The Sonoran desert toad produces both deadly and psychedelic poisons. It faces increasing poaching pressure because of its trippy toxins.

Dialogue has never been more unintelligible. Is there anything we can do, other than turn on the subtitles? In short: not really

A fitting tribute to one of pop music's most unique figures

Schwarzenegger was replying to suggestions Stallone made to The Hollywood Reporter that the action star feigned interest to toy with him.

One year ago, Britney Spears was freed from a notorious conservatorship. What possessed her father to seize near-total control of her life?

Alexander Tominsky ate 40 chickens in as many days and brought cheers to his city.

Amid the trollings, Elon Musk encourages his followers to vote Republican

An ode to the days when everything happened so much.

The puppeteer who gave a racist performance involving a Black puppet named “Sista Girl” during Touché’s 45th anniversary party said he is retiring the character. Puppeteer Jerry Halliday has faced backlash for last week’s performance, in which he spoke for the puppet using a stereotypical “Blaccent,” or voice that non-Black performers use to imitate Black vernacular, and told jokes about loving watermelon, being on welfare and having five kids. On Sunday, Halliday told Block Club he removed Sista Girl from his act. “I have permanently retired the Black puppet, just like the Rolling Stones recently retired their song ‘Brown Sugar’ when they received similar criticism,” Halliday said. “I continue with my other puppets full speed ahead.”

That amounts to less than 1% of the nearly 6m people employed by America’s technology companies. But it is nevertheless a rude shock for firms far more familiar with hiring than firing.

As world leaders gather for Cop27, these pictures prove that global heating isn’t a distant possibility – it’s already here

John R. Tyson, a fourth-generation of the Tyson family, was hired by the Tyson company in 2019. He serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer, according to the company's bio. He is responsible for the company's worldwide finance and accounting functions and also leads its sustainability and enterprise strategy teams.

A growing fast food chain is crying fowl after its plans to open a restaurant in Hobart were fried.

A new video released by a Chinese anti-corruption agency revealed a corrupt Chinese official’s unusual method of hiding his ill-gotten gains. Last April, authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang launched an official probe into Jiang Xunbo, a retired top official at the prefecture-level city of Quzhou, who was accused of receiving millions in bribes from different corporate executives. Jiang confessed a day after the investigation began. The video, posted on Sunday by the Zhejiang provincial supervisory committee on the social media platform WeChat, showed footage of officers raiding his mansion. They found bags after bags of frozen meat in his freezer, including chickens, ducks, and fish stuffed with plastic-wrapped gold bars and jewelery. They also uncovered stacks of debit and gift cards Jiang had buried under bamboo trees in his garden.

“It’s not so much the size of the brain that matters, but what the animal can do with what it’s got,” says arachnologist Fiona Cross of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return. Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information.

Tao Huabi rose from humble origins in south-western China to create a beloved condiment that can now be found in fridges around the world

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In the wake of Hurricane Ian, Florida’s teetering property insurance market has emerged as a late campaign issue in the state’s closely watched gubernatorial race, as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tests the waters for a 2024 presidential bid. Property insurance costs have nearly doubled under DeSantis, a major recipient of industry cash — and a little-noticed change to the state law governing “bad faith” insurance lawsuits pushed through by the governor and the GOP-controlled legislature this spring could make it harder than ever for homeowners now facing record levels of property damage to get a fair shake from their insurers. Consumer advocates and attorneys say the recent property insurance overhaul, billed by DeSantis as a fix for skyrocketing premiums and unreliable coverage, instead amounted to an industry bailout — and that not only did the legislation fail to help homeowners, it will also effectively hamper their ability to sue insurers that wrongfully deny, delay, or underpay claims.

Lake Powell wasn't always half empty. In 1983, the reservoir filled nearly to overflowing, saved by resourceful engineers and a lot of concrete.