“SMART ePANTS” is the U.S. government’s $22 million program that seeks to make clothing that records audio, video, and location data.

Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s long-ago possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline.

Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.

“Worker mobility—the ability to find and take another job—is at the core of worker power,” economists at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, wrote last year.

Jimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter who drew millions of fans with his folksy tales of living and loving on tropical sandy beaches, frozen concoction in hand, died Friday night. He was 76. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” a statement on his website said. “He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.”

After the Anti-Defamation League spoke with X’s new CEO about hate speech, Musk boosts anti-ADL posts from an antisemite he reinstated to the platform

The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not anymore... Endless Thread cracks the case!

Thailand's king has commuted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's eight-year prison sentence to one year, the royal gazette said on Friday, a day after the billionaire submitted a request for pardon. The country's most famous politician returned to Thailand last week in a dramatic homecoming after 15 years abroad in self-exile to avoid jail time after he was ousted by the military in 2006. He arrived on a private jet and was transferred to prison to serve an eight-year sentence on charges of abuse of power and conflicts of interest from during his time in power. On the first night, he was moved to a police hospital over chest pains and high blood pressure. On Thursday he submitted a request for a royal pardon. Thaksin "was a prime minister, has done good for the country and people and is loyal to the monarchy," the royal gazette said on Friday. "He respected the process, admitted his guilt, repented, accepted court verdicts. Right now he is old, has illness that needs care from medical professionals," it read. Despite being away for 15 years, Thaksin remains an influential figure in Thai policies with parties loyal to him winning every election since 2001 until this year.

The geography professor didn’t hide his clown fetish or the fact that he sometimes indulged his urges by recruiting students as subjects. He posted regularly about it on social media. “I have a facepaint fetish and convince the cute girls in my classes to let me paint their faces,” he once wrote. Yet Joseph Tokosh held jobs at two colleges and was on the tenure track at a third before student journalists at Nicholls State University in Louisiana exposed his behavior. He submitted his resignation the same day their story was published. In this Reddit post, Joseph Tokosh shares images of women who's faces he painted. Tokosh was an instructor at the school, but that information isn't listed on his LinkedIn page. Note: The women's faces have been blurred by USA TODAY to protect their identity. His interactions with students and open discussion of his fetish happened in both mainstream and tailored digital spaces. He popped into Facebook groups geared toward new students and niche forums on websites like Reddit. He posted videos on YouTube. In one Reddit post on a forum meant to highlight hard-to-believe stories, Tokosh posted pictures of several women in white face paint.

A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.

One of the newcomers, wearing a blue romper and white cowboy boots, drags the other out of the porta-potty by her hair before kicking and punching the woman in the pink top. The fight ends when the woman in the blue romper fails to close one of the women in the stall. The fighter emerges from the loo, falling onto the ground in front of it.

Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone.

Police forcibly removed Janis Mensah from the St. Louis City Justice Center last night

Here’s what I know: I’m starting the long weekend off right with Shipwreck Friday.

Located near Fort William in the Highlands, the Old Boat of Caol - like many Scottish fables - has an origin tale that takes place on a dark and stormy night.

The US government has filed a motion to stop a Titanic expedition planned for 2024, citing a law that protects and preserves the shipwreck as a gravesite.

The wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, September 1, 1985. The ship sank on April 15, 1912.

“The water is so low that’s about the only thing you can get up and down on certain portions of our river right now, a jet ski,” said Bill Milner, who made the discovery.

The Florida governor's operation went to extraordinary lengths to intimidate a high school sophomore—all for a question about Donald Trump.

I’ll never forget the day, during the spring of 2016, when I witnessed Atlanta’s Black misleadership class firsthand. Members of the Housing Justice League, a resident-led organization borne of the Occupy movement, delivered public comment on the proposed development of an area surrounding a football stadium to the Atlanta City Council. City Hall was packed with students, elders, and families, many of whom had resisted the city’s callous destruction of their neighborhoods for years. I watched my mentors Sherise Brown, Alison Johnson, and other elders speak with passion about their love for their community and the history of extractive so-called development that they endured. When Bertha Darden, who was in danger of losing her home to eminent domain, came to the mic and choked up with tears, the majority-Black City Council looked back at us with careless expressions of boredom. (Mrs. Darden recently passed away; of the many brilliant activists I’ve known, she stood apart for her commitment to getting this city to do right by the people.) Keisha Lance Bottoms, who would become mayor in 2018, was on her phone when it was my turn to speak. Far from being a glib insult, the phrase “Black misleadership class,” popularized by the journalist Glen Ford, is essential to understanding the dynamics playing out in Atlanta today. “Cop City” is the derisive name local activists have given the $90 million (that we know of so far), 85-acre urban warfare practice facility schemed up via a collaboration between the Atlanta Police Foundation and the city’s business class in the wake of the 2020 uprisings. And who would sell Cop City to the people? First Bottoms and then her successor, Mayor Andre Dickens, and other Black Democratic officials who have aligned with corporate interests and Republicans — Brian Kemp, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Mary Norwood — to wage war against the multiracial, intergenerational, grassroots struggle to abolish Cop City. Cop City would not exist without the lie that the Black people who “run” this city are a part of my community.