Yesterday we unveiled our picks for the best books of 2026 so far, a list of 45 of our favorite reads published between January 1 and June 30th of this year. Putting these “best of” lists is always a lot of fun and a wee bit stressful; we start with a much larger list and
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Michael Burry attends the premiere of “The Big Short” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Nov. 23, 2015, in New York. Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame said he bought shares of regulated sports-betting operators DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, anticipating regulators will eventually crack down on prediction markets after competition
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Luciane Buchanan as Thya in New Line Cinema’s ‘Evil Dead Burn’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2026 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. Opening in theaters on July 10 is ‘Evil Dead Burn,’ directed by Sébastien Vaniček, written by Vaniček and Florent Bernard, and starring Souheila
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What To Know While streaming series dominated the 2026 Emmy nominations, several broadcast shows like FBI, The Rookie, and Will Trent received recognition. Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror series including Alien: Earth, The Boys, and others also garnered multiple nominations. The 2026 Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday, July 8, and some of the honorees were
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A t a community park on Houston’s west side, two bare-chested men are mean-­mugging each other hard, their faces just inches apart, as a crowd howls “Let’s eaaaaaat!” around them. Any passerby on this overcast March afternoon could be forgiven for thinking a bareknuckle fight was about to go down. But this is a weighted-calisthenics
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Fire at Omsk oil refinery as the region’s governor says the province came under attack from Ukrainian drones, in Omsk, Russia July 6, 2026, in this picture obtained from a social media video. Reuters Ukraine’s drone attacks have been dominating headlines about its war with Russia — and upended NATO’s investment thesis. Having boosted drone
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A view of Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters on July 8, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Heather Diehl | Getty Images Levi Strauss beat Wall Street’s quarterly expectations on the top and bottom lines on Wednesday, leading the retailer to increase its guidance and its dividend.  The denim maker is now expecting full-year adjusted earnings
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Security officers keep watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China, September 18, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — China on Wednesday warned of “back-door” security risks affecting companies that use U.S.-based company Anthropic’s Claude Code artificial intelligence tool. It comes as the U.S.-China
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