human rights Davos in the Desert is back, and banks and hedge fund managers are flocking to Mister Bone-Saw's side Cory Doctorow

Real things you can actually buy For sale: a private jet from Elvis Presley's collection Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Jared and Ivanka won't attend Trump's campaign launch, and Murdoch won't back him Mark Frauenfelder

cake Chocolate cake smeared on Madame Tussaud's waxwork model of King Charles III Mark Frauenfelder

COVID-19 Watch White House spokesperson's WTF response to reporter's bizarre question of whether Saudi Arabia deliberately infected Biden with COVID-19 David Pescovitz

tabloids Joe Biden's "dementia" and Ghislaine Maxwell's "shocking photos' in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

drugs Singapore is going to hang a man for possession of two lbs of weed Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids FBI's 9/11 "cover-up" and Prince Andrew's "secret deal" in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Biden's "breakdown" and Saudi terror funding in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

donald trump Statue of Trump kicked out of Texas wax museum after visitors repeatedly vandalize it Carla Sinclair

nyc Wax Holly Golightly and Don Draper visit NYC steakhouse Kevin Reome

lucre This graph of the world's 25 richest families who are collectively worth $1.4 trillion Mark Frauenfelder

Space The next Venus rover will have a steampunk vibe Andrea James

trump John Bolton's book, packed with dirt on Trump, is out tomorrow Rob Beschizza

politics Trump speaks to Vladimir Putin of Russia for second time in 2 days Xeni Jardin

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow

art The "lost" Leonardo da Vinci painting has been found hanging in a yacht David Pescovitz

Technology Trump approved Saudi Arabia nuclear technology permits twice after Khashoggi murder Xeni Jardin

Twitter and Facebook kill Iran disinformation accounts targeting Americans Xeni Jardin