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In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human
When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also...
Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone.
Allora Dannon didn’t notice when her younger siblings started dating before she did, and she was mostly focused on her academics when her college classmates were rotating through hookups. But,...
How Iran won the war
A woman waves the Iranian flag at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2026. | Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images The US and Iran have a new peace agreement — and lots of unresolved questions...
The college that canceled Plato
Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, speaks as students and faculty gather to support academic freedom on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station,...
Why LA’s mayor doesn’t have much power
With the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City, big-city mayors have once again become a focal point of national politics. Now, in Los Angeles, the mayoral race in November is heating up...
At least one UK government department is reportedly done with X
UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.
Why ChatGPT might be suffering
A Hewlett Packard Enterprise AI robot on the show floor during the HPE Discover event on June 16, 2026, in Las Vegas. | Ian Maule/Bloomberg via Getty Images AI is rapidly gaining abilities that once...
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as...
Iran’s art of the deal
Donald Trump attends a working lunch with leaders of the G7 and the Middle East on June 16, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. | Evelyn Hockstein - Pool/Getty Images This story appeared in The...
Google has discontinued the Nest Home Mini and Nest Audio
On to the next one.