For 250 years, America didn’t just invent the future—it built it. That connection is breaking. Here’s how to restore it
For 250 years, America has done something no other country has managed at comparable scale: it has not merely invented...
The week’s bestselling books, May 17
Hardcover fiction 1. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world...
Trump’s big trip starts with polling gut punch from data analyst: ‘Down he goes’
Just moments after President Donald Trump and his entourage of officials and business leaders landed in Beijing, China, CNN data...
Current price of oil as of May 13, 2026
At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $110.87 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark...
From the Oscars to the Croisette: Renate Reinsve Heads to Her 4th Cannes With ‘Fjord’
Renate Reinsve grew up in a small town in Norway, but her movie career came of age in a French...
Pastor who attacked ‘unbearable’ Trump policy put in charge of hard-MAGA diocese
Pope Leo XIV has once again named a pastor critical of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy to a high-ranking...
Men Are Paying to Give Themselves Cauliflower Ear to Look Like MMA Fighters
Cauliflower ear has never been something people aspired to. For most of combat sports history, it was the thing wrestlers...
The 25 countries with the oldest populations in the world
Italy has the third-highest percentage of residents aged 65 and older in the world. Sean Pavone/ShutterstockThe World Bank Group identified...
Why L.A. condo sales have slumped to a 20-year low
Even as the relentless rise in Los Angeles housing costs seems to have paused, condominium sales slowed to a trickle...
SoCal lowlifes fleece vulnerable senior out of $25K
Two Southern California suspects admitted their roles in a brazen scam that conned an elderly Ventura man out of $25,000...
