Author: Shekari Philemon

Whoopi Goldberg has never been one to shy away from a candid conversation, and when the topic of relationships came up on a recent episode of The View, the EGOT winner made her position abundantly clear. She is single, she is happy about it, and she has no intention of changing that anytime soon. The discussion was sparked by a Cosmopolitan essay in which a woman in a committed long-term relationship admitted to missing the freedom of her single years, including the spontaneity that comes with casual romance. For Goldberg, it was a topic she could speak to firsthand. The…

Global energy markets buckled Thursday after Qatar reported extensive damage to the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility, sending oil prices up 10 percent and European gas prices surging 35 percent in a single session. Iranian forces struck Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex in what officials described as two separate waves of attacks, triggering sizeable fires and widespread destruction across several LNG facilities. The assault came in response to an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, a move that has dramatically widened the scope of a conflict that began in late February. Qatar is among the world’s top…

It is not every day that a former couple with a history as turbulent as theirs gives the public something genuinely warm to talk about. But that is exactly what happened when Blac Chyna took to social media to celebrate her ex Rob Kardashian on his birthday. She shared a throwback photo of the two of them together with their daughter and paired it with a message that was equal parts affectionate and sincere, calling him the best dad their little girl could have and expressing appreciation that she said went beyond what words could fully capture. For fans who…

Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand As Ever is back in the conversation, this time for a limited edition Easter offering that is as luxurious as it is eye-catching. The brand has released what it calls the Garden Tea Bloom Box, a curated seasonal gift set priced at $255 that combines fresh flowers, herbal tea and artisan honey into a single fragrant package. The set was developed in collaboration with High Camp Supply and features an arrangement built around High Camp Gardenias alongside white peonies, jasmine, mint and camellia greens. The florals are paired with As Ever’s herbal peppermint tea and a…

There are championships and then there are the ones that hit differently. For LeBron James, watching his son Bryce be part of an Arizona basketball team that just claimed the Big 12 conference tournament title clearly fell into the second category. The Los Angeles Lakers star made no effort to conceal how much the moment meant to him, opening up about the joy he felt seeing his youngest son thrive in Tucson. LeBron made clear that watching Bryce grow within the Arizona program has been one of the highlights of his season, describing the experience as something that will pay…

It started simply enough. A Nigerian medical doctor and social media personality known online as Dr. Penking came across a fan-posted video of Nicki Minaj on X, added a caption suggesting she had gotten old and should consider retiring, and moved on with his day. Within hours, that calculus changed entirely. Minaj responded with a since-deleted post tagging her attorney and accusing the influencer of using the clip to harass her, warning him that he had been added to a lawsuit. It was the kind of response designed to intimidate. Instead, it did the opposite. Dr. Penking replied publicly, standing…

Black joy is not a new concept. It has existed as long as Black people have existed in America, which is to say it has always been practiced in deliberate opposition to circumstances designed to make it difficult. What is different now is that Black joy has graduated from a personal survival strategy into an organized, visible, and explicitly political cultural movement that is showing up in art, fashion, community organizing, social media, and the language that Black Americans are using to describe their aspirations for their own lives. The cultural data emerging this year is capturing something that feels…

Slow mornings have been quietly winning an argument that hustle culture did not know it was having. The 4 a.m. wake-up, the cold plunge, the 90-minute productivity block before sunrise, and the comprehensive morning protocol that requires its own calendar slot have been the aspirational standard of a specific and very loud corner of wellness and business culture for years. The implicit message has always been that how seriously you take your morning is a proxy for how seriously you take your life. New research examining cognitive performance, hormonal health, productivity outcomes, and relationship quality across different morning routine types…

Humanoid robots have been five years away from practical deployment for approximately twenty years. Every generation of robotics demonstrations has produced impressive videos of machines walking, dancing, and performing tasks that generated enormous online engagement and very little real-world commercial impact. The demonstrations were always better than the deployment. The promise was always more visible than the product. And yet here we are, watching humanoid robots clock in for actual shifts in actual facilities, and the energy in the robotics industry has shifted from hopeful to something considerably more focused. This year is producing a different story from every previous…

Processed meat has been in a complicated relationship with public health guidance for years. The World Health Organization classified it as a Group 1 carcinogen in 2015, placing it in the same cancer risk category as tobacco and asbestos in terms of the strength of evidence rather than the magnitude of risk. That classification generated headlines, produced several weeks of bacon-related cultural debate, and then settled into the background of dietary consciousness where most people acknowledge it vaguely and proceed to their next charcuterie board without significant modification. New research is making the vague acknowledgment harder to maintain. A comprehensive…