College graduates. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images 22 GOP state governors urged Biden to withdraw his student-loan forgiveness plan. The White House just released state-by-state data on how many borrowers could be eligible for relief. Millions of borrowers would likely qualify for the debt cancellation in the 22 GOP-led states. Newly released data revealed the […]
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Arrow to End With Shortened Season 8 — Though Stephen Amell Hints at Possible Future Encores Beyond That
Oliver Queen is hanging up his bow and arrow: The CW’s flagship DCTV series Arrow will end its run with an abbreviated Season 8. Star Stephen Amell made the announcement on Twitter, writing, “Playing Oliver Queen has been the greatest professional experience of my life… but you can’t be a vigilante forever.” The actor went […]
Ellen DeGeneres is considering quitting her TV show, even though she is the highest-paid talk show host in the world
Kevork Djansezian/Getty According to The New York Times, Ellen DeGeneres is considering retiring from her daytime talk show she has hosted for over 15 years. The Times said that she has received conflicting advice, and changed her mind several times. DeGeneres was the second highest-paid TV host in the world this year, according to Forbes, […]
A Nevada pimp who said he’s just like Trump won a state election even though he died 3 weeks ago
REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo Dennis Hof has been elected to the Nevada state assembly even though he died three weeks ago. Hof, a pimp who owned several legal brothels in Nevada, died in October but got almost 70% of the vote against his Democratic challenger. Hof called himself “The Trump of Pahrump” and said his support was similar […]
Elon Musk says he’s hired Goldman Sachs to help take Tesla private — even though the bank’s analyst is one of the most bearish on Wall Street (TSLA)
Max Whittaker / Getty Images Elon Musk tweeted late Monday that he was “excited to work with Silver Lake and Goldman Sachs” in his plan to take Tesla private. Goldman Sachs’ analyst is one of the most bearish Tesla analysts on Wall Street, with a “sell” rating and $ 210 price target — 40% below […]
Why there’s finally a drug for smallpox even though the disease no longer exists
Enough doses for two million treatments have been delivered to the U.S. government’s national emergency stockpile — and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out the possibility of buying some.
Salman Rushdie: My New Book Knew Trump Would Win — Even Though I Didn't
Sir Salman Rushdie is back in the headlines with the news that his most celebrated novel, Midnight’s Children, will become a Netflix series. While Rushdie says he’d be happy for the book to be adapted into any format — including a Broadway musical — we checked in with him at OZY Fest in New York’s […]
Even though more people are doing it, studying is still worthwhile
WHICH has provided a better return in recent decades: America’s stockmarket or education? The latter, according to a research review by George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos for the World Bank. The two economists looked at 1,120 studies, across 139 countries, and came up with an annual average “rate of return”—actually a pay premium, the increase […]
Avengers Infinity War: We though this hero survived but it's BAD news for who? Watch
Who will die in Avengers 3? More precisely, who will Thanos kill in his merciless quest to obtain all six Infinity Stones? One of the favourites to pay the ultimate price has always been Vision. After all, he has the Mind Stone embedded in his forehead and an early trailer showed him screaming in agony […]
Boris Johnson wants to increase stop and search powers – even though stats show they don’t work
Boris Johnson wants to increase stop-and-search powers for police, despite statistics showing that the method does not help to reduce crime. The intervention is outside his remit as foreign secretary. According to The Spectator, Johnson and Theresa May had a “pointed” argument at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday after the foreign secretary questioned the prime […]