South Korea has become a case study in how a thriving democracy can suddenly spiral into a constitutional crisis, and there’s no end in sight. For the past five months, the country has been run by three different acting presidents after its elected leader was impeached and removed for abruptly declaring martial law late last…
It took more than four years, but Epic Games finally prevailed this week in its antitrust case against Apple, the world’s most valuable company with a market value of $3.2 trillion. And now it’s possible that the floodgates are open to bring competition and financial gains for mobile game companies on iOS. Epic CEO Tim…
This weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live might have fans wondering… if Benson Boone married Quinta Brunson, would he take her last name to become Benson Brunson? As the Grammy nominee made his SNL debut, he briefly serenaded the Golden Globe winner with his single ‘Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else’ after doing one of…
For betting types, the conventional wisdom says not to put your money on a pope from the United States. Yet one American some Vatican watchers say could scrape together enough votes is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born polyglot who is viewed as a churchman who transcends borders. He served for two decades in…
Fight, Flee or Freeze? This Tiny Caterpillar Does a Secret Fourth Thing Baby warty birch caterpillars vibrate when threatened—before swinging away like Spider-Man By Rohini Subrahmanyam edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier When facing an intruder, animals generally tend to fight, flee or simply freeze. But certain baby caterpillars do something else entirely: they vibrate. Newly…
Canelo Álvarez beat William Scull in a unanimous points decision Sunday to become undisputed super middleweight champion again. The 34-year-old Álvarez is a four-weight world champion and entered the fight with the WBA, WBC and WBO titles at 168lb. He was stripped of the IBF belt last July when he declined to make a mandatory…
Prince Harry lost his appeal in the British High Court on Friday. The appeal was for last year’s decision that Harry’s “bespoke” security situation for his British visits was fine as-is, and that Ravec and the government would not do any kind of real risk assessment or change the situation whatsoever. The appeals court judge…
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A dramatic victory in a parliamentary special election. Hundreds of seats won in English municipalities. A first taste of power in the lower tiers of government. By making extensive gains in a set of local elections held in England on Thursday, Nigel Farage, one of Britain’s best known supporters of President Trump and the leader…
Can fossil fuel companies finally be held responsible for the damage their business models cause? In Germany, a landmark climate case is set to be decided later this month. It started 10 years ago, when Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya began suing German energy giant RWE, saying that the firm’s contribution to global greenhouse gas…
