Author: Michelle Korhonen
Few journalists and their sources have fallen out as completely as Kara Swisher and Elon Musk. The reporter met the future billionaire in the late 1990s, when she was a tech correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and he was just another Silicon Valley boy wonder. Over more than two decades, they developed a spiky but mutually useful relationship, conducted through informal emails and texts as well as public interviews.Their frenemy shtick was on display, for example, when Swisher interviewed Musk for Vox on Halloween in 2018. He deadpanned that he loved her “costume.” She was wearing her signature look—black…
By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 12:00 EST, 26 February 2024 | Updated: 12:02 EST, 26 February 2024By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 12:00 EST, 26 February 2024 | Updated: 12:02 EST, 26 February 2024 Advertisement Two more children in south Florida have been diagnosed with measles as the state’s outbreak continues to grow. The Florida Department of Health announced Sunday that two children were infected with the disease in Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale and is just north of Miami. Officials said that one child was between five and nine years old, and the…
Mary Gachoki had learned about autism spectrum disorder from a caregiving course she’d taken in college. When her son was 2 years old, she recognized that he was displaying traits associated with this neurological condition. He wasn’t making eye contact, he stopped talking and he began flapping his fingers – a common behavior for people with autism as they seek to calm themselves. Deep down, the 34-year-old single mom knew he likely had autism. But, she says, she was in denial. When she did get a diagnosis, she says, the news “felt burdensome because I am a single mother. I…
Amid the war in Gaza, a major crisis has been brewing, largely behind the scenes, between the United States and Israel over the need for a Palestinian state. The two governments’ positions have long diverged—except during the administration of Donald Trump, whose peace proposal envisaged Israel annexing an additional 30 percent of the occupied West Bank and enveloping a conditional Palestinian state in an even more empowered Greater Israel. Now that divergence has a harder, sharper edge than ever: Washington’s strategic goals in the region require a Palestinian state in the long run and Israeli acknowledgment of that aim in…
London’s party scene is facing ‘annihilation’ with more than 1,100 bars and clubs shutting in just three years and countless others hampered by curtailed drinking hours, threats from housing developers and rising costs.Fears for the capital’s nightlife are mounting among venue owners, despite London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ‘night czar’ Amy Lamé being paid £117,000 a year.She is facing fresh scrutiny for jetting around the world despite the onslaught of places forced to close down amid post-Covid struggles and many more pressures.Studies suggest almost a third of nightclubs have vanished across the country between March 2020 – the month the first Covid-19…
On one of my first days at The New York Times, I went to an orientation with more than a dozen other new hires. We had to do an icebreaker: Pick a Starburst out of a jar and then answer a question. My Starburst was pink, I believe, and so I had to answer the pink prompt, which had me respond with my favorite sandwich. Russ & Daughters’ Super Heebster came to mind, but I figured mentioning a $19 sandwich wasn’t a great way to win new friends. So I blurted out, “The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A,” and considered…
Teachers across UK schools are ‘locking classroom doors’ to keep aggressive pupils out amid a surge in disruptive behaviour by students.Shocking stories have emerged of teachers being assualted, pupils throwing objects across classrooms and skipping lessons as well as students beating each other up. Teaching unions and groups say they have been contacted by frightened teachers who are fearing for their jobs and several who are ‘acting like social workers’.It comes as Department for Education figures show school suspensions have nearly doubled in the last six years to almost 250,000. Dozens of teachers across the country are also striking over reportedly bad…
Blastocyst illustration. A blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells with a fluid centre formed after several divisions of a fertilised cell (zygote). The inner cell mass (purple) contains the cells that will form the embryo proper, the embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Blastocyst illustration. A blastocyst is a hollow ball of cells with a fluid centre formed after several divisions of a fertilised cell (zygote). The inner cell mass (purple) contains the cells that will form the embryo proper, the embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Kateryna Kon/Science…
The FDA approved the drug Xolair earlier this month, making it the first medication approved to reduce allergic reactions after accidental exposures.
A Greek Orthodox monk has claimed that King Charles has turned to him for spiritual advice since being diagnosed with cancer.The 75-year-old monarch received the shock diagnosis while undergoing a recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement.It’s claimed that the King secretly contacted Archimandrite Ephraim, with whom he’s said to have been friends with for over 25 years.The King and the Abbot are understood to have grown close after Princess Diana‘s death in 1997.Elder Ephraim, 67, has never spoken about his friendship with the monarch but The Sun reports that he claimed that the King contacted him following his diagnosis.The Abbot said:…