When the weather’s still frosty, it can be tempting to stick to your wool overcoat and jeans combo and put off updating your warm-weather wardrobe until the clocks go forward. However, if you can shrug off the seasonal sadness, now is the optimal time to stock up for the spring and summer months. To get ahead of the curve rather than be left scraping the bottom of the sartorial barrel, it’s worth noting that the rails are already bursting with new collections and must-buy pieces. Take your teacher’s advice – the early bird really does catch the worm. Helpfully, Style.com’s…
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This Apocalypse Brought To Us By 300 Million Dumbasses Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today. An Open Letter to All Survivors In response to the ongoing public criticism, targeted harassment, and impugning of my character that I endured during my tenure…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked tough on inflation Wednesday, saying at a forum that he expects multiple interest rate increases ahead and possibly at an aggressive pace.”We believe there’s more restriction coming,” Powell said during a monetary policy session in Sintra, Portugal. “What’s really driving it … is a very strong labor market.”The comments reiterate a position taken by Powell’s fellow policymakers at their June meeting, during which they indicated the likelihood of another half percentage point of increases through the end of 2023.Assuming a quarter-point per meeting, that would mean two more increases. Previous comments from Powell pointed…
In this articleUALJBLUFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPassengers wait at the Newark Liberty International Airport as more than 2000 flights were canceled due to the nationwide storm in New Jersey, United States on June 27, 2023. Fatih Aktas | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesFlight disruptions mounted Tuesday as severe storms and staffing issues kicked off a rocky start to summer.Roughly 3,000 U.S. flights were delayed as of midday Tuesday and another 1,100 were canceled as thunderstorms that derailed thousands of trips over the weekend lingered. That’s on top of more than 8,800 U.S. delays and 2,246 cancellations on Monday.The disruptions come…
Big cinema advertising platform National CineMedia said today its plan of reorganization has been confirmed by a judge in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The company filed for Chapter 11 in April. It now expects to emerge in August or September. The plan allows the company to eliminate debt and exit with a significantly stronger balance sheet. It will maintain its existing corporate structure, with publicly traded National CineMedia serving as the manager of NCM LLC. Existing management led by CEO Tom Lesinki will continue to lead the reorganized company. It intends to enter into an approximately $55M exit financing…
TAMPA, Fla. — Odin Space is preparing to start detecting tiny but potentially dangerous pieces of orbital debris in the coming weeks from a sensor on a recently launched space tug, according to the British startup’s cofounder and CEO James New. The venture announced June 27 that it had successfully powered up the demo sensor, integrated with D-Orbit’s small satellite-carrying ION orbital transfer vehicle that SpaceX launched earlier this month to low Earth orbit. The sensor’s sensitivity is cranked up high to detect background vibrations from the host satellite to test core systems, New said, but will be tuned for…
OnePlus Nord 3 5G has been confirmed to launch in India on July 5. The handset will be accompanied by the OnePlus Nord CE 3 5G and the OnePlus Nord Buds 2R as well. The Chinese manufacturer also revealed colour options for the OnePlus Nord 3 and the Nord CE 3. Earlier, OnePlus had teased some design features for the Nord 3 5G, including the Alert slider and a flat display. Now, the OnePlus Nord CE 3 5G design has also been teased. The handset will most likely come with a triple rear camera setup.The OnePlus Nord 3 5G, OnePlus…
Walt Nauta, aide to former president Donald Trump, disembarks Trump’s airplane, known as Trump Force One, in Bedminster, New Jersey, following a court appearance at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami, June 13, 2023.Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesDonald Trump aide Walt Nauta has been unable to find a local Florida lawyer to represent him in the criminal case against him and the former president over the retention of classified government documents.Nauta’s arraignment Tuesday in Miami federal court was postponed until July 6 to give him more time to hire a local attorney to represent…
NewsJames Safechuck and Wade Robson’s Lawsuits Against Michael Jackson’s Company RestoredA tentative ruling in a California appeals court found MJJ Productions was not excused from their duty to protect his alleged victimsBy Madison Bloom and Matthew Ismael RuizJune 27, 2023FacebookTwitterMichael Jackson, May 2005 (Pool Photographer/WireImage)FacebookTwitterA tentative ruling in the California Court of Appeal paves the way for the resumption of lawsuits filed by James Safechuck and Wade Robson—the two men who allege that Michael Jackson sexually abused them when they were children in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland—against Jackson’s company MJJ Productions Inc, the Los Angeles Times reports and documents…
