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Cannes Day 1: Controversy Abounds, Guillermo del Toro Returns and Directors Strike a Pose
Is it really time for the Cannes Film Festival? Already? Incredibly, it is. And with only one day down in the prestigious film festival, there has been a surprising amount of heat generated – with a movie star’s comments on the artificial intelligence, the return of a festival favorite and an eerie lack of Hollywood…
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Congress Takes a Serious Look at a Gas Tax Holiday—But Drawbacks Might Sink It
Senator Josh Hawley, left, filed a bill to pause the gas tax this week, after President Donald Trump backed the idea. Fellow GOP Senator John Cornyn, right, previously called such a holiday “a good way to bankrupt the country” —Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Four years ago, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent…
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Medicine Has a Magic-Bullet Problem
“You’re the eighth rheumatologist that I’ve seen,” the patient told me. She ticked off her symptoms—pain, fatigue, and what she described as a sense of brain fog—which she’d lived with for years. Some doctors had no answers for her; others had said that she likely had fibromyalgia, a poorly understood pain-processing condition, and that they…
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The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
The Google I/O annual developer conference is around the corner—May 19—but in what is quickly becoming a tradition, Google announced new features for Android and Gemini a week early. The news came on Tuesday via the second-ever Android Show on YouTube. This livestreamed presentation helps Google spread out the cavalcade of updates from the often…
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Trump’s sons partner with sketchy Russian investors on luxury apartment tower: report
President Donald Trump’s sons are partnering on a new overseas development with a pair of companies linked to a sanctioned foreign oligarch and possibly the Russian mob. The Trump Organization is expanding its $2.7 billion real estate empire with the 70-story Trump Tower Tbilisi, which would become the tallest building in the former Soviet republic…
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Mystery of sunken Russia ‘ghost ship’ Ursa Major — allegedly carrying nuclear reactors — deepens following undersea explosions
The mystery of how a Russian cargo ship sank deepened after it was revealed that the vessel suffered multiple explosions while allegedly carrying two nuclear reactors believed to be bound for North Korea, according to a new report. The prevailing theory suggests that the West might have been involved in the incident that saw the…
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‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ star Mikayla Matthews escalates ‘frustrating’ Taylor Frankie Paul feud
Mikayla Matthews has escalated her “frustrating” feud with “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” co-star Taylor Frankie Paul. “Could probably write a book on everything I’ve had to say on this. Nothing I said denied that she’s experienced pain, trauma, or difficult things, there’s literally no question about that,” the reality TV star wrote in the…
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Who Could Replace Starmer as Prime Minister? Here Are the Top Contenders
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Manchester, England, on June 13, 2024. —Anthony Devlin—Getty Images British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political future as dozens of lawmakers from his own party call on him to resign. Four government ministers resigned on Tuesday, citing they no longer have…
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Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
Almost exactly 15 years since Google introduced Chromebooks and ChromeOS—which ushered a wave of cheap, functional, web-based laptops that would come to dominate the US education market—the company has announced a new laptop platform called Googlebook. It’s built around artificial intelligence and Android, and while it isn’t replacing Chromebooks, it could give the company a…
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Hegseth faces bipartisan grilling about weapons drawdown during the Iran war
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced tough questions Tuesday from Republican and Democratic lawmakers about the Trump administration’s end game for the Iran war, the cost of the conflict and its impact on diminishing U.S. weapons stockpiles. For his part, the Pentagon chief softened his tone from hearings before Congress nearly two weeks ago, notably avoiding…