The streak of seven consecutive months of job growth has come to an end, as the country netted 140,000 lost jobs in December. Those layoffs come at a time when more than 19 million Americans are still receiving unemployment benefits. The good news? Aid is on its way. The $900 billion stimulus package signed into […]
Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters during Prohibition and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America in World War II. The 2016 film Hidden Figures brought the forgotten Black women who worked at NASA during the Apollo program into the national spotlight. Now PBS is doing the […]
Warner Bros. has launched their Oscars campaign for Wonder Woman 1984 by submitting the DC sequel for consideration in the major categories. Wonder Woman 1984 was one of the few movies to come out in 2020, thanks to a release on HBO Max, which means it also qualifies for the 93rd Academy Awards. The reaction […]
A brand-new clip for WandaVision has been released ahead of the show’s premiere this Friday on Disney Plus. Marvel Studios is about to push the boundaries of the comic book genre once again, but this time, in a different medium. WandaVision will follow Scarlet Witch and Vision after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and the […]
New year, new Chrissy Teigen. The Lip Sync Battle host is trying a bold new experiment in hairstyling that makes her… not unrecognizable, but it certainly lets her exude a very different persona. Related: Chrissy Explains Why She Got Sober She first played around with the look in an Instagram selfie at home a couple weeks back, […]
Many of us are shocked and appalled by the violence that caused the U.S. Capitol to go into lockdown last week. We should be appalled, but not necessarily surprised. This is, after all, what any regular day on the Internet looks like—with information unregulated and manipulated to communicate skewed views and fake news, more often than not encouraging […]
Vehicles trapped by snow on the M-40 in Madrid, Spain, on January 11, 2021. | Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images Historic snowfall brought Madrid to a standstill. Spain is still digging itself out after the biggest snowstorm to hit the Mediterranean country in 50 years slammed the capital, Madrid, and surrounding regions over the […]