Pandemic

For a film about an isolated, southern town that’s struggling through the Covid-19 pandemic, Ari Aster’s Eddington is shockingly funny. Even more surprising? The typically stoic Luke Grimes is the most hilarious actor in the movie. The 41-year-old Yellowstone star plays Guy, a police officer in Eddington under sheriff Joe…

A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated horror films like Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar. Over a decade in, the ambitions of A24 and Aster have expanded beyond genre film. But for both,…

Best Games Escape room games are becoming a thing lately, even on Android phones Left Arrow 0/24 Right Arrow Updated by Jupiter Hadley on July 17th, 2025  - Checked Games Running away from the reality of the current life, during this pandemic seems reasonable. This list of best escape room…

A Nigerian doctor has raised serious alarm over what he calls a silent pandemic — the alleged increasing number of young female students donating their eggs for money. Dr. Penking on X claims many of these ladies, especially in universities, are rushing to fertility centres and exchanging their eggs for…

ATLANTA – Delta Airlines, Inc. (“Delta”) paid $8.1 million to the United States to settle claims that the company violated conditions Congress placed on federal relief funds provided to Delta under the Payroll Support Program (PSP). The PSP was created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to…

Washington, D.C., July 15, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the termination of the Regional Food Business Centers (RFBC) program. This pandemic-era, Biden program was created using one-time, temporary funding from Congress. The Department is terminating this program that should not have been established in…

Seriously, when does this man sleep? 15 · 07 · 2025 Jeff Tweedy has announced plans for a new solo album ‘Twilight Override’. The ever-productive Wilco figure has seemingly been stockpiling material, and five years on from his 2020 pandemic era reflective ‘Love Is The King’ he’s ready to strike…

India constituted 6.4 per cent of the global population of children who did not receive a single dose of any vaccine in 2024, according to a United Nations report. The new national immunisation coverage data released on Monday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF also highlighted that "India…

Gene-Swaps Could Let Influenza Jump Species Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last four flu pandemics By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Avian influenza, a virus of the orthomyxoviridae family. The flu…

Discarding the old siloed system, AGIS took the digital leap, increasing planning speed by 80 percent and processing more than 1,800 daily orders with a solution using AI and other tools. AGIS’s revolutionary manufacturing platform  Following the political uncertainty and supply chain disruptions that started during the pandemic, Al Ghurair Iron…