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History In 532 AD, a chariot racing riot nearly toppled the Byzantine Empire Ellsworth Toohey

law 22 Buddhist monks arrested in drug bust at Sri Lanka's main airport Rob Beschizza

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn

Science These fish know when you are staring at their kids and they don't like it Gail Sherman

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fashion Valentino, Italian fashion legend, dead at 93 Rob Beschizza

History The Roman who promised to die for Caligula and lived to regret it Ellsworth Toohey

History The teenage Roman emperor who scandalized an empire and died at 18 Ellsworth Toohey

TV lawyer Alina Habba resigns from imaginary job she never legally held Jason Weisberger

Wine experts can't tell good wine from bad, decades of research shows Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump fires federal prosecutor who headed Epstein-Maxwell investigation Ellsworth Toohey

art Rare collection reveals how Russians used folk art to mock their rulers Popkin

politics Newsom trolls Trump's LA warning with Star Wars parody Ellsworth Toohey

video Darth Maul's new show will be about how boring the Empire is Grant St. Clair

animals Lost treasures: $30,000 book features rare 18th-century goldfish art Popkin

politics "Release the Epstein files!" QAnoners freak out over Trump's failed promise Ellsworth Toohey

public health Got contamination? FDA skips milk safety tests after Elon fires 20,000 Health and Human Services employees Ellsworth Toohey

politics Former Meta exec exposes Zuckerberg's transformation from Chinese censorship enthusiast to fake free speech warrior Ellsworth Toohey

politics Fox's Ainsley Earhardt tells retirees to stop being so poor Ellsworth Toohey