PBS to Cut 15% of Its Staff
Congress voted this year to strip $500 million in annual funding from public broadcasters, including PBS stations.
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Lionel Messi scores clever goal for Argentina in World Cup winner’s potentially last official home match
Getty Images In what may be Lionel Messi’s final official home game with the Argentina national team, he wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to score. Arguably the greatest player of all time, Messi scored a cheeky goal that will be remembered for years to come in Argentina’s World Cup qualifier against Venezuela on Thursday…
Floods in North India Submerge Crops as Farmers Struggle With Debt and Tariffs
Surjan Singh, a farmer in the state of Punjab, stood on the porch of his house submerged in water and surveyed the damage caused by the worst rains to hit north India in decades. “I would have earned a thousand dollars from each of the nine acres of land my brother and I own,” he…
Liquid crystal lenses could make better bifocal glasses
The first prototype of the liquid crystal bifocals Lin et al./APS 2025 Lenses made with liquid crystals could lead to eyeglasses that can easily switch between correcting near- and far-sightedness. Bifocal glasses date back to the 18th century, and their design has not fundamentally changed since. Typically, the lower halves of their lenses are shaped…
Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a $350 million funding round on Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, values the startup at $10 billion, according to a company blog post that confirmed…
Sydney Sweeney addresses American Eagle advertisement controversy
Sydney Sweeney made headlines back in July for a controversial brand endorsement. The Euphoria actress was the star of American Eagle’s latest denim campaign with the catchphrase “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans”. The advertisement received a slew of backlash as viewers interpreted it to be promoting eugenics, and now Sweeney, 27, has broken her silence…
Trump seeks to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order, as U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look on, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand…
Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior
Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core.
Questions over Kawhi Leonard payments put focus on NBA salary cap
At the heart of the uproar over allegations that Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers received millions in undisclosed payments from a tree-planting startup is a National Basketball Association rule that caps the the total annual payroll for teams. According to a report by Pablo Torre of the Athletic, bankruptcy documents show that the…
Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney AI for copying its characters
Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “countless” infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and more….