Country music legend Willie Nelson has received a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. Nelson shared a post from Texas-based Family Hospital Systems showing him receiving the vaccine from the driver’s seat of his car and giving a thumbs up. “Get your shot! Take care of yourself and others,” Nelson said in...
Country star Blake Shelton has shrugged off criticism of his new song "Minimum Wage", insisting haters are simply trying to "pick a fight." The "Boys 'Round Here" singer came under attack after debuting the tune during a TV performance on New Year's Eve (31Dec20), revealing he'd penned the track about...
Siegfried Fischbacher, one-half of the famous magician duo Siegfried & Roy, died Wednesday night at his home in Las Vegas from pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Fischbacher's death comes just months after his performance partner, Roy Horn, died from complications related to COVID-19 at the age of 75. A statement from...
US actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as "vicious and spurious online attacks against me". Hammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding. However, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly...
For fans of the TV show Game of Thrones, dire wolves are often seen as mysterious iconic legends. Now, for the first time, an international team led by Durham University and colleagues in Australia, Germany and the US, have analysed ancient DNA from dire wolves to reveal a complex history...
Flying cars are hopefully, not too far away into the future, but for the moment, they are concept vehicles. General Motors, too, just showed off its single-passenger Cadillac capable of vertical takeoff and landing and achieving flying speeds of up to 55 mph. General Motors, at the Consumer Electronics Show...
Social media users are trying to cancel 21-year-old nude model Belle Delphine for publishing an explicit kidnapping-themed photo shoot – accusing her of glorifying and promoting rape and pedophilia. The controversy started after Delphine uploaded a preview of her “perfect first date” photo shoot to Twitter on Tuesday, which...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the midwestern and southern United States, has fully recovered and can be removed from the endangered species list. Endangered Species Act protections have helped interior least tern numbers...
Immunity from Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine should last at least a year, the company said on Monday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference. The drugmaker said it was confident that the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology it used was well suited to deploy a vaccine based on the new variant of...
The Government of Nunavut is giving people a new reason to quit smoking this year: it could help lessen the risk of contracting COVID-19. “Having lung problems from smoking might increase the risk of getting COVID-19 and may make some symptoms of the illness worse,” the Government of Nunavut said...