Reuters – The Biden administration is examining what authority businesses have to mandate vaccines, a top U.S. official told Reuters on Friday, as it considers what more steps can be done to halt the spread of COVID-19. “We are looking at that just to see how far employers can go …
Read More »Barbie Released a Line Celebrating Global COVID-19 Heroes—but We Feel Like Someone's Missing
Image: Mattel She may have a controversial history (and sparked more than a few body image issues), but we can’t help but remain fans of Barbie—particularly as the now 60-plus-year-old doll has been heading in a dramatically more inclusive and affirming direction as of late. Under parent company Mattel, she’s …
Read More »Pop Is Making Happiness Sound Pretty Dreary Lately
Getty ; Adam Maida / The Atlantic Billie Eilish has some scary problems, she tells listeners on her new album’s first song, “Getting Older.” A stranger outside her door is acting deranged. Loneliness and burnout mount in her mind. Abuse and trauma darken her past. She murmurs about these things …
Read More »Bill Bellamy Regrets Not Trademarking ‘Booty Call’
Bill Bellamy is known for his comedy chops, hosting skills and coining one of the most popular pop culture phrases on the planet — booty call. However, he made one mistake — never trademarking the phrase. On this week’s episode of the podcast PEOPLE in the ’90s, he revealed that …
Read More »U.S. Economy Adds 943,000 Jobs In July, Flying Past Employment Expectations
Reuters – U.S. employers hired the most workers in nearly a year in July and continued to raise wages, giving the economy a powerful boost as it started the second half of what many economists believe will be the best employment growth in almost four decades. The Labor Department‘s closely …
Read More »Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going to Get Someone Killed
Photo: Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images (Getty Images) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) suggested to an audience in Alabama that government workers should be shot if they come knocking on their doors asking if they have been vaccinated. In a video that was recorded during Greene’s appearance at an Alabama …
Read More »<em>The Suicide Squad </em>Pushes the Limits of Taste
In the film, edgy shock value meets Hollywood sentimentality, resulting in a superhero movie unlike most others in the genre. Warner Bros. The Suicide Squad might seem like a typical superhero movie at first: Yet another group of powerful comic-book characters is thrown together to fight insurmountable odds on a …
Read More »Aaliyah's Estate Releases Stern Statement
This month marks 20 years since Aaliyah Dana Haughton died in a plane crash. The singer never stopped being a force in pop culture and the details of her life and untimely death have been discussed and examined by the media many times over. As another unauthorized book about her …
Read More »Learn The Best Project Management Strategies With These 22 Courses
No matter what role or industry you’re in, you’ve probably noticed that the demand for project managers has grown rapidly in the last few years. More companies are starting to realize that good project management is important for better results and happier employees, and research shows that by 2027 most work will …
Read More »Met Gala, but Make It Masked: As New York Fashion Week Looms, the Industry's Biggest Night Takes Precautions
Zazie Beetz attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City.Photo: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) The 2021 Met Gala must go on, apparently—even amid a surging pandemic. The always anticipated event—which converges the worlds of fashion, …
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