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Alexandra Daddario proved herself as a startlingly able performer on the first season of “The White Lotus,” revealing at the conclusion of her character’s arc a particular gift for depicting self-delusion, the ability to manipulate oneself into not seeing the plain truth. [Read More]

In 2019, Blake Crouch published Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about a neurological disease that inflicts memories upon people of lives that are not their own. Before that, he introduced readers to a physics professor who is kidnapped and then catapulted into alternate universes in his 2016 novel Dark Matter. Both books bring to life the type of technology that, in imagined worlds, would have the capability to change humankind. So when Crouch set out to write about the very real genetic modification technology CRISPR, he knew it would be a different prospect. [Read More]

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed a new date for the hearing of an application asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the particulars of Bola Tinubu during the 1999 and 2003 Governorship elections. Naija News reports that the court fixed October 12 to hear the case after INEC presented no legal representation on the resumed date of sitting on Wednesday. Mike Enahoro-Ebah Esq, in an application, sued INEC before Justice Donatus Okorowo, praying the court for the “nomination forms for governor and affidavits in support of personal particulars and all other documents attached thereto, submitted to the respondent by and on behalf of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the 1999 and 2003 Governorship Elections in Lagos State. [Read More]

Dr. Janine D’Anniballe, director of the non-profit group Moving to End Sexual Assault in Boulder County, Co., grew up a rabid fan of the Cleveland Browns. She still spends her mornings streaming Cleveland sports talk radio. But on Monday, she heard that an arbitrator handed Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson a six-game suspension after 24 women accused him of sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions. D’Anniballe could barely believe the news. “My first thought was, those survivors, what is going on for them? [Read More]

The federal government, through the Debt Management Office (DMO) has offered for subscription two years and three years Federal Government Savings Bonds at ₦1,000 per unit. The subscription was made available in a circular on the DMO website. According to the information, the two years bond with Feb. 10, 2023 as due date would attract an interest rate of 4.214 percent per annum while the three-year bond, with Feb.10, 2024, as due date, will attract an interest rate of 5. [Read More]

Did the Hawk Tuah Girl's Dad Really Speak out Against Her? Here's What She Said About ItIs Hawk Tuah Girl's dad *really* a pastor? By Jamie LeeUpdated July 1 2024, 3:35 p.m. ET Source: Instagram/@timanddeetvAs the conversation continues around the viral internet sensation known as the "hawk tuah girl," all kinds of articles are popping up with supposed information about the funny Tennessee gal who captured hearts with her cheeky interview. [Read More]

Former 'Bachelor' Ben Higgins Met His Fiancé in the Most 2020 Way ImaginableBy Lizzy RosenbergUpdated June 22 2020, 5:32 p.m. ET Source: InstagramBach Nation was slightly worried that Ben Higgins would never truly find love. He failed to win over JoJo Fletcher in Season 11 of The Bachelorette in 2015, proposed to Lauren Bushnell during Season 20 of The Bachelor and got dumped a year later, and ultimately had to leave The Bachelor: Winter Games back in 2018, because he was still heart-broken. [Read More]

In a five-point communique in Otukpo, Benue state on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, the Idoma National Youth Forum for Justice said the inclusion of Benue South in the map of the defunct Biafra was a deliberate attempt by the agitators to pitch the people against the Nigerian government. IPOB had recently claimed that Biafra spans from Itsekiri on the western boundary with Oduduwa to Bakassi on the eastern boundary with the Cameroons, and also stretches from Idoma and Igala land on the northern boundary with Northern Nigeria to the Bight of Biafra which is South of the island of Bonny. [Read More]

- Noor Abdalla was admitted to the Agha Khan Hospital in August 2019 after complaining of headaches and visual failure - A diagnosis revealed she had a brain tumour which was successfully removed through surgery at the same health facility - However, she developed complications after the surgery and suffered a stroke to half of her body - Doctors placed her under induced coma after suffering convulsions; she was later discharged for home care [Read More]

Neither Algeria’s Imane Khelif nor Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting are making their Olympic debuts. Both boxers already competed in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where they were eliminated in the quarterfinals and round of 16 of their respective weight classes. But that hasn’t stopped their appearances in Paris from causing a stir. Khelif, age 25, fights in the women’s 66-kg quarterfinals on Saturday after her preliminary opponent on Thursday abandoned the bout less than a minute in, and Lin, 28, is set to enter the ring on Friday for the women’s 57-kg round of 16—but critics claim that they’re both actually “men. [Read More]