It all started with 2008's "Iron Man," but the Marvel Cinematic Universe actually stretches back millions of years.

The history includes far more than what we see on the screen. Thankfully, there's plenty of context within the 20 movies so far to give us a sense of just how far back it goes and when important events not seen in the movies take place.

We've put together a timeline that details the entirety of the MCU, based on the movies (we excluded events from television shows, like the Marvel Netflix series). The timeline can be confusing and isn't entirely concrete. We've included year ranges with each slide below to give a decent understanding of when events took place. Specific years that we know for sure are noted, as well.

From the birth of the Infinity Stones to the Thanos snap, the MCU has built an impressive timeline of events. We hope this timeline, which puts all major events (including ones you forgot about) together will help you better understand some characters' backstories and how specific events have shaped the universe so far.

Check out our in-depth MCU timeline below:

The icons in this key represent the movie that each event on the timeline occurs during or is mentioned in. The Infinity Stones are color coded to match the color they are in the movies.

Big Bang – 1939: Poignant events in the MCU, such as the birth of the Infinity Stones and vibranium landing on Earth, occur long before any of the movies in the MCU actually take place. But they have a lasting impact on overarching stories and events that take place in individual films.

1940 – 1950: Steve Rogers becomes Captain America, an event that jumpstarts the formation of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) and, eventually, the Avengers.

Robots could kill off jobs in the future — but at least they come bearing pizza.

Founded in 2015, Zume Pizza uses robotics and artificial intelligence to make pizza more quickly. Machines press mounds of dough, squirt and spread sauce, and lift pizzas in and out of the oven, in a fraction of the time it would take human workers to do the same.

Now SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $750 million in Zume, Bloomberg reports. The cash infusion could help ramp up the pizza delivery company's side hustle, creating technology for other restaurants that want to get into the automated food truck game.

An increasing number of pizza eaters are ditching legacy brands like Domino's and Pizza Hut for newer fast-casual and delivery chains. In 2016, Business Insider toured Zume's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to see if the pizza is as good as its tech.

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This is no ordinary pizza. It was made by robots.

The concept of a robot-powered pizza delivery service came from friends and cofounders Julia Collins and Alex Garden, who wanted to make high-quality pizza more affordable.

Collins graduated from Stanford Business School, worked as an analyst under Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer, and helped launch New York City fast-casual chain Mexicue. She knew pumping pies full of chemical adulterants wasn't the answer — tech was.

• Some San Francisco streets are so covered in human feces that the city is launching a "Poop Patrol" to clean the mess.
• The Poop Patrol will ride around the Tenderloin neighborhood in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner.
• San Francisco's poop problem is a symptom of the housing crisis that has forced thousands to live on the streets. 

In San Francisco, people call the city's telephone hotline about 65 times a day to report piles of human feces on streets and sidewalks.

That adds up to 14,597 calls placed to 311 between January 1 and August 13, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Now, city officials are ramping up their response to San Francisco's poop problem.

Starting next month, a team of five employees from the Department of Public Works will take to the streets of San Francisco's grittiest neighborhood, the Tenderloin, in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner. They will ride around the alleys to clean piles of poop before citizens have a chance to complain about them, the Chronicle reported.

The poop problem has become a key issue for new Mayor London Breed, who grew up in public housing in San Francisco.

"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen growing up here," Breed told NBC in a recent interview. "That is a huge problem, and we are not just talking about from dogs — we're talking about from humans."

The feces piling up on sidewalks is a symptom of a much broader issue. San Francisco is in the throes of a housing emergency.

The median two-bedroom rent of $3,090 is more than double the national average of $1,180, and a report earlier this year found that only 12% of families in the city can afford to buy a home there. Because of a variety of factors, including a shortage of affordable housing and shortcomings in the mental-healthcare system, there are more than 7,400 people who are homeless in the city, many without access to restrooms and other necessities.

Is the poop problem dangerous?

In February, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit spent three days surveying 153 blocks of downtown San Francisco to see what it would find. The search turned up drug needles, garbage, and feces in concentrations comparable to some of the world's poorest slums.

The poop problem is unsightly, as well as potentially dangerous.

