Strategic oil inventories have reached a 40-year low, and experts warn their continued depletion could damage the underground caverns where the reserves are stored. Last week, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) plunged below 300 million barrels for the first time since the 1980s, when the reserves were being filled, according to the Department of Energy.
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The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that outdoor poster ads for “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” breached its code by presenting an image that gave “a realistic impression of a dead child,” while clearing companion TV and streaming spots for the same campaign. The ASA investigated four issues stemming from several complaints about ads for
To paraphrase Aaliyah: Cast size is nothing more than a number. In theater, no one exactly equates the number of portraits on a Playbill page with the maximum fulfillment a show provides. Still, a question may arise: How few people can you have in a musical and still generate as many kilowatt-hours of energy as
Underground church leader Jin Mingri released from prison in China and has traveled to the United States, less than two months after Donald Trump directly raised his imprisonment. The pastor and founder of the Zion Church had been jailed following nighttime raids across China in October, described by Christian groups as one of the strictest