Don’t look now, but the Roy family could lose everything. Macall B. Polay/HBO The Roy family seems to permanently teeter on the precipice of disaster, but even they looked rattled in the latest episode of Succession. The future of the company — and the entire country — hung in the balance in a pissing contest…
The Nov. 9 fireball was spotted by a meteor-tracking NASA camera. NASA MEO Some meteors are fancier than others. Lucky skywatchers in the southeastern US were treated to a fantastic fireball on Tuesday night. Data from NASA shows it was quite a whopper, traveling 186 miles (300 kilometers) through the air. From the lab to…
U.S. Marshals identified a Massachusetts man as Theodore John Conrad, who used his job as a bank teller to steal the modern equivalent of $1.7 million, from a Cleveland bank in 1969. Photo courtesy U.S. Marshals Service Nov. 14 (UPI) — The U.S. Marshals Service tracked down a man who posed as a bank teller…
The son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, on Sunday filed paperwork to run for president in the country’s Dec. 24 elections. Photo by Libyan Electoral Commission/EPA-EFE Nov. 14 (UPI) — Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, filed paperwork Sunday to run for president of the country.…
1/4 Taylor Lautner is making wedding plans with his longtime girlfriend, Tay Dome. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI | License Photo Nov. 14 (UPI) — Twilight and Cuckoo alum Taylor Lautner has announced on Instagram that he is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Tay Dome, who is a registered nurse. “And just like that, all…
1/5 Taylor Swift was the musical guest on this weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live.” File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Nov. 14 (UPI) — Pop music star Taylor Swift was the musical guest on this weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live. The singer-songwriter performed a 10-minute version of “All Too Well.” A…
Island Airways flies out of Welke Airport on Beaver Island in Michigan. Photo {link:courtesy Island Airways : “http://photos.islandairways.com/GalleryFilmstrip.aspx?gallery=4476954”} Nov. 14 (UPI) — A twin-engine commuter plane crashed on an island in Lake Michigan, killing four people but a girl survived, officials said. On Saturday afternoon, the Island Airways’ Britten-Norman plane went down flying in the…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal next week to discuss security issues and other topics, the State Department said Thursday. In Abuja, Blinken and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will discuss collaborating on international health security, expanding energy access and security and other issues, it said. Blinken, Kenyan President…
A friend of mine is doing her PhD thesis on, among other things, different types of feminism. She asked me to read it over, because that whole feminism thing is right up my alley, and she is writing about a feminist hero: Wangari Maathai. In her paper, she talks about the fact that feminism is…
Climate action can be the driver for a green and equitable future for all, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said at the TED Countdown Summit, urging people everywhere to demand that leaders deliver on their promise to limit global warming. Speaking ahead of the COP26 UN climate conference, which wraps up this weekend in…
