Essentially, Orban became a kind of “pet” autocrat of Europe’s mainstream center-right parties. Germany’s Christian Democrats and other EPP parties blocked the EU from sanctioning Orban for his ...

Some 350,000 years ago, the centre of New Zealand’s North Island appeared much different than the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape it is today. Amid a glacial period, temperatures were colder and ...

“Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.” It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code Anonymous. Steinberger and some fellow addicts had arranged ...

Sheryl Underwood is one of television’s beloved comedians and hosts, but underneath her funny persona is a past trauma. The former co-host of The Talk lost her late husband in 1990, which became the ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Right now, as you read this very story, a ...

The president celebrated “a big day for World Peace” in a post-midnight Truth Social post and said the U.S. “will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz” while “big money” gets ...

For more than a decade, Dylan Kane, a seventh-grade math teacher in Leadville, Colorado, leaned into technology as a way to improve his classes. Starting in 2014, he dragged Chromebook carts down ...

Between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C., the Minoan civilization flourished on Crete and nearby islands, building palaces decorated with frescoes, engaging in athletic activities such as bull leaping, and ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang. Instead of relying on ...

Early in One Battle After Another, the director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning tale of insurgency in slow decline, Pat Calhoun, a guerrilla explosives expert played by Leonardo DiCaprio, makes a ...

It’s a good sign when the craziest thing that happens at the Academy Awards is a tie. No fights. No streakers. No envelope mixups. Just the award for Best Live Action Short going to two nominees, Sam ...

A tie has only happened six times prior in the history of the Academy Awards Patrick T. Fallon / AFP A rare moment occurred at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday, March 15. While presenting the award for Best ...