The days are inching closer, as the release of the anime version of Solo Leveling is underway. The South Korean webtoon became a huge sensation upon release in 2018. With a phenomenal 14-volume run, which lasted until 2021, the travails of Sung Jinwoo to become a supreme hunter rapidly became a major hit. After much…
When Evan Ozmat, a Ph.D. student in psychology at the University of Albany, first began counseling undergraduates about HIV and substance abuse, he expected to hear about their health issues. Instead, he heard about problem gambling. “Since the beginning of the project three years ago, students have brought up, unprompted, gambling,” Ozmat says. “We started…
In 2020, 16 plaintiffs, ages 5 to 22, took the state of Montana to court for, they said, violating their right to a clean environment, which is enshrined in the state’s constitution. This year, after a protracted court fight, they won: on Aug. 14, in a decision that the state attorney general has appealed, a…
For fans of the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT), the moment from this summer was excruciating. On August 6, during a round of 16 elimination game at the World Cup in Sydney, U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher got a hand on a penalty shot from Sweden’s Lina Hurtig. Naeher had to save it to…
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For almost a century, Washington has ruled the globe with two major tools: carrots and sticks. It has gone largely unnoticed domestically beyond the Beltway, but the United States appears to be…
Voters in south-central Pennsylvania began getting calls over the weekend from a completely artificial person campaigning on behalf of a Democratic congressional candidate — in what its creators believe is the first interactive AI-powered political phone campaign. “Hello. My name is Ashley, and I’m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’ run for Congress,” the…
Troy Aikman appeared to have enough with NFL officials and added to the chorus of criticism against them on Monday night, as he and Joe Buck called the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers game. Aikman was irked over how long it took for officials to determine that the Packers’ kickoff, following Anders Carlson’s…
A Christian college came under fire on Sunday after its men’s basketball team suffered a humiliating 108-14 defeat at the hands of North Dakota State. Oak Hills Christian College, a Minnesota school that plays in the Northern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the National Christian College Athletic Association, only had six points at halftime in the…
Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Tuesday they struck a Norwegian oil and chemical tanker with a rocket in its latest operation to protest against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. The Iran-aligned group targeted the ship after its crew “rejected all warning calls,” Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sareea said in a televised statement. He vowed that the Houthis…
Kim Kardashian’s Christmas decorations are very, er, beige (Picture: Kim Kardashian/Instagram) Fans of Kim Kardashian will know by now that she’s the Queen of minimalism, and that definitely shows in her 2023 Christmas decorations. Kim took to social media this week to give fans a glimpse of the winter wonderland she’s built in her Los…