Stephanie Anello, superintendent of Antioch Unified School District in California, was fired this week after another employee, Kenneth Turnage II, moved a subordinate's desk to the roof. The Halpertesque prank… Read the rest of the article: School superintendent fired after desk-on-roof prank
Afghanistan's Taliban overlords fired 281 members of the country's security forces because they failed to meet the group's beard mandate. During a press conference in Kabul, Mohibullah Mokhlis, the ministry's… Read the rest of the article: Taliban fires 281 officers because they can't or won't grow beards
Sandra Bonilla, 91, died in late June. A resident of the Lodge at Shavano Park Apartments for 10 years, she was survived by children including David Naterman, her son. The… Read the rest of the article: Landlord bills dead tenant's relatives $15k because she broke her lease
The German Navy corvette Braunschweig blasted the Imperial March from Star Wars as it made its way up the Thames earlier this week, amusing locals and reminding them that the… Read the rest of the article: German warship blasts Star Wars' Imperial March on Thames
Someone put "maggots" in the breakfast at the DNC. "We were all coming down to breakfast, and there were these two women who had hidden themselves in the bathroom," Indiana… Read the rest of the article: Who put maggots in the Democratic National Convention breakfast buffet?
Earlier today, the trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis dropped, with the first 45 seconds dedicated to nasty things that critics of yore said about his most famous movies—an attempt… Read the rest of the article: Megalopolis trailer withdrawn due to fabricated movie critic quotes
Cabin crew aboard an American Airlines flight out of Miami were alarmed to find a passenger bleeding from the scalp after a hair transplant, and asked him to deboard after… Read the rest of the article: Man with fresh, bleeding hair transplant arrested after refusing to leave plane
Update: the trailer has been taken down! The critic quotes in it were fabricated. Francis Ford Coppola could make almost any movie he likes, but this one is so ambitious… Read the rest of the article: New trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis insists upon itself
Guernsey shop worker Kevin Parsons, 56, was given 40 sausage rolls to honor his 40 years of service to the Alliance supermarket there. Parsons was also awarded "a tropical-themed mural"… Read the rest of the article: Shop worker awarded 40 sausage rolls for 40 years of service
Chinese retailers Shein and Temu sell inexpensive items at massive scale, and they hate one another. The Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto explores the law war erupting between the two companies, starting… Read the rest of the article: Online retailers Shein and Temu go to war
The Obamas headlined the Democratic National Convention last night, and the funniest moment was the former president wisecracking about the other former president's insecurities. Embedded below, the long and short… Read the rest of the article: Barack Obama on Trump's crowd size obsession
This 1953 U.S. Navy training film discusses the mechanisms used by the fire control computers. Yes, mechanical computers calculating fire control for big-ass guns—though 70 years ago, men were still… Read the rest of the article: 1953 U.S. Navy training film about fire control computers
Calculating Empires is a "a genealogy of technology and power since 1500" — a beautiful and interactive monochrome chart you can zoom in and out of to trace the connections… Read the rest of the article: Calculating Empires: an huge online chart of tech history
Here's the fact check of the century, courtesy of The Washington Post's Amy Gardner: '"Donald Trump says he will refuse to accept the election result if he loses again," Biden… Read the rest of the article: Trump not technically saying he'll refuse to accept election results—he just won't accept them and has explained why
In Decatur, Georgia, a momument to the Confederacy stood for 100 years before being removed in 2021. Yesterday it was replaced by a 12 foot statue of John Lewis, the… Read the rest of the article: Statue of civil rights leader John Lewis replaces 100-year-old slaver monument
Fox News today reported "Harris Topping Trump" in a renewed sign that one person at the cable broadcaster is fully cognizant of the term's many shades of meaning and is… Read the rest of the article: Fox News reports "Harris Topping Trump"
Phil Donahue, the presenter, writer, producer and and host of The Phil Donahue Show, is dead at 88. The longtime TV presence was famed for many achievements off and on-screen.… Read the rest of the article: Famed TV host Phil Donahue dead at 88
Republicans in congress sank their own border control bill after Democrats signalled they were on-board with it, and now a GOP senator is lamenting how far they went to please… Read the rest of the article: GOP senator admits Trump killed party's own border bill: "don't fix anything during the election"
The leader of a food bank in Bend, Oregon, was giving out more than meals to locals in need: he was selling meth, claim authorities, in commercial quantities. Gary Lee… Read the rest of the article: Food bank director charged with selling meth
More than $1.6m worth of cocaine reportedly washed up on a beach on Florida during Hurricane Debby—100 pounds of it carefully wrapped into 25 bricks. Samuel Briggs, the acting chief… Read the rest of the article: More than $1.6m worth of cocaine washes up on Florida beach
