Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued a solid year of expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls jumped a seasonally adjusted 172,000 for the period, down slightly from the upwardly revised 179,000 in April and far above the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 80,000. The unemployment
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Laura Marling is back with her first album since 2024’s Patterns in Repeat, and, inevitably, it’s a 17-track collection of Raffi covers. “Laura Sings Raffi marks a logical next step for me,” the British singer-songwriter said in a press release, “but it’s not only a desire for tolerable children’s music that landed me here.” While living in
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We’ve all got something, right? That one chore or duty that we know we should do (or maybe we’ve promised to tackle) but just can’t manage to start. It could be as small as that growing stack of papers you need to sort through on your desk or as large as finally establishing a will
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(Left) ‘Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver’ director Zack Snyder. (Right) Kurt Russell in ‘Escape from New York’. Photo: AVCO Embassy Pictures. Preview: Zack Snyder is attached to a new ‘Escape from New York.’ It’ll re-imagine the John Carpenter classic. The project is being sent out to studios. Among the movies that studios have
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Amazon Music is once again streaming select performances from Primavera Sound Barcelona, which is already underway in the Spanish city. The 2026 edition will livestream on Thursday, June 4; Friday, June, 5; and Saturday, June 6. The broadcast begins each day at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on the Amazon Music channels on Twitch and
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Primavera Sound has been hit by “adverse weather conditions”, with Alex G and Mac DeMarco’s sets cancelled and stages being temporarily suspended. Today (June 4) is the opening day of the festival at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, with tonight’s headliners set to be Doja Cat, Massive Attack and Bad Gyal. It runs for the next two days, with The Cure, The xx, Gorillaz, My Bloody Valentine, Addison Rae and Skrillex also topping the bill. However,
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WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee moved to preserve a Space Force missile-warning satellite program the Pentagon plans to cancel, authorizing $415 million for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar program in the markup of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill. During a markup session June 4, committee members debated amendments to the National
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