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Party City helped fill kids' lives with joy for forty years. But the party supply retailer is going out of business, closing all its stores and laying off most of its employees. the company's closure was due to ongoing financial challenges at the ...

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For 25 years, Robert Shields documented every five minutes of his life with obsessive dedication. The former minister and English teacher from Dayton, Washington produced what may be the world's longest diary-- 37.5 million words that filled 91 boxes ...

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott continued her mission of using great wealth to try and improve the world. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Setting an example we wish all billionaires would follow, MacKenzie Scott tries to ...

Spotify pads playlists with music by unknown artists, and has been accused of generating this music itself or using cheap library music to reduce the amount paid to artists. At Harpers, Liz Pelly, building on reporting by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter ...

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The first teaser trailer for the new Superman film out July 11 depicts the Man of Steel falling from the sky into the snow, battered, bruised, and bleeding. At a press event attended by ...

Luigi Mangione, arrested earlier this month for killing Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is now in Federal custody at Brooklyn's "nightmarish" Metropolitan Detention Center, where Sean "Diddy" Combs currently resides. Also known as "Hell on Earth," the ...

When firefighter Jim Templeton snapped three photos of his 5-year-old daughter on a marsh in Cumberland, England in 1964, he had no idea he was about to capture one of the strangest images in UFO history. It wasn't until the photos came back from ...

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A resident of Needham, Massachusetts called police "very upset" about a seemingly dangerous snake loose inside the house. The police arrived along with animal control to investigate the ...

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This fossilized plant excavated in Green River Formation, Utah is entirely unlike anything living on Earth today. It lived 47 million years ago and hasn't been seen since. That's why ...