Patrick Stewart died Wednesday, Oct. 28, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. His family announced the death Thursday in a statement on his Instagram account. “We announce with great sorrow the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, in the loving careContinue Reading
Sci-fi star Patrick Stewart has died, according to a spokesperson, after “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.” Stewart is known for playing Professor X in the “X-Men” film series and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in the “Star Trek” franchise. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports., ReadContinue Reading
Corporate political spending in the 2026 midterm elections has reached approximately $737 million, a 60 percent increase from what was spent on the 2024 presidential election, according to newly filed federal campaign finance data analyzed by Public Citizen. Spending this cycle accounts for 40 percent of the $1.8 billion corporationsContinue Reading
An Icelandic web company, FlokiNET, has defended the data’s publication as satisfying a ‘legitimate’ public interest., An Icelandic web company, FlokiNET, has defended the data’s publication as satisfying a ‘legitimate’ public interest. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asked an Icelandic web hosting company to take downContinue Reading
As Israel renews a ban on Al-Aqsa imam, Islamic Waqf officials warn of shrinking authority at Muslim holy site., For more than two years, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri has been barred from occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, unable to pray or deliver sermons at the holy site. And with his latestContinue Reading
Arab Parties Could Determine Next Israeli Prime Minister as Election Produces No Clear Winner, Israel Bombs Gaza Ministry as Settlers Attack Palestinians and Activists in West Bank, City of Cambridge, MA, Votes to Divest from Businesses Tied to Israel’s Military, Three More Oil Tankers Erupt in Flames Near Strait ofContinue Reading
Campaigners backing attempts to sue Shell over a typhoon in the Philippines have launched an online archive showing that the British oil major knew that burning fossil fuels could harm the climate as early as the 1960s. ExposeShell.com features documents including a 1966 memo Shell commissioned from British scientist James Lovelock and the ‘Greenhouse Effect’, aContinue Reading
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools, the tooth belonged to a straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of theContinue Reading
Spanish football clubs were among those to hold a minute’s silence for the victims of Wednesday’s train collision., Real Madrid and FC Barcelona honour Spain train crash victims NewsFeed Spanish football clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona were among those to hold a minute’s silence for the victims of Wednesday’sContinue Reading
This comes as more than 3,300 Palestinians are forced from homes in Hebron as Israel’s military offensive continues., This comes as more than 3,300 Palestinians are forced from homes in Hebron in Israeli military offensive. Israeli forces and settlers have escalated pogroms and raids across the occupied West Bank, attackingContinue Reading
Amutable has opened signups for design partners to test an immutable, image-based system that ships every change as a signed update. Built by the engineers behind systemd, it uses hardware attestations to verify each machine’s state before allowing deployments. Gregory Kurtzer’s Ginux is a brand-new Rust kernel that runs LinuxContinue Reading
openEuler has two fresh releases out. 24.03 LTS SP4 arrived in July 2026, and the short-term 26.09 innovation release followed on October 1. We covered openEuler 24.03 LTS when it came out in 2024. Two years later, that LTS version is still getting new features, and SP4 is the latestContinue Reading
His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined ed. by Dahlia Adler, read by amanda lovelace, Caitlin Davies, Caleb Roehrig, Dahlia Adler, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Fran Wilde, Hillary Monahan, James Fouhey, Jeanette Illidge, JorJa Brown, Kendare Blake, Natalie Naudus, Robin Miles & Tessa Gratton (YA anthology) Don’t LetContinue Reading