Hackers targeted refrigeration systems at three regional blood banks in France this week, raising concerns about the safety of critical medical supplies as similar cyberattacks disrupted supermarkets across Europe. Officials said Wednesday that the cyberattack on France’s national blood service, the French Blood Establishment (EFS), occurred overnight between Sunday and Monday.”Several regional facilities of the French Blood Establishment were affected by a cybersecurity incident that impacted certain cold storage room monitoring and control systems,” the French health ministry said in a statement. Despite the attack, officials said blood supplies were unaffected after employees received alerts and quickly moved the products…

A ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six winning numbers in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing to claim the $847 million jackpot. The grand prize has an estimated cash value of $363.1 million and is the ninth-largest Powerball jackpot ever won, according to Powerball.The white balls drawn Wednesday were 15, 34, 41, 53 and 56. The red Powerball was 21, and the Power Play multiplier was 2X. Wednesday’s jackpot comes less than three months after a winning ticket was sold in Illinois in August for a $1.040 billion jackpot, the eighth-largest prize in Powerball history. SINGLE POWERBALL TICKET SOLD IN ILLINOIS…

Marc Maron signed off of his podcast for the last time over a year ago the same way he always did.“Boomer lives!”It was an exclamation that paid tribute to his cat. His feline went missing after he moved to L.A. from New York. These days, Maron is still having conversations with his pets.“Go back in the room, Buster,” Maron tells his cat. Two of his furry roommates refuse to get along, forcing the comedian to alternate which one gets to roam freely around the house.“It’s my life,” Maron said over Zoom, “but it’s a pain in my a—.”Since ending his…

When it comes to Monica Garcia possibly returning to The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Meredith Marks isn’t completely disengaging with the idea. “Well, as you know, that’s not up to me. But I don’t know,” Meredith, 54, exclusively shared with Us when promoting season 7 of the Bravo reality show. “I mean, I have to see how things unfold a little bit. I don’t know where it would make sense for Monica to come back in or not.” Last month, Andy Cohen raised eyebrows when he was asked which one-season Housewife may deserve a second chance. “I’m gonna…

Customers are now tipping their nonexistent employees. An airport bookshop hit a traveler with a surprise “employee retention fee” — despite the customer scanning and bagging his own item at a self-checkout machine, triggering a wave of furious backlash online. The outrage erupted after an exasperated flyer posted a picture of his receipt from the Bryant Park Market inside JFK Airport’s Terminal 5 in Queens on Reddit’s r/EndTipping forum. Hudson operates multiple markets across JFK International Airport, with Bryant Park Market in Terminal 5. Reddit The traveler posted that he had tried to buy a single book — “The Gales…

Photo by Kim Ehly By Aaron Krause South Florida theater artist Kim Ehly (they/them) was “fascinated” after seeing the highly-touted Max Wolf Friedlich play JOB at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway  in 2024. The piece left Ehly with “so many questions,” they said. Yet, Ehly wondered whether they had missed nuances due to the theater’s relatively large size; the Helen Hayes, Broadway’s smallest theater, can still seat almost 600 people. Ehly watched the play from the “very back” of the theater. Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project’s founder and artistic director, left the Helen Hayes with a mission – bring JOB…

Savannah Bananas star Jackson Olson is winning over the entire Sajak family — one TikTok at a time. “First trip with the Sajak fam = success … I think?” Olson, 29, wrote via TikTok on Tuesday, November 3, alongside footage with girlfriend Maggie Sajak and her famous dad, former Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, lip-syncing a beloved Gilmore Girls scene. “What do you have to offer?” Pat, 80, mouthed before Olson replied, “Nothing, only this,” and started dancing. (Sean Gunn’s Kirk Gleason originally said the now-viral “nothing” line in his character’s avant-garde short film, which premiered during a town…

