America’s Sweethearts Star Victoria Kalina On Cheerleading, Mental Health, And Her Future

Warning: This post contains spoilers for House of the Dragon. Anyone who watched Game of Thrones knows it was no easy feat surviving in Westeros in the years leading up to the White Walkers’ assault on Winterfell—especially for those who were intent on fighting over the chance to sit on the Iron Throne.

America’s political gerontocracy is hard to avoid noticing. Our presidency continues to be dominated by septuagenarians and octogenarians, and Mitch McConnell will finally retire from running the Senate at age 82. The Dianne Feinstein revelations of advanced dementia mere months before her death at 90 years of age vividly demonstrated the potential ramifications that come with a consolidated elderly leadership.

Hurricane Beryl is shattering storm records on its path through the Caribbean, having already killed several people as it leaves tremendous destruction in its wake. After it passed through Grenada, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said Beryl “flattened” the archipelagic nation’s small island of Carriacou and that, with communication and power lines cut and many roads made impassable, officials are having trouble reaching affected areas. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In neighboring St.

Until very recently, you could walk into any restaurant, any bar, and make one simple request: “Tell me one whiskey or bourbon on your back bar that represents someone who is not a white male.” Then just wait while they look over bottles named for Jack, Johnnie, Pappy, and so on. Before I started the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey Company, white males represented 30% of this country’s population and 100% of the available whiskeys—100%. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The world has only learned of Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, the first known African American master distiller in the world, in recent years.

This story was reported with support from the Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Whenever the growing pile of plastic waste in front of her door takes up too much space, Asinate Lewabeka has a simple solution. She sets it on fire. She prefers to do so at dawn when the air is still so that the smoke rises in a black column.

This Independence Day, competitors at Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest may gulp down as many as 76 wieners in about the time it takes to read this article. Like ultramarathoners hoofing 50 miles or football players shaking off big hits, “speed-eating” entails natural resilience, dedicated training, and serious risks to health.