U.K.: This New Yorker is Mayor of London But Is He the Next UK PM?

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1014 words  |  Martina Birk

On a quiet street in Hampstead, an affluent north London neighborhood, Mayor Boris Johnson stops near roadworks to have his photo taken with the local right-of-centre Conservative parliamentary candidate. The pair are on a campaign trail walkabout just ahead of the United Kingdom’s general election on May 7 and as passersby look on, many snap their own photos on smart phones, excited to catch a glimpse of Johnson’s famous shock of disheveled blond hair in the flesh. [Read More]

Venita Akpofure and partner split 4 years after engagement

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  433 words  |  Patria Henriques

Venita Akpofure says she has split from her partner, Terna Tarka who got her engaged four years ago. The former video vixen made this known via her Instagram page on Thursday, June 27, 2019. According to her, she was not in a domestically violent relationship and neither was her partner a violent person. However, they have decided to go their separate ways on a mutual term. " [Read More]

Violence in El Salvador Is Driving Women to the U.S. Border

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1269 words  |  Martina Birk

The reporting for this project was supported by the Pulitzer Center It’s hard to grasp the scale of El Salvador’s problem with gender violence. In the Central American country of just six million people, one woman was the victim of a femicide — a man murdering of a woman or girl because of her gender — every 24 hours in 2018. That’s one of the worst rates of femicide in the world, according to the United Nations. [Read More]

Vitalik Buterin Transcript: Inside Ethereum Founder's Brain

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2601 words  |  Patria Henriques

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. On Friday, TIME released my cover story with Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. If you’re unfamiliar to him or new to crypto, you should definitely start there; it explains who he is and why he’s such an influential leader in the crypto space. [Read More]

What is Chris Hemsworth's net worth? The Thor actor proves it pays to be a Marvel star

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  366 words  |  Kelle Repass

Over the course of his career, the 35-year-old actor has gone from making a few scattered Australian TV appearances to playing a Marvel leading man. But just how much money has Thor, God of Thunder, been able to rake in? Well, let's just say he could buy himself a pretty nice place in Asgard. Here's everything we know about Chris Hemsworth's net worth. Chris Hemsworth made $37 million in 2014. [Read More]

Who wore it best? Nengi and Tacha dress up like Nicki Minaj

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  50 words  |  Kelle Repass

This week's edition of "Who wore it best" features Nengi and Tacha, striking the same pose as American rapper, Nicki Minaj and wearing the same outfit.

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'Industry' Season 3 Takes On Socially Conscious Capitalism

 Posted on August 14, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1064 words  |  Patria Henriques

People are our capital is the motto of Pierpoint & Co., the fictional finance giant at the center of the HBO drama Industry. At first glance, this is the kind of touchy-feely corporate propaganda that exists to convince employees the company cares about them and assure clients of its human touch. Look closer, though, and you might arrive at a more sinister—but also more literal—interpretation. Isn’t Pierpoint saying that human beings are nothing more than money, a mere resource for the multinational corporation to trade, manipulate, and exploit the same way it does the billions of dollars that flow through its investment banking and wealth management divisions? [Read More]

'RHOC' Alums Heather And Terry Dubrow Reveal Details Of The New 'Dubrow Keto Fusion Diet' Book

 Posted on August 14, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  293 words  |  Tandra Barner

The book details a plan that combines the keto diet, intermittent fasting, and their popular Dubrow Diet . The idea comes from Terry's recent research into a more sustainable version of the keto diet , which he's openly criticized in the past. Ive always said, from a medical standpoint, that the keto diet was dumb, he told People . Yes, you can eat super high-fat foods and protein and essentially no carbs, and use ketones as your fuel, but you cant do it for the rest of your life. [Read More]

6 Tips for Writing a Persuasive Speech (On Any Topic)

 Posted on August 14, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  808 words  |  Tandra Barner

By far, the best way to learn how to write speeches is to read the great ones, from Pericles’ Funeral Oration, to Dr. King’s Mountaintop speech, to Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance address. But if you’re looking for some quick tips, here are a few things to bear in mind next time you’re asked to give a speech: 1. Write like you talk. There is no First Law of Speechwriting, but if there were, it would probably be something like this: a speech is meant to be spoken, not read. [Read More]

A Voracious VCR Is a Reminder of Real Fun

 Posted on August 14, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  748 words  |  Tandra Barner

The North Atlantic bangs outside in heavy rhythms, under a full moon. A houseguest asks, “What does it mean when there’s blood on the moon?” It doesn’t look like blood really, more like a syrup of mandarin orange. No one can make the VCR work. It swallows the tape in a businesslike way — so far, so good; it shows promising bright preliminary fuzz and static, like an orchestra tuning up… and then it goes abruptly black. [Read More]