Whatever happened to having taste?

 Posted on July 16, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1829 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The Real Housewives franchise presents wealth as a uniform experience with occasional regional specialties. The ladies from one city may go shopping at a megamall, while in another they prefer browsing designer clothes outdoors. But nearly every housewife loves a sheath dress, a Gucci handbag and sitting down to lunch to resolve their differences. (It always backfires.) The conformity of the show is what makes the presence of Jenna Lyons, who reinvented J. [Read More]

Chicago Auto Show 2024: First Look for Charity raises $3M night before North America's largest auto

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  444 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

CHICAGO (WLS) — While the 2024 Chicago Auto Show doesn’t open to the public until Saturday morning, festivities begin Friday evening with the First Look for Charity. North America’s largest auto show features the best, the newest and the highest tech vehicles of every kind, and they’re all waiting for you at McCormick Place, bright and shiny as can be. The attendees of Friday night’s black tie charity gala will get an exclusive first look at every one of those vehicles. [Read More]

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1053 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

A group of D.C. journalists who worked at a local news site that was abruptly shuttered by NPR affiliate WAMU earlier this year are launching their own nonprofit devoted to covering community news of Washington. They are calling it the 51st — a nod to the District of Columbia’s lack of statehood — and say it will deliver hyperlocal Washington news relevant to District residents. Initially, their coverage will focus on topics such as the cost of living in D. [Read More]

John Paul II - The Millennial Pope | FRONTLINE

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  203 words  |  Valentine Belue

[an error occurred while processing the directive] [an error occurred while processing the directive] [an error occurred while processing the directive] FRONTLINE presents a comprehensive biography on the world leader who has emerged as a man at war with the twentieth century itself. In the two decades John Paul II has commanded the world stage, re-invigorating the Catholic Church in much of the world, he has defined himself by his opposition to many of the dominant secular ideologies and passions of our time: communism, feminism, capitalism and consumerism. [Read More]

Rep. Tim Burchett sure members of Congress are honeypot victims

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  597 words  |  Patria Henriques

Explore More Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) claimed Thursday that “good conservative” lawmakers are falling victim to “honeypot” schemes and voting in ways to avoid being outed for their deviant behavior. The “powerful people” entrapping members of Congress are “always either out on the tarmac or in the private room” with the president, Burchett told right-wing podcast host Benny Johnson during a discussion that centered on the impending release of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s client list. [Read More]

The disgusting reason you should never hold in farts

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  600 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Explore More A fart a day keeps the doctor away. Breaking wind while in the company of others might seem like the height of rudeness — it was even ranked one of the worst house guest behaviors by a UK survey — but one enterprising TikTok doctor suggests that letting it rip is absolutely essential because, otherwise, the farts could come out of your mouth. NHS surgeon Dr. Karan Rajan’s video describing the flatulent factoid currently boasts over 2. [Read More]

What happens when states go hunting for Medicaid fraud

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1514 words  |  Valentine Belue

By the time Illinois decided to crack down on Medicaid fraud in 2012, state officials knew that many people enrolled in the program probably weren’t eligible. For years, caseworkers hadn’t had the time or resources to check. To catch up, the state hired a private contractor to identify people who might not be eligible for the low-income health program and to make recommendations for whose benefits should be canceled. Within about a year, Illinois had canceled benefits for nearly 150,000 people whose eligibility could not be verified — and saved an estimated $70 million. [Read More]

Who is Sunshine Cruz Dating Now?

 Posted on July 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  579 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Sunshine Cruz Filipino TV Actress 46 years old Single Full Name Sunshine Cruz Age 46 Birth date July 28, 1977 Horoscope Leo Birth Place Manila Profession TV Actress Net Worth $100,000 – $1M Martial Status Single Height N/A Ethnicity Multiracial Nationality Filipino Weight lbs ( kg) Hair Color Dark Brown Eye Color Dark Brown Ahead, we take a look at who is Sunshine Cruz dating now, who has she dated, Sunshine Cruz’s boyfriend, past relationships and dating history. [Read More]

AI is copying these actors voices. Can you tell the difference?

 Posted on July 14, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1958 words  |  Patria Henriques

Companies clamor to use Remie Michelle Clarke’s voice. An award-winning vocal artist, her smooth, Irish accent backs ads for Mazda and Mastercard and is the sound of Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, in Ireland. But in January, her sound engineer told Michelle Clarke he’d found a voice that sounded uncannily like hers someplace unexpected: on Revoicer.com, credited to a woman named “Olivia.” For a modest monthly fee, Revoicer customers can access hundreds of different voices and, through an artificial intelligence-backed tool, morph them to say anything — to voice commercials, recite corporate trainings or narrate books. [Read More]

Amina Mohamed | PBS NewsHour

 Posted on July 14, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  18 words  |  Valentine Belue

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