There is a TikTok trend running right now built on the premise that 2026 is the new 2016. Creators are pulling out decade-old sounds, filters, and dances and repackaging them with minimal modification. The comment sections are full of people who were teenagers in 2016 responding as though they have been shown something precious that they had forgotten existed. Ten years, apparently, is the threshold at which recent pop culture tips into nostalgia.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from California, ran through a metal detector at the Washington Hilton — the venue of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and fired one or two rounds before being shot and taken down. The Secret Service extracted the Vice President in seconds. Trump was flanked and removed in twenty. By any operational measure, the protection apparatus worked. By any other measure, someone with a gun got into the same building as the president at a nationally televised event.

The April 24 episode of SmackDown ran a women’s tag team title match between Brie Bella and Paige against Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. Before it concluded, Jacy Jayne came over the barricade. Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid followed. The referee called for the bell. Fatal Influence had arrived on the main roster.

The faction then delivered a second attack the same night on Rhea Ripley, the newly crowned WWE Women’s Champion. Two coordinated assaults in one evening is the kind of booking that signals creative actually has a plan. Fatal Influence spent years on NXT accumulating championships and heat — Jayne held both the NXT Women’s Championship and the TNA Knockouts World Championship simultaneously at one point, a first in the industry. Reid, the group’s newest member after Jazmyn Nyx’s departure, has been wrestling for roughly three years. Jayne has said she is ahead of her time.

Cut Off was supposed to open on July 17. Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig playing wealthy siblings in their forties who get cut off by parents played by Bette Midler and Nathan Lane. Hill called it “pure stupidity” at SmartLess Live last weekend and promised audiences to leave their brains at home. It was the kind of pitch that sounds confident. Then Warner Bros. quietly removed the film from their release calendar.

Paris Saint-Germain against Bayern Munich is trending because it is, in structural terms, the kind of fixture the Champions League was built to produce: two clubs with continental ambitions, different footballing philosophies, and enough recent history to generate genuine animosity. It is also the match that reveals whether PSG’s post-Mbappé rebuild is substantive or cosmetic.

Mbappé left for Real Madrid. PSG invested. The squad is younger in some positions and differently composed. The question that followed the departure — whether he had been the project or whether the club was capable of generating a system that won at the highest level regardless of any single player — does not get answered in the group stage. It gets answered in knockout rounds against Bayern.

In 2019, a man robbed a Virginia bank at gunpoint and walked off with $195,000. The investigation went cold. Police went to Google. They served a geofence warrant — a legal instrument that compels the company to produce location data on every phone within a defined radius of a crime scene during a defined window. Nineteen accounts came back. One of them was Okello Chatrie. He is now serving nearly twelve years.

Norah O’Donnell sat across from the president of the United States days after a gunman tried to kill him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and chose to read aloud, on camera, the assassin’s manifesto. The passage called Trump a pedophile and a rapist. She then asked for his reaction.

Trump called her a disgrace. The clip went everywhere.

The media’s defense — that O’Donnell was simply asking about a document in the public record — holds up for about thirty seconds before collapsing. There is a difference between reporting that a manifesto exists and its general character, and reading its most inflammatory accusations directly into the face of the person targeted by an attempted murder. One is journalism. The other is theater designed to force a specific response.

A delivery boat cuts the main canal on Murano at speed — one man steering, another sitting on a lumber stack, Trattoria Al Frati’s dock terrace sitting mostly empty in the background. Overcast sky, peeling facades, a working island doing what working islands actually do. This is the Murano that exists once you walk past the glass shop strip. Quieter, less curated, more honest. On what both islands look like once the postcard wears off: Murano and Burano Are Beautiful for About Five Minutes.

The S Pen on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a versatile tool that activates as soon as you pop it out of the bottom-left slot of the device.

Getting Started

To begin, simply press the end of the stylus to click it out of the silo. If the screen is off, you can immediately start writing to create an Off-screen memo. Once you’re done, tapping the pin icon will save it directly to Samsung Notes.

Warner Bros. Discovery stockholders voted overwhelmingly at a Special Meeting held today to approve the company’s pending merger with Paramount Skydance Corporation, clearing a critical procedural threshold in one of the largest media consolidations in recent memory.

Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr., Chair of the WBD Board of Directors, framed the result as a mandate to extract value from the combined entity’s content libraries and distribution assets. President and CEO David Zaslav, who has spent four years restructuring WBD following its own 2022 formation from the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, called the vote “another key milestone toward completing this historic transaction.”