When fecal matter dries, some particles become airborne and can spread viruses such as rotavirus. Inhaling those germs can be fatal, according to Dr. Lee Riley, an expert on infectious diseases at the University of California, Berkeley. In Los Angeles last year, an outbreak of hepatitis A was linked to a lack of accessible toilets for the city's 50,000 homeless people.

In San Francisco, Breed and the director of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru, hatched the idea for a Poop Patrol over conversations about the city's filth.

"We're trying to be proactive," Nuru told the Chronicle. "We're actually out there looking for it."

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• Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate, was the latest target on Sacha Baron Cohen's satirical show "Who is America?"
• Cohen, posing as a conspiracy theorist, tried to get Dean to comment on rumors that Hillary Clinton is a man, and even showed him an edited photograph that showed the outline of a penis in her trousers.
• Dean wasn't convinced and tried to offer rebuttals, but did not completely reject the suggestion, saying there were "lots of ideas floating around" about Clinton.
• "We're not going to find out, because we're not going to examine her," he said.

Sacha Baron Cohen turned his attention to liberals on the latest episode of his satirical prank show "Who is America?" as he tried to get a former Democratic presidential candidate to turn on one of the party's biggest figures: Hillary Clinton.

Baron Cohen dedicated his time with Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, to trying to get Dean to say that Clinton may secretly be a man.

His character, conspiracy theorist Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick, asked Dean: "Do you believe Hilary is actually a woman?"

Dean did not reply at first, as he looked at Baron Cohen with surprise. Baron Cohen prompted him further: "Because there is..."

Dean then interrupted: "I know. There's lots of ideas floating around. And, you know, I know her."

And he does. While Dean has now retired from politics, both he and Clinton were big figures in the Democratic party and Dean acted as the head of Clinton's Super PAC Onward Together from 2017. In 2015, he wrote for The Washington Post that Clinton was the "best hope" for Americans and that she was "more than the best person for the toughest job in the world."

Baron Cohen wasn't satisfied with the answer and turned around his laptop to show an edited photo of Clinton with a bulge in her pants. "How do you explain that?" he asked.

"I explain that as maybe the trouser presser did a lousy job, who knows?" Dean responded.

But Baron Cohen pressed on: "You think the trouser press created a perfect penis?"

"Oh, who knows?" Dean said. "I can't go here… I can't do it. And we're not going to find out, because we're not going to examine her."

Baron Cohen showed a fake photo of Clinton using a men's urinal. "Governor, have you seen her lady parts?" he asked.

Dean replied: "I have not," to which Baron Cohen said: "Well, isn't that convenient."

Baron Cohen's show has become infamous for humiliating public figures as they go along with his characters' antics. The Georgia state lawmaker Jason Spencer resigned after screaming the N-word and exposing himself in a segment, and former Vice President Dick Cheney autographed a "waterboard kit" for Cohen.

But Baron Cohen has had better luck getting conservatives than liberals, who have largely avoided his traps. A notable conservative exception to this rule is Corey Lewandowski, the former manager of President Donald Trump's campaign, who largely managed to avoid implicating himself in his appearance.

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• You'll never know everything about your partner — and that's OK.
• But there are certain facts you should definitely know before things get serious. Think how much debt they have and how they feel about divorce.
• We checked out a Reddit thread on the topic and highlighted some of the most compelling questions.

You will never get to know your partner perfectly. In fact, that's one of the beautiful things about being in a relationship: Your partner is constantly surprising you.

That said, there are some basic things you probably should know before establishing a life with someone. Over on Reddit, there's a thread titled, "What questions should everyone ask their partners before getting married?" Most of the questions apply to couples starting to get serious, and not just couples heading to the altar.

Below, we've highlighted seven of the most important questions from that thread. Read on and see which you still have to ask.

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Do you want kids?

That's a tip from IntoTheMystic1.

It's best to address the topic of parenthood sooner than later, so no one winds up resentful — or heartbroken — years down the line.

If you or your partner are (understandably) worried that having kids will change your relationship for the worse, you should arm yourself with knowledge about what helps parents maintain intimacy.

Some researchers suggest that there are certain "buffers" against marital disaster after the birth of a child, including:

-"Building fondness and affection for your partner" 
-"Being aware of what is going on in your spouse's life and being responsive to it"
-"Approaching problems as something you and your partner can control and solve together as a couple"

Who will do the cooking, laundry, and housework?

