A girl sits on a cot as she crosses a flooded street in Pakistan on October 4, 2022. A record 32.6 million internal displacements were associated with disasters in 2022 — more than the 28.3 million with conflict and violence, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Fida Hussain | Afp | Getty Images As … Read more
Love Is Blind season 5 contestant Renee Poche has filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the production company behind the hit show, Delirium TV, claiming imprisonment while on the show and essentially being set up with “a walking red flag” when she got engaged to fellow contestant Carter Wall. In court documents obtained by ET, Poche … Read more
Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The U.S.-born child and … Read more
Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are familiar with the running debate about who is the strongest Avenger. That’s one of those questions that has a lot of different answers, but we’re posing a different one today: Who is the richest member of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes based on their estimated net worth? Since assembling for … Read more
BEIJING — The strong earthquake that hit northwest China this week, killing at least 148 people, caused economic losses estimated to be worth tens of millions in the agricultural and fisheries industries, state media said Saturday. Officials in Gansu conducted preliminary assessments that showed the province’s agricultural and fisheries industries have lost 532 million yuan … Read more
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the top tech — and tech-related — stories over the past several days. With the holiday around the corner, this reporter expected a quieter week. But the opposite happened — there’s been no shortage of stories to write about. In this edition … Read more
Millions of Americans are set to lose a popular 401(k) benefit — are you one of them? Here’s what it is and what it means for you Higher earners, heed this warning: If you’ve been persistently socking away money for retirement through a traditional 401(k) plan, a big change is coming. Thanks to one of … Read more
Picture Alliance | Getty Images LONDON — Fake TikTok accounts have spread disinformation on Russia’s war in Ukraine to millions of people, new data from the Chinese social media giant shows. Posts on the video-sharing site targeted Ukrainian and Russian users, as well as many across Europe, with content designed to “artificially amplify pro-Russian narratives” … Read more
The winner of “Squid Game: The Challenge” is inching closer to finally seeing her $4.56M payday, but by the terms of her contract … TMZ has learned she’s still gotta play the waiting game. Sources tell TMZ … show champ Mai Whelan — who recently said her winnings from the Netflix series have yet to … Read more
GOMA, Congo — Elisha Manishimwe longs to return to his village in eastern Congo to vote in this month’s presidential election. But for two years he has lived in a displacement camp with thousands of others after fleeing for his life. His fatigue is compounded by despair. Many of the displaced do not even have … Read more