Hormonal birth control is effective in preventing pregnancy, but there may be some neurological trade-offs that we are only just learning about Oral contraceptives have been effectively preventing pregnancy for more than 65 years, but it has only been in the past 10 that scientists – many of them women – have started to seriously … Read more
It has been almost 3,150 days — more than 8½ years — since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. On Tuesday, she finally gets to testify against the suspects. By the fall of 2016, the Kim Kardashian West train had been speeding through the celebrity landscape like a bullet for years, running down … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Ideally, we like to watch movies in a state of willful ignorance regarding their making, even if the whole machinery of selling and promoting a movie seems to defy that. But taking in the western “Rust” is a different matter. It’s the film on which up-and-coming cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed by a live … Read more
Three and a half years after the fatal shooting on the “Rust” set in New Mexico, Alec Baldwin’s western movie is finally being released. Baldwin accidentally shot the film’s 42-year-old cinematographerHalyna Hutchins, during the film’s production on Oct. 21, 2021. She died that day, a tragedy that sparked investigations, numerous lawsuits and two criminal trials. … Read more
Courtesy of Sophie Lloyd “Raymond Lloyd” was granted membership of the Magic Circle in 1991 A magician who tricked her way into the Magic Circle is finally being granted membership – 34 years after she was kicked out. Sophie Lloyd says she disguised herself as a man to fool examiners into letting her join the … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just after 1 A.M., on Saturday, in the form of an unsigned order from the Supreme Court. The order—responding to an emergency request to prevent the immediate removal of Venezuelan migrants—was gratifyingly unambiguous. “The Government,” it said, “is directed not … Read more
Mark Mothersbaugh wears many hats: He’s a prolific composer for film and TV, including the animated Nickelodeon juggernaut “Rugrats”; he’s scored four Wes Anderson films and Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarock” and is currently working with Pixar. Toddlers who spot the coolly bespectacled, gray-haired septuagenarian at an airport point and gurgle, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” thanks to Mothersbaugh’s … Read more
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Happy Masters week to those who celebrate! The first (and best) golf major of the year is one of the sure signs of spring, and this year’s tournament amid … Read more
