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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in New Hampshire. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Donald Trump, who propelled his political career with the lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, is again spreading baseless claims about who is and isn’t legally qualified to serve ...

Sitting in silence is, for some, an experience more dreadful than physical pain. One oft-cited study from 2014 found that many people would rather give themselves electric shocks than spend just a few minutes alone with their thoughts. So don’t be ashamed if you’d rather listen to a podcast while you shower than bat...

House Speaker Mike Johnson holds a news conference on Capitol Hill. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Last week, House Republicans once again struggled to meet the most basic obligation of a governing party as roughly half its members effectively voted to force a government shutdown. This was only the latest chapter in Co...

Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Pakistan activists protest in Lahore on January 19, 2024, after Iran launched an airstrike in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province. Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images Iran and Pakistan traded missile attacks over the past week, supposedly as part of each nation’s efforts to disrupt violenc...

Rust’s chaotic production resulted in the death of a cinematographer when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun accidentally discharged. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images By all accounts, it was an accident everyone saw coming, but the questions and chaos surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have only grown mo...

In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by t...

The Traitors has a very big table where all the backstabbing happens! Euan Cherry/Peacock There are some slight spoilers regarding the first three episodes of The Traitors season two. The first four episodes of The Traitors are streaming on Peacock. Comic book devotees have the Avengers. Sports geeks have All-Star G...

Much of the US is experiencing frigid cold temperatures, but winters have been warming across the country in recent decades. Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images Bitter cold continues to grip the United States as unusual freezing temperatures stretch as far south as Florida this week. Even more chilly weather is...

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at the US Capitol ahead of the government funding deal. Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty Images On Thursday, Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown, one day before a January 19 funding deadline. That’s welcome news: Government employees won’t be furloughed and programs won’t ...

It’s a common observation that modern-day politics increasingly resembles fandom: Both feature communities created around and united by passion, and both are often heavily fixated on a single public figure. Many pundits are now calling right-wing voters “the Trump fandom,” as though there’s little difference between...

Police officers stand outside the New York Times headquarters in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spo...

Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China. This in itself was not unusual. Myanmar’s milit...