That question comes from Back2Bach, who adds: "What can we do as a couple to divide the routine chores and responsibilities so that each feels they're making an equal contribution to the relationship and daily living?"

Back2Bach is onto something: According to a 2007 Pew Research poll, sharing household chores is the third most important factor in a successful marriage. (The first two are faithfulness and a happy sexual relationship).

In an excerpt from "Fast-Forward Family" published in The Atlantic, three researchers write that even today, women tend to shoulder the brunt of their family's housework.

The researchers also write that having some guidelines about who does which chores when can be helpful:

"The couples in our study who lacked clarity on what, when, and how household tasks and responsibilities would be carried out often said that they felt drained and rushed and had difficulty communicating their dissatisfaction in their lives. Spouses who appeared to have a clear and respectful understanding of one another's roles and tasks, in contrast, did not spend as much time negotiating responsibilities; their daily lives seemed to flow more smoothly."

How much debt (if any) do you have?

VanDriver1 writes, "It may not be a deal breaker in regards to getting married but A $20k surprise after the wedding is not something you need to deal with."

An honest conversation about finances — especially about debt — is key before getting married, or even getting serious. As Business Insider reported, lying about your debt can potentially destroy your relationship.

For one thing, Valerie Rind, author of "Gold Diggers and Deadbeat Dads: True Stories of Friends, Family, and Financial Ruin," said, "If you're tying your horse to someone else's wagon, you need to know not only what's coming in, but what's going out."

What's more, Rind said, "You need to know how somebody runs their finances because that totally affects the whole picture."

Many American students are gearing up for their first day back to school.

While the start of the school year differs by country, the first day back is normally a big day no matter where you're from. It's usually marked by excitement — or perhaps some dread if you don't want to give up your vacation — and a bit of fanfare.

Take a look below to see the first day of school in 12 countries around the world.

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Belarus: Students perform during an event for the first day of school in Minsk.

France: Kids enter the primary school Jules Ferry in Fontenay-sous-Bois, near Paris.

Gaza Strip: Palestinian children sit inside a classroom on the first day of school at al-Shafi'i school in Gaza City.

As the year flies by, the list of canceled TV shows piles up.

While there's been somewhat of a quiet period since May, some networks are still cutting shows throughout the summer.

The most recent cancellation comes Netflix, which got rid of two talk shows in August: "The Break with Michelle Wolf" and "The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale."

ABC also canceled the previously renewed "Roseanne" revival in late May, after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. However, ABC announced a spin-off called "The Conners" without Barr coming this fall.

Amazon kicked off the year with a slew of cancellations, announcing the end of three quirky comedies, including the Golden Globe nominee "I Love Dick" and the comedian Tig Notaro's semi-autobiographical show, "One Mississippi." It canceled Golden Globe nominee "Mozart in the Jungle" in April, after four seasons, and recently canceled "Transparent," which will end after the upcoming fifth season.

The long-running "The Jerry Springer Show" is ending after 27 seasons and 4,000 episodes. NBC's "Timeless," was also canceled for the second year in a row. NBC reversed its first decision to cancel the show last year after fan outcry. However, fans may have a movie to look forward to that gives the series a proper finale, though no official decision has been made.

We'll update this list as more are announced.

Here are all the shows that have been canceled this year, including those from networks and Netflix:

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Amazon

"Jean-Claude Van Johnson" — Amazon, one season

"I Love Dick" — Amazon, one season

• This past March, I left New York to travel around the world as Business Insider's International Correspondent. Over the course of 5+ months, I have so far visited 12 countries and had countless adventures.
• I decided it would be fun to pick the best, most epic adventure that I had in each country, from off-roading in the desert in Inner Mongolia to visiting one of the seven wonders of the world in Jordan and partying all night in Seoul, South Korea.
• While I hate travel bucket lists, I hope that sharing my favorite recent adventures may provide some inspiration for both travel junkies and those looking to take their first trip abroad.

I'll be honest: I hate bucket lists.

To me, they turn what should be a freeing experience of discovery — travel — and turn it into an endless checklist where you constantly feel inadequate against the things you haven’t done.

