Full ArticleTen years, nine months and one very stubborn Star Wars movie stood between Sony's web-slinger and the all-time domestic box office crown. As of Wednesday, Brand New Day sits at $924.9 million with The Force Awakens' $936.6 million record finally within a single weekend's reach.
Full ArticleNicolas Cage's noir take on Spider-Man drew a 92% critics score and the most Emmy nominations of any Prime Video series this year, then got cut for cost reasons anyway — only to sweep five Creative Arts Emmy categories at the ceremony that followed two days later.
Full ArticleReviews landed Wednesday for Marvel's Wolverine, five days ahead of its September 15 launch, and the aggregate score settled at 77 — below all three of Insomniac's Spider-Man games. Critics agree the combat is the bloodiest thing the studio has ever made. They disagree, hard, on whether trading an open world for a straight line was worth it.
Full ArticleNeil Druckmann told The Washington Post that Naughty Dog has "a couple projects" still coming in The Last of Us franchise, even as he confirmed the studio had zero creative input on a Season 3 now filming without him for the first time since the show began.
Full ArticleWednesday's showcase was the second Nintendo Direct in three days, and it opened with a Monster Hunter Wilds port before closing with the first look at Metroid Ravenous and Kirby and the World Beyond — bookends on a lineup of nearly 40 games heading to Switch 2 through 2027.
Full ArticleRuslan Kravchenko resigned as Ukraine's prosecutor general after anti-corruption investigators wiretapped someone they describe only as "the boss" — and the identifying details line up with him. He's the third senior official to fall this year in a wartime capital that keeps promising the graft has finally stopped.
Full ArticleHouthi drones and ballistic missiles tore through four Saudi cities on Tuesday, wounding 73 people and setting fire to energy sites tied to Aramco. Riyadh's foreign minister delivered his warning from Moscow, not Riyadh, and Brent crude was already climbing toward $100 a barrel before anyone had a damage count.
Full ArticleBosnia and Herzegovina is recalling embassy staff from Belgrade and freezing nearly all contact with Serbia, a day after thousands buried convicted genocidaire Ratko Mladić with a military honor guard. The foreign minister wanted to go further — his own country's postwar constitution won't let him.
Full ArticleForeign Secretary Ed Miliband is telling Parliament today that Britain will ban trade with Israeli settlement businesses and formally accept the ICJ's ruling that the occupation is unlawful. Israel's foreign minister has already promised to retaliate.
Full ArticleThe U.S. will let the North American trade pact lapse, favoring annual reviews and fresh negotiations with Canada and Mexico instead of a long-term renewal.
Full ArticleA fire that broke out on one floor of a Brussels renovation site turned lethal only once it reached an elevator shaft, trapping six workers and opening a criminal investigation into what went wrong.
Full ArticleIran's Revolutionary Guard says its missiles damaged a U.S. aircraft carrier and destroyer on Saturday and forced them to retreat. CENTCOM says both evaded every shot without a scratch, then disabled two Iranian tankers and destroyed a third. Neither claim can be independently verified.
Full ArticleA five-story hostel packed with Delhi University students caved in Sunday afternoon in Satya Niketan, killing at least five people and injuring eleven. Neighbors were digging survivors out by hand before rescuers even arrived — the second deadly PG collapse in the same neighborhood in under a year.
Full ArticleExit polls in Saxony-Anhalt gave the far-right AfD roughly 44% of the vote Sunday — more than double its 2021 result and the first time a far-right party has led a German state election since World War II.
Full ArticleA day after U.S. forces disabled two Iranian oil tankers and sank a third, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told Tehran the era of measured retaliation is finished — and, in the same speech, admitted just how badly the war is battering Iran's economy.
Full ArticleWitkoff and Kushner met Putin for three hours in Moscow on Saturday, hours after Russian missiles hit two airports near Kyiv. Putin ordered a 72-hour halt to strikes on the capital so the envoys could fly in Sunday — their first-ever visit to Ukraine.
Full ArticleIran fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships in the Gulf on Saturday; both evaded unharmed. Hours later, CENTCOM disabled two Iranian oil tankers and destroyed a third — a day after the president dismissed the six-month war as "not a big thing."
Full ArticleAn explosion tore through a military barracks in Viacha on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens more. The blast came from the defense ministry's own fireworks stockpile, and investigators still don't know what set it off.
Full ArticleRescuers pulled two hydropower workers from a buried tunnel in Rasuwa on Friday, nine days after a glacial flood killed more than 1,280 people nationwide. Officials say they can still hear voices deeper inside.
