Once the home of cute animal pictures and weather advisories, the Badlands National Park’s Twitter account is now the front line of a burgeoning government censorship war.Hours after the National Parks Service retweeted side-by-side photos of Pres...

Monday was not only Donald Trump’s “working day one” as president of the United States, it was also Seth Meyers’ first opportunity to take “a closer look” at his nascent presidency. And so far, the Late Night host is not encouraged. Meyers began b...

“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...

Yes, it’s that time again: Oscar time. On the evening of February 26th, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will emcee the 89th annual Academy Awards at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Expect heaps of jokes about Kimmel’s pseudo-nemesis Matt Damon passing on ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Spend four days surrounded by porn stars, immersed in a culture that could whet almost any sexual appetite, and it’s easy to forget about the rest of the world. But that wasn’t possible during this year’s AVN Adult Entertainmen...

Nintendo wants to sell you Mario Kart 8 again. The game remains one of the best titles ever released for the Wii U and was also their most effective foray into downloadable content (DLC) yet. But this new version, known as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, is ...

No, U.S. and Russian warplanes are not flying combat missions together over Syria. Yet.That startling claim, which spread across the U.S. news media on the afternoon of Jan. 23, 2017, began with a vague and misleading tweet by the Associated Press...

KOBLENZ, Germany—Last year, they were still dining together in secret.But on Saturday, one day after the world watched Donald Trump getting sworn in as president of the United States while pledging “America first,“ and as millions of women (and me...

In 2022, approximately five years from now, a new star will appear in the night sky. Scientifically speaking, the appearance of this nova is the product of the collision of two other astral bodies. And for six months this new star will—to the nake...

PENNE—Like most kids under ten, Edoardo, Samuele and Ludovica were growing anxious as they waited in the lobby of the Rigopiano Resort Hotel on Wednesday afternoon after 5pm. Due to dangerous blizzard conditions and a level four (out of five) aval...

“When someone sees a Texas lawman, the first thing you notice is the hat,” Sheriff Parnell McNamara told Jeff Bridges over the phone.McNamara, a Waco native, owns more than 50 cowboy hats—some Stetsons, some bespoke, some worn, some new.“You don’t...

A Las Vegas restaurant allegedly bribed a crooked federal agent to raid their rival restaurant, the alleged victims claim.Club Yamang and Club Sonagi were two Korean supper clubs, which offered food and music, often accompanied by attractive hoste...

What does gender dysphoria feel like?For those who are not transgender themselves—and, in the United States, that’s all but 1.4 million of us—the idea of our actual gender not matching the one we were assigned at birth might seem foreign or, worse...

I first heard the name Bradley Manning at a cheap Japanese restaurant near Sacramento, California, sitting across from the ex-hacker who’d just turned the soldier in.It was May 2010, and I was following up on a remarkable story I’d heard in crypti...

In a mystery worthy of the master detective himself, the BBC is investigating the possibility that the final episode of its hit sleuth series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, was illegally leaked online by a state-sponso...

A mysterious hacking group has been bedeviling the U.S. intelligence community for months, releasing a tranche of secret National Security Agency hacking tools to the public while offering to sell even more for the right price. Now with barely a w...

A group of African-American men sit around a grungy cab office. They are mostly drivers, but there are a few regular customers too. Then—soon to appear through its doors—there’s Booster (Brandon J. Dirden), the son of the cab firm’s owner, Becker ...

The British TV presenter and exhaustingly dedicated Trump blowhard Piers Morgan was seemingly desperate for attention during the Women’s March on Washington Saturday, firing off a series of contemptuous tweets.How pathetic that participants believ...

In-laws, eh?Prince Harry’s potential future brother-in-law, Tom Markle Jr., looks set to steal the title of most embarrassing relative from Kate’s naughty uncle, Gary Goldsmith.The 50-year-old half-brother of Prince Harry’s actress girlfriend Megh...

It is rare to cheer the television set these days, but watching Helen (Maura Tierney) bundle her insane, awful parents into a fortress-like panic room in the basement of their Montauk home was one such moment. Thank you, The Affair, for that—and f...