Jill Sobule, the woman behind the 1995 hit song I Kissed a Girl, has died. She was 66. A representative for the singer confirmed the news with Variety, revealing Sobule died in a Minneapolis house fire on Thursday morning (late Thursday night in Australia). ”Jill Sobule was a force of nature and human rights advocate…
A powerful alliance of armed gangs that has plunged Haiti into violence and launched attacks against state institutions was designated on Friday as a terrorist group by the Trump administration. The move is likely to worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis in Haiti, experts said, since gangs control much of the country’s economy and infrastructure,…
Charging an electric vehicle at night can reduce the demand on the power grid ifeelstock/Alamy A small financial reward can persuade many electric vehicle owners to charge their electric cars during off-peak nighttime hours – even when behavioural nudges fail to have the same effect. That is the finding of a real-world trial that demonstrated…
Tiwari nominated retired Justice Rajiv Shakdher as his arbitrator.
The Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, also known as the Filly Triple Crown, gets underway on Friday at Churchill Downs. The 2025 Kentucky Oaks is the first leg of the premier horse racing series for female horses in North America. The Kentucky Oaks 2025 is a Grade 1 stakes race that was first held in…
Sean “Diddy” Combs rejected a plea deal from federal prosecutors at a hearing on Thursday in his sex trafficking case, which is set to begin on May 5. After asking Diddy to confirm if he was of sound mind and not on any drugs, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing his trial in…
How ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, and other popular models performed on personality tests designed for humans.
Voters in Australia head to the polls on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to hold elections in a global economic and political landscape upended by the second Trump administration. The two men vying to lead Australia — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, and opposition leader Peter…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains “aborted fetus debris” and “DNA particles”. The US is facing its worst measles outbreaks in years with nearly 900 cases across the country and active outbreaks in several…
Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. “It’s very frightening,” Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim said. The DOJ wants to bar Google from paying to be the default search engine in third-party browsers…
