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California man used a pickaxe to kill his teen half-brother with cerebral palsy
A 26-year-old California man has admitted using a pickaxe to kill his younger half-brother with cerebral palsy in Ventura County, according to prosecutors. Zuberi Kalaikulokahiokalani Sharp pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on March 30 and admitted to the special allegation that he personally inflicted great bodily injury, used a weapon to commit the crime and
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‘Trump is evil’: White supremacist Nick Fuentes turns on ‘wicked’ president over Iran
President Donald Trump’s war with Iran is too much for self-described white supremacist Nick Fuentes to handle. During a new episode of his podcast “America First”on Tuesday, Fuentes reflected on an Easter threat Trump sent to Iran via his Truth Social platform. “He said, quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all
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Academy Sets 2027 and 2028 Oscars Dates
The Academy Awards, for now, will remain in March. On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the dates for the final two ceremonies hosted on ABC. The 99th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 14, 2027, while the landmark 100th Oscars ceremony will air on Sunday, March 5, 2028.
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The iPhone Gets a D- for Repairability
The iPhone is the least fixable phone on the market, according to repairability experts. Phones from Samsung and Google are not far behind. The latest repairability ratings are from an annual report called “Failing the Fix” put out today by the consumer advocacy group US Pirg. The groups says this is the first report since
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Ukrainian forces operating in Libya have attacked a Russian tanker, officials say
CAIRO — Ukrainian forces are operating in western Libya under a covert deal endorsed by the West, and they used the Northern African country’s territory to strike a Russian tanker in the Mediterranean last month, two Libyan officials said Tuesday. The Russian-flagged Arctic Metagaz, carrying 61,000 tons of liquefied natural gas, was badly damaged in a suspected
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Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medicine can help.
Editor’s note, April 7, 2026, 5:10 pm ET: The Artemis II mission is conducting experiments that may radically advance our understanding of space medicine. The findings of A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response (AVATAR) experiment could help us create personalized medical kits for astronauts, and the Artemis Research for Crew Health & Readiness (ARCHeR) study will
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Pam Bondi tried to save her job by investigating a star January 6 witness: report
The civil rights division of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is investigating Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump administration staffer who was a star witness in the investigation of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, for allegedly lying to Congress. According to The New York Times’ Michael Schmidt, “The move was a highly
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In Key Senate Races, Schumer Willing to Help Candidates Who Want Him Gone
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer is finding some of his preferred candidates in key Senate races are struggling in their Democratic primaries. —Alex Wong—Getty Images This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Chuck Schumer might have to swallow
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Puppeteer James Ortiz on becoming Rocky, the adorable alien in ‘Project Hail Mary’
Unruly salt-and-pepper hair in a long quaff, round glasses and broad smile give James Ortiz the look of a whimsical inventor, the kind that hides away in his workshop crafting extraordinary artifacts. That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.
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Trump launched Iran war as Epstein files accusations closed in
WASHINGTON — In the days before the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, a South Carolina woman’s account of being sexually abused by President Donald Trump when she was 13 years old was closing in on the front pages of America’s newspapers. The FBI had interviewed her four