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Joe Lombardo, the governor of Nevada and former law enforcement officer, was pulled over on May 15 after his pickup truck was seen running a red light. After a police ...

Help! What the heck is this? What is it made of? Why is it here? And why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?

Since 1929 the UK has paid for an official cat. The Chief Mouser title now belongs to Larry, a rescue hired in 2011.

British politician and novelist Ann Widdecombe, a former minister of prisons known for her dogmatic conservative views, was found dead Thursday at her home in Devon, England. Long out of ...

Time and time again, I count myself lucky that The Good Liars are willing to wade into the backwoods of MAGA country so I don't have to. They've made an extremely stable career out of showing up at Trump-centric events and documenting them in their ...

Henrico County, Virginia, has asked its schools and government offices to cut power use as the local grid struggles to meet the power demands of its 37 data centers and considers the impact of 17 more under proposal. Matthew Gault of 404 Media ...

I must genuinely applaud investigative YouTuber Eddy Burback's willingness to get out there and find the hard truths himself, even if the lengths he goes to are at times genuinely concerning. Compared to his last long-form project, though, in which ...

A district attorney's office in Mississippi found a reliable way to get social media attention: post mugshots of suspects enhanced with AI and AI glow-ups of the DA himself. The postings reach at humor but come off as weird (or "depraved," as one ...

This morning, NPR published a long, detailed article about U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito retiring. Announced from the bench, wrote veteran court reporter Nina Totenberg. But he hasn't retired; he wasn't even there today. Oops! "Earlier ...