I prefer traveling with less of a plan. I pick a country beforehand, and maybe a few destinations within, and trust that I’ll encounter amazing people, sights, and adventures so long as I say yes.

When I left to travel as Business Insider’s International Correspondent this past March, I approached the trip the same way.

From China to Russia to Israel, I have found myself in the middle of more adventures than I can remember. There’s been off-roading in the desert in Inner Mongolia, visiting one of the seven wonders of the world in Jordan, and partying all night in Seoul, to name a few.

With twelve countries checked off on the trip so far, I decided it was time to pinpoint my favorite adventure in each place. Perhaps you’ll find some inspiration for your next trip abroad.

Here’s what’s gone down so far:

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The trip started off with a bang in Hong Kong, where I attended Art Basel Hong Kong, the premier art fair in Asia for millionaire and billionaire collectors to buy and sell art. The fair peaked with an elaborate soiree organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

The star-studded party was held at Hong Kong's Jumbo Kingdom, the world's largest floating restaurant and featured a mix of celebrities, art world big shots, artists, collectors, and — thanks to a last-minute invite — yours truly.

The party's experiential theme evoking 1930s-era Hong Kong was designed by Burning Man veteran Jason Swamy, a co-founder of artist collective Robot Heart. Some attendees, however, found the allusions to opium bars and Asian courtesans to be tone-deaf.

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• Fast-casual restaurants serving Middle Eastern food and Mediterranean food are suddenly everywhere in the US.
• Cava and Roti are just a few of the chains that have been rapidly growing across the United States.
• On Friday, Cava announced that it had acquired Mediterranean brand Zöe's Kitchen. The combined companies will have 327 restaurants across 24 states.
• Whole Foods predicted that Middle Eastern cuisine would be one of the top culinary trends in 2018 because of a growing demand for fresh, healthy, and flavorful food.

Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurants seem to be popping up on every corner.

Taïm, Cava, Hummus & Pita Co., and Roti are among the fast-growing restaurants that have been serving fresh Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food in a fast-casual style, with more and more national chains and local businesses hopping on the trend all the time.

On Friday, Cava announced that it had acquired Mediterranean brand Zöe's Kitchen. The combined companies will have 327 restaurants across 24 states. 

Middle Eastern cuisine has been rising in popularity in recent years, and Whole Foods predicted it would be one of the top food trends of 2018. According to Whole Foods, hummus, pita, and falafel are "entry points" into Middle Eastern food, and spices like harissa, cardamom, and za'atar are likely to start popping up on menus more often.

Though Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food are distinct from each other, the two share flavors, and "Mediterranean" is often used as an umbrella term to describe both. For example, flatbreads, roasted meat, and hummus are generally considered stables of both types of cuisine.

"Mediterranean is a much more popular selling point," Leila Hudson, an associate professor of modern Middle East culture and political economy at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told QSR magazine. "People generally understand what that means."

Tamim Shoja, who owns the restaurant SKWR Kabobline in Washington, DC, told QSR: "We did a lot of research, and what kept sticking out was how many restaurants represented themselves as Mediterranean when they were not. I came to the realization it was a marketing thing. Mediterranean is something that is approachable."

See how Middle Eastern food is taking over:

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Taïm, an Israeli chain operated by the chefs Einat Admony and Stefan Nafziger, has three locations in New York and two more coming soon.

Source: Business Insider

To aid in its expansion, the founders of Taïm have partnered with an investment group spearheaded by the Chipotle vets Phil Petrilli and Bethany Strong. The menu has a variety of falafel dishes you can order on a pita or platter. It also has salads, fries, sides, and smoothies, all generally priced at about $8 to $12.

Mediterranean and Middle Eastern foods are packed with flavorful spices and fresh veggies. The Mediterranean diet is said to be one of the healthiest diets because of its focus on vegetables, proteins, and whole grains.

Source: Business Insider

• Critics are calling the Hulu documentary "Minding the Gap" one of the best movies of the year. 
• The moving and challenging film compiles over 12 years of footage from director Bing Liu's upbringing in Rockford, Illinois.
• In the documentary, Liu "searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity."
• "Minding the Gap" currently has a 100% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
• It's available now on Hulu and in select theaters. 

Film critics are calling the Hulu original documentary "Minding the Gap" one of the best movies of the year. 

