Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup
When Roberto Lopes received a seemingly random LinkedIn message in 2018, he assumed it was spam and ignored it. At...
Jack Osbourne tells critics to ‘shut the f— up’ after backlash over White House UFC fight attendance
Jack Osbourne is defending his choice to attend the UFC fight at the White House over the weekend, saying that some critical...
3 hikers die of suspected heat-related illness during rising temperatures at Grand Canyon
Three hikers died from apparent heat-related illnesses in the Grand Canyon on two separate days in the past week in...
Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $1.25 trillion empire
Everyone knows Elon Musk is the genius behind the biggest stock market debut of all time. But even a genius,...
Neanderthal Babies May Have Been More Human Than We Realized, New Study Reveals
We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal...
With the exits of Apple’s Tim Cook and Dow’s Jim Fitterling, the Fortune 500 is losing two groundbreaking gay CEOs—leaving just one
When Jim Fitterling of Dow and Tim Cook of Apple step down as CEOs in July and September respectively, the...
Husband accused of killing wife on wedding night brought back to US after years on the run in Mexico
A Mexican man who had been on the run for more than a decade before his arrest in his native...
Summerween Is Here, and It’s Exactly What Halloween Fans Need Right Now
Fall has always been my favorite season, while Halloween has remained my favorite holiday since childhood. From homemade sweets and...
Democratic Socialists Took City Hall. Now They’re Aiming at Congress.
As New Yorkers were headed to the polls for the start of early voting last week, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the...
What if You Root for the Other N.B.A. Team in New York?
They wallowed. They watched with silent envy, or refused to watch at all. And they looked on with existential exhaustion,...
