Spain finally have World Cup mojo back with first knockout win since 2010 final — Heading into the World Cup, Spain's record since their 2010 triumph was three tournaments, zero knockout wins. But after beating Austria 3-0, they're back in business.
World’s Worst-Performing Exchange ASX Bets on Outsider for Pivot — When Anthony Attia takes the helm at Australia’s ASX Ltd., the world’s worst-performing stock exchange operator, he’ll need to launch straight into a battle to win over regulators and investors.
Best Google deal: Save $250 on Google Pixel 10 Pro — Are early Prime Day deals already appearing?
Where to Stay in Atlanta If You Like to Eat — These hotels are the perfect home base while eating your way through the ATL.
Lauren Acompora 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections — From birth, we’re surrounded by animals. We cling to stuffed animal friends, wear clothing adorned with bunnies and bears, and listen to stories of anthropomorphized creatures. The first books we e…
Australian Gaza aid flotilla activists allege abuse after Israeli abduction — Activists allege assaults and torture during Israeli detention after flotilla intercepted in international waters.
The Clothes Make the Man: How Dark Suits Defined the Early American Republic — The walls of America have been lined with portraits of white men in black suits since the walls themselves were erected. Recently, as Americans have tried to balance this lopsided reflection of his…
Massive 3,200 Megapixel Camera Will Take 700 Photos Every Night for 10 Years — 10TB of photos every single night for a decade.
Flipper Device's new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity | TechCrunch — Flipper Device's new Busy Bar will retail for $249.
Could a heatwave hit Taylor Swift's wedding? — Simon King reports on the dangerous heat threatening North America.
Lit Hub Daily: May 27, 2026 — Why Michael Crichton’s best novel flopped when it was adapted to film. | Lit Hub Film Mary Berman remembers the “gut-churning” experience of showing her parents her debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft Tho…
Santander Employee Arrested in $85 Million Chile Crime Sting — An employee of Banco Santander’s Chile unit was among 18 suspects detained by police Tuesday as authorities moved against the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua criminal organization allegedly operating in the South American c
Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
iOS 27 beta 2 hints at AirPods Pro with cameras: Here's what we know so far - 9to5Mac — Spotted by developer Sam Henri Gold on Twitter, iOS 27 beta 2 includes references to an upcoming Apple product codenamed...
this library cataloged every book ever mentioned in a book & now you can fall down the rabbit hole of what characters were actually reading 📚✨
Primark’s Sales Fall Before Fashion Chain’s Split from AB Foods — Associated British Foods Plc reported falling sales at its Primark budget fashion chain, as the conglomerate prepares to separate its clothing and food divisions.
Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing — ...also don't tell lies. But I'm getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for t
Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready? — I have not seen anyone put out a date for a new rocket, and actually hit it.
Serena Williams had to talk self into playing singles at Wimbledon — Serena Williams said Sunday she had to talk herself into accepting Wimbledon's offer to play singles.
Meet the Small Vermont Nursery Redefining American Gardens — <p>In 2024, after years spent gardening and never quite finding their dream nursery, Adam Whitney Nichols and Bryan Dunbar decided to take matters into their own hands. Thus, Spring Road Nursery was born. Part…
Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy — Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function.
All the Apple products avoiding the price hike (for now) — All the Apple products avoiding the price hike (for now)
Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! — As we go easing into the holiday weekend, there’s a smaller batch of releases: though the ones that are here, are ones that count. Jenny Jackson’s next hotly anticipated novel, The Sham…
America Runs on Natural Gas: Fuel Set to Surpass Oil as US Top Energy Source by 2030 — For 75 years, petroleum has been the energy source that has powered the US more than any other. That’s about to change.
Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
Carly Rae Jepsen’s New Album Is a 24-Track Double LP — Day and Night is out September 18
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
Is tennis' relentless nature causing injury crisis? — After British stars Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu withdrew injured from Wimbledon, BBC Sport analyses why so many top players are struggling with injury.
this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem — For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using…
David Rubenstein Talks Legacy with "Thomas Jefferson" — For the 4th of July, Bloomberg's David Rubenstein sat down with Bill Barker, a historical actor-interpreter of Thomas Jefferson. As part of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, Barker discusses with Rubenstein,…
Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse to host this year's NBA Cup final — The NBA is going back to college this coming season, bringing the NBA Cup championship game to Butler's historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting — Yesterday evening, the United States held its “Freedom 250” celebration – paid for by private companies, organised by the three American embassies in
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
Gmail Live now in testing on Android and iOS — Following the announcement at I/O 2026 last month, Google is now testing Gmail Live on Android and iOS. This feature lets you...
