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It’s a number that kept going up, with few signs of slowing down. Nvidia, the chip maker, became the most valuable public company on Tuesday with a stock market value...

Sometime in May 1936, a reporter for The Western Morning News, a newspaper based in Plymouth, England, arrived at the doorstep of Mark Weston, a retired shot putter who had...

Steve Bannon made a long-shot attempt to avoid prison on Friday, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to pause his case as he fights his conviction for contempt of Congress on...

Ángeles Flórez Peón was 17 when she braved mortar and artillery fire to bring food to her fellow Republican volunteers in the trenches of northern Spain during the Spanish Civil...

I’ve traveled 5,120 miles on trains in the US, Canada, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany. My rail journeys in these seven countries have varied greatly. I’ve booked a range...

League of Legends’ summer event is always a highlight for the year. In past years, we’ve seen visual novels and deep dives into alternate universes like Soul Fighter, Spirit Blossom,...

OpenAI is moving to strengthen its technology stack. The company today announced it has acquired Rockset, a vendor known for providing a real-time analytics database to power intelligent enterprise applications....

The floor of the United States House of Representatives is supposed to be a dignified place, where lawmakers refer to each other as “gentleman” or “gentle lady,” speak only to...

Jessica Lange has started tapping into a “wildness” as a performer. This might sound strange coming from someone who’s already won the Triple Crown in acting—with two Oscars (Tootsie, Blue...

Playwright Annie Baker’s debut film Janet Planet is either about motherhood or childhood, depending on your mood, the phase of the moon, the way the wind is blowing on any...