Barbie is honoring Hollywood trailblazer Anna Mae Wong to kick off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Wong, the latest figure to get a doll in Barbie's "Inspiring Women Series,'' is considered the first Asian-American star in Hollywood history. The doll's outfit is a reference to Wong's role in the film Limehouse Blues. She was also the first Asian-American actor to star in her own TV show and was named the world's best-dressed woman in 1934 by the New York Mayfair Mannequin Society.
TV ARTIFACTS FOR SALE
Costumes, sets and props from series such as Baywatch, Star Trek, and Breaking Bad are up for auction right now. There are almost 1,000 pieces in total, and they're all part of one man's collection: James Comisar, a comedy writer who originally wanted to create a museum. The auction ends in June, but online bidding is open now, and yes, you can buy Blanche and Sofia's Sonny and Cher costumes from The Golden Girls for a very reasonable $10,000.
KIT KAT CEREAL
General Mills is launching an original cereal based on the iconic candy brand Kit Kat, and it's hitting U.S. stores later this month after a successful launch in Europe. Inspired by the shape of a Kit Kat, each piece of the cereal has four ridges, and it is a combination of crunch and chocolate, just like the candy. Don't worry about rushing to the store right away, because this is a permanent addition to the General Mills lineup.
Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot beyond its earlier estimate of $810 million to $842.4 million at the time of the drawing, making it the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot and 10th-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.
A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the train station in his town and others in an apparent effort to evade an executive order by New York's mayor trying to regulate how and when migrants can be dropped off in the city.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
