It is easy to see why Michael Lewis might have wanted to write a book about Bankman-Fried and FTX — they were all so rich. It is equally easy to see why the book that Lewis wrote, which is called Going Infinite, doesn’t really work. Most of the criticism that Lewis and his book have received involves how generous or credulous or just myopic the famously, professionally farsighted author was toward Bankman-Fried, with whom he either did or didn’t become “too close.” Over the course of what has been a pyrotechnically unhelpful media tour, Lewis has been unable to change the subject. His grumbling about the “mob” aligning against his book and defense of its disheveled trickster-fraudster main character have been uncharacteristically sweaty and sour; his wildly out-of-pocket suggestion that brain damage might be afflicting Michael Oher, the young offensive lineman who was not quite the protagonist of his 2004 book The Blind Side and who recently filed suit against the family that was, was shockingly callous and irresponsible. Between Going Infinite and Walter Isaacson’s enormous biography of the increasingly daffy and grim Elon Musk, it has been a rough time for the Heroes of Capitalism genre. The future prospects for that type of book are certainly still bright; Americans aren’t going to stop revering rich people just because they are “awful” or “boring” any time soon. But the ways in which Going Infinite falls short suggests a problem that goes beyond a national shortage of sufficiently compelling or just acceptably non-sociopathic rich guys. The fact that Isaacson’s “The Genius Biographies” series has declined from Leonardo Da Vinci to Steve Jobs to Elon Musk suggests not only that the heroes are getting less heroic, but that these books’ usual signifier of genius — vast wealth — has completely decoupled from any personal merit.

The Biden administration said on Tuesday it plans to halt shipments to China of more advanced artificial intelligence chips designed by Nvidia and others, part of a suite of measures aimed at stopping Beijing getting cutting-edge U.S. technologies to strengthen its military.

India’s top court on Tuesday refused to legalize same-sex marriages, passing the responsibility back to Parliament in a ruling that disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world’s most populous country. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud also urged the government to uphold the rights of the queer community and end discrimination against them. Earlier this year, the five-judge bench heard 21 petitions that sought to legalize same-sex marriage. Chandrachud said there were degrees of agreement and disagreement among the justices “on how far we have to go” on same-sex marriages, but the judges unanimously agreed that the court can’t grant LGBTQ+ people the right to marry because that is a legislative function.

The water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its lowest point in at least 121 years, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon river have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote jungle villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins. The port in Manaus, the region’s most populous city located where the Negro river meets the Amazon river, recorded a water level of 13.59 meters (44.6ft) on Monday, according to its website. That is the lowest level since records began in 1902, passing a previous all-time low set in 2010.

The troops wouldn't necessarily go to Israel or Gaza but would likely arrive in a nearby country, a defense official told NBC News.

A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing has been called pseudoscience, but the increasingly popular therapy has shown good results at treating trauma. Could it help me come to terms with a childhood tragedy?

Please don’t explain what’s going on here. I don’t want to know.

The anti-avocado militias of Michoacán

"Late Night Horror" was weird, innovative, and—mostly—will never be seen again.

A report finds that corporate consolidation, an aging workforce, and high costs could keep heat pumps, a key technology of the Inflation Reduction Act, out of reach.

Chicago food's having a moment right now, but if you're not from the city, you may not know about one of its culinary delights: the jibarito.

The author of ‘Doppelganger’ on Naomi Wolf, conspiracy culture, Gaza and more. A Tyee interview.

In response, American businesses need to consider how else Beijing's decision-making may now be flipped on its axis. For everyone from American farmers to pharmaceutical companies, this means shrinking demand and unstable supply chains. For policymakers, it means a China that is harder to mollify when conflicts arise. For the rest of us, it's a more precarious world.

The software company has amassed “one of the largest armies of corporate diplomats that we’ve ever seen”, said Manas Chawla, a researcher who has studied the company. “They include policy officials working on everything from how to regulate artificial intelligence to protecting elections and tackling cyberwarfare against sovereign states,” he said.

Pfizer's maternal vaccine, Abrysvo, and Sanofi's monoclonal antibody, Beyfortus, were approved for expectant mothers and infants in the U.S. earlier this year.

A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime. Soon after the lawsuit was filed, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the allegations of misconduct at the now-shuttered warehouse known as “the BRAVE Cave.” In late September, members of the Street Crimes Unit who used the BRAVE Cave were arrested on unrelated misconduct charges. BRPD Deputy Chief Troy Lawrence Sr. was placed on leave and then arrested and charged with malfeasance, principal to obstruction, principal to battery, and principal to theft. His son, Troy Lawrence Jr., who resigned in late August as the BRPD began the termination process against him, was also arrested and is at the center of the federal lawsuit. He allegedly took a 47-year-old grandmother to the BRAVEV Cave, where she was stripped, cavity searched, and “sexually humiliated.” Earlier this month, a federal judge overseeing a separate BRAVE Cave lawsuit ordered the Baton Rouge Police Department to preserve evidence related to the warehouse; attorneys for the plaintiff accused BRPD of “refusing to preserve evidence or even actively destroying video evidence.”

Palestinians began a mass exodus Friday from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate toward the southern part of the besieged territory.

The White House has walked back President Joe Biden’s claim that he saw pictures of beheaded children following Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel. The reversal came after Biden on Wednesday described seeing images of mutilated children during a meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House. ... In her testimony, Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, remove the incubators and leave the babies to die.

Well, probably not.