As it heads into its 29th season this month, South Park announced a change of its name " to South America. Read more
Alarming new data shows U.S. students continue to fall behind their peers in reading as the country's achievement gap widens, according to results from the latest globally recognized international exam. The 2025 Program for International Assessment, or PISA, found that 15-year-old U.S. students' reading scores fell 14 points from the last time the test was administered, in 2022. The assessment also found that the achievement gap among U.S. readers in the 90th percentile and the 10th percentile was the largest among any other country included in the report. Read more
President Donald Trump's newly proposed Space Force uniform has sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire as the science fiction movie Starship Troopers inspired the design.
Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans' financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime, but which the government thinks may be worth searching, 404 Media has found.
President Donald Trump will be at the center of this week's GOP midterm convention. Many of his fellow Republicans are hoping he doesn't make it all about him. The parade of lawmakers, candidates, donors and party officials now headed to Dallas for the two-day spectacle are counting on Trump to make a compelling pitch on the national stage before voters hit the polls.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday made another dubious claim about his involvement in the recovery effort following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, leading critics to call him "delusional" and a "despicable liar." Trump, who had already been brutally fact-checked over claims of extensive involvement in the recovery effort in 2019, claimed Tuesday that two firemen "lifted me up" from the rubble amid concerns that a nearby building was going to collapse. There has been no evidence that Trump helped clear rubble at Ground Zero, let alone that he fell and was carried by firefighters.
Your LG smart TV may be doing far more than displaying your favorite shows while it sits "off" in the corner of your living room. A new investigation from Gamers Nexus, conducted alongside Level1Techs and independent security researchers, alleges that certain LG OLED televisions continue to scan home networks and capture microphone audio even in standby mode, then upload that data once the set reconnects to the internet.
Oxfam recently released its Best States to Work Index for 2026, a report that analyzed 37 labor policies among all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. The report looked at three main categories: wage policies (35% of the score), worker protection policies (35%) and right-to-organize policies (30%). North Carolina ranked dead last overall, scoring a total of just 4.90 points out of a possible 100. The state " which in recent years has often been touted for being one of the best for businesses " received individual category scores of 8.17 for wage policies (No. 51), 5.83 for worker protection (No. 52) and 0.0 for the right to organize (No 47). All scores are out of a possible 100.
Geno Auriemma has reached the twilight of his legendary collegiate coaching career with UConn women's basketball, racking up more wins than any other coach in the sport's history. However, even at 72 years old, Auriemma's concerns are focused squarely on the future of college athletics, which he says is "dying."
OpEd: President Trump's administration is waging war against children, especially those in our nation's poorest families. Here are a few of the fronts on which that undeclared war is being fought, with devastating consequences for the next generation of Americans.
"Donald Trump loves hot dogs"loves them. But he reserves a particular devotion for the ones served at the snack shack beside the 11th tee box at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C."wieners that, on Trump's personal scale of human achievement, probably rank somewhere between mankind's first glimpse of gold in a riverbed and the construction of Trump Tower," Forbes reports. Said a former club employee: "He has this weird, very odd pride about how good the hot dogs are. That's his thing. The chef has to be out there. And he's like, Chef, get everyone a hot dog"all these guys.'" "And everyone means everyone"roughly 30 carts full of Secret Service agents included. But the president's frankfurters are not free ... Ethics rules restrict agents from accepting gifts from those they serve. So Trump's club charges the agency that protects him."
Germany's right-wing populist Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) thanked billionaire Elon Musk for his support Sunday after scoring a historic election victory, taking the moment to call for future "cooperation." The AfD stormed to first place in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its support from five years ago and leaving Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union a distant second on 17.2%. The result nevertheless left the AfD just short of the absolute majority it had sought. Final returns gave the party 39 lawmakers in the 83-seat state parliament, three seats shy of governing alone.
... but its chilling logs live on. You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets. ...
A heavily armed man attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at a fair in Ohio's MAGA heartland on Sunday afternoon. The man "lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people" while Acton, 60, was attending the Canfield Fair in northeastern Ohio, a campaign spokesperson said in a statement. The suspect who attacked Acton has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas, a registered Republican. The suspect who attacked Acton has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas, a registered Republican. This isn't the first time the Havas family has had a brush with the law: Patrick Havas' brother, Andrew Havas, was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor following a 2008 incident involving a 15-year-old in Mahoning County, according to court records reviewed by NBC News.
Chuck it in the fire.' A leading candidate in France's presidential race has a simple solution to its massive national debt: just cancel it Read more
