(NEXSTAR) – Gearing up for your first cruise? Don’t be surprised if you find a few rubber duckies sometime between the breakfast buffet and bingo. Over the past several years, it has become increasingly common for cruise passengers to hide rubber ducks throughout the ship for other guests to find. These “cruising ducks,” as they’re […]
A wildfire in northern Minnesota that began when a prescribed burn went out of control this week was almost completely contained by Saturday afternoon, according to Superior National Forest rangers. Fire crews have nearly secured all edges of the 209-acre wildfire, according to a statement from the U.S. Forest Service’s Tofte Ranger District. They spent […]
Daniell Koepke turned to DIY poop transplants to find relief from debilitating gut symptoms. She used her brother and boyfriend as donors, and her symptoms improved. But she also got acne like her brother and depression like her boyfriend. As a college student, Daniell Koepke started experiencing irritable bowel syndrome symptoms including indigestion, stabbing pains […]
First came the all-night parties and music blaring from a neighbor’s house in Long Beach that kept Andy Oliver up at night. Then there were the “smoke outs,” when visitors enjoying refuge from hostile cannabis laws in their home states blazed marijuana throughout the day, sending clouds of hazy smoke into Oliver’s sanctuary, his house […]
Little Rock, Ark.- A childhood dream of becoming a doctor is what won Caleb Coleman the Crayola Dream Works Competition in the late 1990s. It is a competition that thousands of schools participate in, with the winners getting to have their art featured in one of the largest children’s art collections. “The prompt at the time […]
DENVER — The family of a 4-year-old boy whose heart had stopped beating hours earlier gathered at Children’s Hospital Colorado last month to say their final goodbyes to Cartier McDaniel. Some slept in the waiting room when they weren’t praying at Cartier’s bedside after doctors told his parents, Destiny Anderson and Dominique McDaniel, that it […]
Developers have begun the long-awaited transformation of the James R. Thompson Center into a high-tech home for Google, a move heralded by state and city officials as a new beginning for downtown Chicago, which is still struggling with empty offices and storefronts. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a Monday news conference that Google’s arrival could […]
You may have seen people doing tai chi in your local park — and for good reason. Thanks to its mental and physical health benefits, the centuries-old practice remains a popular way to work out the body and mind. The question is: How does it work, and should you join in? Shifu Shirley Chock, owner […]
Walmart CEO Started In The Warehouse And Says He Climbed His Way Up By ‘Raising His Hand’ When The Boss Was Away And Being A ‘Pinch Hitter’ In an interview with Stratechery on April 25, Walmart Inc. CEO Doug McMillon discussed the retail giant’s evolution into an omnichannel retailer, achieving significant milestones such as surpassing […]
By Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV (Reuters) – About 30 Ukrainian men have died trying to illegally cross Ukraine’s borders and avoid fighting in the war against Russia which started in 2022, the spokesman for Ukraine’s border service told Ukrinform news agency. “Some lost their lives while attempting to cross a mountain river or traverse mountains,” said […]
By Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV, April 30 (Reuters) – About 30 Ukrainian men have died trying to illegally cross Ukraine’s borders and avoid fighting in the war against Russia which started in 2022, the spokesman for Ukraine’s border service told Ukrinform news agency. “Some lost their lives while attempting to cross a mountain river or traverse […]
Doug McMillon was just 17 years old when he started working in Walmart’s warehouses in the summer of 1984. Since then, he’s scaled the retail giant’s ranks from unloading trailers for $6.50 an hour to becoming the company’s youngest CEO since its founder Sam Walton—with a $25 million salary to show for it. In the […]