Venezuela’s government has accused the United States of attacking civilian and military sites after at least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard early Saturday in Caracas.

Elected Democrats haven’t done nearly enough to oppose attacks on gender-affirming care. They risk being on the wrong side of history.

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

Tony Dokoupil, who’s set to helm “CBS Evening News” starting Monday, criticized legacy media outlets for some of their coverage and pledged to be transparent with viewers in his new role anchoring the network’s flagship news program.

We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium Limestone, representing the genera Hoploscaphites, Baculites and Fresvillia. In order to elucidate the nature of these fossils, we study their local depositional settings, based on detailed, chiefly taphonomic and sedimentological (microfacies) observations. Results for the main part of the Cerithium Limestone point to the autochthonous nature of the enclosed ammonites, which implies that they are Danian survivors. Only a single individual from the lowermost part of the Cerithium Limestone is considered a reworked Maastrichtian fossil. In summary, our results confirm ammonite survival into the Danian for the bulk of the Cerithium Limestone fauna, stimulating questions for further research of what actually killed the last ammonites that lived on Earth.

We connected King’s Quest creator Roberta Williams to comedy writer Mike Drucker, who may be her biggest fan, for a conversation about the series’ legacy and a generation’s connection to it.

Stewart is best known for producing and hosting the nationally broadcast PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. Computer Chronicles aired from 1984 to 2002, producing more than 400 episodes that documented the rise of the personal computer from its earliest days. Net Cafe, which aired from 1996 to 2002, explored the emergence of the internet. Both programs were widely regarded as visionary, capturing the evolution of personal computing and the early development of the digital age. Stewart’s professional interests and talents were wide-ranging. After leaving television production, he worked as a consultant for the Internet Archive, helping to preserve and provide public access to cultural and technological media, including Computer Chronicles and other technology programs.

As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. Internal documents seen by Reuters reveal its tactics, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them.

An artificial intelligence that writes police reports had some explaining to do after it claimed earlier this month that a Heber City officer had shape-shifted into a frog.

Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

Here are a few of the ways Canadians tried to put more power behind their purchase and travel choices in 2025 — and how those decisions may have impacted the U.S. economy.

An increased markup on canteen goods adds to the financial burden on incarcerated people and their families, highlighting how prison systems squeeze them for revenue.

In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US

An authoritarian government, a captured press and cowardice at the head of most major institutions led to a year of losses for trans people’s safety and equality in the US.

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight. In a good and just society, it would have been possible to bury Charlie Kirk without either threatening mass violence toward his enemies or making light of his death with a furry sex meme. But America in 2025 did not remotely resemble a working society, let alone a civil one, and Kirk’s killing came prepackaged with its own desecrating shitposts. There was, briefly, an attempt at a national mood of somberness. The president ordered flags across the nation to be lowered to half-staff. Politicians, celebrities, and other public figures — even those not aligned with Kirk on the right — rushed out with condolences and grief, painting completely unrecognizable pictures of a man who was a once-in-a-generation talent at getting a rise out of other people. “Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way,” wrote the liberal pundit Ezra Klein in The New York Times, describing him as “one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion.” Kirk’s megachurch memorial service was well-attended, with additional solemnities elsewhere in the form of the ritual sacrifices of random people’s jobs. A Reuters investigation would later find more than 600 people who had been fired, suspended, or investigated for social media posts they made about Charlie Kirk — some of them merely quoting Kirk, a professional asshole who, among other things, pushed the “great replacement” theory and myths of white genocide.

Tara Reade, a former aide to Joe Biden, has received Russian citizenship. She earlier accused Biden of harassment, which he denied. After moving to Russia, she appeared in Russian state media and criticized the United States. Her citizenship was granted under special Russian rules created during the Ukraine war.

Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule

From their cozy homes in suburban Burlington, children curiously watch their new neighbors through windows and brainstorm nicknames. Earlier in December, with their distinctive brown fur, big heads, short horns and back hump, a small herd of six American buffalo—the largest land mammals in the country—exited a trailer and took their first steps on 38 acres of prairie restored by the Kane County Forest Preserve District, 60 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. It's the first time in over two centuries that bison have called the county home.

In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door.