Russian Troops Suffer Acute Radiation Sickness After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

Several hundred Russian troops reportedly rushed to a special medical facility in Belarus after digging in radioactive soil in a forest near the infamous nuclear plant. | Continue reading


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Russian Troops Suffer 'Acute Radiation Sickness' After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering "acute radiation sickness" from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials. The troops, who reportedly dug trenches in a contaminated Red Fo … | Continue reading


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Boeing 737 Was Plunging at 350MPH in Moments Before Crash

The Boeing 737-800 slammed into a hillside in southern China in what could be the country’s worst plane crash in decades. | Continue reading


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She rushed into the Channel One Studio with a sign proclaiming, “Don’t believe propaganda.They’re lying to you.” | Continue reading


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Russia Used Beatings and Tricks to Forcibly Send Soldiers to Ukraine

Mothers of soldiers all across the country say their sons were battered and duped into the war, a human rights organization has claimed. | Continue reading


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Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin

The LGBTQ community in Ukraine believes it has even more reason than most to resist a Russian occupation after Putin’s troops poured into the country. | Continue reading


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An Ancestry.com test and some online sleuthing revealed a secret five decades old, a lawsuit says. | Continue reading


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Shady Network of Fake Mossad Job Sites Targets Iranian Spies

One cybersecurity expert called the sites “a honey trap by the [Iranian] regime to identify the potential people interested in working with the foreign intelligence services.” | Continue reading


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William Hartmann and another Wayne County Republican refused to accept Biden’s win, briefly throwing Michigan into political chaos. | Continue reading


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Small Tech Company SpiffyTech May Be a Ransomware Front Group

The U.S. government is trying to arrest ransomware criminals and offering millions of dollars in bounties for their identities. But sometimes the evidence is hiding in plain sight. | Continue reading


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Kamala Is Right. Bluetooth Is a Risk

Bluetooth’s security risks have been well documented and government officials have been warned about the potential problems of using it. | Continue reading


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SoftBank Strikes Again – Better.com or WeWork Version 2.0

Vishal Garg is a billionaire, thanks to his SoftBank-backed mortgage lender Better.com. There are a lot of questions about how he got here. | Continue reading


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Stop Telling Me Trust-Fund Kids Are Financial Wizards

Millions of poor folks have ambition, intelligence, and drive. But they did a much shittier job of choosing parents wealthy enough to grease the slide to success. | Continue reading


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Omicron and Delta Coronavirus Variants Could Emerge as Twin Outbreaks

It’s not as bad as you think, and the data are still coming in. But here’s one scenario for what the coming weeks hold in a country where millions remain unvaccinated. | Continue reading


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SoftBank-Backed Startup Better.com Axes 900 in Three Minutes

The company's chief financial officer framed the layoffs as part of a fiscal win that helps "set us up to play offense" he said in a statement. | Continue reading


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Boeing Was Set on the Path to Disaster by the Cult of Jack Welch

The once-great company was gutted by a series of bosses who put making money ahead of making airplanes–and 346 people died. Now a new book adds to the list of damning indictments. | Continue reading


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SpaceX’s Starlink Will Make Life Hell for Astronomers

Sci-fi problems require sci-fi solutions. | Continue reading


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They Say She Rigged a Homecoming Queen Contest. She Faces Decades Behind Bars

When Emily Grover was named homecoming queen, the school accused her and her mom of hacking students’ accounts to cast votes. They face hefty sentences—but say they’ve been framed. | Continue reading


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Billionaire Spends a Fortune to Move One Tree (2016)

When a billionaire decided to float a 650-ton tree to his private garden, the spectacle became a metaphor for a nation adrift. | Continue reading


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The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Keep Billions Alive for 100k Years

Turning it into breathable air is the tricky part. | Continue reading


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Palantir Founder Is Backing Bari Weiss’ No-Degree ‘University’ in Austin

Weiss is helping launch the University of Austin. It is not yet accredited and does not offer degrees. | Continue reading


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Alabama College Disinvites Historian Jon Meacham After Anti-Abortion Protest

Students were upset the Pulitzer Prize winner had appeared at a Planned Parenthood event in Texas. | Continue reading


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Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr Was in Charge, Not Trump

The pedophile told Ehud Barak he had “direct knowledge” that Barr was in charge in DC, according to a new book that also claims Steve Bannon gave Epstein advice on his PR strategy. | Continue reading


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Far-Right Boogaloo Admits Posing as BLM Supporter While Shooting Up Cop Station

Ivan Hunter admitted he fired shots at the 3rd Precinct police station the night it went up in flames during the Minneapolis riot, then shouted “Justice for George Floyd!” | Continue reading


