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Tom Brady shares inside look at lavish 49th birthday yacht trip with his kids
Tom Brady rang in his birthday with an epic yacht trip. The former New England Patriots quarterback — who turned 49 on Aug. 3 — shared a carousel of photos documenting his South of France getaway with his friends and kids. “2026 – Holiday-maxxing. That’s what we’re calling it now,” he captioned the Friday upload.…
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The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About
Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list of new followers. A PhD candidate in political philosophy at Boston College, Zhuge…
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33 Students Treated for Deadly Bacteria Exposure When Classroom Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong
Talk about homework: a large class of undergraduates at an unnamed university in Utah became the unfortunate subject of a severe public health response after an extraordinary bungle in a science lab. In September of last year, the group of lab students were tasked with identifying a bacterium known as P. shigelloides, a relatively harmless…
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Meta ordered by New Mexico judge to pay $567 million in landmark child safety case
In another major blow to Meta, a New Mexico judge ordered the social media giant pay $567 million and take actions to make its platform safer for young people. The latest penalty is in addition to the $375 million that a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay after finding that the company violated state…
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‘Boop!’ Trump’s White House ballroom saga takes a turn as social media lights up
Critics were mocking President Donald Trump‘s appeals court loss for his White House ballroom project on Friday. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed 2-1 with a federal judge’s ruling from April requiring construction to halt until Congress expressly authorizes the project, which they referred to as “utterly…
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IKEA Turns Alexander Skarsgård’s Viral ‘Wicker’ Man Moment Into an Ad, and a Bench
IKEA is very excited for Alexander Skarsgård’s sexy new “Wicker” film. Based on “The Wicker Husband” by Ursula Wills-Jones, the film is the latest effort from “Save Yourselves!” writers/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. It stars Olivia Colman as a village outsider who asks the local basketmaker to make her a husband (with Peter…
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DOGE overstated savings on federal ‘receipts’ website, auditors find
WASHINGTON — Some of the savings touted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are incorrect or lack supporting evidence, according to federal auditors. His White House advisory team, which he calls the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, began posting its estimated savings on a web page known as the “wall of receipts.” Lawmakers asked the…
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Trump boys’ ‘shady’ Russia deal ties unmasked in explosive new report
A murdered journalist, an organized crime racket, and an alleged scheme to siphon off tens of millions of dollars: These all appear in a new report about a Trump Tower rising in the Caucasus. The Daily Beast on Friday revealed the dark and tangled history behind a 70-story skyscraper President Donald Trump’s sons are building…
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This new ‘AI’ chatbot is actually just one very tired guy
A new chatbot called ChatTJB has been making waves in San Francisco after advertising itself as the “leading chat interface powered by AI” — only for curious users to discover that the supposed artificial intelligence is actually just one man named Tucker Bryant. In ChatTJB‘s world, “AI” stands for “average individual.”
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Breaking Down the Hopeful Ending of The Last House
Greta Lee, Wagner Moura, Noah Sosnowski and Riley Chung —Chris Baker—Netflix What would you do if you were stuck in your house? The COVID pandemic forced many people to confront that question when faced with monthslong quarantines. But in Netflix’s The Last House, directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Matthew Robinson, that thought is…