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Congress overwhelmingly passed a law requiring the DOJ to release the documents within 30 days of November 19. That deadline is approaching fast. Five members of Congress from both parties are now asking Attorney General Pam Bondi for a status update ...

The DOJ's secret memo authorizing missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean isn't a legal analysis -- it's legal laundering. According to leaks reported by The Guardian, the Office of Legal Counsel memo claims the strikes constitute "collective self ...

One of my new favorite Instagram accounts follows an expanding contact ball. "What is a contact ball?" you may wonder. It's a sphere made from the page creator's disposable contact lenses. Each day, she adds her contacts to the contact ball. -- Read ...

Waymo self-driving cars may know how to get you from point A to point B most of the time, but there are some things Waymos still don't understand. One of these things is that you shouldn't drive directly into an intense scene where multiple police ...

In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed answered: what color is the universe? Not the black of space you see at night -- the average color of all the light from all 200 ...

The Trump administration has launched a new section on whitehouse.gov dedicated to attacking journalists by name. The page opens with "Misleading. Biased. Exposed." and features an "Offender Hall of Shame" with a leaderboard ranking news outlets by ...

Noah Smith, an economist-turned-blogger who writes the Noahpinion newsletter, wrote an essay titled, "I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?" Fast forward a few decades, and I actually have that little robot friend I always dreamed of. It's not exactly ...

This cat lying face down in a see-through seat is the best thing you'll see on the internet today. The camera slowly moves underneath the cat's face, revealing what it looks like squished against the curved, transparent seat. The cat, in deep slumber ...

With science currently under attack, it's nice to be reminded that there is still some pretty incredible work being done. The Perseverance rover has been driving around Mars since 2021, taking samples to - hopefully - be returned to Earth for ...

An American student was extracted Friday from a giant vagina sculpture in Tuebingen, Germany, in which his legs were trapped. The 20-year-old exchange student climbed into the artwork to pose for a photograph and was thereby enmeshed by it. NBC News ...