Esmaeil Baghaei speaks during an interview in Tehran, Iran, April 5. Majid-Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters Iran has rejected as “unfounded” the United Arab Emirates’ accusation that it launched two missiles at the Gulf kingdom a day earlier, Iranian state media reported. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the claim, warning regional states against making “unfounded…
The Weekend Read / August 8, 2026 In recent years, the online right has contested adaptations of epic in order to make an argument about masculinity. The Odyssey is their latest target. Ad Policy Still from The Odyssey.(Universal Pictures) As the credits rolled at the end of The Odyssey, the Long Island cinema burst into…
A Summer That Is Already Breaking Records West Nile virus is supposed to peak in August and September. In Maricopa County, Arizona — the county that contains Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, and Chandler — four people had already died before July 4th. That has not happened in a West Nile season since the early 2000s….
Ad Policy Graham Platner, Democratic US Senate candidate for Maine, during a primary election night event at the Blue Hill YMCA in Maine on June 9, 2026. (Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Graham Platner is withdrawing as the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine after a credible rape allegation was made against him (Platner…
Ad Policy A copy of the ‘Declaration of Independence’, hangs at Bull House, a former home of Thomas Paine, on July 04, 2026 in Lewes, England. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images) To celebrate the 250th, we’re looking back at the founding with Tad Stoermer, author of the New York Times bestseller A Resistance History of…
