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Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann and a Palm Springs Spa Walk Into the Emptiest Genre in Movies
Spa Weekend opened in theaters today, and it is the kind of movie that…
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Business
Nneka Ogwumike Won the Biggest Raise in American Sports, Then Announced She Is Leaving the Court
Two months ago the players of the WNBA re-elected Nneka Ogwumike, unopposed, to a…
Economy
Bessent Doubled the Bond Buybacks and the Market Gave Him Exactly One Day
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent walked into a bond market that had pushed the 30-year…
Government
Eight People Died at Cape Newenham, a Gravel Strip Cut Into the Side of a Mountain
A twin-engine Cessna 441 chartered by the Army Corps of Engineers went down near…
Breaking News
An FBI Source, Not Capitol Security, Stopped the Albany Bomb Plot
Federal prosecutors charged a 35-year-old Albany woman on Thursday with attempting to provide material…
Health
Why Credit Monitoring Cannot Fix the Baylor Genetics Breach
Baylor Genetics, the Houston clinical genomics lab in the Texas Medical Center, has told…
Gaming
The Duskbloods Leaked Because FromSoftware Guarded the Wrong Door
FromSoftware spent months building one of the tightest anti-leak operations the industry has seen…
Celebrities
Larry David Moved On. Alan Dershowitz Is Still Having the Argument.
Five years after Alan Dershowitz joined Donald Trump’s first impeachment defense team, and five…
Government
38 Days in Public: Melania Trump Traded Visibility for a Foster Care Policy Win
Melania Trump has appeared in public on 38 days so far in 2026, roughly…
War & Conflict
Fifteen People Died in Kyiv Because Ukraine’s Patriot Interceptors Still Have Not Been Replaced
Russian ballistic missiles tore the top two floors off a nine-storey apartment block in…
War & Conflict
North Korea Fired 10 Missiles Into Trump’s Diplomatic Opening
Three days after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to shrink a joint exercise…
Breaking News
Tennessee Charged John Benfield With Seven Counts After Two Milligan Cyclists Were Killed
John Benfield, 69, of Newland, North Carolina, was booked into the Carter County jail…
Breaking News
Four Americans Died When a Scenic Helicopter Flight Went Down in Northern Kenya
Four Americans were killed Wednesday morning when a sightseeing helicopter came down in the…
Lifestyle
What Makes Patriotic Clothing A Meaningful Way To Show National Pride
Talk to most people about what they think patriotism is today, and they say…
Breaking News
Croatia Arrested the Nord Stream Diver Poland Already Let Go
Croatian police arrested the Ukrainian diver a Polish court freed in 2025, leaving two…
Business
Goodell Says NFL Teams Abroad Are Coming. He Carefully Did Not Say Whose Team Would Move.
Roger Goodell told a German broadcaster this week that he has no doubt the…
Entertainment
The Case Against Duane Davis Is Built Almost Entirely Out of Duane Davis
For twenty-seven years the killing of Tupac Shakur sat unsolved in Las Vegas, and…
Business
Phia Said It Learned About Cookie Stuffing in 24 Hours. Its Own Slack Goes Back Seven Months.
When Bloomberg asked Phoebe Gates’s shopping startup on July 7 why its browser extension…
Sports
Nick Kyrgios Spent Two Years Attacking Tennis’s Drug Testers. Now He Has Failed One of Their Tests.
Nick Kyrgios has been provisionally suspended since August 4 after a sample he gave…
Elections
Byron Donalds Won Florida’s Governor Primary Without the One Endorsement That Should Have Mattered
Ron DeSantis spent six years turning the Florida governorship into a national platform, and…
Law & Justice
Disney Sued Brendan Carr’s FCC Instead of Settling With Trump Again
Disney and ABC went to federal court in Washington on Tuesday to stop the…
Government
Mike Caruso Was Arrested a Year to the Day After DeSantis Made Him Palm Beach County’s Court Clerk
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday morning that Michael Allen Caruso, the man…
Celebrities
California’s Slayer Statute Is Why Nick Reiner Cannot Touch $1.5 Million Before His Trial
The trustees of a fund Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner set up for…
Business
Hello Kitty Meets Godzilla in a Happy Meal Built for Adult Collectors
McDonald’s begins handing out a Hello Kitty and Godzilla crossover Happy Meal on Tuesday,…
Business
State Farm Is Sending Back $5 Billion It Collected When Auto Premiums Jumped 20 Percent
State Farm has begun issuing the largest dividend in its history, roughly $5 billion…
Government
60 Million Americans Are Under Heat Alerts for a Hazard FEMA Cannot Legally Call a Disaster
Roughly 60 million people across the South woke up Tuesday under heat advisories and…
Law & Justice
Meta’s Child-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland With Damages Nearly the Size of the Company
Opening statements land Tuesday in an Oakland federal courtroom, where four state attorneys general…
Entertainment
Robbie Williams Announced an Autism Diagnosis at 52 in the Middle of a Fashion Launch
Robbie Williams told a room full of people he has autism while doing a…
Business
JPMorgan Closed Polymarket’s Accounts and Still Wants a Piece of the IPO
JPMorgan Chase decided in October that Polymarket was too risky to hold deposits for.…
Politics
Kushner Got Hamas to Say Yes to a Gaza Plan Netanyahu Has Already Rejected
Jared Kushner spent 90 minutes in Egypt on Sunday persuading Hamas to reaffirm a…