Author: Shekari Philemon

Gut health has been a wellness buzzword for long enough that most people have tuned out the conversation. You have heard about probiotics. You have been told to eat more fiber. Someone has definitely recommended kombucha to you at a party with a level of enthusiasm that felt slightly evangelical. And through all of it, the idea that your digestive system has an intimate relationship with your brain has felt like a soft wellness claim rather than a hard scientific one. The 2026 research is here to make the case considerably harder. A landmark study published in early 2026 examining…

Few comebacks carry as much emotional weight as one built on a decade of quiet. Jill Scott, the Philadelphia soul singer who helped define neo-soul in the early 2000s, has released her first album in ten years, and by her own account, it is among the most personal work she has ever made. The record arrives not as a reinvention but as a deepening, a fuller expression of the woman she has been building herself into across a lifetime. Releasing music after that long a silence comes with its own kind of vulnerability. She has described the experience of putting…

Four days into a military campaign against Iran, the United States is staring down an estimated $200 billion price tag and a question even the president cannot answer: what happens next? Since strikes began targeting Iran’s leadership on a Saturday, the administration has offered shifting justifications for the campaign. Officials stopped short of explicitly framing it as a regime-change operation, yet the outcome has effectively functioned as one. Reports suggest the initial strikes alone killed dozens of senior Iranian officials, gutting the country’s top leadership structure in a matter of hours. The defense secretary reinforced that framing publicly early in…

Weeks before an Iranian frigate was torpedoed and sunk near Sri Lanka, it had been sailing proudly through Indian waters as an honored participant in one of the region’s most prominent naval gatherings. India’s navy and defense ministry confirmed that the vessel had taken part in the International Fleet Review and a multilateral naval exercise organized by the Indian navy at the port of Visakhapatnam in mid to late February, an event that drew participation from 74 countries. Images from the exercise showed the ship at sea and its crew posing on deck beneath the Iranian flag. From those celebratory…

Brent crude futures climbed to $90 a barrel this week for the first time in nearly two years, as a widening Middle East conflict brought shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to a near-complete halt. The global benchmark surged as much as 7.6% in a single session, while West Texas Intermediate topped $85 for the first time since April 2024. Taken together, futures have gained more than 20% in just one week. The scale of the disruption is staggering. Estimates suggest the global crude market is losing between 7 million and 11 million barrels of supply each day because of…

A global poll has dropped a number that no one who came of age in the era of shoulder pads and consciousness-raising is quite ready to process. Nearly one in five Gen Z women say they believe their future husbands should have the final word on important household decisions. That is 19 percent of a generation that was supposed to have inherited a leveled playing field, up sharply from around 6 percent of the generation that preceded them. The reaction among older women who lived through the feminist movements that made those gains possible has ranged from disbelief to a…

Smelling good is about more than a spritz of cologne before you head out the door. The way your body smells is shaped by what you eat, how you manage stress, what you wear, and dozens of small daily choices that add up over time. Perfume and deodorant can mask odor temporarily, but lasting freshness comes from addressing the root causes rather than covering them up. These 14 habits make all the difference. 1. Find a deodorant that actually works for your body chemistry Not every deodorant formula works the same way for every person. Body chemistry varies, and the…

It did not take long for a false report about Queen Latifah to find its way across social media platforms this week. A claim that the actress and entertainer had passed away began circulating online and quickly gained enough traction to reach fans around the world, prompting concern and an outpouring of messages directed at the star herself. By Thursday, Latifah had seen enough. The actress, whose full name is Dana Owens, responded directly and without hesitation, making clear that she was alive, healthy and fully aware of what had been spreading in her name. Setting the record straight Latifah…

Bianca Censori took the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom this week, answering questions about one of the more unusual renovation projects in recent celebrity real estate history. The case centers on a lawsuit brought by Tony Saxon, a former worker who is seeking $1 million in unpaid wages and alleging a range of serious grievances including unsafe working conditions, disability discrimination and wrongful termination. At the heart of the dispute is a property that has become something of a symbol for the contradictions that tend to surround Kanye West. He purchased the Malibu beachfront home in 2021 for…

KSI has built one of the most recognizable personal brands in British entertainment, moving from YouTube videos to boxing matches to a seat on the judging panel of Britain’s Got Talent. His latest move, however, goes further than anything he has attempted before. The influencer and content creator, whose real name is Olajide Olatunji, has acquired a minority stake in Dagenham and Redbridge FC, a club currently competing in the sixth tier of English football, and he is documenting the entire journey on camera. The project, titled Race to the Top, is being produced alongside After Party Studios and will…