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First Animal Able To Survive Without Oxygen Found
Israeli researchers have announced the discovery of the first animal on earth that appears to survive without the use of oxygen. The animal, Henneguya salminicola, is a tiny parasite comprised of less than 10 cells that are related... More of this article »
‘Friends’ Stars Set For Reunion Special
The cast of “Friends” is teaming up for a special on HBO Max. According to an announcement about the reunion special, the cast will return to the original “Friends” soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros. Studio lot... More of this article »
Nissan Introduces New Car Subscription Service
Nissan Motor Co. has become the latest automaker to test the waters with a subscription service. The company has announced the launch of a new two-tier subscription service for its vehicles that allows drivers to switch to a different... More of this article »
Big Breakfasts May Help Burn More Calories
For some people, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gets the day started and provides the body with fuel for the tasks ahead. Now, some scientists have found another benefit to starting the day with a good breakfast.... More of this article »
Macau Casinos To Reopen This Week
Casinos in the Chinese territory of Macau will reopen Friday after a 15-day closure. The decision to end the closures was announced by Lei Wai-nong, secretary for economy and finance. Health officials announced that casino operators... More of this article »
Huawei Facing New Federal Charges
Chinese telecom giant Huawei, its U.S. subsidiaries, and its chief financial officer are facing new charges from federal prosecutors in the U.S. Authorities have accused the company and its associated entities of racketeering... More of this article »
Philippines To End U.S. Military Defense Alliance
The Philippines has indicated that it intends to end a major security pact with the United States that allows American forces to train in the country. The 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) allows American forces, military ships,... More of this article »
Netflix Reveals Titles Pulled At Foreign Governments’ Request
As part of an effort to become more transparent, Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has disclosed all of the times it has removed content from its platform due to requests from national governments. In its annual Environmental, Social... More of this article »
Coronavirus Outbreak Tentatively Linked To Pangolins
The recent outbreak of a deadly coronavirus has been tentatively linked to pangolins, an endangered animal that looks like a scaly anteater. A new study has found that the strain of coronavirus found in local pangolins is 99 percent... More of this article »
Macau’s Casinos Close Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The Chinese city of Macau has asked its 41 casinos to close for the next two weeks as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus outbreak afflicting the region. Macau has also suspended basic public services and residents... More of this article »
Disney Bringing ‘Hamilton’ To The Big Screen
Disney (NYSE: DIS) has paid $75 million for worldwide rights to the movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show “Hamilton”. Endeavor Content brokered the deal along with Miranda’s attorney Nancy Rose of Schreck... More of this article »
Disney Making Big Changes At Hulu
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is making changes at Hulu to “more closely integrate Hulu” into its business operations, according to a press release from the company. Kevin Mayer, chairman of the Direct-to-Consumer & International... More of this article »
Many Flights To Mainland China Suspended Over Coronavirus Outbreak
Around the world, airlines are suspending their flights to mainland China because of the coronavirus epidemic ravaging the country. The World Health Organization’s has declared the outbreak a global health emergency. The U.S.... More of this article »
Coronavirus Outbreak Hammers China’s Box Office
The coronavirus outbreak is grinding public activity in China to a halt. The entertainment sector has been particularly hard hit, with the cinema industry losing millions in a matter of days and projected to lose millions more... More of this article »
Universal Orlando’s New ‘Super Nintendo World’ Coming Soon
Universal Orlando will be opening a Nintendo theme park in the coming years as part of a massive expansion project that will double Universal Orlando’s size. Comcast reps recently confirmed that the upcoming Nintendo theme park... More of this article »
Malaysia Returning Trash To Countries Of Origin
Malaysia has proclaimed that it will not be “the rubbish dump of the world” and has returned numerous containers of plastic waste to 13 countries since last year. Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste since... More of this article »
Delta Sued After Fuel Dump Over School
Four teachers at an elementary school in Los Angeles, California are suing Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) after a China-bound Boeing 777 aircraft dumped fuel over playgrounds and schools during an emergency landing. The teachers,... More of this article »
NBC Launching Peacock Streaming Service In July
NBCUniversal will be launching its streaming service, Peacock, in July of this year. The new service will let NBC capitalize on having one of the biggest catalogs of TV shows and movies from any network or studio. According to... More of this article »
Study Says Asteroid Responsible For Dinosaurs Extinction
About 66 million years ago, 75 percent of life on earth went extinct. Over the years, scientists have debated whether it was massive volcanic eruptions or an asteroid that played the biggest role in the extinction of the... More of this article »
Players Score New Benefits In New W.N.B.A. Contract
The W.N.B.A. and its players’ union (WNBPA) have agreed in principle on a new collective bargaining agreement. According to a release from the league and player’s association, the agreement comes with substantial pay increases,... More of this article »
Claims Being Submitted In Infants’ Tylenol Settlement
Consumers who have bought Infants’ Tylenol in the past five years may be eligible to claim part of a $6.3 million settlement issued by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). The company agreed to pay up to that amount to consumers... More of this article »
New York City Getting Massive ‘Harry Potter’ Store
WarnerMedia unit Warner Bros. has announced that the world’s first official Harry Potter flagship store will be coming to New York City this summer. According to the company’s statement, it will be the biggest store dedicated... More of this article »
U.S. Milk Industry Is In Trouble
The milk industry in the United States has been under a lot of pressure in recent years. Those pressures have led to bankruptcies at every level of the industry. Now, the pressures are taking down milk processers, with several... More of this article »
Tesla Most Valuable Automaker In U.S. History
Tesla Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) recent rally has made it the highest-valued U.S. automaker of all time. The latest surge in Tesla’s stock price pushed its market value to nearly $85 billion, higher than Ford’s previous record... More of this article »
