The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”

Recursively self-improving machines vs. recursively self-deluding people.

Dolly Parton spent decades gifting books to millions of children. Following her death at 80, the Dollywood Foundation plans carry her mission with Imagination Library forward.

It starts with her work at a hard-right, pro-Russia cable network.

Nicholas Grossman: Trump started bombing Iran again to keep it from having control over the Strait of Hormuz. That gambit failed — again.

An investigative report two years in the making was released Tuesday, July 28, detailing decades of sexual abuse at Interlochen Center for the Arts by staff, trustees, visiting artists and Jeffrey Eps...

“Ka$h Patel” bourbon is his newest innovation.

The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s...

Unfounded rumors about man-made tick infestations could doom yet another promising drug.

A horrifying massacre in Louisiana can teach us a few things, but first we need to pay attention.

The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood.

I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

The Texas Republican and California Democrat had both faced potential expulsion votes after they were accused of sexual misconduct with staff members.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S.

“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor,” Swalwell said in a statement.

‘Everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary, and the cruelty is the point,’ U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Everglades.

Survivors of an Iranian attack that killed six U.S. service members have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed.

If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.

Two chicks hatched this weekend for the stars of the nature webcam operated by Friends of Big Bear Valley

The Iran War cheerleader-in-chief embraces a dangerous alternate history of the 21st Century

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

The lowest April measurement was in 2015

Jen Shah says that Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate, was receiving preferential treatment while they served time together in prison. The 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star...

An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in

An extremely warm March melted most of the snow in California's Sierra Nevada. The early melt fits a long-term pattern as greenhouse gases push temperatures higher.