The ‘Saturday Night Live’ alum will play Cheetah in the superhero sequel. Kristen Wiig is in talks for the villain role in Wonder Woman 2, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Patty Jenkins is returning to direct the sequel that will star Gal Gadot as the Amazonian princess. Very few plot details are known about the […]

It was morning in the universe and much colder than anyone had expected when light from the first stars began to tickle and excite their dark surroundings nearly 14 billion years ago. Astronomers using a small radio telescope in Australia reported on Wednesday that they had discerned effects of that first starlight on the universe […]

It’s testament to how rough stocks had it in February that the last two days, a stretch that would’ve qualified as the worst selloff in all of 2017, barely shows up in a monthly graph. Not that it wasn’t painful. The S&P 500 Index slid 2.4 percent over Tuesday and Wednesday to cap the biggest […]

BILLIONAIRE Bill Gates has made a cynical economic prediction, saying a financial crisis like the one in 2008 is “a certainty”. BILL Gates believes another financial crisis is coming. In an “Ask Me Anything” Q & A on Reddit this week, one user asked the Microsoft co-founder, “Do you think in the near future, we […]

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United States and three European allies condemned Iran on Tuesday after the United Nations found Tehran had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Huthi rebels. Britain, France, Germany and the United States urged Iran to “immediately cease all […]

When someone wakes up unsure of where they are, one would typically assume it’s the result of a few too many gin and tonics the night before. For professional speakers, it’s a common work industry hazard. During back-to-back trips, Nora Burns says this feeling wasn’t uncommon. After a quick inventory of her surroundings, she’d start […]

The main reason why some potential contestants never get to compete on the “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” has nothing to do with their looks. The “top reason applicants don’t make it onto the show” ― according to Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure, by Los Angeles Times staff writer Amy Kaufman […]

The chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an attack on the market power of large tech companies Wednesday. “I’m not looking for a lot of regulation, I’m looking for responsibility,” Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said at an Axios event. “If responsibility doesn’t flow, then regulation will.” Why it matters: Walden leads the House […]

A federal environmental office that works to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being merged as part of a proposed consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) will no longer exist as a standalone entity following plans to combine three EPA offices, the agency confirmed to […]

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s personal post on Facebook’s recent newsfeed changes, the social network’s share price fell as much as 6.1 percent. With Facebook’s key advertising space for brands reverting back to its original purpose (actual, personal news from friends and family), the brand marketers who have relied on in-feed advertising to drive traffic and revenue […]