Fanatics founder and CEO Michael Rubin at his office in New York.The Washington Post | Getty ImagesFanatics has raised the stakes as it looks to acquire PointsBet’s U.S. business.The sports platform company increased its offering by 50% to $225 million in an effort to outbid DraftKings, which made a non-binding offer of $195 million earlier this month.PointsBet shareholders will formally vote on the new offer Thursday night.”The Board unanimously supports the improved proposal from Fanatics Betting and Gaming, which provides a superior price plus certainty,” PointsBet Chairman Brett Paton said in a statement.PointsBet gave DraftKings until 6 p.m. on Tuesday…
Remember the season two premiere of The White Lotus when Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy) runs screaming from the beach? She’s just seen some corpses—R.I.P., Tanya; ciao, high-end gays—and between the dead bodies and filthy rich husband, she’s obviously distraught. But along with the corpses and cuckolds, there’s one less obvious reason to panic: Turns out, that gorgeous Missoni Mare bikini she wore in the water is actually dry clean only, with a label that reads, “To get the best from your Missoni Mare beachwear, we advise that you do not wear it to swim.” (Mare translates to “sea” in Italian.)“I…
With every passing week, the end is nigh. We are three weeks away from the series finale, and The Blacklist Season 10 has taken us on a surprise ride. The season has seen Raymond do a complete turn and become a do-gooder without expecting anything in return. As the finale approaches, so does Raymond’s fate. Yet, we have seen him remain unbothered, moving on with his life as if everything is okay. It has been hinted that Raymond is planning something, and based on some of the actions he has taken, it is something big. Most of the time, we,…
Back in 1959, Colin MacInnes offered up the following description of a young gadabout-town in his novel Absolute Beginners: “College-boy smooth crop hair with burned-in side part, neat white Italian round-collared shirt, short Roman jacket, very tailored (two little vents, three buttons), no-turn-up narrow trousers with 17-inch bottoms and absolute maximum, pointed-toe shoes, and a white mac folded by his side.”Nowhere in Absolute Beginners is the word “mod” mentioned, but MacInnes’ Dean Swift embodies the ethos, from the look (sharp, clean, outward-looking), to the milieu (the jazz clubs and coffee shops of late ‘50s Soho), to the attitude (aspirational, smart,…
Wearable MEG Researcher Niall Holmes wears the brain imaging helmet; the matrix coil magnetic shielding system is seen behind him. (Courtesy: University of Nottingham) A UK-based research team has created a wearable brain scanner that can measure brain function whilst people are standing and walking around, paving the way for better understanding and diagnosis of neurological problems that affect movement. As part of the project, a University of Nottingham-led team combined compact sensors with precision magnetic field control to measure tiny magnetic fields generated by the brain, enabling highly accurate recordings to be made during natural movement. The results, presented…
Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today. In the climactic moment of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Toto the terrier moves aside the Technicolor-green curtain to reveal that the Wizard is a mere mortal, pulling and twisting at levers to…
Supersizer | E+ | Getty ImagesThere are two broad categories of life insurance, and data suggests many households aren’t buying the most cost-effective one.Americans bought 4.1 million term insurance policies in 2021, accounting for 40% of all individual policies purchased that year, according to the most recent data from the American Council of Life Insurers. About 6.3 million policies, or 60%, were permanent life insurance.But this doesn’t seem to jibe with financial advisors’ general recommendation.”Most people just need term insurance,” said Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner based in Jacksonville, Florida, and a member of CNBC’s Advisor Council.More from Personal…
Tysons Corner, Virginia USA — June 27, 2023 — Andrew Pemberton has been named Chief Executive Officer of SpaceNews, Inc., the world’s largest space-industry trade media brand. A SpaceNews board member since 2014, Pemberton added the title of Chief Marketing Officer in 2022 before moving to the new CEO role. He replaces longtime CEO Greg Thomas, who will transition to Chief Technology Officer. Pemberton has worked with SpaceNews owner and chairman Felix Magowan and CTO Greg Thomas in various roles since 2005, as Brand Director, Interactive Director, and Publisher, and most recently as CEO of Pocket Outdoor Media (rebranded as…
iPhone 15 series — comprising the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max — is expected to make its debut later this year as the successor to the iPhone 14 series of smartphones. While Apple is not likely to announce its next generation of handsets for another couple of months, a display supply chain analysis firm has suggested that Apple could see strong demand for the iPhone 15 series later this year. The new iPhone models will run on iOS 17, the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system that was unveiled at WWDC…