Sports

Kompany defends Nicolas Jackson after penalty snub

Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany defended Nicolas Jackson after the Chelsea loanee was passed over for a penalty in the 4-1 win over Borussia Monchengladbach. With Harry Kane sidelined by a minor knock, Jackson started for the first time since January as part of a seven-change rotation and played

Culture

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Petit Bateau T-shirts start at $45

Ryan Murphy’s FX series "Love Story" has put Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s timeless aesthetic back in view. She made jeans-and-tee combinations feel both attainable and aspirational, often pairing Levi’s with Hermès bags or designer pencil skirts with simple T-shirts. The exact tees she favoured came from

Politics

‘An ideological guest list’: Trump invites Latin America’s rightwing leaders to Florida summit

Donald Trump will welcome leaders from at least 10 Latin American countries to a palm-dotted golf resort in Miami on Saturday, as he pushes to reshape the US’s standing in the region and outmuscle China. Since returning to power last year he has launched a dramatic — and at times

Culture

Controversial RoboCop Remake Lands on Free Streaming

The 2014 RoboCop remake, criticized for stripping away much of the original's satire and dark humor, is now available to stream for free on Tubi. Reception for the remake was mixed: it holds a 50% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes versus the original's 88%, and audience

Culture

10 Most Exciting Movies Ever Made, Ranked

Movies provoke many different feelings—quiet unease, shock, warmth—and some are built primarily to excite. This roundup gathers films that aim for pulse‑racing entertainment, drawing from thrillers, action, crime and even monster cinema, and succeeds in keeping viewers riveted. 'Hard Boiled' pushes non‑stop action to

Sports

Mascherano defends Inter Miami after White House visit

Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano addressed the fallout from his team’s visit to the White House, which had been arranged to celebrate their 2025 MLS Cup win. Photos of Lionel Messi and teammates alongside President Donald Trump drew widespread attention and placed the Herons at the centre of

Culture

Jessi Ngatikaura says $25K surgery 'ruined my life'

Jessi Ngatikaura says she feels "really insecure" over the results of a $25,000 plastic surgery procedure. "I’ve really been struggling. I genuinely feel like this last surgery ruined my life," the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star said in a TikTok video Thursday. She

Culture

HBO’s 9-Episode Watchmen Miniseries Is a Modern Masterpiece

Comic-book adaptations are common, yet HBO’s nine-episode Watchmen miniseries stands apart: more a sequel than a straight adaptation, it delivers a bold, self-aware remix of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s original. Series creator Damon Lindelof pledged it would “not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted,” but

Culture

Blind date: ‘I could tell we were going to click right away’

Harry and Freya met for a blind date expecting something straightforward: Harry wanted tasty food and good company to blunt the Sunday scaries, while Freya hoped to find someone with similar interests to see live music and laugh with. First impressions were positive. Harry found Freya warm, engaging and a

Sports

'I give up' - Guardiola says Carabao Cup prioritised over Champions League

Pep Guardiola criticised English fixture scheduling after being handed an FA Cup fifth-round tie at 8pm on Saturday, leaving minimal recovery time before City travel to face Real Madrid on Wednesday. He complained that opponents in Spain and France receive tailored help, noting Real Madrid’s game against Celta Vigo

Business

US gas prices climb to highest point in Trump's second term

Gas prices jumped as the military conflict with Iran escalated, pushing the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline to $3.32 on Friday — an 11.4% rise from last week and the highest level since August 2024. Brent crude traded above $91 a barrel Friday morning, its highest

Business

Nintendo sues US for refunds after tariffs delayed Switch 2 pre-orders

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking refunds after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's tariffs. The company asks the court to order the prompt refund of the "unlawful" tariff fees, with interest and attorney fees. The levies were

Culture

Henry Cavill and Guy Ritchie's WWII Epic Finds New Life on Starz

Henry Cavill and Guy Ritchie's pairing was meant to deliver a blockbuster World War II action epic, but The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare struggled at the box office after its April 19, 2024 release. The film stars Cavill alongside Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza González, Hero Fiennes Tiffin,

