Female journalists, politicians got abusive tweets every 30 seconds: Study
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Female journalists, politicians got abusive tweets every 30 seconds: Study
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Here Comes The Groom: Watch Challenge Legend CT Say ‘I Do’
CT has documented some tremendous highs on MTV — from happily clutching that Rivals 2 check after years of...
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette‘s Energetic First Trailer Is Here To Brighten Your Day
The first trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette is finally here, and it looks like an absolutely delightful adaptation...
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‘We Grew Up Surrounded By The Mob’: Get The First Look At MTV’s Made In Staten Island
Staten Island is known for being home to New York’s most notorious mafia families. And now, a group of...
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Ariana Grande Is Lovin’ And Livin’ For Miley Cyrus’s ‘No Tears Left To Cry’ Cover
Lately, it seems like everyone who passes through BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge feels compelled to cover an Ariana...
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How Meek Mill’s Championships Brought Him Back To No. 1
By Trey Alston The story of Championships begins, like many things, with loss. In Meek Mill’s case, it was...
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Gert And Chase Team Up In This Electric Scene From Marvel’s Runaways Season 2
Marvel’s Runaways are finally, well, on the run in Season 2, but don’t worry: There’s still time for this...
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‘I’m Done’: Amber Gets Honest About Her Teen Mom OG Future
Amber has said this season on Teen Mom OG that she’s the happiest she’s ever been with Andrew and...
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KiKi Layne on Her Breakout Role In Beale Street: ‘I Was Born To Do This’
KiKi Layne is still hungry. Not physically hungry, per se — though, on a busy day of press like...
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Cardi B’s Carpool Karaoke Ends In The Most Unexpected Place Possible
You know, there really haven’t been that many Carpool Karaoke segments this year. Eight, if you count Michael Bublé’s...
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Teen Mom OG‘s Maci Had An Emotional Breakthrough With Ryan’s Parents
An arrest. A restraining order. Ninety days in rehab. A brand-new baby. Maci, Ryan, Bentley, Jen, Larry, and the...
Children as young as 10 fight, kill and die in Yemen’s war
That figure is higher than any number previously reported. The United Nations was able to verify 2,721 children recruited to fight for all sides in the conflict, the large majority for the Houthis, but officials say that count is likely low, because many families will not speak about the...
U.S. probes whether Chinese imports came from forced labor camp
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 19, 2018 / 9:02 AM GMT By Associated Press BEIJING — The U.S. government said Tuesday that it is reviewing reports of forced labor at a Chinese internment...
Windows Sandbox is a safe new way to run untrusted .exe files
Microsoft is trying to address the fear of running an unknown .exe on your PC. While some power users set up virtual machines to check unknown apps, Microsoft has developed a simple way for anyone running Windows 10 to launch apps in an isolated desktop environment. Windows Sandbox is...
Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
What to make of the New York Times’ latest story about Facebook’s broad data-sharing agreements? The story, which draws on internal documents describing the company’s partnerships, reports on previously undisclosed aspects of business partnerships with companies including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Spotify, and Netflix. In some cases, companies had access...
Samsung’s stylish The Frame and Serif 4K TVs will soon come in more sizes with better picture quality
Ahead of CES, Samsung is announcing upcoming refreshes of its two most stylish 4K TVs, The Frame and Serif. These are lifestyle pieces that aim to make people rethink what a TV can and should look like. They don’t offer Samsung’s best picture performance — that’s still reserved for...
Spam calls grew 300 percent worldwide in 2018, according to Truecaller
Spam calls grew by 300 percent worldwide this year, according to a new report from Truecaller, a caller ID service. But while the scourge continues to grow overall, some countries actually saw a slight decline — including the US. The United States fell from the 2nd most spammed country...
What it means that the Surgeon General now calls vaping an ‘epidemic’
The US Surgeon General just declared youth vaping an epidemic, and called out e-cigarette giant Juul as part of the problem in an advisory today. The Surgeon General’s declaration isn’t a new policy or enforcement action against vape companies or retailers. But it is a call to action that...
Apple sent iPhone owners unwanted push notifications to promote Carpool Karaoke
Apple is starting to send unwanted push notifications to iPhone users, including ones designed to promote its own Carpool Karaoke show — even though Apple’s TV app never expressly asks for permission to send promotional notifications, and even though Apple’s App Store guidelines forbid developers from sending unsolicited promos....
