3. Doctor Strange Doctor Strange is an incredible defender Vanguard in Marvel Rivals, and can put out a decent amount of damage, too. He primarily uses a shield to block incoming damage, which has a health pool of 800 and a pretty quick recovery speed. This shield is also large and is great for negating […]

Should the United States follow the surgeon general’s call on Friday for cancer warning labels on alcohol, it would join a tiny contingent of nations that advise drinkers of the risk. The World Health Organization concluded in 1988 that alcohol is carcinogenic to humans, and it has for years said that the harms of alcohol […]

The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a Beijing-based cybersecurity company on Friday, blaming it for helping Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. communications systems and conduct surveillance across four continents. In an announcement, the department said the company, Integrity Technology Group, had supported a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Flax Typhoon in a campaign to break […]

The trio of new Sonic Lego sets join an already impressive lineup of playsets and display models themed around the Sega mascot. Sonic made his first appearance in the Lego Ideas line back in 2022 with the Green Hill Zone Display Model shown above. The 1,125-piece set recreates the iconic first zone from the original […]

In the trilogy’s second book, “Small World” (1984), Morris Zapp, a slick theoretician delivering a lecture at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the all-nude go-go bars of Berkeley, Calif., as a metaphor for what continental theory has uncovered about language: “This is not striptease, it is all strip and no tease, […]

The original Guitar Hero debuted in November 2005, but the franchise has been in a lull for a long time. The last game, Guitar Hero Live, arrived in 2015 and there hasn’t been any concrete word about a new title since. However, the Guitar Hero fandom lives on in 2025, and there’s a new controller […]

Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” that became a sprawling franchise and a longtime favorite of children and adults, died on Dec. 25 in Los Angeles. She was 81. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Holly […]

Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 hero shooter, features a pretty wide roster of Marvel characters to play as. While the selection of Strategists, the support heroes focused on healing and buffing teammates, is fairly slight at only seven heroes now, Marvel Rivals will be getting lots of new heroes in the future. These heroes are […]

He demanded the release of a convicted criminal and far-right agitator. He falsely accused the prime minister, Keir Starmer, of failing to go after child rapists when he was head of public prosecutions. He endorsed a post calling on King Charles III to dissolve Parliament and call elections to remove Britain’s seven-month-old Labour government, a […]

As strange as it may sound, this month’s new DC Lego sets includes the first Superman building kit in more than a decade. Superman Mech vs. Lex Luthor, which is exactly what it sounds like, joins a very small list of Superman Lego products. There have been a few minifigure releases, including a Lego keychain […]