To give into the hive mind or not? In “Pluribus,” book author Carol (Rhea Seehorn) and 11 other strangers are the only individuals left on Earth after everybody else mysteriously merges into what is called the hive mind – a collective joining of consciousness. Six months since the acclaimed first season finished airing on Apple … Read more
FBI Director Kash Patel fired a group of bureau intelligence analysts Friday over a rescinded 2023 memo about “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” that has long been a focus of Republicans despite an investigation that found no anti-Catholic bias, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. The analysts worked in the FBI’s Richmond office, … Read more
Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow didn’t mean to be so on the nose with the title of their HBO comedy “The Comeback.” But, it turns out, that has actually been the case for the show — every ten years, it makes another comeback. “It’s more meta than we tried to be,” Kudrow tells Variety‘s … Read more
With the FIFA World Cup literally kicking off next week in the U.S., Canada and Mexico — an unprecedented triple-nation collaboration that makes the last of those countries the first in history to host the soccer tournament a third time — Netflix‘s release of “Mexico 86” is opportunistically timed. Unfolding largely off the pitch, Gabriel … Read more
SpaceX on Friday signed a blockbuster cloud computing agreement under which Google will pay the Elon Musk-founded rocket company $920 million per month for access to a massive cluster of AI chips, according to a disclosure in its initial public offering filing. The deal, which will bolster SpaceX’s finances ahead of its IPO on June … Read more
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration last year unlawfully paused final immigration decisions for individuals from countries affected by its so-called travel ban. The lawsuit, brought forward in March by various nonprofits representing immigrants, criticized several Citizenship and Immigration Services policies that paused final decisions on asylum, green card and citizenship applications … Read more
The following is sponsored content by Bromwich+Smith and originally appeared here. “I had taken out some payday loans, cash money loans, things like that, and I could pay them, I could keep them paid, but it was basically living paycheque to paycheque.” This is how Ryan (a pseudonym) described the early days of his financial … Read more
In Washington, D.C., top Democrats are increasingly worried about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s mounting controversies ahead of Tuesday’s primary. But in Maine’s Hancock County, where Platner lives, some supporters are standing by him. One day after the New York Times published a report detailing allegations of Platner’s “toxic” behavior in his prior romantic relationships … Read more
Democrats are well positioned to take back the House of Representatives this November, but the Senate is a whole other dogfight. In order to flip the upper chamber, Democrats will need to defeat entrenched incumbents, and win in states where they’re usually at a disadvantage. Virtually all roads to a Democratic Senate majority run through … Read more
Across four documentaries — the Oscar- and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul,” “Sly Lives,” “Ladies and Gentlemen, 50 Years of Saturday Night Live Music” and the new “Earth, Wind & Fire (to Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World),” which arrives on HBO Sunday night — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer and leader of the Roots … Read more