The US National Basketball Association (NBA) will return to China this week for the first time since 2019. Two pre-season games are scheduled for Friday and Sunday between the Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns at an arena in Macau’s Venetian casino and hotel. China effectively froze the NBA out six years ago when one...
Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. “These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They’re publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing...
Donald Trump called the pause in hostilities he has brokered the first step to a “strong, durable and everlasting peace”. No one can do more to determine the outcome than the US president. This was, for him, a modest statement, acknowledging that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of his plan –...
A French appeal court handed a man a 10-year prison term on Thursday for raping Gisele Pelicot, increasing his original nine-year sentence. Husamettin Dogan, 44, was the only one to have maintained his appeal after the first trial last year of 51 men, including Pelicot’s husband Dominique Pelicot, in the case of mass sexual abuse....
The package instructions on most rice will tell you to rinse the grains before cooking them, but if you’ve been tempted to skip this step—or if you have skipped this step, only to be left with a bowl of gummy rice—you’re not alone. You might be wondering why people in the know consider it so...
Per Eli Russell Linnetz, you should view this lookbook less in a G.I. Joe or Warfare kind of way—the latter being the recent Iraq war film starring Kit Connor, Charles Melton, and Joseph Quinn—and consider it more in the spirit of Andy playing with his miniature green soldier figurines in Toy Story. Only with a...
Stoke Space announced a massive capital raise on Wednesday that might seem, at first glance, like just another bet on the commercial launch market. The details tell a different story. Led by billionaire Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology, a fund that explicitly invests in technologies tied to national security, the $510 million Series D round...
A Texas court has issued a stay of execution for Robert Roberson, a man whose 2003 murder conviction has raised serious questions about the validity of “shaken baby syndrome” as a medical diagnosis. Thursday’s decision arrived with only a week remaining until Roberson’s scheduled execution date on October 16. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend...
Sam FrancisPolitical reporter and Chris MasonPolitical editor EPA Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has praised US President Donald Trump’s leadership in the Gaza peace talks, claiming the deal “would not have happened” without him. On Wednesday, Trump announced Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, in a major...
MADRID — Jon Rahm and Shane Lowry struggled in their return to action after helping Europe win the Ryder Cup, with Rahm briefly arguing with a marshal who tried to cheer him up during the Spanish Open on Thursday. After his drive found the left rough on the par-4 eighth hole, Rahm saw his lie...