The woman stood in the Sky Room for a long time. Not taking photos. Not checking her phone. Just looking out at the South Side, the West Side, the blue blade of Lake Michigan. Above her, Idris Khan’s artwork pulled words from Obama’s Selma speech upward into a rim of light. She didn’t read them. […]
The library at Sunnydale High was never supposed to be sacred. It was a set—shelves of fake books, a cage for vampires in the back, the faint hum of California studio lights where the English damp should have been. But for millions of people who grew up inside “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” that room felt […]
The fireworks detonated above Villa Valguarnera just after midnight. Visible across Palermo. Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou played past the villa’s standard curfew. Elton John had already serenaded the couple with “Your Song.” The 18th-century palace—once a mafia hideout, now owned by a writer-princess who translated Tolkien and counts Mick Jagger […]
The dick jokes land first. Then the puppet is doing drugs. Then the runaway train barreling toward a nuclear power plant, a rescue-dog home, Laurie Metcalf’s house, and a group of Make-A-Wish children. Somewhere in there, RuPaul plays the president of the United States. The whole thing cost 19 days to shoot and runs 92 […]
The location is unknown. The date is unknown. The guest list is a state secret guarded with the intensity of a nuclear launch code. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married—that much the public knows. Everything else sits behind a wall of decoy locations, code names, iron-clad NDAs, and what luxury wedding planner Colin […]
President Donald Trump said he “loves the inflation” at the White House on Wednesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported US consumer prices rose 4.2% in May from a year earlier, the fastest pace in three years. The increase, up from 3.8% in April, marked the third consecutive monthly rise in the Consumer Price […]
Brent crude crossed $95 before most of Asia had finished breakfast. The number on the trading screen did not climb on a single event. It climbed on a pattern. A second consecutive night of US strikes on Iran. A second consecutive day of Iranian retaliation against US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. An announcement on […]
President Donald Trump told House Speaker Mike Johnson during a Tuesday meeting that he would not withdraw Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, despite Democratic threats to let a key surveillance authority expire over the appointment, two sources briefed on the meeting told CNN. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) […]
US inflation climbed to 4.2% in May, its highest level since April 2023, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index report, intensifying pressure on the Federal Reserve as energy costs driven by Gulf tensions filter through the broader economy. The Consumer Price Index has now risen for three consecutive months. Energy prices accounted […]
The United States and Iran exchanged military strikes across three Gulf states this week, escalating a conflict that has kept the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed since late February and triggering warnings from Tehran that it would now “re-assess” the diplomatic process. The escalation began Monday when a US Army Apache helicopter went down during […]
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