In this articlePRGOFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA package of the daily contraceptive Opill is seen in an undated illustration.Perrigo | via ReutersThe first birth control pill sold without a prescription in the U.S. could remain out of reach for some women and girls because health insurance plans are not required to cover the medication in its over-the-counter form.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the sale of the oral contraceptive Opill without a prescription, a historic decision that should make birth control pills easier to obtain by eliminating the need to visit a doctor’s office and refill…
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SATURDAY PM UPDATE: Facts are facts, and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One set a 5-day opening domestic record for the franchise with $80M, we hear. Previous best 5-day opening belonged to 2000’s Mission: Impossible II which cleared a Wednesday-Sunday take over Memorial Day weekend of $78.8M. The 3-day record still belongs to 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout which posted $61.2M. Dead Reckoning looks to be coming in at $56.2M at 4,327 theaters, including Imax and PLF auditoriums. Dead Reckoning reps Oscar winning filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie’s third time directing a Mission movie after 2015’s Rogue Nation and Fallout.…
SEOUL, South Korea — India successfully launched a robotic lunar lander July 14, setting up the nation for its second attempt to soft-land on the moon. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lifted off on an LVM-3 heavy-lift rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 5:05 a.m. Eastern Friday as scheduled. Live footage showed the three-stage rocket with two strap-on side boosters soaring into the air with bright yellow exhaust shooting out of its first-stage engines. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) declared the launch a success shortly after the deployment. “Congratulations India. Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey towards the moon,” said ISRO Director Sreedhara…
Twitter’s cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50 percent drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, falling short of his expectation in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June.”Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” Musk said in a tweet replying to suggestions on recapitalization.This is the latest sign that the aggressive cost-cutting measures since Musk acquired Twitter in October alone are not enough to get Twitter to cash flow positive, and suggests Twitter’s ad revenue may have not recovered as…
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris smile after signing the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a hate crime under federal law, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2022.Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden raised more than $72 million for his 2024 reelection effort in the second quarter of this year, according to the Biden-Harris campaign.That massive haul took place between April 1 and June 30. The fundraising success was spread across all of Biden’s reelection entities, including his campaign and joint fundraising committees.…
NewsAndrew Bird Announces New Album Outside Problems, Shares Video: WatchThe follow-up to last year’s Inside Problems is out next weekBy Matthew StraussJuly 14, 2023FacebookTwitterAndrew Bird, photo by David BlackFacebookTwitterA year after releasing Inside Problems, Andrew Bird has announced the new album Outside Problems, which comes out digitally on July 21 via Loma Vista. (A physical release follows on November 17.) Bird recorded the new album mostly outdoors in Ojai, California, and it’s described in a press release as a collection of “instrumental improvisation and melodic exploration.” Watch the video for Bird’s new song “Mo Teef” below.Tyler Manson made Bird’s “Mo…
SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he speaks during his visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)Alain Jocard | Afp | Getty ImagesTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is also CTO and executive chairman of Twitter, said early Saturday morning that cash flow remains negative at the social media company because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue coupled with “heavy debt.””Need to…
I can’t remember the last time a sneaker generated as much buzz as the Adidas Samba has churned up over the past year. Then again, considering the style boasts fans like Harry Styles, Emily Ratajkowski, Kendall Jenner, and Bella Hadid (plus many, many more celebs), it only makes sense that the fashion set is going wild for these sporty chic shoes. If you’ve been coveting a pair of your own, this might be the best opportunity to buy them. For Amazon Prime Day, which runs until midnight PST tomorrow, July 12, the Adidas Samba is on sale. With a discount…
The secrets came tumbling out during this chapter of the V.C. Andrews Cutler Saga. We spent much of V.C. Andrews’ Secrets of the Morning watching sweet, reasonable Dawn be a fool in lust for a sleazy celebrity with decent hair. Who among us hasn’t been there? Secrets of the Morning had it all. We got entertaining lovable side characters, like the darling, devoted, and badass Tricia. The film also gave us some quality Fran Drescher content with her role as the nosy Agnes. Secrets of the Morning also gave us eternally hot NKOTB, Joey McIntyre playing a total sleaze ball…
