They’re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city. What’s more, they’re tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
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A reward is being offered for information that helps authorities find and prosecute whomever wrote “Trump” on a manatee’s back. The manatee was discovered Sunday in Florida’s Homosassa River with the President’s name in capital letters on its back, according to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity. It’s not clear what was
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Tiny microfiber strands, washed into the ocean from laundering our clothes or from industrial wastewater, are polluting one of the most remote regions on Earth. While microplastics — those measuring up to 5 millimeters in diameter, or about the size of a sesame seed — have previously been found in Arctic sea ice, new research
Continue Reading Netflix is promising to try to keep us entertained this year. The streaming giant announced plans on Tuesday to release a new movie every week for the next 12 months. Some of the films on the slate include the western “The Harder They Fall,” starring Regina King, Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors. Lin-Manuel Miranda and
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Simone Ledward Boseman tearfully paid tribute to her late husband Chadwick Boseman Monday night during the 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards. She accepted the Actor Tribute award for the actor, who died in August at the age of 43 after a private battle with colon cancer, saying, “As an artist, an actor, and a person,
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It truly is the most dramatic season yet. Just two episodes into the new season of “The Bachelor,” a contestant nearly collapsed during the rose ceremony. A medic was called during Monday night’s episode when Sarah Trott, a broadcast journalist from San Diego, began wobbling in full view of “Bachelor” Matt James. After noticing she
Continue Reading Former Destiny’s Child star LeToya Luckett has announced that she has split from her husband Tommicus Walker. The couple welcomed their second child just three months ago. “After very prayerful consideration, Tommicus and I have decided to get a divorce,” Luckett wrote on Instagram. “It is my deepest desire for us to be loving coparents
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Disneyland Resort in Anaheim will soon be the first “super” Covid-19 vaccination site in Orange County, California, officials said Monday. The resort will be one of several “super POD” — Point-of-Dispensing — sites where thousands of residents daily will be able to get vaccinated, officials said. It will be operational later this week. “The Disneyland
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Ken Jennings debuted as guest host on “Jeopardy!” Monday, and opened the show with a tribute to the late Alex Trebek. “Sharing this stage with Alex Trebek was one of the greatest honors of my life,” Jennings said. “Not many things in life are perfect, but Alex did this job pretty much perfectly for more
Continue Reading A Dutch television network has filmed border officials seizing food, including meat sandwiches, from travelers entering the Netherlands from the UK — blaming post-Brexit rules. In a segment aired on public broadcaster NPO 1, officials are shown explaining to a driver arriving at Hoek van Holland, home to an international ferry terminal: “Since Brexit, you
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A third “Deadpool” film is happening — and it will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an interview with Collider, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed that Ryan Reynolds, the star of the R-rated superhero movies, is currently working on a script. “It will be rated R and we are working on a
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John Reilly, a longtime soap opera actor known for his time on “General Hospital,” died on Saturday, his daughter confirmed to CNN. He was 86. “John Henry Matthew Reilly AKA Jack. The brightest light in the world has gone out,” Caitlin Reilly said in an Instagram post. “Imagine the best person in the world. Now
Continue Reading As pandemic quarantines go, this might be the best: sprawling on a hotel balcony overlooking azure Caribbean waters as you bake gently in the sun. But it isn’t enough for some. The past month has seen a slew of high-profile cases of tourists getting in trouble for breaking the rules while on a sun-and-sand vacation.
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An all-female Indian pilot team made history this week, after they completed the longest non-stop commercial flight ever operated by an Indian national airline. The team of four cockpit crew members from Air India completed the 17-hour-long flight on Monday according a statement released by the airline. “We are India’s daughters who were given the
Continue Reading One of the most famous avenues in Paris, the Champs-Élysées, is set for a facelift that will see it transformed into a green, pedestrian-friendly space, after Mayor Anne Hidalgo gave the go-ahead for a major renovation project. The thoroughfare, one of the world’s most famous shopping streets, accommodates eight lanes of traffic as it runs
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A new Department of Transportation regulation goes into effect Monday that says airlines aren’t required to treat emotional support animals as service animals. The DOT rule, announced last month, defines a service animal as a dog “trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability.” Delta, United,
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A two-minute trailer for “Clarice” has been released, and it’s a haunting look at the upcoming “Silence of the Lambs” sequel television series. Rebecca Breeds stars as FBI agent Clarice Starling, who takes a case in her native West Virginia but still suffers from the memory of her former case involving serial killer Buffalo Bill,
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There’s hope: Summer vacations abroad may happen in a big way this year. The number of people busting out of their countries will start creeping up this spring and rise higher by mid-year, travel industry experts predict, as vaccines and risk-based safety measures are rolled out more widely and spiking coronavirus cases around the world
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When international tourists finally return to the canal-lined historic streets of Amsterdam, one of the city’s main attractions might be off limits. Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has proposed a new policy that would ban foreign visitors from accessing the city’s coffee shops. There are 166 cannabis coffee shops in Amsterdam, accounting for almost 30% of
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As starter homes go, a three-story Georgian mansion on an 820-acre estate’s not bad. When Neil Watt and his partner Kris Reid moved into the top floor of Northern Ireland’s Castle Ward stately home in March 2020, it was their first home together as a couple. Watt had landed a new live-in job as collections
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