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Penelope is an ancient name, dating back almost three millennia to the Odyssey. Homer’s Penelope, the queen of Ithaca, is Western culture’s archetypal faithful wife, fending off suitors by the dozens as she waits at home for her husband to return from the decade-long Trojan War. But in the breathtaking half-hour drama Penelope, now streaming on Netflix, it is her contemporary teenage namesake who goes on an odyssey, running away from home and trekking through the Pacific Northwest wilderness on a quest that is as mysterious to her as it is to the viewer. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Created and written by indie film and TV eminence Mark Duplass and Biosphere director Mel Eslyn, who also directed and served as showrunner, Penelope is like nothing else on television.

Nearly half of the NFL’s teams—15 out of 32—started Black quarterbacks on opening week of the 2024 season, breaking the prior record of 14 Black signal-callers starting a season opener, which was set a year ago. A Black QB is the reigning back-to-back Super Bowl champ (Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs), and Black QBs have won the past two NFL MVP awards (Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson in 2023 and Mahomes the previous season).

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden declared the U. S. must not retreat from the world, as he delivered his final address to the U. N. General Assembly on Tuesday as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel’s bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza neared the one-year mark. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Biden used his wide-ranging address to speak to a need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight U.

A lurid story from history, chiseled stars engaging in heinous acts, a tornado of discourse whipped up so fast Glen Powell couldn’t even tame it, and a carousel of famously camp actors. It can only mean one thing—a new Ryan Murphy true crime joint. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story hit Netflix last week, the second installment in an anthology that began with 2022’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

As we move from ambition to action on climate, realities are starting to hit. Many companies that have set climate targets are struggling to meet them—particularly when it comes to their scope 3 supply chain emissions. We need to rapidly limit deforestation—but we need new forms of finance to do so.

Thousands of people continued to flee South Lebanon after Israeli airstrikes hit 1,300 positions on Monday, killing at least 492 people. It was the deadliest day in Lebanon since the country’s 1975-1990 civil war. Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes again Tuesday. Israeli military officials said they carried out dozens of airstrikes against Hezbollah, while the militant group said it launched missiles overnight at eight sites in Israel, including an explosive factory 37 miles from the border. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The death toll has risen to 558 people in Lebanon since Monday, with an additional 1,835 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad.