Reading archive 2026-02-04

Stephen King’s The Shining, If the Hotel Had Possessed Wendy Instead of Jack

The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle - "Indeed, this idea — that laughter is primarily social, less about comedy and more about connection — holds true for adults as well, and has been underscored by research showing that laughter overwhelmingly occurs in the company of others and typically follows banal remarks in conversation, rather than in response to jokes or punchlines. 

"The signature belly laughs seen in the video above are involuntary, bursting forth during genuine, uncontrollable amusement. This type of laughter is driven by the brain’s limbic system, structures crucial for emotion, memory and motivation. But by 6 months, our lab has found, infants can intentionally produce a laugh. This ability comes not from the limbic system but from the brain’s language areas and emerges at the same time as babbling. Six-month-olds will deploy laughter to prolong a game of peekaboo or to signal a desire to join in."

Texas Democrats taste victory, then turn on each other: Days after their win in a state Senate race, reports of a racially charged comment roil the U.S. Senate primary contest.

As cold-stunned invasive iguanas fall from trees, Floridians scoop them up for killing: These cold-blooded reptiles’ nervous systems shut down when temperatures dip into the 40s and below. This time, that meant killing season.

Choose your crisis, Congress: Six paths to fiscal disaster: The national debt is nearing $39 trillion. Dire consequences are coming.

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to 'Nationalize' Elections: The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.

What a swing House district in Colorado shows about Republicans’ immigration fallout in the midterms

Kansas Legislature Passes Trans Bathroom Bounty, Drivers License Revocations: “They're using very overtly anti-democratic measures to pass all this stuff because they know that it's unpopular.”

These Trump voters 'formed a suicide pact' and Republicans are panicking: ex-GOP operative

‘They Voted For Trump, And Now They’re In Tears’—Now Rural Farmers Say Tariffs & Costs Are Pushing Them Toward Bankruptcy

St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say

Donald Trump vowed to unleash U.S. oil. A year later, low prices are squeezing Texas producers.

Reading archive 2025-06-09

What the GOP is planning now is even worse than all those debt ceiling fights: The GOP budget bill simultaneously requires more borrowing — and also prohibits that borrowing.

Retired man takes on nemesis, cleans up 15,000 discarded tires: “They tick me off more than anything,” Jon Merryman said about illegally dumped tires. He has a goal of cleaning up trash in every county in America.

Democratic Party chair lashes officer in leaked call, prompting more infighting: The finger-pointing among the DNC’s top officers comes as the party faces deeper political challenges.

Mike Flanagan, Stephen King screen whisperer, will sleep when he’s dead: The ever-busy director and Stephen King whisperer returns to theaters after five years — and four TV shows — with “The Life of Chuck.”

NASA, Pentagon push for SpaceX alternatives amid Trump’s feud with Musk: The fight between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk highlights the government’s outsize dependence on a single company for missions.

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk: Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.

A troubling chapter in William F. Buckley’s life: How was this hometown pro-segregation paper forgotten? - "What was surprising was that Buckley, who famously crowed that he had rid the Republican Party of antisemites, bigots and kooks, would go to the trouble of creating a newspaper that would saturate its pages with pro-segregation stories. For someone so educated, so Catholic, so intensely logical and delightfully witty, it was a little like finding out that, well, he was a racist."

2 juveniles stabbed at Dupont park and 1 man shot nearby during Pride: The violence came after the park was reopened at the request of the D.C. government.

Colleagues ask if Norton is still the best ‘warrior’ to fight for D.C.: “Even the best pitcher on the team loses their fastball eventually,” one Democrat said of civil rights icon Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s delegate in the House.

Army video of parade prep appeared to show ‘Hang Fauci’ graffiti: The footage, up for more than a day on the Army’s official X account, showed tanks being loaded onto a flatcar.

A powerful, opaque al-Qaeda affiliate is rampaging across West Africa: With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Toxic truth? The cookware craze redefining ‘ceramic’ and ‘nontoxic’

A knockout blow for LLMs? LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb - "If you can’t use a billion dollar AI system to solve a problem that Herb Simon one of the actual 'godfathers of AI', current hype aside) solved with AI in 1957, and that first semester AI students solve routinely, the chances that models like Claude or o3 are going to reach AGI seem truly remote."

Reading archive 2024-10-16

Fired D.C. government whistleblower wins $3.4 million judgment against city: The whistleblower alleged instances of contract splitting involving Department of Health contracts for amounts less than the $1 million threshold that triggers D.C. Council scrutiny.

