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POLITICSHEALTHCULTURE
'Walter Reed' Trends. Trump Disappears for 72 Hours. The White House Responds.
On Easter weekend, Trump made no public appearances for roughly 72 hours. The White House called a lid at 11am. Social media exploded with unverified claims ...
WARPOLITICSCULTURE
Trump Admitted on Easter Sunday That the US Covertly Armed Iranian Protesters — Through the Kurds
While US negotiators held back-channel talks with Tehran, Trump revealed the CIA sent guns to Iranian protesters through Kurdish intermediaries. Trump says t...
SPORTSCULTURESCIENCE
From 650 Strangers in Hamburg to 1.5 Million Athletes Worldwide: Inside the Hyrox Explosion
Hyrox launched in 2018 with a single race and 650 participants. Today the fitness competition spans 30 countries, generates $130 million a year in revenue, a...
CULTURETECHPOLITICS
OpenAI Buys a Talk Show. Jamie Dimon Wants One Too. Tech and Finance Are Making a New Grab for Media.
OpenAI paid an undisclosed sum to acquire TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show on track to earn $30 million this year. Meanwhile Jamie Dimon is eyeing his own ...
POLITICSMARKETSCULTURE
King Charles Faces Epstein Reckoning on Historic US State Visit
Abuse survivors, a US congressman, and a YouGov poll all threaten to overshadow King Charles III's first state visit to America in nearly two decades as pres...
WARMARKETSCULTURE
America's First Lost Fighter Jet: Iran Claims F-15E Shootdown, CSAR Operation Underway
Iranian state media published photos of what appears to be a downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron. Footage emerged of a U...
CULTUREWARPOLITICS
Year Four of Losses: How the Iran War Is Pushing American Farmers to the Breaking Point
Before the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. farm sector debt was already projected to hit a record $624.7 billion in 2026. Nitrogen fertilizer has jumped nearly...
POLITICSWORLDCULTURE
Pashinyan Lectures Putin on Democracy to His Face
Armenia's prime minister extolled democracy and free social media directly to Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, as Armenia drifts toward the EU and away from Ru...
WORLDWARCULTURE
America's First New Grenade Since Vietnam Uses Shock Waves, Not Shrapnel
The U.S. Army has cleared the M111 Offensive Hand Grenade for full service — the first new lethal hand grenade since 1968. It kills with blast overpressure i...
CULTURE
Ye Returns to the Stage: Inside the SoFi Stadium Comeback That Shocked L.A.
For two hours on the first night of Passover, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West performed atop a spinning globe at a near-sold-out SoFi Stadium — his f...
POLITICSCULTURE
'No One Has Paid the Price Like You': Trump's Faith Advisor Compares Him to Jesus at White House Easter Lunch
Paula White-Cain, the White House's senior faith advisor, told Trump during a Holy Week lunch that his life followed 'a familiar pattern that our lord and sa...
TECHENERGYCULTURE
The Scroll-to-Sell Pipeline: How Adult Creators Are Shaping Teen Career Ambitions
A peer-reviewed study of 164 Spanish teenagers found that children as young as 12 view erotic content creation as a viable career path — as adult performers ...
SCIENCECULTURE
Artemis II Lost Contact With Mission Control 51 Minutes Into Flight — Here's What NASA Says Happened
Minutes after a successful engine burn, the Orion spacecraft went silent. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed the brief comms blackout at a post-laun...
WORLDCULTUREPOLITICS
An Argentine Tourist Was Filmed Making Racist Gestures in Brazil. Now She's on Trial.
The viral video of Agostina Páez at a Rio de Janeiro bar ignited a cross-border legal and cultural clash over race, justice, and what counts as a crime.
WORLDCULTURE
State Department Settles Censorship Lawsuit, Agrees to 10-Year Court Oversight Banning Domestic Speech Suppression
A federal judge entered a consent decree on April 1, 2026 barring the State Department from financing or promoting tools that suppress Americans' constitutio...
CULTURE
Panama City Beach Outlawed Spring Break. Here's What That Actually Means.
Cops with paintball guns are patrolling Panama City Beach for 'too much twerking.' But the real story is a decade-long effort to kill America's most chaotic ...
POLITICSCULTURE
Federal Judge Rules Pentagon Press Restrictions Violate First Amendment
The DoD required journalists to pre-clear reporting or lose building access. Most major outlets refused. A federal judge just blocked key parts of the poli
WORLDPOLITICSCULTURE
Trump Names 'Alpha Male' Influencer Nick Adams as Special Envoy for American Tourism
Nick Adams — self-described 'alpha male,' Hooters enthusiast, and MAGA social media figure — has been appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Tourism, Excep...
