World
A fire truck responding to one emergency became the cause of another — two pilots killed, 41 hospitalized, and an airport system already under severe strain just broke.
Entertainment
Ryan Gosling's sci-fi epic opened to $80.5M domestic and $141M globally, beating Oppenheimer's non-franchise record and setting Amazon MGM's all-time best.
Culture
The DOJ charged Don Lemon under the FACE Act for covering an anti-ICE church protest, using his own broadcast footage as the basis for prosecution.
Entertainment
ABC yanked the already-filmed Bachelorette Season 22 after TMZ published a 2023 video showing lead Taylor Frankie Paul assaulting her partner in front of a child.
Life
Slate's 'Breakup Week' explores how dating apps, TikTok therapy-speak, and infinite scrolling rewired relationships — leaving a generation that wants marriage but can't sustain getting there.
Entertainment
Nicholas Brendon died in his sleep of natural causes, and the tributes from his Buffy costars read like eulogies for a specific kind of 1990s television magic.
Life
The DHS shutdown has entered its second month, TSA officers are quitting faster than they can be replaced, and small airports face outright closure.
Life
The successor to quiet quitting is quiet burnout — employees who appear engaged, hit their KPIs, and are privately running on empty.
Life
Gen Z is recreating bottle flips and Mannequin Challenges with such intensity that the trend has its own Wikipedia page and Abercrombie stock is up.
Life
More than half of Americans say nobody sees them, and the WHO says loneliness now kills at the rate of 15 cigarettes a day.
Life
Pinterest's 2026 parenting report shows 'hybrid parenting' replacing gentle parenting, with time-outs rehabilitated and chore charts abandoned.
Culture
$126 million in antitrust settlements and dozens of sexual abuse lawsuits will survive Jeff Webb — the institutional damage at Varsity is larger than any one founder.