Richard Bookstaber called the 2008 financial crash a year in advance and thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime meltdown. Now he's rethinking that, and he worries that a new crash might be even worse. In a New York Times opinion piece, the former hedge fund risk chief and Treasury official argues...... Read more »

Rising global heat is sending people indoors and off their feet—a move that could drive hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. A new study in The Lancet Global Health estimates that as the planet warms, reduced physical activity driven by higher temperatures could fuel 470,000 to...... Read more »

Israel says it has taken out one of Iran's top security figures. Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that on Monday night, airstrikes near Tehran killed Ali Larijani, described by officials as a key architect of Iran's military response to recent US-Israeli attacks, per the Wall Street Journal . Katz said... Read more »

Sarah Michelle Gellar says Buffy almost rose again—but one Hulu executive staked the revival. Speaking to People after the SXSW premiere of Ready or Not 2 , Gellar says she learned just before stepping onstage that Hulu had scrapped the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot she'd been developing for years...... Read more »

Washington is quietly telling Havana that its current president has to go if the two sides are going to cut a deal, according to four people familiar with ongoing talks who spoke to the New York Times . Trump administration officials have signaled to Cuban negotiators that President Miguel Díaz-Canel's... Read more »

President Trump is pushing a new line of attack on California Gov. Gavin Newsom: Newsom's dyslexia, which Trump argues should keep him from serving as president, the Hill reports. Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday while discussing voter ID and California, Trump labeled the Democrat a "low-IQ person" and...... Read more »

Nvidia just upped its already eye-popping AI ambitions, with CEO Jensen Huang now projecting $1 trillion in revenue through 2027 from its AI chips—double last year's forecast. Speaking at the company's GPU Technology Conference, Huang noted, "a trillion dollars is an enormous amount of infrastructure; you have to have...... Read more »

A group of Tennessee teens say Elon Musk's AI start-up helped turn their school photos into child sexual abuse material—and they're suing. In a proposed class-action filed Monday in federal court in California, three plaintiffs allege xAI's Grok chatbot was used to digitally strip clothing from images of more...... Read more »

[link] [3 comments]... Read more »

[link] [28 comments]... Read more »

[link] [26 comments]... Read more »

[link] [17 comments]... Read more »

[link] [14 comments]... Read more »

[link] [52 comments]... Read more »

[link] [41 comments]... Read more »

[link] [9 comments]... Read more »

[link] [17 comments]... Read more »

[link] [8 comments]... Read more »

[link] [20 comments]... Read more »

[link] [46 comments]... Read more »

[link] [17 comments]... Read more »

[link] [21 comments]... Read more »

In a report that examined the air quality of 100 global cities, 19 were found to have substantially improved since 2010. 9 of the 19 were in China and Hong Kong, while the rest were located in Europe, and include both large and small cities. In the US, San Francisco... Read more »

A woman who had a DoorDash order brought to her house was shocked to see an old man on her doorbell camera. Inspired to help, she set up a GoFundMe, which raised $940,000 to allow the man to retire. It was just another weekday in Manchester, Tennessee, when Brittany Smith... Read more »

126 years ago today, Isadora Duncan, the first modern dancer, made her debut as a solo interpretive dancer in London to crowds who marveled at her daring. Here, writes the Daily Telegraph at the turn of the millennium, was a very young woman, barefoot and underdressed, performing alone and without... Read more »

An American conservation NGO has helped propose and fund the creation of a vast new nature reserve along a critical corridor of biodiversity high in the Bolivian Andes. Containing over 1,300 native species, including 13 found only in Bolivia, the Serranías y Cuencas de Palos Blancos Municipal Protected Area isn’t... Read more »

The best travel stories are often those most subtle; things that only a genuinely attentive person could pick out in the strange society they pass through. Such a story comes now from Japan via the BBC, where reporter Giulia Crouch put together the tale of a unique profession of smiling... Read more »

From Alabama comes the story of two restaurant-regulars chowing down on a 54-year-old promise from their favorite oyster bar. Jim and Jimmy Rush always wondered whether the sign behind the bar at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile was “for real.” It promised a night of free oysters, as many as... Read more »

