Few people exit a life quite the way Ted Turner entered it: loudly, on their own terms, and impossible to ignore. The man who bet everything on a 24-hour cable news channel when no one believed the idea would work, who sailed across the Atlantic and raced in the America’s Cup, who owned more land...
The first lady of the United States has traditionally occupied one of the safer perches in American political life. The role is unelected, largely ceremonial, and historically insulated from partisan crossfire. Americans, regardless of their politics, have tended to extend a degree of goodwill to the president’s spouse that their husbands rarely enjoyed on their...
A luxury expedition cruise. Penguins, Antarctic ice, remote Atlantic islands. For the 170 or so passengers aboard the MV Hondius in early 2026, this was the trip of a lifetime. What nobody could have anticipated was that the voyage would become the center of an urgent international health investigation, with three people dead, others critically...
What shapes a person’s character? For most of human history, that question was answered in relatively simple terms: biology, upbringing, and personal choice. Yet an ambitious new study published in one of science’s most prestigious journals has added a striking variable to that equation – one that most people would not immediately think to include....
Somewhere in a storage room at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, sits a small perspex box containing what looks like a lump of orange wax. It smells faintly of honey. For decades, nobody could definitively say what it actually was. Dozens of researchers had taken their best shots at identifying it, and each time...
A global sporting event is supposed to be a moment of celebration. Billions of fans tune in. Host cities polish their streets and stadiums. Governments spend billions to put their best face forward for the world. But as preparations ramp up for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, a deeply troubling picture has been emerging from...
Most presidents spend their time in office shaping policy, building coalitions, and – if they’re lucky – hoping future generations name something after them. Donald Trump is not waiting. Since returning to the White House for his second term, the 47th president has put his name on federal buildings, warships, savings accounts, immigration visas, prescription...
There is no American pope who has ever faced a situation quite like this. Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, became Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025, making history as the first US-born leader of the Catholic Church. American Catholics waited for what seemed an inevitable homecoming. Then, in an act as...
Picture yourself wading into a cool lake on a summer afternoon, water up to your shins, when something clamps onto your toe with a grip that feels nothing like a fish nibble. It burns. It swells. And whatever just grabbed you is still down there, somewhere in the murk below your feet. That’s the calling...
Rudy Giuliani has lived the kind of life that seems to exist in several distinct acts, each one dramatic enough to define a lesser man’s entire career. At 81, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor, and one-time presidential contender is back in the headlines, and the news is not good. Hospitalized in critical...
There are certain moments in medicine that feel almost impossible to prepare for – the point at which a doctor or nurse must look a grieving family in the eye and answer the question no clinical training fully equips anyone to answer: How much longer? It is not a question about prognosis in the abstract....
Something has shifted quietly in the way the U.S. government treats its own citizens. Not immigrants waiting for green cards, not visa holders living on borrowed time – but people who already went through the process, raised their right hand, took the oath, and became Americans. Some of them have been citizens for decades. They...
