Beijing Stages a Reunion, on Its Own Terms
Xi Jinping met Friday in Beijing with Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang party, in the highest-profile cross-strait political contact in a decade. The meeting was framed by Chinese state…
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What the Sunglasses Saw
The obvious read of this frame is a woman at a Pride event showing something on her phone to the man beside her. That is what is happening. It is not what the photograph is about. Look at the lenses.…
Bangkok Is Throwing the World’s Greatest Water Party — and You’re Invited
Every April, Bangkok transforms. The heat is real, the streets get soaked, and somewhere between tradition and sheer spectacle, you remember exactly why Thailand earns its reputation as one of the…
Beach Walk Style: Cropped Hoodie, Satin Pants, and a Gucci Cap
Two friends on a windy beach day, and between them they’ve covered most of the bases for effortless warm-weather dressing. The look in the foreground is doing a lot of quiet work: white cropped zip-up…
AI Finds the Holes
Financial industry leaders convened to discuss the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model after it reportedly found weaknesses in every major computer operating system. That’s a sentence…
Artemis II Is Home
The four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down safely after completing the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew became the first humans to see parts of the…
Gates on the Hill
Bill Gates is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee in June as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi, by contrast, will not testify for now —…
Hottest March on Record
Last month was the hottest March ever recorded for the contiguous United States — and not by a small margin. Federal data shows it exceeded previous records by the largest gap ever logged for any…
Nine Hours
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo — an open-source Python notebook tool used heavily in AI and data science workflows — was weaponized by attackers roughly nine hours after…
No Deal in Islamabad
Twenty-one hours of negotiations in Islamabad produced nothing. Vice President Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner sat across from senior Iranian officials — including the speaker of the Iranian…