23 Celeb Scandals That Only Made Them Even More Famous
23 Celebrity Scandals That Boosted Fame Celebrity scandals are usually framed as career-ending disasters, but pop culture has a funny way of rewarding chaos and making stars even more…
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Lyft CEO: ‘Let’s stop doing that, please’
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from…
Going beyond pilots with composable and sovereign AI
The concept to production reality AI pilots almost always work, and that’s the problem. Proofs of concept (PoCs) are meant to validate feasibility, surface use cases, and build confidence…
Malachi Kirby Talks "A Thousand Blows", Black Excellence, And Life In Victorian London
How do you feel about the sense of responsibility that comes with bringing a real character to life? I feel that sense of responsibility with my work in general, because even if a…
People Are Disgusted With “Stranger Things” Stars Finn Wolfhard And Caleb McLaughlin For These “SNL" Jokes
SNL joking about the sex lives of Stranger Things characters is beyond tasteless—how did Netflix let that happen?? "Well, Max & I started off hot & heavy right, but then a couple years in,…
It’s Time to Ditch ‘Disparate Impact Theory’ — and Biden’s Weaponization of Civil Rights Law
HUD has proposed a rule to end the agency’s use of this pernicious legal doctrine. Source link
Let the Pro-Life Movement Declare Independence
The Republican Party’s leadership has made its choice. Pro-lifers need to make theirs. Source link
Education Remains the Key to Good Citizenship
No matter whether you’re an immigrant or a native-born American, education instills the love of country that we all ought to have. Source link
Pro-Lifers Still Need to Be Heard in Washington
The mixed record of the second Trump administration and the GOP Congress on life suggests that pro-lifers still have work to do in Washington. Source link
HSBC on course for £300 billion valuation, top executive says
Weeks after its market value rose above £200 billion (S$344.6 billion) for the first time in its history, HSBC Holdings is now on course for a capitalisation in excess of £300 billion,…
What’s open and closed on MLK Day 2026? Banks, stock markets, parks, Walmart, Costco holiday hours
To an outside observer (honestly even to the average American), the jurisdiction of the United States government appears convoluted—it’s a collection of states with one set of rules that…
At least 39 dead in Spain after two high-speed trains collide
[ADAMUZ, Spain] At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night in the worst railway accident in the country…
Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths of winter. “I inevitably see some suntanned…
When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills
Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas, next door to Radio City…
L.A.'s defense industry is booming. Federal funding crunch could change that
When former Space X engineer Josh Giegel launched his North Hollywood tech company Gambit in 2023, he had a vision for the battlefield of the future, one with fewer soldiers and more…
The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and “The Door” (1884). By filtering the grammar of…
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach explains the future of global spending
What did the latest holiday shopping season reveal about consumer confidence going into 2026? Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach unpacks the signals he’s seeing across global spending—from…
What Makes a Good Mother?
It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here, too, there is an omnipresent sense of the…
How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished, the flesh a rosy pink. I’d grown used to being…
The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here
We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. I suspect that a lot of people were not aware that Project 2025, the…
How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
A new wave of tools, based on generative AI, aims to go beyond sorting papers and to automate various stages of the reviewing process. Some products, such as Elicit and SciSpace, feel like…
Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right
Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged, explained, and perhaps satirized and…
Luxury Stocks Hit by U.S. Tariff Threat
PARIS – Luxury stocks took a beating Monday morning in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement Saturday that he will hit a group of European nations with tariffs if his…
Prince Harry Arrives at London Court as Privacy Case Against Daily Mail Publisher Kicks Off
Prince Harry is set to appear in London’s High Court on Monday as his privacy case against the publisher of U.K. tabloid Daily Mail kicks off. The Duke of Sussex is one of several big…