Over 1,000 school districts in the US sued social media companies over ‘addictive’ products. P. Kijsanayothin/Getty Images The companies that settled the social media addiction lawsuit filed by the Breathitt County school district in Kentucky will pay a collective amount of around $27 million, according to Bloomberg. Some of the companies announced reaching an…
101 East investigates the plight of two North Korean POWs in Ukraine and the campaign to transfer them to South Korea. In January 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced to the world the capture of two North Korean soldiers. It was the first hard evidence that Kim Jong Un had secretly deployed some 15,000 special…
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and composer A.R. Rahman have announced a new collaboration titled Masoom: The New Generation, a contemporary film inspired by Kapur’s 1983 classic Masoom. The project marks another creative partnership between Kapur and Rahman, who have previously worked together on projects such as Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Bombay Dreams, and Why? The Musical….
Philippines’ Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. (C) attends a plenary session of the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on May 30, 2026. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP via Getty Images) Jam Sta Rosa | Afp | Getty Images The Philippines’ maritime struggle with China is getting increasingly intense, according to…
Four more miners who were trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for 10 days have been freed by divers, but two people are still missing as rescuers continue to crawl through narrow, deluged tunnels and sharp rocks to find them. The first of the party of seven men was rescued on Friday in a…
Female athletes and Olympic sports athletes, two overlapping groups that have long thrived in US colleges, are facing an uncertain future on campus. These athletes’ college prospects may lie in the hands of a surprising savior … Donald Trump. Yes, the same Donald Trump who invited the US men’s hockey team to the State of…
South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace is increasing weapons manufacturing at home, and expanding operations in Europe and the US. The company’s Global Chief Strategy Officer, Alex Wong spoke with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defense summit. (Source: Bloomberg)
Whatever else you want to say about Leah McSweeney, it can’t be denied that the Real Housewives of New York alum is persistent when it comes to her lawsuit against reality kingpin Andy Cohen, Bravo and its parent company NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Hoping to fight off a dismissal motion from Cohen and the…
The growing number of young people not in work or education is driving more into unstable housing or homelessness, charities have warned. A government-commissioned review into the crisis facing young people in the UK said there could be a 25% rise in young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) to 1.25 million by…
May 30, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron ESA/Hubble/NASA/D….
