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Tuesday April 22, 2025. 08:24 PM
The assigned seating felt more like a TED talk than an electronic music concert, as 8,000 people calmly filled Berkeley's magnificent Greek on Friday night for a one-night-only performance by electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk. After 15 minutes of ambient soundscapes and...
South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace got angry at a man in the makeup aisle at Ulta Beauty who asked her to host more town hall events, and now says she felt 'harassed' by him. He claims he asked Mace 'a simple question – 'When are your next few town halls?,'' — Read...
A Florida man was arrested after he pinned down an 11-year-old girl on Saturday, accusing her of egging his house. Although the child insisted she had nothing to do with the vandalism, 43-year-old Marius Mutu grabbed the girl and pushed her to the ground. — Read the rest ...
Great news, Americans! Thanks to your god-emperor and his loyal billionaire sidekick, your Freedom Milk, is now fortified with listeria and brain parasites! The FDA just announced they're suspending their milk quality testing program because they fired too many people to...
What happens when you put a preening Fox News host in charge of the Pentagon? Pure chaos, according to John Ullyot, a former Pentagon spokesman and Trump loyalist who skewered his ex-boss Pete Hegseth in Politico on Sunday. Ullyot's description of this 'Month From Hell' and...
A Florida woman decided to get back at her ex-boyfriend by impersonating an ICE agent — to kidnap his wife. And she got away with it, at first. Latrance Battle stormed into the wife's workplace — the Days Inn in Panana City Beach — wearing black clothing, a white...
It's no surprise that Pope Francis, 88 and lately unwell, gave up the ghost yesterday. But it was interesting that his death was preceded by a meeting with U.S. vice president J.D. Vance. For meme-slinging online types, that's circumstancial evidence enough to declare him...
TL;DR: Lifetime access to Headway Premium is $59.99 through April 27 — over 1,500 nonfiction book summaries you can read or listen to in 15 minutes. We all like to pretend we'll finally crack open that stack of 'life-changing' books sitting by the bed, but let's be real:...
Offbeat game hardware, made in Asia and sold with thin margins in the U.S., is already being hit hard by the Trump administration's tariffs. Ambernic, the largest maker of inexpensive handhelds designed to play old games, has suspended all shipments to the U.S. — Read the...
Sega's 1985 arcade hit OutRun, itself inspired by the movie The Cannonball Run, is to become a Michael Bay blockbuster. 'Plot details are vague,' reports Deadline's Justin Kroll. The game pioneered a new genre of driving games and spawned an electronic music subgenre aptly ...
One of my new favorite channels is the 'Friendliest Catch,' which is run by Santa Cruz, California-based fisherman and professional surfer Matt Rockhold and provides 'amazing deep-sea creature education'—like this video where he teaches us how to identify male and female...
Sidetalk is truly something special. As 4/20 celebrations smoked up across the country, NYC's unhinged street show was there to capture the festivities, albeit with a special guest in tow: the stupendous Spider Cuz. Spider Cuz is a street performer who dares to ask the...
The Corgi Derby in East Lothian, Scotland, has been held annually on Easter since 2022, marking Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee. The starting line is pandemonium, with corgis excitedly barking in anticipation. When the white flag is dropped, ten seconds of chaos ensues. —...
LONDON (AP) — English actress Tilda Swinton, known for her eclectic portrayals of ethereal and androgynous characters. has been named as the next James Bond, the new incarnation of Doctor Who, and, in a surprise move, selected by the College of Cardinals as the 267th...
As stocks tumbled yet again today, with the Dow falling by more than 900 points, Donald Trump's approval rating also slipped — to its lowest point so far in his second term, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released today. Only 42% out of 4,306 U.S. — Read the rest ...
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Monday April 21, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Another week, another airplane fire — this time, on a Delta Air Lines flight, about to take off this morning from Orlando International Airport. Footage circulating online shows 282 passengers and 12 crew members — trying to get to Atlanta — evacuating in Florida via...
Yawning is contagious, not just among humans but also animals. Contagious yawning is thought to be linked to mirror neurons—cells in the brain that fire both when we do something and when we see someone else do it. These neurons help us mimic behaviors, and in the case of...
Nothing says 'we love liberty' quite like hiring private muscle to manhandle citizens at a public town hall hosted by Idaho's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. As reported in the CDA Press, Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, and Jesse Jones from Lear...
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