Sydney Sweeney told Vanity Fair ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival that she will not be discussing her controversial American Eagle ad campaign while on the ground at the annual event for the world premiere of her indie boxing drama “Christy.” Sweeney stars in the
It is unclear what caused the crash in which 16 people died and more than 20 were injured, including many foreign nationals.
With the singles from their new album Come Back Down , Total Wife have been pulling off a neat trick: The music calls back directly to Loveless in a way some shoegazers wouldn’t dare, yet it’s woozy and hallucinatory enough to unmoor listeners and undermine any allegations of
The president last month called for Jan Hatzius, the bank’s chief economist, to be fired after he predicted consumers would end up picking up the tab for the tariffs
The PET (polyethylene terephthalate)-alternative PDCA (pyridinedicarboxylic acid) is biodegradable and has superior physical properties, according to a recent study. A Kobe University team of bioengineers engineered E. coli bacteria to produce the compound from glucose at
Switzerland has set itself the goal of reducing its CO₂ emissions to net-zero by 2050. The final report of the POLIZERO research project—led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Piraeus—shows which policy measures are best suited to this goal. The
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is in production for a 2026 release date, and Tom Holland is looking at fan theories online.
Pollster Tony Fabrizio suggested lawmakers focus on the tax benefits in the GOP's legislation.
If you’re waiting for the fall TV season to start watching some great stuff, let us tell you: There’s some great stuff already here! There’s FX’s “Alien: Earth,” already at its midway point, and as of this week, we now have the full second season of “Wednesday.” But yes, if
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring a new approach to producing food on demand with unconventional materials. Through the Feedstocks for Food Production (FFP) project, APL is investigating ways to grow edible
Adding an electrical jolt to fermentation of industrial food waste speeds up the process and increases the yield of platform chemicals that are valuable components in a wide range of products, new research shows.
Paramount+ has released the first teaser trailer for “Landman” Season 2. As previously announced, the second season of the hit drama series will debut on Nov. 16. In the teaser, Cami Miller (Demi Moore) asserts herself as the new sole owner of M-Tex oil following the death of
If biomolecules were people, heparin would be a celebrity. Best known as a powerful blood thinner with a global market of more than $7 billion, heparin is used during and after surgery and is essential to kidney dialysis. Most of today's heparin comes from pigs, but the Food
Ireland's first satellite, EIRSAT-1, has completed its mission orbiting Earth. The CubeSat, which was built and launched by students and faculty of University College Dublin (UCD), will de-orbit in a day or two.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are prepping to battle any GOP effort to minimize the severity of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jeffries said he’s in talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House
EA Sports' college basketball failed to get off the ground as the company rescinds licensing offers to schools.
You wouldn't gain instant billionaire status but, depending on where you live, you could become rather wealthy.
The emote had been added as part of a Dress to Impress update.
"Such a Funny Way" was featured as bonus song on physical editions of new album
One of the ways that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) earn their "forever chemical" nickname and persist in the environment is their acidity.
Scott Spiegel, “Evil Dead II,” “The Rookie” co-writer and executive producer of the “Hostel” franchise, died on Sept. 1. He was 67. Spiegel was a frequent collaborator with filmmakers Sam Raimi, Boaz Yakin, Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino. After co-writing “Evil Dead II,” which
Democrats say the arrangement indicates Stephen Miran would be Trump's "puppet" at the central bank.
If you've ever bitten into a fresh fig, you've tasted the delicious result of one of nature's most extraordinary and longstanding partnerships. But the figs in your local grocery store only tell a small part of the tale.
“Best Medicine,” Fox’s upcoming U.S. adaptation of the British dramedy “Doc Martin,” has added seven new cast members — or eight, if you count the one with four legs. John DiMaggio, Didi Conn, Clea Lewis, Stephen Spinella, Jason Veasey, Carter Shimp and Cindy De La Cruz have
A new survey shows parents still overwhelmingly support vaccine mandates for measles and polio, as Florida moves to remove immunization requirements for school-aged children and other states consider changes to their laws. A Washington Post-KFF poll found that 81 percent of
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump pushes Europe to avoid Russia's oil President Trump joined a call Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and world leaders during which he urged Europe to stop purchasing Russian oil as a
He didn’t have any known health issues leading up to his death, but had told his roommate and colleagues that he was under a lot of stress – juggling multiple projects at the same time, according to a local news report.
After Wednesday night’s drawing yielded no major winners, the Powerball jackpot ticked up another $300 million to a staggering $1.7 billion. That marks the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history, behind only the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot win in November 2022 and the $1.765
On “The Clearing,” the latest single from Emily Yacina, she taps into a special type of intimacy that makes the fragile veil of vulnerability slip away. “With your arms around me I forgot we were naked/ All sick and exposed to the elements,” Yacina sings. A lover’s limbs acts
In a couple weeks, Leeds’ Eades are releasing their sophomore album Final Sirens Call . We’ve already gotten a preview of the forthcoming project with the singles “ Did You Read The News ” and “ Backwards .” They have one more song to offer us, titled “Outside Nothing,” before
"I would now like to live disassociated from those who wish me nothing but ill-will and destruction, and this is the only resolution," a blog post on the musician's official website reads
The Rise of the Traveling Third Space . “Traveling third spaces are not physically fixed; they move across cafes, malls, restaurants, and host various programming for a singular community in a particular city.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The U.S. and Mexico late Wednesday agreed to increase cooperation in the fight against illegal drugs, including working together to dismantle cartels and "address" illegal immigration on both sides of the border. “The aim is to work together to dismantle transnational organized
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr faced questions on Covid deaths, vaccines and his record during an often heated Senate hearing.
Gunna’s inaugural Wunna Run 5k took place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. He was joined by over 1,000 runners of various skill levels who took to the park’s infamous track for a late-summer run alongside one of rap’s biggest stars. The event comes as Gunna continues to progress on
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand escalating unrest in Italy's Campi Flegrei, a volcanic area that is home to hundreds of thousands of people.
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a proton. By making these extremely precise measurements, LIGO, which consists
Researchers led by Ken Shirasu at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have identified an ancient protein that has the potential to help defend plants against tens of thousands of different bacteria and other pathogens.
Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by John Wiens of the University of
There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, yields some extra benefits.
Picture a squirrel eating an acorn. It's holding the nut in its front paws. More specifically, squirrels handle their food with their thumbs. And instead of the thin, curved claws on the rest of the squirrel's fingers, their thumbs have smooth, flat nails.
The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold.
In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Wang Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. Paolo Fornasiero from the University of Trieste in Italy, has developed a photochemical strategy for
Spintronics, or spin-electronics, is a revolutionary approach to information processing that utilizes the intrinsic angular momentum (spin) of electrons, rather than solely relying on electric charge flow. This technology promises faster, more energy-efficient data storage and
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they
China is investing more than $140 billion in its race to dominate the semiconductor industry, aiming to close the gap with giants like TSMC and Intel. On paper, it’s an ambitious leap toward technological self-sufficiency. In reality, though, it is a race held back by something
Influence and Identity: Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection is on view at the historic Gramercy Park arts institution this fall.
The new NFL season is here with teams competing to win, make the playoffs and advance to Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California in Feb. 2026. Although most regular season games broadcast on NBC, ABC, ESPN, CBS and Fox, international games air on NFL Network.
A few years ago, Greg Daniels was looking for a partner to help executive produce “The Paper,” his new mockumentary chronicling the cubicle drones tasked with saving a dying Toledo, Ohio, newspaper. But as he pitched the idea to “Saturday Night Live” alum Michael Koman, he left
