The "Access Hollywood" tape was so damaging to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign that the Republican National Committee began planning how to replace him as the GOP's presidential candidate, his ex-executive assistant testified on Thursday.Madeleine Westerhout, who worked as an assistant to a top RNC official before she served as Trump's assistant in the White House, described the post-tape tumult to the jury in Trump's New York criminal hush-money trial."There were conversations about — if it would...
A woman who was outed by "Baby Reindeer" fans as the alleged stalker of the true crime drama's creator and lead actor said she felt "used" by Piers Morgan in an interview about the Netflix series."Baby Reindeer" tells a fictionalized version of creator Richard Gadd's experiences with stalking, and has become a worldwide phenomenon since its release in April. That month, an unnamed woman who was outed on social media as "the real Martha Scott" told the Daily Mail she was considering taking legal...
People who eat a lot of ultra-processed foods are more likely to die early than those who don't, according to a study. But certain foods appeared to increase the risk more than others.Processed meat, drinks sweetened with sugar or artificially, dairy-based desserts, and sugary breakfast foods were linked with dying earlier from any cause, the authors of the study published in The BMJ found. Processed meat, in particular, carried the highest risk.Lead study author Dr. Mingyang Song, associate...
Netflix's "Baby Reindeer" gripped audiences with the story of Donny Dunn, an aspiring comedian who is stalked by a woman after he shows her a moment of kindness in the pub where he works.The series, which is based on the real-life experiences of its writer and lead actor, Richard Gadd, was met with rave reviews for its honest depiction of stalking and abuse, earning a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes.It's ironic, then, that viewers responded to a show about the psychological trauma of stalking by...
Former President Donald Trump's youngest son is set to enter the political spotlight.Florida Republicans selected Barron Trump, 18, as an at-large delegate to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this July. The news, first reported by Politico and NBC, underlines how the Trump family will again play a major role in their father's third straight nomination to lead the Republican Party's presidential ticket.Barron is set to graduate high school next week, a ceremony that the former...
Neuralink's brain-chip implant is working — except that some of the device's threads pulled away from the first human patient's brain.Elon Musk's company shared a progress update in a blog post on Wednesday and said a number of threads "retracted" from the patient's brain a few weeks after his surgery. That rendered the implant less effective.The "Link" device lets the patient move a computer cursor using his thoughts. The process involves more than 1,000 electrodes in the device and at least 64...
New evidence shows how sharply colon cancer rates are skyrocketing in people younger than 45.A team of researchers led by Dr. Islam Mohamed, a physician at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, analyzed CDC data on colon cancer incidence in Americans aged 10 to 44 over two decades.They found that cases have more than tripled in teenagers and more than doubled for people in their early 20s.While the biggest jump in cancer diagnoses was in younger people, the surge in cancer rates was...
Donna Kelce, 71, says she and ex-husband Ed decided to divorce only after their sons Jason and Travis Kelce graduated from college.During an episode of "The Martha Stewart Podcast" released on Wednesday, Kelce reflected on how she and Ed decided to stay together for almost 25 years in order to raise their sons under one roof."We worked together as a team," Kelce said. "So we decided that we would be married throughout the entire time that the kids were in the house, and that's the way it worked...
If Tesla is your dream company, you'll have to compete for one of just three listed US jobs.On Wednesday, the electric vehicle maker cut over 3,400 job postings in North America to just three. The now-axed roles, which were mostly in California, Texas, and Nevada, were listed on Tesla's official careers page as recently as Tuesday, according to a Quartz analysis of archived pages.The hiring freeze comes after one of Tesla's hardest quarters. The company went through a wave of "hardcore" layoffs...
Brain-eating worms? Not likely.A shocking report in The New York Times on Wednesday revealed that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested in a 2012 deposition that doctors had found a dead worm in his brain.In the court proceeding — part of his divorce from his second wife — Kennedy said that he had short-term and long-term memory loss, according to The Times.Kennedy said he had visited doctors in 2010 who thought he had a brain tumor, but another doctor suggested that...
Panera Bread is finally getting rid of its "charged lemonade" — another chip away at our freedom.In a world with few acceptable vices left — and a lot to worry about — Panera's "Charged Sips" were a bright spot.Smoking, of course, is out, and vaping is for degenerate teens. Zyn might be acceptable in the field of stimulants you can do at the office, but I'm concerned about gum health. Moderate drinking, long the most socially acceptable pleasure, is even out, as more and more people are...
Panera Bread is discontinuing its controversial, highly caffeinated Charged Sips range that was linked to at least two wrongful death lawsuits in the US.The sandwich and coffee chain is phasing out the three drinks and replacing them with other beverages in the next two weeks, Bloomberg first reported, citing a company memo. Business Insider has approached Panera for confirmation.Panera told Bloomberg that the change was part of its "menu transformation" and that it would be introducing a...