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After taking a year-long hiatus, Dancing With the Stars at last reopened its ballroom doors on Monday, welcoming in 12 new contestants who want to foxtrot their way into America’s heart. Mind you, Season 28 was already plenty dramatic, even before a single second of the show aired: First, the casting of ex-White House press secretary […]
Thomson Reuters The top US securities regulator halted trading of The Crypto Company, it said late Monday. The agency is concerned with the accuracy of statements produced by the company and has frozen shares until January 3. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily suspended trading of securities of The Crypto Company, a California-based […]
Investors bet big on Tesla this year, helping its market cap reach $ 51 billion and briefly beat out General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler (aka “the big three”) to claim the title of most valuable car manufacture. But vehicle delivery numbers shown in this chart from Statista show that Tesla’s actual vehicle production is […]
Enlarge (credit: Steve Johnson) The cable industry’s top lobbying group has consistently claimed that the US’ current net neutrality rules harm network investment and raise costs for consumers. Yet that same group is now bragging about dramatic increases in broadband speeds and claiming that broadband prices are going down. The NCTA—The Internet & Television Association—touted […]
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins Venezuela’s homicide rate rose to an average of about 60 a day last year, up from about 45 a day in 2015, the attorney general’s office said on Friday, as a deep economic and political crisis has exacerbated violence in the country. Official data put the murder rate at 70.1 per 100,000 […]
How’s this for a major TV plot twist: Dancing With the Stars‘ Season 24 premiere was so strong, not even Simone Biles seems like a lock for the Mirrorball anymore. (Gasp!) ABC’s reality competition staple returned on Monday night, and although the two-hour debut featured a handful of duds (A for effort, Mr. T!), a […]
When Kellyanne Conway went before NBC’s Meet the Press and described statements made by Press Secretary Sean Spicer as “alternative facts”, it had the unintended consequence of driving up sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Since President Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, another dystopian novel […]
