The wedding photographer had already spent an hour or two inside with the unmasked wedding party when one of the bridesmaids approached her. The woman thanked her for still showing up, considering “everything that’s going on with the groom.” When the photographer asked what she meant by that, the bridesmaid said the groom had tested positive for COVID-19 the day before. “She was looking for me to be like, ‘Oh, that’s crazy,’ like I was going to agree with her that it was fine,” the photographer recalls. “So I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And she was like, ‘Oh no no no, don’t freak out. He doesn’t have symptoms. He’s fine.’” The photographer, who has asthma and three kids, left with her assistant before the night was over. Her exit was tense. The wedding planner said it was the most unprofessional thing she’d ever seen. Bridesmaids accused her of heartlessly ruining an innocent woman’s wedding day. She recalls one bridesmaid telling her, “I’m a teacher, I have fourteen students. If I’m willing to risk it, why aren’t you?” Another said everyone was going to get COVID eventually, so what was the big deal? The friend of the bride who’d spilled the beans cried about being the “worst bridesmaid ever.”

Athletics are being used to uphold dominant and oppressive power structures – but they should be for everyone.

"All of the problems that we're confronting today are also environmental problems," Prof. Kathy Jacobs, Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science, said.

Massachusetts and other states on the East Coast are poised to sign a landmark agreement that would constitute one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts to fight climate change.

The US Department of Energy on Tuesday finalized a pair of new rules rolling back water efficiency standards on showerheads and other consumer appliances, punctuating President Donald Trump's long-documented water flow grievances in the final weeks of his administration.

During a period of what University of Mississippi faculty are calling a time of increasing paranoia, a celebrated professor of history faces termination.

Fewer than 2,000 western monarchs have been counted in California this autumn, but in a long-awaited decision, the government recommends not designating them a threatened species.

I will remind you that the GX is six feet tall and weighs more than 5,000 pounds, to give you a sense of scale. It’s not the trucks’ fault they’re big. They just keep eating beef and growing bigger and bigger with each generation. They can’t help themselves! We just don’t notice until we see them next to another, older truck, and the size disparity becomes clear.

Two sources tell The Daily Beast that the president has expressed sympathy for the situation of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Crede Bailey ‘doing well’ following amputations, according to family friend raising funds to assist with ‘astronomical’ healthcare costs

Briahna Joy Gray on why forcing Pelosi into a floor vote is one important part of a broader strategy for building progressive power.

“To be honest, the more likely it looked like fraud, the more I bet,” one bettor who drank up Rudy Giuliani nonsense said of losing over $170,000.

I think he was featured on bo-ne.ws for his longstanding feud with fellow billionaire neighbor on the Carribean island they are jointly stinking up.

Gift giving, gender roles, and parent-child trust

It's not the most pressing problem facing CD Projekt's bug-stricken RPG, but it is the strangest. Who's leaving all these plastic pee-pees lying around, anyway?

A former Houston Police Department captain who in October alleged without evidence a widespread ballot harvesting scheme perpetrated by Harris County Democrats was arrested Tuesday, accused of pointing a gun at a man while attempting to investigate his claims. Mark A. Aguirre, 63, faces a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon stemming from the Oct. 19 confrontation. According to the Harris County District Attorney’s office, Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of a truck belonging to an air conditioner repairman he had been surveilling, convinced the truck contained 750,000 fraudulent ballots. Aguirre then pointed his gun at the repairman, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man’s back, prosecutors said. No ballots were found in the truck, which was filled instead with air conditioning parts and tools. Aguirre told police he was part of a group of private citizens called the Liberty Center which was conducting a “civilian investigation” of the alleged scheme, which he said was operating out of the air conditioner repairman’s mobile home. Aguirre also told police the repairman was “using Hispanic children to sign the ballots because the children’s fingerprints would not appear in any databases.” Affidavits by Aguirre and former FBI agent Charles Marler were part of a lawsuit this fall filed by conservative Houston activist Steven Hotze, which sought to prohibit voters from dropping off mail ballots in person before Election Day. The two sworn statements alleged that powerful Democrats in Harris County had devised a scheme to submit as many as 700,000 fraudulent mail ballots, representing nearly a third of the entire voter roll. Citing secondhand sources and videotaped...

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Analysts and investors are hailing the coming of the ‘Shroom Boom’ —and now the race for the trippy goldmine is on

A Trump supporter is being mocked after publishing a lengthy thread detailing a 'vision' he received following a date.

A small group of House members, led by Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, plan to use a constitutional process to object to the inclusion of five key battleground states that day. There is almost no chance they would succeed, but if they could convince at least one senator to join them, they could turn the counting session into a chaotic last stand for Mr. Trump. So far, no senator has committed to joining them. And though Mr. McConnell could not stop one of them from doing so if they wished, he made clear that the challenge would be futile and embarrassing for the Senate.