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
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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
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Ravie LakshmananApr 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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C’mon, y’all… we can’t do this again. Last night, Morgan Wallen and Ella Langley confirmed that they have a new duet called “I Can’t Love You Anymore” dropping this Friday. During Morgan’s show in Tuscaloosa, Alabama tonight for the second weekend of his Still the Problem tour, they performed the song to the excitement of thousands of
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FBI Director Kash Patel gestures while he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 16, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said Sunday he will sue The Atlantic magazine for defamation over a
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 The Murder of Mr. Ma by SJ Rozan, John Shen Yen Nee Get This Deal $2.99 The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers Get This Deal $1.99 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Get This Deal $1.99 The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman Get This Deal $2.99 The
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building stands after it was reported the IRS will lay off about 6,700 employees, a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency’s resources during the critical tax-filing season, in Washington, D.C., Feb. 20, 2025.  Kent Nishimura | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth
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Apple TV‘s long-shelved series The Savant, postponed after the Charlie Kirk assassination, will finally arrive on the streaming service this summer, star Jessica Chastain has revealed. The limited series, which follows an undercover investigator played by Chastain who infiltrates domestic extremist groups to thwart catastrophic large-scale attacks, was scheduled to premiere in September 23, 2025,
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