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The Bulldog watch, released by MB&F in March 2020, retails for $100,000 and sold out almost immediately.

What the wild journey of a $100,000 watch can teach us about global markets

The luxury watch market was a sleepy, shrinking industry until it got caught up in a tidal wave of market forces.

Black Adam the character (Dwayne Johnson) tosses lightning, but <em>Black Adam</em> the movie is a Faraday cage.

In 'Black Adam,' a lightning-based champion can't hold a charge

Dwayne Johnson certainly looks the part of the DC Universe's most powerful anti-hero, but he buries his movie-star charisma under a dour ponderousness.

Western wildfires burning in 2018, like the River Fire in Lakeport, Calif., sent plumes of smoke to the Central U.S. where it helped seed more destructive thunderstorms.

Western wildfires are making far away storms more dangerous

Scientists are finding that Western wildfires can have far-reaching impacts. If they're burning while Central U.S. thunderstorms are forming, the rain and hail can be dramatically more destructive.

Steve Bannon, longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, convicted of contempt of Congress, arrives at federal court for a sentencing hearing on Friday.

Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison for flouting House Jan. 6 panel

A judge has sentenced the former Trump political adviser to four months incarceration and a $6,500 fine for criminal contempt of Congress.

Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capitol Museum in front of the Florida State Capitol in March in Tallahassee, Fla, protesting what opponents call the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

What's in the so-called Don't Say Gay bill that could impact the whole country

If the bill were to become law, it could affect not only schools but also programs, events and literature at any federally-funded institution. But its prospects are dim for now.

People watch a laser show on the banks of the river Sarayu during Deepotsav celebrations on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Ayodhya on November 3, 2021.

Diwali will be honored as an official holiday in New York City schools

Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

Emmett Till's statue reflects the afternoon sun, during its unveiling on Friday in Greenwood, Miss.

A statue of Emmett Till is unveiled in Mississippi

Hundreds of people applauded as Greenwood, Miss., unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teen in 1955.

In this handout provided by the Smithsonian National Zoo, a male red panda named Rusty is seen in his exhibit in the Smithsonian National Zoo in 2013 in Washington, D.C.

Rusty the red panda, who briefly ran free in D.C. in 2013, has unexpectedly died

Rusty the red panda escaped his National Zoo enclosure and was briefly free in Washington, D.C., in 2013. He has died at age 10 of unknown causes.

The songs on Taylor Swift's 10th album, <em>Midnights</em>, place the listener in the immediate nowhere of private space, where stories can change in a whisper.

In the haze of 'Midnights,' Taylor Swift softens into an expanded sound

On Swift's 10th and most challenging album, she and producer Jack Antonoff push her voice in new directions, rethinking the sonic rhetoric of first-person storytelling and shaking off old habits.

Misrach Ewunetie, a 20-year-old Princeton University student, was found dead Thursday on campus, after being missing for almost a week.

A Princeton student who went missing for a week has been found dead, officials say

Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was found by an employee at about 1 p.m. on Thursday behind tennis courts on the campus facilities grounds, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said.

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