Charging Park Jin Hyok (or any North Korean government hacker) as an individual is a human rights issue. It’s important to note that Park had no choice in his actions. | Continue reading
Nadia Thepdet and Chad Elwartowski wanted a slice of libertarian heaven off the coast of Thailand—but the country says their dream is actually a very serious crime. | Continue reading
John Paul Mac Isaac gave conflicting stories to reporters on Wednesday. He also said he feared for his life, citing the Seth Rich conspiracy. | Continue reading
The president’s illness presented a last potential inflection point. But he emerged from it still determined to be seen maskless. | Continue reading
The stunt will go ahead a day after Trump insisted he was fine while coughing his way through a phone interview. | Continue reading
County Sheriff William Sheron said the plane was “pretty much disintegrated.” | Continue reading
The letter may be in line with conservative thinking. But it could complicate her Supreme Court fight. | Continue reading
The future of Fox News looks a lot like its malignant past. | Continue reading
Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health. But he also has another job: an anonymous RedState editor who rails against the agency for which he works. | Continue reading
Company bosses are investigating the allegations, but employees found their decision to delete the email from staff inboxes to be both “disappointing and frustrating.” | Continue reading
Michael Scheuer used to hunt Osama bin Laden, whom he now says he admires. Now his quarry is Donald Trump’s enemies, whom he equates with terrorists. | Continue reading
In the same interview, the Facebook CEO said he has no intention of removing anti-vaxxer posts. | Continue reading
“You’re going to have to take that off please,” the president told Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, who did not comply. | Continue reading
A KGB manual, published in English for the first time, reveals how Soviet spies infiltrated Western governments in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse. | Continue reading
Yes, his allies admit, Trump routinely makes callous comments about U.S. military personnel. But it’s because he hates the wars they’re forced to fight, not the troops themselves. | Continue reading
A Lithuanian ballet company. A shadowy French agency. An Italian sexual counseling group. Epstein lavished tens of thousands on these mysterious businesses. | Continue reading
Two disaffected officials describe a president who simply didn’t want to hear things he thought were bad for him. | Continue reading
The new Netflix documentary short “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” profiles John Shepherd, a Michigan man who tried to contact extraterrestrials by playing avant-garde music. | Continue reading
More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund. | Continue reading
The digital streaming device’s easy-to-access private channels are a dark place filled with some of the worst of humanity. | Continue reading
The apology nevertheless fell far short of staffers’ demands that the magazine retract and remove the supposedly erudite exploration of 19th century Supreme Court rulings. | Continue reading
At least 76 percent of young campers who were tested came back positive—an ominous sign as schools push to reopen by the fall. | Continue reading
The president is pushing the coronavirus theories of a Houston doctor who also says sexual visitations by demons and alien DNA are at the root of Americans’ common health concerns. | Continue reading
“If it were up to him, we would return to the old days [of] eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth—or forget about proportionality altogether,” one former administration official says. | Continue reading
An unsealed affidavit provides an extraordinary window into Beijing’s pursuit of American research—and researchers. | Continue reading
Protesters say local cops and the feds are clearly colluding on the spooky crackdown that began in Portland and could soon spread to Chicago and other cities. | Continue reading
“I asked a customer if they had a mask, and she walked by me, completely ignored me as if I did not exist. Another one swore, ‘That's f*cking bullshit, and f*ck this place.’” | Continue reading
Things are pretty bad right now in the Lone Star State. But the real pain is likely to come during hurricane season, when as many as 19 named storms are projected to hit. | Continue reading
Of 1,400 Israelis diagnosed with COVID-19 last month, 657 (47 percent) were infected in schools. Now 2,026 students, teachers, and staff have it, and 28,147 are quarantined. | Continue reading
Of 1,400 Israelis diagnosed with COVID-19 last month, 657 (47 percent) were infected in schools. Now 2,026 students, teachers, and staff have it, and 28,147 are quarantined. | Continue reading
Filmmaker Mike Arthur’s new film “I, Pastafari” explores the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and its “millions” of adherents. Here, he writes about this wild new religion. | Continue reading
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Israel has lost control of the contagion, the economy is cratering, unemployment’s at 23 percent, and the new government is crumbling. | Continue reading
Fresh off a COVID-19 controversy, the billionaire helped launch a bizarre new school—with once-a-week online classes. | Continue reading
The British socialite is expected to appear in federal court on Thursday on charges relating to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. | Continue reading
Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture. | Continue reading
Yet another internal beef has emerged at the paper of record—this time over the alleged “doxxing” of the psychiatrist behind popular blog Slate Star Codex. | Continue reading
Global Support and Development is made up of ex-military men and Brin’s former bodyguards. But their mission isn’t warfare. | Continue reading
The far-right social-media website is riddled with financial and technical woes, and the founder has blamed everyone from leftists to the ‘deep state.’ | Continue reading
As more people are traveling, the virus is spreading. And researchers are seeing it follow the paths of our busiest roads. | Continue reading
The president’s niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times’ investigation into Trump’s taxes. | Continue reading
In a tense staff meeting, the paper admitted to inviting Sen. Cotton to write the “Send in the Troops” column, and said it will overhaul the frequently controversial opinion page. | Continue reading
In a tense staff meeting, the paper admitted to inviting Sen. Cotton to write the “Send in the Troops” column, and said it will overhaul the frequently controversial opinion page. | Continue reading
The highly professional social network’s internal Wednesday town hall on racial injustice looked more like what you'd see in a Facebook comments section. | Continue reading
The highly professional social network’s internal Wednesday town hall on racial injustice looked more like what you'd see in a Facebook comments section. | Continue reading
Following a call late Monday, one leader said the Facebook owner “very much lacks the ability to understand” what’s going on. | Continue reading
The White House counselor said on Wednesday that if people can wait in line for an hour at a cupcake shop, they should be able to line up at the polls. | Continue reading
A sting operation. An early-morning shootout. And a trail of evidence pointing to insane antics by elected lawmen. | Continue reading
For many coronavirus patients lucky enough to make it off a ventilator, getting out of the ICU is only half the battle. | Continue reading