The film compiles over 12 years of footage from director Bing Liu's upbringing in Rockford, Illinois, as Liu "searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity," per Hulu's description of the film.

"Minding the Gap" currently has a 100% "fresh" rating on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and film critics have called the documentary both "raucous" and "heartbreaking."

In a review for The Los Angeles Times, critic Justin Chang labeled the film, "an intelligent and compassionate grappling with some of the most painful issues presently haunting the body politic: toxic masculinity and domestic violence, economic depression and a deep, existential despair."

"'Minding the Gap' is a personal documentary of the highest sort, in which the film's necessity to the filmmaker-and its obstacles, its resistances, its emotional and moral demands on him-are part of its very existence," Richard Brody wrote in a review for The New Yorker. 

Liu, a first-time director, won the Sundance Award for breakthrough filmmaking in the field of US documentary earlier this year for the film, and Variety called it one of the festival's 10 best movies. 

The 100-minute doc is now available on Hulu and in screenings at select theaters across the country. 

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• Teens are obsessed with Supreme, a skater brand that has seen mainstream success in recent years.
• Supreme has garnered a lot of attention in the past week after copies of the New York Post with Supreme ads on the cover flew off the shelves. Almost all Supreme products sell out instantly.
• Because of how quickly new products sell out, product launches, which fans call "drops," have become heavily hyped-up events.
• We went to the first big drop of the Fall/Winter 2018 season to see what it was like. 

Supreme, once a niche skater brand, has become Gen Z's latest obsession. 

Supreme was founded in 1994 by James Jebbia and has since grown from a skater-centric brand to a mainstream apparel brand with its own cult following. The brand ranked seventh among upper-income teens' favorite brands in a spring 2018 survey by Piper Jaffray, and in 2017, Supreme received a roughly $500 million cash infusion from The Carlyle Group, which valued the brand at $1 billion.

Earlier this week, loyal fans snatched up copies of the New York Post that featured a wraparound Supreme ad on the cover. The papers flew off the shelves, with copies of it now listed on eBay for many times its normal listing price. The paper typically costs $1.50.

It isn't just the branded newspaper that fans are willing to pay for — most Supreme products sell out almost instantly, oftentimes ending up on eBay for as much as eight times the retail price. 

Because of how quickly Supreme products sell out, the launches, known as "drops," have become some of the most anticipated events of the year for its followers. Supreme drops happen each Thursday throughout the Fall/Winter season and Spring/Summer season, both online and in stores. And if you're lucky, you'll be able to buy a product or two before the website crashes and everything sells out.  

We went to the highly anticipated first drop of the Fall/Winter 2018 season at the Supreme store on Lafayette Street in New York City. Here's what it was like:

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If you want to get into Supreme the day of a drop, which is every Thursday of the season, you have to register online for a spot in line in advance. The registration times are typically leaked by Supreme fan accounts like Twitter user @DropsByJay, who has over 115,000 followers.

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Registration opens promptly at 11 a.m. I tried to register to get into this week's drop, but the registration portal was already closed by 11:01 a.m. because all of the spots were taken. I couldn't believe how fast registration had closed, especially because in order to register, you have to type in your name, email, phone, address, and credit-card number.

I went to the drop anyway to see what it would be like. Supreme has two stores in New York City: one in Brooklyn, and one in SoHo. I went to the location on Lafayette Street in SoHo.

The Eagles have knocked the King of Pop off of his throne.

The band's greatest hits album, released in 1976, has surpassed Michael Jackson's seminal 1982 album "Thriller" to take the top spot on the RIAA's list of the highest-selling albums of all time in the US, the Associated Press reports.

Here we compiled the RIAA's data for the best-selling albums in US history (measured in "certified units" sold), and some of the other names that appear in the top 50 are unexpected. 

Check out the 50 best-selling albums of all time:

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50. Phil Collins — "No Jacket Required"

Certified units: 12 million

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49. Matchbox Twenty — "Yourself or Someone Like You"

Certified units: 12 million

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48. Led Zeppelin — "Led Zeppelin II"

Certified units: 12 million

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UFC icon Ronda Rousey shocked the fight world when she signed a full-time contract with WWE in January.

She made a surprise appearance at the Royal Rumble, completed her professional wrestling debut at WrestleMania 34 on April 8, and has just become the WWE Raw Women's latest champion.

