I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get them down on the page... Olympic sport bodies have largely fallen in line with the new IOC party line that "sex assigned at birth" is how athletes should be categorized, and that "open" gender competition should be offered should transgender athletes not feel comfortable competing in events that don't match their current sex. Professional sports in the United States has largely stayed out of this eligibility mess because let's face it, trans people in the U.S. face too much systemic barriers to become professional athletes. There's only been a handful of transgender Olympic athletes, and all but one competed in events for their birth sex and have delayed hormone replacement therapy to continue their athletic careers. As someone who delayed HRT for over a year for personal medical reasons I can tell you that doing so is absolute hell. This matters because the WNBA continues to be in an endless news cycle about transfeminine athletes. I'm not going to recount all the details of how we got here, but in the last few days two sports opinion writers felt emboldened to talk about how they wished they could write columns about, and offer support for each other. Now two people do not make an industry, but the support that these men are receiving online is disheartening in the sense that it appears there are more people in the sportswriting industry that share the same views. I would not be surprised if we see similar columns come out in the next few days or weeks. There's never been a trans woman who played in the WNBA. There may never be one. But, there is an entire media ecosystem now devoted to the idea that the specter of trans women taking over women's sports is just one misguided policy away. And that the brave heroes pointing this out against the "outrage mob" are the ones saving women's sports.

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.

Image captured in early June shows animal foraging in the waterway in first since early 1900s, signaling its recovery

A report commissioned by L.A. County finds that the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will cost 4,500 production jobs over three years.

Eight years of painstaking research on the virtually unknown Wolffsohn's viscacha have helped to shine the spotlight on this super-rare South American rodent and catalyze the conservation action it so urgently needs. BirdLife International and the Wildlife Conservation Society—a team of early-career conservationists from Argentina has transformed our understanding of a species that scientists knew almost nothing about. The detailed information that the team has compiled about Wolffsohn's viscacha and the threats it faces has led to a change in the species' official conservation status from Data Deficient to Endangered on Argentina's Red List. At the same time, the data is being used to help reassess its status on the global IUCN Red List.

Fire crews from several municipalities responded to a large structure fire at a cannabis facility in Aldersyde, Alta.

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026

"You may regret for 80 minutes if you watch it, but if you don't, you'll regret it for life," one popular social media post about the film said. Other social media users have hailed the movie as the antidote to the AI slop that is taking over social media algorithms.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial — in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration. Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf. “Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!” he added.

“If you don’t want to listen to your constituents, then we’re really just going to get another Republican,” she said as she walked away. “Yeah, I don’t think so. There’s a huge difference,” Vindman responded. “You’re walking away, but I am Jewish, and I’m an immigrant, ma’am.” The woman said she was walking away because of how he had responded to people raising concerns.

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is scheduled to be in federal court Friday for a hearing at which he’s expected to plead guilty in connection with the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter. Mangione could still change his mind about the plea, said the person, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Previous plea talks in June broke down. Lawyers for Mangione and the Justice Department declined comment prior to the late-morning court hearing, which was hastily requested by prosecutors and defence lawyers earlier this week.

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the two women I overheard whispering about how they wanted to fuck Adam Bede, in one of my undergrad classes; the student of mine who disclosed that he loved The House of Mirth because “something similar happened to me recently” (????); or the guy who collects swords as a way into understanding the medieval period are examples of this type. You’ve certainly met these people or been taught by them; they are often motivated by personal attachments to specific works, and my hunch is that they represent the majority of those who care about art today. Secondary Source People are different; they become obsessed with the discourse about the objects being studied. Professional critics, “theory bros” (gender neutral), Letterboxd reviewers who primarily read other Letterboxd reviews, the weirdly combative people in your seminars who know all about the different scholarly camps on a topic—this group prioritizes the conversations, contexts, and conflicts surrounding the works above and beyond the works themselves. Secondary Source People are the main contingent both producing and consuming academic writing. For them, the question of a text’s beauty or capacity to immerse is less important than how its ideas expand or contract as we engage with them.

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to observe a climate group and into churches, and obtained financial records for labor unions, as they sought to crack down on mass protests in Minneapolis following the Trump administration’s surge of federal officers into the city, attorneys alleged in a new filing. The effort began in earnest four days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. On Jan. 28, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, started what it called “Operation Puppet Master,” the filing says. That investigation was targeted at “an organized network of conspirators operating through online and in person who are providing material support to violent opportunists and agitators involved in impeding federal law enforcement, rioting, destruction of Federal property and assaults on Federal agents and Officers.”

A grand jury in Louisiana has declined to indict a former law enforcement officer who was accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival.

For a month this spring, Melon was truly living up to her name. She had always been a round cat but never quite this gourd-like—small neck billowing out to a majestic corpulence.

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.

According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’

Smart, sociable squid use funnel-like organ to force water to jet propel themselves along in and out of sea

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.