COVID-19 has reawakened America’s spirit of misdirected anxiety, inspiring businesses and families to obsess over risk-reduction rituals that make us feel safer but don’t actually do much to reduce risk—even as more dangerous activities are still allowed. This is hygiene theater.

Inspiration to rank arena weiners came from Rayside-Balfour hockey coach.

Chrissy Teigen's Twitter feed is a wild and wonderful place. She's constantly sharing selfies, clapping back at trolls, and sometimes, she even asks people if they have fresh ingredients she can have to make her famous banana bread. One of her latest retweets stirred up a lot of conversation on the app, as it includes a video of a woman draining—and rinsing–her rice after it's been cooked.

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)nce the dust settles, and we look back on the decade that has just ended, my guess is that we will come to see the countless post-Y2K promises of artificial intelligence and machine learning for what they really were: immensely successful if you go by Bloomberg tickers and ad engagement, but empty in delivering on their utopian promises. Google promised to democratize information access. Instead, its algorithms reinforced the marginalization of women and people of color, and it mostly ...

The group explored this scenario: What if President Trump refuses to concede a loss, as he publicly hinted recently he might do? How far could he go to preserve his power?

Even before Senate Republicans roll out a proposal on the next coronavirus relief package, top Trump administration officials are already pushing a backup plan in case negotiations stall.

During media appearances Sunday, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Congress could take an issue-by-issue approach to coronavirus relief, an idea House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has already rejected.

“Honestly, I see us being able to provide ...

A day after roaring ashore as a hurricane, Hanna lashed the Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday with high winds and drenching rains that destroyed boats, flooded streets and knocked out power across a region already reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases.

Downgraded to a tropical storm, Hanna hovered over the U.S.-Mexico border in the morning with winds near 50 mph (85 kph), the National Hurricane Center said. It was expected to unload as much as 18 inches of rain (45 centimetres) on parts of ...

Police in the US city of Seattle clashed with crowds marching in support of anti-racism protests, in one of the most tense of several rallies held across the country on Saturday.

Officers used stun grenades and pepper spray, as protesters set a fire and broke windows. The march was in support of ongoing protests in Portland.

Forty-five people were arrested while 21 officers were injured.

In Austin, Texas one man was killed during a Black Lives Matter march.

Police said initial ...

The U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants to carry a gun.

Despite being assigned to one of the safest countries in the world, Jeffrey Ross Gunter has been "paranoid" about his security since coming to Reykjavik last year, according to a dozen diplomats, government officials, former officials and individuals familiar with the situation. As a result, Gunter wanted the State Department to obtain special permission from the Icelandic government for him to have a firearm. He also wanted door-to-door ...

The Sinclair Broadcast Group said Saturday it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus.

Sinclair spokesman Michael Padovano said Sinclair hopes to add context and other viewpoints and still air the controversial segment on the next week’s edition of “America This Week.”

Meanwhile, Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, talked in detail in a new podcast ...

The doors were locked.

Rows of pews were taped off.

The guests were arriving, as instructed, from an underground parking garage through a back door that led to the church interior.

Then a city official crashed the wedding, which took place in early July in SS Peter and Paul’s Church, with its picturesque edifice overlooking Washington Square Park in North Beach.

The pastor did not seem surprised by the official’s order to stop the proceedings, according to a city report, and the ...

Rapper, YouTube personality and convicted fraudster Blaxican allegedly made threats to several state officials in a series of emails and music videos because he felt he was unfairly prosecuted and had his possessions illegally seized.

Electric Brands, a company out of Germany, has plans to bring its eye-catching eBussy to the market next year.


The intriguing eBussy is underpinned by an electric platform and is fully modular, meaning it can be transformed from a regular minivan into a tipper truck, a pickup, and various other forms. In fact, there are 10 different body styles that will be offered and the eBussy can be easily converted from left- to right-hand drive, or even center-drive, by simply sliding the steering ...

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — At Wansho Laundry in central Taiwan, most dirty clothes dropped off to be steamed or washed or dry-cleaned end up right back in the hands of their rightful owners, cleaner than when they arrived.

Abandoned garments, however, can end up on Instagram.

The blouses and skirts and trousers adorn the bodies of the laundry’s octogenarian owners, Chang Wan-ji and Hsu Sho-er, who have become globally famous for modeling outfits curated from the hundreds of forgotten items ...

Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School teen at the heart of an encounter last month with a Native American activist, is suing The Washington Post for $250 million. He is also threatening legal action against The Associated Press and other news organizations. In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in Kentucky, Nicholas Sandmann and his parents alleged that the Post had engaged in "targeting and bullying" and modern "McCarthyism."

Mostly, a child is so abstract to me, living with high rent, student debt, no property and no room, that the absence barely registers.

Millions of jobless Americans are anxiously waiting for Congress to decide whether to extend the $600 weekly boost to unemployment benefits that's been a key economic lifeline through the pandemic shutdowns.
This was the last week for which unemployed workers will receive the enhanced payment, even though the coronavirus relief program technically doesn't expire until July 31. That's because payments are only provided for weeks ending on either Saturday or Sunday.
Senate Republicans remain ...

Members of the so-called “men’s rights” movement want to get one thing straight: while a prominent member allegedly killed a judge’s son, seriously wounded her husband, and was implicated in the killing of another activist, it should not reflect badly on their community.

In fact, the most deranged strand of the insular crowd’s alternately panicked and dismissive reaction to a bizarre internal beef spilling out into spectacular murders was the idea that all the shootings were a ...

The situation was not always as dire in this rural South Texas county.

Starr County once went about three weeks without a COVID-19 case at the beginning of the pandemic. It banned large gatherings, tested hundreds of residents a day, issued stay-at-home orders and required face masks — many of the same mandates now commonplace across the U.S. The poor and mostly Latino county on the Mexico border was containing COVID-19.

“A model for the country,” Starr County Judge Eloy Vera said ...

A new cache of documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein may soon come to light, U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska ruled today. As a result of her ruling, reams of documents concerning Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against Maxwell could be unsealed as early as next week, amounting to hundreds of pages of depositions (by Maxwell, Giuffre, and other still-anonymous accusers), correspondence, exhibits, and more, all of which Maxwell’s lawyers have argued ...