HealthYahoo LifeA pregnant trans man is a magazine cover star: 'I do exist ... I am literally living proof'
A pregnant transgender man is making history by appearing on the cover of Glamour UK's latest issue. Logan Brown, a 27-year-old writer, posed while expecting his first child and opened up to the magazine about his experience. "I am a trans pregnant man and I do exist," Brown said.
ScienceLive ScienceStephen Hawking's most famous prediction could mean that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate, new study says
Stephen Hawking's most famous theory about black holes has just been given a sinister update — one that proclaims that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate. In 1974, Hawking proposed that black holes eventually evaporate by losing what's now known as Hawking radiation — a gradual draining of energy in the form of light particles that spring up around black holes' immensely powerful gravitational fields. Now, a new update to the theory has suggested that Hawking radiation isn't just created by stealing energy from black holes, but from all objects with enough mass.
U.S.CNN‘I’m just tired of covering it up’: Guilt drives man to confess to murder 15 years after killing, police say
Peralta called the Roswell Police Department on May 1. In an emotional scene captured on police body camera, he repeatedly confesses to Blodgett's killing, even telling authorities the weapon he used and where he buried the victim's body, the arrest affidavit states. Body camera video from the Roswell Police Department shows Tony Peralta confessing to the 2008 killing of his landlord in Roswell, N.M., on May 1, 2023.
BusinessAutoblogWatch (and listen to!) the Bugatti Bolide go flat-out on an airstrip
Development of the track-only Bugatti Bolide has reached a significant milestone. After finalizing the hypercar's design and building the first prototypes, the French brand has started testing the model on an airstrip to fine-tune parameters like the amount of downforce it generates. Power for the Bolide comes from an 8.0-liter W16 engine that's quad-turbocharged to 1,578 horsepower — you know we're talking serious power when the horsepower figure includes a comma.
BusinessMoneyWiseHere's the annual income you need to fall in America's lower, middle, and upper class — plus 3 simple tips to pull yourself up the ladder
Get in now for strong long-term tailwinds Here's how much money the average middle-class American household makes — how do you stack up? What do Ashton Kutcher and a Nobel Prize-winning economist have in common? An investing app that turns spare change into a diversified portfolio But once you factor in the ever-increasing consumer debt load, you've got the makings of class disruption, with many Americans poised to slip a run or even two in terms of their status.
BusinessTHE WARZONEAir Force Colonel Now Says Drone That Turned On Its Operator Was A "Thought Experiment"
A U.S. Air Force officer helping to spearhead the service's work on artificial intelligence and machine learning says that a simulated test saw a drone attack its human controllers after deciding on its own that they were getting in the way of its mission. The anecdote, which sounds like it was pulled straight from the Terminator franchise, was shared as an example of the critical need to build trust when it comes to advanced autonomous weapon systems, something the Air Force has highlighted in the past. This also comes amid a broader surge in concerns about the potentially dangerous impacts of artificial intelligence and related technologies.
U.S.Associated PressFamily's Alaska fishing trip becomes nightmare with 3 dead and search over for 2 more
An Alaska fishing adventure became a nightmare for a family of eight when disaster struck one of the two boats they chartered over the Memorial Day weekend, leaving three people dead and two more missing despite a desperate search over hundreds of square miles of ocean. The tragedy tore the Tyau family apart: Two sisters and one of their husbands are dead, while the other's partner and the boat captain remain missing off southeast Alaska four days after the boat was found partially submerged off an island. The sisters and their sister-in-law didn't like fishing but joined the vacation to spend more time with a family that was usually split between Hawaii and Los Angeles.
BusinessFortuneSelf-made real estate millionaire Barbara Corcoran says it’s a ‘good time to buy’ because home prices are going to ‘explode’ when mortgage rates drop
Appearing as a guest on Good Morning America this week, Barbara Corcoran answered several questions from viewers, ranging from when the right time to buy a home is to how to win a bidding war. As for the former, Corcoran said now is the time to buy. “It's a good time to buy because the minute interest rates go down, everybody's waiting for them to go down even by a point, and when they do, they're going to come rushing back in the market,” Corcoran said.