Sandals handles roughly 5,000 weddings a year across its 17 Caribbean resorts. That’s roughly a wedding a day, per resort, 365 days a year. The Post sat down with Marsha-Ann Donaldson, director of weddings and romance at Sandals Resorts, to find out how they pull off this incredible feat. Your job is to make each “I do” an intimate, heart-pounding, googly-eyed passion party. How!? Marsha-Ann Donaldson, director of weddings and romance at Sandals Resorts Sandals Resorts I’m a dream maker. How does our team make dreams come true? A big part of it is starting with an open canvas, because…

Dionysus Brazilian Theater Festival Returns to Miami, Putting Women’s Stories, and Clarice Lispector, Center Stage. Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer whose groundbreaking work transformed Brazilian literature. Nearly 50 years after her death, her writing continues to captivate audiences worldwide.Born in 1920, Lispector fled antisemitic violence in Eastern Europe with her family and grew up in Brazil. At 23, she published her debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart (1943), earning the prestigious Graça Aranha Prize.Her unconventional writing explored identity, loneliness, desire, and the mysteries of existence. Among her most celebrated works is The Hour of the Star, published shortly before her death…

A Texas man has been indicted in the murder of a mother of three who lived at his home with her children, authorities said. A Polk County jury returned indictments against Cody Allen Laviolette, charging him with first-degree murder and third-degree tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in connection with Kelly Taylor Mariah Little, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Tuesday, November 3, news release. An investigation into Little’s “suspicious” death, which stemmed from an incident at Laviolette’s home on May 23, has resulted in Laviolette, 36, facing 16 felony charges including child sex abuse and bestiality, the…

Google is extending its buyout program to selected workers in five additional countries as the company looks for ways to control expenses while pouring money into artificial intelligence programs. The company told Reuters that select workers in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland were offered buyouts beginning in June, although the number of employees who accepted was unclear.FOX Business has reached out to Google for comment. “In 2025, some of our teams introduced a voluntary exit program with severance,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters. “This past summer, in June, we expanded this program globally in a…

If y’all want to say “I do” western style, the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa in Texas has you covered. Their “experiential weddings” are increasingly in demand. Now celebrating its 20th year in business, the resort has seen a 10 percent jump in bookings over the past three years. It’s not hard to see why. The lush, natural beauty and built-in experiences at this sprawling, 400 plus-acre resort along the Lower Colorado River, just 30 minutes outside of Austin, allows couples to turn weddings into a full weekend or multi-day events for family and friends to cultivate deep…

Republicans undertook a historic effort to redraw several states’ Congressional districts mid-decade in an attempt to maintain control of the House. That effort was rebuffed on Tuesday night as the GOP was on track to lose all of the districts it tried to gerrymander. There were several reasons that states undertook what had previously been a rare practice of mid-decade redistricting. Republican efforts started when President Trump ordered Texas lawmakers to redraw their map to net up to five seats for the GOP. But despite the all-out effort, Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday, with CBS News estimating Democrats could end up…

The Public Theater’s production of We’ll See, written and directed by Richard Nelson, officially opened on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, coinciding with the midterm elections, the day on which the play is set. Find out what the critics are saying! The production reunites members of Nelson’s Apple Family ensemble, with Sally Murphy returning as Jane, Maryann Plunkett as Barbara, Laila Robins as Marian, and Jay O. Sanders as Richard. Yvonne Woods joins the cast as Yvonne, Richard’s partner. We’ll See marks another installment in Nelson’s series of plays centered on the Apple family, bringing the characters together against the backdrop…

Bob Dylan was knockin’ on the Vatican’s door for a private audience with Pope Leo XIV. Dylan, 85, met the pope, 71, at the Vatican City’s Apostolic Palace on Wednesday, November 4, dressed in a black hoodie that he paired with coordinating trousers, gloves and a polka dot scarf. Dylan’s visit was brief, according to Vatican News. Leo gave the “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” musician a rosary before Dylan presented the head of the Catholic church with a copy of his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One. Months earlier, Leo quoted Dylan’s unpublished protest song, “Go Away You Bomb,” in his book…