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Donald Trump and Rick Scott offer up economic sense

Strangely, we were blessed with two straightforward and sensible takes from prominent Republican leaders on Monday. First, President Donald Trump made a full-throated defense of data centers. Next, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote an op-ed defending the U.S. dollar as the global standard currency.

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation

Waking Life: Richard Linklater’s genre-defying indie is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece

Wiley Wiggins plays a man wandering around Austin, Texas, whose reality-bending encounters make him uncertain whether he’s awake or asleep

MapQuest Tops Apple App Store After Refusing to Change Lake Ontario to "Lake America"

Updated on: September 1, 2026 / 6:25 PM EDT / CBS News

MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order

Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’

‘We’re hunky in our own way’: Modern Family’s Mitch and Cam on their hilarious and groundbreaking love

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet proved that opposites really do attract in the smash hit sitcom. But beyond the bickering and and pranks, there was a romance so special that it changed many fans’ lives

‘I feel like I’m grieving’: staff on the devastating fallout of widespread layoffs at Xbox

Last month, Microsoft’s gaming division told its workforce it was cutting 3,200 jobs, which some say will have big ramifications for game development – as well as taking a huge personal toll

Under Story by Chloe Benjamin review

A grieving couple who have lost their son find a way to a mirror universe where time runs backwards – but the narrative machinery is shonky and distracting

Hugging Face's new duck robot is selling fast. A Chinese chip powers it

The colorful "Microduck" robot from HuggingFace's French subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units since launching on Thursday.

The Pentagon’s Unprecedented Plan for Venezuelan Oil

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Apple Maps 'Lake America' shift may come 'soon' after Trump call: Burgum

President Donald Trump pressed Apple to update its maps function with his new name for New York’s Lake Ontario, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Monday.

The Dog Stars finds hope at the end of the world

Post-apocalyptic worlds remain perennially compelling movie settings because they offer an escapist fantasy of life after social order. Strip away the institutions, laws, and contemporary conveniences that contour our daily lives, and see what remains. Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, based on Peter Heller’s 2012 novel, revisits that harsh world. It does so against the incongruously gorgeous vistas of the Colorado Rockies and sprawling verdant fields.