MARKETSCULTURE
Musk Misled Twitter Investors: What the Verdict Means
A San Francisco jury ruled unanimously that Elon Musk's 2022 public statements about Twitter's bot problem and his intention to exit the deal were intentio
WORLDCULTUREWAR
Jury Hits Meta with $375 Million Verdict in New Mexico Child Safety Trial
A Santa Fe jury found Meta willfully violated New Mexico's unfair practices act and awarded $375 million in damages — the first major state-level verdict aga...
TECHCULTUREPOLITICS
Meta on Trial: The Federal Case That Could Reshape Social Media Forever
Dozens of states are suing Meta for knowingly designing Instagram to addict children. The internal documents are damning. Here's what's actually being argued...
WORLDPOLITICSCULTURE
UK Activists 'Rename' Larry Ellison's $160M Superyacht 'The Trump Propagandist'
British campaign group Led By Donkeys approached Oracle founder Larry Ellison's 280-foot superyacht in the French Riviera and plastered it with a banner call...
WORLDCULTURE
LaGuardia Collision: Two Dead, Airport Closed — and a Deeper Problem With Ground Safety
An Air Canada Express jet collided with a firefighting vehicle at LaGuardia Airport early March 23, killing two. The incident exposes a chronic, underreporte...
CULTUREPOLITICSHEALTH
Who Owns the News Now: The $110.9 Billion Deal That Puts CNN Under Ellison Control
Paramount Skydance just won a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, putting CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. Studios under a single Silicon Valley dynasty. Here'...
CULTUREWAR
The Death of Millennial Feminism: What a Memoir Reveals About a Movement's Collapse
The Atlantic's Helen Lewis argues Lindy West's memoir is the obituary for Millennial Feminism. What killed it, and what replaces it?
CULTURE
The End of Cable News: CNN's Collapse and the Death of the Broadcast Era
CNN is cutting staff again. But this isn't just a layoff story — it's the final chapter of a media empire that once defined how America understood the world.
CULTUREHEALTH
Barry Manilow's Return: 'What a Time' and the Long Road Back
At 82, after surviving lung cancer surgery, Barry Manilow is releasing his 33rd studio album — his first original material in nearly 15 years. Here's what it...
WORLDSCIENCECULTURE
Scientists Filmed a Sperm Whale Give Birth. A Dozen Whales Showed Up to Help.
Rare footage captured off Dominica shows 11 sperm whales — including non-relatives — coordinating to support a laboring mother and lift her newborn calf abov...
WORLDCULTUREWAR
Oscars Leave Hollywood: After 26 Years at the Dolby, Academy Awards Move to Downtown L.A. in 2029
The Academy and AEG announce a 10-year deal running through 2039 — the same year the ceremony moves from ABC to YouTube — ending an era defined by Hollywood ...
WORLDPOLITICSCULTURE
AFP Pulled 'Unflattering' Leavitt Photo After White House Expressed Displeasure
The Agence France-Presse removed a photo of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt from its wire library after the White House made its displeasure known — the lat...
WORLDPOLITICSCULTURE
Laura Dern to Play Epstein Investigator in First Scripted Series on the Case
Sony Pictures Television is shopping a limited series based on Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown's book on her Epstein investigation, with Dern starring...
WORLDWARCULTURE
Targeted or Collateral: Israel Kills Three Journalists in Marked Press Car in Lebanon
Three journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in southern Lebanon on March 28. Israel said one was a Hezbollah intelligence operativ...
WORLDWARCULTURE
Iran Lowers Wartime Recruitment Age to 12: The IRGC's 'For Iran' Program
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced a recruitment drive that accepts children as young as 12 for checkpoints, intelligence patrols, and logistics. It was a...
WORLDWARCULTURE
114 Sites and Counting: The Documented Destruction of Iran's Cultural Heritage
Iran's government has recorded damage to 114 museums and monuments since February 28. Archaeologists at Goethe and the University of Chicago launched an inte...
WORLDWARCULTURE
Iran's Ancient World Damaged by Modern War: Golestan Palace, Isfahan, and the Limits of 'Cultural Protection'
UNESCO shared coordinates of protected sites with all parties. Blue Shield emblems were placed on roofs. It didn't matter. A 14th-century palace, 17th-centur...
WORLDCULTURE
Stephen Colbert Is Writing the Next Lord of the Rings Movie — and It's the One Fans Have Been Waiting For