NEW YORK, June 8, 2026 — The FIFA World Cup 2026 officially begins Thursday, June 11 — four days from tonight — and the most consequential sporting event to arrive in the United States since the 1994 World Cup is…
NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 — By the time Jalen Brunson hit his seventh and eighth points of the fourth quarter off James Harden’s hip — a move so automatic it looked choreographed — Madison Square Garden had found its…
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — At 6 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, a rock the size of a blue whale — somewhere between 50 and 115 feet across, traveling at 29,000 miles per hour — passed Earth at a…
LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2026 — Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed twice, teased endlessly, and guarded by Rockstar Games with the kind of secrecy normally reserved for state secrets. Then a Best Buy promotional email apparently went out…
HOUSTON, May 10, 2026 — Simone Biles — the most decorated gymnast in the history of the sport, owner of 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals, and a 29-year-old woman who has spent the better part of two…
ROME / WASHINGTON, May 7, 2026 — One year ago today, Robert Francis Prevost — a 69-year-old Augustinian friar from Chicago’s South Side who had spent two decades serving the poor in Peru — walked out onto the balcony of…
ATLANTA / NEW YORK, May 6, 2026 — Ted Turner died Wednesday morning at 87, surrounded by his family at his home in Georgia, according to a statement from Turner Enterprises. He was the founder of CNN, the creator of…
NEW YORK, May 4, 2026 — Fashion’s biggest night of the year is happening tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and the story is not the outfits. It is the empty seats where some of the most prominent…