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Wall Street exhaled on Friday after SpaceX nailed its record-breaking debut. The success wiped away a week of anxiety over whether the market had the appetite to digest the biggest initial public offering in history. SpaceX closed up 19% at nearly $161 per share for a market value of more than $2.1 trillion, making it the sixth-largest U.S. public company. The stock opened at $150 — above the $135 fixed offering price. It rallied above $176 as one point before coming in some The AI and rocket company raised $75 billion and made CEO Elon Musk the world’s first-ever trillionaire.…

There may never have been a story of more woe than that of the original star crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet in fair Verona—but a chance meeting in a Texas coffee shop has now rewritten the romantic trajectories of some 30 present-day couples. Two months ago, Public Theater’s resident director Saheem Ali, who has re-envisioned the tragedy through a politically-relevant, immigration-influenced lens for this season’s Shakespeare in the Park, went to the border town of Laredo to “see the wall with [his] own eyes” in order to represent it on stage.Pausing to admire art made from dollar bills on the wall…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a proclamation signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Saturday said that an agreement to end the war with Iran will be signed on Sunday, followed by the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Iranian state media reported that the country remained cautious about the timing.”The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Trump wrote in a…

You can feel that pop star energy, too, in the video for “Gracie” (this time co-directed with her husband, the former professional soccer player Jordan Spence), which sees her strutting down an east London high street in a leather trench and pink gloves, throwing shapes with wild abandon as passersby look on with a touch of amusement. “We didn’t have the budget to lock off the street, so you have all these people watching, but then that’s part of the energy,” Scott says cheerily. “I love those imperfections, and that only happens when you go with the flow a bit.”It’s…

A video displays Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on June 12, 2026.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShortly before the opening of Nasdaq trading on Friday, Elon Musk stepped in front of a cheerful crowd at SpaceX’s company town in Texas. His rocket maker was about to hit the public market at a valuation of around $2 trillion, instantly becoming the sixth most-valuable U.S. company. Musk, weeks shy of his 55th birthday, told staffers that, in the early days of the company, he gave it “less than…

As former model Chris Royer explains to me, the best way to understand what it was like to work with Duane Michals is to use the Hungarian term “kinscvadászat,” which essentially means a “treasure hunt.” For Royer, a Duane Michals story was exactly that, “you were going on a trip, you knew you were going to discover things, it was a creative treasure hunt.”Michals, who passed away on June 9 at 94, was born on February 18, 1932, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. As a young boy he showed an interest in art and by age 14 he was taking watercolor classes…

Elyse Burns enrolled in law school at Duke University in 2019, taking out federal student loans to cover the $63,000 in tuition plus her living expenses, she says. A law career seemed like the practical move, but before she graduated, she knew she wouldn’t work as a lawyer.”I feel like everybody knows you can make a good living as a lawyer, and you can’t as an artist, and that’s sort of like the stereotype and the thought,” the 28-year-old says. Back in 2015, Burns started selling hand-painted canvases on Etsy. She opened a bank account and linked it to an…

When Leila Roker and Sylvain Gricourt first met at a bar in Paris in January 2018, it was on a night when neither of them really wanted to go out. Leila, who was studying journalism at the American University of Paris at the time, was at the bar for her college roommate’s last bartending shift, and Sylvain was stopping by a colleague’s going-away party.One of Sylvain’s colleagues, Romain, approached Leila and her friends with confidence, attempting to chat up the American girls, but struck out. He tried again, and this time, he brought Sylvain—a tall man (six-foot-five, to be exact)…

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”— Margaret Mead Our children grow up so fast. Before we know it they’re out there somewhere in the real world, and we’re left hoping that we’ve done enough to prepare them for everything they’ll encounter. Marc and I talk to coaching clients on a daily basis — mothers and fathers alike — who share these sentiments. They worry about their children. They wonder if they’ve done a good enough job parenting up to this point. And Marc and I can relate too because oftentimes we feel the same way.…

Drugmakers are only months into introducing GLP-1 pills and navigating huge changes in how patients pay for weight-loss drugs. Even so, they’re already outlining their visions for the future of obesity drugs. At the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions in New Orleans last week, drugmakers pitched doctors and investors on the idea of new shots and pills, drugs that can be taken less frequently, and new treatments beyond GLP-1s that could come with fewer side effects. The attendees debated where all these new treatments might fit in, especially with Eli Lilly currently dominating the market for shots and impressing attendees…