Full ArticleAt an economic forum in Vladivostok, Putin said he still sees a path to a peace deal. Hours later, Russian strikes hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure and a shootout between two of Kyiv's own security agencies deepened.
Full ArticleIran's army says it hit two American-run air bases early Thursday, widening the war less than 24 hours after a US missile strike on a wedding in southern Iran killed four people and drew a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court.
Full ArticleBerlin waited nearly four weeks after an explosive drone hit a Ukrainian cargo plane before naming a culprit. When it finally did, it closed a Russian consulate, raised its threat level, and got half of Europe to stand behind the accusation.
Full ArticleThe carrier set a modern record for time at sea while fighting in the war against Iran. It pulled into Thailand this week with a worn hull, a relieved crew, and families back home who'd spent the summer raising alarms about their mental health.
Full ArticleRussia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours, killing at least a dozen people in an unprecedented sixth day of heavy strikes — the same morning millions of Ukrainian children returned to class for a fifth wartime school year.
Full ArticleUS strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites near the Strait of Hormuz drew Iranian missiles at Jordan and drones at Bahrain within hours. Oil prices jumped again, and an Iranian official said a US strike killed two people at a wedding.
Full ArticleNine days after a glacier let go above the Nepal-Tibet border, confirmed deaths have climbed past 1,000 and nearly 4,000 people are still missing. A rapid scientific assessment says satellite images showed the mountain changing days before it failed.
Full ArticleThe White House has finally explained how its Venezuela oil agreement actually works: a private company built around one businessman, a 35% stake for the Pentagon, and a president admitting gas prices aren't moving anytime soon.
Full ArticleTwo days after a glacier collapse sent a wall of water through the Nepal-Tibet border, rescuers have had to pull back as a debris-dammed lake threatens to overflow. Over 1,500 people remain missing, more than half of them foreign nationals.
Full ArticleTehran is drafting a formal list of conditions after mediators asked it to spell them out. A top security official says Iran and Oman have already worked out a shared shipping corridor — but the Revolutionary Guards are demanding much more.
Full ArticleCENTCOM calls it a "major milestone" after months of quietly sweeping the strait's shipping lanes. Nightly tanker traffic is still roughly half of pre-war levels, and some U.S. allies doubt the strait is fully clear.
Full ArticleCENTCOM says it struck dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets overnight after Iran fired missiles at a US base in Jordan — reviving a five-month war that a brief pause could not hold together.
Full ArticleA magnitude-7.1 quake that toppled a factory chimney, flattened homes, and set off a mall explosion in Kumamoto has killed at least 30 people, with rescuers racing the closing 72-hour survival window.
Full ArticleAntónio Guterres broke from the U.N.'s usual diplomatic caution this week, warning that the widening war between Israel, Iran, and Yemen's Houthi rebels risks spiraling further.
Full ArticleNew satellite imagery shows Israel has built more than 14 miles of earthen barrier inside Gaza in recent months, entrenching a division meant to be temporary under last year's ceasefire deal.
Full ArticleTwin earthquakes killed more than 2,600 people and left tens of thousands missing, turning the recovery effort into a referendum on interim President Delcy Rodríguez's fragile government.
Full ArticleCuba's national power grid has now collapsed four times in 2026 alone. The generating math behind the crisis — and the dispute over who's to blame — explains why the blackouts keep coming faster.
Full ArticleCitizens Bank ended financing for GEO Group and CoreCivic after months of protest — but says a federal buyout of the prisons, not activism, drove the decision.
Full ArticleICE will suspend traffic stops after several fatal shootings by agents during vehicle stops, as a Texas DA opens an independent probe the federal government won't join.
Full ArticleA man carrying two pistols and brass knuckles shoved through a crowd toward Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair Sunday, injuring bystanders before troopers stopped him. Acton wasn't hurt — and condemnation came just as fast from her own Republican rival.
Full ArticleSunday's Truth Social posts ran from a map renaming New Mexico "New America" to a photo of the Moon captioned "The Moon is Ours." One claim carries zero legal weight under a 1967 treaty. The other wasn't a hoax, even though a fake version of it went viral first.
Full ArticleA Boeing 767 flying for Amazon Prime Air ran off the runway at Miami International Airport Sunday, struck vehicles on a nearby road and caught fire. Five people were hospitalized, all four runways briefly went dark, and the NTSB is now trying to find out why.
Full ArticleA Washington Post review found House Republicans in Florida, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, Alaska, and Arizona have scrubbed or softened Trump references on their campaign sites since summer — as battleground senators plan to skip his first-ever midterm convention in Dallas.
