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First Lady Michelle Obama assembled a team of artists, including Missy Elliott, Kelly Clarkson and Zendaya, to record a women’s-empowerment anthem: “This Is for My Girls.”

Domino’s announced it will debut a pizza-delivery robot in New Zealand.

Kanye West cracked a joke before accepting a free ride from a paparazzo:

‘I don’t need Uber anymore. I just have the paps take me where I wanna go.’

Nike finally unveiled its Back to the Future–inspired self-tying shoes.

A Willy Wonka–inspired restaurant is opening at Universal Studios in Orlando; it will feature steampunk-style decor, costumed waiters and menu items like a bacon-brittle milk shake.

Daniel Clowes’ latest graphic novel, Patience, is “the most grittily realistic time-traveling love story I’ve ever read,” says TIME’s Lev Grossman.

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Olivia Wilde said she was denied a part in The Wolf of Wall Street in her late 20s for being “too old.”

The U.K.’s National Environment Research Council asked the Internet to help name its new $280 million research ship, and now the leading poll option is Boaty McBoatface.

A Seattle church and day-care center was evacuated after someone found a backpack giving off “cough-inducing fumes”–from a can of Axe body spray.

Roughly 1,000 visitors had to be evacuated from Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando after a fire broke out during a live-action Lion King performance.

Some Slurpee drinkers filled KFC buckets, toilet bowls and more on 7-Eleven’s Bring Your Own Cup Day.

Jake Gyllenhaal revealed that director Peter Jackson called him “the worst actor that I have ever seen” during his Lord of the Rings audition.