After decades of repression, many of Turkey’s Kurds are hopeful that their long struggle for basic rights may finally be nearing a breakthrough. That hope is fueled by newly launched talks between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist coalition and the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan. The talks have already […]

The Cleveland Browns have four quarterbacks participating in their competition to be named the Week 1 starter. Right now, it appears that Joe Flacco is the favorite to begin the season under center, but that could change throughout the year. Outside of Flacco, the Browns have Kenny Pickett, Shedeur Sanders, and Dillon Gabriel. Deshaun Watson […]

In Reunited, Awards Insider hosts a conversation between two Emmy contenders who have collaborated on a previous project. Taylor Kitsch starts off his Zoom call with Connie Britton by giving her a virtual tour of his home in Bozeman, Montana, where he moved in 2021. He’s standing outside on the deck, pointing out the Bridger […]

Paramount+ is the company’s flagship streamer. Paramount Paramount is laying off 3.5% of its US workforce as it deals with ongoing declines in its linear TV arm. This is the second layoff in a year after a 15% reduction in 2024. Paramount is the latest old-media company, after Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery, to cut […]

America is on fire — again. But this time, it’s not just cities burning — it’s our identity. In Los Angeles, mobs of masked agitators — many waving the Mexican flag, others clutching Palestinian flags, and some burning the American flag — have taken to the streets, firing guns into the air, hurling rocks at […]

Vanta, the San Francisco-based compliance automation startup, unveiled its most ambitious artificial intelligence product yet on Tuesday — an autonomous AI agent that handles end-to-end security and compliance workflows without human intervention. The launch signals a major evolution in how enterprises manage governance, risk and compliance (GRC) programs as regulatory pressures intensify and manual processes […]

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered up the National Guard […]

Dressed in what could be called psychedelic business casual, Edward Pankov looked as if he had come to Manhattan through the looking glass when I saw him on the street through a store window on a Saturday in May. He was walking with a bit of a bop to his step, the way someone might […]

The Charging Bull sculpture is in downtown Manhattan near the Financial District. Reuters It appears that enough time has passed since 2022’s disastrous run for hedge-fund backers to finally trust long-short equity managers again. Last quarter, stockpicking hedge funds raised a net total of $22.8 billion — the most of any strategy subset — in […]

President Donald Trump can’t stop using — and abusing — his legal authority to block the entry of noncitizens into the country. When he issued a travel ban on citizens of Muslim-majority countries early in his first term, he did so by invoking Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows him to […]