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pop culture Inside Pennsylvania's hidden time capsule of Americana: a 100,000-square-foot wonderland of vintage oddities Popkin

Crazy is as crazy does The FBI will now train with cage fighters in the latest Trump-era reality show Jason Weisberger

Cybertruck's fatality rate reportedly far surpasses the legendary Ford Pinto Jason Weisberger

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fashion Goose gloves Rob Beschizza

video games Everything is a chill game now. Everything. Grant St. Clair

Off the rails Grok generated sexualized images of kids, and xAI hopes silence will fix it Jason Weisberger

politics The Nerd Reich podcast investigates Silicon Valley's slide into authoritarianism Ellsworth Toohey

arizona Free festival turns 5,000-person mining town into musical maze Jennifer Sandlin

Funny Skiers have been throwing underwear into trees since the 1950s Popkin

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