Charged for his part in organizing Arizona's fake electors in the 2020 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani had his mugshot taken by Maricopa County Sheriff's department: "The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office… Read the rest of the article: Rudy Giuliani's new mugshot, courtesy of Maricopa County Sheriff

23 Words is your new thing to get addicted to for several weeks until you burn out on it and never think about it again until the New York Times… Read the rest of the article: 23 Words: a daily word-finding challenge under time pressure

Young Americans have subtitles on all the time for reasons only weakly-grasped by their elders, but the older generations are following suit for more concrete reasons: they watch a lot… Read the rest of the article: Americans put subtitles on to comprehend British television

Gainax, the famed production company behind Neon Genesis Evangelion and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, is headed to liquidation. It filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo last month, reports The… Read the rest of the article: Anime legend Gainax bankrupt

A cartoon cat on social media [x.com] has attracted more than a million followers and China's censors hate it. Meet Teacher Li, "China's most feared cat." On X, unfettered by… Read the rest of the article: China's censors chase cartoon cat

The far-right has done well in elections to the European parliament—well enough to dominate headlines, but not quite well enough to win. With the center ground crumbling underfoot, EU president… Read the rest of the article: French president Macron calls election after far-right thrashes his party in EU vote

With a general election imminent, the UK's far-right Reform party stormed the polls after Brexiteer Nigel Farage assumed its leadership and the governing Conservatives imploded on the campaign trail. Some… Read the rest of the article: In UK election campaign, Nigel Farage lasted nearly a week without saying anything racist about the Prime Minister

British pop band Saint Etienne recorded a version of Like a Motorway, their mysterious electronic version of classic folk song Silver Dagger, in Japanese. But they decided not to present… Read the rest of the article: Saint Etienne's "Like a Motorway" in Japanese

Clothing shops TJ Maxx and Marshalls are equipping staff with bodycams. The rationale is to prevent shoplifting—a phenomenon retailers often hype in press releases, then downplay to people they can't… Read the rest of the article: TJ Maxx and Marshalls workers wearing bodycams

Richard Siegel, 71, was arrested this week after police seized more than 2,800 boxes of stolen Lego sets from a house in California. Also collared at the man's home was… Read the rest of the article: Grand Theft Lego: 71-year-old man and 39-year-old woman arrested in raid that recovered 2,800 stolen sets

A man in Burlington, Vermont, burst into a classroom and opened fire on the terrified children within. The gunfire was simulated; the man was a cop giving them a "lesson"… Read the rest of the article: Burlington cops arranged for pretend school shooter to open fire with simulated gunshots at terrified children

Juul advertised e-cigs to children and paid the price in fines and a broad ban on marketing activity. After years in brand hibernation—a prohibition on actual sales was held while… Read the rest of the article: E-cigarette company Juul's advertising ban lifted

Alex Jones falsely claimed the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook were frauds, and paid the legal price for those lies: a defamation lawsuit that ended up with him… Read the rest of the article: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones agrees to liquidate Infowars

Many people suspect that guns sometimes function as an emotional support penis for insecure men. A study puts hard evidence against the soft assumption: gun ownership correlates to one's level… Read the rest of the article: Penis satisfaction correlates to gun ownership

Reached Thursday, Mitsubishi's Rubik's Cube-solving Tokufastbot said "VRRRT" and declined further comment. The machine's time of 0.305 seconds, accomplished May 7, set a world record for the feat, which takes… Read the rest of the article: Watch a Mitsubishi robot solve Rubik's Cube in 0.305 seconds

Thomas Humphrey, 47, of New Hampshire, killed his mother, Linda Tufts, 70, during an argument over how how loud his PlayStation was. He's off to prison for at least 40… Read the rest of the article: 40 years to life for man who killed mom in fight over PlayStation volume

Have you seen this pistol? It's wanted, loaded or unloaded. The U.S. Army somehow lost it and thirty other Sig Sauer M17s just like it. There's five grand in it… Read the rest of the article: Have you seen this gun? The U.S. Army is missing 31 of them

A 59-year-old man already suffering health problems has died in Mexico from bird flu, the first known human death from the emerging variant of the disease. Mexico's Health Ministry also… Read the rest of the article: Man dies of bird flu in Mexico

Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are in orbit this afternoon following the launch of Boeing's Starliner rocket, only the second manned U.S. mission to space since Space Shuttle… Read the rest of the article: Starliner launches two Americans into orbit

My favorite scenes in the Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan, set in-flight on a massive Airbus A380-like jetliner her character helped design, are when she heads into the bowels of the… Read the rest of the article: Jetliners have hidden rooms, but not for passengers or cargo