Once a fraudster, always a fraudster.
George Santos is under investigation for placing bets that he would not attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, and then not attending.
Ahead of the State of the Union in February, the disgraced ex–Long Island representative posted a video announcing his intention to appear at the Capitol. His post sent the odds of his appearance soaring…
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The Trump administration’s investigation into Smith College, the prestigious women’s college in western Massachusetts, may have begun with something as symbolically potent and legally tenuous as an honorary degree awarded to Dr. Rachel Levine, one of the nation’s highest-ranking transgender public officials and a pediatrician who previously served as Pennsylvania’s physician general and…
By Roxanne Gardiner, Senior Officer, Natural England Wildlife Licensing Service and Olivia Beatty, Higher Officer, Wessex Area Team
Natural England has issued a licence enabling the next phase of white-tailed eagle reintroductions in southern England, permitting the release of up to 20 birds in Exmoor National Park over three years. In this blog, Senior Officer Roxanne Gardiner and…
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Announced today during The Android Show, Android is transitioning from an operating system to an intelligence system, creating more opportunities for engagement with your apps. Through deep integration between hardware and software, Android devices will be able to handle the heavy lifting of anticipating user…
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Islamabad’s Red Zone remained sealed to the general public on Wednesday, but other routes in the twin cities, sealed earlier for the security of foreign delegations visiting the capital, were opened to the public, easing some hardship faced by the residents.
US Vice President JD Vance and his team had been expected to arrive on Wednesday morning, but the White House abruptly changed plans, with…
Recent scandals hit members of both parties.
NZ First’s mining proposal is a genuine attempt to correct incentive misalignment in one important sector. It deserves cross-party attention.
Stillwater's fastest-growing corridor is getting a long-overdue safety upgrade — at no cost to the city.
The White House’s plans to completely annihilate Iran are so haphazard that even the vice president can’t keep up with them.
JD Vance was apparently caught off guard Tuesday when a journalist informed him that Donald Trump had threatened to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization by 8 p.m.. Vance was on stage in Budapest at the time, feet away from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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An honest answer.
Donald Trump has hatched a heinous plan for Iran.
The president hinted at the scale of devastation that awaits the Middle Eastern nation via Truth Social post Tuesday morning, promising to completely annihilate one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations if Iran’s leaders refuse to give him what he wants.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump…
Madelyn Cline is one of my favorite Gen Z stars, and in addition to the upcoming (and final) season of _Outer Banks_ , we'll see the _I Know What You Did Last Summer_ star in a project I never saw coming: Sabrina Carpenter's "House Tour" music video! The "Manchild" singer announced the music video on April 1 with a clip featuring Madelyn and Margaret Qualley, captioning the post "no…
Madelyn Cline is one of my favorite Gen Z stars, and in addition to the upcoming (and final) season of _Outer Banks_ , we'll see the _I Know What You Did Last Summer_ star in a project I never saw coming: Sabrina Carpenter's "House Tour" music video! The "Manchild" singer announced the music video on April 1 with a clip featuring Madelyn and Margaret Qualley, captioning the post "no…
Google is announcing a new version of Android Automotive that goes beyond infotainment use cases to control more of the car.
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A new book on nuclear winter makes clear the scale of our present danger. It calls for pushing past our collective burnout and rebuilding the movement to abolish nuclear weapons to…
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Android proves you don't have to choose between an open ecosystem and a secure one. Since announcing updated verification requirements, we've worked with the community to ensure these protections are robust yet respectful of platform freedom. We've heard from power users that they want to take educated…
Xbox-published shooter Doom: The Dark Ages has been cracked by anti-DRM pirates, it's been revealed, with a Reddit user who goes by voices38 announcing the bypassing of its unpopular Denuvo software on 13th March (via TheGamer).
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In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version. “The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic,” the company announced.
Some people found the sycophancy hilarious. One user reportedly asked ChatGPT…
In the summer of 2019, Jeffrey Epstein had been in federal custody for less than a week when his legal team made a seemingly random request. A request connecting Epstein to OneCoin, the massive multi-level marketing cryptocurrency scheme which eventually led to several arrested and the founder, Ruja Ignatov to flee and be on the run and on the FBI's Most Wanted list to this day.
On July 11, an…
While attention has focused on Trump’s most splashy, explicit environmental policies—for instance, the administration’s proud evisceration of environmental protections such as auto fuel standards, oil drilling limits, and the “endangerment finding” underlying emissions regulations—a recent report shows the administration is also overhauling environmental policy in a quieter way: The Environmental…
LONDON: A US-Israeli war on Iran has severely disrupted Middle East energy exports, collapsing oil production in Iraq and shutting down the entirety of Qatar’s natural gas facilities, choking off a shipping artery that handles a fifth of the world’s supply.
The conflict has forced widespread production stoppages and shipping closures, with Kuwait announcing output cuts over the weekend. Analysts…
ISLAMABAD: After announcing a whopping Rs55 per litre increase in petrol and high-speed diesel prices, the government also silently increased the price of kerosene by almost 70 per cent, it emerged on Saturday.
A notification to this effect was issued by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. According to the notification, the price of kerosene has been increased by Rs130.08 to Rs318.81 per…
When the fascist general Emilio Mola closed on Madrid in 1936, he made a haunting claim aimed at the city’s republican resistance. He would arrive with four columns of soldiers to besiege the city, and they would soon find help from a fifth column of sympathizers within. Well, if President Donald Trump were ever to march on Canada—a possibility roughly half of Canadians now fear—it is becoming…
Apple's new MacBook is rumored to be powered by an iPhone chip. Looking at the Apple Watch SE 3 shows why a cheap MacBook will be good enough.
President Donald Trump claimed Friday the Supreme Court had granted him the power to destroy other countries, after the high court took away his weapon of choice: sweeping reciprocal tariffs.
Speaking to reporters, Trump rambled about how “ridiculous” it was for the Supreme Court to block the illegal tariffs he’d imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, while also bragging…
Google is officially announcing a trio of new desktop Chrome productivity features today: Split View, PDF annotation, and Save to Google Drive.
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Netflix licenses Ticket to Ride for adaptations