NY Times World
Recruitment apps powered by artificial intelligence are gaining ground in Brazil, promising to even the playing field and find more soccer talent.
NY Times Business
Fortunes, luxury buildings and birthrates are rising in the city at the center of Taiwan’s chip supply chain.
MarketWatch
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s children have found a new home in the form of a luxurious custom “doggy mansion” that the family has set up for their pets on the grounds of their $63 million Beverly Hills home.
NY Times Business
FEMA has given cities and states $250 million to protect the World Cup from airborne threats. That equipment will remain in place after the tournament.
NY Times Business
A.I. demand is driving stock market gains and booming exports in South Korea and Taiwan. But the rest of the economy is being left behind.
The Guardian Politics
Analysis by more than 150 political scientists finds proportion who back such parties has increased nearly fivefold since 1995Almost one in four voters in Europe now cast their ballot for far-right parties, research shows, a proportion that has grown nearly fivefold since the mid-1990s and climbed particularly steeply over the past three years.Analysis by more than 150 political scientists in 31 countries found the proportion of Europeans voting for a far-right party in their country’s most rece
The Guardian Culture
In a new docuseries, names including Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton reflect on America’s originsThe first episode of The American Experiment ends with the song Devil’s Spoke by Laura Marling – the chorus of which has Marling ominously warning, over a rousing folk refrain: “All of this can be broken.”This may seem like a dark message for a historical docuseries celebrating the nation’s founding – particularly ahead of its 250th anniversary. Continue reading...
NY Times Business
Hollywood actors in starry plays, skittish investors and gate-keeping theater owners have all contributed to an unusually tough climate for song-and-dance shows.
Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg Markets
Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is raising questions over filmmakers’ ability to reach audiences in the European Union, according to the bloc’s antitrust chief.
The Guardian Politics
Chief secretary to PM rules out leadership bid as he says he has received reassurances from BurnhamGood morning. There are very few upsides for Keir Starmer for his current situation, but one of them is that soon he will no longer have to worry about taking PMQs. In his memoir, Tony Blair described PMQs as “the most nerve-racking, discombobulating, nail-biting, bowel-moving, terror-inspiring, courage draining experience in my prime ministerial life, without question”. Today’s could be Starmer’s