This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Percival Everett won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel James, a modern masterpiece that retells The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man who accompanies Huck on
Comcast topped Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter on Thursday, lifted by NBC’s sports slate in February and improving broadband customer losses. The company said it lost 65,000 broadband customers compared with 183,000 losses in the same period last year. Heightened competition from wireless providers like Verizon and T-Mobile has led
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday expressed confidence that inflation will moderate through the year, giving the Federal Reserve room to cut interest rates. Bessent added, though, that he understands if central bank policymakers take a cautious approach until impacts from the Iran war become clearer. “I am highly confident that the core inflation …
Ravie LakshmananApr 23, 2026Threat Intelligence / Malware Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. “The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal,” Slovakian cybersecurity
A second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon was set to start Thursday in Washington, while the prospects of Iran-U.S. talks in Pakistan seemed dubious as the Islamic Republic accused the Americans of a “lack of good faith” in negotiations. Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of
While Dice Throne is already a beloved franchise in tabletop form, fans have been wanting a digital version for quite some time, so you can imagine how excited those fans were when Dice Throne Digital was initially announced. The subsequent Kickstarter campaign has been immensely successful, but Dice Throne Digital has made some changes that
Keyboardist Nick Rhodes called the band’s latest collaboration a “call to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail” Duran Duran revealed their first new music of 2026 on Thursday, “Free to Love,” their disco-fueled single featuring longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers. “Every time we plug in and play with Nile,
What To Know In Chicago Fire Season 14 Episode 18, Violet and Novak are taken hostage while responding to an emergency. Hanako Greensmith and Jocelyn Hudon break down the stressful hour and where it leaves their partnership. You know what they say: The partners that work together to get themselves out of a hostage situation
Keith Urban has officially teased his “Yacht Rock Era.” If you did a double take, I don’t blame you. I did the same when I first heard that the prolific guitarist and country music artist was changing things up after his divorce from actress Nicole Kidman. He’s taking his talents to the underrated, under-appreciated genre
Tim Heidecker thought The Onion had ghosted him. When the Tim and Eric star first heard that the satirical news sight was looking to acquire Infowars — the extremist media outfit founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — Heidecker reached out through his agent. He had parodied Jones’ gruff, hysteric mannerisms before, and although he
A Kalshi advertisement at a bus stop in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prediction market platform Kalshi said Wednesday it had suspended and fined three candidates for Congress — from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia — for “political insider trading” activity on their own campaigns. Kalshi said in a
Anthropic is ramping up a push to secure European data center deals to power its AI models, as it looks to hire a role for negotiating compute capacity in the region. U.S. hyperscalers’ AI infrastructure expenditure is set to top $600 billion in 2026. Anthropic is looking to capitalize on the boom and has announced
The cynical Republican approach to election results is on full display in Virginia. After voters supported redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter Donald Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterm election, Republicans immediately went court shopping and found a conservative judge in the state who tossed out the election and refused to certify the
Critic’s Rating: 4 / 5.0 4 We’re really having a baby! And by “we” I mean, Foxwater. Of course, that’s assuming Chicago PD doesn’t pull the old One Chicago move of having Atwater’s child going through absolute peril. After what seemed like ages, we finally revisited Atwater and his storyline regarding his child, and the
With less than two months to go before the primary election, one gubernatorial candidate is standing out with a surge in the polls: Xavier Becerra, former California attorney general and former Health and Human Services secretary for the Biden administration, has gone from getting calls to leave the race to becoming one of the Democratic
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. The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the biggest literary
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane lands at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Chicago on March 7, 2026. Kevin Carter | Getty Images Southwest Airlines forecast second-quarter earnings below analyst estimates, citing higher fuel prices, while holding off on updating its full-year 2026 forecast. Southwest expects to earn between 35 cents and 65
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to testify during a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that “many” oil-rich U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf
Ravie LakshmananApr 22, 2026Cloud Security / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official “checkmarx/kics” Docker Hub repository. In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alpine, while also introducing a new v2.1.21
Collecting is a serious business for Star Trek. The current Star Trek era is ending with an auction, with Discovery and Strange New Worlds props on sale for collectors now Kurtzman’s two flagship shows are over. The future of the franchise is in doubt; for the first time in 11 years, no new Star Trek
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