At the start of John Straley’s Big Breath In, 68-year-old Delphine is staying in a Seattle hotel across the street from the hospital where she is being treated for Stage 4 cancer. The marine biologist is far from everything she loves: her home in Sitka, Alaska; her son and grandson in California; and the whales
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At least one person was injured after Russian strikes hit parts of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Monday, November 11, according to officials. Vadym Filashkin, governor of Donetsk Oblast, said in a Telegram post on Monday that a 16-year-old boy was injured in the attack. The strikes also damaged private houses, an administrative building, and an infrastructure
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Ireland’s prime minister has branded remarks made by Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary about teachers “crass and ill-informed”. Taoiseach Simon Harris also said Mr O’Leary would not have any further involvement in his party’s campaign. The CEO of Irish budget airline Ryanair said during a Fine Gael event over the weekend he would not hire teachers
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When it comes to the box office battle between Universal’s Wicked, in which Jeff Goldblum plays the Wizard, and Paramount’s Gladiator II, it will not be a survival of the fittest. Deadline’s Natalie Sitek asked him at Saturday night’s Wicked LA premiere about the Glicked effect that’s expected to take place at the box office
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The incoming Trump administration is expected to change rules and make it more difficult for workers to receive overtime pay and benefits. The New York Times reported: “There will be a concerted effort to repeal pro-worker N.L.R.B. precedents,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior Labor Department official during the Obama administration, referring to the National Labor
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There has been no discussion of how much Fujitsu, the maker of the faulty Post Office software Horizon, should contribute to compensating its victims, the company’s Europe chief executive has said. The company has been in discussion with the government about paying towards its proposed billion-pound spend on redress for victims of the computer programme
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  Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images IAC said Monday it’s exploring a spinoff of Angi, an online platform that connects consumers with a marketplace of home improvement service providers, such as electricians and landscapers, in their area. Angi stock price was down nearly 4% in after-hours trading Monday. IAC shares
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Chimpanzees have shown improved performance on challenging computer-based tasks when observed by humans, a study published in iScience on November 8 reveals. Conducted at Kyoto University, the research observed chimpanzees undertaking number-based tasks on touchscreens, monitored under different audience conditions. It was found that their performance increased with the task’s difficulty when the number of
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Author Leigh Harlen has organized an online auction to raise money for the Trans Lifeline, which provides trans peer support and is run by and for trans people. The auction includes signed books, Advanced Reader Copies, and promo boxes for books as well as book-adjacent items like merch, bookmarks, and bookish jewelry. There are non-bookish
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Rumors ran wild over the summer of 2023 when news broke that Ariana Grande was divorcing her husband Dalton Gomez after three years of marriage. It wasn’t long before headlines turned to her budding romance with Ethan Slater, her fellow Wicked cast member, sparking a media frenzy over whether their connection began while both were
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and sercives. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. It’s a simple fact that men need to own certain items: a good hammer, a decent record player, a really warm blanket that potential mates
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Americans are not holding back on holiday spending this year – but they are taking a more deliberate approach to the purchases they make, according to new research. Conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Affirm, the study of 2,000 Americans who celebrate a winter holiday, revealed the growing trend of “slow shopping,” with nearly
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