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Miss Mexico sparked a Miss Universe walkout. Now she’s won the crown.

Mexico’s Fátima Bosch Fernández was crowned the 74th winner of the Miss Universe competition on Friday, weeks after she and a number of other contestants walked out of an early session of the scandal-hit pageant. The Miss Universe franchise has faced various controversies and criticism in recent years — but this year’s contest has appeared […]

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Ukraine delegation meets Pope Leo to discuss children held in Russia

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Friday with a delegation including Ukrainian officials, victims of Russia’s war and a U.S. senator as the Kyiv government sought to tap the new pontiff’s calls for peace to coax the Vatican into a larger role in efforts to release prisoners, civilians and children held by Russia. Ukraine […]

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Train Dreams Is a Vision of Hardscrabble Americana That’s Also Bracingly Modern

For a relatively young country, America has inflicted an enormous amount of suffering on human beings. Maybe there’s some cosmic payback in the fact that life here in the 19th and early 20the centuries, particularly in the west, could be brutal. Men who took on dangerous work and didn’t live to tell the tale, women […]

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TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without proper ID

A new program from the Transportation Security Administration will charge travelers $18 to pass through airport security if they are not carrying valid identification, such as Real ID or a passport. According to the agency, the fee will cover the cost of a “modernized alternative identity verification program” that relies on biometrics instead of documents […]

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In ‘Rental Family,’ it’s sympathy and compassion for hire — and sometimes a groom

Directed by Japan’s monomonikered Hikari, “Rental Family” — a beautifully moving and affably humorous story of human connection — kicks off with one funeral and culminates with another, demonstrating the evolution that our protagonist, Philip (Brendan Fraser), goes through during his personal journey between these two events. The first funeral is a shock. Philip is […]

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Tony Romo’s $180 million CBS contract branded ‘one of the worst decisions in sports media’ after broadcast mistakes

FIVE years into his massive contract with CBS, Tony Romo is looking like the worst contract in sports media. Romo was once a fan-favorite among NFL broadcasters, but now fans are turning off the TV to avoid him. Romo's broadcasting career began in 2017, and fans immediately loved him. He became iconic for predicting plays...

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