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Perseid meteor shower reaches peak viewing on Wednesday night

August 11, 2026 / 10:05 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Canadian airline cancels flight after child refuses to wear seatbelt

Flight from Victoria to Toronto forced to return to terminal after repeated attempts to secure child in seat failed

Feel the burn: why holidays from hell make for blistering fiction

Family fallouts, failing marriages, sunburn, food poisoning ... from Deborah Levy’s hypnotic and disturbing Hot Milk to All In, Claire Powell’s all-inclusive nightmare, Leon Craig looks at the best novels about vile vacations

Atlantic Trivia: Color Theory

Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.

Spain Is Ready for an Extraordinary Run of Eclipses

Tomorrow’s eclipse will be the country’s first in a century. Next year’s will be even more dramatic.

Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang's 'big concept' for AI. What now?

The first three-plus years of the AI build-out have been funded by record amounts of equity and debt issued by leading tech companies. Nvidia has a new idea.

One Night Only finds romance in a culture that has forgotten intimacy

Equal parts George Orwell and unrestrained teenage hormones, director Will Gluck’s One Night Only imagines a dystopian America where a religious administration has banned premarital sex. The preposterous prohibition is enforced through biometric sensors that detect certain hormonal spikes and summon SWAT teams to thwart your carnal endeavors.

AI's potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

Virtue and a Sledgehammer

What do you do when you return to your home town, with your dead mother in your car boot, to find the inhabitants have been turned into robots?

‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal

Jaw-dropping documentary Whatever It Takes details an aggressive stalking campaign targeted towards a couple whose reporting criticized the tech company

Nimrods review

San Francisco’s pop-punk pioneers Green Day loom large in this fun, puppyish film about a scrappy band desperate to meet their idols

SCOTUS's October Preview

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