Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.
Todd Blanche’s rocky road: From the Politics Desk
In today’s edition, we dig into the uncertain paths forward for Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination and the Iran war.
Scotland win eight medals in five chaotic hours as Games hit halfway
Host nation Scotland win eight medals in the space of five chaotic hours on Wednesday - two of them gold - to take their Commonwealth Games tally in Glasgow to 23.
Brazil becomes world’s top buyer of Chinese cars as imports jump 147%
Brazil overtook Russia and Belgium in the first five months of this year to become the world’s largest importer of Chinese cars, buying US$5.2 billion worth of vehicles as brands raced to land shipments before a tariff increase took effect in July.
The figure, drawn from Chinese customs data, is up 146.9 per cent from the US$2.1 billion recorded a year earlier, when Brazil ranked sixth among buyers. Russia bought US$5 billion over the same months this year and Belgium purchased US$3.8...
Hadi Matar convicted in terrorism trial over Salman Rushdie stabbing
A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses.
A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.
A message seeking comment was sent to Matar’s lawyers.
Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an...
John Thune Isn’t Bowing to Trump’s Pressure: ‘Show Me How This Ends’
A standoff over the restrictive voting bill Trump is pushing has left nerves raw at the Capitol, with even the typically staid Thune showing signs of frustration.
CHOP video addresses misinformation about creatine use among teenagers amid 'looksmaxxing' trend
A new video from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is addressing misinformation about creatine use among teenagers as the supplement gains attention on social media through the growing "looksmaxxing" trend.
In an era defined by AI, can work still be measured by the clock?
Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so.
Yet something is disrupting the clock she races against. Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting what her hours are worth.
On June 29, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung stood alongside the leaders of Samsung...
After casting doubt on California election integrity, Clayton confirmed as Director of National Intelligence
California's senators oppose new nominee in a party-line vote, questioning his credentials for intel role and his independence in election oversight.
Jane Schoenbrun and the ‘Teenage Death and Sex at Camp Miasma’ Team Delivered a Sexy, Sapphic ‘Secretary’ Live Reading
Schoenbrun, Hannah Einbinder, and Gillian Anderson performed a script read of the 2002 cult classic at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday July 28.
Meta shares fall as frustration grows over AI spending plans
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta intends to sell for the first time AI tools to other companies
Author Salman Rushdie’s attacker convicted in terrorism trial over the 2022 stabbing
Rushdie was about to deliver a speech on writers’ safety when he was gravely wounded in the assault, suffering 15 stab wounds in front of a stunned audience