My son was 11 years old when he volunteered to be the boy soloist at the school Christmas concert. Nobody else would do it. That alone made me proud. He was standing there looking like a young Aled Jones, and he was magnificent. The school hall was full. Other parents leaned forward in their plastic
Chinese company Moonshot AI this week launched a new version of its Kimi model, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although the Kimi K3 “still lags behind the most powerful proprietary models, the Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level
Two U.S. service members were killed and one remains missing after Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks in Jordan on Friday, military officials said. US Central Command (Centcom) said four US service members were medically evacuated to hospitals in Jordan but have since been released. Others who suffered minor injuries have returned to duty. The
Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada and Minnesota envelops the Washington, DC skyline on July 17, 2026, reducing visibility and casting a colored haze over the Lincoln Memorial. Finn Gomez/Getty Images hide title toggle title Finn Gomez/Getty Images WASHINGTON – Poor air quality persisted Saturday across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states, as smoke from
Then, a homerist, an archaeologist and a dentist walk into a bar. Fresh from a Thursday night screening of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a group of 17 people spent the evening doing what scholars have done with Homer’s epic for nearly 3,000 years: arguing about it. “We had a really intense debate,” says Joel P.
Two U.S. service members died in Jordan on Friday after U.S. and partner forces came under attack with Iranian missiles and drones, the Pentagon said Saturday. Another American service member is missing and several more were injured in the Iranian attacks. They are the first publicly acknowledged US military deaths in the Middle East conflict
