8+ min ago (919+ words) Attacks come as Zelenskyy said he plans to discuss sensitive issues from US's peace proposal with Trump. Russian forces have launched a drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, killing at least one person, as officials from Ukraine and the United States sought to rework a plan proposed by Washington to end the war. In a statement on Tuesday, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said the overnight attack on Kyiv damaged residential buildings in the Pecherskyi and Dniprovskyi districts. "In Kyiv, as a result of a night attack, two people were killed, six were injured, and 18 people were rescued, including three children,the service said. Another attack on Brovarsky, Bila Tserkva and Vyshgorod districts, hours later, wounded a 14-year-old child, it added. The attack followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in Switzerland's Geneva to thrash out Washington's so-called 28-point…...

15+ min ago (948+ words) They think she's "trolling" them. Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. Submit questions here. (It's anonymous!) My girlfriend is a lovely, kind, and sweet hippie who subscribes to several causes, including some slightly controversial charitable organizations. One of the ways in which she supports them is by hitting up their merch store for all of her gifts. Sadly, not everyone appreciates them. Some, like my mother, feel slighted because they feel that not a lot of thought went into their present. Others, especially our more conservative relatives, feel like she's trolling them even though she is genuinely being sincere. I don't even know if I should address this. They are gifts, it makes her happy to give them, and if an angry "Uncle Albert" doesn't appreciate the Sea Shepherd hoodie " should I care? What's the etiquette here? This is funny,…...

15+ min ago (108+ words) What conclusions do you draw from your quick introduction to Summers, which, presumably, you stitched together from YouTube Shorts, Wikipedia, and ChatGPT? More to the point, if you believe yourself to be a rational person who draws inferences based on the evidence in front of you, what should you believe? Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

15+ min ago (543+ words) The aid group oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine. Another way of measuring GHF's achievements is by counting the hundreds of Palestinians killed while trying to access such aid and the hundreds more who died of starvation-related conditions amid famine when GHF was the only organization allowed to deliver aid. "On every dimension, on every indicator, I'd consider it a failure." In August, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification declared a famine in Gaza City. GHF did not expand its operations beyond its four distribution sites. Within the famine's first month, at least 175 Palestinians died of starvation, a likely undercount. "The GHF model is one of the worst "aid' " and I use "aid' in quotes " models that's been tried in the 21st century, if not longer than that," said Anastasia…...

19+ min ago (59+ words) Russia says three people killed and 10 injured in attack on Rostov region, while Ukraine says attack on Kyiv killed two. Russia says three people killed and 10 injured in attack on Rostov region, while Ukraine says attack on Kyiv killed two. Zelenskyy says Kyiv seeking compromises that strengthen Ukraine, not weaken it By Tim Hume and Rory Sullivan...

20+ min ago (55+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Nov. 25, 2025. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 25, 2025 Slate Pears Game 100: Nov. 24, 2025 Which Girl's Name Can Mean a Sudden Charge Against the Enemy? Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 24, 2025 We need to talk about your adblocker...

22+ min ago (874+ words) The richest man on earth owns X. The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS " and could soon own Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN. The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios. Another billionaire owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post. Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? Vanity may play a part, but there's a more pragmatic " some might say sinister " reason. As vast wealth concentrates in the hands of a few, this small group of the ultra-wealthy may rationally fear that a majority of voters could try to confiscate their wealth " through, for example, a wealth tax. But rather than rely on Republicans, a more reliable means of stopping majorities from targeting your riches might…...

24+ min ago (70+ words) Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. You did it! Solved in . Challenge your friends to today's puzzle! More Games From Slate Slate Pears Game 100: Nov. 24, 2025 Which Girl's Name Can Mean a Sudden Charge Against the Enemy? Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 24, 2025 Slate Crossword: Abbr. Absent From Most Modern Phones (Four Letters)...

34+ min ago (460+ words) In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign. The demands came in response to a ProPublica story this month that revealed that the Republican consulting firm had been secretly working on the ads, which star Noem. The company, called the Strategy Group, has long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. Its CEO is married to Noem's chief spokesperson at DHS. Under Noem, DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process when awarding the contracts " allocating the majority of the money to a mysterious Delaware LLC that was created days before the deal was finalized. The Strategy Group does not appear on public…...

35+ min ago (1720+ words) A Jacobean-era man and woman standing romantically in a forest. The curiosity that drove the Irish novelist Maggie O'Farrell to write her bestselling 2020 novel Hamnet sprang from the scarcity of documentation about the book's title character, Hamnet Shakespeare. Born in 1585 to William and Anne Shakespeare, the twin brother to a girl named Judith, Hamnet died of unknown causes in 1596, the only one of the Shakespeares' three children not to reach adulthood. But for the records of his christening and his burial in the Stratford-upon-Avon parish registers, Hamnet's 11 years on earth remain a tantalizing blank, one of those countless human existences that are legible to us now only in the form of a bookended pair of dates. And yet, because Hamnet happened to have a father who spent his life creating characters that four centuries on remain as legible and as…...