Entertainment Violent singer Chris Brown pays £5M to dodge jail cell Ellsworth Toohey

picks Live video: Guns and drugs retrieved in Chris Brown LAPD standoff Xeni Jardin

Comics Why did it take a random fan letter to get a black kid into Peanuts? Ruben Bolling

Circus is not Abandoned circus bear Chada now living her best life Jason Weisberger

politics MAGA turns on "Keystone Kash" Patel over botched investigations Ellsworth Toohey

art This 1900 snail-woman sculpture is pure art nouveau magic Popkin

privacy UK Police demand Freemason membership records Séamus Bellamy

MAWA Trump Labor Dept promotes Aryan workforce in creepy Nazi-style ad campaign Carla Sinclair

books Breathtaking new book package celebrates the GOAT comic strip: Peanuts Ruben Bolling

chicago Delivery cyclist easily escapes the brownshirts Jason Weisberger

new york city New York man loses $800,000 home over unpaid water bill — "I would have just paid it" Ellsworth Toohey

politics Checking in on Project 2025 Jennifer Sandlin

MAD magazine artists reveal how anti-Semitism shaped American comics (video) Mark Frauenfelder

music Dua Lipa wins copyright lawsuit Rob Beschizza

AI How LLMs work, put simply Rob Beschizza

Science The fascinating trick behind salamanders' dexterity (video) Popkin

Entertainment The original Charlie Brown Christmas special promo from 1965, with an additional scene Ruben Bolling

Teaser for The Electric State, new show based on Simon Stålenhag's narrative art Rob Beschizza

movies Megalopolis a flopalopolis Rob Beschizza

amazon JD Vance said Amazon paid Black Lives Matter so rioters would burn rival stores Mark Frauenfelder