NAACP 2026: Black Excellence, Style and Standout Moments in Pasadena

The 57th NAACP  ceremony was both a major entertainment event and a cultural statement—an annual celebration of Black achievement across film, television, music, books, and beyond. Held in Pasadena, California, the show arrived as one of the final headline stops on the broader awards-season calendar and landed near the end of Black History Month,  giving […]

Co-Authors Blast Removal of Climate Science Guidance For Judges, Dangerous Precedent

A group of leading academics who helped write the U.S. federal judiciary’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is criticizing court officials for removing a chapter on climate science from the manual’s newest edition, warning that the decision politicizes a tool meant to help judges evaluate complex scientific testimony. 28 co-authors of the manual’s fourth edition […]

Iran War Shock Raises Risk of an Oil-price Spike and Tests The Fed

Federal Reserve officials are starting to assess how an expanding U.S.-Iran conflict could affect the American economy—and investors are already reacting by pushing expectations for interest-rate cuts further into the future. The conflict, which has spread through attacks by Iran and its regional proxies and has heightened global risk aversion, could hit the U.S. through […]