Iran has accused the U.S. of planning to commit war crimes. Also Trump shat himself again.

Prediction market platform Polymarket issued an apology for allowing users to place bets on the fate of American pilots aboard a U.S. fighter jet downed over Iran. A two-seater F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down on Friday, according to a U.S. official. One crew member was rescued, but the other remains missing. In a since-deleted market, users were able to wager on when the pilots might be rescued, with the majority predicting a Saturday rescue. “US confirms pilots rescued by...?” the market read. Rep. Seth Moulton, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, slammed the market in a post on X, noting that bets were being placed as a dangerous search and rescue operation was ongoing in Iran. "They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member," the Democrat from Massachusetts wrote. "And people are betting on whether or not they’ll be saved." "This is DISGUSTING," he added. In a reply to Moulton's X post, Polymarket apologized and said it took the market down.

Details about the safety concerns that led to the strike on the set of Jonathan Majors' Daily Wire action film have emerged.

The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

News outlets in Iran share photos of wreckage and what appears to be an ejection seat with an attached parachute.

The "cicada" COVID variant may evade immunity and spread faster, the CDC warned. Here are the symptoms to watch for. (Adobe Photo)

The PrSM detonates just before contact with its target, exploding into a spray of tungsten pellets.

The president announced Bondi’s exit in a post Thursday on Truth Social.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

There’s no “Cutest Critter in Florida” contest but, if there were, I can name a few contestants. The diminutive Key deer, for one. The seagrass-munching manatee for another. And, of course, the friendly Florida scrub jay. You may not be familiar with the scrub jay. Contrary to what The Trashmen used to sing, not everybody’s heard about the bird. They’re classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, which means they’re not fluttering all over the state. If you’re lucky enough to spot one, though, you’ll find it quite charming. I once visited Oscar Scherer State Park in Osprey accompanied by a ranger who knew how to summon scrub jays. One swooped in and landed right on my photographer’s head. It stood there as the photographer handed me her camera and I took the bird’s picture. Not everyone is a fan of these little birds, though. While I was in Charlotte County recently, I heard about a lawsuit aimed at robbing scrub jays of their federal protection. Michael Colosi is an Ave Maria resident who’s been described as “a young tech entrepreneur.” He recently moved to Florida from New Jersey. In 2024, he bought a 5-acre parcel in Punta Gorda and planned to build a house there. But because the parcel is in scrub jay habitat, he’s required to pay Charlotte County a hefty fee.

“You’re holding the guitar wrong.” I’m sitting across from Fabián Carrera, guitar professor at Whitworth University. It’s our first lesson. He has just strummed “Happy Birthday” and asked me to play it back to him. I’ve not yet played a note and he has already offered a correction. “When we get into more technical material, you’ll want the guitar up like this,” Carrera says. He shifts his guitar so that the neck is no longer parallel to the floor but running diagonal to it. “And your wrist, flat. That will make it easier to play quick.” He gives me a footstool. I put my left foot on it, and as my guitar raises into classical posture, my clawed wrist straightens into an easy, natural, comfortable position. I strum “Happy Birthday.” “Good. Can you play it like this?” Carrera asks, fingerpicking the chords as he sings along. This, too, I do. We go back and forth, each rendition of “Happy Birthday” a little more difficult than the previous. “And this? Can you do it like this?” Carrera now plucks the melody in single notes. I stumble a bit finding the melody but after two tries get it. “Now, listen to this,” he says, and here, Carrera plays the song with jazz chords—a major chord to begin, then some major and minor seventh chords, a ninth, and a diminished too, as he ascends the fretboard. The song is over before I can process what I’ve heard. I strum the first chord, stumble into the second, and then my fingers fail. “Okay then,” Carrera says. “This is where we begin.”

Documents obtained by KMVT revealed the sheriff was under investigation leading up to his announcement.

Video posted on social media depicts a rendering of the proposed 50-storey gargantuan structure decked in gold

On January 10th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan and put on quite a performance. He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He detailed how the Biden administration had apparently pressured Meta to take down content — how officials called and screamed and cursed — and how, going forward, he was a changed man. A champion of free expression, done forever with government demands to remove content. And a whole bunch of people (especially MAGA folks) cheered all this on. Zuckerberg was a protector of free speech against government suppression! Twenty-four days later, he texted Elon Musk — a senior government official at the time — to volunteer to remove content the government wouldn’t like. Unprompted. As I wrote at the time, the whole Rogan interview was an exercise in misdirection. The “pressure” Zuck kept describing was the kind of thing the Supreme Court explicitly found, in the Murthy case, was standard-issue government communication — the kind of thing Justice Kagan said happens “literally thousands of times a day in the federal government.” The Court called the lower court’s findings of “censorship” clearly erroneous. And Zuck himself kept admitting, over and over, that Meta’s response to the Biden administration was to tell them no.

The sheriffs’ union spent thousands to cast the deputy at Ward 86 as a hero, even after clinic staff said they'd stopped the attack.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to tighten voting rules by creating a national list of eligible voters and limiting mail ballots.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” – treatment intended to change a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for young people back to the lower courts for them to apply a new standard. By a vote of 8-1, the justices agreed with Kaley Chiles, the licensed counselor challenging the law, that the ban discriminates against her based on the views that she expresses in her talk therapy. A federal appeals court, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, should have applied a more stringent standard of review, known as strict scrutiny, to determine whether the law violates the First Amendment as applied to Chiles. But the Supreme Court also strongly hinted that the ban would fail that test. In his 23-page opinion, Gorsuch stressed that in cases like Chiles’, Colorado’s ban “censors speech based on viewpoint.” Because the First Amendment “reflects … a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth,” Gorsuch continued, “any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault on both of those commitments.” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter. She argued that the majority’s opinion “could be ushering in an era of unprofessional and unsafe medical care administered by effectively unsupervised healthcare providers.”