The US government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that engines can fail on as many as 1.4 million Honda and Acura vehicles. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers the 2016 through 2020 Honda Pilot and Acura MDX, as well as the 2018 through 2020 Honda Odyssey and Acura TLX. Also included is … Read more
A loving brother shed almost 240 pounds to be eligible for a donation scheme to help save his sister’s life after she was diagnosed with kidney failure. Matthew Flanagan, 24, tipped the scales at 437 pounds as a teenager and once spent nearly $8,000 on takeaways in one year. But when he was told he … Read more
Emma Roberts has a theory about why “Madame Web” bombed at the box office. The 33-year-old actress spoke to Variety in an interview published Friday and opened up about the reason why the Marvel film performed so poorly with both fans and critics. “Things work; things don’t work,” she said. “Everyone likes to act like … Read more
Phone a friend. A celebrity PR expert claimed that Meghan Markle might ask some of her celebrity friends — including her former “Suits” co-stars — to help boost her new podcast with Lemonada Media. “Initially, we might expect her to call in favours from her remaining friends and work through their networks,” Kayley Cornelius told Express … Read more
Authorities in South Florida raided the home of Jamaican singer and rapper Sean Kingston and arrested his mother on Thursday morning. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office and Davie Police SWAT served arrest and search warrants at the luxurious Southwest Ranches property as part of an investigation that started in nearby Dania Beach, the Broward County Sheriff told … Read more
Apple finally had a wakeup call. For many months, iPhone users have been complaining about a glitch that resulted in set alarms not sounding. “This has probably been the third or fourth day in a row my alarm clock has not gone off,” TikToker Reid Manning recently griped. Another person on TikTok said they spent … Read more
These models shouldn’t have walked the runway a second time. Ben Stiller said that the failure of “Zoolander 2” blindsided him, as he reflected on the film with David Duchovny on Duchovny’s podcast, Fail Better. “I thought everybody wanted this,” the 58-year-old said. “And then it’s like, ‘Wow, I must have really f—ed this up. Everybody didn’t go … Read more
The US Attorney General wants consumers off the sauce. AG Josh Stein issued a warning to customers over recalled WanaBana, Schnucks and Weis brand cinnamon applesauce pouches after they were linked to 400 childhood lead poisoning cases. “If you’ve purchased these recalled products and may still have them in your homes, do not feed them … Read more
A Texas bodybuilder has been hospitalized over 20 times due to a rare heart condition that’s brought on by drinking a cold glass of water. “I’d take a gulp of cold water. As I’m settling back down, I feel the double thud,” Franklin Aribeana, 35, told ABC News of his apparent heart-related hydrophobia. “I’d never … Read more
Meghan Markle is getting back into the podcast business. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has inked a deal with Lemonada Media to launch a new podcast series — and Lemonada will also distribute her previous Spotify podcast series, “Archetypes,” to all platforms, according to an exclusive report in Deadline. Details of the new series have … Read more
John Travolta’s latest work in “The Shepherd” brought him back to a near-fatal experience he had while piloting a plane with his entire family on board. The “Grease” actor, 69, recalled the moment while promoting his latest short at a London screening. The project, based on the 1975 novella by Frederick Forsyth, tells the story … Read more
He didn’t mean to craft a rags-to-riches story when he left his parents’ wholesale tire business in 2017, but Queens native Jared Kugel, 36, was so sure that the world needed a search engine for tires that he even convinced an investor he met on LinkedIn to provide the seed money for his startup. “My … Read more
Double bubble toil … and tampon? A mom said she decided to dress her twin babies up like mummies for Halloween, but they turned out looking like “tampons” instead. Jessica Jovel, a mom-of-three who goes by @Jessicajovel on TikTok, shared a video of the failed costumes that has 990,000 views since being posted last Halloween. … Read more
The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once defined success as “stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm,” but a new book, “Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well” (Atria Books), suggests that the concept of failure is significantly more complex than merely the polar opposite of whatever success might represent. … Read more
Another day, another benefit to taking semaglutide, the popular drug marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy. Originally FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes, semaglutide was later sold as Wegovy because of its proven weight-loss benefit. (Ozempic contains a smaller dose of semaglutide than Wegovy.) Earlier this month, Wegovy was also shown to reduce the risk of … Read more
No one can blame a Will Smith slap for this shocking development! A temporary power outage in Hollywood Saturday briefly threw a wrench into preparations for Sunday’s Academy Awards. Shortly after 1 p.m., power dropped on an entire block along the boulevard that includes the Dolby Theatre, where rehearsals were ongoing for the Oscars awards … Read more
Talk about throwing salt in the wound. People suffering from heart failure — a condition that affects 6 million American adults — who restrict their sodium intake may be increasing their risk of death, according to a new study presented Thursday. Consuming too much salt has been linked to high blood pressure, heart disease and … Read more
This was not the standing ovation the filmmakers wanted. Jury members for the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition walked out of the premiere of “Magazine Dreams” Friday after the festival failed to provide subtitles for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences — including judge Marlee Matlin, reports Variety. Several of the judges — including Jeremy Harris, Eliza … Read more
In the mid-1960s, researchers at D.C.’s top pediatric hospital set out to vanquish a diabolical virus that filled wards with wheezing infants each winter. Their weapon: a vaccine designed to target respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. The virus had been identified only a decade earlier but was already known to be one of the … Read more