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The Mafia Finds a New Frontier for Crime: The Internet

European law enforcement recently arrested 106 individuals connected to the Mafia that were involved in cybercrimes—as well as some more traditional and violent felonies. | Continue reading


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Peter Thiel claims Zuck agreed to support State-sanctioned Conservatism

The Facebook founder allegedly vowed to “avoid fact-checking political speech” if the Trump admin would “lay off on any heavy-handed regulations.” | Continue reading


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Anti-Mask Florida Election Official Dies of Covid and Takes GOP Software Secrets

Surviving colleagues had to tell the FEC that Tampa’s GOP committee might be late with its filing, while others turned Gregg Prentice’s sudden death into a “murder” conspiracy. | Continue reading


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Florida official dies of Covid – and takes GOP software secrets with him

Surviving colleagues had to tell the FEC that Tampa’s GOP committee might be late with its filing, while others turned Gregg Prentice’s sudden death into a “murder” conspiracy. | Continue reading


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With schools reopening and hospitals buckling again, an exhausted, defiant, and heavily unvaccinated nation is entering a new and scary phase. | Continue reading


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The untold story of how Putin created his own intelligence service

The untold story of how Vladimir Putin created his own foreign intelligence service to shore up his standing in post-Soviet Russia. | Continue reading


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Afghan All-Girls Robotics Team Tells US Woman to Stop Taking Credit for Rescue

A lawyer for the all-girls team, which safely escaped Afghanistan, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Allyson Reneau to make her stop bragging about her alleged involvement. | Continue reading


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Jason Ravnsborg hit a man as he was driving home from a GOP fundraiser one night and kept driving, later saying he thought he hit a deer. | Continue reading


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The MAGA Movement’s a Bigger Threat to America Than the Taliban

Something you don’t hear much about on Fox News is how law enforcement here views the domestic violent extremists who have supported and been encouraged by Trump. | Continue reading


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“I don’t want to frighten you,” Israel’s COVID czar Dr. Salman Zarka told parliament this week. “But… unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.” | Continue reading


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Ultra-Vaxxed Israel’s Crisis Is a Dire Warning to America

“I don’t want to frighten you,” Israel’s COVID czar Dr. Salman Zarka told parliament this week. “But… unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.” | Continue reading


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She had been thinking about leaving but reportedly signed a new contract that includes new projects. | Continue reading


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Former president who launched endless war urged Joe Biden to do everything possible to evacuate Afghan refugees. | Continue reading


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Professor of Deviant Behavior Is an Arsonist

Police described Gary Maynard’s temperament as highly flammable. | Continue reading


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'Impossible to Argue' War on Terror Was Worth It

In his new book, “Reign of Terror,” Spencer Ackerman lays out how Trump understood the nativist power of the 9/11 era better than the elites who built a war around it. | Continue reading


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How Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet

A former darling of Occupy Wall Street, Tim Pool has racked up more than a billion views and millions in earnings while dangerously whitewashing the far right. | Continue reading


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Olympics Insider Calls Bullshit on Firing of Black Performer Latyr Sy

The employee told The Daily Beast that Tokyo organizers, who claim the musician was cut for budget reasons, were “miffed” about having an African performer in the ceremony. | Continue reading


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Futurism Bought by VC-Backed Firm Recurrent Ventures

The buyer, Recurrent Ventures, has recently scooped up other popular niche outlets like MEL, Popular Science, Outdoor Life, and more. | Continue reading


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NY Times Suspends Sports Reporter Who Failed to Disclose Her Michael Phelps Book Deal

After her ethical conflict was revealed, Crouse was yanked off the paper’s Olympic coverage team and taken off the swimming beat, multiple sources told The Daily Beast. | Continue reading


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MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Budget Chinese Phone

MAGA Influencers are pushing a phone preloaded with apps like Parler and Rumble that appears to be a vastly more expensive version of a phone made in China. | Continue reading


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MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Budget Chinese Phone

MAGA Influencers are pushing a phone preloaded with apps like Parler and Rumble that appears to be a vastly more expensive version of a phone made in China. | Continue reading


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Six months after the insurrection it triggered, it’s clear that the stolen-election nonsense is just a drop in a tidal wave of bullshit. | Continue reading


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Former Murdoch Exec: Fox News Is Poison For America

The Rupert Murdoch I worked for was brilliant, courageous, optimistic, and a gentleman. Which makes his bile-filled network all the more confounding. | Continue reading


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YouTube Permanently Bans a Media Watchdog that Exposes Right-Wing Conspiracies

Right Wing Watch has been banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube. | Continue reading


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