Exploring the trends and shifts of our times
CBS news If you want to know the secret to achieving happiness, the answer might be found in your bank account — as long as it’s extremely well-funded. The link between happiness and money is getting a fresh look from economists and scientists, with new research finding multimillionaires are much happier than the merely well-to-do. In…
NPR This week, the dating app Bumble could not stay out of the news. First, the company launched an anti-celibacy advertising campaign mocking abstinence and suggesting women shouldn’t give up on dating apps. Then, at a tech summit, Bumble’s founder suggested artificial intelligence might be the future of dating. Both efforts were met with backlash,…
Once again, Shannon Sharpe is stirring the pot with his take on dating and relationships. This time, he’s got some advice for the ladies, and his male fans are eating it up. During the May 27 episode of “Nightcap” with Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, the duo began their conversation discussing how much women suggest…
ESPN The NFL’s version of Halley’s Comet comes around every 21 years. It’s due to make another appearance in April 2025. From John Elway in 1983 to Eli Manning in 2004, highly-rated quarterbacks rarely make a draft-day power play. Twenty-one years after Eli, Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders could. Via C. Isaiah Smalls II of the Miami…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. He died Aug. 21 of natural causes in Los Angeles. Amos’ publicist, Belinda Foster, confirmed the news…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — RZA’s hoarding habit led to his newest adventure in music: a ballet and surprisingly traditional classical album he calls “A Ballet Through Mud.” Early in the pandemic, the 55-year-old Wu-Tang Clan founder, born Robert Diggs, was rummaging through a bag of old spiral notebooks he found in his library. He pulled…
LONDON (AP) — He played soccer with Vinícius Júnior in Brazil and walked the runway with pal Joe Burrow in Paris. Now, he’s bringing the Griddy back to London. In other words, Justin Jefferson is right at home. The Minnesota Vikings receiver is embracing the international spotlight and becoming a global star at the right…
NPR As we head toward another presidential election, we’re seeing a shift in the politics of American Latinos – believe it or not – to the far right. Now, a Latino immigrant being a white supremacist might sound antithetical, right? And yet there are a lot of examples of exactly that – people like Enrique…
AP Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a glimpse of her ancestry. “One of the reasons I decided to get the test is that as an African American,…
