The first time most Americans ever saw Jeffrey Clark, he was in his underwear. When the FBI raided his house in July 2022 in connection with the criminal investigation into Trump’s attempts to stay in power, Clark was only half dressed; he asked if he could go put on some pants, but they ordered him to come outside immediately while they searched his house. Videos of Clark standing in his doorway and then his driveway, wearing a blue dress shirt and what appeared to be black boxer briefs, were all over cable news.

One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?

Mere laws will not stop Dom's crew

This evidence includes numerous transcripts of audio recordings of disturbing comments from Giuliani about Dunphy, as well as Jewish people, Matt Damon, and Michael Bloomberg, certified by a court-reporting agency. Some of the transcripts show Giuliani in 2019 telling Dunphy, “I want to own you, officially… Legally, with a document.” Another transcript shows him calling her “my daughter” and “my little girl.” Transcripts also show him referring to Dunphy as “big tits” and saying, “Come here, big tits. Come here, big tits. Your tits belong to me. Give them to me [indiscernible]. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. These are my tits.” Others show Giuliani calling Dunphy “my bitch,” “my whore,” and “my fucking slut” at different points.

The State Election Board dismissed a case alleging that a political action committee engaged in vote-buying when it handed out $25 gas cards at campaign events for Republican Herschel Walker.

Niger coup presents a diplomatic dilemma for the West African bloc whose new leadership is keen to entrench a new order.

The actions represent an escalation of an ongoing investigation into allegations that McMahon had paid millions of dollars to women after being accused of sexual misconduct.

Since the early days of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, state troopers arresting migrants along the Rio Grande have been told to keep families together and send them to federal authorities to make their asylum claims. But in recent weeks, officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety have broken up at least two dozen families by detaining fathers on trespassing charges, while the other members — including small children — are transferred to Border Patrol agents, according to spouses and attorneys representing those migrants. In many of those cases, the attorneys told Hearst Newspapers, the fathers remain in state custody and have not seen their families since. The procedure appears to depart from written guidelines laid out by Texas officials in 2021 and harkens back to the Trump administration’s divisive “zero tolerance” policy, in which thousands of children were stripped from their parents in 2018.

Earlier this year Gallup published some incredible statistics, showing that gen Z is our queerest generation yet, with nearly 20 percent identifying somewhere under the broad LGBTQIA+ umbrella. (Some two-thirds of this group—13 percent of gen Z—identify as bisexual; about 2 percent of zoomers identify as trans.) When I was first coming out in the early 1990s, by contrast, “1 in 10” was a common gay slogan. How did we get here, with such wide differences in identification between generations? Are there actually more queer people now, or just more out queer people? Or are those the wrong questions to ask? Conservatives have been pushing two related theories to explain this uptick. First, there’s the “social contagion” theory, which holds that in a world drowning in representations of heterosexuality and cisgenderness, meeting a single trans person, reading a book with a bisexual character in it, or encountering nonbinary pronouns on TikTok can totally destabilize the identity of an otherwise “normal” child. It’s amazing how fragile heterosexuality and cisness are in this formulation—almost like they’re socially manufactured identities, backed by huge amounts of ideological infrastructure, peer pressure, media recruitment, and social policing. Well, I guess conservatives aren’t wrong about everything. Another theory, sometimes offered in tandem with the contagion idea and sometimes in slight opposition to it, is the “snowflake” theory: the idea that zoomers are confused, or pretending, or signaling solidarity, or just want attention, and thus their “identities”—pansexual, ace (as in asexual), genderflux, enby, and so on—aren’t even “real.” In part, this is just another version of the contagion fear. But there’s something else going on, something a little more interesting, which—in a roundabout way—can help to explain why I think we are asking some of the wrong questions about this uptick in queer identification. This particular queerphobic explanation adds additional requirements to clear the bar of “queerness”: it has to last this long or you have to be attracted to this many people of the same sex, or you have to felt this way from birth. In other words, this is an argument about what it means to be queer: what factors matter in terms of defining sexuality and gender, and who gets to decide. In some ways, this is a discussion humanity is always having, and these ideas are constantly shifting over time.

Humanity may be in the throes of another breakthrough that's every bit as impactful as the invention of the transistor and the advent (and eventual vindication) of quantum computing. LK-99, as it's been named, is a new compound that researchers believe will enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Initially published by a Korean team last Friday, frantic work is underway throughout the research world to validate the paper's claims. For now, two separate sources have already provided preliminary confirmations that this might actually be the real thing — Chinese researchers have even posted video proof. Strap in; this is a maglev-powered, superconducting ride.

The Chesterfield County police department is withholding nearly all of its police officers names from public view, arguing a novel interpretation of Virginia’s FOIA law and frustrating a local police oversight group.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades.

The Story County Attorney's Office has filed a criminal complaint against Iowa State University quarterback Hunter Dekkers, charging him with tampering with records related to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s probe into sports gambling. Dekkers is accused of placing 26 wagers on Iowa State sporting events, including the 2021 football game against Oklahoma State when he was a sophomore backup quarterback, according to the complaint, filed in Iowa District Court for Story County. Dekkers did not play in that game. The complaint alleges the DraftKings account controlled by Dekkers completed approximately 366 mobile/online sports wagers totaling “over $2,799.” Dekkers, who started all 12 of the Cyclones' games last season, would face permanent loss of eligibility under NCAA guidelines that prohibit athletes from wagering on their own games or other sports at their own schools. Dekkers will not participate in Iowa State's fall preseason camp practices in order to "focus on his studies and on the defense of this criminal charge," according to a statement released by his attorneys. All told, three current and one former Iowa State athlete were charged Tuesday with tampering with records in an attempt to disguise their identities while placing sports wagers. All are accused of manipulating transactions to create the appearance that their bets were placed by other people.

The business model depends on "triggering" liberals — but they're running out of progressives to bait

A Boston police officer, in full uniform, was caught on camera coming down a children’s slide at the newly renovated playground at City Hall Plaza. It appears the officer got a faster ride than he bargained for when he tried out the slide. The video, showing the officer tumbling out of the slide in his uniform, went viral on social media sites. It got millions of views on Tik Tok. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said she had not seen the video when reporters asked her about it Tuesday afternoon, but she praised the upgraded play space.

The Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada was hacked on Sunday night, and the names and personal details of over 92,000 donors were leaked online.

The Lehman-like collapse of a(nother) private equity–owned ER operator has physicians calling louder than ever for a strike.

Removing endangered species protections would put the species on a path toward extinction.

Fans of the popular YouTuber have described the Mr. Beast-branded meals as ‘disgusting’

A Dallas zoologist describes what it's like to make massive, macabre ice treats for big cats in the sweltering heat.