According to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice has levied an amended complaint against fintech company Dave Inc. as well as Chief Executive Jason Wilk for committing federal law relating to deceptive practices in marketing. This comes shortly after the referral of the same case by the Federal Trade Commission to…
Oslo, Norway – Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Blitz Chess Championship, after months of suspenseful waiting among fans and the chess fraternity, due to the amicable resolution of the controversial “jeans dispute”. The dispute started earlier this year when Carlsen publicly bashed the championship’s dress code, which required formalism, arguing…
Within the world of collegiate athletics, six former Florida State University athletes have filed a case against Leonard Hamilton, men’s basketball head coach with the Miami Hurricanes. A lawsuit was filed against this prominent coach for non-payment of agreed-upon compensations during their time at school, thus igniting a new high-profile legal battle heard throughout the…
Just days before the crucial election, former president Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson for the post of the Speaker of the House. The endorsement may be seen as a stronghold within the Republican establishment that will help sway last-minute voters as well as consolidate the party’s platform before the beginning of the new term….
The photographic exhibition “A Lifetime of Service: The Jimmy Carter Story” is now open at the National Gallery of American History. It allows viewers an intimate glimpse into the life of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, from modest beginnings on his peanut farm to a presidency that forever transformed him in…
In a world increasingly bedeviled by antibiotic-resistant infections, a new discovery raises an alarm about the mechanisms that allow bacteria to bypass our best defenses. Researchers have found the important process through which foreign DNA, often carrying antibiotic resistance traits, “sneaks” past bacterial defenses. This breakthrough points out how bacteria can evolve to become resistant…
Detection of microplastics in human tissues is a quite new issue. It has grown over recent years as a big concern for scientists and experts in public health. Though plastics have been known for many years as a big environmental menace, they invade human tissues in a new, probably dangerous, dimension of this global problem….
Reality TV lovebirds Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover-who met while filming the popular Bravo show Winter House back in 2020-have called it quits after three years. The reality TV darlings of Summer House and Southern Charm, respectively, have looked pretty inseparable over the last few years. In the joint statement, though, and subsequent interviews, they…
Anthony Hopkins-the legendary Oscar-winning actor, famed for riveting performances in The Silence of the Lambs and The Father– took a brief respite to celebrate a consummate milestone: 49 years of sobriety. In an emotional Instagram post, the 86-year-old actor was persuasive about alcoholism and how quitting alcohol taught him to steer his life differently. Within…
This study was a notable success in the field of paleontology, where the skull of the subfossil dwarf hippopotamus that lived on Crete was reconstructed. The finding by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Professor Dimitrios Makris not only offers an insight into the importance of the extinct species in scientific terms but also provides a glimpse…
