The phrase ‘testicular fortitude’ stands for courage in the face of adversity, but, like, do testicles actually have that?

Recently, BuzzFeed decided to refer to QAnon as a collective delusion. Here's why that's not the best framework to discuss the movement.

Fifteen tons of fireworks. Jugs of kerosene and acid. Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. A system of corruption and bribes let the perfect bomb sit for years.

Aided by a trick of gravity, astronomers have found a normal galaxy. Big deal, right? The thing is, where they found it is not normal: The light we see from it left the galaxy 12.4 billion years ago, meaning we’re seeing it as it was when the Universe itself was only 1.4 billion years old!

Hundreds of Austrians have received U.S. coronavirus stimulus checks despite being ineligible, according to The Washington Post. Several of the recipients were puzzled to get the checks, including pensioner Manfred Barnreiter, 73, who said he believed he was the victim of a scam at first. “We quietly went to the bank … where we were told they’ll see if it’s real,” Barnreiter told Austrian public broadcaster ORF. “Three days later, we had the money in our bank account.” Barnreiter, who briefly worked in the U.S. in the 1960s, received the full $1,200, as did his wife. Neither are citizens of the U.S. or live there, which are required to be eligible for the checks.

A legal battle is trying to expose the inner workings of TrueAllele, game-changing software that attempts to identify criminals based on subtle traces of DNA. In the summer of 2013, Kern County law enforcement faced a serious problem. A series of women were reporting rapes in Bakersfield, California, a large industrial metropolis north of Los Angeles. The victims generally identified their attacker as a dark-skinned man wearing a ski mask and a hoodie. Despite a varied m.o., police believed a single perpetrator was responsible. He snuck into houses while the occupants were asleep. Sometimes he bound his victims with tape or zip ties. Sometimes he covered their faces. The local news began calling him the East Side Rapist. Police caught a break when they pulled over a man named Billy Ray Johnson, who was driving a red Chevy Caprice with an expired license. Johnson had a record of theft, assault, and domestic battery; he also had brass knuckles in his car. Soon, law enforcement began tracking Johnson’s cell phone, which would ping the police with his location every 15 minutes. For police, this data placed Johnson in the locations of the crimes on nights they were committed. A few months later, they arrested him. But the physical evidence linking Johnson to the crime was proving difficult to assess. The Kern County Forensics Lab had collected samples of DNA from the crime scenes. This included both blood stains and touch DNA, which is the material that transfers to a surface—like a windowsill or doorknob— from a person’s skin. There was some blood on a towel, and touch DNA on a vase, and some zip-ties. But most of these samples couldn’t be analyzed with typical methods: They were too fragile or included a mix of DNA from multiple people, a combination that makes analysis difficult. So the lab turned to TrueAllele, a program sold by Cybergenetics, a small company dedicated to helping law enforcement analyze DNA where regular lab tests fail. They do it with something called probabilistic genotyping, which uses complex mathematical formulas to examine the statistical likelihood that a certain genotype comes from one individual over another. It’s a type of DNA testing that’s becoming increasingly popular in courtrooms. Cybergenetics advertises that its program has been used in over 500 cases since 2009. STRmix, another company using a similar technique, has been used in thousands of cases. The TrueAllele tests determined that some of the DNA found at the crime scenes likely originated from Johnson—one sample had a one in 211 quintillion chance that it originated from someone else... But now legal experts, along with Johnson’s advocates, are joining forces to argue to a California court that TrueAllele—the seemingly magic software that helped law enforcement analyze the evidence that tied Johnson to the crimes—should be forced to reveal the code that sent Johnson to prison. This code, they say, is necessary in order to properly evaluate the technology. In fact, they say, justice from an unknown algorithm is no justice at all.

Parts of the work of the late Finnish visual artist Markus Copper may contain an explosive. Helsinki police are now trying to find the missing parts. Six parts of the late Finnish visual artist Markus Copper's Sixpack of Instant Death (1995) may contain an explosive. Helsinki police have reached half of the parts of the work, but three parts are still missing, the police informs.

Journalist Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" sent shockwaves across Washington on Wednesday that left the White House, Trump campaign and congressional Republicans scrambling to react to revelations that President Donald Trump concealed what he knew early on about how dangerous and deadly the coronavirus was.

The dull horror of watching the world burn over social media.

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s net worth plunged $16.3 billion Tuesday, the largest single-day wipeout in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the Tesla Inc. rout continued.The electric-carmaker fell 21% in New York trading -- the most ever -- on news of a partnership between competitors Nikola Corp. and General Motors Co., deepening a selloff that began last week after it was snubbed for inclusion in the S&P 500 Index.

