
25 celebrities you may not know are pansexual
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 [...]
10 best cities for women business leaders
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 [...]
States with the largest tax refunds
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 [...]
10 groundbreaking inventions and the women who created them
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 [...]
23 of 2023’s most gas-guzzling cars
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 [...]
California lawmakers to vote on possible gas price penalties
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 [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision trial set for family testimony
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 [...]
Beijing’s population has declined for the first time in 19 years
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 [...]
Holocaust survivor shares on TikTok to educate young people
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 [...]
China, Philippines assess ties amid escalating sea disputes
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 [...]
Ex-New Zealand soldier who helped veterans dies in Ukraine
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 [...]
‘I felt my son was murdered.’ Stephen Smith’s mother never believed he died in a hit-and-run. Nearly 8 years later, his case is being investigated as a homicide
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 [...]
Russia launches deadly strikes across Ukraine as China’s Xi departs Moscow
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 [...]
Winter Weather Advisory issued March 22 at 10:36PM MDT until March 23 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Riverton WY
* WHAT…Periods of light Snow. Additional snowfall of around 1inch in Jackson Hole, and 2 to 4 inches in the Teton Mountains. * WHERE…Jackson Hole and Teton and Gros Ventre Mountains. * WHEN…Until 6 AM MDT Thursday. * IMPACTS…Travel could be difficult mainly over mountainpasses.Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from canbe obtained by calling 5 1 1. BE [...]
Launch debut of 3D-printed rocket ends in failure, no orbit
By MARCIA DUNNAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts made its launch debut Wednesday night, lifting off amid fanfare but failing three minutes into flight — far short of orbit. There was nothing aboard Relativity Space’s test flight except for the company’s first metal 3D print made six years ago. The startup wanted to put the souvenir into a 125-mile-high (200-kilometer-high) [...]
Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll
By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSONAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high. That’s according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which shows there [...]
Lillard, Sharpe lead Blazers past Jazz to halt 6-game skid
By MATTHEW COLESAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 30 points, rookie Shaedon Sharpe had a career-high 24 and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 127-115 on Wednesday night to stop a six-game losing streak. Trendon Watford added a season-best 21 points for the Blazers. Portland used a 9-0 run, sparked by Kevin Knox III’s alley-oop layup midway through the fourth quarter, to pull away. [...]
Iraq WMD failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later
By NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In his U.S. Capitol office, Rep. Jason Crow keeps several war mementos. Sitting on a shelf are his military identification tags, the tailfins of a spent mortar and a piece of shrapnel stopped by his body armor. Two decades ago, Crow was a 24-year-old platoon leader in the American invasion of Iraq. Platoon members carried gas masks and gear to wear over their [...]
Haiti soccer sexual abuse scandal: Impending defamation lawsuit could cost journalist $64,700 if he loses. He says he’ll ‘never give up’
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN An investigative journalist who detailed allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against the former Haitian Football Federation (FHF) president is now facing a defamation lawsuit designed to gag him, his lawyer tells CNN Sport. French journalist Romain Molina — who wrote news stories detailing the allegations against former FHF president Yves Jean-Bart to light — is set to appear in the Judicial Court of Paris on [...]