USA Update

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got the rockstar treatment during London Tech Week — and even garnered some comparisons to Tony Stark The conference attendees waited in long lines before the conference opened to get a good seat for Huang’s event with the U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Many people didn’t even manage to get into […]

Dating standards are a sort of half-taboo. We put our preferences on the apps—age, education level, etc.—but don’t talk about them so much when we’re out in the real world. One of the strange pleasures of Celine Song’s new film, Materialists, is how it airs such semi-private wants and hangups for all to see, with […]

The FBI says it will act on its own to squash the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests. FBI Director Kash Patel issued an ominous threat to the city and its residents late Sunday night, claiming that his agency would intervene in the multiday anti-Trump display without explicit direction. “Just so we are clear, this FBI needs […]

France’s bucolic Côte D’Azur, with its pine-forested hills and picturesque harbors, is rarely the site of fractious politics. But this week, hundreds of scientists and government officials from across the world have converged on the Mediterranean city of Nice for the United Nations’ weeklong Oceans Conference, grappling over how to stave off calamitous ocean warming, […]

June is here, and Summer is creeping up like Pennywise in the sewer. Let’s make it a Final Girl Summer with a killer lineup of horror flicks perfect to dive into while you crack open a cold one and suck weiners down your gullet after a day of perfecting your tan. Think sunny skies, beachy […]

Top and officials met in London on Monday for trade talks Beijing has sent Vice Premier He Lifeng for the negotiations while Washington is being represented by Treasury Secretary , Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at Lancaster House. Issues up for discussion are likely to include , and China’s restrictions on […]

The Crooked Moon, Legends of Avantris’ folk-horror setting for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, became the game’s most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, earning more than $4 million on Kickstarter. Ahead of the book’s June 16 release on D&D Beyond, Polygon spoke with Legends of Avantris lead writer and creative director Mikey Gilder to get […]

To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a person, they bring to mind someone who has given up, for example, salt, sugar, alcohol, smoking, or sex—and has thereby consigned themselves to a dry, joyless fate. Not so, in my experience. In my new […]

After a 2024 season that was marred by a protracted holdout. veteran pass rusher Haason Reddick signed a one-year deal with the Buccaneers. And then he didn’t show up for OTAs. With the mandatory minicamp starting on Tuesday, the Buccaneers expect Reddick to be present. “Minicamps are mandatory,” coach Todd Bowles said, via Rick Stroud […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Daviss is set to star as the venerable hip hop artist Snoop Dogg in the definitive biopic from Universal Pictures. Best known for Outer Banks, Daviss takes the lead role days after the studio set Craig Brewer to direct the film. The film will be produced by Snoop Dogg, Brian Grazer and Death […]