After 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Twitter that they would be divorcing, though they would continue running their charitable foundation together. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” they said in their statement before
Former CIA Director John Brennan tells Christiane Amanpour that the United States needs to lead the way to ensure that democratic governments around the world are able to stand up against autocratic regimes that are gaining ground on the global stage. #CNNI #News
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today worth reading. This is a very small percentage of the books out this week, though, so stick around until the end for some more Book Riot resources for new releases, including our YouTube
While Legendary Pokémon and the cutest Pokémon understandably steal most of the attention in New Pokémon Snap, the real stars of the show from a narrative standpoint are the six Illumina Pokémon hidden throughout the game. These guardians of the Lental region play vital roles New Pokémon Snap’s plot, but just because they’ve been cast
Tinder’s parent company Match Group has set its sights on a “summer of love” surge for its global dating platforms as coronavirus vaccinations increase and economies reopen. Match forecast revenue for the April-June quarter of up to $690m, 24% up on the same period last year and ahead of estimates pencilled in by analysts. That
Jury consultant Alan Tuerkheimer explains why there could be grounds for appeal in Derek Chauvin’s case after a photo of one of the trial jurors showed him wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt at the March on Washington. #CNN #News
As of Tuesday, May 4, the California Department of Public Health’s vaccine dashboard showed about 39.4 million doses have been shipped throughout the state and of those, 30.7 million have been administered (about 4 million in the last two weeks). According to Bloomberg’s dashboard tracking vaccine distribution, 44.4% of California’s population has received at least
A member of the American family that owns Manchester United has refused to apologise to fans over the disastrous attempt to form a breakaway European Super League. Sky News US correspondent Sally Lockwood caught up with Avram Glazer in Florida and offered him the chance to address supporters’ concerns, saying: “This an opportunity for you
In a few days, voters will go to the polls for the first time since Labour’s red wall turned blue in a bumper set of local and mayoral elections. And it will be Sir Keir Starmer’s, rather than Boris Johnson’s big test. It is the first time the Labour leader has faced the electorate since
EXCLUSIVE: Heather McGhee’s New York Times bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together is getting the audio series treatment. Higher Ground, the production company set up by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, has struck an option deal to turn the non-fiction book into a Spotify podcast
Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a novel malware that uses a variety of tricks to stay under the radar and evade detection, while stealthily capable of executing arbitrary commands on infected systems. Called ‘Pingback,’ the Windows malware leverages Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) tunneling for covert bot communications, allowing the adversary to utilize ICMP packets to
Luke Combs turned footage from his actual wedding into a music video for a song inspired by his wife, Nicole. The new “Forever After All” clip finds Combs at his most vulnerable and jubilant. Particularly notable is how the “Better Together” singer breaks down when he sees his bride walking toward him, dressed in an
Realme X7 Max was expected to launch in India on May 4 but the company postponed its event due to the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping the nation. Now, an alleged leaked image of the retail box for the Realme X7 Max has surfaced hinting at some of the specifications. It states the phone will
This summer, Space Jam is finally making its return to the big screen. Fans of the beloved sports comedy have been asking for a sequel ever since Michael Jordan teamed up with Bugs Bunny back in 1996, and they’re finally getting their wish in July. Los Angeles Lakers superstar four-time NBA MVP LeBron James is
This is the festival lineup I never knew I needed. KOKEFest, the annual festival presented by self-described “alternative country station” KOKE-FM out of Austin, Texas, released the lineup for their 2021 festival. Clay Walker and Koe Wetzel are the Texas artists who will serve as headliners for the two-day festival, bringing a nice mix of
The newest animated series in the ever-expanding Star Wars Universe has finally arrived on Disney+. May 4th, also known as Star Wars Day, brought with it the first episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which follows a group of Clone Troopers who have slightly different abilities than the rest of the Clones. Many Star
The paddle Tom Hanks used to help repair U.S. relations with China in “Forrest Gump” just sold at auction … and it fetched a whopping $25,600!!! The ping pong bat the famous actor grabbed for his role as Gump hit the block a few weeks ago … and the gavel just dropped for the final
The Tribeca Film Festival has added to its 2021 lineup by announcing its first-ever official podcast selections. Along with world premieres of fiction and non-fiction podcast series, the Tribeca Podcasts lineup includes special events with some of the most prominent creators in the field, including live recordings, discussions, and more. Marquee events include Jad Abumrad
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This article is presented by: Born in California, Mike Wade actually graduated from college with a B.A. in Psychology, but taking a pair of acting classes as a college senior sent his career, and his life, off into a different direction as an actor, and it’s probably the best decision he’s made in his life.