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A federal judge has reopened the Trump IRS lawsuit, demanding answers over a $1.776B settlement deal she says may have been "premised on
A homeless teen who spent years in shelters and lived in his car while attending school just graduated from Waianae High School in Hawaii.
Discover the weird sleep behaviors most people don't realize are real.
You pick up a call from a number you don’t recognize. The voice on the other end sounds a little garbled, a little uncertain. “Hello?” it says. “Can you hear me?” Your brain has already started forming the polite response before you’ve even thought about it. Of course you can hear them. So you say...
Trump threatened to "blow up" longtime US ally Oman over the Strait of Hormuz. Here's what's behind the threat.
Why do male stars like Jim Carrey and Matthew McConaughey suddenly look unrecognizable? The real story behind celebrity plastic surgery and the male beauty boom
Every time you try to picture what daily American life looked like sixty or seventy years ago, it’s easy to land on the rose-tinted version: backyard barbecues, drive-in movies, families piled into station wagons headed for the lake. What that picture tends to leave out is the part where the doctor lit a cigarette in...
The legal system gets a lot of grief for being slow, costly, and inaccessible. But once in a while, a case reaches a courtroom that makes you forget all that – not because of its legal brilliance, but because of its sheer, baffling audacity. A man who sues himself. A judge who demands $54 million...
Airport security isn’t usually something you think about until you’re standing in a line that hasn’t moved in twenty minutes, watching someone’s carry-on get flagged for the third time, wondering if you’re going to make your flight. It’s one of those systems that most of us interact with regularly and think about almost never, right...
Nobody has ever been born in space. More than 600 people have traveled beyond Earth’s atmosphere since Yuri Gagarin first did it in 1961, but not one of them was conceived there, grew there, or came into the world there. For all the astonishing things humans have managed to do in orbit – building permanent...
You’ve probably noticed the comment sections by now. Someone posts a photo of Anne Hathaway on a red carpet, and within minutes the replies fill with the same question: did she get work done? The speculation has been relentless, the armchair diagnoses delivered with extraordinary confidence, and the certainty – as Hathaway herself would later...
Most people have a mental image of a narcissist as loud, brash, and impossible to miss. The guy who talks over everyone in a meeting. The person who turns every conversation back to themselves within thirty seconds. That image, while real enough, misses an entire other pattern, one that is quieter, more socially skilled, and...