Health insurance in the U.S. is notoriously confusing. So we’re covering the basics to make navigating your plan a little easier. We explain the difference between a deductible and an out-of-pocket limit, define copay and coinsurance, and point out where surprise bills can get you in trouble, from out-of-network providers to prior authorizations. Read more…
President Barack Obama’s unsightly library/museum in Chicago doesn’t officially open until June. But that didn’t stop the former president from hijacking ‘Star Wars Day’ to promote his Obama Presidential Center with a cringeworthy video. He even roped in Luke Skywalker himself, actor Mark Hamill, to bring more imbalance to the farce. …
On Saturday, we learned that Spirit Airlines was going out of business. But are its passenger planes permanently grounded? This sounds like yet another job for Marco Rubio! The Secretary of State already wears many hats for the Trump administration; might as well add a pilot’s hat, too. Heck,…
The regretful colonel in “Silent Ex-Wife” is played by Ben Whalen, a thirty-eight-year-old actor from New York. In the fall of 2023, after spending years struggling to land consistent work, Whalen began noticing jobs on the casting platform Actors Access for something called vertical shorts. “I just kept seeing it, so I decided, Let me…
A new AI-generated movie trailer has blended the exciting worlds of author J.R.R. Tolkien (as visualized by movie director Peter Jackson) and filmmaker George Lucas. It’s a marvelous mashup of The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. AI is here, and it is advancing at an exponential rate. A few years ago, the…
“How you feeling, Sabrinawood?” Sabrina Carpenter asked as she gazed out at the tens of thousands of fans she’d gathered into a makeshift city Friday night. “I can’t believe I’m headlining Coachella. “I mean, I can a little bit.” Indeed, when Carpenter made her Coachella debut in 2024, the Disney kid turned pop icon vowed…
Usher and Chris Brown are teaming up again. The singers shared a promotional video Friday on Instagram announcing a joint tour, “R&B: Raymond & Brown” — a reference to Usher’s birth name, Usher Raymond IV. The announcement did not include further details on tour dates or cities. The video depicts the pair speeding through a…
Hip-hop star J. Cole is taking his basketball dreams overseas — again. When ESPN reported Wednesday that the two-time Grammy winner has signed to play for the Nanjing Monkey Kings in the Chinese Basketball Assn., it might have sounded like an April Fool’s Day prank. But it’s no joke. Cole’s longtime manager and business partner…
The life of a showgirl wouldn’t be complete without a few lawsuits, and who knows that better than Taylor Swift and Elizabeth Taylor? On Monday, the “Bad Blood” singer was hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit regarding her most recent album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Real-life Las Vegas showgirl and writer Maren Wade, born…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Bulls did not elaborate, but the announcement that Ivey would be waived came soon after one of his videos on Instagram Live . “They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They proclaim it,” Ivey said in the video. “They show it to the world. They say, ‘Come join us for Pride,’ for…
