Bill Gates is scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee in June to answer questions related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The appearance follows the committee’s ongoing examination of Epstein’s network and the figures connected to it.

Gates has previously acknowledged meeting with Epstein multiple times after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, describing the relationship as a mistake in hindsight. The extent of those meetings, their purpose, and what Gates knew about Epstein’s activities are among the questions Congress is expected to pursue.

The Canon EOS R100 sits at the bottom of Canon’s RF lineup by price and by marketing priority. Canon treats it as an entry point — a camera for first-timers who will eventually buy something better. That framing misses what the R100 actually is: a compact APS-C body with a competent sensor, full RF mount compatibility, and a street price low enough that pairing it with serious glass remains financially rational. The crop factor works in its favor at the long end. The absence of in-body stabilization is a real constraint, not a dealbreaker.

Coachella opens April 10 with one of its most social-media-ready lineups in years. Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G are the three headliners, and the TikTok content machine is already warming up.

Carpenter’s set will be dissected frame by frame within hours of her walking offstage. Her audience skews young, engaged, and clip-hungry — expect outfit breakdowns, fan edits, and audio pulls to dominate For You pages all weekend. Bieber’s return to a major festival stage after years of health-related absences makes his set genuinely unpredictable. Karol G brings the most devoted international fanbase of the three.

Modern food distribution runs on automated systems that scan and approve shipments. If a product isn’t in the database — new variety, irregular shape, uncommon origin — the system flags or rejects it.

Result: truckloads of perfectly edible food get turned away and wasted because a database doesn’t have a record for it.

The more we automate logistics, the more we create failure modes that didn’t exist before. A human inspector would just look at the food and decide. The algorithm needs a SKU.

Wisconsin voters elected a liberal justice to the state supreme court on Tuesday, expanding the court’s liberal majority in a race that continued a pattern Democrats have been quietly building since 2025: consistently outperforming their presidential race margins in every special and off-cycle election that comes up.

The pattern started in 2025 and has continued without interruption. Democrats are winning races in competitive states, flipping seats in districts that went for Trump in 2024, and doing it in low-turnout environments where motivated opposition voters typically dominate.

The fault line running through the European identity debate is not north-south or creditor-debtor. It is east-west, and it is older than the EU.

Eastern European nations spent decades under Soviet occupation during which their national identities — languages, cultures, borders — were systematically suppressed or redrawn. The recovery of those identities after 1989 was not incidental to their post-communist project; it was central to it. Nations like Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic states did not experience national identity as a retrograde force to be overcome on the way to liberal modernity. They experienced it as the thing that survived when everything else was taken.

Euphoria Season 3 premieres April 12 on HBO. It has been four years since Season 2 ended, which in television time is approximately one geological epoch.

The hiatus was messy — production delays, cast renegotiations, behind-the-scenes drama that occasionally eclipsed the show itself. But the pent-up demand is real. Euphoria built one of the most aesthetically obsessive fanbases in recent TV history, and that audience has been waiting.

What to expect from the cultural fallout: character-specific edits will flood TikTok within hours of each episode. The show’s costume and makeup choices will drive searches and purchases. Quote-based audio trends will emerge from standout scenes. The discourse, positive and negative, will be loud.

Southwest China. Discovery of animal groups that weren’t supposed to exist yet — millions of years earlier than the timeline said was possible.

Every time paleontology does this it’s a little disorienting. The story of life on Earth keeps getting older, stranger, and more front-loaded than the previous model assumed.

“Lost world” is a press release word but the underlying finding is genuinely significant. The Cambrian explosion might be less of an explosion and more of a long fuse.

Dug up beneath Frankfurt. Rare evidence of ancient rituals including what researchers think might be human sacrifice.

Frankfurt is not where you expect to be reading about Roman cult sites. The Romans were further north than the textbooks made it seem, and they left strange things in the ground.

Major funding secured for continued excavation. More coming.

Hungary votes April 12, and for the first time in years Orbán’s Fidesz party is trailing in polls. The center-right opposition Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, has pulled ahead in several surveys, making this the toughest electoral test Orbán has faced since consolidating power.

JD Vance is in Budapest today for meetings with Orbán — a visit timed conspicuously close to the election and widely read as a signal of continued U.S. support for Orbán’s government. The Trump administration has maintained warm relations with Orbán throughout his tenure, treating his nationalist model as philosophically compatible with their own direction.