The first pirate shipwrecks ever found in Nassau include a burned hull that may be Henry Avery's flagship. The pirates left no gold — just musket balls, clay pipes, and the charred bones of ships they torched.
A horror film born from an anonymous 2019 forum post about creepy office carpet just opened to $118 million globally, making its 20-year-old director the youngest ever to top the box office.
A month before the midterms, Springsteen and Foo Fighters will headline a protest festival in Maryland. Springsteen announced it from his DC stage after calling Trump a "reckless, racist, incompetent, treasonous president."
A 254-0 vote struck down a 1685 law that classified enslaved people as "movable property." France abolished slavery in 1848. Nobody thought to repeal the actual text until now.
A family of Romanian Evangelicals moves to Norway. The state takes their children. Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 'Fjord' is about what happens when two moral certainties collide — and neither bends.
The Late Show got a Beatle for its finale. It also got cancelled by a network chasing an $8.4 billion merger and presidential goodwill. Guess which story matters more.
At campus after campus this spring, commencement speakers who invoked AI as progress got booed. The speakers were surprised. The graduates — entering the worst job market for new college grads in 12 years — were not.
Taiwan Travelogue won the International Booker — the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to do so. The judges called it a double feat: a love story that doubles as postcolonial critique.
A Supreme Court chief justice called young Indians 'cockroaches.' Within 72 hours, three million of them followed a satirical political party named in their honor.
Seven minutes of bidding turned a Pollock drip painting into the fourth most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The total haul for the evening: $1.121 billion.
Six hundred film professionals signed a petition warning that one billionaire's politics endangered French cinema. His company's response was to blacklist every one of them — and confirm exactly what they'd warned about.
Spain spent eight years pursuing Shakira for tax fraud. A Madrid court found she was 20 days short of qualifying as a tax resident — and ordered the government to hand back roughly $70 million.
A Swatch x Audemars Piguet pocket watch retails for $400 and already resells for $15,000. The gap between those two numbers explains the pepper spray.
Bulgaria won Eurovision for the first time in 21 years of trying — by the largest margin in contest history. The UK got one point.
Five countries are boycotting Eurovision's 70th anniversary over Israel's inclusion. Ireland's response involves a 1996 sitcom about priests scoring nul points.
Football's governing body has watched the NFL monetize halftime for decades. With the 2026 World Cup heading to North America, FIFA finally wants a cut of the spectacle.
In 2013, Jason Collins wrote three sentences that no active male athlete in major American sports had ever written publicly. He died Tuesday of brain cancer at 47.
The actors whose faces trained AI models now want a machine-readable standard that forces those models to pay up. The twist: the fix is more infrastructure, not less.
Ireland is replacing the grand final with a Father Ted rerun. Slovenia is airing Palestinian documentaries. The continent's biggest pop spectacle just got very awkward.
Gabi, a four-foot humanoid, received prayer beads, a saffron robe, and five robot-specific precepts at Seoul's Jogyesa temple. The monks who ordained it aren't wringing their hands about whether machines can have faith.
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