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When the far-right activist Tommy Robinson emerged from a London courtroom this week after a judge cleared him of a terrorism charge, he gave thanks to the man he said had bankrolled his defense.“Elon Musk, I’m forever grateful. If you didn’t step in and fund my legal fight I’d probably be in jail,” Robinson said. “Thank you, Elon.”In the period immediately after Musk’s messy departure from the White House, the Tesla CEO repeatedly suggested that he was done with politics. Investors who had pushed him to refocus on his businesses were delighted. Tesla’s stock rose. The months since, however, have…

It’s great to see that there are young men who are actively looking for alternatives to the kinds of masculinities displayed online (I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me, 2 November). But to me, Josh Sargent’s article is about more than just the manosphere. It’s about the platforms that facilitate it, and how social media diverts attention away from things like reading and toward things that largely don’t matter. Josh says it himself: “in fairness, short-form content is slightly more engaging than Macbeth quotation flashcards”. That’s truly worrying.It’s true that…

We’re now in the thick of the fall movie season, but you wouldn’t know it from how skimpy the box office is, or how muted the chatter. Simply put: Where have all the indie hits gone? Not so long ago, the slate of buzzy, critically acclaimed prestige movies that opened during the fall added up to something like the indie version of blockbuster season. There’s a reason the movie calendar was arranged that way. Critically acclaimed films tended to open in the last part of the year because that’s when they did well. And the trend crystallized in the ’90s,…

Tries from Ewan Ashman and Kyle Steyn hauled Scotland back into an absorbing contest.Darcy Graham and Rory Hutchinson had been held up over the line in the first half when Cameron Roigard and Will Jordan scored for the visitors.”Teams get tired when you knock on the door,” said Townsend, who has now lost three home Tests against the All Blacks as head coach – all by single digit margins.”I’d love to be playing New Zealand again next week. We play Argentina and we need to put in what we have learned.”This is the first time this team has played together…

This holiday season, skip the beard oil and whiskey stones and go straight for the gifts that count–ones that the frequent traveler in your life will carry with them on many journeys to come, or will enjoy during their precious time at home. Here, we’ve hand-selected 50 gift ideas for men, including buzzy international favorites and undiscovered gems from small businesses you might not have heard of (yet). From a timeless leather duffel that’s perfect for weekend trips to at-home accessories that will enrich any guy’s routine, we’ve got you covered with dozens of gifts he’ll actually use and love.…

AFP via Getty ImagesDozens of families in Remedios T Romualde, on the island of Mindanao, are among those who have been evacuated ahead of the typhoon’s arrivalThe Philippines is bracing for the arrival of another potentially devastating typhoon, less than a week after a different storm killed at least 200 people and left a trail of destruction. Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, is forecast to intensify to a super typhoon – with sustained winds of at least 185km/h (115mph) – before making landfall on the island of Luzon on Sunday evening local time at the earliest.Officials say Typhoon Fung-wong could…

The European Commission is considering plans to delay parts of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, after intense pressure from businesses and Donald Trump’s administration.The commission confirmed that “a reflection” was “still ongoing” on delaying aspects of the regulation, after media reports that Brussels was weighing up changes with the aim of easing demands on big tech companies.The act, the first comprehensive legislation in the world regulating AI, came into force in August 2024, but many of its provisions are yet to apply. Most obligations on companies developing high-risk AI systems that “pose serious risks to health, safety or fundamental rights”…

Late-night hosts reacted to Democrats’ slate of wins across the country and Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York City mayoral race.Seth MeyersOn Late Night, Seth Meyers celebrated Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York mayoral race, becoming the first south Asian and Muslim mayor of the biggest city in the US, as well as New York’s first mayoral candidate since 1969 to receive more than a million votes.“This is the kind of energy Democrats have been desperately seeking for years,” said an enthusiastic Meyers. “I haven’t seen a crowd of New Yorkers this excited since the time the…

Emily KeoghNov 8, 2025, 11:00 AM ETCloseBased in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCLIn the end, we were not talking about the football, players or implications on the title race, as Arsenal vs. Chelsea ended in a 1-1 draw on Saturday afternoon. Despite it being arguably the biggest clash of the Women’s Super League (WSL) season, between two of the top teams (the reigning domestic champions and reigning European champions), we were instead left talking about some dreadful officiating decisions that completely overshadowed what should have been a massive high-stakes clash.The story…

November 7, 20252 min readThis Cave Holds a Spider Web ‘Megacity’ the Size of Half a Tennis CourtThis finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species of spiderBy Humberto Basilio edited by Andrea ThompsonLights illuminate a massive spider web found in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania. “An Extraordinary Colonial Spider Community in Sulfur Cave (Albania/Greece) Sustained by Chemoautotrophy,” by István Urák et al., in Subterranean Biology, No. 53. Published online October 17, 2025 (CC BY 4.0)While exploring a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, scientists at the Czech Speleological Society discovered…