On Saturday, a Russian plane crashed in Egypt, killing 224 people. ISIS claimed responsibility, but most authorities were quick to quell the suspicions. Today, however, mounting evidence is pointing to a potential terrorist attack as the source of the crash. Here's what we know so far.
Simple just got rid of all their fees. To celebrate, they put together this list of the 10 most confusing and unnecessary bank fees. Let's say goodbye together.
If you have ever worked in an old building, the chances are you will have at some point walked past a small mysterious brass box. Often painted over and ignored, they are a relic of the golden age of early skyscrapers called the Cutler mail chute.
UltraWide Festival challenged people to create their "dream setup" out of cardboard for a chance to win a really huge monitor. This guy deserves a lot more than that.
For over 50 years, Bond's gone above and beyond the "loose cannon" trope and skipped straight to disobeying orders and infuriating his superiors. Beyond the spy gadgets and improbable love affairs, the most unbelievable part of the Bond series is that MI6 never got around to firing him.
When we think of pheromones, we think of smell. Many animals sense pheromones through their vomeronasal organs. We human beings do not have a vomeronasal organ. We just have the boring, olfactory-sensing kind of nose — which is why many scientists believed we could not possibly be receptive to pheromones. However, mice detect many pheromones with their “regular” nose, so it’s possible we do, too.
Universal pre-K seems so incontrovertibly good for kids, for parents and for the economy that it came as a shock last week when a report from Vanderbilt University showed that scaled-up, state-supported pre-K doesn’t work.
Leah Remini, the "King Of Queens" star and noted ex-Scientologist, went on "Howard Stern" on Tuesday to have a candid discussion about her time in Scientology.
Who cares about Lou? Who cares about biographies? Lou Reed was an asshole, and he had a number of dogs, one of which was named Seymour and others of which were not.
The stakes are high, and yet despite advances in exercise regimens and dieting, athletes continue to get injured at record rates. Naturally, teams want to reverse these trends, and Big Data is making big promises.
According to filings from Q3, Team Hillary spent more than $6,000 on fast food in the months of July, August and September. A full two-thirds of that was spent on pizza, with subs and donuts taking second and third, respectively, according to a Vocativ analysis. Bagels are the team’s breakfast of choice.
Finland is launching a series of "national emojis" that include people sweating in saunas, classic Nokia phones and heavy metal head-bangers. How do you even use these?
The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt this weekend "may well have been brought down by an explosive device," British officials said. The statement is the most definitive yet supporting the theory that a mid-air explosion caused the crash, an idea that has been denied by Egypt and Russia.
Colorado hasn’t turned into a horde of stoned zombies, as some swore it would, but legalization has produced considerable social and cultural confusion.
While this comes as a surprise to most people, in Washington and particularly among people who work with or report on intelligence and law enforcement, it’s common knowledge.
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Eating and sex have a lot in common: they’re both necessary human activities that we’ve managed to find pleasure in. Yet, food and sex rarely literally meet, as the idea of integrating food into sex seems to touch upon some deep revulsion.
As we tediously while away our days down here on Earth, satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from October.
Restaurants are hubs for entertainment, nourishment, and fun. But for many who make them their life’s work — chefs, servers, managers, photographers, and beyond— food is complicated. Chefs and servers work odd, grueling hours on their feet, surrounded constantly by food. Strange eating habits are de rigueur in the industry, and eating disorders are ubiquitous.
Created by EmojiWorks, the Bluetooth keyboard allows you to hit an alternative Shift key to enter Emoji mode, and from there you can go mad with sad faces, tacos, unicorns or whatever else you like.
Proposition F, which voters rejected 55 to 45, would have placed stronger restrictions on short-term rentals in the city to limit home-sharing's impact on skyrocketing housing prices.
A yearlong battle over gay and transgender rights that turned into a costly, ugly war of words between Houston’s lesbian mayor and social conservatives ended Tuesday in a defeat for supporters of gay rights, as voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance that protected 15 groups from housing, employment and other types of discrimination.
Facebook has long said its core mission is to connect everyone in the world. Now it wants to use artificial intelligence to automatically help those connected billions with everyday tasks.
Accreditation agencies are supposed to make sure that colleges are putting students in a position to succeed. That’s not happening at schools overseen by one accreditor in particular.
"Instead of taking a clear-eyed view of your recent behavior, base your apology on how angry someone else is. The more upset they are, the more wrong you were."
Many of America’s most powerful corporations are still owned and operated by wealthy families. Inheritance-based family capitalism is stronger than ever.
While she was coaching a professional "Smite" esports team, Lydia Picknell kept seeing one Spanish word that was forever popping up on spectator comment panels during live streams. She was always coming across the word "puta" attached to her name.
The truth is, eating anything at all before drinking is your best bet, since it’ll slow the absorption of alcohol and prevent you from getting drunk beyond the point of good judgment.
"I can’t remember the last time I felt as excited about a new video game as I feel right now about 'Overwatch,' Blizzard’s unprecedented stab at making a multiplayer shooter. I’ve been playing it for three days and see so much potential."
Champion racer Randy Lanier went to jail for being a drug kingpin. He recently returned to the track for the first time since his release. This is his story.