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Friday May 9, 2025. 04:37 PM
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was 'abruptly fired' Thursday by President Trump. Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress, confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2016. Hayden, whose 10-year term was set to expire next year, had...
Sir, a second tired and emotional Fox News host has hit the establishment. All rise for Jeanine Pirro, named as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. by president Trump. After Trump's 2020 loss to Joe Biden, Pirro made false statements about the election that were part...
The two men who felled the famed Sycamore Gap tree in northern England were found guilty today at Newcastle Crown Court. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were each convicted of two counts of criminal damage: one for the tree, and one for the section of Hadrian's...
America's largest cities are slowly sinking due to their own weight, drought and other geological pressures, according to a study published in Nature Cities. Houston is 'buckling' fastest, according to the study's interpretation of satellite data, with more than 40 percent...
A man seen and filmed in public doing unspeakable things with a cucumber was sentenced this week in DC Superior Court to serve six months in jail. And it wasn't the first pickle that he found in himself; Anthony Hines pleaded guity to five counts of lewd, indecent, or...
The federal judge in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial rebuked one of his lawyers over an 'outrageous' comment about the disgraced rap mogul's prosecutors, described as a 'six-pack of white women' on a podcast. A transcript of a robing room meeting on Tuesday contained the...
Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad on April 11 in South Carolina. It was only the second by that method in 15 years there, and it showed: the firing squad botched it, failing to hit his heart and leaving him to 'bleed out' for a minute or more in 'excruciating...
Donald Trump says he tapped MAHA influencer Casey Means for U.S. Surgeon General because conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. think's she's 'fantastic.' Never mind that the president admits he doesn't really know his nominee. And never mind that Means, a 37-year-old...
While thousands of victims testified about their stolen life savings, Celsius Network founder Alexander Mashinsky sobbed his way through a sentencing hearing that ended in a 12-year prison term. The prosecutor's assessment: this crypto-bro was a predator who 'preyed on...
Thursday May 8, 2025. 11:45 PM
'I am a free speech absolutist,' Elon Musk declared on Twitter in 2022. Now his $1 million donation backs legislation that would remove a crucial shield protecting ordinary Texans from expensive lawsuits: the guarantee that they can recover legal fees when they successfully...
When DHL delivered mail to Adafruit Industries last week, it wasn't a typical invoice but a gut punch: a $36,126.46 customs duty bill that had to be paid within seven days. The bill comes from Trump's multi-layered tariffs that can stack up to 170% on certain electronics...
Electronic musician, producer, DJ, and 'cultural polymath' Moby recently relaunched Mobygratis, the free sound library that he originally created in 2005 to provide indie musicians, filmmakers, and artists of all kinds with high-quality, free music to use in their creative...
NRA, meet TGL. Another far-right event means another opportunity for The Good Liars to let the MAGA cult tell on themselves. The annual National Rifle Association convention is practically a religious event for certain conservative sects, and the energy was especially high...
Believe it or not, the last place the Nintendo 3DS is still being officially used is not some obscure Nintendo store, but in fact global center of art and culture the Louvre Museum. Since 2012, the museum's audio guides have run not off dedicated devices, as one may expect,...
While most know engineer ForgeCore as the helpful 3D-printed plants guy, everyone contains multitudes. Take, for instance, this really cool sushi chess set, complete with tatami mat board and bento box storage case. That old meme about eating your opponent's chess pieces...
Here is Richard Feynman talking about the wonder of Science, and a new way of looking at how trees use sunlight to build themselves out of the carbon atoms in the air, and then what happens when those carbon atoms are able to reunite with oxygen atoms in the air. — Read the...
Update: it's Robert Prevost, not among those given strong odds by pundits or bettors, though the New York Times had an eye on him. Prevost is the first American pope, described as a middle-of-the-road reformer, and will take the papal name Leo XIV. — Read the rest The post W...
Pulling the fire alarm to get out of class has been replaced by setting actual fires. Students are setting their Chromebooks on fire while participating in a viral TikTok trend. Schools across Connecticut have had to evacuate due to the smoke and fire caused by students...
In trying times like the ones we're currently living through, I like to remind myself that there are awesome humans out there doing great things. One such outstanding person is photographer and conservationist Shawn Miller, aka 'Kylesthenix' on social media, who has helped...
The Walt Disney Company announced that it is planning to build its seventh theme park, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The park will be developed and built by UAE entertainment company Miral, with Disney providing intellectual property, creative design, and operational...
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