This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025. The Trials of Gabriel Ward Murder Mystery Series, by Sally Smith ...

When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale artworks and installations by some of America’s most important living artists will help set the ...

The four people, part of an anti-capitalist and anti-government group called the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), were ...

Beginning Dec. 17, the Mulva Cultural Center will no longer charge admission for exhibits and the majority of its films. The $100 million center, which opened in December 2023 as a gift to the ...

The Kennedy Center will soon host the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, one of the Washington venue's marquee events. But this time around, President Donald Trump is taking a leading role, after overhauling ...

OpenAI has quietly rolled out 'formatting blocks,' which tweak GPT's layout to match the UI of the task it is supposed to ...

Ford is jumping into the battery energy storage business, betting that booming demand from data centers and the electric grid can absorb the EV battery capacity it says it’s not using. To achieve this ...

Half advice show. Half survival guide. Half absurdity-fest. (Wait, how does this work again? We're not numbers people.) Each episode, we answer all your burning questions, from how to survive a public ...

President Donald Trump doesn’t have his name on the Kennedy Center yet, but he’s already shaped it to his tastes. Just days after participating in the FIFA World Cup draw onstage — and accepting the ...

President Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as ...

A recent regulatory decision regarding Sportsbet, Flutter's Australian brand, comes at a time of political scrutiny around the country's betting space.

Every New Year’s Day, the first thing I publish is a compendium of inspirational quotes, one for each of the next 365 days ...