If you never played The Last of Us Part II video game, last night’s episode of the game’s HBO series adaptation may have left you pretty shocked. But Pedro Pascal had been prepared for his character’s pretty devastating twist for some time. (Stop reading now if you haven’t watched Sunday …

Kneecap returned to the Coachella stage this weekend after claiming that the pro-Palestine message they shared onstage during weekend one of the festival was cut from the official livestream. At the time, the band assured “it’ll be sorted” in time for their next set. During their Friday performance, the Irish …

Pete Hegseth barely received enough votes to win confirmation as Donald Trump’s defense secretary. Three Republicans even bucked their own party’s president to oppose him. One of them, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), cited “accusations of financial mismanagement and problems with the workplace culture he fostered.” Another, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), …

The great Charli XCX/Green Day non-feud of Coachella 2025 has officially come to a conciliatory end. If that combination of words reads as utterly incomprehensible (or utterly inconsequential) slop — please, let us explain. Last week, after the first weekend of Coachella, Charli shared a photo dump that included a …

Washington, D.C., punk band Ekko Astral are releasing a deluxe version of their buzzy debut, Pink Balloons, for its one-year anniversary. The re-release includes the full 2024 album plus five bonus tracks, which are available right now as a digital EP called Pink Balloons: Popped; preorders are also open for …

Lives ruined. G.I. Bill mortgages heading into default, mass firings of veterans across the government, and 80,000 job cuts coming to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, all in the name of supposed cost savings sought by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But a new U.S. Treasury Department report …

Martin Scorsese, Patti Smith, King Charles, and J.D. Vance are among those reacting to the death of Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88. Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced his death in a statement noting that the pope “taught us to live the values of the …

Post Malone welcome several guests onstage during his headlining set at Coachella last night. After performing solo during weekend one, the musician brought out Jelly Roll and Ed Sheeran to join him for weekend two. Sheeranassisted on “Sunflower,” taking the place of Malone’s original studio collaborator Swae Lee on lead …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, which is now streaming on Max. Hurt people hurt people. It’s a vicious cycle. Much as the law of conservation of mass says that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, once pain exists in the world, …

Pope Francis, who made history as the first Latin American papal leader and was considered to have a more progressive approach than his conservative predecessors, died Monday, the Vatican confirmed. He was 88. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father,” Cardinal …