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National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry had logged more than 10,000 hours under water during the past five decades, yet he had never seen what glided past him on July 8: a great white shark cruising through the water off Maine's rocky coast. --

Taking advantage of rising hotel prices and the boom in shachuhaku (sleeping in your car), the Japanese convenience store chain Lawson has rolled out a new pilot program that lets travelers spend the night in select store parking lots, reports Tokyo ...

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A molecule produced by gut bacteria can trigger heart disease, according to research published in Nature. Scientists at Madrid's National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) identified a specific molecule called imidazole propionate that gut ...

A big, beautiful billboard recently went up in Phoenix, Arizona, on Grand Avenue between 10th and 11th Avenues. Feast your eyes on artist Karen Fiorito's "Swamp King," which depicts a hideous swamp creature surrounded by the utter chaos and havoc it ...

A 1902 photograph from The Strand Magazine reveals the fate of a poor tree that was straight-up strangled by its supposed BFF -- a jungle creeper with apparently zero concept of boundaries. This botanical murderer coiled itself around its host tree ...

The Daily Show asked random folks on the streets of New York what they think about Elon's new America Party. Between the Cybertruck, anti-Semitism, and being a parent, you'd think Elon Musk would realize he's terrible at predicting what people want.

Both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times report morale problems for Trump's unneeded occupying force. "They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the wildfires," one soldier said. "Nobody's handing out Disneyland tickets now."

Trump just fired the prosecutor who knows where all the Epstein bodies are buried (metaphorically speaking, probably). And by "fired," we mean "surgically removed the one person who could connect all those inconvenient dots." Maurene Comey -- who ...

Convicted of felling England's famed Sycamore Gap tree in a "malicious act of vandalism," Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were today sentenced to 4 years in jail for the crime. They will serve about two years, if they are well-behaved. -- Read the ...