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What Trump’s July 4 Speech Revealed
Donald Trump’s favorite movie is “Sunset Boulevard.” That movie tells the story of an aging silent film star, Norma Desmond, who has locked herself away from the real world so that she can endlessly replay past glories until she loses her mind entirely. In his Independence Day speech, Donald Trump indulged in his own protracted…
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Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall
Over the past five decades, China has planted 66 billion trees in a massive wall that spans the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. This reforestation effort intended to stop the deserts’ spread is working — but, it turns out, with a surprising twist. In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found…
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Married Australian PM Anthony Albanese says he’d have sex with Kylie Minogue in wild podcast interview
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed his fondness for our very own Princess of Pop, Kylie Minogue. On this latest episode of Nova’s brand-new podcast Bush Deep, the show’s host Bushie (aka Australian comedian Nikki Osborne) sat down with the PM for a very cheeky chat at The Lodge in Canberra. In the tongue-in-cheek…
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France, the World Cup Favorite, Lives On—With a Little Love From Local Fans
Fans react at the end of the World Cup Round of 16 soccer match between Paraguay and France in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026. —Petr David Josek—AP During France’s Round of 16 World Cup matchup against Paraguay, on July 4, in Philadelphia—250 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed some 3 miles from Philadelphia…
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Prepare for Airplane Purgatory
One evening in May, passengers boarded United Flight 661 from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago. As the plane readied for takeoff, a thunderstorm swept in, grounding the plane. The storm, which produced winds upwards of 50 miles an hour, was fast moving and cleared a few hours later. And yet, seven hours after Flight 661…
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Why Doug Jones Keeps Running
On Juneteenth, I watched Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, deliver a speech at the Scottsboro Boys Museum, in the northeastern corner of the state. I found myself thinking of the 1960s civil-rights rallies that I’d covered as a young reporter, and that many of the older Alabamians in the packed venue had…
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Music Is in Its Flop Era
This past May, the globally famous pop star Lizzo was spotted on the side of a busy road in Los Angeles, putting up her own posters. Wearing a white crop top and a tiny skirt, she dipped a long brush into a bucket of paste and then used her body to press her new album…
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America learned long ago that air-conditioning saves lives. Why does Europe remain so stubborn about it?
During his inaugural speech on Jan. 1, Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” It certainly feels warm these days. As temperatures climbed during the heat wave that blanketed much of the eastern United States, the mayor took to social media with a familiar message…
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What went wrong at ‘Call Her Daddy’: ‘Mean girls’ Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn would ‘stop at nothing’ to get ‘money and fame’
Dave Portnoy just won’t let the “Call Her Daddy” saga die. in his new memoir, “Cancel Me If You Can,” the outspoken multi-millionaire founder of Barstool Sports alleges that the podcast’s Alex Cooper and her former co-host, Sofia Franklyn, plotted to falsely accuse him of sexual harassment to break their contracts with his company. Portnoy slams…
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El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe
We’re officially in an El Niño year, and as predicted, it’s a scorcher. Record temperatures are already being recorded around the world, from the streets of New York to the icy shelves of the Antarctic. Even the surface waters of the world’s waterways are under unprecedented stress from the heat, with the average global ocean…