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It has been 60 years since Mary Poppins was released but some of the cast didn't have as much success as the film, with the Michael Banks actor being struck down at just 21

Conveyor belt specialist Jeremy Clark shares his essential dos and don’ts when buying industrial conveyor belts.

Prizes in the celebration include real gold and a golden ticket to meet the Louisiana chain's founder.

The last SSDI payment is set to hit accounts soon. Here's when you can expect yours to arrive.

“This is it. This is happening,″ the band said.

Asher Phoenix saw 'The Civility of Albert Cashier,' based on a trans soldier's life. With the musical opening in Burbank, Phoenix reflects on how theater can change a life.

A lawsuit demands the nullification of leases that allow UCLA and a private school to maintain facilities on land deeded more than a century ago to veterans.

The 9th Eastern Economic Forum will be held on September 3-6, 2024 in Vladivostok

Autistic people and their families say they can't find adequate help in their communities before they reach a crisis point.

Whether it's on airport tarmacs, at shipping ports or along railways, Canadians have been seeing disruptions from labour unrest for years. Here's what ties it all together.

A new AAA study indicates Labor Day weekend travel bookings in the U.S. are up 9% this year over 2023, and shows the most popular destinations in the country for the holiday.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates are down as the Fed gears up to start lowering its benchmark rate in September.

Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson urged "reimagining" democracy beyond the Constitution at a panel at the Democratic National Convention.

Season 4 sticks to the spy thriller's winning formula and gets a tad darker.

Postmortems are a necessary evil. Partnerships must analyze their results dispassionately. The purpose of a “discussion” is to improve, not to humble your partner. Today’s West led the ten of spades against 3NT: four, two, jack. South led a club to dummy’s queen, and East won and returned a spade: queen, ace. West then led […]

Researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with colleagues from the Faculty of Tropical AgriScience of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, are unraveling the mysteries of the life of termites.

India plans to launch a key test of its Gaganyaan crew vehicle before the end of the year as the country gears up for human spaceflight missions.

In Burgas, a high-speed chase involving a van transporting migrants ended in a fatal crash. The incident occurred early this morning, around 6:40 a.m....

Despite being a primary profit-oriented residential development, the elliptical building, situated at the edge of a triangularly shaped site, is surrounded by a variety of non-fenced, open and inclusive public spaces. An entry plaza is created between the inner city ring, a historical school, and the new building, continuing to the covered arcades with entrances to the building. On the eastern side, a garden with a children's playground forms a vital part of the residents' outdoor living space. Читать дальше...

The biggest substantive change since candidate Joe Biden stepped aside in favor of candidate Kamala Harris, at least where domestic policy is concerned, is much less discussion of labor unions. As Labor Day approaches, Harris needs to shore up her bona fides. As it happens, Harris herself has already created a plausible blueprint for organized labor’s path forward. With the hard work done, all she needs to do now is talk about it.

Four years ago, amid his successful campaign to unseat President Donald Trump, Joe Biden made a promise: to “keep foreign money out of elections” by “prohibiting foreign governments’ use of lobbyists.” “There is no reason why a foreign government should be permitted to lobby Congress or the Executive Branch, let alone interfere in our elections,” he said on his campaign site. “If a foreign government wants to share its views with the United States or to influence its decision-making, it should do so through regular diplomatic channels. Читать дальше...

Before it had a name, the xenomorph of the Alien series had a nightmarish presence. Its gruesome and iconic life cycle, established 45 years ago in Ridley Scott’s Alien, is eternally disturbing. After erupting from a glistening yonic egg sac as a nymph with a scorpion-like tail, the creature attaches to the head of its victim. Then it impregnates the person, plunging a phallic organ down their throat through what appears to be its own mouth—a fiendish kiss. Next, it goes limp, drained by the act. Читать дальше...

Imagine Donald Trump watching that scene in Bridesmaids where the group gets food poisoning in the bridal shop and Melissa McCarthy’s character unburdens herself in the bathroom sink. Now why is it so much easier to imagine Trump having diarrhea than it is to picture him enjoying one of the funniest movie moments in 15 years? Maybe diarrhea is an easier leap because he’s got the verbal kind locked.

Following a public vote earlier this month, Banff town council has passed a bylaw rescinding their original decision to have an annual pedestrian zone downtown on Banff Avenue during the summer months.

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan reacts after hitting the game-winning basket over Cleveland’s Craig Ehlo, left rear, in Game 5 of the NBA playoffs May 7, 1989, in Cleveland, Ohio. | Ed Wagner Jr./Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

What a classic commercial.