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Watch Live: House Holds Hearing on Southern Poverty Law Center
9 June 2026 @ 2:16 pm
Talay Riley, Grammy-Winning Singer-Songwriter, Stabbed to Death in London
9 June 2026 @ 12:47 pm
Nick Reiner Demands Access to $1.5 Million Trust Fund to Hire Lawyer as He Faces Charges of Murdering His Parents
9 June 2026 @ 12:02 pm
Lawmakers Condemn 'Medieval' and 'Barbaric' Belfast Attack, Leftists Warn of 'Far-Right' Backlash
9 June 2026 @ 12:01 pm
'Sudanese' Male Arrested After Attempted 'Beheading' in Belfast
9 June 2026 @ 11:51 am
Major Cancer Research Breakthrough: Ivermectin Study Published in Anticancer Research Journal
9 June 2026 @ 11:50 am
Bill Maher Slams Mainstream Media for 'Mischaracterizing' Charlie Kirk: 'I Liked Him, I Don't Think He was a Monster'
9 June 2026 @ 11:37 am
Watch: Whoopi Goldberg Defends Trump Attending Knicks Game at Madison Square Garden
9 June 2026 @ 11:33 am
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Suspended After Sexual Misconduct Investigation
9 June 2026 @ 10:21 am
U.S. Apache Helicopter Crashes Over Strait of Hormuz, Pilots Safely Recovered Says Trump
9 June 2026 @ 9:56 am
After we posted about Pawmometer, the free site that reads live weather to flag pavement hot enough to burn a dog's paws, reader Chris Fiegel wrote in to say he'd built a phone-sized take on the idea. His iOS app, NorthPaw, computes what it calls a "NorthPaw Index" from your dog's specific biology — snout profile, coat type, activity level — and layers it on top of local heat and humidity. —
Ethan Mollick got early access to Anthropic's new Fable model and came away unsettled — not by what it couldn't do, but by how little he had to. He gave it one ambitious prompt: build a researched and beautiful isochronic travel-time map
Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., removed a prominent priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he claimed that most UFO sightings are the work of demons.
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Allen Ginsberg would have turned 100 this month, and his own voice reading "Howl" is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings is reissuing Howl and Other Poems — the spoken-word album Fantasy Records first released in 1959 — on September 4, reproducing the original package design on "eco-friendly green blend vinyl." —
English Heritage is hiring a Head of Stonehenge. The salary starts at £64,189, the listing throws in 25 days' holiday and "free access to all English Heritage sites for you and up to six friends and family members," and the role carries "ultimate responsibility for compliance and the safety of the site, its visitors and its staff." —
The burner phone could soon be a thing of the past in the US. The FCC has proposed forcing every telecom to collect and store a "government issued identification number" and physical address from "any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services," 404 Media reports. —
News media typically omit links to the lawsuits they're reporting on. The reasons range from the practical (they've been given early access by litigators) to cynical (they want readers to rely on their interpretation and presentation of the case) to plain laziness. — Read the rest
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A Nantucket resident presented the town's School Committee with laxative-laced brownies at its meeting last week, prompting school officials to file a police report. No-one appears to have suffered from having eating any of them (or indeed eaten them in the first place) but the speaker nonetheless
Anthropic released its most capable model yet today, and it ships with a downgrade switch pointed at the user. Claude Fable 5 is "state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks," but when its classifiers detect a question about cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, or model "distillation," your request gets rerouted to a weaker model, Opus 4.8. —
An Iowa man faces up to 10 years in prison after he allegedly threw a ninja star at a woman in Independence, writes Michael Hohenbrink at the Oelwein Daily Register.
A Buchanan County deputy responded to a domestic call on the 200 block of 9th Ave
President Donald Trump is bragging about his corruption but the media is not reporting it, according to Trump’s former communications director.“Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught,” Anthony Scaramucci posted on X on Tuesday. “A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.”He then summarized Trump’s replies as being “1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care.”Scaramucci concluded, “That�
President Donald Trump keeps insisting that gas prices aren’t especially high. What many Americans see at the pump tells a different story, and CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has the numbers to prove it.As recently as Tuesday, Trump claimed that the price of gas is “not very high, relatively speaking. I mean, it’s lower than during the Biden administration.”Trump was not especially specific, but Dale is.According to AAA, today’s average gas price is $4.16. That is lower than the peak number during the Biden administration, $5.02, which occurred after Russia attac
President Donald Trump's disastrous trip to the NBA Finals was not just a public humiliation for him, because according to one cognitive health expert, it also showed a dire sign of his potential "sundowning" cognitive decline for the entire world to see.Amid the New York Knicks' historic run, Trump opted to return to his hometown of New York City to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday evening. The decision turned into a nightmare for all involved: Trump was booed mercilessly when he was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem; fans had to arrive ho
Congress has been locked in an ongoing battle over the reauthorization of a key national security tool that has been repeatedly frustrated by Republican infighting. Now with the extension deadline looming on Friday, Capitol Hill insiders say that President Donald Trump has tossed a “live hand grenade” into the process that threatens to blow it up altogether. “This is not a problem between Senate Democrats and Republicans,” declared Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) on Tuesday. “This was the administration throwing a live hand grenade into a critical reauthorization 10 days out.” Th
One point of contention between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was Powell's refusal to follow Trump's demands to lower interest rates. Now, Trump's replacement will be forced to tell him he will likely follow the same path. The Economist reported on Tuesday that unlucky chairman Kevin Warsh "has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate." The report called it "ironic" that Warsh's life is going to be miserable as Trump demands lower rates, even as annual inflation
In the face of rising gas prices caused by President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war with Iran, a sizeable majority of Americans expect that the problem will only continue to get worse. According to the Hill, a new poll shows that nearly two out of three U.S. voters think the cost of gas will continue to rise over the coming year. “The survey, released Monday by Reuters/Ipsos, found that 59 percent of 4,531 respondents said that gas prices wil
After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, MAGA attorney Kurt Olsen was a prominent figure in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Trump ultimately failed: Biden was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2021. But Olsen, 16 and one-half months into Trump's second presidency, is serving in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Southern District of Florida. And according to NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly, MAGA critics are alarmed by Olsen's rapid advancement at DOJ."An election denier who tried to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss is facing scrutiny
President Donald Trump’s performance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — where he cut the interview short and blasted the moderator as “crooked” — was widely criticized, with many noticing his habit of attacking women reporters.Among those who noticed was a resident in deep red Trump country: Florida’s The Villages, known as the “largest retirement community in the world,” where nearly seven out of 10 county residents voted for Trump in 2024. One resident recently told
A lawyer who previously worked within President Donald Trump's business empire has gotten caught up in a massive new lawsuit, according to The Daily Beast, alleging that he was involved in a "bizarre international spying escapade."Breaking the story on Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ted Kittila, a "prominent Republican attorney" who previously worked for Trump's Truth Social company, has been hit with a $120 million lawsuit accusing him of "fraud, civil conspiracy, and extortion on behalf of agents of an abusive foreign regime."
After Venezuelan then-President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in Caracas and the Trump administration installed leftist Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, opposition leader María Corina Machado tried to curry favor with Trump by offering him her Nobel Peace Prize (which was merely symbolic, as it cannot be transferred under Peace Prize rules). But Machado wasn't the first person to offer Trump a symbolic "peace prize": before that, in December 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered Trump the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize." In the Daily Beast, reporter Leigh Kimmins details