Christopher Nolan‘s blockbuster “The Odyssey” is officially the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time with $1.352 billion worldwide, overtaking the benchmark set by 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” with $1.338 billion. (Rubin, Variety)
Read MoreSelf-reported drinking fell over the previous three years, from 62% in 2023 to 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2025, before holding steady this year. Gallup based the latest results on interviews with U.S. adults aged 18 and older in its July 1-19 Consumption Habits survey. (Saad, Gallup)
Read MoreThe highest court in Massachusetts has unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling prohibiting Quincy Mayor Tom Koch from erecting 10-foot-tall bronze statues of two Catholic saints on the facade of the city's new public safety building. (Blandino, USA Today)
Read MoreToday, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026. (McClain & Park, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreChatGPT and other artificial intelligence assistants have billions of users — but data on how people are really using the tools is sparse and fragmented. It’s one reason why researchers launched the AI Observatory, a public resource to measure how people use AI by analyzing anonymized chats from seven different sources. (TIku, The Washington Post)
Read MoreBefore Billboard charts, before radio, before recorded sound itself, America still had “hit songs.” Whatever way its success was measured, a hit song touched something among the masses. (Mitchell, The Wall Street Journal)
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