American politics continues its long-running experiment in seeing whether public figures can pretend not to understand obvious racial subtext, with Rep. Jen Kiggans now facing backlash after nodding along to… Read the rest of the article: 'The hood is off': Virginia Republican steps onto America's most obvious rhetorical landmine

For more than a century, the Titanic has generated the kind of mythmaking normally reserved for Elvis sightings and alien autopsies, but historian Tim Maltin has spent years doing the… Read the rest of the article: Six years of obsessive forensics challenges some of the Titanic disaster's favorite myths

After a tourist hurled a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, one local resident reportedly responded with the kind of rapid peer review that skips the comment section entirely,… Read the rest of the article: Hawaiian official endorses "find out" as wildlife enforcement strategy

Convicted felon, real estate fraud and pedophile protector Donald Trump has never met a boast too weird, but his latest anecdote wanders straight out of medieval plague folklore. The US… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains gleefully describes his experiments in necromancy

Diplomacy in 2026 increasingly resembles two raccoons fighting inside a dumpster while insisting they are "de-escalating," and the latest US-Iran ceasefire appears to follow Israel's favorite template: keep firing, but… Read the rest of the article: US and Iran practicing an "Israeli ceasefire," by shooting at one another

Yellowstone's wildlife brochure probably mentions the geysers first, but this week a mother grizzly reminded two hikers that the park's unofficial mascot still has claws, teeth, and very strong opinions… Read the rest of the article: Yellowstone grizzly introduces two hikers to the "find out" phase of wildlife tourism

According to new reporting from Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, already paranoid-looking FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly ordered polygraph tests for more than two dozen current and former staffers… Read the rest of the article: Report says Kash Patel is spiraling over leaks and grilling staff with lie detectors

Tesla's latest Cybertruck recall comes with an awkward side effect: it appears to confirm that the company sold only 173 examples of its supposedly more affordable rear-wheel-drive-only model before quietly… Read the rest of the article: Cybertruck recall reveals embarrassingly low sales numbers

Twenty years after accidentally being interviewed live on the BBC instead of the tech expert producers intended to book, Guy Goma is still remembered less as the victim of a… Read the rest of the article: Man accidentally interviewed live on BBC instead of tech expert became an internet legend

A former State Department official says the Trump White House was apparently caught off guard by a CIA assessment concluding that Iran can absorb far more military and economic punishment… Read the rest of the article: CIA reportedly delivers unwelcome reminder that Iran is tougher than Truth Social thinks

Elon Musk defended his conduct in federal court Thursday as former Twitter shareholders accused him of deliberately driving down the company's stock price ahead of his 2022 purchase of the… Read the rest of the article: Musk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout

A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious… Read the rest of the article: Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare

Authorities say a Spokane County woman drove onto a sidewalk and allegedly chased a child riding an electric dirt bike while intoxicated before later wandering onto a stranger's property looking… Read the rest of the article: Woman accused of drunken sidewalk chase after child on dirt bike

In this wonderfully self-aware 1990 episode of Tomorrow's World, presenters revisit the futuristic photographic gadgets they'd hyped throughout the 1980s—from floppy-disk digital cameras and 3D photo systems to autofocus lenses… Read the rest of the article: Remember when digital cameras stored photos on floppy disks?

Goldie Hawn told Jimmy Kimmel about an emotional extraterrestrial encounter she says occurred when she was a teenage dancer in California, involving paralysis, high-frequency sounds, and silver beings with triangular… Read the rest of the article: Aliens or Rohypnol? Goldie Hawn describes extraterrestrial encounter

After Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that Pope Leo XIV supports Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, the pope responded with a calm reminder that the Catholic Church has consistently opposed nuclear weapons… Read the rest of the article: Pope issues diplomatic version of "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?"

Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies scattered across the ocean floor, presenting… Read the rest of the article: Stunning new scans reveal RMS Titanic debris field in eerie detail

Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of… Read the rest of the article: When your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality

Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice appear to be engaged in a carefully choreographed bit of procedural maneuvering: after declining to comply with a subpoena while in office,… Read the rest of the article: Bondi, DOJ continue procedural chicanery over Epstein questions

A retired Federal Bureau of Investigation employee is suing the Knoxville Police Department after she was arrested for DUI, jailed overnight, and forced to install an ignition interlock despite toxicology… Read the rest of the article: Another Tennessee "DUI" case with no alcohol ends in lawsuit