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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Most units of time are based on nature. A day is one rotation of the Earth. A month is the moon’s orbit. A year is the Earth’s path around the sun.But a week? There’s no natural explanation for it. (See the video at the top of this article.) That’s why ancient cultures defined the week in vastly different ways: four days in West Africa, 10 in Egypt, 15 in China. THE SECRETS OF A MEANINGFUL AND LIFELONG GRANDPARENT-GRANDCHILD BONDIn the 1930s, the Soviets tried to eliminate the seven-day week entirely — first replacing it…

Kris Jenner gets compared to her daughters with new look; “Mormon Wives” stars’ say fame tore their friendships apart. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue/Araya Doheny/Getty Images) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Welcome to the Fox News Entertainment Newsletter.TOP 3: -Fans compare Kris Jenner to her famous daughters after age-defying makeover-‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ stars say fame, ‘jealousy and comparison’ tore friendships apart-Meghan Markle admits to shattered dreams of royal motherhood while experts question Sussex family choices Billy Joel cancels all shows after a rare brain disorder diagnosis. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)MUSIC ON HOLD – Billy Joel…

Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp speaks during the Hill & Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025.Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesPalantir CEO Alex Karp has sold more than $50 million worth of shares in the artificial intelligence software company, according to securities filings.The stock transactions occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday between $125.26 and $127.70 per share. Following the stock sales, Karp owned about 6.43 million shares of Palantir stock, worth about $787 million based on Thursday’s closing price.The sales were connected to a series of automatic share sales…

Benicio del Toro could hardly refuse Wes Anderson’s offer to star in The Phoenician Scheme. After all, the lead role in the filmmaker’s latest whimsical confection was written specifically for the Puerto Rican Oscar-winner.Anderson was inspired to create the character after watching del Toro’s performance as a mentally disturbed artist, incarcerated for murder, in the director’s 2021 anthology comedy, The French Dispatch.But, even in that film, del Toro was playing to the strengths that have served him well throughout the course of his career.The tough guy. The man of few words, each delivered with quiet intensity. The man with blood…

SHANGHAI: China’s Premier Li Qiang said on Saturday (May 24) that China and Indonesia will promote “true multilateralism”, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as he landed in Jakarta on a two-day visit to Southeast Asia’s largest economy. China has intensified engagement with countries in the region since US President Donald Trump announced hefty import tariffs on its global trading partners earlier this year. Some levies have since been delayed, while China and the US agreed this month to pause some of their tariffs. Jakarta, whose biggest trading partner is China, has offered the US a number of concessions in…

Despite war losses, Hezbollah is using the vote as an opportunity to show it still has political influence.Voters in southern Lebanon are casting their ballots in municipal elections seen as a test of support for Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political and armed group. The vote on Saturday in the mostly Shia area, where Hezbollah is allied with Amal – the party led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri – marks the final phase of Lebanon’s staggered local elections. It comes after a November 2024 ceasefire between the group and Israel was supposed to end months of attacks. lsrael, however, has continued…

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine, hosted the president of South Africa at the White House and threatened more stringent tariffs against the European Union this week. During South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Oval Office visit on Wednesday, Trump got into a testy exchange with the South African leader about the treatment of White farmers there. Specifically, Trump aired a video that showed white crosses that Trump said were approximately 1,000 burial sites of White Afrikaner South African farmers. Trump has repeatedly asserted these farmers are being killed and pushed off of their…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 24, 2025 12:35 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police say they’ve arrested five people in a rash of recent distraction thefts in which seniors were targeted for their jewelry. The issue has risen in prominence in recent months, with police departments across the country — including Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto — warning citizens about the practice earlier this year. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Montreal police say three…

It could easily have been Monte Carlo and bust for Oscar Piastri as he had a career-high number of brushes with the barriers on F1’s most famous street circuit before being relieved to finish third in qualifying for the sport’s showpiece Monaco Grand Prix.Instead, while the championship leader diced with danger, it was McLaren teammate Lando Norris who came out top in a thrilling qualifying contest on Saturday, setting a lap record to edge out hometown hero, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, for pole.In a terrific final Q3 shootout, Piastri had seconds earlier also broken the record in 1 minute 10.129 seconds,…

The concerns about Chinese government influence at Harvard are not new. Some US lawmakers, many of them Republicans, have expressed worries that China is manipulating Harvard to gain access to US advanced technology, to circumvent US security laws and to stifle criticism of it in the United States. “For too long, Harvard has let the Chinese Communist Party exploit it,” a White House official told Reuters on Friday, adding the school had “turned a blind eye to vigilante CCP-directed harassment on-campus.” Harvard did not respond immediately to requests for comment. The school has said the revocation was a punishment for…