Unicorn Diversions, Robot Valets, and More: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — In just a few weeks, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year on June 21. To get you ready, here’s this month’s excellent SFF offerings. An actress joins a Time Travel Agency that’s al
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W — “The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…
England have 'big concerns' - so who would you pick to face Mexico? — Who should play at right-back? Does Anthony Gordon deserve to start? Select and share your England team to face Mexico.
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
Lit Hub Daily: June 18, 2026 — Through layers of loss and sorrow, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the bleakest times, art, writing, and human connection are ra…
Apple in Talks to Buy Memory Chips From Chinese Makers CXMT and YMTC — Apple is in talks to buy memory from Chinese semiconductor companies ChangXin Memory Technologies Co. (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), reports Bloomberg, citing sources with knowledge of…
Rees-Zammit reverts to Wales wing for Fiji Test — Wales head coach Steve Tandy has made six changes for the Nations Championship opener from the side that defeated Barbarians.
Carlyle Hires Banks for $400 Million India IPO of RCM Business — Carlyle Group Inc. has hired JM Financial Ltd. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to advise on a potential initial public offering of its India-based healthcare revenue cycle management business, according to people…
Rachel Aviv’s Act of Revision: On You Won’t Get Free of It — “I had written three stories with three lost babies, all of which I had left out.”
A Most “Pleasantly Situated” Estate - NASA Science — The farms and gardens of Mount Vernon played a central role in the life of America’s first president.
Best coffee machine deal: Save $400.95 on De'Longhi Magnifica Evo Next — Your morning coffee just got better and cheaper.
The Gays and Their Ghosts: Natalie Adler Recommends Queer Ghost Stories — Gays and ghosts have a natural kinship. Both may elicit fear in unsuspecting passerby. You may feel vaguely unmoored, inexplicably nervous at their presence, particularly if you, yourself, have an …
The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders — “Now is the time for Helter Skelter,” Charles Manson is said to have said, and then the family went out and committed two nights of violence that meant to “shock the world” and “instill fear into t…
Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer — In 1989, a year into my judgeship in Denver County Court, I began writing at night about the last week of my father’s life—trying to understand his absence from it after my interracial marriage. Ho…
Egypt coach dedicates World Cup win to Palestine as Arab world celebrates — Fans in Gaza celebrated Egypt's win at match screenings held against the backdrop of bombed buildings.
Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity — Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining…
Tutoring centre roof collapses killing 14 children in Pakistan — At least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan.
Sennheiser Momentum 4 headphones are actually cheaper post Prime Day — save over $100 at Amazon — The deals aren't supposed to get better.
Lit Hub Daily: June 23, 2026 — Why the elder Millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and being let down. | Lit Hub Memoir Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial solidarity of mid-ce…
A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago? — Ironically, the artifact that gave it its start is absent a half-century later. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum turned 50 on Wednesday (July 1).
The Feverent Whites — June 1982 The triplet of knocks came from the front door just as Sylvia Upshaw and her two children were putting on their shoes, about to walk over to Mrs. Talbot’s house. Syl’s daughter, GiGi, her…
A Constitutional Question: Do American Presidents Have the Power to Declare War? — Whether a U.S. president has the power to declare war is a matter of American constitutional law. That question can be answered doctrinally, politically, or historically. Whichever way,…
What NBA execs are buzzing about after a wild week of free agency — After the Jaylen Brown trade, hundreds of millions spent on centers and a shocking cap development, here's the latest NBA buzz as we enter Week 2 of free agency.
UK Retailer TG Jones Restructuring Plan Approved by London Court — Ailing UK high-street retailer TG Jones Retail Holdings Ltd won court approval for a sweeping financial restructuring that will shutter more than 100 stores and slash rents to stave off insolvency.
Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki and more: 21 new books out today! — June, already, at last. The first official month of summer begins, and with a bang: new Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruth Ozecki, Deborah Levy, Josh Weil, Courtney Maum, and more arrive to…