Are These the Bones of the Fourth Musketeer? This Dutch Village Hopes So.
Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d’Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas’s tale.
Month: May 2026
How an All-or-Nothing Mindset Can Sabotage Your Workout
It’s not about discipline.
Can Three Auction Houses Sell $2.6 Billion Worth of Art in One Week?
Five luxury artworks hold the key to the spring season, one of the most anticipated sales in years. Major buyers are looking past female and younger artists and toward tradition.
US imposes visa restrictions on associates of Indian online pharmacy over fentanyl-linked counterfeit drugs
State Department says network sold counterfeit fentanyl-linked prescription pills to buyers in US Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, is on display during a news conference at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, U.S., January 31, … Read more
Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Blitz Reaches a Fever Pitch
[OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
Russia-Ukraine War Shows Cease-Fires Have Lost Meaning Under Trump
Temporary truces have become a tool of performative diplomacy, an end in themselves rather than a prelude to a lasting settlement, analysts say.
What You Need to Know About the Federal Gas Tax
[President Trump said he would like to suspend the 18.4-cent-a-gallon tax, but it’s a move that may save drivers only a few dollars a month.
RSS counters minority rights criticism
Commission is a bipartisan body of the US federal government that monitors religious freedom around the world NEW DELHI: A powerful Hindu group from which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party emerged claimed on Tuesday it had organised foreign visits, including to the US, to counter perceptions that it is a paramilitary outfit involved in … Read more
Gold up Rs4,100 on global tensions
[ KARACHI: Gold prices in Pakistan rose sharply on Tuesday despite weakness in the international bullion market, as geopolitical tensions surrounding Iran and concerns over rising global inflation continued to drive uncertainty in commodity markets. In the local market, the price of gold per tola increased by Rs4,100 to settle at Rs492,462, according to rates … Read more
Colbert’s curtain call
Late-night television’s biggest names reunite as host prepares to bid farewell to ‘The Late Show’ As Stephen Colbert prepares to sign off from ‘The Late Show’ on May 21, American late-night television is staging something rare in a fiercely competitive industry: a collective farewell. Rival hosts, former mentors and Hollywood stars are lining up not … Read more