Penny Marshall was in league of her own as sports fan and memorabilia collector
Television legend Penny Marshall directed one of the most popular baseball movies of all time, but many of her...
Penny Marshall was in league of her own as sports fan and memorabilia collector
Television legend Penny Marshall directed one of the most popular baseball movies of all time, but many of her...
Here Comes The Groom: Watch Challenge Legend CT Say ‘I Do’
CT has documented some tremendous highs on MTV — from happily clutching that Rivals 2 check after years of trying for a Challenge crown to happily sharing that he was a new father to a son when he appeared on (and won) Invasion of the Champions. And during Part...
Where’d You Go, Bernadette‘s Energetic First Trailer Is Here To Brighten Your Day
The first trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette is finally here, and it looks like an absolutely delightful adaptation of Maria Semple’s 2012 best seller. Despite the heavy Seattle rain, the trailer offers the same colorful, breezy vibe that fans of the book will recognize. Cate Blanchett perfectly wears...
Some textured breast implants recalled in Europe
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 11:40 PM GMT By Lauren Dunn French regulatory officials are asking breast implant manufacturer Allergan to recall its textured implants after the company lost approval...
Opioids don’t work well, study finds
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 6:09 PM GMT By Maggie Fox Opioids are not only overused and killing Americans in record numbers; they don’t even work that well for many...
6 Spider-Heroes We’d Desperately Love To See In Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 2
1 hour ago Warning! The following contains light SPOILERS regarding Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Read at your own risk!...
John Mulaney Already Has An Idea For A Spider-Ham Into The Spider-Verse Spinoff
1 hour ago One of the reasons Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is so unique is how it includes characters...
Angels agree to sign former Mets standout Matt Harvey
But elbow ligament replacement surgery after the 2013 season, for which he received enough votes to finish fourth in...
Lakers expect Brandon Ingram and Rajon Rondo to rejoin them this week
Rondo has played 11 games, starting just the first two. He then was suspended three games for his role...
Lakers limp home with another loss, sent packing by D’Angelo Russell
“We’re all anxious to get back home, to sleep in our own bed, kinda get back in that routine,”...
Trump administration relaxes requirements to sponsor migrant children
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 19, 2018 / 6:04 AM GMT By Annie Rose Ramos The Department of Health and Human Services is relaxing the requirements to place unaccompanied migrant children in the...
St. Paul’s School sex offender Owen Labrie ordered to jail after Christmas
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 19, 2018 / 1:05 AM GMT By Doha Madani and Associated Press A judge has refused to shorten the jail term for Owen Labrie, a former student at...
Trump’s comments on Green Beret charged with murder rile legal experts
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 19, 2018 / 12:39 AM GMT By Ben Kesslen President Donald Trump’s announcement over the weekend that he will be “reviewing” the case of a former Army Green...
Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone admits to spreading lies online
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 2:46 AM GMT / Updated Dec. 18, 2018 / 9:20 PM GMT By Tim Stelloh Former presidential adviser and longtime Republican operative Roger Stone admitted in federal...
Some drivers who took $300,000 spilled by Brinks truck returning money
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 6:36 PM GMT By Janelle Griffith Police in New Jersey have finished combing through the area where an armored Brink’s truck accidentally scattered more than...
Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve with judge to oversee dispersal
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 4:16 PM GMT / Updated 5:13 PM GMT By Tom Winter, Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker The Trump Foundation — the charitable foundation started by President Donald...
Legally blind American woman vanished during Peru vacation
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 4:51 PM GMT By Minyvonne Burke A Detroit woman who is legally blind vanished in Peru nearly a week ago after traveling alone to the...
Sharice Davids, a gay Native American, is ready to ‘shape the future’ of America
Dec. 18, 2018 / 4:33 PM GMT By Brooke Sopelsa and Brian Latimer Rep.-elect Sharice Davids emerged as one of the most prominent faces of this year’s “rainbow wave,” which produced a record number of LGBTQ candidates for elected office. Davids, a Democrat from Kansas, was one of an...
2 Chicago police officers struck, killed by commuter train
Two Chicago police officers were fatally struck by a train Monday evening on Chicago’s Far South Side, police said. The incident occurred near 103rd Street about 7 p.m. in the city’s Rosemoor neighborhood, Metra officials said. Police said the officers were responding to a “shots fired” call when they...
