Luxury fitness brand SoulCycle, known for its cult following of rockstar riders like Lady Gaga, is opening its first Georgia studio in Atlanta.
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Deadly romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak nearing end, CDC says
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said that due to its 21-day shelf life, “it is unlikely that any romaine lettuce from the Yuma growing region is still available in stores or restaurants.”
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Read More‘Ms. Marvel’ film starring first Muslim American superhero in the works, Marvel says →
Teen superhero Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, is expected to make it to the big screen.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed a film starring the first Muslim American superhero “is definitely sort of in the works” in an interview with the BBC.
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Read MoreAtlanta among top 3 best places to start a career, study finds →
Thinking of jump-starting your career in Atlanta?
According to a new analysis from personal finance website WalletHub, the metro is one of the top places in the United States to lay the foundation for recent grads or any folks entering the job market.
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Read More#MeToo: A timeline of 2018’s sexual harassment scandals →
On Oct. 5, 2017, the New York Times published a report against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein revealing claims of rape or sexual harassment of dozens of women.
Since then, multiple high-profile men (Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer, Roy Moore) in media, politics and beyond have faced allegations ranging from inappropriate behavior to forced sexual misconduct to rape. Some — but not all — have been ousted from their companies or resigned themselves amid the allegations.
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Read MoreMuslims in America, by the numbers →
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In fact, if current trends continue, Muslims will surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group in the second half of this century, according to the Pew Research Center.
As of 2010, there were an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, making up the majority of the population in 49 countries.
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Read More5 things you should know about Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of fasting →
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Muslims around the globe are gearing up for the holy month of Ramadan, which begins after May 15 this year.
Throughout the holiday, observers fast from sunrise to sunset and partake in nightly feasts.
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Read MoreVirtual tour: Fox Theatre’s swanky $10M Marquee Club rooftop and lounge to open in May →
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The Fox Theatre’s highly anticipated Marquee Club, complete with multiple bars, Moroccan-style lounges and rooftop views of Atlanta’s iconic Peachtree Street, will finally open its doors to the public this month.
A ceremonial grand opening for inaugural members is scheduled for Thursday May 17, with non-member access launching Saturday, May 19.
The $10 million 10,000-square-foot event space renovation marks its most significant expansion and its biggest financial undertaking since the popular theater opened in 1929.
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Read MoreCan police legally obtain your DNA from 23andMe, Ancestry? →
The DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and ancestry programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn’t happen very often.
Recently, Joseph James DeAngelo, the man authorities suspect is the so-called Golden State Killer responsible for at least a dozen murders and 50 rapes in the 1970s and 80s, was arrested more than three decades after the last killing.
And according to the Sacramento County district attorney's office, investigators used information from an online genealogical site to determine whether the DNA from one of the crime scenes was a match, the Associated Press reported.
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Read MoreMajor depression diagnoses in US up 33 percent since 2013, study finds →
Over the past five years, diagnoses of major depression in the United States have risen by at least 33 percent.
That’s according to a new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, for which analysts assessed the BCBS Health Index built from billions of claims for more than 41 million commercially insured Americans annually.
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Read MoreCan police legally obtain your DNA from 23andMe, Ancestry? →
The DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and ancestry programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn’t happen very often.
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Read MoreUber finally reveals its futuristic ‘flying taxi’ prototype →
What if you could reduce your 90-plus minute commute to work to just six minutes? Uber Technologies Inc.’s new concept aircraft, made with the help of NASA scientists, hopes to do just that for future customers.
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Read MoreScientists find potential new cure for baldness →
Scientists in the United Kingdom may have found a new treatment for baldness, according to research published this week in the journal PLOS Biology.
The researchers gathered scalp hair follicle samples from than 40 male hair-transplant patients to examine in the lab and first tested the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A.
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Read MoreDonald Glover dominates weekend with powerfully packed ‘This is America’ video, ‘SNL’ debut →
It was quite the weekend for Stone Mountain native Donald Glover and his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino.
The “Atlanta” actor had his “Saturday Night Live” debut as host this weekend with a star-studded cast featuring Ben Stiller, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johansson and even Stormy Daniels.
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Read MoreTennessee girl discovers 475-million-year-old fossil of rare sea creature
Eleven-year-old Ryleigh Taylor was walking along the shore of Douglas Lake in East Tennessee when she came upon an unusual structure lying on a rock.
The structure, according to University of Tennessee paleobiology professor Colin Sumrall, was a 475-millon-year-old fossil belonging to an extinct sea creature known as a trilobite.
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Read MoreMan in India dies while trying to take selfie with bear →
A man visiting a forest park in the eastern Indian state of Odisha was mauled to death by a bear last week while trying to take a selfie with the animal, according to forest department officers.
The Hindustan Times reported that Prabhu Bhatara was on his way with a group from a wedding in Kotapad, India. He spotted the injured bear while attending to “nature’s call” near a forest and approached the bear despite the group cautioning against it.
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Read MoreTwitter urges all users to change passwords after discovering privacy bug
Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal issued a statement Thursday asking users to consider changing their Twitter password following an issue with unmasked passwords.
“When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it,” Agrawal wrote in a company blog post. “We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.”
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Read MoreTick, mosquito and flea infections in US more than triple since 2004, CDC warns
According to a new report from Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of Americans getting diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in recent years.
Health officials reported on Tuesday that since 2004, at least nine such diseases have been discovered or introduced in the country, with 642,602 cases reported during the 13 years from 2004 through 2016.
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Read MoreWhy are Americans so lonely? Massive study finds nearly half of US feels alone, young adults most of all →
Do you experience bouts of loneliness? You’re not alone. In fact, a new nationwide survey from health insurer Cigna found that nearly half the country is in the same boat.
The online survey of 20,000 adults consisted of self-reported responses to a series of 20 statements or questions. Analysts used the well-known UCLA Loneliness Scale to calculate respondents’ loneliness scores, which range from 20 to 80.
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Read MoreAtlanta comedian tweets about being the next ‘Blue’s Clues’ host, gets callback for Nickelodeon revamp →
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When 26-year-old comedian Yedoye Travis tweeted last June about being the next host on Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues” revamp, he didn’t think anyone would take him seriously.
“They said if I get enough retweets they will bring back Blue's Clues and I can be Steve,” he captioned a photo of him sitting in the famous “Blue’s Clues” chair at Viacom studios in New York, where Travis was shooting a separate project for Comedy Central. The tweet went viral.