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  • MAHA wellness culture is coming for teens. Grown-ups aren’t ready.

    MAHA wellness culture is coming for teens. Grown-ups aren’t ready.

    For years, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement was driven by moms. Concerned about the safety of childhood vaccines and about chemicals in the food their kids were eating, they helped propel Donald Trump to the White House — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the role of the nation’s top health influencer — with

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  • The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

    The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

    Ube Boobey’s bedroom is slightly messy after a trip to Morocco, but her cyberdeck glistens among the clutter. The homemade computer is located inside a clamshell purse, covered in swirly gold accents and filled with pearls, with some makeup and fake moss tucked beneath the keyboard. The 22-year-old, who’s based in London and has worked

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  • Cole Tomas Allen purchased weapons in L.A.’s South Bay, a hot spot for gun sales

    Cole Tomas Allen purchased weapons in L.A.’s South Bay, a hot spot for gun sales

    At Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance, racks of long guns line the back wall under taxidermied deer and antelope heads. On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear. It could have been a scene straight out of a gun store in rural Utah or Alabama, but

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  • Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak

    Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak

    For more than a century, the world has run on coal. When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station in Lower Manhattan fired up in 1882, it ran on coal. Coal survived the oil era, the nuclear era, the dash for natural gas, and decades of back-and-forth climate policy. From the 1970s through the mid-2010s, coal

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  • Trial of Austrian man accused of plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert set to begin

    Trial of Austrian man accused of plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert set to begin

    The trial against a man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago is set to begin Tuesday in Austria. The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The singer’s fans, known as Swifties, who

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  • This lesson will smash billionaires’ grip on America

    This lesson will smash billionaires’ grip on America

    The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night shouldn’t surprise us. Not only does America have the world’s most active small-arms industry that essentially controls the GOP (the reporters got a taste of what American — and only American — schoolkids experience every few months from their “realistic” active shooter drills),

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  • Top Jalisco cartel leader ‘El Jardinero’ arrested in Mexico

    Top Jalisco cartel leader ‘El Jardinero’ arrested in Mexico

    Mexican special forces ​have arrested Audias Flores, known as “El Jardinero” and one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in the western state ‌of Nayarit, security minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday. Flores – a regional commander in control of swathes of CJNG territory along Mexico’s Pacific coast

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  • American Airlines imposes limits on portable chargers

    American Airlines imposes limits on portable chargers

    American Airlines is set to become the latest carrier to update its portable charger rules – and travelers will be restricted to a maximum of two devices. From Friday, travelers will be required to keep their travel device in plain sight when it is being used, ABC News reported. “We know our customers rely on

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  • The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

    The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

    For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed into the Terminal—not only

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  • Adidas’ Lightest Shoes Ever Were Behind the First Sub-2-Hour Marathon

    Adidas’ Lightest Shoes Ever Were Behind the First Sub-2-Hour Marathon

    What if the same pair of shoes were behind three marathon world records—and the extraordinary feat of the first marathon completed in under two hours? The 2026 London Marathon is a historic event already, thanks to the time recorded by Kenyan Sabastian Kimaru Sawe. He is the first athlete to complete a 26.2-mile race in

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