“Love is friendship on fire.” — Susan SontagFour words. That’s all it took for writer and philosopher Susan Sontag to completely flip the script on how we talk about romance. Instead of selling us the typical Hollywood narrative of toxic obsession, constant drama, and exhausting grand gestures, she grounds love in something much quieter and…
First responders were exposed to fentanyl and sickened after arriving at a rural New Mexico home Wednesday to investigate a possible overdose that left three people dead, officials said Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Four people were found unconscious at a home in Mountainair,…
Premier Danielle Smith announced that she would ask citizens to vote on whether they want to stay in Canada, or hold a referendum to secede. Source link
Alberta’s decision to hold a referendum on separation has been widely criticised, including the separatists who say the question is not definitive enough. Source link
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon delivers a keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Qualcomm shares surged 12% on Friday and are now up 75% in the past month, as the chipmaker’s increasingly central position in the physical AI boom becomes more apparent to Wall Street. The stock is…
A Walmart store is seen on Feb. 3, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Two top Walmart executives are departing the company, nearly four months after CEO John Furner took over, CNBC learned on Friday. Tom Ward, the chief operating officer of Walmart’s warehouse Sam’s Club, is retiring, while Cedric Clark, Walmart’s…
Maya Angelou (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes seem to understand people before people fully understand themselves. They read less like carefully arranged words and more like observations collected from years of living, losing, hoping and remembering. Maya Angelou had a way of writing like that. Her words often felt personal, even when they spoke to millions…
No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The analysis comes nearly six months after former FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay…
Ukraine said it hit Russia’s elite Rubicon drone military unit in a Moscow-occupied part of eastern Ukraine. Source link
Still from “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.” “Star Wars” returns to the big screen for the first time in seven years this weekend, riding the contrails of a Mandalorian’s jetpack. Disney’s “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” tallied $12 million in Thursday night preview sales, the lowest collection of advanced tickets in the franchise’s…