Rousey is one of the most famous fighters in the history of women's mixed martial arts. The 30-year-old won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, a Strikeforce bantamweight title, and a UFC bantamweight world title.

But what does she eat to remain ring-ready? Well, Rousey is a known advocate of the Warrior's Diet (fresh fruit, vegetables, and intermittent fasting), as well as the Dolce Diet, a meal plan put together by her own nutritionist Mike Dolce.

Here's what she eats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a typical day.

SEE ALSO: Ronda Rousey is all-in with WWE after surprise appearance at Royal Rumble

This is former Olympic judoka Ronda Rousey, who quit UFC to become a full-time professional wrestler for WWE in 2018.

Rousey starts her day with a coffee, finished with grass-fed butter, raw coconut oil, stevia, and cinnamon. She says that, regardless of what her nutritionists and trainers say, it is "the only thing" she cannot "fudge on."

Sources: Cosmopolitan and UFC.

Just don't spell her name wrong.

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In an age when major film studios have essentially killed off the once-thriving genre of romantic comedy, Netflix has been steadily filling a niche by producing original romantic comedies and dramas.  

Netflix's latest, the romantic comedy "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," got an enthusiastic reception from critics and audiences around its release this week.

To find out which of Netflix's original romantic movies have received similar or lesser acclaim, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to rank each release by its critic score.

We excluded Netflix original romantic films that didn't have enough reviews to receive a designation of "fresh" or "rotten" on the site.

Here are nine of Netflix's original romantic films, ranked from worst to best by critics:

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9. "The Kissing Booth" (2018) — 13%

Critic score: 13%

Audience score: 67%

Netflix description: "When teenager Elle's first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend."

8. "When We First Met" (2018) — 35%

Critic score: 35%

Audience score: 59%

Netflix description: "Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him."

7. "Christmas Inheritance" (2017) — 60%

Critic score: 60%

Audience score: 33%

Netflix description: "To inherit her father's company, socialite Ellen must first visit his small hometown, where she learns the value of hard work and helping others."

• Summer blockbuster "Crazy Rich Asians" is set in Singapore, which is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth.
• I visited Singapore in May expecting it to be wildly expensive and out-of-reach for all but wealthy travelers.
• But I found that the city was full of cheap, delicious food, efficient public transportation, top-notch museums, a budding nightlife scene, and beautiful parks.  As I quickly learned, if you do as the Singaporeans do, you can easily have a blast in the city without breaking the bank.

Singapore is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth, and it's the setting of "Crazy Rich Asians," the summer blockbuster everyone's talking about based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan.

In recent years, it has become "a one-stop shop for Asia's rich," according to The New York Times, perhaps surpassing even Switzerland as a place for the world's millionaires and billionaires to park their money.

The airport has a private jet terminal; the city-state's best-known landmark is $6.6 billion mega-hotel that looks like a floating ship; and there are facilities like Le Freeport, an ultra-secure duty-and-tax-free facility for super-rich to store their stuff.

In March, Singapore was named the world's most expensive city to live in for the fifth year running by the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Worldwide Cost of Living survey.

As a traveler not accustomed to spending a fortune on trips (Exhibit A: my bungled recent trip to Mykonos) I wasn't sure what visiting Singapore would be like.

But after spending four days in the city this past May, I found my fears to be unfounded. The city abounds with cheap, delicious food, efficient public transportation, top-notch museums, a budding nightlife scene, and beautiful parks. As I quickly learned, if you do as the Singaporeans do, you can easily have a blast in the city without breaking the bank.

Contrary to depictions like those found in Crazy Rich Asians, most Singaporeans are not rolling in cash. The average salary in the city is $42,000, according to Payscale.

Here's what it was like to visit Singapore:

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My trip to Singapore, like most places, started at the airport. But Singapore's Changi International Airport isn't just any airport. It's considered the best in the world. Upon arriving, I found out why.

Source: Business Insider

Though the airport boasts impressive amenities like a free movie theater, a butterfly garden, a rooftop swimming pool, and 24-hour spas, it's the facility's cleanliness and efficiency that the average traveler will notice most. I really enjoyed the airport's abundant green spaces as well.

