Aliyah Bah cultivated her quirky aesthetic — a hodgepodge of Y2K, alternative and harajuku style — and watched it take off online. For Aliyah Bah,…
Fashion
Why the Catwalk Is Coming to Cannes
The next Indiana Jones movie isn’t the only big premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Chopard is unveiling a full couture line, and Versace is…
Asos Reports First-Half Loss as Shoppers Cut Back
Asos, Britain’s one-time poster child for the shift to online fashion retailing, swung to a first-half loss, hurt by a squeeze on household budgets and…
Victoria’s Secret iconic fashion show
Victoria’s Secret announced on Wednesday the return of its iconic fashion show in a new format and with a new cast of models. Dubbed ‘The…
6 Tips for Finding a Fat Positive Doctor
Considering past negative experiences and learning about anti-fat bias in the medical field, you may be thinking, “how in the world can I find a…
Entertainment
American Born Chinese cast and crew on potential season 2: ‘The possibilities are endless’
EPs Gene Luen Yang and Melvin Mar — plus stars Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang, Jim Liu, and more — weigh in on season 2 of…
Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham secures its latest Hollywood linkup
Wrexham’s shirts will have a taste of Hollywood next season. The Welsh soccer team has secured its latest celebrity linkup and co-owner Ryan Reynolds is…
Diana Ross, Mick Jagger, Gloria Gaynor, and more remember the late Tina Turner
The music world is mourning the loss of the legendary Tina Turner. The “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and “Simply the Best” singer died at…
Liverpool Set for Eurovision Song Contest Final, With Sweden Favored and Ukraine in Spotlight
The grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest is taking place Saturday in Liverpool. What includes a Swedish diva, a Finnish rapper who loves pina…
Hollywood writers try to strike a love match while picketing
As striking Hollywood writers protest working conditions, some are seeking more than a new labor contract. They are also looking for love on the picket lines. Single…
Business View More
Biden to nominate Democratic for key seat on US telecom regulator
President Joe Biden on Monday said he plans to nominate attorney Anna Gomez for a key fifth seat on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC),…
Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott poised to make White House bid official
Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, is set to kick off his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday, betting that his optimistic…
60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical is lost during rail shipment
The company that was transporting the ammonium nitrate from Wyoming to California said “the release should pose no risk to public health or the environment”…
Mother-daughter duo’s juice company brings in $120 million a year—they’re trying to defeat the ‘second-generation curse’
When Marygrace Sexton named her local fresh-squeezed juice company after her 1-year-old daughter, she never expected Natalie to become her eventual CEO successor. Decades years…
Meet The Texas Startup That Recycles Rare-Earth Magnets, Bypassing China
At a factory in San Marcos, Texas, workers gather Bird scooters, computer hard drives, MRI machines and motors from hybrid cars in order to separate…
FEDERAL RESERVE Fed Governor Philip Jefferson named as new vice chair to succeed Lael Brainard
KEY POINTS President Joe Biden said Friday he will nominate Philip Jefferson to serve as the central bank’s vice chairman. He also intends to nominate…
Oil prices fall on stronger dollar, demand fears over the world
Oil prices fell on Friday and were set to end the week lower for the third straight week, as the market balanced supply fears against…
New Twitter CEO Is NBC Universal’s Linda Yaccarino,
Elon Musk said he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called, and multiple media reports identify her as…
New York, California attorneys general probe NFL workplace practices, discrimination claims
KEY POINTS The attorneys general of New York and California said they had opened an investigation into the workplace practices and culture of the National…
Science & Tech
Mr. Altman goes to Washington
In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I.…
Jupiter’s lightning bolts contort the same way as Earth’s
Collisions of water and ice might build electric charge in thunderclouds on both planets. On Jupiter, lightning jerks and jolts a lot like it does…
Three states agree to reduce water usage so the Colorado River doesn’t go dry
A new plan would conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026 in an effort to ensure the crucial waterway continues to generate…
Why Lyme disease symptoms go away quickly for some and last years for others
New research published by the CDC found an immune system marker in the blood may help explain persistent symptoms. Why some people recover from Lyme…
Google’s AI bonanza and driverless car talk with cruise CEO Kyle Vogt
At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that…
Flirting With Climate Danger: UN Forecasts 2 in 3 Chance of Briefly Hitting Key Heat Limit Soon
The United Nations’ weather agency says there’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst…
Dust storms have killed hundreds and are a growing problem in parts of the U.S.
Fast-moving winds can suddenly whip dirt and debris into the air, leading to fatal accidents. It’s an issue worsened by drought, climate change and land…
Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT
Not six months since the release of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence is already prompting widespread unease throughout Hollywood. When Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder…
With Detailed Race Question, Census May End Ancestry Ask
The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey. Is ancestry history? The U.S.…
Scientists measure a paradoxical quantum phenomenon for the first time
For the first time ever, scientists have measured an aspect of a quantum information-sharing paradox. Scientists from TU Wien, the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching,…
Asia Must Quit Coal Faster to Stem Worst Climate Woes
Asia must rapidly cut fossil fuel subsidies and plow more money into a clean energy transition to avoid catastrophic climate change that puts its own…
Health and fitness
National Security Archive Publishes New Digital Document Collection: Targeting Iraq, Part II: War and Occupation, 2004-2011
The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a new compilation of documents on U.S. policy toward Iraq. The 2,179 -document collection, Targeting…
GTSC’s FITGov Summit 2023: Procurement Pros Know the Recipe to Advance IT Innovations
The first panel at the Government Technology and Services Coalition’s FITGov 2023 Summit in Tysons, Va., on Wednesday was titled “IT Procurement Stew: Blending Innovation,…
American Born Chinese cast and crew on potential season 2: ‘The possibilities are endless’
EPs Gene Luen Yang and Melvin Mar — plus stars Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang, Jim Liu, and more — weigh in on season 2 of…
Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham secures its latest Hollywood linkup
Wrexham’s shirts will have a taste of Hollywood next season. The Welsh soccer team has secured its latest celebrity linkup and co-owner Ryan Reynolds is…
Diana Ross, Mick Jagger, Gloria Gaynor, and more remember the late Tina Turner
The music world is mourning the loss of the legendary Tina Turner. The “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and “Simply the Best” singer died at…