Full ArticleA Postal Service employee says a rushed system for verifying mail ballots is "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." Hours from now, a judge in Boston hears arguments on whether it can move forward before the midterms.
Full ArticleThe writer and organizer who co-founded Ms. Magazine and spent six decades pushing American life toward equality died Wednesday at her home in New York City.
Full ArticleA Utah judge ruled that the evidence against Robinson is strong enough for a death-penalty trial on all seven counts. He pleaded not guilty; the next hearing, where a trial date will be set, is Oct. 23.
Full ArticleCarlton Johnson shot his child's mother during a custody exchange, then killed two neighbors and wounded two building workers and two officers before police shot him dead. Prosecutors had reviewed him for a red-flag gun seizure in June.
Full ArticleLawmakers voted 370-48 to fund the government through Dec. 11, dodging a shutdown weeks before the midterms — without resolving a single one of the disputes that got them here.
Full ArticleThe youngest Army secretary in U.S. history is out after a monthslong standoff with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over fired generals and a blocked promotions list — six months into the Iran war.
Full ArticleA flash flood tore through Bright Angel Canyon on Saturday, killing two Texas friends and leaving a third missing. It also gutted the pipeline that supplies the park's drinking water.
Full ArticleA resolution rebuking the administration's handling of the conflict couldn't get through the Senate, hours after the House passed a separate war-powers bill.
Full ArticleDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers this week that the cost of U.S. military operations against Iran has reached $37.5 billion — but NBC News reports the Pentagon's own internal estimate runs as high as $100 billion.
Full ArticleMayor Zohran Mamdani walked back a campaign pledge to arrest Netanyahu, admitting NYC lacks legal authority — while Trump says the Israeli leader won't be arrested on U.S. soil.
Full ArticleArizona's July 21 primary set up a contested GOP governor's race after dual Trump endorsements — one strategists warn could cost Republicans a winnable swing state.
Full ArticleBritain's largest carmaker confirmed a voluntary redundancy program that could remove 10% of its global workforce, as it tries to save £1.7 billion while still absorbing the fallout from last year's cyberattack, U.S. tariffs, and falling China sales.
Full ArticleCybercab rides quietly started in Austin on September 3 with no livestream and no Elon Musk. By the next morning, federal regulators had opened a safety audit — and by Friday, Tesla's stock had erased its entire launch-week gain.
Full ArticleKevin Warsh has communicated far less than his predecessors just as an oil-driven inflation risk builds — leaving markets guessing at the Fed's next move.
Full ArticleThe all-caps Truth Social threat landed hours before Canada's $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs took effect — and echoes an almost identical, unfulfilled threat Trump made against the same company in January.
Full ArticleAnthropic is moving toward what could be the largest IPO ever attempted, bigger than SpaceX's. But the timeline just slipped, the company won't confirm a valuation or a date, and the whole case for $2 trillion leans on revenue it hasn't earned yet.
Full ArticleEmployers added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly triple what Wall Street expected, and a CNBC analysis found women accounted for 98% of the gain. The surprise strength now has traders betting on a Fed rate hike, not a cut.
Full ArticleFrance's Treasury sold 10-year bonds at 4.23% on Thursday, the highest rate since 2008 — and for a few hours, pricier than Greece's own debt. The bill lands on PM Sebastien Lecornu's desk right as the 2027 budget fight begins.
Full ArticleBroadcom's profit more than tripled and AI chip revenue jumped 221% in a single quarter — one of the cleanest earnings beats of the year. Wall Street's reaction was a shrug, and the reason why says a lot about the AI trade right now.
Full ArticleA fresh round of U.S. airstrikes on Iran sent crude oil above $90 a barrel Tuesday, dragging the Dow down more than 400 points — with energy stocks the lone bright spot on an otherwise red board.
Full ArticleWhat the Federal Reserve actually controls, how a rate decision made in Washington works its way into your mortgage or savings account, and what to watch for at the next meeting.
Full ArticleYemen's Houthi rebels said this week that they struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea, sending Brent crude past $100 a barrel for the first time since May.
Full ArticleThe Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all closed lower this week as AI-spending anxiety collided with an oil shock — but oddly, Alphabet's strong quarter was punished harder than Tesla's miss.
Full ArticleMusk revived merger speculation on Tesla's earnings call, citing 'more and more overlap' — the same week Tesla posted its first negative free cash flow quarter in years.
Full ArticleThe European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine on August 31 — the same legal category as Google Search and Bing. OpenAI now has until January to prove 159 million monthly EU users can be audited like one.
