You can forgive experienced baseball observers, whether they live in Minnesota or elsewhere, if they want to wait and see more from this year’s so-far-dynamic version of the Twins. Yet the American League Central leaders (by a mile or so), and one of the game’s best teams statistically, have won over one person who should Read more about Twins’ thrilling season is turning Torii Hunter into a believer[…]
Goldman Sachs honcho David Solomon has scored a slot to DJ at Tomorrowland — a decadent European dance-music festival known for its undulating throngs of naked, sweaty, drug-fueled revelers. Solomon — who took the CEO job at Goldman last October from longtime boss Lloyd Blankfein — moonlights as a part-time DJ, spinning dance tracks under Read more about Goldman CEO David Solomon to DJ at Tomorrowland music festival[…]
The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate Read more about Premature migrant baby found at Texas Border Patrol facility[…]
Talk about toe-tal recoil. To drink this classic Canadian cocktail, you’ll need a strong stomach — and immune system. Since 1973, the Yukon’s Downtown Hotel has been serving up the legendary Sourtoe, a whiskey shot garnished with a dehydrated human toe. The strange elixir went viral this week when the bar received three fresh new Read more about Human toe cocktail is more than ‘disgusting’ \u2014 it’s a health risk, says doc[…]
President Trump insisted Friday that Queen Elizabeth II had more yucks with him during his state visit to the UK than she’s had in more than two decades. “I have such a great relationship, and we were laughing and having fun. And her people said she hasn’t had so much fun in 25 years. Then Read more about Trump says his UK visit was the most fun Queen had in 25 years[…]
“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper and released in 1974, set the standard for the slasher-film genre with its depiction of a family of sadistic cannibals who torture and murder a group of interlopers. In the film’s most horrifying scene, a woman is tormented at a dinner table, tied to Read more about The ‘intolerably putrid’ making of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’[…]
So you forgot that Father's Day is this Sunday, June 16. You have two options: First, you can cross your fingers and hope that your dad has forgotten it, much in the same way he forgot to give the dog its heartworm medication for the past six months. Or you can relax and realize that Read more about 20 Last-Minute Father's Day Gifts on Sale Now[…]
The internet-wide push to encrypt more web traffic has resulted in a wave of safer, snoop-proof connections. The next challenge, though, is completing that transition from using a mixture of unencrypted HTTP and protected HTTPS to requiring that baseline protection everywhere. And over the past year, Google has been publicly offering a simple and straightforward Read more about Google's Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole[…]
We talked to medical experts about what really happened with Kevin Durant's Achilles tendon, we learned what foods you can kiss goodbye thanks to climate change, and we put together a list of Father's Day deals you can still get before Sunday. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want Read more about How Kevin Durant Got Hurt, Why Coffee May Soon Be Gone, and More News[…]
Radiohead owned some hackers, the T-Mobile/Sprint merger runs into some hiccups, and a Swedish mining town is being picked up and moved. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute round up as an email every week day? Sign up here! Today's Headlines Radiohead dropped 18 Read more about Radiohead Gets ‘Hacked,’ a T-Mobile/Sprint Hiccup, and More News[…]