USA Update

The judge overseeing Erin Patterson’s triple-murder trial has delivered an update on what’s coming next in the proceedings.

Here’s what’s open across the nation for the King’s Birthday public holiday this year, for your last-minute grocery needs or some quick retail therapy.

Their once close relationship is imploding as Elon Musk fires back at US President Donald Trump, claiming he is named in the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files.

Marina von Neumann Whitman, an expert in international trade who in 1972 became the first woman to be appointed to the White House Council of Economic Advisers and who later was one of the few women to join the executive leadership at General Motors, died on May 20 in Concord, Mass. She was 90. Her […]

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have gone from happily using each other for mutual benefit to openly slagging each other off in public. Yes, it is a complete and total shock that the relationship between these two extremely well-adjusted, deeply altruistic, entirely compos mentis individuals has broken down, possibly for good. On Thursday, Musk took […]

I have a lot of Democratic friends who are extremely disappointed with their party leaders. They tell me that the Democratic Party is currently rudderless, weak, passive, lacking a compelling message. I try to be polite, but I want to tell them: “The problem is not the party leaders. The problem is you. You don’t […]

Latent Technology, a game technology company focused on AI-driven physical animation, has closed an $8 million seed funding round. Founded in 2022 in London, Latent Technology provides developers with new workflows to create emergent, real-time animation behaviors with minimal input. While most video game animations today rely on pre-defined movement sequences – limiting real-time interactivity […]

A-list celebs have redefined daily dressing. For most of fashion history, bras have been considered undergarments (i.e., pieces worn underneath actual clothes). In recent years, however, with the rise of naked style trends, the most adventurous style stars have been repurposing the lingerie staple as a standalone top. Kylie Jenner, for example, loves wearing a […]

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If you look at the Pentagon’s organizational chart, President Donald Trump is atop the pecking order, carrying the title and power his predecessors enjoyed as Commander in Chief. But judging from the […]

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are turning to social media to publicly process their increasingly messy breakup. Musk took to X Thursday to air his big feelings after Trump claimed Musk “knew every aspect of this bill, and he never had a problem until right after he left.” Trump insisted that the billionaire former bureaucrat […]