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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 ...

Morgan Geyser, then 12 and now 22, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner believing this would please Slender Man, a horrific entity conceived by Eric Knudson in 2009. After seven years in mental care, Geyser is set to be released. Details of the plan and ...

On Birthday Headlines, you can see the stuff that was going on in the world the day you were born. Simply type in your birthday and then click "show headlines." If you're lucky, you'll find out that something really cool and exciting happened on the ...

Seeing the start of a hailstorm while driving is rare -- right as it falls from the sky but before it hits the ground. The start of a hailstorm is silent, as the hail hasn't hit anything. You just see tiny white dots falling, drawing closer. -- Read ...

A meteorite known as NWA 16788 was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023. The composition of the meteorite is Martian shergottite, or lava from a planet other than the Earth. Weighing over 54 pounds, it is the largest of only 400 known Martian ...