Full ArticleJohn Ternus became Apple's CEO on September 1 after 15 years under Tim Cook. His first real test isn't a boardroom — it's a keynote stage on September 9, in an AI race Apple is still catching up to.
Full ArticleThe $12.9 billion deal hands Nvidia ownership of Hugging Face, the open-source hub 18 million developers rely on — weeks after a rogue OpenAI testing agent breached its systems.
Full ArticleGPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's most capable model yet — and the first one the company itself won't rule out as a "Critical" cybersecurity risk, even as its president floats it as a possible arrival of AGI.
Brussels ordered Google to give 11 Android features to competing AI assistants under threat of fines up to 20% of global turnover, while Apple chose to withhold its new Siri AI from the EU entirely.
Full ArticleThe steep cuts to Oracle's Stargate-linked workforce raise fresh questions about whether the industry's AI-infrastructure buildout is outrunning actual demand.
Full ArticleMoonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 topped a major coding leaderboard with open weights — reigniting debate over how much lead U.S. labs have left.
Full ArticleGemini 3.5 Pro remains stuck in limited preview past its target date, even as rivals ship new models and Google absorbs a fresh €890 million EU fine.
Full ArticleRoughly 3,300 jobs are gone in Uber's biggest layoff round since the pandemic. Unlike most of this year's major tech layoffs, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's memo to employees never once mentions artificial intelligence as the reason.
Full ArticleThree novice hikers let Google's Gemini plan their route and packing list for a 14,179-foot summit attempt. Their eight-hour plan became an overnight ordeal in Mud Creek Canyon, with one man injured and not enough food or water.
Full ArticleEvery AI model launch comes with a chart of benchmark scores. Here's what those numbers actually test, why they climb so fast, and how much weight they really deserve.
Full ArticleA first-of-its-kind UNEP report drops the decade-long pretense that 1.5°C is still reachable. The new best case: a temporary overshoot peaking near 1.8°C, and only if global emissions fall by more than half within nine years.
Full ArticleGovernment data confirmed this week that the death toll from Congo's Ebola outbreak has crossed 3,000 — the deadliest and fastest-spreading epidemic of the virus ever recorded, caused by a rare strain with no licensed vaccine.
Full ArticleA new AI framework called PACMAN reads and corrects a tokamak's unstable plasma every 20 milliseconds, 50 times a second — and just passed its first five live tests on a real fusion machine in San Diego.
Full ArticleThe LUX-ZEPLIN detector caught a single flash of light in June 2023 that has resisted three years of attempts to explain it away. This week, the team called it their most compelling dark matter hint yet — while carefully stopping short of "discovery."
Artemis III will test SpaceX and Blue Origin's competing lunar landers in Earth orbit in 2027 — a deliberate dress rehearsal, echoing Apollo 9, before any crew attempts an actual landing.
Full ArticleMarine biologists in the Gulf of California documented orcas gripping a dead sunfish and charging at it — a hunting behavior never previously described.
Full ArticleNew research finds a global shift toward healthier diets could cut land-use emissions by 85% by 2050 — while freeing up enormous amounts of farmland.
Full ArticleResearchers found a previously unknown way influenza A dismantles structures inside a cell's nucleus — a discovery that could open a new path for antiviral drugs.
Full ArticleA fully human antibody halted the growth and spread of aggressive prostate cancer in preclinical studies — a promising early lead still years from human trials.
Full ArticleNine months after Reiner and his wife were killed in their Brentwood home, he won Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his final role, on FX's "The Bear." Wendi McLendon-Covey accepted the trophy on his behalf.
Full ArticleThe Country Music Association confirmed Saturday that Wilson will host the 60th Annual CMA Awards on November 18, a milestone announced live on ESPN's "College GameDay" from her home state of Louisiana.
Full ArticleABC unveiled its 16-star lineup for Season 35 on Wednesday, and two names stand out for reasons beyond the ballroom: Stiles built her career on "Save the Last Dance," Dewan built hers on "Step Up," and this season lands almost exactly on both films' anniversaries.
Full ArticleHargitay's directorial debut about Jayne Mansfield, the mother she lost in a car crash when she was three, won Outstanding Documentary Special and Best Directing at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys — her first Emmy in twenty years, and her first as a filmmaker.
Full ArticleThe Oscar winner gave birth in Paris last month, PEOPLE confirms, five months after she told Harper's Bazaar the pregnancy felt like "a privilege and a miracle." It's her first baby with musician Tanguy Destable, and her third overall.
Woods reached a plea deal Wednesday in the Florida DUI case stemming from his March rollover crash, after prosecutors said the evidence of impairment had weakened. He avoids jail time but won't be allowed to drive for five years.
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