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Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet. Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next. But where there are demons, there is the Doom Slayer — …

A group of creatives stood slightly dazed in a Four Seasons hotel conference room in Houston, staring at three random ping-pong tables. A few were still bleary-eyed and jet-lagged after flying in from Iceland, Prague, London, and other parts of the world. Over the past few months, they had been …

Before D.C.’s Verizon center became the Capital One arena, it was the home for Chris Olsen’s first concert experience. “My mom took me to the Monster Ball when I was 10,” he says. “I knew what it was going to be. She was a little shocked and was like, ‘I …

Virginia Giuffre, the woman who stood up for victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when she accused him of trafficking her as a teenager, wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday that she had been hospitalized after a traffic accident and was in critical condition. “This year has …

The chairwoman of a charity cofounded by Prince Harry accused the former royal of “harassment and bullying at scale” in a pair of new interviews. Earlier this week, the Duke of Sussex announced that he was stepping down from Sentebale, which he cofounded in 2006 to help people in southern …

Self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate choked and repeatedly beat his ex-girlfriend Brianna Stern as the model sobbed and begged him to stop during a nightmare night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a new lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles claims. In a harrowing 30-page complaint obtained by Rolling Stone, Stern …

It’s been a big news week for Nintendo fans, but it just got bigger. One day after revealing their own mobile news app called “Nintendo Today!,” the Japanese developer has dropped a bombshell, announcing a release date for their next big movie — a live-action adaptation of their classic franchise …

When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert called 911 on May 1, 2010, she was absolutely frantic. An escort, Gilbert was on Oak Beach, Long Island for a date with a first-time client named Joseph Brewer when she became distressed, eventually screaming in the call to authorities, “they’re trying to kill me.” When …

In a bitter irony, people around the world are using OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model to generate images in the style of legendary Japanese animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who for his entire career has prized values of humanism, painstaking artistry, and the sanctity of nature versus the horrors of exploitative industry. …

Since buying Twitter and rebranding it as X, tech oligarch Elon Musk has sought to bring the social media platform into alignment with xAI, his artificial intelligence venture. Now, he says, that company has acquired the app, signaling that users’ content and behavior will be core to the AI business. …