Source: Business Insider

As I rode in a Grab, Singapore's main ride-sharing app, from the airport ($12), it hit me how green the city is. The streets and highways are shaded with umbrella-like rain trees, dense evergreen tembusu trees, and colorful bougainvillea from magenta to crimson.

Source: StraitsTimes, Singapore Government

• Millennials are grappling with issues like student loans and pricey housing.
• Many of them also have to be caregivers to elderly parents.
• As a result, an increasing amount of millennials live with their parents. 
• According to a Comet study, the state with the highest proportion of millennials living at home is New Jersey, where 12.5% of millennials live at home. 

Thanks to a slew of economic factors like student loans and the rising cost of housing, more and more millennials are living at home.

A recent study by student loan refinancing firm Comet found the states with the highest proportions of millennials living at home. Coastal areas like New Jersey, California, and New York took the cake. 

"New Jersey, California, and New York are densely populated urban areas that are notorious for being high-priced," Joe Mercurio, project manager for Comet, told Business Insider. "Between the cost of living, high property taxes, and the sheer amount of student loan debt young adults are taking on, it's not surprising why children are moving back in with their parents."

States like North and South Dakota had the lowest proportion of millennials living at home. That's thanks to the low cost of living in those states, Mercurio said.

"The cost of living in Midwestern states routinely ranks among the lowest in the nation, which is appealing to recent grads with mounds of student debt," Mercurio told Business Insider.

A quick note on the data for this piece: Comet provided the numbers of millennials living at home per 10,000. We rounded that to a tenth of a percentage point. While some states appear to be tied in the percentages, look below at the description to see the more precise number.

See where your state ranks for millennials who are still living at home:

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51. North Dakota: 5.2% of millennials live at home

Young adults living at home per 10,000: 527.1

50. South Dakota: 6.1% of millennials live at home

Young adults living at home per 10,000: 613.2

49. Wyoming: 6.3% of millennials live at home

Young adults living at home per 10,000: 630.3

• Democrats are asking for records related to President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton and his work with Maria Butina, a woman accused of being a Russian agent.
• In a Monday letter to the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, a few top Democrats demanded documents related to Bolton's security clearance.
• They want Kelly to "produce documents related to whether Bolton reported his previous work with this alleged Russian spy on his security clearance forms or other White House vetting materials prior to President Trump appointing him to his current position."

Democrats are pushing the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, to turn over records related to President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton and his work with Maria Butina, a woman now suspected of being a Russian agent.

In a Monday letter to Kelly, which was provided to Business Insider, Democratic Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts requested that Kelly "produce documents related to whether Bolton reported his previous work with this alleged Russian spy on his security clearance forms or other White House vetting materials prior to President Trump appointing him to his current position."

Cummings is the ranking member of the House oversight committee, and Lynch is ranking member of that committee's subcommittee on national security.

The two requested all documents and information from Bolton and his associates related to his contacts with foreign nationals over the past seven years, in addition to all documents related to inquiries into Bolton's security clearance and Bolton's answers to a series of questions in his security-clearance application.

The White House is weighing revoking the security clearance of one current and several former intelligence officials after taking away former CIA Director John Brennan's clearance last week.

The Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against Butina last month, accusing her of working as a Russian agent. Butina was the founder of a pro-gun group in Russia called Right to Bear Arms.

The US government has accused Butina of trying to gain access and influence with political groups in the US, including the National Rifle Association, as part of what it alleges was conspiracy on behalf of the Russian government.

In late 2013, Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, recorded a video with Butina promoting the expansion of gun rights in Russia.

At the time, Bolton served as the head of the NRA's Subcommittee on International Affairs, and the NRA's president at the time, David Keene, asked him to participate in the 2013 roundtable that Butina helped organize, NPR reported.

A source close to Bolton told NPR that he was informed the video was a recording for the Russian legislature and had never heard of Right to Bear Arms.

Butina has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. Russia has called the arrest politically motivated.

Read the full letter from Cummings and Lynch below:

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• The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested a list of sexually graphic questions to ask President Bill Clinton in Clinton's grand-jury testimony about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a newly released memo shows.
• At the time, Kavanaugh was an associate counsel to the independent counsel Ken Starr on the investigation into whether Clinton committed perjury or obstruction of justice surrounding the affair.
• Kavanaugh wrote that he was strongly opposed to giving the president "any break" in the questioning given Clinton's past attempts to cover up the affair.

