NY Times Business

Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon

Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life. (Just don’t use the them to make dinner plans.)

business  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

Yvette Roudy, France’s First Minister for Women’s Rights, Dies at 97

Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

Lebanon’s Efforts to Tame Hezbollah Stall Amid Israel War

President Joseph Aoun took office with a popular mandate to reassert control after the militant group dragged the country back into war with Israel.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times Business

Gen Z Is Building Wealth By Investing Instead of Buying Homes

When it comes to building wealth, Gen Z is more focused on investment apps and their retirement accounts than they are in building equity in a home.

business  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times Business

Universal’s New Coaster Is a Scream. That’s the Problem.

The Hollywood theme park built a “whisper quiet” ride to avoid angering nearby neighbors. They didn’t fully account for the enthusiasm of the riders.

business  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

How ‘The Rest Is History’ Podcast Conquered the World

When two British historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, began the show, neither anticipated it would become the top history podcast in the English-speaking world.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

How Apartheid Continues to Divide Cape Town

Our reporter John Eligon takes a six-mile walk between two townships in Cape Town to show how the barriers left by apartheid still exist 30 years later.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy

The diplomat, John Coale, says his personalized approach gets results and matches the president’s style. Critics contend he is giving up too much to an authoritarian leader.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

Missing From a Mass Wedding in India: Brides

A fraud case, in which dozens of grooms showed up for a wedding that never materialized, is an extreme example of scamming in a marriage industry long prone to it.

general  Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian

Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine

In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade banMore than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front of the world’s eyes and called for urgent action including trade and arms sales bans to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state.An unprecedented joint letter dispenses with diplomatic language by accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and warning that the world no lon

general  Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Four blokes and a zebra crossing: the banality and beauty of the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover

Much-copied and parodied picture captures dynamic between the individuals and the band with eerie perfectionIt’s not really the four blokes on the zebra crossing who make the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road memorable, but the street behind them. Vanishing towards a perfect blue sky, with summer trees veiling in bright green what might otherwise be dour brick houses, it could be a hyperreal vista painted by David Hockney. The black and white stripes of the crossing and the white line down the mi

entertainment  Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian

‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again

Compact discs are back, with searches for players up 96% at John Lewis and popular models sold out onlineWith more than 800 million people subscribing to a music streaming service, wireless speakers have become a familiar sight in homes. But expect to get reacquainted with a different object to play music soon: the CD player, once consigned to obsolescence, is back.John Lewis report that searches for CD players are up 96% since July, possibly owing to students heading to university and buying th

general  Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Stand By Me at 40: Rob Reiner’s seminal coming-of-age saga remains a bittersweet triumph

The late director’s sensitive and detailed adaptation of Stephen King’s novella has an authenticity that so many imitators could never replicateComing-of-age metaphors don’t get any blunter than a group of preteen boys following a set of railroad tracks to a classmate’s dead body, a sobering testament to the fragility of life and a sign that their own futures are not guaranteed. The Stephen King novella that would become Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me is simply called The Body, and there’s no doubt th

entertainment  Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Elouise Eftos: Aphrodite review – ‘Australia’s first attractive comedian’ asks if love is real

Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Heckling herself in character as the Greek goddess, the standup delivers an intelligent, in-your-face show about sex and expectationsYou can’t argue with the opening gambit of Aphrodite: “I’ve never been in love and I don’t think it’s real.” Consider me grabbed. This is the follow-up to Elouise Eftos’s fantastically provocative 2025 debut, Australia’s First Attractive Comedian, and it’s another intelligent, in-your-face hour about men and women, sex and expectations. OK

entertainment  Aug 22, 2026

Wired

NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope

The LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt.

technology  Aug 22, 2026

Yahoo Finance

The Quantum Computing Race Is Heating Up: The Top 3 Stocks to Buy Right Now

business  Aug 22, 2026

Washington Post Business

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Sign up now to appear on The Washington Post’s vodcast, Dollars and Sense with Michelle Singletary.

business  Aug 22, 2026

Washington Post World

She’s a Trump acolyte. He’s a ‘gringo Sandinista.’ Meet the Harps.

Trump aide Natalie Harp is estranged from her brother, Preston, who has used social media and recent interviews to criticize her and highlight his own left-wing politics.

general  Aug 22, 2026

NY Times World

Sun Screen

What makes a movie a summer movie? Is it the time of its release, or the way that it depicts the season itself? Or something else entirely?

general  Aug 22, 2026

BBC Sport

How new-look Spurs are shaping up under De Zerbi

Roberto de Zerbi has had time and money over the summer to start creating a new-look Tottenham. So how are they shaping up?

sports  Aug 22, 2026