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis slept in his clothes because of North Korea's missile launches amid the U.S.'s rocky relations with the regime in 2017, according to a new book on the Trump administration. The account comes from CNN's review of Bob Woodward's upcoming book, Rage, which is scheduled for release on September 15. According to the book, U.S.-North Korean relations were fragile and the potential for nuclear war was on the mind of the president's national security staff. Pyongyang fired roughly two dozen missiles in 2017, including its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, shortly after Donald Trump became president. As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continued to conduct missile and nuclear tests, Trump warned the regime of "fire and fury" if it threatened the U.S.. The situation concerned Trump's national security team, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who reportedly said, "We never knew whether it was real" or "a bluff."

What’s Halloween without trick-or-treating? Los Angeles County residents are about to find out. Citing the coronavirus, the county Department of Public Health has banned door-to-door or car-to-car trick-or-treating for Halloween, along with Halloween parties, carnivals and haunted houses. In the latest update to the county’s coronavirus health orders, the Department of Public Health states that such activities pose too much…

The whistleblower complaint also alleges that acting DHS deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli directed Murphy to modify a Homeland Threat Assessment report to make the threat of white supremacist violence "appear less severe."

Grizzly II is the sequel to 1976's Grizzly, a box office hit made to cash in on Jaws’ recent success by trading out shark-induced carnage for an 18-foot tall bloodthirsty bear. Its sequel follows an equally pissed-off bear who eats a whole lot of people in the area surrounding a huge outdoor concert after her cubs’ deaths at the hands of evil poachers. It was produced in partnership with Suzanne Nagy, who worked to “[represent] the Hungarian film industry” in America and ended up shooting on “a vast Soviet military base” outside of Budapest watched over by tanks and secret police.

A prominent guest blasted Airbnb and a host after finding what he described as “seemingly satanic items" in his Airbnb. The host calls the accusations “unsettling and weird.”

President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book "Rage." "This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7. In a series of interviews with Woodward, Trump revealed that he had a surprising level of detail about the threat of the virus earlier than previously known. "Pretty amazing," Trump told Woodward, adding that the coronavirus was maybe five times "more deadly" than the flu.

A whistleblower is alleging that top political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security repeatedly instructed career officials to modify intelligence assessments to ensure they matched up with misleading public comments from President Donald Trump about Antifa and "anarchist" groups, according to documents reviewed by CNN and a source familiar with the situation. Specifically, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Ken Cuccinelli, both Trump appointees, directed officials to change intelligence assessments based on Trump's political rhetoric, an order the whistleblower says amounted to an abuse of authority, according to the documents. Both Wolf and Cuccinelli also tried to alter a report to downplay the threat posed by White supremacists and instead emphasize the role of leftist groups due to concerns about how the initial language would reflect on the President, according to a source familiar with the claims raised by the whistleblower.

When a whale dies in the middle of the ocean, its corpse slowly drifts to the midnight-dark abyssal zone thousands of feet below the water’s surface. There, as the enormous carcass decomposes over the course of years, it sustains a flourishing array of bottom dwellers that pick apart the remains, in a phenomenon known as a “whale fall.” A similar event may soon unfold in the gun rights ecosystem as the National Rifle Association implodes. Following decades of self-dealing business practices and financial mismanagement that enriched the leadership, board members, and vendors of one of the country’s most feared political interest groups, the NRA may be forced to shut down for good. A lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James in August seeks to impose the rare corporate death penalty on the NRA, after an investigation revealed an organization so corrupt that her office contends it cannot be reformed. The death of the NRA would mark the end of an era, but the lawsuit won’t end the gun rights movement. Over its lifetime, the NRA has built up a massive organizational infrastructure, which will likely live on to sustain even more extreme pro-gun groups.

Joe Biden, upon first meeting his current campaign pollster John Della Volpe at a gala dinner in 2018, started taking notes from their conversation about the student debt crisis and gun violence on the back of a name placard at the table between speeches honoring former secretary of state Colin Powell. Biden made it clear that the issues facing young people were deeply personal to him, well before he announced his run for president, said Della Volpe, who last month took leave as director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics to start officially advising the Biden campaign on the youth vote. Biden spoke about helping pay off student loans taken on by his youngest daughter, Ashley, now 39, as “the kinds of things you do for your kids,” Della Volpe said. With less than eight weeks until the Nov. 3 election, the Biden campaign is making an urgent and final push to turn out the voting bloc that has proved to be his most elusive: young voters he struggled to win over in the crowded Democratic primary. Biden’s team, previously criticized for lackluster youth outreach, is now pulling out all the stops — bringing celebrities to virtual policy conversations and launching massive grass-roots outreach campaigns to better introduce Biden to younger voters and convince them he is attuned to their concerns.

Ottawa police officer who threatened to feed tenant "to the fish" demoted for one year.