I didn’t anticipate the political twists and turns of the past few weeks, but then, who did? One thing I do blame myself for not seeing coming, however, is the extent to which this has become a crypto election.Six years ago I argued that Bitcoin and other cryp... More »
Veronica Fraley is scheduled to compete at the Paris Olympics for the first time Friday.So now probably is not a good time for distractions — like, say, rent being due back home in Nashville and not having the funds to cover it.Luckily, hip-hop pioneer Flavor ... More »
Carrie Underwood is returning to her “American Idol” roots. The country music superstar and former “Idol” Season Four winner is the new judge for the franchise's 23rd season, ABC announced Aug. 1. The news was shared in a special video that revisits when Under... More »
He touched the edge of space in one aircraft, an X-15, and ventured beyond it in another, a NASA shuttle. But the moon, to his disappointment, became out of reach.Joe Engle, the first person to venture to the edge of space in two different winged aircraft — th... More »
One of my ironclad rules of reporting in the Middle East is that sometimes you need to rereport a story to see things even more clearly than you did earlier. I’m having that experience with the Iran-Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah war, which could soon draw in the Unit... More »
With Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement of her running mate only days away, I should probably be placing odds on who will get the nod.But my thoughts dwell on three extraordinarily gifted politicians who almost certainly won’t.They belie all the compl... More »
Authorities in the US have charged the founder of the former social media company, IRL, with a $170m (£133m) fraud. More »
Crater Lake takes the top (er, bottom?) spot as deepest lake in the United States, but there are quite a few other contenders. No. 2: Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California and Nevada b... More »
When the National Institutes of Health put filters on the comment sections of its Facebook and Instagram posts, to restrict “off-topic” messages by the public on matters such as animal testing, it violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of a right to free spe... More »
Picture it: you’re standing in the dairy aisle at the grocery store, about to grab a dozen eggs. It should be an easy item to check off your list—but you’re quickly overwhelmed by what feels like a million options. Suddenly, it seems like you’re taking a test ... More »
Anyone who has spent even 15 minutes on TikTok over the past two months will have stumbled across more than one creator talking about Project 2025, a nearly thousand-page policy blueprint from the Heritage Foundation that outlines a radical overhaul of the gov... More »
Unlike last year’s Galaxy Watch5, this year’s Watch6 Classic brings back the fabulous, clicky, rotating bezel (7/10, WIRED Recommends). It’s fun and tactile and not a feature that you’ll find on many other smartwatches and fitness trackers. Other than that, it... More »