The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” are among the copyrighted works that will enter the public domain on Jan. 1. As the calendar turns …
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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is officially a mom after welcoming her first child, a daughter namedAurora Raina Urker, with her boyfriend Ken Urker. Urker announced the birth on Instagram on Wednesday, Jan. 1, sharing a photo of Blanchard holding their new baby. “Welcoming 2025 with the greatest gift of all,” he wrote. …
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The anticipated Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and the Georgia Bulldogs has been postponed until Thursday following what authorities are describing as a terrorist attack that was carried out in the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans. The decision was announced at an afternoon press conference …
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Local authorities and the FBI are investigating a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas that left one person dead on Wednesday morning. The driver of the car was killed in the blast and at least seven people who were nearby sustained minor injuries, officials said. …
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At least 15 people have died and dozens have been injured after a truck struck a crowd of revelers early on New Year’s Day in New Orleans. The suspect officials have described as “trying to run over as many people as he possibly could” after driving a vehicle into a …
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Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a Louisiana resident had been hospitalized with the first severe case of avian influenza — also known as “bird flu” — in humans. A total of 65 other people in the United States had contracted the H5N1 …
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It takes a lot of work to keep a franchise alive for decades, and nobody knows this better than the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman. For 40 years, Eastman has shepherded the IP that he and co-writer Peter Laird launched back in 1984, although there’s been …
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Since burning through tens of billions of dollars on its flop “metaverse” concept and laying off thousands in the aftermath of that gamble, tech giant Meta has strained to reinvent itself as a company poised to capitalize on the overhyped AI revolution. Last year, for example, founder and CEO Mark …
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O n July 16, a restaurant in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Georgia, posted a video on their Instagram account that was viewed over 38 million times before it was taken down. In the clip’s opening seconds, a young-looking customer in a black ski mask and blue hoodie twists …
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It’s not in the championship bracket or even among the prestigious bowl games, but the Pop-Tarts Bowl once again delivered on its promise of being the most viral of college football games Saturday with even more edible insanity. After becoming an online sensation in its debut year in 2023 with …
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