We don’t normally think of mummies as particularly cuddly. But researchers say that a newly unveiled mummified body of an ice-age wolf, estimated to be over 50,000 years old, is so well-preserved that you might want to reach out and give it a pat.
Hurricane Florence has already claimed five lives as of Friday evening. While it’s been downgraded to a tropical storm, the threat from what North Carolina governor Roy Cooper called a “powerful, slow, and relentless” weather event remains very real. And sitting squarely in Florence’s path is MacDougall Correctional, which has not been evacuated despite being in the path of the hurricane—and 650 inmates who can do nothing but wait for the storm to hit.
On Oct. 17, when Canada becomes the first G7 nation to legalize recreational marijuana, this is how it will go at the US border: If you’ve legally used marijuana, or have participated in any aspect of its booming legal cannabis sector, you could be slapped with a lifetime travel ban.
Very few American women make it into the C-suite—and it’s even harder for them to make their voices heard on corporate earnings calls. Bloomberg reports that in 155,000 conference calls over the past 19 years, men spoke 92% of time.
The Victoria’s Secret fashion show—and its narrow definition of bombshell beauty—is an iconic event, but it does little to embrace body diversity. Cue Rihanna’s Fenty X Savage lingerie show at New York Fashion Week on Thursday (Sept. 13). Set in a futuristic and Eden-like installation, the presentation was part runway, part interpretive dance, and it featured models of every size and color.
Storms are brewing all over the world, but Super Typhoon Mangkhut is the most intense tropical cyclone of them all. While Hurricane Florence charges towards the US east coast (and North Carolina’s pig manure lagoons), Mangkhut has already caused flooding and power outages in Guam, and is set to sweep by Luzon, Philippines before heading toward Hong Kong and Macau. The storm could affect as many as 43.3 million people, according to the Global Disaster and Alert Coordination System.
The US Food and Drug Administration has given Juul Labs and four other e-cigarette companies 60 days to prove they can keep their products away from minors, or be pulled from the market.
New court records continue to shed details on the shooting of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old black man living in Dallas, Texas, by a white off-duty police officer. Amber Guyger fatally shot Jean in the chest after entering his apartment in the dark, believing it was her own.
Canadian weed producer Aurora Cannabis has gained a new foothold in South America by acquiring ICC Labs, another Canada-based company, which has a competitive advantage in the region. The deal, worth C$290 million ($220 million), has sent weed stocks soaring.
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Elon Musk hasn’t presented any evidence in claiming the Thai cave rescue diver who criticized him as a PR hound is a pedophile linked to sex trafficking. And he gets it wrong on the true nature of the scourge.
Former US president Barack Obama finally came off the sidelines today (Sept. 7) with a speech about the state of America’s democracy, in which he made sure to draw a connection between women’s equality in the workplace and the US mid-term elections. Speaking at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he made the case that the next step for the #MeToo movement is to drive its supporters to the polls in November.
Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma—makers of the notorious painkiller OxyContin—is part of a team that has been granted a patent aimed at helping to battle the opioid epidemic the company has been accused of helping create.
Hong Kong has dethroned New York as the city with the most super-rich people in the world, according to a new report by Wealth-X. The number of ultra-wealthy people in Hong Kong—individuals worth $30 million or more—was 10,010 in 2017, a 31% increase from the year before. New York takes second place with 8,865 people, and Tokyo comes in third with 6,785.
Starbucks is making its grande entrance into the Italian market by opening a palatial café in the heart of Milan. The new Reserve Roastery, which boasts heated marble-top counters and a mezzanine-level cocktail bar, is also the culmination of a dream for Starbuck’s founder, Howard Schultz.
There were many moving moments during Aretha Franklin’s eight-hour funeral in Detroit that were testimony to the stunning legacy that the Queen of Soul left behind. But amongst the touching gestures, performances by music icons, and speeches from luminaries, there were also a number of contentious moments.
At Aretha Franklin’s star-studded funeral, there were performances from chart-toppers that raised the roof, speeches from luminaries that brought the audience to their feet, and a parade of celebrities lining up to pay their respects to the Queen of Soul.
The Queen of Soul will be laid to rest this Friday, Aug. 31 in Detroit, Michigan, the city where she grew up. Aretha Franklin, who died on Aug. 16 at the age of 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, will be honored with four days of mourning and celebration of her life and talent, culminating in the star-studded funeral on Friday morning.
Millennial text-speak might soon find its way out of your smartphone—and onto your detergent. The multi-national consumer goods maker, Procter & Gamble, have filed trademark applications for four popular acronyms: WTF (what the f***), LOL (laughing out loud), NBD (no big deal), and FML (f*** my life).
In To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before romantic tropes unfold right on cue, and our heroine, 16-year-old Lara Jean Song Covey, played by Lana Condor of X-Men Apocalypse, is witty and believable. She’s also Asian American.
Towards the end of Crazy Rich Asians, in a scene original to the film adaptation, Eleanor Young (Michelle Yeoh) and Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) enter a showdown over a game of mahjong. The steely dialogue between the two women is interspersed with shots of intense gameplay.
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Beer, wine, and liquor seller Constellation Brands is pumping another $4 billion into Canopy Growth, Canada’s top weed producer, in the biggest investment into the industry yet.
On August 4, NASA engineers played Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” in an attempt to wake up Opportunity, a rover on Mars that has been radio silent for months. But even the lively spirits of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley failed to stir the rover, and NASA has been playing a different song each day ever since, in the hopes that Opportunity will soon say something back.