‘All hell is going to break loose’: Property titan and Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran says Elon Musk is right about commercial office spaceFortune
Elon Musk's grim warning about house prices is wrong - and they'll soar 20% when interest rates drop, 'Shark Tank' investor Barbara Corcoran saysBusiness Insider
U.S.TCPalm | Treasure Coast NewspapersMan finds 2 pounds of fentanyl, cocaine on beach; brings drugs to Fort Pierce police
ST. LUCIE COUNTY ― What happens when a man walks into a police station with 2 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl? In Fort Pierce, a field test and evidence collection is what followed after a man turned over a brick of an unknown substance he said he found on the beach Tuesday. Police in Fort Pierce said a man walked into their station with the brick around 2 p.m. Tuesday, records show.
U.S.In The Know by YahooToronto woman films man follow her into restaurant, wait before she leaves: 'I'm gonna have to call the police'
A woman started filming a stranger walking behind her in Toronto because she had a feeling he was following her. Meg Ecliptic wrote in the caption of the video that the man had followed her for a block and entered the restaurant behind her. The employee went to go grab a security guard as Ecliptic stayed put in the restaurant and kept filming.
U.S.People6-Year-Old Girl Hospitalized After Strap She Was Playing with While Riding in Truck 'Severed Her Feet'
Aubrey Scaletta was in emergency surgery for six hours "to repair her amputated feet," according to the Virginia State Police Association A 6-year-old girl remains hospitalized in Virginia after her feet were severed in a "tragic accident" last month, according to loved ones. Aubrey Scaletta “was playing with a ratchet strap” while riding in a pickup truck on May 17 when the incident occurred, according to a news release from the Virginia State Police Association (VSPA). As she did so, one end of the strap flew out the window and got wrapped around the drive shaft.
HealthWashington PostA catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
Before she became a patient, April had been an outgoing, straight-A student majoring in accounting at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. April was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia, an often devastating mental illness that affects approximately 1 percent of the global population and can drastically impair how patients behave and perceive reality. "She was the first person I ever saw as a patient," said Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, who was still a medical student in 2000 when he first encountered April.
BusinessYahoo FinanceMay jobs report shocks economists: 'The strangest employment report for some time'
The US labor market continues to surprise. This marked the 14th-straight month that job creation came in above what Wall Street economists had expected and the largest monthly increase since January. The data sent stocks higher on Friday as investors continued to expect a pause in the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike campaign will be announced later this month.
PoliticsHuffPostKayleigh McEnany Responds To Donald Trump Attack With 1 Of His Favorite Routines
Former Trump White House press secretary-turned-Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany deployed a favorite Donald Trump line on the air Thursday, days after the former president bizarrely insulted her as “milktoast.” McEnany, who Trump accused of understating his poll numbers against GOP 2024 rival Ron DeSantis, resorted to her former boss' old “tears in their eyes” routine during a fawning analysis of his comments on the campaign trail in Iowa. “I don't know if there is anyone in the race that can do it quite like him with a room with voters,” she said of Trump, recalling being “in Maine with him, I'll never forget him talking to fishermen.”
U.S.BuzzFeed"Gooch Grease" Is Trending, And Everyone Is Absolutely, Positively, And Completely Mortified
Something filthy is trending, and I'm sorry to be the bearer of nasty news, but if I had to see, then so do you!
WorldReutersRussian forces tried to blow up my men, says mercenary boss Prigozhin
Prigozhin's Wagner Group troops have largely pulled back from the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, most of which they captured last month after taking heavy casualties, and handed over their positions to regular Russian forces. Prigozhin, writing on Telegram, said his men had discovered a dozen locations in rear areas where defence ministry officials had planted various explosive devices, including hundreds of anti-tank mines.
BusinessBusiness InsiderYour Amazon Prime plan might soon cut your cellphone bill down to around $10 — or even make it free
Amazon could be gearing up to offer "Prime Wireless." The low-cost cellphone plan could help Amazon boost its Prime subscribers, Bloomberg reports. Amazon is reportedly talking to T-Mobile, Verizon, and Dish about the idea.
