Month: August 2026

Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while
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Every month, the Unusual Suspects newsletter has a roundup of the best mystery, thriller, and true crime books out that month. But not every mystery reader is a thriller fan, and vice versa. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of the mystery books on those lists into a collection: The Best
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The Halloween franchise is one of the longest and most storied in horror movie history, but which of the 13 slasher films made the most money at the box office? Released in 1978, John Carpenter’s Halloween shocked the world and essentially launched the modern slasher genre as we know it today. The indie film was
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Following his public apology over sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan, guitarist Simon O’Connor has been dropped from Modest Mouse’s upcoming tour dates. According to a post made on the band’s Instagram, he has been replaced by Seth Jabour of Les Savy Fav. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Modest Mouse for further
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Norah Sullivan gains the power to manipulate probability—also called “navigation”—the same day she and her father are attacked by flickerbeasts, whose bites increase their likelihood of dying a horrifying death. Because Norah was only bitten once, she is able to manage the slow mystical effect of the attack; however, her father quickly becomes ill after
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Throughout the episode, both Gruel and Kennedy employ dog whistles of varying overtness: Gruel assures viewers that he’ll be using “a couple chef tricks, but nothing overly intellectual” (none of that namby-pamby liberal glasses-polishing here) to pack in flavor, while Kennedy knocked old nutritional guidelines, claiming that “the government had been lying to us and
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Raunchy comedy I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde as an artsy dominatrix and Cooper Hoffman as her muse is spinning some R-rated counter programming to Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Gregg Araki film from Magnolia Pictures, which world premiered at Sundance (see Deadline review), hits about 700 theaters. Its Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at
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Olivia Rodrigo returned to Lollapalooza at Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday night. Rather than headlining like last year, however, she joined The Smashing Pumpkins on stage for “Thirty-Three” from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Find Olivia Rodrigo Tickets Rodrigo, whose surprise appearance was somewhat spoiled by an airport spotting, has a connection to former
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. As we edge cautiously towards 2021 there are some big questions on everyone’s lips: Are we about to be dragged into World War III? How
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Financial regulator engages with CAF Bank amid ongoing outage The Financial Conduct Authority is “actively engaging” with CAF Bank amid a major outage after attempted fraudulent activity. The regulator’s engagement follows a system outage at CAF Bank, which serves more than 14,000 charities and social purpose enterprises, which has prevented many charities from paying staff,
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