Omaha, Nebraska—population 486,051, or roughly the same number of people who will claim today to have “always loved” whatever K-pop band just broke Spotify—woke up yesterday to discover its weather behaving like a geopolitical superpower with abandonment issues. One moment, the city was basking in an unseasonable 21 °C (70 °F) springtime flirtation; the next,…
The Aegean, that sun-drenched paddling pool where Western civilisation first learned to charge admission, has started charging an exit fee. A 5.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Rhodes on Tuesday, followed by a 4.8 encore off Crete on Wednesday—prompting a continent that usually only notices Greece when its ATMs cough politely to remember that geology, unlike the EU,…
Hurricane Kiko, a name that sounds like a failed boy-band member, has decided to treat the Hawaiian archipelago to its own private luau of 120-mile-an-hour misery. From Berlin to Bangkok, commodity traders, insurers, and climate-voyeurs are watching the satellite loops the way teenagers binge true-crime podcasts: equal parts horror and entertainment. Because if a Category-3…
México-Japón: A Pas de Deux on the Global Fault Line Mexico City, 3 a.m.—the hour when mariachi ghosts and salaryman zombies share the same sidewalk taco stand. A businessman from Tokyo is negotiating an extra squirt of salsa verde while his Uber waits, meter running like a metronome for two nations that have quietly started…
Mets vs Reds: A Global Tragedy in Nine Innings By Paolo “Pallino” Rossi, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Singapore bureau, 04:17 a.m. local time The first pitch in Cincinnati is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. ET, which is convenient for Manhattan traders still digesting lunch and mercifully late for Jakarta office drones already asleep. One ballgame, two…
iPhone 17: Because the Planet Wasn’t Dystopian Enough Already By Our Correspondent in a Bunker Somewhere Neutral-ish GENEVA—Apple’s marketing department, fresh from convincing half the Northern Hemisphere that “courage” means removing headphone jacks, has now confirmed the iPhone 17 will launch this autumn in a palette of colors named after endangered species. (Arctic Fox White…
