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Massive brawl breaks out inside FIFA Fanzone on National Mall during USMNT World Cup game
Wild video shows hordes of soccer fans brawling inside a FIFA Fanzone on Washington’s National Mall during the US-Belgium World Cup clash, which the USMNT ultimately lost 4-1. Unruly fans scuffled and some threw punches amid Monday’s chaotic scenes that escalated after an argument between just two people, WJLA reported Tuesday. One man was seen…
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How Trump’s son-in-law sparked a revolt in Albania
The Trump family has had Albanians up in arms for over a month now, as anger over a luxury real estate development has grown into a protest movement against government corruption and what they see as a political system that protects the corrupt over its citizens. Many observers describe the demonstrations as Albania’s largest civic…
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Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email
Pete Holmes has achieved a jealousy-inducing feat: He spends very little time on his iPhone. To pull it off, Holmes keeps his phone in grayscale and has the screen-time widget displayed prominently on his home screen. He has a deep hatred for the tedium of responding to messages (“somehow all of life feels like we…
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The Demons of Maryville
Photographs by Houston Cofield From the outside, the church looked like a plain brick storefront, the mirrored windows peeling, a sign above painted white with blue letters. THE WELL, it read, and underneath, REVIVAL HUB. There were older and grander churches in Maryville, a college town in East Tennessee where you could barely drive a…
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Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Last week, somewhere amid the World Cup frenzy, a now-viral video circulated of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland mid-mouthful in a restaurant, glancing left and flinching at his own reflection. One post on X sharing the video racked up more than 31 million views in mere days. But here’s the thing: It isn’t him. Fact checkers…
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DMV could revoke thousands of California licenses due to mysterious testing ‘anomalies’
Thousands of Californians have received letters from the Department of Motor Vehicles informing them that irregularities were found in their written test results and that they will lose their licenses unless they retake the exam within 30 days. The letters have left many Californians scratching their heads as to what went wrong and scrambling to…
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Doctors issue warning over massively popular toy that’s hospitalizing children with excruciating injuries
Around the world, brightly-colored squishy toys marketed as harmless “sensory” gadgets designed to be squeezed, stretched and smushed have surged in popularity. But behind the viral appeal of NeeDoh toys, doctors say a dangerous pattern is emerging — one that is sending children and teens to the hospital with severe burns amid “blood-curdling screams” of…
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore
If gratification is so easy, why don’t you feel more gratified already? Because it’s gotten harder. It’s still easy to experience individual feats of gratification when you find them (or they find you). But the ordinary circumstances that once produced so much gratification have gradually receded. Unseen choices in design, business, and social life have…
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As L.A. struggles, these surprising communities are booming. What are they doing right?
When residents and business owners began talking about creating a city in the Santa Clarita Valley nearly three decades ago, few could have imagined the demographic juggernaut the region would become. Back then, it was a far-flung collection of four distinct communities: The very suburban Valencia, the historic towns of Saugus and Newhall and the…
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Voters love rent freezes. Economists hate them. Except for this one.
As America’s housing crisis deepens, policymakers are increasingly turning to an old idea for improving affordability: making large rent increases illegal. In recent years. Oregon, Washington, and California have enacted statewide rent controls. In 2024, the Biden administration floated a nationwide cap on rent increases for large buildings. And last month, New York’s Rent Guidelines…