Tech

Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

The Trump administration announced that a group of tech companies has signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Initial signatories—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI—agree to pay for the new generation and transmission capacity needed for any additional data centers they build. The agreement contains no enforcement mechanism

Culture

Ella Purnell's Bingeable 6-Part Crime Thriller Climbs Prime Video

Ella Purnell first burst onto the scene a decade ago in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and has become a prominent presence on television, from Yellowjackets to voicing Jinx in Arcane. Her role as Lucy in Fallout opposite Walton Goggins has earned particular attention, with Purnell’s portrayal

Culture

Leslie Odom Jr to join London cast of Hamilton

Leslie Odom Jr, who originated the role of Aaron Burr on Broadway, will make his West End debut by joining the London cast of Hamilton at the Victoria Palace theatre for nine weeks this summer. He won a Tony award in 2016 for his portrayal, which he developed alongside Lin-Manuel

Sports

Rosenior: Joao Pedro now in same category as Kane, Haaland and Mbappé

Liam Rosenior says Chelsea have finally found a world-class successor to Diego Costa after Joao Pedro's hat-trick helped the Blues to a 4-1 win at Aston Villa. The 24-year-old's treble took him to 17 goals across all competitions this season, 14 of them in the Premier

Culture

Zach Braff, Donald Faison recall 'heated' podcast fight

Zach Braff and Donald Faison say their friendship has weathered several big fights since they met on Scrubs in 2001. Braff told Jimmy Kimmel Live that one argument began when Faison showed up late to a Zoom recording of their rewatch podcast and didn’t apologize; Faison maintained he was

Tech

The Obsbot Tiny 3 is seriously overkill for most folks shopping for a webcam

True to its ‘tiny titan’ moniker, the Obsbot Tiny 3 crams a surprising amount of audio‑visual capability into a very small package. Its video and audio performance exceed typical webcam expectations, but a $349 price places it squarely as a niche product that mixes flashy AI features with a

Tech

Project Helix risks losing console roots if Xbox chases a Steam Machine

Microsoft’s pitch that the next-gen Xbox will rival the Steam Machine is a bold shift, and Asha Sharma’s emphasis on “performance” and “PC games” makes it clear Project Helix is heading toward PC territory. I’m glad there’s a plan, but I worry the project could abandon

Science

Journey Through the Heliosphere: Eclipse

Two pages extracted from the booklet Journey Through the Heliosphere: The Sun‑Earth System in Color explain how eclipses happen and connect the topic to indigenous Alaskan languages. The booklet blends art and science to make heliophysics concepts accessible to learners. The coloring book covers the Sun, solar magnetic fields

Tech

Nvidia may refresh the RTX 5050 with 9 GB of GDDR7 VRAM

Hardware leaker MegaSizeGpu, corroborated by Benchlife, says Nvidia will move the RTX 5050 to GDDR7 later this year, using 3 GB memory dies to reach 9 GB total. The change would come with a reduced 96‑bit bus; the standard RTX 5050 currently uses four 2 GB GDDR6 modules for

Culture

Metzen's fingerprints are all over World of Warcraft: Midnight

At BlizzCon 2023 Chris Metzen returned to announce three World of Warcraft expansions: The War Within (2024), Midnight, and the forthcoming The Last Titan. Metzen, who retired in 2016 and came back in 2022 as a creative advisor before becoming executive creative director of the Warcraft universe, began at Blizzard

Crypto

Florida Senate approves stablecoin bill, awaits DeSantis' signature

The Florida Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 314 and sent it to Governor Ron DeSantis. Samuel Armes, founder of the Florida Blockchain Business Association, wrote on X that the measure is expected to be signed within the next 30 days. SB 314 creates a state framework for payment stablecoin issuers

Culture

Ridley Scott's Napoleon Finds New Life on Streaming

Three years after its theatrical release, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is enjoying a streaming resurgence on Apple TV. FlixPatrol lists the film in Apple TV’s Top 10 in more than 20 countries, including Bahrain, Cambodia and Latvia, bringing the historical epic back into the public eye. Scott’s film