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A couple of years ago, I spent a weekend in Columbus, Ohio. I promise this isn’t the setup to a smug New Yorker’s unimaginative quip (“longest weekend of my life”). Those were a charmed 48 hours. A few things were on my side: I was escaping parental responsibility (our oldest was applying to high school, a fraught time) and the weather was unexpectedly beautiful (70 degrees in late October, disturbing but delicious). I was in town for work, but my work is, if I’m honest, not difficult. Turn up at the public library and talk? That would take but one…

Available for over a yearDonald Trump once dismissed cryptocurrencies as a scam. But since returning to office, his view of them has shifted dramatically. In July, President Trump signed new legislation aimed at integrating crypto into the financial mainstream. Members of the Trump family have launched their own ventures, generating significant profits and boosting the visibility of digital currencies in American politics. Supporters say this could reassert the dominance of the US dollar in a changing global economy, while critics warn of economic volatility and regulatory gaps. How did crypto go from fringe to front-and-centre in Trump’s economic vision? This…

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Chris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the…

Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson reacts after scoring against the Phoenix Mercury during Game 4 of the WNBA basketball finals on Friday in Phoenix. Wilson scored 31 points as the Aces beat the Mercury 97-86 to sweep their way to a third championship in four seasons. Rick Scuteri/AP hide caption toggle caption Rick Scuteri/AP PHOENIX — A’ja Wilson put in work in the paint, getting bucket after bucket despite multiple defenders draped all over her. She got plenty of help from Chelsea Gray, Jewell Loyd and Dana Evans. The trio started raining 3s early in the second quarter. The…

October 11, 20255 min readThe Math That Predicted the New PopeA decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missedBy Jack Murtagh edited by Jeanna BrynerCardinals attend the Holy Mass, which is the prelude to the papal conclave, in St. Peter’s Basilica, on May 7, 2025 in Vatican City. Vatican Media/Vatican Pool – Corbis/Corbis via Getty ImagesWhen Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 cardinal electors shuttered themselves inside Vatican…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Dozens of people have been killed in a drone strike at a displacement shelter in el-Fasher, a besieged Sudanese city on the brink of collapse, activists said.The resistance committee for el-Fasher, made up of local citizens and activists, said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit Dar al-Arqam camp, located within a university, with two drone strikes and eight artillery shells. “Children, women and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned,” a statement from the group said. Eyewitnesses described scenes of panic as rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble.Sudan Doctors Network said 57 people were…

Kim Xavier, a senior associate at CoveyLaw, an immigration law firm based in New York, has spent much of the last year bracing herself for any Friday announcements that might affect her clients.So when Donald Trump announced on a recent Friday that he will impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, the timing was not totally surprising.“Every day, it’s like I’m trying to stay afloat. And every Friday, I’m just like, now what?” Xavier told the Guardian.Though headline after headline has highlighted the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, Xavier said many Americans don’t realize the heightened uncertainty legal…

This week, OpenAI announced that apps can now run directly inside ChatGPT, letting users book travel, create playlists, and edit designs without switching between different apps. Some immediately declared the app platform of the future — predicting a ChatGPT-powered world where Apple’s App Store becomes obsolete. An open question was answered today – “what will the AI-native distribution channel be?” It looks like ChatGPT will be that channel with 800M active users + the Apps SDK.This is likely as important as Steve Jobs announcing the app store in March of 2008 … pic.twitter.com/6RCbIi0foq— Anish Acharya (@illscience) October 7, 2025 But…