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Former South Carolina state representative RJ May, a 39-year-old Republican from Lexington County who served as vice chair of the conservative South Carolina Freedom Caucus, was sentenced Wednesday to 17.5 years in federal prison for distributing ...

Lewis Frauenfelder For over a decade, Stack Overflow was the place where programmers went to find answers. If you Googled a coding error, you'd land on a Stack Overflow thread with a green checkmark next to the solution. Now that era is over. -- Read ...

Before delivering a speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan on Tuesday, president Donald Trump "cleared his throat," though as throat-clearing routines go it was at the strange end and "raised questions," as reporters put it, about his ...

Your favorite cotton shirt didn't shrink because you did something wrong. It shrank because the fibers finally relaxed. Natural fibers like cotton and linen contain millions of tiny cellulose molecules that naturally exist in coiled, crinkled shapes,

Ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol faces charges of rebellion over his abortive attempt to declare martial law there in December 2024. He was peacefully deposed and detained, and now prosecutors want him put to death. Yoon's decree, the ...

The secret formula for Coca-Cola is supposedly one of the best-kept secrets in the industry, although we do know that it allegedly does not contain cocaine anymore. Try to get your hands on it, and you could very well have a corporate death squad ...

On Monday morning in Phoenix, Arizona, Republican lawmakers attempted to hold a pro-ICE press conference outside the Arizona Capitol Building. However, anti-ICE protesters showed up in full force and managed to shut down the presser, forcing it to ...

Today I learned that carrots have two parts. There's the inner core (xylem), which is the vascular tissue that conducts water and nutrients from the soil to the rest of the plant. Then there's the outer cortex (phloem), the pulpy outer part ...

"I guess people chew harder when they are sad," William Wrigley Jr. said during the Great Depression, as his gum empire kept making money while tens of thousands of businesses went bankrupt. A 1918 Wrigley ad promised gum "steadies nerves." Now, with ...

Ai, a chimpanzee who spent nearly five decades at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute demonstrating that the gap between human and ape cognition is narrower than we like to think, died January 9 of multiple organ failure. She was 49,