The Big Street (RKO-Radio) is a pleasant bit of paranoia that cannot possibly displease anyone, but may baffle some cinemaddicts for a while. It is also the first of Damon Runyon’s homely tales about Times Square to be produced by him. When Her Highness (Lucille Ball), an imperious nightclub queen, gets publicly slapped downstairs and fetches up at the bottom hopelessly crippled, it looks as if she or Author-Producer Damon Runyon were crazy.

The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be associated with unprecedented lockdowns and inconveniences such as wearing masks in public. And that’s largely because health experts had no idea exactly where the SARS-CoV-2 virus was lurking, and how risky crowded settings such as workplaces, classrooms, and public transportation were. But what if an easy-to-use, mobile device could detect, in real time, SARS-CoV-2 in a given space? That would give people confidence to go maskless, if no virus were floating around, or take precautions like wearing a mask or avoid the setting altogether if the virus was detected.

Think you can find a better song of the summer? I doubt it. “The Spark,” a song by a group of Irish tweens that has taken off online since its release in May might just be the catchiest—and most inspiring—tune of the summer.  “Think you can stop what we do? I doubt it. We got the energy, I’ll tell you all about it,” goes the chorus. “I searched for my spark and I found it, everybody in the club start bouncing.

At 6:13 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13, 13 bright yellow vehicles lined up on a Chicago street. Heading the procession was a sedan “scout car,” followed by five huge trailers, each pulled by a different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin ‘as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept.

As an Atlanta grand jury met Monday to hear evidence about Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, law-enforcement officials and police imposed a dramatic set of security measures. Armed officers patrolled the orange barricades around the courthouse. Police walked the perimeter with bomb-sniffing dogs. And security officials kept a wary eye on the flood of intimidating messages and violent threats targeting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Facebook A video making the rounds online reveals a troubling history of domestic abuse from a Texas family court judge. The video, which was recorded in 2004, was reportedly posted by Hillary Adams, the daughter of Aransas County Court at Law Judge William Adams, and the one on the receiving end of the judge’s belt. The video shows the judge allegedly whipping his daughter for the very teenage crime of downloading music from the internet.

I’m lucky I haven’t had a nervous breakdown,” says Janet Gewinner as she looks on while her 17-year-old son Matt leaves for hockey practice. She reminds him to take the medication in the kitchen. For him it is a life-and-death issue. Matt was a relatively well-adjusted teen until the summer of 1998, when his close friend Jeremy DeNeal died in a car accident. “There was no one to get me through Jeremy’s funeral, so I had to do it alone,” says Matt.

Getty Images When you were a kid, did you ever have to use peanut butter to get gum out of your hair? The next generation may not have to deal with the embarrassment. Designers at Bristol University in the U.K. have come up with a non-stick chewing gum. According to their tests on roads and sidewalks, more than 50% of their gum, called Rev7, can be removed through traditional street cleaning.

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Following criticism, Nike is canceling the release of a Fourth of July sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag — a flag with a ring of stars representing the original 13 colonies during the American Revolution. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nike pulled the sneaker after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others criticized the use of the flag. “Nike has chosen not to release the Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July as it featured an old version of the American flag,” a Nike spokesperson said in statement to TIME.