Uber is getting closer to signing up a new chief executive. Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Expedia, confirmed in an interview that he plans to take the top job at the embattled ride-hailing company, according to the Wall Street Journal. Khosrowshahi, who was offered the job by the company on Sunday, told reporters he still...
They’re not kidding around. The maker of the famed Rubik’s Cube is suing the Ohio-based Duncan yo-yo maker for knocking off its famed 1980s brain-teaser with its own “Quick Cube.’’ Rubik’s Brand Limited is seeking a court-ordered injunction to force Duncan Toys Company to stop copying its trademarked toy, as well as financial damages of...
Olympios spoke publicly for the first time since production shut down on the ABC reality show.
The Air Force’s first ever female enlisted pilot is ready to take command of the controls. “I was shocked, but it’s a huge honor and humbling – excited to learn about our mission here at Beale (Air Force Base),” Tech Sgt. Courtney said of her trailblazing accomplishment. The Air Force does not release pilots’ full...
A Missouri-based brewery is swapping out their beer for water, sending 155,000 cans to Harvey victims in Louisiana and Texas. Anheuser-Busch’s factory in Georgia sent their first shipment of canned water to the Red Cross in Baton Rouge, LA, on Monday and two more shipments will make their way to Arlington, Texas, later in the...
A stunning New Zealand-born model has spoken out about the difficulties she had following a boob job that enlarged her breasts from a C cup to a DD. Playboy model Sarah Harris revealed that her implants ruined her life and that she hated her surgically enhanced chest. The 23-year-old uploaded a video to her YouTube...
A Massachusetts girl is recovering after she was abducted from her grandparent’s home, strangled and thrown off a bridge into a lake, according to police. Cops said that family friend Joshua Hubert, 35, was taken into custody in connection to the 7-year-old’s kidnapping, according to the Boston Globe. Hubert, who works at a private school,...
FARGO, N.D. — Authorities say a missing North Dakota woman whose body was found in the Red River had been violently killed. Fargo police announced Tuesday that 22-year-old Savanna Greywind’s cause of death was homicidal violence. Investigators didn’t release further details of a preliminary autopsy on Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared...
A daily jab of a bone hormone could one day reverse memory loss offering hope for millions of elderly people who struggle to remember as they age. Boosting levels of osteocalcin, a hormone produced by bone cells, in the blood restores memory loss. Levels of the hormone naturally decline as we age, beginning from the...
A chef in India who was diagnosed with throat cancer was accused of killing his co-worker for introducing him to cigarettes, according to a report. Mustakeem Ahmad, 25, told cops that he was so enraged with the victim after receiving the grim diagnosis that he bought a pistol, the Hindustan Times reported. The victim, identified...
A Florida college fired a professor Tuesday for saying Hurricane Harvey was “karma” for Texas because it supported Donald Trump. The University of Tampa sent sociology instructor Kenneth Story packing after his Twitter comment Sunday. “We condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them, and understand the pain this irresponsible act has caused,” according to...
Warning: Graphic content A concussion wave knocked Nicholas Irving’s head from side to side as a plume of smoke from the IED (improvised explosive device) engulfed the tank in front. Sticking his head out, Irving’s throat and nose stung with the smell of burning rubber and superheated metal as he dimly made out the singed,...
This selfie could save your life. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a smartphone app that could diagnose pancreatic cancer by snapping a user’s self portrait. The BiliScreen works by analyzing the amount of yellow discoloration in the whites of the eyes, which is a sign of bilirubin build up in the blood,...
A model claims she was offered thousands of dollars to sleep with rich men and that these propositions aren’t uncommon for young women in her industry. Jazz Egger, 20, who is based in London, believes that there is a dark and seedy undercurrent to the fashion world. According to Egger, big time modeling agencies know...
President Trump flew to Texas to check on the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey — and marveled at the size of the crowd as a few hundred people greeted him outside a Corpus Christi firehouse. “What a crowd, what a turnout,” he said, emerging from the Annaville Fire House, where he had been meeting Texas...
Morgan was treated at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.
Winter is kind of here. “Game of Thrones” fans have grown so impatient for George R.R. Martin to finish the next “A Song of Ice And Fire” book – the series that the HBO show is based on – that an artificial intelligence system just wrote the beginning of the sixth book. Zack Thoutt, a...
The man was walking in Clinton Hill when his leg broke through the pavement Tuesday.
The city’s fourth NYC Ferry route launched Tuesday connecting Astoria and Long Island City in Queens, along with Roosevelt Island, to Midtown and lower Manhattan. The Astoria line is expected to add 1,800 daily riders to the 12,000 who currently use the system — including on routes that link the Rockaways and South Brooklyn with...
Christina Fish had to have her toe amputated following an injury suffered while working on the singer’s Prismatic Tour in 2014.
Melania Trump looked like she was headed to a red carpet rather than a hurricane hell zone as she set off for Texas wearing sky-high black heels Tuesday. The First Lady’s baffling choice of footwear lit up the Twitterverse — and her critics included one of the top law enforcement officials in the country. “Those...
The piece of art is expected to fetch more than $2 million.
LeBron James was spotted, and so the questions and the camera rested on him. But the ones scurrying out of the frame may provide a peek inside how a sports agency courts its clients — and how early it does so. TMZ Sports tracked James down in Los Angeles last week, catching the Cavaliers superstar...
This is the emotional moment a Hurricane Harvey survivor who lost his home to the catastrophic floods spoke to his dad for the first time since the storm pummeled Texas. “Dad, I love you,” a drained Aaron Mitchell told his father, Brian, through tears while speaking to him on a satellite phone over a CNN...
A commuter in China fell through a floor panel near an escalator at a subway station. Luckily, another rider was nearby and was able to catch her, preventing her from suffering any major injuries.
