Items from legendary pop star Madonna went missing over the weekend following her surprise performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Vintage pieces from the singer’s personal archives were last lost at the Empire Polo Grounds overnight Saturday, just hours after she performed with Sabrina Carpenter during the second weekend of the festival.
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail The past couple of years have felt like
Such revisions are common to long-running characters, especially in the DC Universe, which has reality-rewriting events every decade or so. However, a more interesting revision occurs with Harvey’s father, the character that Dance will be playing. 1990’s Batman Annual #14, written by Andy Helfer and penciled by Chris Sprouse (with an incredible cover by Neal
Advocates attend a news conference about the “impact of incarcerating those charged with marijuana-related offenses,” and policy reform ideas, outside the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A White House executive order on psychedelics, signed by President Donald Trump on Saturday, aims to speed up research
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket carrying an AST SpaceMobile Bluebird 7 satellite launches from pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 19, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Paul Hennesy | Anadolu | Getty Images A failed satellite launch sent shares of AST SpaceMobile falling on Monday. The stock fell more than
Ravie LakshmananApr 20, 2026Open Source / Server Security A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of command injection leading
Few franchises have embedded themselves into the cultural DNA of multiple generations the way Harry Potter has. J.K. Rowling’s seven-novel series redefined what children’s literature could accomplish, pulling readers of every age into a mythology that proved both emotionally resonant and commercially indestructible. Parallel to that, the eight-film adaptation, which ran from 2001 to 2011,
The singer D4vd pleaded not guilty after being charged with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, The Associated Press reports. The singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, appeared at a Los Angeles court room Monday afternoon, April 20, after the District Attorney’s Office formally charged him. Along with the murder charge, Burke
During Season 1 of Love on the Spectrum, viewers were introduced to six people on the autism spectrum looking for love. One of these original cast members was Kaelynn Partlow, an autistic advocate, speaker, and behavioral therapist. While Kaelynn was not invited back for a second season on the series, fans of Love on the Spectrum have kept up with her career and her
Mark Chesnutt is doing well now… but he’s had a handful of health scares in the past half decade or so. You’ve likely seen a number of stories and announcements where the 90s country singer has had to postpone or cancel tour dates because of his health. It’s been quite the up-and-down health journey for
Satirical news site The Onion has finally taken over Infowars, the right-wing conspiracy website run by Alex Jones. Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion announced the news on Monday. “This is the culmination of a two-year-long effort to get some justice for the Sandy Hook families,” he posted on LinkedIn. The deal was first discussed
Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is resigning from the Trump administration, the White House said Monday. Chavez-DeRemer, 58, will “take a position in the private sector,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in an X post. Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling will take over the department in an acting capacity, Cheung wrote. Chavez-DeRemer
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution center of Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on Dec. 9, 2024. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Amazon pressured major brands like Levi Strauss & Co and Hanes to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as
The Iran war is absolute chaos. No one knows what is going on. Trump veers wildly between optimism and claiming that the war will end soon, or threats to resume bombing and escalate the war. Trump doesn’t even seem to know where his vice president is or if he will be participating in negotiations. PoliticusUSA’s
Netflix recently announced that its limited series His & Hers has landed on its list of most-watched TV shows of all time. While this news surprised me, maybe it shouldn’t have. His & Hers certainly isn’t the first Netflix limited series to take off, and it won’t be the last. (Eli Joshua Ade/Netflix) While the
A pilot was injured Monday when a small plane brought down power lines and crashed upside-down in the parking lot of a San Fernando Valley auto parts store. Details about the pilot’s condition were not immediately available, but he appeared to be speaking with firefighter-paramedics. The 2007 Cessna 172S Skyhawk is registered to a local
In addition to the above prizes, Amy Tan received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. We Need Diverse Books took home the Innovator’s Award, which honors efforts that help bring storytelling into the future, and the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose went to Adam Ross for his book Playworld. Those were all announced prior
The biggest American automakers all but abandoned sedans and coupes in recent years as they rushed to compete in the pickup truck and SUV markets. Many domestic buyers also shifted toward those bigger vehicles. Still, there’s a market for cars, as Japanese, Korean and German brands sell hundreds of thousands of smaller passenger vehicles in
In this photo illustration, Apps for online prediction market sites are shown on an electronic device on Feb. 25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Prediction market volumes are booming in 2026, on pace to more than quadruple this year alone and reach an estimated $1 trillion in the next four years,
Ravie LakshmananApr 20, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical “by design” weakness in the Model Context Protocol’s (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. “This flaw enables Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE) on any system running
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