Tag: Empire

Mark Zuckerberg is quietly sitting on a shopping empire with 4 times the customers of Amazon, as Facebook Marketplace skyrockets

Ethan Gaskill, a 29-year-old content creator, begins everyday the same way: “When I wake up in the morning—most people get on their phone and start checking Instagram—I check Facebook Marketplace.” With his Los Angeles home furnished almost exclusively with second-hand items and a TikTok with over 220,000 followers interested in his thrifty hauls, Gaskill trusts […]

Golden Empire Most Wanted: May 23, 2024

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The U.S. Marshals Task Force needs your help finding a man who escaped from prison. On May 13, James Yang Xiong, 36, escaped from the Sierra Conservation Center in Solano County. Xiong has a criminal history that includes evading a police officer, possession of a firearm by a felon and grand […]

How Putin’s gas empire crumbled

russia gazprom Vladimir Putin is throwing everything he has got at ramping up Russia’s war machine. That is why the nation’s economy – if one believes Moscow’s figures – has held up better than might have been expected in the face of Western sanctions. Rather than reflecting anything remotely like prosperity, the statistics show more […]

Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on mysterious empire

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. From a speck of bone, scientists can tease out astonishing information about the past. Analysis of ancient DNA recovered from human remains has illuminated the traits and ancestry of historic individuals […]

Sex and marriage patterns in an ancient empire revealed by DNA

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Primarily known from the […]