In August 1998, Brett Kavanaugh drafted a memo suggesting highly sexually explicit questions he thought prosecutors should ask President Bill Clinton about Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

The National Archives released the document Monday as part of Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump.

At the time, Kavanaugh was an associate working with the independent counsel Kenneth Starr on the Justice Department's investigation into Clinton's extramarital affair with Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

The memo is dated two days before Clinton's four-hour, televised testimony on August 17, 1998.

Kavanaugh wrote in the memo, titled "Slack for the President?" that he had "tried hard to bend over backwards and be fair to him and think of any reasonable defenses for his behavior," concluding, "in the end, there really are none."

Here are the questions Kavanaugh suggested asking Clinton (NSFW):

Kavanaugh noted he would "leave the best phrasing to others" for the final questions.

"The President has disgraced the Office, the legal system, and the American people by having sex with a 22-year old intern and turning her life into shambles--callous and disgusting behavior that somehow gotten lost in the shuffle," he wrote as part of his argument that his fellow prosecutors shouldn't go easy on him.

This latest batch of released files covers the period from 1994 to 1998 when Kavanaugh served as an associate counsel to Starr, and includes more than 12,000 documents. Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings in the Senate are scheduled begin September 4.

Read the full memo below:

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• Floyd "Money" Mayweather has earned his nickname — he knows how to make it and he knows how to spend it.
• Mayweather has shown off two shiny, diamond-encrusted custom watches on Instagram — one of which is an Audemars Piguet.
• Mayweather is renowned for his extravagant purchases and recently took photos of his "Billionaire" watch, which cost $18 million.
  

Floyd Mayweather is widely known as the "Money" man because he knows how to make it, but judging from his latest Instagram photos he also knows how to spend it.

Mayweather finished his boxing career with a flawless record of 50 wins from 50 fights. He retired undefeated, as the king of the pay-per-view format, and with over a billion dollars in career earnings.

Mayweather's motto in the gym has always been "hard work, dedication," and it looks like he is just as dedicated to spending and shopping as the 41-year-old showed off two shiny, diamond-encrusted custom watches on his Instagram account.

The first is a diamond and gold watch, which also appears to double-up as a serpentine bracelet that wraps around his forearm.

The second watch, from luxury Swiss manufacturer Audemars Piguet, has also been customised with countless diamonds.

Mayweather invited his Instagram followers to guess how big the accompanying ring was. He said: "The timepiece is 41mm, so how many carats is the ring?"

King of the bling

Just two months ago Mayweather published photographs of an $18 million dollar watch, dubbed "The Billionare" by jeweller Jacob&Co, made of 18k white gold and finished with 260 carats of diamonds.

But that is not the only extravagant purchase Mayweather has made as he also has numerous private jets, a private chef, and reportedly has ambitions of buying an NBA team.

Though Mayweather is retired, he still has a number of income streams thanks to his strip club business, Girl Collection. He also has an emerging real estate empire and claimed he was working on One Vanderbilt— a skyscraper currently under construction in New York City.

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Former President Barack Obama released a new reading list on Sunday, recommending five books to help people end their summer on a thoughtful note.

"This summer I've been absorbed by new novels, revisited an old classic, and reaffirmed my faith in our ability to move forward together when we seek the truth," Obama wrote in a Facebook post.

Obama, an avid reader and author, often recommends books he's enjoyed reading to the public. The former president's reading lists tend to be topical and linked to issues he's focusing on at the time.

Before a trip to Africa earlier this summer, for example, Obama released a reading list centered around African literature.

Through his newest reading list, Obama may be emphasizing the need to place stock in facts over emotions or personal bias.

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'Educated,' by Tara Westover

Obama described "Educated" as a "remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind."

'Warlight,' by Michael Ondaatje

Obama called "Warlight," which is set after World War II, "a meditation on the lingering effects of war on family."

'A House for Mr. Biswas,' by Sir VS Naipaul

Obama said he reread "A House for Mr. Biswas" this summer, describing it as Naipaul's "first great novel about growing up in Trinidad and the challenge of post-colonial identity."

Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on August 11 at the age of 85.