USA Update

We were on the third or fourth flight of thick marble steps in a prewar Midtown apartment building when Mikhail Baryshnikov turned to ask if I was OK. I was clutching my inhaler, sweat rolling down my forehead. Totally fine, I answered. Was he OK? He was, after all, three decades my senior, with a […]

A collection of prehistoric human remains has revealed gruesome insights into a brutal massacre that took place more than 4,000 years ago. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren in southwest […]

Before Marlon Mullen begins a painting, he likes to tidy his work space. He’ll pre-mix his paints — Golden acrylics in recycled pots — and lay out his brushes and canvas on his table. Often, he’ll empty the studio’s trash cans. Sometimes he’ll even sweep the yard outside, or rearrange objects on the studio shelves […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — France was rushing help by ship and military aircraft to its poor overseas territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean on Monday after the island was shattered by its worst storm in nearly a century. Authorities in Mayotte fear hundreds and possibly thousands of people , although the official death […]

Robyn gets a kick out of being able to say she’s worked at both the “good” and the “bad” Dollar Trees in her West Texas town. The stores may be only a few miles from each other geographically, but qualitywise, there’s an enormous gulf between them. Shocked customers who have been to both locations remark […]

Wellington, New Zealand — A man from Memphis, Tennessee has been found guilty by a judge in Fiji of murdering his wife during their honeymoon in 2022, the prosecutor’s office said Monday. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, killed his wife, Christe Chen, who was 36, at the exclusive Turtle Island resort in the Yasawa archipelago two […]

President Joe Biden told Kamala Harris she’s “not going anywhere,” as the vice president reportedly mulls over her next move following her November election loss. At the Democratic National Committee‘s holiday reception in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Biden said: “It’s also been an incredible honor to serve with someone of immense character as she demonstrated […]

While Santa Claus is often pictured flying across the night sky on Christmas Eve, a team of archaeologists may have unearthed a sarcophagus containing the remains of the saint whose spirit of generosity is still celebrated in the modern world more than 1,600 years later. “We believe that we have encountered a sarcophagus to be […]

EXCLUSIVE: 14 Peaks producer Noah Media Group is entering the branded content space. The docs producer has hired an ex-Channel 4 exec to oversee the push, with Sarah O’Kane joining as  Executive Producer & Creative Director – Branded Entertainment in the past few weeks. O’Kane will work with Noah’s development and creative teams to forge a slate […]

People worry all the time about how artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. How it makes mistakes, and invents stuff, and might evolve into something so smart that it winds up enslaving us all. But nobody spares a moment for the poor, overworked chatbot. How it toils day and night over a hot interface with nary […]