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Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters — A transgender woman has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a male partner by failing to disclose her gender status to him, meaning he could not consent to the sexual activity, British prosecutors said on Friday. Ciara Watkin, 21, performed sex acts on the man, also 21, who she had met on social media site Snapchat in June 2022, but did not disclose her transgender status to him. The Crown Prosecution Service said Watkin had told the man that she was on her period and meaning he could not touch her below the waist.…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After three decades in Hollywood, Daniel Dae Kim has done spy thrillers, sci-fi epics and medical dramas. But there’s one role that’s eluded the Korean American actor: romantic leading man. “I’m still waiting to play a romantic lead after all these years,” Kim says with a laugh.His latest project, “Butterfly,” which features a star-studded cast including top Korean actors Kim Tae-hee and Park Hae-soo (“Squid Game”), follows a former U.S. intelligence operative in South Korea whose past catches up with him. It premiered on Amazon Prime in the U.S. and elsewhere earlier this month, but…
Customer with shopping cart in the snack aisle of a Walmart store in Florida City, Florida, Aug. 5, 2025.JC Milhet | AFP | Getty ImagesAs some of the biggest names in retail, including Walmart and Home Depot, delivered earnings results in recent weeks, they updated Wall Street on how they and their shoppers are responding to President Donald Trump’s wave of tariff increases.The takeaway?Tariff costs are rising for retailers, and they’ve had to get creative to avoid widespread price hikes.Yet consumer spending has largely stayed strong so far — and the pinch from higher duties hasn’t been as severe as…
Starting this fall, cheap flights from the United States to Europe might be a little more difficult to come by. Low-cost carrier Norse Atlantic Airways is making significant cuts to its transatlantic route network, nixing half of its flights to the U.S. Beginning in October, the Norway-based carrier will no longer operate six routes from the East and West Coasts to popular cities in the E.U. Those routes include: The cuts were first reported by aviation analyst @SeanM1997 on X and Business Insider. TravelPulse reached out to Norse Atlantic for comment, but didn’t hear back by time of publication.The no-frills carrier…
Battery materials startup Group14 announced Wednesday it has closed a $463 million funding round to expand its manufacturing footprint, a sign that investors remain confident in the future of electric vehicles. The startup manufactures silicon anode materials, which significantly boost the storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. Group14 currently operates three factories, two in the U.S. and one in South Korea. Despite headlines about softening demand growth for electric vehicles, the global market for lithium-ion batteries remains strong. Over the next decade, it’s expected to grow more than 15% annually, quintupling in size, according to Precedence Research. And automakers and investors…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fall books mean more than literary fiction. The top releases this season range from a fairy tale newly told to memoirs about a famous writer’s indomitable mother and life after marriage to a famous rock star. Some books were a decade or more in the making, while former Vice President Kamala Harris’ “107 Days” was finished in a matter of months.Here are 10 new books to look for.“Hansel and Gretel,” Stephen KingYou may think you know the Grimms’ fairy tale about two children lost in the woods. But a new edition this fall promises a fresh…
NEW YORK (AP) — In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, “The Turner House,” Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagements, the occasional essay and, throughout, the challenges of creating a work of imagination.“With nonfiction, you’re usually doing it on a deadline, there’s a constraint of time, and when it’s over, it’s over,” says Flournoy, whose novel “The Wilderness” is out this fall. “When you’re working with facts, they’re not really malleable. But with novels I create the reality. And…
Walt Disney World Resort isn’t a destination to rest on its laurels.In fact, the “Most Magical Place on Earth” has big plans for the final third of 2025 and the start of 2026. Disney Parks recently shared some of those highly anticipated new details for a trio of notable attractions.New Details Revealed for First-Ever Muppets Roller CoasterThe one-of-a-kind Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets will debut at Disney’s Hollywood Studios next year, but before then, the theme park giant has shared some exciting new details for what guests can expect. The Electric Mayhem and beloved characters like Animal and…
The next era of the space economy isn’t just about rockets and satellites — it’s about infrastructure, autonomy, and entirely new models for building and defending off-Earth assets. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, the Space Stage is where this shift gets real. If you’re ready to explore how next-gen tech meets the cosmos, grab your ticket before prices rise on September 1 and save your seat at the Space Stage. Building the new backbone of space In this forward-looking panel, Even Rogers, co-founder and CEO of True Anomaly, and Max Haot, serial entrepreneur…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Beaches in the town of Guardamar del Segura, in southeastern Spain, closed earlier this week after the discovery of two venomous sea slugs in the water, local authorities announced. Due to the appearance “of the blue dragon (Glaucus atlanticus), and for motives of citizenry safety, we have banned all swimming on all of the municipal beaches until a new order,” the Guardamar police force said in a post on Facebook on Wednesday. The blue dragon, colloquially named for its resemblance to the mythical creatures, is only about 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) long, but it feeds on…