On Monday, Katy Perry, Gayle King, journalist Lauren Sanchez and more launched into space with Blue Origin’s all-female mission — the first all-female mission in over 60 years, per USA Today. They were eager to bring “female finesse” to the intergalactic, said the article. But what was meant to inspire women drew backlash instead. With many criticizing — women and celebrities included — finding the space journey performative and silly. Celebrities including Olivia Munn, Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde publicly criticized the all-female space venture. Munn referred to the mission,...

Behind the scenes of the fifth season of "The Chosen." Director Dallas Jenkins says filming for "The Chosen" Season 6 is now in progress. On the heels of the theatrical release of “The Chosen: Last Supper,” the sixth season of “The Chosen” has started filming, director Dallas Jenkins announced Monday. “As you can imagine, it’s a big undertaking,” Jenkins said of filming Season 6, in a statement shared with the Deseret News. “There are teams to wrangle, details to nail, and every time I think I’ve locked everything down —...

A doctor looks at PET brain scans at Banner Alzheimers Institute in Phoenix on Aug. 14, 2018. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of developing dementia, according to research from Stanford. The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of developing dementia over seven years by about 20%. That’s more than any other known intervention, according to research from Stanford. The findings are based on what the Stanford news service calls “an unusual public health policy in Wales,” which created what amounts to a natural experiment. The Stanford Medicine study...

This image provided by Blue Origin shows, first row, seated, from left: Lauren Sanchez and Kerianne Flynn and standing in back from left: Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Aisha Bowe in West Texas. On Monday, the private space company Blue Origin took its first all-female crew to space and back in it’s New Shepard spacecraft, according to Deseret News. The six women on board included pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn and...

A scene from the upcoming season 5 of The Chosen. The final installment of “The Chosen: Last Supper” opened in theaters this weekend, generating $5.8 million in ticket sales, per Box Office Mojo. “The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 3″ failed to match the success of the previous two installments, which debuted in theaters with $11.8 million (Part 1) and $6.8 million (Part 2). As a whole, the “Last Supper” trilogy has surpassed $35 million at the box office — largely in part to “Last Supper — Part 1," which...

A gentle breeze sends waves lapping onto the sand as a smattering of sunbathers spreads lazily out on beach towels; a pair of children splash in the water. A typical tourist scene in the Canary Islands. But it is possible only because of an unprecedented network of monitors, testing the air for poisonous levels of carbon dioxide. For two years, the black sand beach here was deserted, its ice cream stands and souvenir shops shuttered with signs reading “Peligro!” (“Danger!”). Only now are tourists starting to return to Puerto Naos,...

An effigy of Judas is engulfed in fireworks, in the courtyard of the Santa Rosa Xochiac church, in Mexico City, soon after midnight on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014. The Burning of Judas is an Easter ritual in Santa Rosa Xochiac, where neighborhood groups build representations of Judas, which are then destroyed in blazes of fireworks and small explosives. Easter looks very different depending what country you are in. Across the globe, the holiday unfolds in colored eggs, lamb stews, fireworks and throwing clay pots. The food, faith and festivities...

LONE STAR, Texas — Barbara Humphrey had one thing on her mind as she and her husband, Terry, watched members of the Texans on Mission Rolling Timbers Disaster Response team remove a gigantic oak tree from the couple's yard and atop her nephew's demolished travel trailer. She could only think of gratitude after an April 4 Class EF2 tornado that hit Lone Star in East Texas. "My nephew lived in that trailer," she explained, "and he was coming to our house for supper that night. He got out 20 minutes...

Travelers walk along a concourse at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024, in Arlington, Va. Two planes clipped wings on the tarmac at Reagan Airport on Thursday, April 10, 2025. As many members of the U.S. House of Representatives left Washington, D.C., Thursday at the beginning of a two-week break, six of them found themselves on a plane that made contact with another on the tarmac of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The plane, about to depart for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York,...