Aaron Carter's older brother Nick is heartbroken after the singer's death at the age of 34, he wrote in a post on Instagram.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/ShutterstockAmid the intensity of giving evidence, and last October eventually losing his $40 million civil lawsuit against Kevin Spacey, the Rent and Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp was concealing a happy secret. He and his husband Ken Ithiphol were expecting a baby, indeed entering the final stages of pregnancy with their surrogate. Rai Larson Ithiphol’s imminent arrival (on December 2, 2022) “was a light shini
A Cabinet split has emerged over plans to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with the Foreign Office accused of blocking the move in order to maintain “access”.
The location of Friday’s train derailment in eastern Ohio was a hazardous materials scene Saturday, and a fire that raged overnight continued to smolder, officials said.
Ukraine fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, its leaders said Saturday, as it endured a wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region.Russia unleashed a fresh wave of bombardment across the eastern front lines Saturday morning.
Cheney Orr/ReutersOn Jan. 18, a small army of Georgia state troopers entered Atlanta’s Weelaunee forest, with long guns drawn, to end a months-long occupation by a group of “forest defenders”—and to clear the way for the urban warfare training camp known as “Cop City.” Within minutes, an indigenous protester was dead, felled by a police bullet. Law enforcement sources claim the officer acted in self-defense, but witnesses say the deceased was unarmed when they were shot.It’s too soon to know wha
The thermometer sinks below zero as a blizzard of fine snow descends on two houses freshly built inside a massive laboratory in northern England.The project's first house was built by UK property firm Barratt Developments and French materials giant Saint-Gobain.
As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern.In 2020, the near absence of monarchs on the west Coast was a rallying cry for nature lovers, from gardeners who planted milkweed to hobbyists who raised butterflies in their homes despite the practice being illegal.
Cyprus votes on Sunday in a close presidential election between three front runners, with the electorate focused more on corruption and the economy than the island's long-standing division.Analysts say campaign pledges to root out corruption and improve the economy are key issues for the electorate.
At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said Saturday night.The fires destroyed at least 88 homes and swept through 47,000 hectares (116,000 acres) of forest, officials said.
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Wellcome Images/Wikimedia CommonsThere is a legend that you may have heard about the arrival of the Black Death to Europe. According to a story told by Italian notary Gabriele De’ Mussi, plague arrived in 1346, when ‘Tartars’ attacking the city of Caffa in the Crimea came down with a mysterious illness. The dying Mongols decide to catapult the bodies of their dead over the walls of the city to infect the inhabitants within. That illness was bubo
Pope Francis wraps up his pilgrimage to South Sudan with an open-air mass on Sunday after urging its leaders to focus on bringing peace to the fragile country torn apart by violence and poverty.- War crimes - The pope had promised in 2019 to travel to South Sudan, when he hosted Kiir and Machar at a Vatican retreat and asked them to respect the ceasefire.
Here is a list of nominees in the major categories for the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out on Sunday in Los Angeles.Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z are now tied as the most nominated artists in Grammys history, with 88 each.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Gramercy PicturesThere is one unusual, particularly vivid image from my childhood that stands out to this day. It’s neither good nor bad, just there, always present by my side. It’s the sight of Pamela Anderson, emblazoned on a promotional coffee mug for her 1996 film Barb Wire, sitting atop the checkout counter at a local video rental store. The sight is burned into my brain as plainly as the ink from the pens that the mug housed, which stained
As music's elite gather in Los Angeles for the Grammy awards on Sunday, one question is playing on loop: Will Beyonce finally win the coveted Album of the Year prize?But industry watchers including Billboard predict this will finally be Beyonce's year to take home the Grammy for Album of the Year, arguably the night's most prestigious prize.
Biden and Xi can choose to climb an “escalation ladder” or turn the page on this incident in order to not worsen bilateral relations
Conditions inside a huge new mega-prison designed to house 40,000 alleged gang members in El Salvador will be particularly severe, according to accounts from a visiting team of AFP journalists.An AFP team visited the sprawling complex late Friday into early Saturday, along with other journalists.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Techfiesta/Wikimedia Commons, Alex Woolner, and ChatGPTAlex Woolner has a perfect name for a textile artist. She’s lived up to it, too, knitting as a hobby since she was seven. More recently, she picked up crochet as a way to make small stuffed animals called amigurumi for her nieces and nephews.After finishing a stuffed narwhal for one of her nephews last month, she had an idea: What if she used ChatGPT—the AI chatbot that’s taken the internet
The man is suspected of firing a gun loaded with blanks. There were no injuries.
Thousands of motorcyclists on Saturday roared 140 miles across Guatemala in a rolling procession to venerate a religious crucifix, the Black Christ of Esquipulas.The Black Christ of Esquipulas has been venerated for more than four centuries by the Catholic faithful, and its home is in the basilica in Esquipulas.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Stevebidmead/Wikimedia Commons and Courtesy of ChernackFrom the outside, Tyler Gallagher had it all: a $3.5 million house in the Hollywood Hills, two cars, a gorgeous wife, a flourishing business, and one of the hottest esports teams in the country.A high-school dropout who lived in a homeless shelter at age 16, Gallagher told anyone who would listen about how he took $5,000 and turned it into a successful company investing his clients' retireme
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