Treat it like jet lag It’s time for that American tradition when we bemoan changing our clocks by falling back an hour because daylight saving time (DST) is over. Each time we change clocks, be it in the spring or fall, news stories and morning shows talk up the changes. […]
Coca-Cola is getting rid of Tab after nearly 60 years Coca-Cola is finally getting rid of Tab, the pioneering diet soda that kept a small but diehard fanbase for more than 50 years. The move is part of the beverage giant’s efforts to slim down its portfolio of more than […]
$1,200 cash payments, help for businesses: Here’s what’s in the historic stimulus package for coronavirus Senate leaders announced Wednesday they reached agreement on a massive stimulus bill to help families and businesses hurt by the coronavirus epidemic. The language is still being finalized on the roughly $2 trillion package lawmakers […]
A woman died while competing in a cake-eating contest to mark Australia Day on Sunday. Contestants were recorded speed-eating lamingtons, a type of traditional sponge cake covered in chocolate and sprinkled with desiccated coconut, at an event in Hervey Bay, Queensland. That was when the woman, who remains anonymous, choked […]
Let’s see how much news from 2019 you remember: In March, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star Luke Perry died at age 52 from complications following a stroke. What current show was he on? Answer: Riverdale At the time of his death, Perry was winning over a new generation of fans […]
A transgender man who gave birth but did not want to be registered as the child’s mother on the birth certificate lost a legal battle at England’s High Court on Wednesday. Freddy McConnell, 32, was born as a woman but has lived as a man for several years. He was […]
An owner adding dinosaur sculptures to the Flintstone House did not make one San Francisco Bay Area town shout “Yabba Dabba Doo.” The house is owned by Florence Fang, a prominent member of the Chinese-American community in the Bay Area. According to the lawsuit, she did show up to one […]
A fox in a hen house got way more than it bargained for when a group of killer chickens turned the tables on their traditional foe and pecked it to death. Students at an agricultural school in Brittany, France found the dead fox. They believe the victim entered the henhouse […]
On Thursday, President Trump urged wireless technology companies to step up their efforts to build next-generation data networks, tweeting that he wanted “5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible.” The tweet comes as the United States and China prepare for another round of trade […]
A very lucky cat in Montana is happy and healthy after thawing out — literally — at an animal clinic over the past week following a miraculous rescue. Fluffy arrived at an animal clinic of Kalispell encrusted in snow and “unresponsive” last week, but now the survivor feline is “completely […]
Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film “Gremlins,” has died. He was 90. With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and […]
Cuban-born Louisa Moritz, the actress-turned-lawyer who was one of the first of five dozen women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, died Jan. 4 at a hospice in Los Angeles at age 72, her publicist and lawyer said Wednesday. Edward Lozzi, Moritz’s longtime spokesman and friend, the cause of […]
Woman is unable to hear the voices of MEN – including her own boyfriend – and can only pick up the higher frequency tones of other females The woman, from China, went to sleep with nausea and ringing in her ears The next day she went straight to hospital with […]
Six men were arrested in central Vietnam for killing and eating an endangered monkey while live-streaming it on a social media site, police said Friday. The trafficking and consumption of rare and endangered species is widespread in Vietnam as many still believe in the healing and medicinal qualities of the […]
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