If you’re going to come for Jack Smith, you’d better have double-checked your work.

A bulldog wearing a veterinary cone was filmed collapsed on its chest and stomach as an unidentified man dragged it across pavement with its hind legs trailing behind. Find the person responsible, pro...

Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.

New money and age-old injustice in an American river town.

Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.

Watch now (56 mins) | Corruption and lawlessness go into overdrive; Trump’s adulation of a Communist dictator

The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities.

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

Prevent the planned culling of abandoned cats in Isanti County

New matrix, meet the old matrix.

céad míle fáilte — now get the fuck out

Rescuers clawing through a hydropower tunnel clogged with mud, water and rock have found a pocket of air near where six workers are believed to be trapped.

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

Learn the lingo. Then get to work.

A dog suffered fatal internal trauma after individuals cornered him and bound his neck tightly with coarse ropes before dragging him across asphalt. Authorities must identify and punish the perpetrato...

A neckless raccoon named Jimothy captivated the internet, and sent this Seattle resident out looking.

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home

A modicum of self-restraint is the new black.

A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows th...

Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.

Shift the Atmosphere ignored repeated warnings about consent and privacy before accusing Burning Man of targeting Christians

As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.

The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.

California tried to use drones to find illegal weed operations, but they found building code violations instead.

Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

We dissected some of the deeply flawed studies favored by drug warriors.

The threat of “secondary sanctions” and “ECONOMIC D-DAY” rings hollow given global political realities and a poor record of such sanctions ever working.

In his new book, congressman Jared Huffman argues that theocratic insurgency has only grown more powerful after Donald Trump returned to the White House

A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief?

The A.I.-fueled debt bubble will likely result in a painful downturn.

Lèse-majesté, American-style.

Current California law prohibits licensed cannabis retailers from making drive-through sales that would allow cannabis goods to be sold to persons sitting in a vehicle. California cannabis retaile...

DHS officers posed as concerned citizens, joining Signal groups and taking photos of community meetings

Send emails to Governor Newsom and our legislators demanding they reject a last-minute bill favoring California Forever and bypassing environmental laws for a shipyard in Solano. We made it easy in ju...

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

… Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held his major press conference today to announce what was hyped as an “economic D-Day” to crush Iran once and for all after sanctions, bombing, blockades, peace neg...