The announcement of a new transboundary birding route has catapulted southern Africa to the forefront of international birdwatching travel. Spanning Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the route contains an estimated 650 endemic and migratory species, and traverses the world’s largest conservation area—as big as Germany and France together. Known... Read more »

100 years ago today, Dr. Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket, after building it himself. The New England physics professor, engineer, and inventor is credited with ushering in the era of space flight, but after he asserted in 1920 that rockets could be used to send payloads to... Read more »

A man has powered an electric car using a homemade battery pack built out of discarded vapes, on a quest to show that so many valuable resources are being cast off every day. Last year, GNN reported that Chris Doel had stripped down the lithium batteries from 500 disposable vapes,... Read more »

A Florida waitress has served more than 270,000 meals to the homeless, alongside her husband and two vibrant sons who all exemplify their Christian faith. An immigrant from Barbados, Gloria Vargas, has run the operation since in 2012 largely from her home in Fort Lauderdale. “I started with buying a... Read more »

The four-year-old boy was headed into heart surgery all alone—a sad circumstance that would soon unleash a “butterfly effect of kindness,” as his anesthesiologist became his mother, helping to deliver the stable home life he never had. The duo first met in 2022, after the boy named True was born... Read more »

Light which emanated from a spiral galaxy at the same time the Tyrannosaurus rex was dying out on Earth was captured in striking detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. Two instruments aboard the Webb observatory have combined to create a jaw-dropping image revealing the structure of NGC 5134, the... Read more »

120 years ago today, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls put their brains and surnames together to form the most iconic luxury car maker in history. Rolls-Royce released the 40/50 in 1908, known as the Silver Ghost which became a hit, and sole offering of the company that had recently set up... Read more »

CCTV surveillance footage captured the dramatic scene as a mother and young daughter were rescued after they became stuck waist-deep in wet sand—just meters away from each other. A young girl was playing in the sand at 5:20 pm, near the Three Shells Lagoon, in Essex, England before she suddenly... Read more »

submitted by /u/PoorIsTheNewSwag [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/wewhomustnotbenamed [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/digitaljamesoliver [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/semmeess [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/sara-2022 [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/plain_handle [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/ThePassageOfRimming [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/i-drake [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/jesterman101 [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/calvinthebold1 [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/redwar226 [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/SnowyLeopardGecko1 [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/bionickel [link] [comments]... Read more »

submitted by /u/BestFriendWatermelon [link] [comments]... Read more »

Sardinia, a top holiday destination for Brits and famed for its stunning beaches, is set to house around 250 of Italy’s most dangerous criminals, including mob bosses... Read more »

Threats referencing explosive devices, firearms and knife attacks were sent to three Cardiff schools, with Llanishen High and Eastern High closed on Monday and Tuesday as armed police investigated... Read more »

The strange signal - the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected - was captured by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope from a galaxy over 8 billion light-years away... Read more »

Katrina, 21, who makes a fortune from adult pics, says she doesn't want to sleep with anyone before marriage because "that's God's plan for me"... Read more »

Peter Andre has opened up about his secret 1997 nose job, revealing it was done just 10 days before filming the iconic All About Us music video with Montell Jordan... Read more »

Mojtaba Khamenei survived a brutal US-Israeli "Epic Fury" strike that killed his father and wife, after stepping outside seconds before his HQ was blown to bits... Read more »

Experts are turning to high-tech pills to halt a super-rat invasion as the cat-sized, disease-ridden pests become immune to traditional poison... Read more »

The UK government is expected to deliver a statement on the meningitis outbreak in Kent as Health Secretary Wes Streeting will deliver a message to the House of Commons... Read more »

Putin is reportedly spending more time in the Kremlin overnight and has blocked mobile internet across Moscow as he fears his enemies have hacked Russia's surveillance system... Read more »

Fans can expect a huge Hollywood actor to guide contestants through rounds of general knowledge fun on House of Games, as Richard Osman steps down from the BBC show... Read more »

