If ever a game presents me with an opportunity to perform completely absurd aerial tricks, you best believe I will be flipping as much as possible. In , a 3D solo racing game for Playdate by Tabortop Games, flips can work either to your benefit or detriment as you try to score the fastest finish time…
There’s not too much shame in a botched March Madness bracket. The NCAA Tournament is compressed chaos in single elimination, upsets are part of the game, and only one entrant can actually win it all. What we can’t forgive is a lazy, uninspired bracket name. The men’s and women’s tournaments give us a wealth of…
The 2025 SAG Awards have wrapped, and if there’s one thing Sunday night proved, it’s that this awards season is far from predictable. What started as a night celebrating Hollywood’s finest quickly turned into a game-changer for some of the industry’s biggest contenders. Conclave, a gripping thriller about the election of a new pope, pulled…
After the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, Lars Staack decided to play it safe and invest his retirement savings in S&P 500 index funds, which are diversified and carry lower risk than owning individual stocks. It was a strategy that brought him peace of mind for more than two decades — until President…
U.S. deported hundreds in the face of a judge’s order Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced yesterday that hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members were sent from the U.S. to El Salvador, a day after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to cease such deportations. The timing of the flights could determine…
Roblox is a massive app — as of September 2023, Roblox says it has more than 65 million daily active users — and it’s becoming an increasingly interesting platform to watch amid growing competition from social and metaverse platforms like Epic Games’ Fortnite and Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Here’s all of our coverage of Roblox.
Matt Richtman won the 40th annual Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, becoming the first American man to take the title in 31 years. The 25-year-old set a personal-best time of two hours, seven minutes and 56 seconds over a course that began at Dodger Stadium and went through downtown LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Brentwood…
Charlotte Chilton is keeping a low profile. The Traitors star cancelled her appearance at a high-profile event over the weekend, pulling out of attending the Mariposa Ball and Awards in London at the last minute after singer Conor Maynard‘s bombshell statement claiming he is not the father of her child. “Earlier this week, I took…
For more than 80 years, Voice of America transmitted the news into countries, many of them authoritarian, where reliable sources of information about the outside world were often hard to come by. Now those broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of U.S. efforts to promote democracy and transparency overseas — are flickering out….
In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror story: Young, healthy women set off for domestic jobs in Saudi Arabia, only to return…
