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People keep finding dryer sheets in their mailboxes — here is why you shouldn’t touch it
A dryer sheet tucked between the bills and the junk mail sounds like a prank. It isn’t, and tossing it in the trash could be a mistake. Across the country, homeowners are opening their mailboxes to find a Bounce or Snuggle sheet sitting inside, left there deliberately by their letter carrier. The practice has quietly…
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Heartbreaking photos of deaf actress Kaylee Hottle’s crash revealed following her death at 18
Photos from late actress Kaylee Hottle’s tragic car crash show extreme damage to the front of the car. The “Godzilla vs. Kong” star died early Tuesday morning due to injuries from the fatal car accident in Maryland. She was 18 years old. The 1995 Honda Accord Hottle was riding in was completely mangled following the…
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China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
The AI industry is not quite experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 moment, but it feels very close. The leading Chinese AI labs have been on a roll lately, releasing a series of almost cutting-edge open-source models. Z.ai released GLM 5.2 in June, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 last week, and Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 this Monday.…
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SpaceX Stock Hits All-Time Low
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX are continuing their weeks-long decline, hitting a new all-time low of around $116 by Wednesday afternoon. The scale of the accumulating losses since the company’s hotly-anticipated IPO last month is staggering. The company has wiped out over $1.1 trillion in market value since hitting an all-time high of $225 last…
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Fresno man sentenced on sex abuse charges spanning nearly 30 years
A Fresno man was sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to two rapes and two sexual assaults on a child, crimes dating as far back as 1997. Cesar Flores, 56, was originally charged with 22 crimes against seven victims. The charges included forcible rape, sodomy by force, kidnapping and committing a lewd act…
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Trump demands E. Jean Carroll repay the $5.6M he paid to her
President Donald Trump’s legal team demanded writer E. Jean Carroll return the $5.6 million judgment a federal court ordered him to pay her for sexual abuse and defamation, according to reports. The Independent reported Trump’s legal team filed an emergency injunction on Tuesday. His team hopes the Supreme Court will grant what they characterize as…
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Why Yelena Is the Only Character We Really Care About in the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer
In the years since “Avengers: Endgame,” the MCU has inarguably struggled to find its footing again, after killing off or retiring of a whole lot of beloved characters without offering many reliable replacements. But with Jake Schreier’s “Thunderbolts*,” the franchise cemented that it found something sorely needed: an anchor. Namely, in Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova.…
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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of “The Odyssey” for People Allergic to Progressive Ideas
Is it possible to not like a movie in a normal way? Can it simply not be “your thing” without being transposed onto some intangible, ever-raging culture war? It certainly isn’t if you’re an anti-woke crusader like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Like a lot of very online right wingers who are suddenly qualified classicists, he’s…
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Mamdani says NYC can’t arrest Netanyahu, but the federal government should
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world’s top war-crimes court for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so. In the video, Mamdani described the Israeli prime minister as a “war criminal” and said he is…
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Trump immunity in question after judge finds tweet ‘poured gasoline’ on Jan. 6 riot
A federal judge opened the door for an appeals court to decide whether President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 tweet — sent as rioters stormed the Capitol — was protected by presidential immunity. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Wednesday that he would not reverse his earlier decision shielding the tweet from a civil lawsuit filed…