When Liv Walker first heard from the “Love Island USA” casting team, she thought it might be a scam. After all, she had never even seen the show. Originally scouted for Season 5 of the reality dating show, Walker turned down the initial offer. But when the casting team reached out again for the sixth
When “The Legend of Kitchen Soldier” was selected as the only K-drama in the Special Screening section at Series Mania in Lille earlier this year, it marked an early signal that something unusual was happening with a show that had started life as a calculated creative gamble. By July 31, when the series took best
The granddaughter of Holocaust survivor and international best-selling author Eddie Jaku says he would be the “most haunted man on earth” if he were alive to have seen the rise in antisemitism over the past three years, believing it would’ve reminded him of his life in Nazi Germany before he fled for Australia. Eddie Jaku
Cat Gioino here. Everyone wants safer neighborhoods, right? That was Flock CEO Garrett Langley’s pitch to VCs after he built Flock’s first prototype. The Georgia Tech electrical engineer was not yet 30 when a string of break-ins in his own Atlanta neighborhood convinced him local police lacked the right tools. Recruiting two former colleagues, Matt
France has seen 301 drownings since 19 June, a government minister has said, linking the sharp rise in deaths compared to last year to the prolonged heatwaves. Sports and Youth Minister Marina Ferrari told France Inter radio the number of deaths – a 14% hike on 2025 – was a “tragic toll”. France, Spain and
Long-term borrowing costs in the US rose again despite an announcement from the government that it would intervene to try to lower them. Earlier this week, the Treasury Department said it would buy back more debt in a bid to lower rates being charged by investors on global bond markets, which governments and major corporations
