Early into the namesake for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) venture back in time to his high school, on the night of his first heartbreak. He clutches his chest, but smiles – laughs, even. “It feels exactly like it felt,” he says, visually giddy at the sensation of the same earth-shattering pain coursing through his...
In his controversial but undeniably significant smash hit ‘Stan’, Eminem relayed the story of an obsessive fan who would do anything to get the attention of his idol. His deteriorating mental health – conveyed through a series of increasingly worrying letters to Eminem – eventually led him to threats, then acts, of violence, and even some 20 years later the impact of...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News today and said that an agreement has been reached — but not signed — that would see TikTok’s U.S. operations spun out under majority American ownership. Leavitt said Americans will hold six of seven board seats in the restructured TikTok, and the short-form video app’s algorithm will be U.S.-controlled, according...
President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee. H-1B visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign...
Jar, an Indian fintech startup that allows users to invest in gold, has turned profitable by helping millions of first-time savers use its app to build digital gold holdings. While many consumer fintechs focus on affluent urban users or credit products, Jar has gained traction by offering a culturally familiar asset — gold — as a low-barrier entry point to...
Chatbots give positive, human-like responses to prompts from users.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via GettyAccounts of people developing psychosis — which renders them unable to distinguish between what is and is not reality — after interacting with generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have increased in the past few months.Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental healthAt least 17 people have...
TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air indefinitely after comments he made about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, ABC has said. The decision came hours after Brendan Carr, chair of broadcast regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said Jimmy Kimmel was "appearing to directly mislead the American public".Leading Democrats call Kimmel's suspension an attack on free speech and...
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- A person was flown to the hospital with serious injuries after a Thursday afternoon crash in Northumberland County. A crash involving a tractor-trailer and a sedan took place just after 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in the 1100 block of Browns Store Road in Northumberland County, according to Virginia State Police. One person was...
(RNS) — Law school’s notorious stress takes a toll on even the most determined students. But for a group of 20-somethings at New York University School of Law, an ancient tradition offers a framework for handling the pressure. “Many parts of Hinduism are so well-suited to being able to handle such a high-stress profession,” said Roshni Yaradi, the co-chair of...
The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the Earth's surface, with one of the world's highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly high density, and the water body's status as the deepest hypersaline lake gives rise to interesting and often temperature-related phenomena below the water's surface that researchers are still...
