"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
Young people are growing disillusioned as they struggle with mountains of debt.
You may be thinking: That is so Idaho.
Whether that's good or bad is up to voters.
The Gem State will become the 11th state to designate an official state gun. Utah was the first, choosing the M1911 in 2011.
In Idaho, House Bill 932 is the reason voters will get to make their pick on the ballot. The bill passed unanimously in both the Idaho House and Senate during the 2026 legislative session.
The official ballot question asks voters: "Which of the following guns should be designated as the state gun of Idaho?" Voters are instructed to choose only one. The six choices are the Winchester Model 1894 (.30-30); Winchester Model 1873 "Gun that Won the West" (.44-40); 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver "Peacemaker" (.45 Colt); M1 Garand rifle (.30-06); Colt M1911 .45 automatic Colt pistol (.45 ACP); and Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle (.30-06).
Former ESPN reporter and Fox News personality Britt McHenry is no longer a press advisor for the U.S. Department of State, multiple media outlets are reporting. The development comes after viral videos appeared to show her throwing a drink at someone (after one was thrown at her) during an altercation in the stands at an NBA game. Page Six reported Friday that McHenry was "forced to resign" on Thursday, the day after the alleged incident at the Washington Wizards' home opener Read more
A Texas woman who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 now says through tears that she will "never vote for that man again." In an emotional interview, Jessica Vuittonet, a Hispanic coffee shop owner in San Benito, ten miles north of the southern border, tells CBS News she did not believe Trump's sweeping migrant crackdown would impact her own family and other innocent immigrants. "I know he was going to start deporting people," she said. "But not innocent people"not hardworking people." Vuittonet says her brother is among those arrested by Trump's immigration goons. She says she voted for Trump for religious reasons, but now realizes Trump's policies are "heartbreaking."
By now, it's becoming expected: Guitar phenom Billy Strings was named Entertainer of the Year for the fifth time over the last six years at the 37th annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards, held earlier this week in Chattanooga, Tennessee
A much needed (though not deserved) Rest
What Iran is teaching America. ... The Iran and Ukraine wars raise a question about victory: Winning battles is one thing, but ending wars requires bringing combatants to the negotiating table.
President Donald Trump is escalating his crusade to exert control of America's elections as his party barrels towards a potentially bruising midterm.
Police in the south German state of Bavaria have detained a suspect during a fire at Adolf Hitler's Alpine mountain retreat, the Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle's Nest. Dispatchers in Traunstein received a fire alarm from the building at 21:15 (19:15 GMT) on Friday, and firefighters found it engulfed in flames. The Nazi dictator used the retreat, which lies above the town of Berchtesgaden, as a part-time seat of government and met commanders there to plan the invasion of the USSR in 1941. A criminal investigation is under way to determine whether the suspect is connected to the fire.
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Ukraine's military on Friday struggled with a still-slowed Starlink satellite system despite President Trump's promise a day earlier that SpaceX owner Elon Musk had restored the service.
Connections with Starshield " the military version of Starlink, a major tool for Ukraine to defend itself from missile and drone attacks from Russia " continued to fail in most of the country if drones flew faster than 100 mph, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there, and the speed has not been restored," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks on Friday.
He said Ukraine hopes SpaceX and the Trump administration will fully restore the service: "We count on such decisions."
Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes
A 2021 survey found that 42% of consumers didn't know Lay's were made out of the spuds. Read more
A Florida mayor was arrested Wednesday on theft and fraud charges alleging that she illegally enriched herself and family members through a COVID-19 small business relief program launched under her administration, according to the state's attorney general. Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa is being charged with grand theft, a second-degree felony, and organized scheme to defraud, a first-degree felony, according to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. Espinosa is accused of improperly appropriating $50,000 in funds through the city's Business Boost 2.0 program, according to the arrest warrant.
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said he would rather see Republicans keep control of the House by five seats than watch Democrats win the chamber by the same margin, warning that a "nightmare" razor-thin majority would leave party leaders "hostage to the DSA."
Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he's skeptical of the U.S. war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds with President Donald Trump over one of the administration's defining foreign policy decisions. Thiel's remarks, delivered on Oct. 12 at a private event, are his most explicit statements to be revealed publicly about the war with Iran and come less than two weeks before the midterm elections in which Trump's party is grasping to maintain power in Congress.
