new age People who believe in "manifesting" to "cosmically attract" success are more likely to go bankrupt, science shows David Pescovitz

trump FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency Rob Beschizza

commodore The Commodore Callback 8020 is a retro cool audio-centric flip phone that blocks social media apps Gail Sherman

History In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing Ellsworth Toohey

russia Russia has 44 secret cities with 1.5 million people that don't appear on public maps Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump's base has theories about who sabotaged the reflecting pool Grant St. Clair

books Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult Ellsworth Toohey

cars Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911 Ellsworth Toohey

Technology AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us Séamus Bellamy

History A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

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criminals Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison Jason Weisberger

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem begs Yakko Warner to explain South America Jason Weisberger

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Space Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history Ellsworth Toohey

minneapolis Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why Ellsworth Toohey

art A sculpture at CIA headquarters has kept a coded message secret for 35 years Ellsworth Toohey

archaeology Ancient squirrel droppings unlock Ice Age DNA goldmine Séamus Bellamy