USA Update

In a recent speech, the leader of the Houthi rebel group in Yemen proudly announced his group’s tally over the past year: The Houthi group, which controls much of northern Yemen,  passing their country and launched more than 1,000 missiles and drones at their enemies, including Israel, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi announced yesterday. All this was in […]

The new theater season in Berlin has opened under a cloud of uncertainty, amid a proposal to drastically cut the city’s cultural budget that has raised alarm and drawn criticism. Against this gloomy backdrop, the Schaubühne playhouse’s decision to open its season with a five-hour-long world premiere by an internationally acclaimed director felt defiant. Robert […]

Subscribe to Popcast! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Last month Sean Combs — the hip-hop mogul known alternately as Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy and Love — was arrested on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty. The indictment was a striking fall from […]

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. Launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, it’s the second […]

There are important cases among the 40 that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its new term beginning on Monday, but no blockbusters: nothing like last term’s ruling in the Donald Trump immunity case, or the affirmative action case from 2023, or the abortion and guns rulings from 2022. The real issue in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky’s Made Up Stories are teaming on a series adaptation of Liane Moriarty‘s new novel Here One Moment. The project reunites Kidman, Papandrea and Moriarty after their collaborations on HBO’s acclaimed Big Little Lies, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers […]

We see so few truly old faces in the media, especially old women’s faces. But occasionally, they are celebrated. In October 2023, at the age of 88, Dame Maggie Smith — who died on Sept. 27 — starred in an arresting ad campaign for the luxury brand Loewe, photographed by Juergen Teller. The images they […]

A multimillionaire yoga entrepreneur has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion and must pay more than $2.5 million to the Internal Revenue Service. In 2006, Greg Gumucio, 63, founded Yoga to the People, a donation-based yoga studio in Manhattan that quickly turned into an organization stretching from New York to […]

Florida is preparing for Hurricane Milton, carrying out its largest evacuation since 2017 after Milton strengthened from a tropical storm to a major hurricane. The state in the southeastern United States is still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene on September 26. Here is what we know about Hurricane Milton, what parts of […]

Brook P. Hales, who delivered a message at the 2024 General Conference emphasizing the purpose and challenges of mortality, has been associated with an apostle, Robert D. Hales.  Brook Hales is a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Highlights Brook P. Hales and Robert D. Hales do […]