Insoles won’t keep you off your feet, but they can make standing for long periods of time much more bearable. Whether it’s for work or exercise, the best insoles for standing all day will comfortably support your feet.Plenty of products out there claim to alleviate foot ailments, but few do the job quite like a great pair of insoles. There’s a reason podiatrists recommend them for a wide variety of foot conditions, better support, and preventing fatigue: they work. As you might expect, not all insoles are created equal, and for good reason. While the best shoe insoles for standing…
Waiting game: Scientists are frustrated over delays in the UK joining the €95bn Horizon Europe research programme. (Courtesy: iStock/MicroStockHub) Scientists have expressed their disappointment at the lack of progress in negotiations over the UK re-joining the €95bn Horizon Europe research programme. Reports last week had suggested that UK and European Union negotiators had agreed a draft deal that could be signed this week. But a final deal has failed to materialize, leaving British membership of the programme, which it had previously played a strong part of, still uncertain. The UK government has long maintained that it wishes to re-join Horizon…
Investors may want to reduce international exposure right now and stick with the home court.According to Main Management CEO Kim Arthur, global markets will meaningfully struggle due to the softening greenback.”One of the highest predicting factors for [the] future performance of international stocks versus U.S stocks is what the U.S dollar does,” Arthur told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “From 2011 to 2022, the dollar was in a straight bull market, so you were gonna lose in international equities no matter what you did.”On Friday, the U.S. dollar index hit a 15-month low. It comes about 10 months after it…
Gkids has acquired North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, the Japanese maestro’s latest feature which Toho is releasing today in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (How Do You Live?). The Boy and the Heron is now the official international title. This all-rights deal marks a continuation of Gkids’ long-standing relationship with the Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli; Gkids will release the original story written and directed by Miyazaki theatrically laster this year. Little has been revealed about the film from Oscar-winner Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder and Academy Award laureate Toshio Suzuki. It…
WASHINGTON — As the House Science Committee considers a commercial space bill, industry officials advocated for key topics they believe should be included in that legislation. A July 13 hearing by the committee offered the industry an opportunity to weigh in on topics they believe should be included in a commercial space package that the committee is developing, from commercial human spaceflight safety to oversight of emerging space activities. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), chair of the committee, said a theme of the legislation will be maintaining the competitiveness of the industry. “As this committee prepares to consider commercial space legislation,…
Amazon is offering a weekend bonanza this Saturday and Sunday with some of the biggest offers during the ongoing Amazon Prime Day Sale 2023. The sale event, which started on July 15, will go on till 11:59 pm IST on July 16. However, this Amazon Prime Day 2023 sale event is exclusive for Prime members only. This weekend’s Prime Day Sale 2023 has something in store for everyone. From small accessories to bigger electronic devices, the Prime Day 2023 sale is offering great deals on all possible products, including premium smartwatches.If you were waiting for a price cut to buy…
A worker handles wheat grain in a storage granary at Aranka Malom kft mill in Bicske, Hungary on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The Black Sea deal has allowed Ukraine to ship more than 30 million tons of produce from three major ports, helping to bring down global food prices down after they spiked following Russia’s invasion.Akos Stiller | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — A landmark agricultural deal brokered between Ukraine and Russia is set to expire on Monday, a revelation that is expected to further exacerbate the global fallout of the Kremlin’s ongoing war if Moscow refuses to renew the agreement.Last week, Secretary-General Antonio…
Taylor Swift took a break from her Eras Tour to go out and vote in her hometown of Nashville … and she’s calling on her millions of fans to follow suit. The pop star posted a message to her Instagram story Friday … informing her Tennessee neighbors early voting for their city officials and some state seats had already begun. She also attached a photo of herself wearing a sticker that read, “I voted today.” Taylor continued, “We have the opportunity to choose those who will represent us for the next four years … I urge each and every one…
In this articleUALFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPilots from United Airlines walk inside the airport as they take part in an informational picket at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, May 12, 2023.Eduardo Munoz | ReutersUnited Airlines and its pilots’ union have agreed to a preliminary labor deal that includes pay increases of as much as 40.2% over four years, ending months of tense negotiations and airport pickets. The deal makes United’s aviators the latest from a major airline to reach an agreement for higher wages amid the post-pandemic travel boom.The preliminary deal, which the Air Line Pilots…