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Teen suspect in murder of 2 Kentucky bank employees leads police on wild 130 mph chase
A masked suspect accused of gunning down two bank employees inside a Kentucky branch is now facing federal charges after a wild, high-speed chase that ended in a crash, according to court documents. Brailen Weaver, 18, is accused of carrying out the April 30 attack at a US Bank branch in Berea, where authorities say he shot…
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How Voting Rights Groups Are Rallying to Fight After the Supreme Court Hollowed a Landmark Law
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. —Eric Lee—Bloomberg/Getty Images In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling to narrow a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, voting and civil rights advocates in Southern states are rallying to attempt to protect the electoral power of racial minority groups. The…
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Trump’s US Forest Service Spraying Deadly Toxins on America’s Woodlands
Beyond its brutal immigration enforcement campaigns and horrifying attacks on Iranian civilians, the Trump administration has made steady progress dismantling one of the US’s national treasures: its forests. Since Donald Trump took office for the second time last year, his administration has set about firing roughly 10 percent of the US Forest Service staff, accelerating…
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Even MAGA’s most committed devotees can’t back this buffoon
You would probably be hard-pressed to find even a committed MAGA supporter coming to Peter Hegseth’s defense at this point, which constitutes a major problem for the self-anointed “Secretary of War” — and rightly so, because he’s becoming an actual problem for President Donald Trump. And that never works out well, not for the official…
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An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers
You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you’re automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat–style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough bread making, gardening, or bird-watching. I can’t contradict this, since I’m a middle-aged person who got sorted into bird-watching. But I do…
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Four foreign nationals in NJ charged in connection with illegally voting in federal elections: DOJ
The Justice Department announced charges Friday against four noncitizens in New Jersey in connection with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements while applying for US citizenship. Liberian national David Neewilly, 73, of Atlantic County; Jamaican national Jacenth Beadle Exum, 70, of Bergen County; Israeli national Idan Choresh, 43, of Monmouth County; and…
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Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?
For fifty-one weeks out of the year, I’m 100 percent not the CEO of Snap, the company behind Snapchat. That’s Evan Spiegel, the company’s billionaire cofounder. No one in their right mind would question that. But for one week out of the year, specifically last week, some people may have thought I was the social…
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US warns shipping firms they could face sanctions for paying Iranian tolls in Strait of Hormuz
The US is warning shipping companies that they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The alert posted Friday by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control adds another layer of pressure in the standoff between the US and Iran over control of the Strait of…
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Firehouse Subs giving away free sandwiches to anyone with a name ‘in the Mike family’
Firehouse Subs is handing out free sandwiches — but only if your name is “in the Mike family.” The popular sub chain, which has more than 1,200 locations in the US, revealed that it would give away medium sandwiches on May 6 to anyone named “Michael” or any variation, including “Mike,” “Mikey,” “Micheala,” “Michelle,” “Michele”…
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Kansas State freshman Jack Fleischaker, 19, dies after falling from fraternity house window
A Kansas State University freshman died after he fell from a fraternity house window — just weeks away from the end of the semester. Jack Fleischaker, 19, plunged from a second-floor window at the Sigma Chi house on the Manhattan, Kan., campus around 3:15 a.m. on April 25. He was rushed to the hospital for…