U.S.Associated Press VideosCapitol Police stop a youth performance of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’
Videos of a children's choir singing the national anthem in the U.S. Capitol spread across social media Friday, with the claim that they showed the group being unceremoniously cut off by federal authorities because the performance was deemed offensive. (June 2)(AP video by Farnoush Amiri)
U.S.Associated PressNew details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP
Nearly four years later, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein's death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein's suicide, as well as his health history, internal agency reports, emails, memos and other records. Taken together, the documents the AP obtained Thursday provide the most complete accounting to date of Epstein's detention and death, and its chaotic aftermath.
U.S.Sacramento Bee‘I’m going to drown!’ Cops watch as man drowns in Arizona lake, family says in lawsuit
Police officers looked on as 34-year-old Sean Bickings pleaded for help from the waters of Tempe Town Lake in Arizona, a lawsuit says. “It's been one year, and they're still grieving,” Benjamin Taylor, a lawyer representing his family, said of Bickings' loved ones. The lawsuit accuses the City of Tempe and the police officers on scene of negligence, saying they failed to uphold their duty to keep Bickings safe.
U.S.INSIDERA man rented a home and then impersonated the owner, applied for a mortgage, and stole the money, police say
Toronto Police is now urging homeowners to lock away confidential documents. A 42-year-old man impersonated the owner of the home he was renting in Toronto, Canada, to secure a mortgage on the property and then steal the money, police say. Jay Allen Macdougall was arrested on May 25 and charged with five counts of fraud over $5,000, as well as laundering proceeds of crime, the Toronto police department said in a news release.
PoliticsAssociated Press VideosTrump reacts to Biden's Air Force Academy tumble
Donald Trump reacted to President Joe Biden's fall at the Air Force Academy, telling a crowd in Iowa, 'I hope he wasn't hurt. Trump also recounted his own experience with a near fall on a slippery ramp following a 2020 speech at West Point. (June 1)
HealthFortuneBruce Willis’ family missed a common early dementia symptom—and they’re not alone. 5 ways to tell if it’s more serious than normal aging
A third of people who notice dementia symptoms in themselves or a loved one keep quiet about it for a month or longer, according to a new survey out of the U.K. Only 15% of the 1,100 patients and caregivers surveyed brought up their observations right away, and 11% still haven't, according to the survey, released Monday by the London-based Alzheimer's Society. Participants included diagnosed dementia patients and their caregivers, as well as potential dementia patients and their caregivers. Nearly a quarter of those surveyed waited more than six months before seeking medical help, the survey found.
U.S.The HillGreene flips on public release of Jan. 6 tapes, claims it could ‘put the security of the Capitol at risk’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has changed her position on the public release of the tapes documenting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, warning Friday that their release could “put the security of the Capitol at risk.” Greene said in an interview on the right-wing channel Real America's Voice that releasing the video footage publicly would jeopardize the Capitol's security and endanger those who were present at the Capitol grounds but did not enter the Capitol nor commit crimes. “Number two, we also endanger many Americans that were simply standing on the Capitol grounds, maybe never even walked through the Capitol or committed any crimes, but they could have just walked further than where the barrier was simply because the barrier was torn down by the time they got there,” Greene continued.
U.S.In The Know by YahooAn Asian American woman made a Hinge account, and here’s how it went: ‘It’s 2023. Filter out the colonizers girl’
One creator is shining a light on how awful dating apps and dating in general can be for Asian American women. On May 28, Katie Dnos (@katiednos), a 24-year-old Korean American woman from the D.C. area, shared a video on TikTok documenting the aftermath of her decision to install “hinge as an asian on the east coast.” Set to the well-known “DO A FLIP” audio making its rounds on the digital platform, Dnos posted a series of screenshots, including a photo and prompt she settled on for her Hinge profile, followed by a response from an unlikely suitor named Dillon.
