The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developers had a problem: The land of Hyrule kept falling apart. Anyone who has played Tears of the Kingdom might be able to guess why. Some of the game’s big advances—Link’s Ultrahand and Fuse abilities, which allow players to create any tool they’re clever enough to stick … Read more
TEL AVIV — For three months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly celebrated the fall of Hamas in northern Gaza, brushing aside warnings that severe food scarcity and a widening power vacuum were creating a state of anarchy. But after a recent aid convoy disaster in Gaza City, and amid reports of Palestinian children dying … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States is urging Haiti’s embattled prime minister to clear the way for the election of a new president, a position vacant since 2021, amid growing pressure from armed rebels at home and governments abroad. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. government … Read more
Play video content Chaos reigned at the grand opening of Six Flags Over Georgia … with mobs of unruly teenagers fighting inside the theme park, escalating to a massive police response and a fatal shooting. Cops in Georgia say there were 500 to 600 youth running amok in the park Saturday night, getting out of … Read more
Hacks is back! Almost… The Emmy-winning comedy series is set to return for season 3 on Max, with Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) finding themselves at odds once again. After the pair run into each other in a Las Vegas elevator, it becomes clear that there’s still plenty for the comedy duo … Read more
The US government has launched an investigation into the national security risks posed by foreign-made vehicles with internet connectivity—especially those made in China. At a briefing on Wednesday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo even raised the specter of Beijing remotely triggering mayhem on US highways. “Imagine if there were thousands or hundreds of thousands of … Read more
Deliver Us, a 2018 novel by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, takes a hilarious look at the future of drone delivery. The plot revolves around a social media activist named Piper Prince who attempts to stop Amazon from taking over her Detroit neighborhood. “It’s written in a Coen brothers sort of tone,” Robinson says in … Read more
JERUSALEM — The volume of aid delivered to Gaza has collapsed in recent weeks as Israeli airstrikes have targeted police officers who guard the convoys, U.N. officials say, exposing them to looting by criminal gangs and desperate civilians. On average, only 62 trucks have entered Gaza each day over the past two weeks, according to … Read more
Image: Lionsgate Lionsgate has been trying to get a Borderlands movie off the ground since 2015, with Eli Roth becoming attached to the project in 2020. After a longer-than-expected wait and a series of reshoots with Tim Miller at the helm, the movie is a real thing, and it’s coming in August. The first trailer, … Read more
Hold up, I’ll need a couple of years recovery from the whiplash that is the leg-breaking, portal-punching, action-screaming trailer for Invincible Season 2, Part 2. Based on Robert Kirkman’s comics, Prime Video’s off-kilter animated superhero series sees Steven Yeun voicing superhero Mark Grayson (aka Invincible), who faces bigger and bigger intergalactic (and Earthly) threats. After … Read more