Harold Mitchell watched from the cockpit of his plane as a spacecraft fell from the sky. Four thousand feet above him, the spacecraft glinted in the sun as it dangled from a parachute. Mitchell called out to the crew in the cargo hold—they had to get ready to catch it. The men, all from the […]
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Who We asked three Parisian creatives for their musings on the city of light: Lolita Jacobs, an art director and co-founder of the creative agency Jacobs+Talbourdet-Napoleone; Pierre-Marie Agin, a designer known for his whimsical furniture and decor who goes by the moniker Pierre Marie; and Robbie Fitzpatrick, a Los Angeles transplant and the owner and
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NEW YORK — A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder sees as the malign influence of billionaires, big corporations and both major political parties on the lives of working Americans. The People’s Union USA calls the 24
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On July 9, 1864 as the 9:50 p.m. train from Fenchurch Street pulled into Hackney station at 10:11 pm, two bank clerks entered a first-class carriage and discovered it awash in blood—the scene of the world’s first murder on a railway. Though neither the attacker nor the victim were present at the scene, the victim
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The CDC did not respond to requests for comment. Other lifesaving USAID programs ostensibly granted humanitarian waivers have encountered similar issues. Earlier this month, WIRED reported that the food aid and famine prevention program FEWS NET remains inactive, despite having received a waiver, with many of the workers who had implemented the program furloughed or
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Cynthia Erivo’s press tour for Wicked seems to have pushed the fashionite possibilities of green to their limit. But if you’re over the color, you may want to sit down. On Thursday, it was announced that Zendaya is joining the cast of Shrek 5. She’ll voice the iconic ogre’s teenage daughter. Of course, the queen
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GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with their prompts. Users who want to be part of the first wave to try GPT-4.5, labeled as a research preview, will be required to pay for OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT
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Leighton Meester achieved household name status in the late aughts with her role as Upper East Side teen Blair Waldorf in the hit CW series, Gossip Girl. Meester’s character, the frenemy of Blake Lively’s Serena van Der Woodsen, quickly became a style icon in her own right, wearing everything from Oscar de la Renta gowns
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Mermaid silhouettes, billowy princess gowns, streamlined column dresses. When it comes to red carpets, there are certain looks that are all but guaranteed. The higher-profile the event, the greater the stakes of ending up on the dreaded “Worst Dressed” lists, which is in part why each and every year at the Academy Awards, attendees tend
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Miuccia Prada’s delightfully rare study of contrasts was in full force at the brand’s fall 2025 show today in Milan. From the multilevel runway—caged in by steel bars and set with midcentury, floral-print carpet—down to the thought-provoking and intentionally frizzy hair, everything came with a double meaning. Alongside her co-creative director, Raf Simons, Mrs. Prada
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