Marion “Suge” Knight was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for mowing down and killing a Compton businessman in a case that completed the former rap music mogul’s downfall from his heyday as one of the biggest and most feared names in the music industry. Knight will now spend …
your ad hereEgyptAir Stands by Purported Interview With Drew Barrymore
EgyptAir is standing by a writer for its in-flight magazine who penned a bizarre article purportedly based on an interview with American actress Drew Barrymore. The article, riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, led with a description of Barrymore as “being unstable in her relationships” and quoted her as saying …
your ad hereSoccer Star Ronaldo Left off Portugal Squad for Upcoming Games Amid Rape Allegations
Cristiano Ronaldo has been left off Portugal’s national team squad for a pair of upcoming matches, the decision coming as the soccer great fights rape allegations in the United States. Ronaldo has been accused of rape by Kathryn Mayorga, who says the player assaulted her in Las Vegas in 2009. …
your ad hereCleveland Morgan Conservatory Shows The Beauty of Paper Trails’
Paper can be much more than just a surface to write on. Paper Trails’, is an annual exhibition held at Cleveland, Ohio’s Morgan Conservatory that showcases dozens of works of paper art that stretch the imagination. Maxim Moskalkov has the story. …
your ad hereTokyo’s Famed Tsukiji Fish Market Moves to New Site Soon
After years of delays Tokyo’s 80-year-old Tsukiji fish market is closing Saturday to move to a more modern facility on reclaimed industrial land in Tokyo Bay. The new, 569 billion yen ($5 billion) facility at Toyosu will open Oct. 11, over the objections of many working in Tsukiji who contend …
your ad hereUS Warns of New Hacking From China-Linked Group
The U.S. government warned Wednesday that a hacking group widely known as cloudhopper, which Western cybersecurity firms have linked to the Chinese government, has launched attacks on technology service providers in a campaign to steal data from their clients. The Department of Homeland issued a technical alert for cloudhopper, which …
your ad hereOlympics: Progress to Lift Kuwait Ban Made
Negotiations to lift an Olympic ban on Kuwait are making progress, but more issues need to be ironed out before the country’s Olympic return, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Wednesday. Kuwait’s national Olympic committee (KOC) has been banned since October 2015 after the government was accused of interference with …
your ad hereNorth Korea Said to Have Stolen a Fortune in Online Bank Heists
North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests have stopped, but its hacking operations to gather intelligence and raise funds for the sanction-strapped government in Pyongyang may be gathering steam. U.S. security firm FireEye raised the alarm Wednesday over a North Korean group that it says has stolen hundreds of millions of …
your ad hereMeet Farmers of Future: Robot
Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He’s heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he’s strong enough to hoist 800-pound pallets of maturing vegetables and can move them from place to place on his own. …
your ad herePutin Hopes Europe Will Resist US Pressure on Germany Pipeline
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday strongly defended a prospective Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline as economically feasible and voiced hope that European Union nations will be able to resist U.S. pressure to thwart the project. U.S. officials have warned that Washington could impose sanctions on the undersea Nord Stream 2 …
your ad hereIrish Regulator Opens Facebook Data Breach Investigation
Ireland’s data regulator has launched an investigation of Facebook over a recent data breach that allowed hackers access 50 million accounts which could potentially cost Facebook more than $1.6 billion in fines. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Wednesday that it will look into whether the U.S. social media company …
your ad here7-Year-Old Toy Reviewer on YouTube Becomes Toy Himself
Seven-year-old Ryan drew millions of views reviewing toys on YouTube. Now, he’s become a toy himself. Walmart is selling action figures in his likeness, putty with his face on the packaging and other toys under the Ryan’s World brand. It’s a bet that kids, who are spending more time tapping …
your ad hereChelsea Clinton Fights Cyberbullying by Answering Trolls
Chelsea Clinton says she’s naturally an optimist and despite enduring name-calling from the time she was a child, she chooses to answer insults — even on Twitter — with kindness and respect. “Cyberbullying is a huge challenge across our country. I think we need those of us with platforms to …
your ad hereChild Advocates File FTC Complaint Against Facebook Kids’ App
Children’s and public health advocacy groups say Facebook’s kid-centric messaging app violates federal law by collecting kids’ personal information without getting verifiable consent from their parents. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Facebook’s Messenger Kids for violating the …
your ad hereNewer Contraception Tries to Engage Men
Newer birth control for men is beginning to fill the gap between the traditional condoms and sterilization. One new technology involves inserting a hypodermic needle into the scrotum. It is said to decrease libido. For men, contraception had remained fairly stagnant for the past century, primarily limited to condoms (85 percent …
your ad hereSmart Mirrors May Motivate You to Get Off the Couch
Finding the motivation to get in shape can be difficult, but a new category of smart mirrors won’t let users off the hook. Tina Trinh reports. …
your ad hereTrade Pact Clause Seen Deterring China Deal with Canada, Mexico
China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries, trade experts said on Tuesday. The provision specifies that if one of the current …
your ad hereStudy: Half of ‘Last Jedi’ Haters Were Bots, Trolls, Activists
How much did movie fans hate “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”? Perhaps not as fiercely as social media might suggest, according to a U.S. academic study which found that half of negative tweets about the 2017 movie came from bots, trolls or political activists, some of whom may be Russian. …
your ad hereMexican, Canadian Steel Lobbies Urge Fix to US Tariff Dispute
Mexico and Canada on Tuesday urged their governments to resolve a tariff dispute with the United States before signing a new trilateral trade deal that was unveiled this week. In late May, the Trump administration announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports, prompting …
your ad herePuny Dwarf Planet, Named ‘Goblin,’ Found Far Beyond Pluto
A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed “the Goblin” has been discovered well beyond Pluto. A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometers) across, the Goblin was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. But it wasn’t publicly unveiled until Tuesday following further observations with ground telescopes. …
your ad hereDisaster Undoes Hard-won Progress for Indonesian Port City
Palu, the Indonesian city devastated by an earthquake, tsunamis and mudslides, has strived to transform itself into a major trading hub, but the city’s buildings and other infrastructure were no match for the triple whammy that has left more than 1,200 people dead. The disasters that struck late Friday left …
your ad hereTokyo Fishmongers Mourn and Protest Closure of Famous Fish Market
Takako Arai’s earliest memories are of Tsukiji, playing hide-and-seek with her brother in the concrete maze of Tokyo’s sprawling fish market. Years later, she now runs the family’s seafood stall that sells mackerel and yellowfin tuna. Arai and hundreds of other fish traders are reluctantly packing up and preparing to …
your ad here‘Mad Men’ Creator Returns to Identity Theme With ‘The Romanoffs’
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is back with a new television series, but while this one is set far from the 1960s world of advertising, he says the themes are much the same. The Romanoffs features eight contemporary drama stories about people who believe they are descendants of the Russian royal family, …
your ad hereUnilever Tops List of Food and Drink Firms Tackling Forced Labor
Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever topped a list on Tuesday ranking how well food and drink companies tackle the risk of forced labor in their supply chains, ahead of Kellogg Company and Coca-Cola. Most of the 38 companies assessed in a study by KnowTheChain, an online resource for business, had improved their …
your ad hereHardy Brings Out Marvel’s Darker Side in ‘Venom’
In the new movie Venom, British actor Tom Hardy plays an investigative journalist whose body is invaded by an alien with violent instincts who feeds on a diet of human flesh. It is a darker tale from the Marvel Comics superhero universe than what audiences have seen in recent films such …
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