A rapper, who was well-loved among her fans who are mourning her loss, has sadly died aged at just 37 as her friends took to social media to break the tragic news... Read more »

The US President has now set his sights on Cuba, telling reporters he could “take” the entire island and has the right to do “anything” he wants with it... Read more »

King Charles is due to visit the United States next month with visits to Washington and New York planned during the trip to see US President Donald Trump, but he has been advised to delay plans... Read more »

An 'almighty melee' broke out between two groups of women at a High School Musical-themed boozy brunch event at a swanky London cocktail bar... Read more »

Psychic Craig Hamilton-Parker, dubbed the 'new Nostradamus' after allegedly predicting major global events, has made a chilling prediction about Donald Trump.... Read more »

As someone who lives in the United Kingdom, what should you do in case the unthinkable happens and there is a radiation emergency in our country?... Read more »

A diver off the coast of British Columbia was searching for fish when he discovered a mysterious object on the Pacific Ocean floor - but the UFO-shaped find turned out to be far more alarming... Read more »

A 15-year-old boy known as 'the Prince' was mauled by a bear whilst scavenging for food 27,000 years ago and survived for days before dying. His skeleton was discovered in 1940 in the Arene Candide Cave near Genoa.... Read more »

A woman was left in tears of laughter after discovering loads of items from 2004 in a vintage jacket... Read more »

A famous psychic who has delivered eerily accurate predictions in the past has issued a chilling warning for Iran in 2026 with a key date coming soon.... Read more »

A doctor was outraged after a group of hikers parked three large cars on his private driveway for days, so he decided to take revenge.... Read more »

Woman was clinically dead for more than ten minutes and encountered angels and what she believes was the doorway to heaven... Read more »

Professor Xueqin Jiang went viral for correctly predicting Trump's 2024 win and the US-Iran war. Now, a chilling third prediction has emerged.... Read more »

The 49ers wide receiver room is in the midsts of a massive makeover.... Read more »

"No one expects to meet the love of your life and lose them in only 6 short years after meeting," Rex's fiancée said.... Read more »

It will be exactly 53 weeks since the March 11, 2025 procedure and exactly one week before Opening Day to the season.... Read more »

Four teens were arrested on Monday under suspicion of setting off an explosion outside a Dutch synagogue, which Israel claims was conducted by a new terrorist group.... Read more »

Trade $10, get $10 with the Kalshi promo code NYPMAX for March Madness markets.... Read more »

Today, Remedy Place is selling injectable NAD+ Smart Pens that customers can use at home in just seconds. Here's what makes them different from an IV.... Read more »

"When I read it, I just was like, 'Holy fork ball!'" Bathé said of the Paradise Season 2, Episode 6 script.... Read more »

HyFlyers GC captain Phil Mickelson will return to the lineup this week in South Africa after missing four events due to a family health matter.... Read more »

President Trump and Vice President Vance seem to be back on the same page with respect to the war in Iran, despite the VP’s past criticism of new foreign wars. TSA agents are working without pay – the ones that haven’t quit – as the partial government shutdown continues and... Read more »

The reigning Big Ten Player of the Year claims he could have been making somewhere between $7 to $9 million if he had gone to Kentucky, which threw the kitchen sink at Lendeborg to try and get him to go to Lexington. ... Read more »

The "Baywatch" alum, along with other activists, allegedly "broke into" a Wisconsin farm and began removing numerous dogs" from the facility.... Read more »

The "Baywatch" alum, along with other activists, allegedly "broke into" a Wisconsin farm and began removing numerous dogs" from the facility.... Read more »

Like the Oasis reunion tour, who cares if it's a cash-in as long as they play the hits?... Read more »

Mark Gastineau isn't used to getting stonewalled when he gets after something.... Read more »

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson's 1956 story "Steel." One Detroit impresario is now bringing the idea to the stage — and real audiences.... Read more »

A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.... Read more »

Every time this century that the Catholic Church has elected a new pope, the Seahawks have made it to the Super Bowl.... Read more »

