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Today — 25 October 2026Main stream

Who Is María Corina Machado?

The Venezuelan opposition leader returned home from exile to a country firmly under American control. How are her relations with Washington?

© Nathalia Angarita for The New York Times

María Corina Machado in Panama City this month.

Scott Walker’s The Drift will get under your skin

25 October 2026 at 21:08
The cover of Scott Walker’s The Drift with simple text on an abstract dark red and black background.

In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker's The Drift.

This 2006 album from the singer-songwriter is truly upsetting. On it, Walker explores death, disease, and tragedy. But not just from some abstract perspective. There are visceral descriptions of the hanging of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci. He sings about 9/11, his stillborn twin brother, and the Srebrenica genocide. Lyrically, it's about as dark as an album …

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Who Is María Corina Machado?

The Venezuelan opposition leader returned home from exile to a country firmly under American control. How are her relations with Washington?

© Nathalia Angarita for The New York Times

María Corina Machado in Panama City this month.

Modi’s Plan to Stop India’s Protests

25 October 2026 at 20:41
The Indian leader, facing a volatile youth uprising, appears to be deliberately drawing into the fray a political rival he’s beaten before.

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A protest against the voter roll revision in New Delhi this month.

A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate

25 October 2026 at 20:16
An image of an iPhone Duo with a broken screen.

Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen. Tellingly, the cracks all seem to happen in the same place.

YouTuber CuriousHagi was able to reproduce the cracked screen during some durability testing of the iPhone Duo. Then he pulled it apart to try and find the culprit. What he found is that the Duo's hinge is quite complex, consisting of a gear-like central hinge and two different types of linking hinges.

The piec …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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