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On July 18, 1976, at the Montreal Olympic Games, 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci made sports history by becoming the first gymnast ever to receive a perfect 10.0 score in Olympic competition. Her flawless routine on the uneven bars stunned judges, spectators, and even the scoreboard, which was not designed to display a 10.0 and showed 1.00…

GLEN WELDON: All right. We’re taping this on the heels of the 2026 Emmy nominations. And it was a very good morning for our favorites, like Hacks, The Pitt, and The Bear. And we welcome some new faces to the Emmys party, like Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles. And one Hollywood couple…

“We are the future, Charles. Not them.” When Ian McKellen delivered this line in 2000’s X-Men, he did so as Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a. Magneto. By “we,” he meant mutants, people who develop incredible powers at puberty; by “them,” he meant the rest of humanity. But the phrase may very well also refer to a different…