20 April 2026 Tina Fey has insisted Saturday Night Live does not “try to control the narrative and politics.” Tina Fey was prviously head writer on Saturday Night Live The 55-year-old comic worked on the show from 1997–2006, including a stint as the programme’s first female head writer from 1999, and she believes it was…
In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”: a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething, filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have…
The men’s basketball transfer portal window is almost closed. Players have until Tuesday to enter their names in the transfer portal ahead of the 2026-27 season. They don’t have to sign with a school by Tuesday, but barring a coaching change or another unexpected circumstance, players who aren’t in the portal by Tuesday won’t be…
It’s going to be a little while before The Lands Between is realized in movie form. Bandai Namco just confirmed that the live-action Elden Ring movie, which was announced last year, is expected to hit theaters on March 3rd, 2028, with production kicking off this spring. While we don’t know much else about the movie…
The global fallout of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz may create the impression that the world cannot function without fossil fuels. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every single industry can and must decarbonise. For global shipping, this process would be relatively easy because technological solutions exist and a single United Nations…
EXCLUSIVE: Spanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez, the writer-director of Willem Dafoe starrer The Birthday Party, has set his next feature film with AF Films. The new drama, dubbed Hijos del Miedo, tells the story of Salva, a young, far-right radical who spends his days between a job he hates at a large distribution warehouse, caring for his…
The Greens have welcomed activists kicked out of Labour for antisemitic views and people should be “very careful” who they vote for next month, one of Keir Starmer’s most senior ministers has said in a notable stepping-up of attacks on Zack Polanski’s party. In a double-pronged attack on the two parties expected to make big…
Outdoor enthusiasts hoping to avoid catching a potentially debilitating bacterium from a tick bite could soon have another layer of defense joining bug sprays and long clothing. New clinical trial data from vaccine makers Pfizer and Valneva show that their Lyme disease shot reduced cases by about 70 percent compared with a placebo, the companies reported…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says importers can begin the refund process through an online portal. A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed without the constitutional authority to do so is scheduled to launch Monday.Importers and their brokers will be able to begin claiming…
An Iranian flag flutters as a woman walks past damaged buildings amid a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, April 20, 2026. Marko Djurica | Reuters “Complacent” investors risk getting wrong-footed as they continue to misread developments in the Iran war, analysts said after markets reacted to the…
