Take, for instance, Minions: The Rise of Gru – the second prequel to the main movie series and the sequel to 2015’s Minions – which debuts this week in cinemas. It introduces a collection of ...

In 1976, 11-year-old Gru dreams of becoming a supervillain. Ecstatic when he receives a message from the supervillain team the Vicious 6, Gru finds himself the object of their wrath and needs all ...

The 'Despicable Me' franchise started in 2010 and a new film will premiere in 2027. Here’s where to watch and stream every ...

“Know thy enemy,” Sun Tzu wrote, and as we are in a holiday season with some time before the Trump administration officially begins, I want to write a historical series tracing the rise of ...

The rise of Bitcoin, he says, "reflects a loss of confidence in the monetary system". While global currencies no longer trade on a gold standard, most countries, and particularly China in recent ...

The Cold Moon — the 12th and final full moon of 2024 — will rise on Sunday (Dec. 15). It will ascend higher into the night sky than any other full moon this year to sit alongside the planet ...

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olygamy, still practiced in some parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG), symbolized wealth and status in the country’s so-called “big man” culture. The greater the fortune a man accumulated ...

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a grocery store here was plumb out of eggs. An hour and a half north in Richfield, some eggs could be had, but they weren’t cheap. That dozen cost $1.70 more ...

Rujm el-Hiri, dubbed the “Stonehenge of the East” with a 492-foot diameter, has baffled experts since it was discovered in ...