Author: Nola Jones

As a child on a reality show, as a young woman navigating tabloid culture, and now as a 41-year-old who can’t post a photo without the internet turning her body into a debate, Kelly Osbourne has been under constant scrutiny. That continuity is unsettling in some way. The platforms and faces shift, but the urge to remark on how much room she occupies? That portion doesn’t change. By now, the majority of those following her transformation are aware of the general outline. Osbourne lost about 85 pounds after having gastric sleeve surgery in 2018. She has discussed it with unusual…

It’s difficult to forget the moment Lily Collins described in an interview. After months of closely watched weight loss for her 2017 Netflix movie To the Bone, she was noticeably thinner as she left her apartment when someone her mother’s age gave her a thorough examination and remarked, “Oh wow, look at you.” Collins attempted to clarify that it was for a role, but the woman dismissed her with a wave. “I want to know what you’re doing, you look great.” As Collins and her mother got into the car, Collins muttered, “That is why the problem exists.” More can…

In this instance, the timeline has an almost disorienting quality. A man by the name of Rushpal Singh entered JFK International Airport in 1991. There, immigration officers met him, took note of his name, and opened a file. An immigration judge ordered his deportation four years later. That ruling was maintained by the Board of Immigration Appeals. Federal records show that nothing happened after that. He stayed put. A year or so after that deportation order, something much more planned appears to have taken place. A man by the name of Harinder Singh submitted an application to the Immigration and…

A lawsuit may be primarily about money at times. Occasionally, it comes down to principle. In the end, a Utah-based keto brand filed for Chapter 11 protection after a federal judge rendered one of the most notable packaging verdicts in recent food industry memory. The case between Van Leeuwen Ice Cream and Rebel Creamery managed to be about both. Rebel Creamery was ordered to return $23.785 million in profits to the Brooklyn-based ice cream company after U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee found on July 16 that Rebel had purposefully imitated Van Leeuwen’s trade dress, or the general appearance and feel…

Most people are unaware when a recall is subtly upgraded on a Wednesday afternoon. Most phones don’t have a dramatic press conference or a breaking news alert. Somewhere in a grocery store in Texas or Louisiana, cartons of eggs remain on shelves past their expiration date, waiting to be returned or discarded, while the FDA updates a page and agencies file reports. On August 12, federal regulators classified the Midwest Poultry Services egg recall as Class I, which is the agency’s highest risk designation. The FDA does not use the term “class I” lightly. They define it as “a reasonable…

When reality stops making sense at 8:15 on a Tuesday morning, a certain kind of disbelief sets in. That moment came somewhere between the second and third layer of an old brick wall for Kobe, an 18-year-old working on a summer construction project in the Belgian town of Dendermonde, when what he initially believed to be scattered euro coins turned out to be something completely different. Something far more fascinating. Kobe worked on a team that renovated a former brewery and installed sewage system pipes—the kind of unglamorous infrastructure work that seldom makes headlines. Once owned by a 19th-century brewer…

Celebrities, well-known faces from shows you watched on Tuesday nites without giving it much thought, exist on the periphery of your consciousness. Then there are individuals like Hayden Panettiere, who made an appearance on your screen when she was just old enough to drive, but for some reason, she never completely disappeared. Five days before her 37th birthday, on August 16, 2026, the news of her passing carried that special weight that comes when someone feels both far away and incredibly familiar at the same time. Panettiere practically grew up in the industry. She got a part in the soap…

The Big Island of Hawaii was not hit by Hurricane Lala. In a technical sense. It passed so close to South Point, the southernmost tip of the United States, that its eyewall touched the edge of the island, something that hadn’t happened since 1871. Conversations, weather briefings, and social media posts from storm chasers who drove Highway 11 thru the nite frequently bring up that figure. It’s the type of historical footnote that could seem abstract in other situations. It doesn’t feel abstract at all after this weekend. Extremes are already prevalent on the Big Island. It features snow-capped peaks,…

There hasn’t been a significant storm in some parts of Panama since early May. The fertile highlands of Ethiopia are experiencing one of the driest summers in forty years. Since the start of modern rain records in 1901, India had its fifth driest June. These are early signs of something much bigger developing in the Pacific Ocean, and the full impact hasn’t yet materialized. They are not isolated weather anomalies dispersed throughout the world. A Super El Niño is emerging. When ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific are more than two degrees Celsius above average, climate…

It began with a discussion. There was no formal paperwork or signed contract, just conversations between two people who seemed to leave with quite different interpretations of what had been agreed upon. Spur Corporation has spent over R129 million in provisions and counting as a result of that gap, which, despite its apparent smallness at the time, has now developed into one of the most costly legal disputes in South Africa’s restaurant industry. The lawsuit against Spur GPS Food Group began in 2019 when GPS Food Group served a summons alleging that it and Spur entities had an oral agreement…