rescue Woman bare-handedly rescues stunned hawk from screen door Rusty Blazenhoff

birds Water fountain and all of the animals Kevin Reome

predator Hawk attacks prey featured in magazine's photos Rusty Blazenhoff

Kids Drone and hawk hover together in beautiful aerial dance Andrea James

Technology Is the AI apocalypse a religion in disguise? Ellsworth Toohey

Games Darksiders remaster costs PlayStation players $10, Xbox gets it free Grant St. Clair

Comic Books Dave Baker's "Halloween Boy" resurrects pulp adventure comics Gareth Branwyn

data Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks the rich scrambling their private jets Rob Beschizza

doggo Pasadena shelter closes the book on Eaton Fire rescues with one final, very good dog Jason Weisberger

Comics In "Punk'n Heads," the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional Gareth Branwyn

Shots Flu vaccine linked to lower Alzheimer's risk Jason Weisberger

pentagon Hegseth gutted the Pentagon office that protects civilians Séamus Bellamy

politics Kristi Noem's $220m vanity ads cost more than Hollywood blockbusters Rob Beschizza

AI at war US strike that killed 175 at Iranian girls' school reportedly planned using outdated AI Jason Weisberger

Science Earth falls into the Sun in 7.59 billion years, and it gets worse from there Ellsworth Toohey

Meddling Trump decides to fix Iran, what could go wrong? Jason Weisberger

law Elementary school's wooden "time out box" alarms parents Rob Beschizza

finance Why gift card fraud victims almost never get their money back Ellsworth Toohey

second runner up When your "Plan B" is Don Jr. Jason Weisberger

politics "Cronyism in couture": Vanity Fair publishes brilliant new portraits, capturing the "hideousness of this administration" Jennifer Sandlin