The Big Indie Playlist looks back at another week of incredible new music, bringing together key releases from the likes of Dinosaur Jr and Adult DVD together.

From Bill Callahan to Boards of Canada to Sluice to Soft Curse to Wendy Eisenberg to Olivia Rodrigo, here are our favorite albums of 2026 so far.

The State Board of Education on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind reading list, which lays out dozens of books, Bible verses and stories that every public school student in Texas will have to read.

An incredible servant to our football club, Ben, who has made 363 appearances for us and was a Europa League winner in 2025, will now enter his 13th season as a Spurs player. Ben said: "Tottenham ...

I felt a considerable sense of loss – as well as pride – when I learned that my friend and mentor, Ben Swan, had recently passed. His family, and by extension, all those whose lives and struggles were ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millennials are redefining what it means to own a dog, with a growing ...

There’s now more evidence why professors are begging University of California overseers to reinstate standardized testing — as shocking rates of students are failing computer science courses at the ...

This content can't be displayed right now. To view this embed, please accept targeting cookies. It's loaded from a third party and requires that permission to appear. One afternoon in Morningside ...

The French actress ably embodies the anguish of a wife and mother reeling from the revelation of her partner's involvement in a child pornography ring in director Marie Kreutzer's grimly persuasive ...

Cannes: A tough and unflinching social drama about the predators among us — and how difficult it can be to see them for what they are. This is before her Austrian husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) — a ...

When you get down to it, there aren’t that many Big Themes. Man against Nature and Man against Self; first loves and last rites; coming of age and teenage sex and death. But, I suppose, as the years ...

A onetime graduate student in classics, Stafford used the lessons of the ancients to sniff out TV series with hit potential and ease his vertiginous climb to a notoriously slippery Hollywood peak: a ...