On Thursday, Taylor Swift received an apology from Billboard for using an unapproved video of her in a nude wax figure that was shared on social media. Over the past few months, Billboard has been revealing their list of the greatest pop stars of the twenty-first century. Swift was ranked No. 2 by the publication on Wednesday, and they accompanied the news with an Instagram video that dissected her career. The video included a snippet of Swift in the nude from the music video for the 2016 song "Famous," which was made by rapper Ye. Numerous wax sculptures of nude celebrities, including Swift, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, and others, are featured in the music video. During a segment of its film when a narrator describes Swift's conflict with Ye and his ex-wife, Kim Ka...

Theft of 1,278 pairs of Air Jordan 11 Retro shoes, valued at over $311,000, from a train halted in California's Mojave Desert has been filed against three men. Railway police with railway operator BNSF were alerted that the contents of a shipping container containing Nike merchandise had been separated from the train while it was parked outside the desert town of Amboy, California, which is approximately 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles, according to a release from the district attorney of Orange County. After Nike embedded a GPS tracker in the Air Jordan package, California Highway Patrol officers were able to trace the consignment to a U-Haul vehicle in an Anaheim parking lot. Olegario Flores, 26, Bernardo Romeroquintero, 34, of Phoenix, and Bryan QuinteroEcharravia, 18, of Mesa, Arizo...

The Miami Dolphins appeared lifeless in the water a month ago. The squad was 2-6 and appeared to be closer to the No. 1 overall choice than the playoffs, even after quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returned from a concussion in Week 2 that kept him out of four games. Since then, Tagovailoa and the Dolphins have been on fire, winning three in a row and falling just 1 1/2 games short of the AFC's final postseason berth. Additionally, Tagovailoa has played some of his best football in the five weeks since his comeback, recording a 76.5% completion percentage, 11 touchdowns, one interception, and a passer rating of 116.2. Miami now resembles the squad that qualified for the playoffs the previous two seasons despite its flaws. However, none of the Dolphins' five wins this season have come against a c...

A surprising breed has emerged as America's new national dog champion. At the 92nd annual National Dog Show Presented by Purina, a pug won best in show for the first time in at least 20 years. According to a release, Vito, the pug, is the top pug in all show systems and the second-best toy dog in the United States. He won best of breed in the AKC National Show in 2023 and this year's Westminster Dog Show in New York City. Despite being only two and a half years old, Vito has won 25 best-in-show awards in his lifespan, according to his co-owner, Carolyn Koch of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In an interview with NBC News, Koch (pronounced Cook) declared, "I'm so proud of him." She referred to pugs as "her breed" and expressed her happiness that Vito was becoming popular among show dogs.Note: ...

The Summary Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei. The discovery raises questions about what kind of relationship and interactions the two species had. The first proof that two distinct species of early human ancestors visited the same area at the same time 1.5 million years ago comes from a recently found set of footprints in Kenya. The footprints, which were discovered within hours or days of each other and are said to be those of the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, raise new questions about what transpired when the two came into contact, according to the rese...

On Thursday, President Joe Biden denounced President-elect Donald Trump's declaration that he would impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, calling the remarks "counterproductive." "I hope he rethinks it, and I think it's a counterproductive thing to do," Biden claimed in response to a reporter's inquiry about his thoughts on Trump's declaration. "The last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships," he stated. Biden made these remarks while visiting a fire station in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Thanksgiving Day. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump stated that imposing a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico will be one of his first executive orders. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative reports that Mexico and Canada rank second and third in terms of the number ...

On Wednesday, a State Department official announced the release of three American nationals who had been imprisoned in China for years. They are John Leung, Kai Li, and Mark Swidan. Long Island, New York native Li, 62, was arrested in 2016 and given a 10-year term in 2018 on espionage allegations that his family claims are unfounded. Swidan, a 40-year-old Texas businessman who had been in custody since 2012, was found guilty of drug-related accusations that a United Nations working group deemed lacked evidence, and in 2019 he was given a death sentence with a reprieve. The State Department believed that Li and Swidan had been illegally detained. Last year, a court in eastern China found John Leung, a 70-year-old American with permanent citizenship in Hong Kong, China, guilty of espionage a...

President-elect Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seem to have quite different memories of a meeting that touched on the contentious topic of migration, in what appears to be a case of he said, she said. Trump posted on social media during the late-Wednesday phone conversation that the Mexican leader had committed to halting immigration to the United States via Mexico. I just had a great talk with Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the new president of Mexico. In a post on Truth Social, he claimed that she had committed to halting migration via Mexico and into the United States, so sealing our southern border. It was a really fruitful discussion! Trump's story was different from Sheinbaum's. During our discussion with President Trump, I informed him of Mexico's all-encompassing a...

Ukraine's KYIV Russia conducted a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine's energy industry early Thursday, leaving over 700,000 homes and businesses without power throughout the icy country. The complicated strike, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was a response to Ukraine's use of American-made ATACMS missiles to launch an attack within Russia. He asserted, without proof, that the attack targeted military locations despite the severe harm to civilians. Late Wednesday night, air raid sirens started to sound and continued to do so for over nine hours. Along with strollers, pets, and whatever small blankets they could carry, people across sought shelter in bomb shelters, subway stations, and even their own restrooms while they waited out the bombardment. Targeting the po...

On Wednesday, a State Department official announced the release of three American nationals who had been imprisoned in China for years. They are John Leung, Kai Li, and Mark Swidan. Long Island, New York native Li, 62, was arrested in 2016 and given a 10-year term in 2018 on espionage allegations that his family claims are unfounded. Swidan, a 40-year-old Texas businessman who had been in custody since 2012, was found guilty of drug-related accusations that a United Nations working group deemed lacked evidence, and in 2019 he was given a death sentence with a reprieve. The State Department believed that Li and Swidan had been illegally detained. Last year, a court in eastern China found John Leung, a 70-year-old American with permanent citizenship in Hong Kong, China, guilty of espionage a...