Culture
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
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Culture
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from…
Business
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to…
Business
Tesla dethroned as the world's top EV maker
Elon Musk’s Tesla is no longer the top electric vehicle seller in the world as demand at home has cooled while competition heated up…
News
“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers
Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their…
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Celebrity
How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel, the author of “The…
Culture
January Festivals Bring the Weird, Wonderful Shows
Also: “Tartuffe” mania, the guitar stylings of William Tyler and Yasmin Williams, Justin Chang’s movies for a new year, and more. Source…
Business
The biggest startups raised a record amount in 2025, dominated by AI
The excitement around artificial intelligence led to a record year for certain types of fundraising. Silicon Valley’s AI companies secured…
Culture
Reading for the New Year
To start the new year, New Yorker writers are looking back on the last one, sifting through the vast number of books they encountered in…
Business
This Long Beach studio is designing America’s cheapest EV truck
In an echoing Long Beach studio, an ambitious team of designers is trying to reinvent how electric vehicles are made. Slate Auto has…
Lifestyle
Thierry Breton’s Vacation Problem
The week of December 22, 2025: Confronting the EU’s online censorship, the Fed, Elon Musk’s pay, and more. Source link
Fashion
Warner Bros likely to reject Paramount’s latest hostile bid, source says
WARNER Bros Discovery will likely reject Paramount Skydance’s amended US$108.4 billion hostile bid for the storied Hollywood studio…
Business
US Fed officials showed deep divisions at December meeting: minutes
THE US Federal Reserve agreed to cut interest rates at its December meeting only after a deeply nuanced debate about the risks facing the…
News
Republicans try to flip an Iowa Senate seat and reclaim a supermajority in year-end special election
Some Iowans are ringing in 2026 with a special election on the final Tuesday of the year, casting ballots for a state senator in a race…
News
DOJ pushed to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia only after mistaken deportation, judge's order says
A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia reveals that high-level Justice Department officials pushed for…
News
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how…
News
Suspected D.C. pipe bomber in court for detention hearing
The Virginian accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national headquarters the day before the Jan. 6, 2021,…
News
Judge blocks White House's attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid
The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday,…
News
The show won't go on: Jazz band joins cancellations at Trump Kennedy Center over name change
Another act said it won't perform at the Trump Kennedy Center, this time on New Year's Eve, after President Trump's name was added to the…
News
RFK Jr. Is Right About ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The HHS secretary, to say the least, isn’t always very careful about evidence, but, on this one, the most painstaking research is on his…
News
Are These Iran Protests Different?
The Iranian people are at the end of their rope, and they’re letting their dissatisfaction be known. Source link
Business
SoftBank has completed its US$40 billion investment in OpenAI
It has been building one of the largest private technology investment programmes in the world, with a particular focus on AI and related…
News
How questions from the Washington press corps often spur Trump to take unexpected action
President Trump has ordered a slew of actions based solely on reporters' questions, creating an unusual contradiction in which the…
Business
Cambridge Artificial Intelligence and Incredible Holdings have entered a non-binding MOU to explore the transaction
Cambridge Artificial Intelligence and Incredible Holdings have entered a non-binding MOU to explore the transaction Electronics and…