The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.
With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.
So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections —...
Grand Slam winners Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina reached the fourth round of the French Open in straight sets on Saturday.
Bellingham won LaLiga in his debut season for Real Madrid. Now, he is set on winning the Champions League.
"This is why you don’t get engaged to someone you only dated for a month."
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Unsettled host Ilana Levinson spent two months trying to reach one of her contacts in Gaza for an interview. She had stayed in touch with Isam Hammad, a manager for a medical equipment company in Gaza City, since covering his work organizing the March of Return protest in 2018. But after he fled the city in November, the two hadn’t shared much more than the occasional WhatsApp voice note with one...
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The Chicago Cubs thought they were about to tie the Cincinnati Reds Friday. They were wrong
Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs — and the hometown fans in the stands — thought the home team was about to tie the visiting Cincinnati Reds in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz had other ideas.
Cincinnati took the field for the bottom of the ninth with a 5-3 lead, and with closer Alexis Diaz on the bump....
Plus: Spotify will refund owners of its discontinued Car Thing, Amazon gets FAA clearance for more drone deliveries, and we’re in love with the new Rafa Nadal watch collaboration.
A U-shaped toothbrush tray is good for a quick clean, but you need a regular toothbrush too. The DuoBrush has both options.
"I refuse your question. I'm not your slave and you're not my master. You can't make me dance to your tune. I'm not a monkey."
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These cooling pillows and mattress topper are *so* gonna come in clutch when it's blazing hot outside. Swimming is a blast but swimming in a pool of your own sweat, when you're trying to just fall asleep, ick.
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These pictures are truly worth a thousand words.
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Stompers, where hitting your co-workers will not end in an HR violation. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
Violence is never the answer. That said, it was fun when I opened a walking app and whacked a Verge editor with a baseball bat and made another slip on a banana peel. After, I continued on my peaceful commute home. A bit later, one of my fellow writers walloped me not once but twice with their own baseball bat. I wasn’t actually mad, but it did prompt me to go on a walk...
The most powerful space telescope ever built has peered into the dawn of time.
You read that right. The James Webb Space Telescope — with a giant mirror that catches extremely faint light, along with its ability to view a type of light (infrared) that can pass through huge clouds of cosmic gas — has allowed astronomers to spot the earliest galaxy ever found (so far, that is). It formed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, before our galaxy even formed. Our universe is some 13.7...
It's coming back.
In mid-May, the brilliant Northern Lights, or aurora, were visible in places that rarely see them, due to powerful ejections from the sun colliding with Earth. These bursts of energy, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections, are normal, especially as our medium-sized star has entered the peak of its activity cycle (it's an 11-year solar cycle). They came from a giant dark spot on the sun, called a sunspot, phenomena that tend to generate such solar bursts.
As the sun...
The inventory of meteorites from Mars is astoundingly small: Less than 400 of the known space rocks identified here hail from the Red Planet.
Even smaller is the number of nakhlites and chassignites, two of the three main types of Martian meteorites, of which there are only 35 samples in the world put together, according to The Meteoritical Society. But scientists haven't known much about them, despite having had many of the rocks for decades. James Day, a geologist and geochemist at UC San...
Borussia Dortmund will face Real Madrid on Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London. Here’s how cord-cutters can stream the action.
Depending on what side of the pond you hail from, Saturday is a big football or soccer day. Whatever you call the sport, at 3 p.m. ET/ 12 p.m. PT, Borussia Dortmund will face Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in London. Here’s how to watch—and what you need to know going into the big game.
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Jade Sasser’s new book focuses on the racial dimensions of eco-anxiety. Among her findings: Women of color are likelier to say climate change will make them have fewer children than they want.
Every year, peatlands in the Arctic suddenly ignite. Smoldering subterranean fires from the previous summer were thought to be to blame, but now modeling suggests a worrying new cause.
Better stock up on this SPF 60 moisturizer reviewers love as a makeup base in case it sells out again before summer ????.
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