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Leon Bennett // Getty Images 25 celebrities you may not know are pansexual Cara Delevingne attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. In a world where it’s dangerous to dress in drag and existing as yourself can put a target on your back, the implications of “coming out” are layered and nuanced. While some may come out to open arms, others may face a backlash that can be difficult to [...]

Canva 10 best cities for women business leaders A woman in a conference room addressing a team of co-workers. More women are running Fortune 500 companies today than ever before. Yet, the number of women helming America’s largest corporations is still surprisingly low – only 10%, according to Fortune. Zooming out further, women face a steeper climb up the hiring ladder than men. Research from McKinsey and Company, a global [...]

Canva States with the largest tax refunds A tax refund check rests atop a 1040 tax form. As we progress through the 2023 tax season, many Americans have their eyes on a potential tax refund. But getting money back from the government can actually be a double-edged sword. Earning a large tax refund may mean that you gave Uncle Sam an interest-free loan throughout the course of the year instead [...]

Cynthia Johnson // Getty Images 10 groundbreaking inventions and the women who created them Grace Hopper in her office. The world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, was born in 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and his wife. A highly imaginative young woman with a mind for numbers, Lovelace was the first person to suggest that computers could be used for things beyond simple calculations. Her theories, published in a [...]

Canva 23 of 2023’s most gas-guzzling cars Cars stuck in traffic on the highway at night. Fluctuating gas prices have many feeling pain at the pump—but owners of gas-guzzling cars feel it more acutely. Stacker used data from the Department of Energy’s fuel economy database to rank the 23 most gas-guzzling cars of 2023. Duplicate models of the same car line were excluded from this analysis: For example, the data [...]

By ADAM BEAMAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are preparing to vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging. The bill would empower state regulators to penalize oil companies if their profits surpass a certain threshold. Regulators would decide what that threshold is and how much the penalty would be. The bill is a response to price spikes last summer that caused some drivers [...]

By SAM METZAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The two daughters of a retired optometrist suing Gwyneth Paltrow are expected to testify on Thursday about their lasting effects of their father and Paltrow’s 2016 ski collision as the trial takes on an increasingly personal note on the third day of proceedings. Attorneys are expected to call Polly Grasham and Shae Herath to the stand and question them about the [...]

By Jessie Yeung and Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing, the sprawling Chinese capital and one of the world’s biggest cities, saw its population drop last year for the first time in 19 years as the country grapples with a demographic crisis decades in the making. The city’s population of permanent residents fell from 21.88 million in 2021 to 21.84 million in 2022, a decline of 84,000. The number of migrants in [...]

By TED SHAFFREYAssociated Press MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, he records short videos of his grandmother reminiscing about life in 1944 and 1945 when she was a 6-year-old child at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. She also discusses her experiences before and after the [...]

By JIM GOMEZAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Senior Chinese and Filipino diplomats are meeting in Manila to review their relations amid thorny issues. Those include Beijing’s alarm over a Philippine decision to allow the U.S. military to expand its presence to a northern region facing the Taiwan Strait and escalating spats in the disputed South China Sea. The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said that Chinese Vice Foreign [...]

By NICK PERRYAssociated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A former New Zealand soldier who co-founded a charity to help struggling veterans has been killed in Ukraine, authorities said Thursday. Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the death of Kane Te Tai and the New Zealand embassy in Poland was trying to find out more details, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. Te Tai in 2017 [...]

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Stephen Smith’s mother says she’s been fighting for justice since the day her 19-year-old son was found dead in the middle of a rural South Carolina road. His 2015 death was initially deemed a hit-and-run, but Sandy Smith never believed that was the case. Then, in June 2021, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) announced it was opening an investigation into his killing based on [...]

By Helen Regan, Olga Voitovich and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin. Xi left Russia’s capital pledging to deepen ties with Putin but the meetings failed to achieve a breakthrough on Ukraine. As Xi flew back to Beijing, Russia’s military launched a barrage of [...]