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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
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Ukraine says missiles hit military plant deep inside Russia — Ukraine's military also says it has struck a Russian oil refinery and a "shadow fleet" oil tanker in the Black Sea.
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Christa Pike 'angry and confused' after failed execution, lawyers say — Lawyers say the convicted killer was surprised to have survived and remained "shackled" to her hospital bed.
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South Park creators rename show 'South America' in apparent dig at Trump — Since beginning his second term, the US president has said he wanted to use the word 'America' to rename a lake, a gulf and even a US state.
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Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese — Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output…
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. — Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 290 books submitted for…
Introducing: The Seiko Panda Watch That Stole The Show In 2024 Is Finally Here — One of the standout creations from Seiko's 2024 power design project—an irresistibly charming chronograph designed to look like an actual panda—has officially entered production.
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Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement — Novelist Aruni Kashyap joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about the surprising surge of a new youth movement in India. Kashyap, the author of a new novel, How …
Stand-up comedian spent his whole set describing how his phone autocorrect changed 'meeting' to 'mating' in a work email! The bit is just him reading it back over and over with increasing panic 😭😭 not to be that guy but the timing on the third read gets him actually!
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Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World — We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for …
No WSL experience but who is new Man Utd boss Olid? — Manchester United appoint former Hearts boss Eva Olid as their new women's manager on a two-year deal, with an option for a further 12 months.
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This guy wrote a 40-page guide to why your group chat falls apart after 18 months... and he's kind of right. The bandwidth thing is real.
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Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing — “To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
4 short Netflix shows to binge before canceling your subscription — If you're thinking about closing your Netflix account, at least watch these four short shows before calling it quits.
G7 Fuel Release Offers Temporary Price Relief — Bloomberg Mideast Energy Correspondent Anthony Di Paola tells Bloomberg This Weekend that the G7’s 100 million-barrel emergency release is already pushing fuel prices lower but is likely to provide only temporary relief as…
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This Week in Literary History: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in…
Team USA escapes with win over Italy at women's World Cup — Team USA survived its toughest test in the women's basketball World Cup in two decades with a 55-52 victory over Italy on Sunday in Berlin, pushing its winning streak in World Cup play to 32 dating back to a loss to…
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Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework — Before arriving at the quanta to which this first lesson is devoted, allow me to begin with a simple observation. We humans inhabit the surface of the planet Earth, and this is a rather…
How to use Android apps on your Windows PC (and why you might want to) — With the right software, you can run Android apps on your Windows PC. Here's why you may want to and how to get it set up on your own computer.
My Sister-in-Law Makes Family Vacations a Nightmare. Can We Stop Inviting Her? — She wants to be liked and included, but her behavior is often confrontational and defensive.
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Your Fire TV is hiding diagnostic tools that fix streaming problems you can't solve any other way — I found 4 hidden Fire TV settings that diagnose connection drops and audio issues instantly.
Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert — When you’re young, or not so young, and strongly drawn to a genre of music, a certain composer, a particular piece, it’s often hard to explain why, even to yourself. This may be especially true of …
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women — The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of…
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$48K for a Fiat 500C Abarth: Are These Hot Hatches Collector Cars Now? — Italian cars, at least ones that don’t have a hoofed quadruped for a mascot, have a mixed history in this country. For all the clichés about passion, soul, style, etc., and despite loyal followings…
Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan — When the Simon Commission met Jinnah in the lobby of the Western Hotel in February 1929, everything about him belied the fact that he would soon found the world’s first Islamic republic: Pakistan. …
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