Savory, sour and earthy tasting honey could be the new normal thanks to a new ingredient. Spotted lanternfly poop. The insects spread along the east coast across could usher in new ways to use honey.... Read more »

A museum devoted to art crafted from human hair drew curious visitors to Independence, Mo., for decades. Now that it has closed, its delicate Victorian wreaths and jewelry are finding new homes.... Read more »

The road to redistricting in Missouri has been wild and winding, but its tie to a 1997 kids' movie starring a basketball-playing golden retriever might be the most unexpected development of all.... Read more »

Three elderly Austrian nuns recently fled a nursing home and broke into their former convent. They have rejected an offer to stay in convent if they promise to get off of social media.... Read more »

Three Austrian nuns leave a retirement home to break into their old convent with local support and an Instagram following.... Read more »

Three Austrian nuns have left a retirement home to break into their old convent — with local support and an Instagram following.... Read more »

A paddleboarder was seen Friday crossing the icy Hudson River. Witness video shows the person paddling with little equipment except for a small backpack.... Read more »

Critics argue human composting lacks dignity, but supporters see it as an alternative method to honoring a loved one.... Read more »

A powerful explosion shook parts of Hopatcong early Tuesday morning, lighting up the sky and sending dozens of residents scrambling to figure out what happened. The strange thing is: No answers have yet been found. The blast, which happened around 2 a.m., was caught on multiple home security cameras across... Read more »

The two hikers who called 911 also told a steward on the mountain’s summit that they were lost. The steward “determined the hikers were in an altered mental state."... Read more »

Did you notice that today's date reads the same forward and backward? That's because the month of May features 11 palindrome dates this year... Read more »

Mannequin head with human hair and a Viking drinking horn ranked among the most "unique" items left in Ubers last year. Here are the most forgetful cities.... Read more »

A movie theater in New Jersey is not allowing unaccompanied children to see the most popular movie of the year after an “unacceptable” incident during a recent screening related to viral TikTok videos and a "chicken jockey."... Read more »

A New York City brewery is offering up free beer all baseball season long, but it comes with a catch. The Torch & Crown Brewing Company said in an Instagram post it would be giving away the gratis suds to anyone who gets a tattoo at their SoHo brewery location.... Read more »

The owner of a New Jersey pet store where a $7,000 parrot was stolen a few weeks ago became the victim of an attempted homicide, after a previous customer shot her in the face with a crossbow, prosecutors said.... Read more »

The owner of a New Jersey pet store where a $7,000 parrot was stolen a few weeks ago is now the victim of an attempted homicide, police and colleagues say, after someone shot her in the face with a crossbow. There’s no immediate indication the shooting and theft at Birds... Read more »

The TSA said a gun frame had been jammed in the bottom of a boot, below a sock that was stuffed in behind it in an effort to conceal the weapon. The rest of the handgun — the slide, spring and gun magazine loaded with 12 bullets — was detected... Read more »

New York repealed on Friday a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse — a misdemeanor that once could have landed adulterers in jail for three months.... Read more »

Known locally as the "Ghost Bridge," neighbors said the stone bridge that is usually under feet of water dates back 200 years. It is still fully intact and now completely exposed, making for a rare sight and intriguing photo to snap.... Read more »

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.... Read more »

A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves. Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, the researchers provide the first observations to confirm the existence of... Read more »

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would otherwise take decades and billions to pursue.... Read more »

Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected atmospheric dynamics: Despite extreme heat, methane was detected on the... Read more »

What happens inside your brain when you hear a steady rhythm or musical tone? According to a new study, your brain doesn't just hear it -- it reorganizes itself in real time.... Read more »

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.... Read more »

Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe.... Read more »

The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land. Thanks to new research, scientists believe that these creatures are 14 million years older than previously thought. The... Read more »

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions.... Read more »

Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The significant breakthrough means that, for the first time, researchers have found a way to determine once and for all whether a material can effectively be used in certain quantum... Read more »

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study.... Read more »

Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard. The study introduces a non-permanent wireless forehead e-tattoo that decodes brainwaves to measure mental strain without bulky headgear. This technology may help track the mental workload of workers like air traffic controllers and truck drivers,... Read more »

Materials scientists have succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid material called glaphene.... Read more »

Engineers have developed a real-life Transformer that has the 'brains' to morph in midair, allowing the drone-like robot to smoothly roll away and begin its ground operations without pause. The increased agility and robustness of such robots could be particularly useful for commercial delivery systems and robotic explorers.... Read more »

Authorities in Kentucky said an emu named Mystery spent about a day on the loose when severe storms knocked down her shelter and fence.... Read more »

A Florida animal rescue said a 6-year-old cat underwent surgery for an intestinal blockage, and veterinarians ended up removing 26 hair ties.... Read more »

A dog seen wandering for several days with a bucket stuck over its head in Alabama has been freed thanks to the efforts of multiple local residents.... Read more »

A Maryland woman said a timely reminder from her sister to pick up lottery tickets led to her winning a $50,000 prize from a scratch-off ticket.... Read more »

Guinness World Records said the auction of Cheetozard -- a Flamin' Hot Cheeto shaped liked the Pokemon Charizard -- resulted in a new record.... Read more »

The Hertfordshire Zoo in England announced the births of two elephant shrew pups -- the very first of their species to be born in Britain.... Read more »

An Indiana man who was asked to fill in for the local gravedigger in 1952 is now retiring after a record-breaking 73 years and 75 days on the job.... Read more »

Animal protection officers in Philadelphia came to the rescue of a dog stranded on an elevated train track support beam at the 63rd & Market station.... Read more »

The Los Angeles Metro revealed some of the most unusual items in its Lost & Found, including a surfboard, a prosthetic leg and a 55-inch TV.... Read more »

A Michigan man made a quick stop on his way to work and won a $533,646 lottery jackpot as a reward for interrupting his morning commute.... Read more »

Police and firefighters responded to a Kansas high school where an escaped bull decided to take advantage of an open field and get some exercise.... Read more »

A Netherlands engineer built a car for his pet goldfish, Blub, who drove the vehicle a distance of 40 feet in one minute to break a world record.... Read more »

Animal control officers in California were summoned to a high school to eject "a very unusual" trespasser: a badger hiding in a storage closet.... Read more »

A Maryland man took some advice from a stranger at a convenience store and bought a scratch-off lottery ticket that turned out to be worth $100,000.... Read more »

Een meerderheid van de politieke partijen in Purmerend wil het referendum afschaffen. Veel inwoners zijn het hier niet mee eens.... Read more »

Een heldhaftige brugklasser uit Amerika heeft op tijd een bus weten te stoppen, nadat de bestuurder onwel was geraakt. De jonge held wist precies wat te doen.... Read more »

Een Braziliaanse burgemeester is getrouwd met een 16-jarig meisje, een model, een paar dagen nadat hij haar moeder een hoge functie als ambtenaar had gegeven.... Read more »

Een Amerikaanse vrouw bleek een gouden pistool in haar bagage te hebben, toen ze Australië binnen wilde komen. Ze is gearresteerd.... Read more »

Een heldhaftige Poolse bergbeklimmer heeft na een zenuwslopende reddingsactie een Indiase bergbeklimmer gered uit een kloof op de Himalaya.... Read more »

Een dronken passagier op een vlucht van New-York naar New-Delhi heeft op een medepassagier geplast.... Read more »

Een man stopte met zijn auto omdat er een kitten op de weg liep. Toen hij het beestje oppakte kwamen er nog 17 kittens uit het bermgras stappen.... Read more »

De buurman komt aan de deur klagen over het feestje van de avond ervoor. Hij was maar wat graag ook uitgenodigd.... Read more »

https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Thaiboksen niet goed voor scheidsrechter Scheidsrechter vangt de klappen Het leek een goed idee, thaiboksen met een blinddoek voor. De scheidsrechter is er uiteindelijk van teruggekomen, want hij was uiteindelijk degene die de meeste klappen kreeg.... Read more »