Earlier this year, the Malibu beach house directly between Bobby LaBonge and Lloyd Ahern’s properties sold for more than either of them would have expected, even considering that it sits along the famous Pacific Coast Highway. "There's no doubt they paid too much money," Ahern told Motherboard. "We thought, 'Oh brother, what kind of moron did this?'" "We figured it was some wealthy family," LaBonge said. The buyer wasn’t a single family. It was a company called Pacaso, a new San Francisco–based real estate startup that hopes to "democratize second-home ownership" by selling homes like the one between LaBonge and Ahern’s to as many as eight complete strangers. "We're going to make second-home ownership a reality for the top 20 percent of the world," the company's CEO, Austin Allison, has said.  

‘If you want to take a photo, I’m not going to say no because we are always told to interact and keep the situation calm,’ one officer told investigators.

The controversial domain registrar, which has been known to host Nazis and other unfortunate groups, apparently just had all of its data boosted.

She is not “ACTUALLY an idiot”

Newsom’s leading opponent, Larry Elder, began making preemptive claims of voter fraud before the result had even been decided but conceded the race after it was called.

Michael Tracey came out from behind his keyboard on Monday to give an in-person speech that led to widespread ridicule online.

And the artist who coined the phrase, Luna Matatas, doesn’t deserve Cara Delevingne ripping it off from her

Nicki Minaj’s third-hand gossip about vaccines and testicles includes a telltale sign of bullshit

SAVE HER!

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago was sold at auction Tuesday, disappointing leaders of the Osage Nation who hoped to buy the land to “protect and preserve our most sacred site.”

Officers smashed Rickia Young's windows with batons when she unknowingly drove into a protest. The union later claimed on social media that officers rescued her "lost" toddler.

Desperate to please his boss, who wanted him to effectively overturn the results of the 2020 election, former Vice President Mike Pence turned to one of his predecessors, Dan Quayle, for advice, according to a new book by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Was there anything he could do to block President Joe Biden's victory? "Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away," Quayle, who served as vice president under President George H.W. Bush, reportedly told him, CNN reported.

A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday at the trial of the founders of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money after deciding prosecutors had too many references to child sex trafficking in a case where no one faced such a charge.

"Peril," by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals how Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, called his Chinese counterpart before the election and after Jan. 6 in a bid to avert armed conflict.

During the first day of jury selection at the federal fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, an incognito San Diego hotel magnate pulled a large Rice Krispie Treat from his pocket. Loudly. So loudly, in fact, that the judge's voice was barely audible in the back of the courtroom over the sound of his wiggling the brick-shaped snack out of tightly-wrapped plastic. "My name's Hanson," said the man, wearing a baseball cap and a Patagonia puffer jacket.

According to a new report, Facebook has years of data detailing adverse mental-health outcomes for young users.

Conservative firebrand Bob Enyart, the pastor of the Denver Bible Church and indelible talk show host, has died from COVID-19, his radio co-host announced Monday on Facebook.

Scientists point to the rollout of the polio vaccine as a cautionary tale.

Nicki Minaj responded critically on Monday night to a number of outlets publishing coverage of her tweets hours earlier on such varied topics as her vaccination status, her attendance at the 2021 Met Gala, and her cousin’s friend’s balls.

They are objectively rare, so why do they carry their cultural charge?