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There is perhaps no one more devoted to the cause than a convert, and there is no one more violent toward it than a person who has lost their faith. The faithful turned faithless take up the act of crusade, but in reverse: new atheists confronting the world with secular eyes, children who learn that their parents aren’t omnipotent. They have suffered the loss of an organizing principle, the very thing they built their life around. Now, they may seek revenge on the object that caused an earlier delusion. Читать дальше...

On Thursday afternoon, while you were fretting about how well President Joe Biden might perform in his debate with Donald Trump, a “planet-killer” asteroid roughly the size of Mount Everest passed within five million miles of Planet Earth. In cosmic terms, that’s really close—about 17 times the distance to the moon. Two days later, on June 29, a “city-killer” asteroid roughly the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass within 180,000 miles of our planet. That’s actually closer than the moon.

Kevin Costner is reportedly getting ghosted by the cast of Yellowstone after his bitter exit from the show and fallout with Paramount over his character's write-off.

Vaudeville show: five letters.

Also: Nancy Pelosi vs. A.O.C. in “N/A,” the observant folk of Cassandra Jenkins, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer,” and more.

The actor-director’s three-hour Western, the first installment of a planned tetralogy, rushes through its many stories and straight past American history.

1. S&P 500 futures climb as investors await inflation data and end of second quarter: Live updates  CNBC
2. Stock market today: US futures rise with key inflation data on deck  Yahoo Finance
3. Stock Market Today: Stocks edge higher with inflation data on deck  TheStreet
4. Wall Street closes subdued as investors sit, wait for inflation data  Reuters
5. S&P 500, Nasdaq Extend Run of Gains  The Wall Street Journal

Trump's flip-flops on immigration, cryptocurrency, and TikTok suggest that Trump has a new, possibly corrupt, interest in seeking Silicon Valley money.

President Biden had perhaps the worst debate of his political career. But Donald Trump had a bad night as well.

Unease about data bias and job security as the use of generative AI ramps up could temper enthusiasm among private lenders.

The toy brand’s new ad, created almost entirely with OpenAI’s Sora tool, prompted heated reactions and predictions of more to come.

Puma, Adidas and JD Sports shares fell after peer Nike warned that sales for fiscal 2025 are expected to fall, lagging the industry.

Here’s what you can expect at our 10th annual Innovation Festival taking place in New York City this September 16-19.

Complaints about rising fast-food prices have been notably loud, and McDonald’s has become the go-to target.

My email inbox is clogged up daily with large, unnecessary images and attachments—an impact of superfast broadband and cloud storage.

LIMA - A powerful earthquake of magnitude of 7.0 struck near the coast in the Arequipa region of southern Peru on Friday, local officials said, adding that no deaths had been reported.

(Telecompaper) Russian national operator Rostelecom plans to acquire a data centre in the Medvedkovo neighbourhood in Moscow from the developer PNK Group, reports Kommersant citing its sources...

Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, June 28th

After Thursday night’s showdown between President Biden and Donald Trump, The Post consulted a panel of experts to discuss what went right — and very, very wrong — for each candidate. These statements have been edited for clarity and accuracy.

“We will not tolerate individuals using masks to be responsible for criminal or threatening behavior,” Hochul huffed this month.

The 2024 NBA Draft was as unpredictable as projected for a class that was considered weak at the top. The Post breaks it down with winners and losers.

The third entry in the "Quiet Place" franchise once again contrasts savage alien brutality with surprising human tenderness.

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Have you ever wondered what an impact crater looks like from space? Today, we’re counting down some of our favourite impact craters here on Earth – captured by Earth-observing satellites.

When dinosaurs reigned some 130 million years ago, flowering plants were taking over the world. That change is sealed in ancient amber specimens on the slopes of Lebanon that Danny Azar knows so well.