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“Boys will be boys,” the truism has it. For better or worse, British showrunner Jack Thorne has emerged as our foremost expositor of that idea.  Thorne’s previous project was an example of “worse.” Adolescence (2025) was the platonic ideal of the wrong story for the moment. Set in present-day Doncaster, the series said nothing at

Once every 20 years, Hugh Jackman lends his considerable screen power to the summer’s friendliest murder mystery. In the summer of 2006, Jackson channeled the ruthlessness that surely hides behind every matinee idol as the Tarot Card Killer in Woody Allen’s London-based trifle Scoop, which, despite its grisly premise, was a charmer of a comedy. Now

There are men who build companies, and then there are men who build entire categories of human experience. Ted Turner, who died on May 6 at the age of 87, was decidedly the latter. The founder of CNN and the architect of modern cable television, Turner took a grief-stricken young man’s billboard inheritance and turned

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez came to the US from Mexico in 1998 at 15 years old. Later, she was a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the policy meant to protect undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors from deportation. When Estrada Juárez applied for a family-based green card in

The House has set up a clash with the Senate after it amended a key bipartisan housing bill and plans to vote on it and send it back to the upper chamber next week. The House Financial Services Committee announced that it has revised the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, housing legislation that already

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez came to the US from Mexico in 1998 at 15 years old. Later, she was a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the policy meant to protect undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors from deportation. When Estrada Juárez applied for a family-based green card in

The summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded on Friday, with both leaders speaking fondly of one another. Both agreed that the meeting strengthened ties between the two countries before Trump departed Beijing Capital International Airport for the United States. Xi lauded Trump’s visit to the country, saying the two agreed

For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US government would bother pursuing some of the

EXCLUSIVE — Congress is weighing bipartisan legislation to curb secret federal subpoenas as former special counsel Jack Smith has become increasingly outspoken in attacking the Trump administration’s Justice Department, renewing scrutiny of the investigative tactics Smith used during his infamous “Arctic Frost” investigation. The push behind the bill, known as the nondisclosure order or “NDO

Mira Murati still wants to build AI superintelligence. But the ex-CTO of OpenAI sees human intelligence as a critical part of the equation. At a time of rising worry over AI eliminating jobs and increasing the power of few big companies, Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, offers a radically different vision of the technology. “At