Credit: Screenshot: End Wokeness X Can we talk about the White House Christmas decorations? It looks like First Lady Jill Biden hired a bunch of drunk circus clowns to deck the halls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. More than 165,000 twinkling lights, 83 trees and a scale gingerbread model of the White House. This year’s theme: “Season of Peace and Light.” But some say it’s retro-carnival. “May our nation be blessed with peace and light this holiday season,” the first lady said. “The holidays have always held a special place in our hearts, and we’ve loved opening the doors of the…
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A source also claims that Jackman has been keeping his relationship with Foster on the down low because he doesn’t want to humiliate Furness. However, she is said to be “seething with rage” that she was the last to know about their romance.Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster were reportedly planning to spend Christmas with his kids but Deborra-Lee Furness isn’t too keen about the idea.Article continues below advertisementDeborra-Lee Furness Is Angry About Hugh Jackman And Sutton Foster’s RomanceMEGAJackman and Foster have been in an alleged romance after they both began working together on the Broadway revival of “The Magic Man”…
‘Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped. And it should come as no surprise that for a second year in a row, Taylor Swift has been named its most-played artiste. On Wednesday (Dec 4), the streaming giant unveiled its annual overview of individual listening trends as well as trends from around the world. Users can now access their top artistes, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, as well as uncover which artistes had the biggest year on the platform. Swift was 2024’s most-streamed artiste globally, raking in more than 26.6 billion streams. She’s followed by The Weekend, Bad Bunny, Drake and…
South Korea’s reputation as a stable democracy faced a serious threat on Tuesday night when President Yoon Suk-yeol shocked the nation – and much of the world – by declaring martial law. He was forced to withdraw his decree hours later, after it was overwhelmingly rejected by members of parliament. President Yoon now faces an impeachment motion and is under pressure to step down – both from his own party and trade unions. What prompted the South Korean leader to declare martial law? And how will the Asian economic powerhouse deal with this extraordinary challenge to its democracy? Presenter: Neave…
The injury-ravaged Pelicans have announced in a press release that forward Zion Williamson is progressing well in his recovery from a left hamstring strain and will be re-evaluated in about two weeks.Reporting nearly two weeks ago indicated that Williamson wasn’t close to a return — the latest update from the Pelicans doesn’t suggest otherwise. While the former No. 1 overall pick may be ready to suit up when he’s examined in two weeks, it’s more likely that his absence will extend beyond that date. Williamson has been limited to six games this season and hasn’t been active since Nov. 6. The Pelicans have gone…
Brian Thompson, 50, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was fatally shot Wednesday morning in Midtown Manhattan.Thompson was arriving at the Hilton hotel around 6:46 a.m. for UnitedHealth Group’s Investor Day, which was being held in the ballroom, where a masked man waiting for him.”It appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes and as the victim was walking to the conference hotel, the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds, striking the victim at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a Wednesday statement. Thompson was…
Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was eventually proved wrong on most of them. The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the mainstream version of evolutionary theory, needed extending (it didn’t); in the 1980s the palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould pursued a similar line. Evolutionary biologist Kevin Lala also has doubts about what he calls traditional Darwinian thinking (see “The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate”). Some say this…
The Christmas season again gets an unofficial kickoff with the star-studded tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City.Kelly Clarkson, the “American Idol” champ whose talk show is taped at 30 Rock, will return to host the ceremony and its television special, “Christmas in Rockefeller Center.”Clarkson first performed at the ceremony more than 20 years ago and marked the milestone with hosting duties last year. “I was all of a sudden in a Charlie Brown movie, and it was magical,” she said on her show this month, referring to her hosting duties last year.”The Kelly Clarkson Show” moved to…
On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. It’s also home to many birds, which spend the majority of their time doing bird things. With a few exceptions, those bird things aren’t actually flying: Flying is a lot of work, and many birds have figured out that they can instead just walk around on the ground, where all the food tends to be, and not tire themselves out by having to get airborne over and over again. “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they…
Californians pay a fixed rate for their energy grid, but the state has been harvesting a surplus to the point that operators are forced to offload the energy to neighboring states that purchase it at a discount or even receive it free of cost. Governor Gavin Newsom praised California for advancing its energy storage by 1,250% since he took office, but it is not enough to attain current levels of energy and certainly not enough to reach the goal of going 100% renewable by 2045. The Los Angeles Times found that Californians are now paying up to three times the…