Never underestimate the power of a social media campaign. TransLink BC, the public transportation system in Vancouver, British Columbia, announced Thursday that actor Seth Rogen will lend his voice to announcements — an initiative born from a social media request. The campaign to get Rogen involved began in May, days before plans to have Morgan Freeman become the voice of…
A growing chorus of trade experts say the Trump administration seems likely to impose billions of dollars worth of tariffs on imported autos and automobile parts in the next year despite widespread opposition from both domestic and overseas manufacturers, dealers throughout the U.S. and even local and state government officials. U.S. Commerce Department public hearings held last week on the proposed tariffs…
A view out the window of a crashing plane is shown in this screen grab from a video shot on a phone inside the cabin. AIRLIVE A small plane carrying passengers on a luxury air safari crashed outside Pretoria, South Africa last week, killing two people and gravely wounding two pilots, the aviation website AIRLIVE reported. One passenger captured the…
Grundy County, Cleveland, Signal Mountain, Collegedale, Soddy-Daisy & Andrews, NC all accepted the challenge last week.
First came Netflix. Next comes Disneyflix. And then comes… Walmartflix? Giant retailer Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service to go up against Netflix and its e-commerce foe Amazon, according to a report by The Information, which cites unnamed people familiar with the matter. It could be priced at less than $8 a month, according to one of the people cited by the report,…
America’s schoolchildren are on summer vacation – no more teachers, no more books. But the same can’t be said for their smartphones. Those devices are firmly in the hands of an entire generation of young people – call them the “iGEN.” For them, the iPhone is like the very air they breathe, as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story: …
Moore was offered a trip to Washington to receive an award for his support for Israel.
Doug Cowen is a professor of astronomy, astrophysics and physics at Pennsylvania State University; Derek Fox is an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University; Azadeh Keivani is a Frontiers of Science Fellow at Columbia University. About four billion years ago, when the planet Earth was still in its infancy, the axis of a black hole about…
Green Day’s 2004 hit “American Idiot” is rapidly gaining popularity ahead of President Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom. Theo Wargo It may be a good idea for President Trump to not turn up the radio during his trip to Britain in the coming days. A social media campaign is pushing fellow Brits to buy Green Day’s 2004 smash hit…
Former President Barack Obama stars in a promotional video against gerrymandering released Wednesday by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), an organization formed by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder’s group aims to fight partisan redistricting. In the nearly three-minute video, Obama advocates for “protecting” democracy through “rethinking the way we draw our congressional districts.” President Obama on Gerrymandering, Redistricting,…
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the head of U.S. intelligence to assess whether North Korea’s posture and actions regarding denuclearization match up with the Trump administration’s claims. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wrote to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Thursday, asking him to answer a number of questions related to North…
Police Departments across the area are beginning to accept the challenge, tell us who is winning on our Facebook page.
Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. The company becomes the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. Plastic straws have become one of the biggest targets. Viral videos — including one depicting researchers extracting a plastic straw from a sea…
Three young adventurers were killed earlier this week when they fell from the third-highest waterfall in British Columbia, Canada. The social media personalities were known for posting stunning videos and photos of daring feats and travel. The vloggers were part of the travel collective “High On Life” whose YouTube videos urged viewers to explore the world outside of their comfort…
Commuting on two wheels has lots of health benefits, including a lowered risk of heart disease and cancer. But sharing the road with cars, trucks and buses can be risky, with a growing number of bicyclists dying each year in crashes with motor vehicles, and many of those riders going without helmets. More than half of the 835 cyclists killed…
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in Chattanooga in 1988
In a stunning instance of the animal kingdom taking karma into its own hands – or rather, paws – at least three poachers were mauled to death and then eaten by lions earlier this week after they illegally entered the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa to hunt rhinos. “They strayed into a pride of lions – it’s a big…
Shirley has lived almost twice as long as the average lifespan.
In this still Oct. 5, 2014 image taken from video provided by Andrea Petersen, a giant pacific octopus swims at the bottom of the Puget Sound near Edmonds, Wash. Every year, the aquarium enlists the help of volunteer divers to search and count giant pacific octopus in the Puget Sound for an underwater census. AP Photo/Andrea Petersen An octopus that…
A Mexican-American soccer fan donated a wheelchair to a Russian man in desperate need of a new one during the opening round of the FIFA World Cup in Russia last month. His act of kindness went viral. California native Abel Vera, 44, who is paralyzed from the legs down and also uses a wheelchair, tells CBS News he is not…
Jamberry, the multilevel marketer of nail wraps and other beauty products, faces accusations of stiffing thousands of non-employee salespeople after the company informed employees in a late-night email Wednesday that it was their “last official day” of work. “Please come to the … office at Noon on Thursday for a discussion on what this means regarding health insurance, 401K and…
Jamberry is a multilevel marketer (MLM) of beauty products, but it’s facing some ugly accusations from within its own ranks. And a deal announced last month with a provider of nutritional supplements called M. Network, which uses the same business model, appears to be on shaky ground. A group of “elite” Jamberry representatives complained in a video posted on YouTube…
Watch the entire police video of the incident outside of the jail on Monday.
In a gambit to reclaim sagging breakfast sales, McDonald’s is taking a page from a “Seinfeld” script. In a move reminiscent of a 1997 episode of the popular television sitcom, the fast-food giant is looking at selling just the tops of muffins — “the best part,” according to TV character Elaine Benes — as it strives to bring back lost…