communism "The flour tastes like acid." Cuba cuts daily bread rations amid food shortage crisis Ellsworth Toohey

Caribbean Hurricane Beryl spares one house on Union Island. It's made of plywood and irony Natalie Dressed

News Turks and Caicos imprisons American tourists over ammunition in luggage Mark Frauenfelder

cold Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics Jason Weisberger

Entertainment Freedomland USA: was this 1960s theme park just a five-year land scam? Ruben Bolling

copyright Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M judgment and global domain order Ellsworth Toohey

literature Granta published a likely AI-written story as a prize finalist Ellsworth Toohey

politics The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection Jennifer Sandlin

politics U.S. sinks in world Academic Freedom Index Rob Beschizza

Science Your odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million Ellsworth Toohey

Science Three scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump insists Lutnick "very innocent" after photo emerges of him on Epstein's island Rob Beschizza

Trump pardoned a man convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine, then gave him a ride to the Waldorf Astoria Ellsworth Toohey

News Epstein gave Bannon an Apple Watch, emails show Ellsworth Toohey

The Navy spent $13 billion on an aircraft carrier and can't get the toilets to work Gail Sherman

lame duck The Senate suddenly remembers war powers Jason Weisberger

politics Pentagon cuts Kelly's pension over "seditious" video Ellsworth Toohey

adorable animals Sloth ASMR: Listen to this gorgeous two-toed sloth crunching his way through a pile of sugar snap peas Jennifer Sandlin

worse things happen at sea Sketchy deaths are nearly as likely on cruise ships as contracting an infectious disease Jason Weisberger