Poor cybersecurity leaves U.S. open to missile attacks, Pentagon watchdog says
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 18, 2018 / 6:05 AM GMT By Alex Johnson Cybersecurity lapses as basic as neglecting to encrypt classified flash drives and failing to put physical locks on critical...
How might Brexit affect my European holiday?
Image copyright Getty Images Brittany Ferries has said customers are delaying booking Channel crossings for next summer amid concern over the impact of Brexit. As a member of the European Union, UK citizens have enjoyed friction-free travel to the EU. If the UK can reach some kind of exit...
Biosimilar drugs promise to slash health-care costs in rich countries
“IT’S THE prices, stupid.” That simple assessment of America’s wildly expensive health-care system was made 15 years ago by Uwe Reinhardt, a health economist who died last year. Health costs as a proportion of America’s economic output have soared since, from 14.5% in 2003 to over 17% in 2017,...
US says China has ‘not altered’ unfair trade practices
Image copyright Getty Images The Trump administration has accused China of not changing its “unfair” practices, inflaming a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. In an update to a March report, the US said China had failed to alter its “unreasonable” practices. The US has, along with...
Daily Mail-owner DMGT ‘looking to buy i newspaper’
Daily Mail-owner DMGT is reportedly considering making an offer to buy the i newspaper from Johnston Press. The troubled regional publisher put itself up for sale in October, with all or parts of the group available to buy. It is struggling under the weight of debt, pension obligations and...
The Germans solving rising rents with people power
Image caption The residents of Ligsalz8 believe they have found the answer to the expensive cost of renting in Munich Despairing of rising prices, some Germans are taking matters into their own hands to secure long-term, cheap, and stable rents. Rents in Munich’s trendy Westend district have soared in...
‘Ugly’ mistake sends Google data to China
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Data can easily go astray if hardware uses the wrong address book Google data for search and cloud services went astray for more than an hour on Monday thanks to an “ugly” mistake by an African ISP. The data was sent the wrong way...
How traffic lights became a million dollar idea
Traffic lights. They’ve been keeping road crossings safe for over a century. They make the firms that manufacture them over a billion dollars a year. But the first one was a positive menace. Aaron Heslehurst tells the story of their creation. Video journalist: Jeremy Howell
TalkTalk to move headquarters to Salford from London
Image copyright TalkTalk Image caption TalkTalk says the move was “part of its strategy to simplify its operations” Broadband provider TalkTalk is moving its headquarters from London to Salford, the firm has confirmed. It said hundreds of roles would be relocated to its Salford office – where its business...
A high-profile deep-sea mining company is struggling
AFTER LISTING on the Toronto stock exchange in 2006 Nautilus Minerals became the public face of a daring new industry: deep-sea mining. It planned to pursue riches on the ocean floor, mining metals such as gold, zinc and copper, desired for lustre, alloys and electronics. Robotic machines (pictured) would...
KPMG stops consultancy for audit clients
Image copyright Reuters Accountancy firm KPMG has said it will no longer do consultancy work for the UK’s biggest companies if it is also auditing them. In a memo the firm’s chairman said the move was to “remove even the perception of a possible conflict” of interest. The “big...
Can the world produce enough cobalt for electric vehicles?
THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to strengthen turbine blades, cobalt’s value has soared since it started to feature in modern electronics. Most phones need a few...
New car sales fall again in October, say manufacturers
Image copyright Getty Images Sales of new cars in the UK recovered slightly in October, although they were still down on a year previously. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT), sales fell to 153,000 units during the month, down about 3% year on year. It...
Lyft prepares to list shares on stock market
Image copyright Reuters Ride-hailing firm Lyft has moved closer to listing its shares on the stock market by filing a draft registration with US authorities for an initial public offering (IPO). The firm said the number of shares to be offered and the price range had not yet been...
WEEK SUMMARY TITLES
Image copyright NurPhoto / Getty Images Santander UK has been fined £32.8m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for...
Image copyright PA The UK inflation rate fell slightly to 2.3% in November, from 2.4% the previous month, driven...
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored 126 goals in 11 seasons as a United player Manchester United have named former player...
That figure is higher than any number previously reported. The United Nations was able to verify 2,721 children recruited...
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The legend slot traditionally draws one of the weekend’s biggest crowds Kylie Minogue...
Microsoft is trying to address the fear of running an unknown .exe on your PC. While some power users...