United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby speaks during a media event showcasing the airline's new premium "Elevated" aircraft interior at Los Angeles International Airport, March 24, 2026.

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Iran has threatened to retaliate against any country that joins the United States’ “economic war” against it, as diplomatic efforts to end the months-long war have stalled and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has drastically decreased.

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Quiet on the Creek

While you wait for Alexander Skarsgård’s wicker husband to hit theaters, meet the mythical, magical, and smutty book boyfriends BookTok can’t stop talking about

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The ruinous fires that overran parts of France this summer have burned more land than ever recorded, forced more people from their homes than at any point since the second world war and caused what scientists suspect is the country’s first firestorm thundercloud. The smoke from France’s biggest inferno in nearly 80 years choked Limoges, a city 125 miles (200km) from the flames, with more toxic dust than Delhi residents inhaled on the city’s worst day of smog last year.

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That still ain't cranberry sauce

Eli Roth's holiday slasher might be the best movie he ever made

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There are a surprising number of holiday-themed slasher movies, but horror hasn’t treated all holidays equally. Christmas and Halloween are vastly overrepresented, Valentine's Day and New Year's have a couple of dedicated films apiece, and Mexican horror gives the Day of the Dead the love you’d expect, but there aren't as many options for the rest of the calendar.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says the door for diplomacy with Israel is open, urging it to seize a “historic opportunity”.

In an interview with the Reuters news agency, published on Sunday, al-Shaibani said he expects the talks over a security deal that would lead to Israel’s withdrawal from Syrian territory to resume soon.

OnAugust 12, news broke that the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers were being sold to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner for a record $12.5 billion. You wouldn’t have known it from Kushner’s X account. There, the 41-year-old billionaire was celebrating another deal that closed the same day: Thrive Holdings, the company he formed in 2025 to buy up services firms and transform them with AI, had raised $2 billion from investors including SoftBank at a $12.5 billion valuation.