Friday, November 14, 2025
More than two years since a Massachusetts ballot initiative authorized recreational marijuana use, the state’s first two non-medical marijuana emporiums are slated to open. These spots in Northampton and Leicester are the first such stores in the east, so crowds are expected to be heavy and will see police details to keep order, the Associated…
Enlarge / Entertainment Studios Networks founder Byron Allen at Universal Studios Hollywood on April 26, 2018, in Universal City, California. A US appeals court ruling today said that cable companies do not have a First Amendment right to discriminate against minority-run TV channels. Charter, the second-largest US cable company after Comcast, was sued in January…
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. officials briefly closed the busiest border crossing from Mexico early on Monday to add concrete barricades and razor wire amid concerns that some of the thousands of Central American migrants at the border could try to rush the crossing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Special Response Team (SRT) officers…
At 9:58 p.m. on a nearly moonless Sunday night, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg stepped into a busy section of Mill Road in Tempe, Arizona, pushing her pink bicycle. A few seconds later, one of Uber's self-driving Volvo SUVs ran into her at 39 mph and killed her. Inside the car, Rafaela Vasquez was working alone, as…
“IF THEY STALL, we will hit them where it hurts.” Jörg Sprave is a jovial German with a winning smile but he leaves no doubt that he is serious. If Google, YouTube’s owner, does not budge, he will call a strike. Mr Sprave runs “The Slingshot Channel”, dedicated to rubber-powered weapons, which boasts over 2m…
WASHINGTON — As evidence piles up pointing to the Saudi crown prince’s responsibility in the brutal killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump has only hardened his refusal to concede any possibility that the prince had a hand in the crime. Mr. Trump, who had once condemned the Saudi leaders for perpetrating “the…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Carlos Ghosn is head of the Alliance, which includes Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has been arrested over claims of financial misconduct, the carmaker has said.Mr Ghosn, a towering figure in the car industry, will be sacked from the Japanese firm after a board meeting on…
Literati Books, a children’s book club and subscription service, is launching a new holiday series called “Great Minds,” which will feature titles personally selected by some of the most well-known minds across business, media, technology, and academia. And, tallied together, this is no short list. Among the 14 guest curators offering their book recommendations are…
DPW Holdings Announces Expansion Plan with IAM, Inc. Program Targets in 2019 to Add 4 New Locations, Initiating Multi-Year Growth Newport Beach, CA, November 19, 2018 -- DPW Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: DPW) (“DPW”) a diversified holding company, today announced it has...
Enlarge / Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), would need 100 times more oxygen than usual at smaller scales. Marvel StudiosThe ability to rapidly shrink down to bug size (and beyond) gives Ant-Man and the Wasp tremendous advantages. But it also comes with some scale-related drawbacks,…