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Owning a rare Frank Lloyd Wright home often comes with headaches of constant and costly maintenance
Frank Lloyd Wright remains a major figure in the history of American architecture. But when it comes to maintaining his surviving homes — well, that remains a major pain in the neck. Take Petra Island in upstate New York, with a 5,000-square-foot wood and concrete main house built from Wright’s original plans. The house was…
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Pregnancy, suicide attempts, frostbite: Records detail ICE medical claims before payment system collapsed
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s system for paying for detainee medical care has collapsed, records show, leaving a backlog of unpaid claims likely costing millions of dollars. With a new payment system still not in place, advocates for immigrant detainees fear some are going without necessary treatment as medical providers near a year without compensation.…
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Pirro raked over the coals for doing Trump’s ‘gross, even despicable’ dirty work: analysis
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is being called out for her decision to file criminal charges against innocent victims in order to stay on Donald Trump’s good side and help him avoid blame for a “slimy, green mess.” Political analyst Jarvis DeBarry slammed Pirro in his MS NOW column Thursday for the high-profile prosecution of 67-year-old…
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‘Overwhelmed’ Perez Hilton shared he was ‘in a bit of a spiral’ weeks before self-harm livestream
Perez Hilton opened up about feeling “overwhelmed” and “in a bit of a spiral” in the weeks leading up to his alarming livestream. The gossip blogger shared a YouTube video on June 28 about falling “off the wagon in every sense” while navigating his family’s move from Nevada to Florida. “I’m back. I went to…
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The Death of Romance
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Reports confirming the death of young love are pouring in: Post-COVID declines in dating aren’t rebounding. Way fewer teens and young adults are having sex. In 2019, 42 percent of single adults younger than 40 told Pew Research Center that they’d never…
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From mice to ‘gym rats’: Unregulated use of peptides raises alarm among researchers
A few months ago, Pinchas Cohen learned of a thriving online trade in MOTS-c — a peptide that, when injected into mice, seems to mimic the effects of exercise. The dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology was very familiar with this particular short chain of amino acids. His lab identified it years…
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Congress is considering provisions in the annual defense policy legislation that would institutionalize defense-technology cooperation with Israel. Critics fear it could give Israel leverage over U.S. defense decisions.
The U.S. and Israeli flags flutter side-by-side outside a hotel in the city of Jerusalem on August 2, 2026. —Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty Images Some lawmakers are pushing to phase out massive U.S. military aid to Israel that has been the norm for decades. But a provision in the annual defense policy bill, which awaits action in…
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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results
The man leading Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar scheme to build a quantum computer says he isn’t interested in appeasing scientists. When Zulfi Alam’s team claimed last year to have effectively split an electron into so-called Majorana quasiparticles in its bid to reinvent computing, some scientists simply didn’t believe the software giant. They cited inconclusive data in Microsoft’s…
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The feds are issuing tariff refunds to big companies, but you still shouldn’t expect a check
Back in February, hours after the Supreme Court overturned most of President Trump’s tariffs, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joshed about whether consumers would get a piece of the refunds when the government refunded the illegal duties. Responding to a question about that at an economics conference, Bessent stated — with “a condescending smirk,” I reported…
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How video games can make young men feel less alone
Young American men are in trouble. They are the loneliest demographic in the Western world. Their social circles are shrinking. At all ages, they are significantly more likely to die by suicide than their female peers. But if there’s one place where young American men are likely to congregate, regardless of race or political beliefs,…