Judd Stone resigned after admitting to the statements, a letter circulated at the Texas Attorney General's office states.

Digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush saw the video, and got it immediately. “Welcome to the hypernormalization club,” Harfoush said in a response video. “I’m so sorry that you’re here.” “Hypernormalization” is a heady, $10 word, but it captures the weird, dire atmosphere of the US in 2025.

The Canadian psychologist and author refused to say whether he was a Christian in a debate with 20 atheists.

President Donald Trump pardoned a former Virginia sheriff sentenced to 10 years on federal bribery charges. Editor's Note: this is a county over from me. Fucking gross.

US Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday said the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule. The immunization schedule posted online had not yet been changed as of Tuesday morning.

My first job was as a cashier at the notorious Tivoli Theatre in New York City. I was a wholesome-looking 15-year-old, selling tickets for the Sunday showings of the latest Greek tearjerker or comedy. I knew the Tivoli showed porn on weekdays, but the owner and my mother's friend, Chelly Wilson, kept the Greek movie screenings for sentimental reasons, even at a financial loss. Protected in a cubicle that stood just outside the theatre, practically on the sidewalk, I was perfectly positioned to observe the world go by on 8th Avenue in Manhattan, which might sound swanky now but was downright raunchy at the time. During the 1970's, this notorious Times Square neighbourhood was nicknamed 'The Deuce' and home to porn theatres, prostitution and drug use. Seeing all those people on the street — swarming outside peep shows — was a real shot of adrenalin.

A former police chief in Arkansas, serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape, escaped from prison Sunday, state corrections officials said. Grant Hardin, the former police chief of the tiny town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, where he has been held since 2017. Corrections officials did not provide any details about how he escaped. They did say that Hardin had disguised himself and was “wearing a makeshift outfit designed to mimic law enforcement when he escaped the North Central Unit.”

A man believed to be on drugs was shot and killed Monday by Florida sheriff's deputies who had tried to shock him with a Taser as he wielded a set of garden shears shortly after he was apparently bitten by an alligator in a lake, a sheriff said. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters the two deputies were trying to de-escalate the situation before the man, identified as 42-year-old Timothy Schulz, climbed into their running patrol vehicle and tried to get the weapons inside. That's when the deputies opened fire, Judd said.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican police seized five capybaras, crack cocaine and marijuana after chasing down a fleeing vehicle on a highway along the Central American country’s Pacific coast on Thursday. The large rodents are a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig and happen to be having a moment on social platforms. But they are not native to Costa Rica, and the Public Security Ministry said Thursday that possessing, transporting or trafficking them is illegal. The agency said it had never recorded another seizure of the animals.

A 34-year-old Chester man was cited for public intoxication on Saturday after he was seen eating grass outside a Fredericksburg hotel, according to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. A sheriff’s deputy responded around 6:46 p.m. to the Holiday Inn Express at 560 Warrenton Road for the report of someone rolling on the ground and eating grass. The deputy found the man lying on the ground along with multiple cans of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, according to the incident report.

Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Violence broke out as ultranationalist Jews streamed into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City.

A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur. But they’re not related and not even the same species. Scientists spotted surprising evidence of what they describe as monkey kidnappings while reviewing video from a small island of Panama. The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023.

NEW YORK — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, shocked and led to believe that his family was in danger if he didn’t give up his Bitcoin password. John Woeltz, 37, was arrested Friday night after the victim escaped from the eight-bedroom town house and flagged down a traffic officer on the street for help, according to prosecutors.

'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson has died at age 79. His daughter-in-law Korie Robertson shared the news in a Facebook post on Sunday, May 25, months after his family revealed in December 2024 that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary argued that insulin should be withheld from people with diabetes and replaced with "cooking classes." During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Makary promoted a report from President Donald Trump's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commi...

The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

In Liv Schmidt’s subscriber-only group chat, her followers — some of them in high school — encourage one another to achieve their weight-loss goals.

Cedric Lodge admitted to transporting and selling stolen human remains across multiple states from 2018 to at least March 2020, prosecutors said.

The administration is forcing existing students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other schools.

The congresswoman’s former political adviser claims she tried to extort two homes from her fiancé.