NASA Loses Contact With ASTERIA Satellite
Mission operators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has announced that they have lost contact with one of their spacecraft. Contact was lost with ASTERIA, short for Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling... More of this article »
Venus May Host Active Volcanoes
New research released by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) suggests that Venus could be volcanically active today. The finding would mark the first time humans observed an active volcano on another planet. The research... More of this article »
New FDA Nutrition Label Rules Taking Effect
The Food and Drug Administration’s new nutrition labeling rules kicked in on the first of January, marking big changes for many food manufacturers. The most prominent change is the new Nutrition Facts label with two side-by-side... More of this article »
DieHard Sold To Advance Auto Parts For $200 Million
Transformco, the owner of Sears and Kmart stores, has sold the DieHard brand to Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) for $200 million. Under the announced all-cash transaction, Transformco will still have rights to sell DieHard... More of this article »
Ebola Vaccine Now Approved By FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a vaccine for the prevention of the deadly Ebola virus disease for the first time. Ervebo, a single-dose, injectable vaccine manufactured by American pharmaceutical company Merck,... More of this article »
Cox Communications Loses Music Piracy Suit
Cox Communications has lost a piracy infringement case after a 13-day trial in a U.S. District Court in Virginia. The jury unanimously found Cox liable for willful contributory and vicarious infringement of more than 10,000 musical works,... More of this article »
Italian Organized Crime Raids Result In More Than 300 Arrests
Italian police have arrested more than 300 people in a major operation against the southern ‘Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate. In one of the most extensive law enforcement operations ever, about 3,000 officers made arrests... More of this article »
U.S. Sues CVS Over Fraudulent Billing
CVS Health Corp (NYSE: CVS) and its Omnicare unit have been sued by the federal government over accusations of fraudulently billing Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare, which serves military personnel, for drugs without valid prescriptions.... More of this article »
Live Nation Facing Legal Action Over Ticketmaster
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly preparing to take legal action against Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: LYV) for violating the terms of a 2010 merger agreement. The DOJ has accused Live Nation... More of this article »
Britain Puts Brakes On Amazon’s Deliveroo Deal
Britain’s competition regulator is saying that Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) purchase of a stake in online food delivery group Deliveroo requires an in-depth investigation due to “serious competition concerns.” The... More of this article »
New Report Details Climate Change Effects On Arctic
The newest annual Arctic Report Card, a peer-reviewed assessment produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is painting a disturbing picture of the state of the region. The report focuses on the effects of... More of this article »
‘CRISPR Babies’ Experiment May Have Unintended Consequences
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s highly controversial attempt to create HIV-immune babies using CRISPR technology. Now, an MIT Technology Review report says he may have created... More of this article »
Netflix Planning To Spend $420M On Content For India
Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), has announced plans to spend 30 billion Indian rupees, or $420.5 million, on producing and licensing content in India by the end of next year. That is part of... More of this article »
Both Legitimate And Illegal THC Vaping Products Linked To Lung Illnesses
New evidence shows illegal, off-brand THC vaping products aren’t the only products to blame for the current outbreak of lung illnesses. Now, legitimate THC vapes have also been implicated in the epidemic. There have also been... More of this article »
Peloton Under Fire For ‘Sexist’ Holiday Ad
Peloton Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ: PTON) has come under fire for a controversial new ad pushing its bike as a great Christmas gift for wives. The commercial, set to Tal Bachman’s 1999 one-hit wonder “She’s So High,” took... More of this article »
New Tariffs Levied On Brazil and Argentina
President Trump has announced on Twitter that he would levy new tariffs on industrial metals from Brazil and Argentina in yet another move in his global trade war. The new tariffs come after Trump imposed quotas on steel and aluminum... More of this article »
Florida High School Becomes First To Use Synthetic Frogs
J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida has become the first school in the world to use man-made, synthetic frogs for science class dissections. About 100 of the reusable synthetic frogs were dissected by students... More of this article »
European Space Agency Gets Big Funding Boost
The European Space Agency announced that it has been granted more money than it expected from the 22 member states that fund it. During its meeting in Seville, Spain, representatives from all the countries that make up ESA agreed... More of this article »
Gabrielle Union, Julianne Hough Exiting “America’s Got Talent”
Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough won’t be returning as judges the 15th season of “America’s Got Talent” according to emerging reports. The two judges, who replaced judges Mel B and Heidi Klum, have reportedly not received... More of this article »
Astronomers Annoyed With Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites
SpaceX’s Starlink mini internet satellites are already disrupting astronomical research, to the annoyance of astronomers. Researchers at a Chilean observatory found their work interrupted for about five minutes when a Starlink satellite... More of this article »
Pakistan Using New Typhoid Vaccine To Control Outbreak
Pakistan has begun vaccinating millions of children against typhoid using a newly developed typhoid vaccine. The vaccine will be used during a two-week immunization campaign in southern Sindh province, where an ongoing outbreak... More of this article »
J.C. Penney Surprises With Smaller Loss Than Anticipated
J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) saw its shares rally after it reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss for its most recent quarter. The 117-year-old retailer reported an adjusted loss of 30 cents per share, lower than... More of this article »
Twitter Banning Most Political Ads
Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) will ban campaign advertising globally under a new policy being implemented next week. Under the policy, ads of any type from political figures and groups are not allowed and strict limits will apply... More of this article »
Major Milk Company Files For Bankruptcy
Dean Foods (NYSE: DF), the nation’s biggest milk producer, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reorganize its debt and help fund pensions while it looks to sell the company. The company said substantially... More of this article »