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Chelsea Handler has never been shy when admitting her love for booze, but this is the first time she’s revealed how dependant on the bottle she is. She told The Sunday Times Magazine: “If I don’t drink for more than three nights you can tell in my personality. I just need alcohol in my system. I love alcohol – it …

Former employees of Google, Apple, Tesla, Cruise Automation, and others — 40 people in total — have formed a new San Francisco-based company called Otto with the goal of turning commercial trucks into self-driving freight haulers. Prominent staffers include former Google Maps lead Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski of Google’s self-driving car team. Self-driving trucks are probably easier to turn …

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has been found safe after being missing for more than a day in the US city of Chicago. A search had been launched by a concerned caller when she’d failed to return from a bicycle ride. According to a statement from the Wilmette Police Department, Sinead was found safe around 1:45 P.M. CT and “is no …

Deep in the heart of truck country, it’s difficult to avoid this factoid: The F-150 is Ford’s No. 1 seller. But here’s a stat that may have escaped you: the Escape CUV owns the No. 2 spot. With annual sales of its compact crossover just over 300,000 units in 2014 and 2015, Ford wasn’t about to slow the flow. Shoppers …

A woman bitten by a shark in Florida had quite the experience. A 23-year-old woman was taken to hospital with a two-foot long nurse shark still attached to her arm when it refused to release its bite – even after it died. The woman reportedly emerged from the sea with the shark attached to her right forearm in Boca Raton, …

Thomas Manning, a cancer patient received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said. The surgery happened over two days from May 8 to May 9 at Mass. General in Boston. The organ came from a deceased donor. Thomas Manning, the 64-year-old transplant recipient, is a bank courier from Halifax, the New York Times reports. Manning’s …

Illinois — An FBI agent was wounded Sunday as officers attempting to arrest a suspect in another police shooting ended up in an exchange of gunfire that left the suspect dead. According to Col. Tad Williams with the Illinois State Police, on Sunday, May 15 at about 12:09 a.m., Dracy “Clint” Pendleton was spotted by ISP SWAT running south from …

Actress Jennifer Lawrence is very vocal when it comes to disliking Republican presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump. During her appearance on The Graham Norton Show with Johnny Depp and her X-Men: Apocalypse costar James McAvoy, Norton asked whether she ever met Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP nomination. She didn’t, but came close.

Search engine giant Google wants to give emoji – those small digital images or smiley faces used to express an idea or emotion – more female representation especially around jobs. A group of Google employees has submitted a set of 13 new emoji to the Unicode Consortium in a bid to increase the representation of women in emoji.

British police have confirmed that the item found at Manchester United’s stadium was not an explosive, but a training device for an exercise involving sniffer dogs. Thousands of fans were forced to leave Old Trafford stadium after staff found an “incredibly realistic-looking explosive device” in the toilets, according to police.

Warning: Spoilers through season six, episode four, though none if you are caught up. After enduring five seasons plus of marital rapes, walks of shames, and numerous other degradations, “Book of the Stranger,” last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, showed the women of the seven kingdoms wielding true determination and power.