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15 Men’s Leather Jackets Worth the Closet Real Estate
Leather jackets are one of those things men either get very right or catastrophically wrong. Pick well and suddenly you’ve got a uniform for dinners, flights and dates. Pick badly and you’re auditioning for a midlife reboot no one asked for. The stakes are high because leather lasts—and your mistakes do, too. The style started…
Read MoreSurvivor 49’s Jake Latimer Details Recovery After Being Bit by Venomous Snake
‘Survivor’s Jeff Probst Details Contestant’s Snake Bite That Led to Medical Evacuation He may not have won Survivor, but Jake Latimer can still call himself a survivor. The contestant on season 49 of the reality competition series was airlifted out of Fiji and subsequently pulled from the game after being bitten by a highly venomous banded sea…
Read MoreThe Texas Stars are back! Hear from the new head coach ahead of the season
AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s that time of year again: the Texas Stars are back on the ice for the 2025-26 season. The American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL’s Dallas Stars announced the team will host the Grand Rapids Griffins on Friday. Before the season opener, KXAN caught up with new head coach Toby Petersen,…
Read MoreAs the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?
A surge of influenza cases in countries across Asia has led some medical experts to warn that getting sick more easily throughout the year may be the new reality. Health authorities in Japan declared a nationwide flu epidemic on Oct. 3 after a wave of flu cases came five weeks earlier than expected for flu…
Read MoreJessica Simpson’s 6-Year-Old Daughter Birdie Is Her Spitting Image Dressed as Mom for Spirit Week
Jessica Simpson Details “Happy Family” After Attending Ashlee Simpson Concert With Ex Eric Johnson Jessica Simpson‘s daughter Birdie Mae couldn’t resist this opportunity. The “Irresistible” singer shared that when her 6-year-old’s school hosted Spirit Week, Birdie jumped at the chance to channel mom for “dress as your favorite artist” day. Sharing a picture of the…
Read MoreJussie Smollett Removed From Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Over Medical Issue
Teresa Giudice Quits ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’ Over Daughter Gia Giudice Another recruit has bit the dust—quit literally. Jussie Smollett became the fourth celebrity to drop out of season four of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test during the Fox reality competition series’ Oct. 9 episode. For their day three challenge, the stars were dropped…
Read MoreDelta Flies Higher on the Wings of Luxury Travel
CEO Ed Bastian said Delta has so far been unaffected by the U.S. government shutdown. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Between the U.S. government shutdown and ongoing economic uncertainty, it’s a turbulent time for airlines. But not for Delta, the largest American airline by market capitalization, which has emerged from the industry’s recent challenges largely unscathed as…
Read MoreReba McEntire Calls Out Dolly Parton Death Hoax “Mess”
“Back when my husband Carl was very sick, that was for a long time and then when he passed, I didn’t take care of myself, so I let a lot of things go that I should’ve been taking care of,” she explained. “When I got around to it, the doctor said we need to take…
Read MoreContemporary Artists in the Baltics Fight Instability with Connection
Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, You Shouldn’t Have to See This, 2024. Photo: Kaspars Teilāns, courtesy of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art “In the Baltics right now there are two artistic tendencies,” Solvita Krese, director of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, tells Observer. “One is that art is becoming more political,…
Read MoreThis DeepSeek Rival Founded By DeepMind Alum Raises $2B, Hits $8B Valuation
Reflection AI, a startup launched earlier this year, has quickly surpassed unicorn status. Rifky Nur Setyadi for Unsplash+ At the start of the year, Chinese A.I. startup DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley with a powerful open-source model that rivaled Western systems at a fraction of the cost. Out of that shockwave came Reflection AI, a New…
Read MoreHow Tracking Your Health Metrics Can Help You Live Longer
Zahi Fayad practices what he preaches. As a professor of radiology and director of the biomedical engineering and imaging institute at Mount Sinai, Fayad is leading a study investigating how our health data can be put to better use to help us live healthier, and by extension, longer. At his lab in New York City,…
Read MoreJennifer Lopez Reveals What Got Her Through “Hardest Times” in Her Personal Life
For the Selena star, the film acted as a bright spot amid trying times, with admitting the role was “100 percent” a refuge. “It was hard not to think about stuff, but it was like the best and the worst of times in a way,” she told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview that aired Sept.…
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