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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with rippling biceps, Hawaiian-roll abs, and the kind of jawline even other men notice. Women emerge youthful and thin (of course), with Disney-princess eyes and movie-star lips. A biotech C.E.O. named Byron Forst…
Read MoreOld protest video misrepresented as Iranians rejoicing at ‘elimination of hijab law’
As people poured onto the streets in mass protests in Iran, a video of a woman dancing and throwing her headscarf on a bonfire was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed people celebrating the end of the hijab mandate in the Islamic republic. While analysts and activists say authorities have slackened off on imposing…
Read MoreSlashed incomes and gamers go cold turkey: the fallout from Uganda’s internet shutdown
Mobile money agent Mirembe Tracy laments that her business in Uganda’s bustling capital Kampala was paralysed when the government shut the internet during last week’s fiercely contested general election. “All withdrawals were disconnected,” she tells the BBC, adding that she gets nearly all of her income from withdrawal commissions. Without it, her income dropped to…
Read MoreHow low will the temps go?
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A lot of cold air is on the way to close the week. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a dive into how cold it can get. We’ve been talking about this upcoming shot of arctic air for a bit, with highs on Friday likely not getting above zero in many locations.…
Read MoreDonald Trump, Drama Queen
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Read MoreSnow showers into Thursday, then arctic blast
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It’s a breezy and milder tonight into Thursday with temperatures rising into the 30s. Don’t get used to it, though, because arctic air and dangerously cold wind chills will be returning to CNY with heavy lake snow east of Lake Ontario soon. When? Find out below… Latest radar: Lake snow takes…
Read MoreReading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any human contact. We meet him as a Gumby-like figure, asleep on a dirt floor, with only a jug of water and a toy horse. He has no idea how he got there.…
Read MoreWhy the Birth of Three Andean Condors Represents a Second Chance for the Species
The post Why the Birth of Three Andean Condors Represents a Second Chance for the Species appeared first on A-Z Animals. Quick Take Three Andean condors hatched via artificial incubation increased the Colombian population by 4.5%. Puppet feeding ensured the hatchlings did not come into contact with people, enabling them to develop a healthy fear…
Read MoreA Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth
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Cash’s dialogue is the novel’s greatest trick. It’s blunt, even a little wooden, yet she wields it with a quicksilver touch, creating volleys of unblinking banter that read like a mashup of a twisted after-school special with the existential musings of a Hal Hartley film: sometimes brutal, sometimes winning, and—like the paddle bearing the insignia…
Read MoreThe Redesigned Hyundai Santa Fe Caught Fire During Road Testing, and the Powertrain Is Still a Mystery
In a development that has captured global attention, a Hyundai Santa Fe facelift test vehicle reportedly caught fire while undergoing road testing in South Korea, according to coverage on The Korean Car Blog and, critically, links back to an original Naver news report. The incident reportedly occurred on January 20, 2026, near the Ulsan Expressway…
Read MoreAn Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West. “I wrote the realtor, and he thought I was crazy,” Abaddon recalls, about choosing the remote land. She made the move after feeling overwhelmed and depressed while living in New…
Read MoreTributes paid to councillor who was ‘full of joy’
Tributes have been paid to a Leeds city councillor following her death. Mahalia France-Mir represented the Moortown ward on Leeds City Council for more than three years, after being elected in 2022. The Moortown Labour Party said she had died on Monday “following illness”, adding: “Our thoughts and prayers are with her family”. Labour councillor…
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