moderna, which is testing one of the leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, plans to issue at least $1.25 billion in fresh stock after releasing the results of its phase 1 trial, the company said Monday. The announcement comes
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Vertical Entertainment has snapped up the domestic and UK distribution rights to The Big Ugly, an action thriller starring Snatch‘s Vinnie Jones, Ron Perlman and Malcolm McDowell. The Big Ugly will first hit UK theaters and VOD on July 24, and then U.S. theaters and VOD a week later on July 31.
The contract announced May 18 is for two Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellites to be deployed in polar orbits. WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman received a $2.37 billion contract to develop two satellites that will be part of a future constellation that provides the U.S. military early warning of incoming missiles. The contract announced
The COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out the spring seasons for professional sports and associated revenue for TV networks, but esports is filling part of that void. Gaming companies behind titles licensed by each major league are the winners in this unexpected shift; Electronic Arts (EA) is first among them with FIFA, Madden NFL, NBA Live
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday he was unaware the State Department’s inspector general was investigating him at the time he recommended that President Donald Trump fire the internal watchdog, a new report said. But Pompeo, in a phone interview with The Washington Post, would not provide any specific reasons why Inspector General Steve
U.K. DJ and producer India Jordan has shared the latest single from their upcoming EP For You. Listen to “Rave City” below. For You arrives May 20 via Local Action. The six-song EP includes previously released singles “I’m Waiting (Just 4 U)” as well as the title track. “Rave City” marks the third single from
The cold-weather headwear landscape is a notoriously tricky area to traverse. Beanies are basically the only vaguely acceptable option, and let’s face it, they’re hardly held in high regard by followers of fashion. You can’t really blame them either. After all, usually when these woollen warmers stray into the public fashion consciousness, there have been
Uncertain times: electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virions, which are the cause of COVID-19. (Courtesy: NIAID-RML/CC BY 2.0) Models of disease spread inform governments on when and how to ease the measures currently in place to contain COVID-19. But physicist Susanna Manrubia, an expert in modelling biological phenomena at the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology in Madrid,
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a Fulbright scholarship (see WLT, Nov. 2015, 32). She has translated over a dozen books, including Sphinx, by Anne Garréta,
Let’s pretend that I was killed on that day, when I wasn’t. The day when my guardian angel managed to throw my F-86F half a second from becoming a fireball in the desert, up into a clear sky, way above what would have been the impact point. If she hadn’t done this, if she hadn’t
The crime thriller Heat from director Michael Mann is often held up not only as the pinnacle of Mann’s career, but as a pinnacle of both the genre and a distinct highlight in the careers of acting legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Though the movie is near-perfect as a one-off, with many movie
It’s been four years since Castle fans were dealt a huge blow. In 2016, the show’s leading lady, Stana Katic, was fired from the hit procedural, with ABC eyeing a retooled ninth season. However, the series was subsequently canceled. Katic has now opened up about the whole scenario, and it appears she has made peace