What is an EGOT? Elton John is latest to win the quadruple honor.

What is an EGOT? Elton John is latest to win the quadruple honor.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save One of the most exclusive clubs in show business is the EGOT — the group of celebrities who have an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. Of all the stars to have graced screens in Hollywood history, only 19 have achieved EGOT status. Elton John […]

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Israel-Hamas War: Israel Will End ‘Intensive’ Phase of War Soon, Defense Minister Says

Israel-Hamas War: Israel Will End ‘Intensive’ Phase of War Soon, Defense Minister Says

Hila Rotem Shoshani had invited her friend Emily Hand over for a sleepover in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel. The girls, then 12 and 8, woke early the next morning, Oct. 7, to the sound of thundering booms — the start of the deadliest attack in the history of their country. For about six hours, Hila and

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Iran says it struck Israeli ‘espionage’ site in Iraq’s Kurdistan region

Iran says it struck Israeli ‘espionage’ site in Iraq’s Kurdistan region

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save DUBAI — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it used ballistic missiles to destroy what it described as an Israeli spy site in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region. Four people were killed and six wounded in the attack, according to Kurdish officials. The attacks come amid

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U.S. forces recovered Iranian warheads in Navy SEAL mission gone awry

U.S. forces recovered Iranian warheads in Navy SEAL mission gone awry

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save American military personnel recovered Iranian-made missile warheads and related components during a ship-boarding mission near Somalia last week that disrupted the weapons resupply of militants in Yemen but left two elite Navy SEALs lost at sea, U.S. defense officials said. A massive search-and-rescue operation is

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How Group Chats Rule the World

How Group Chats Rule the World

I’m not especially powerful; it doesn’t matter which in-jokes include me and which dinners I’m invited to. But it’s instructive to think of the digital rooms being constructed by those who are. We often get glimpses of such group chats in court filings, the familiar blue-and-white bubbles of iMessage screenshotted and laid out as evidence.

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Perspective | Last night’s Emmys did the impossible and made an awards show good TV

Perspective | Last night’s Emmys did the impossible and made an awards show good TV

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The 75th Emmy Awards weren’t just watchable. They were — and I’m shocked to be writing this — good. Crisp, nostalgic, roguishly educational, the ceremony moved swiftly along without producing, in the viewer, that embattled sense of duty familiar to any parent applauding each child’s

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​North Korea Says It Is No Longer Interested in Reunifying With the South

​North Korea Says It Is No Longer Interested in Reunifying With the South

North Korea’s approach toward South Korea has swayed widely over the past decades. While it has often called the South its “sworn” and “principal enemy” and threatened to “annihilate” it with nuclear weapons, at times it has also engaged in dialogue and discussed a possible reunification. But, according to state media reports on Tuesday, North

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