“The Sandman” and “Good Omens” author Neil Gaiman released a lengthy statement Monday in which he once again denied sexual misconduct accusations that were originally made against him nearly two years ago. This marks the first time Gaiman has spoken out about the accusations
If you're looking for today's egg location in Heartopia, our guide lists all of the available onsen eggs to hunt so far.
Amazon copies of the Switch 2 life sim Pokémon Pokopia come with a flat leaf plant download, whereas other retailers give you real-world goodies.
UpScrolled surpassed 2.5 million users amid anger in the U.S. and the Arab world over TikTok's new ownership. The app says it moderates content but promises no censorship – and has been overflowing with posts supporting Hamas and other terrorist groups. It also doesn't include
Tehran Prosecutor has brought charges against the director, the production team, and the host of Ofogh TV, a channel close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are contributing edits to Wikipedia about “LGBTQ+ history, with an emphasis on queer and trans people of color” . They’ve added 300,000+ edits and 3,000+ citations. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Highguard's new 5v5 mode may be 'experimental,' but here's why it's more fun than the game's standard 3v3 mode
The 2026 NDAA and defense appropriations bill provide funding for naval shipbuilding and facilitate trilateral cooperation among the US, Australia, and the UK, while also addressing the need for increased workforce capacity and streamlined technology sharing to meet the US
GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez (Fla.) said the Trump administration has been too slow to alter the way it conducts immigration enforcement operations, warning it could cost Republicans politically. “We thought that there should have been a course correction a long time ago, and now I
David Michaud-Cromp was previously punished with an unpaid suspension for publicly pushing back The post Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Dev Fired Less Than Two Weeks After Criticizing Company’s Plans To End Work From Home appeared first on Kotaku .
The Bank of Spain closed 2025 with gold and currency reserves valued at almost €94 billion, an all-time high driven by astronomical demand for the metal.
Since 2016, those who can prove their ancestors came from Africa have been able to get Ghanaian nationality.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned that creating a separate EU army alongside NATO would be “extremely dangerous”, arguing it would blur chains of command in a crisis.
JPMorgan expects gold prices to hit $6,300 per ounce by the end of 2026 as investors and central banks continue to buy up the safe-haven asset.
It definitely will not be stick season when Noah Kahan makes use of temperate summer climes for his first stadium tour this year. The “Great Divide Tour” will feature 23 dates in North American stadiums, beginning June 11 in Orlando and ending Aug. 30 in Seattle. Key dates
When Puerto Rican-born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — better known as Bad Bunny — walked onto the Grammy stage at the end of the night, tears coming down his face, he was holding more than a historic album of the year statuette. Bad Bunny held the weight of every abuela who
The 8-Bit Big Band won a Grammy award for its jazz medley of tracks from Super Mario games.
New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory tools found at an archaeological site in Alaska suggests that these early pioneers traveled through the region on their way to the continent about 14,000
Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might not sound remarkable at first, but what makes these remains fascinating is that they were found Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic.
The Parachute Regiment (4 PARA), 4th Battalion have officially taken over from B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) as the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) Roulement Infantry Company (RIC), located at MPC, Falkland Islands.
Tom Morello played a set of Rage Against the Machine classics at last month’s charged Defend Minnesota concert, but they were missing a crucial ingredient
Sunday night's Grammys telecast was the last to be hosted by Trevor Noah. CBS, which has aired the Grammys for the past 54 years, lost out on the next contract to broadcast the show, which will move to ABC, Hulu, and Disney+ next year. That marks the end of the line for Noah,
Dalhousie researchers have revealed how Arctic aquifers—permeable layers of the ground that store and transmit water to rivers, lakes and terrestrial ecosystems—behave today and how these vital resources will change with warming temperatures and sea-level rise.
A new study, published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, showed that children who receive interventions from child welfare services are more likely to have experienced complex health issues, adversity, or maltreatment.
With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material's electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes the material's electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal properties like an electronic DNA.
Syrian government security personnel on Monday entered Hasakeh city, a stronghold of Kurdish forces, under an integration deal agreed with the Kurds last week, an AFP team reported. The two sides reached a comprehensive agreement on Friday to gradually integrate the Kurds'
NASA on Monday was conducting critical final tests ahead of setting a launch date for its first crewed flyby mission to the moon in more than half a century.
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We’ve got movie sign! Again! Again! Variety has learned exclusively that RiffTrax and Shout! Studios have teamed to produce four new episodes of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” RiffTrax has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the new episodes and to provide production
Please seek a wide range of advice, particularly from someone who will say that this is a very bad idea.
GOP strategist Karl Rove on Sunday criticized President Trump for touting the economy in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. In the lengthy op-ed published on Friday, the president argued that his tariff policies have “created an American economic miracle, and we are quickly building
Attorneys representing victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are appealing to federal court to get the federal government to take down millions of documents related to Epstein, saying that the government failed to properly redact victims’ information. In a letter to New
The United Kingdom has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were 3,600 suspected cases. However elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision
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As Paris and Rome push for reopening diplomatic channels with Moscow, Berlin is taking the opposite position.
Jelly Roll and Post Malone are teaming back up for “The Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2,” the sequel to their joint global trek in 2025. The tour, which features opener Carter Faith, will mix festival appearances with standalone shows at various college football stadiums. The
Europe's ESO star-gazing organization on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest skies on Earth.
When water and ions move together through channels only a nanometer wide, they behave in unusual ways. In these tight spaces, water molecules line up in single file. This forces ions to shed some of the water molecules that normally surround them, leading to the unique physics
The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The White House’s horrible, AI-doctored photograph of a Minnesota protester was used as evidence Monday that Donald Trump’s administration is acting in “nakedly obvious bad faith.” In a four-page filing , attorney Jordan Kushner argued that the court should modify conditions
Following last year's record shutdown, the BLS also was forced to delay a number of its releases.
Is there any such thing as a great Grammys telecast? One where you're just completely locked in through the whole thing, like "let's all celebrate music together"? No, right? The worst Grammys telecast is a never-ending parade of self-congratulatory bullshit and boring
The action unfolded during the $75 million film’s premiere, days before Trump announced the two-year closure of the performing arts center.
An Abu Dhabi royal known as the “spy sheikh” secretly bought a massive stake in the Trump family’s crypto firm for half a billion dollars just four days before President Trump took office, according to a report.
China’s President Xi Jinping has called for the renminbi to achieve global reserve currency status, “a powerful currency” according to remarks published on Saturday in Qiushi, the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship ideology journal.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) on Monday endorsed Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) as her successor, wading into the closely watched Minnesota Senate primary. “I know that right now there is no one that I trust more to stand with Minnesota than Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, and that
President Trump announced a trade deal with India on Monday after he said the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to buy U.S. and “potentially” Venezuela oil, and not oil from Russia. Trump wrote in a TruthSocial post that it was “an honor” to speak to Modi on
Prosecutors said the suspects ran an export network that sent more than 16,000 shipments worth more than $30 million to Russian customers, including arms manufacturers.