Teen charged in fatal crash that killed 19-year-old in Arlington: Police identified the victim as Nicholas Rados, 19. Online records show he graduated from Washington-Liberty High School this year.

Harris releases agenda for Black men as she ramps up effort to court them: Obama and other Democrats have signaled concern that Black men are showing hesitancy to rally behind Harris.

How choosing solitude can free your mind and lift your mood: Being alone is not the same thing as being lonely. In fact, it’s associated with positive feelings.

‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies: If implemented, the former president’s tariff plans would lead to higher costs, stock market volatility and feuds with the rest of the world.

Son writes hilarious, loving obituary for his dad: ‘He is God’s problem now’: “There are some people who might think it was irreverent and offensive, but I think it sounds about perfect,” Charles Boehm said of his father’s obituary.

Everyone loves rooftop solar panels. But there’s a problem.: One of the most popular methods to cut your household’s carbon footprint may be a mixed bag.

Zelensky reveals ‘victory plan,’ calls for urgent NATO membership: The plan includes permission for strikes inside Russia and assistance with air defenses, but Western reaction to it has been muted so far.

Opinion Democrats thought their Senate hopes were dead. They were just in Nebraska.: Dan Osborn, an independent, could win the state’s Senate race — and determine control of the chamber.

Teen girl sentenced to 3 years in fatal beating of Reggie Brown in D.C.: In pleading guilty, the 15-year-old girl is the first of five teenage co-defendants convicted in the 2023 fatal beating and stomping of an unarmed, elderly disabled man who was taking a late-night walk in Northwest Washington.

Teen said she and 4 friends sought random victim before fatal beating: The 15-year-old, who pleaded guilty to assault in the 2023 death of Reginald “Reggie” Brown, testified against two of her friends at trial Tuesday, saying they were “bored” and were “looking for someone to beat up” when they noticed the disabled District native.

Five are arrested after months of ATM break-ins, officials say: String of D.C.-area crimes involved millions in losses, officials say.

Opinion What Hamas hoped would happen after Oct. 7: The group wanted its terrorist attack to spark a wider war. That should give Israel pause.

Opinion Democracy woes: When getting indicted wins votes: Voters in D.C.’s poorest ward will re-elect council member Trayon White Sr. despite his indictment on bribery charges. Why?

Reading archive 2024-06-26

A 3-year-old voicemail goes viral, leads to emotional reunion: The motivational voicemail ended up on TikTok with 6 million views and a movement to find Tameka Rooks, the woman behind the message - "'The goal is to get you to come in and not be nervous,' Rooks said. 'It’s a lot of money [to take the exams]. So I’m just trying to push you. You might be my next doctor. I might need your help one day'"

Michael Phelps warns Congress that doping issues threaten the Olympics: Olympic legend testifies before House subcommittee in hearing spurred by revelations of Chinese swimmers’ positive tests before Tokyo Games.

Biden to pardon U.S. veterans convicted in gay-sex cases by military: Thousands of former service members involuntarily discharged under old sodomy laws will be allowed to apply for withheld benefits.

Latimer ousts ‘Squad’ member Bowman in Democratic primary in New York: The race between Bowman and county official George Latimer was contentious, with accusations of racism and antisemitism. It was the most expensive House primary in history.

D.C. Council approves money to study reparations for Black residents: The District is likely to join localities nationwide in searching for concrete ways to reckon with slavery’s generational harm.

'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves': Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values. - "Igbo slaves served as domestic servants and labourers. They were sometimes also sacrificed in religious ceremonies and buried alive with their masters to attend to them in the next world.

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"Records from the UK's National Archives at Kew show how desperately the British struggled to end the internal trade in slaves for almost the entire duration of the colonial period. 

"They promoted legitimate trade, especially in palm produce. They introduced English currency to replace the cumbersome brass rods and cowries that merchants needed slaves to carry. They prosecuted offenders with prison sentences."

 - "We, the American dining public, are responsible for covering much of the payroll for front-of-the-house workers. It’s been this way since the Pullman Company hired many formerly enslaved Black people and paid them substandard wages, requiring them to live largely off the tips they earned catering to White travelers."

America imported tipping from Europe — and then took it too far: Our tipping obsession has exacerbated inequality.

Reading archive 2024-06-02

Maryland diner turns leftover bacon grease into soap to save money: Sam Delauter makes his great-grandmother’s Great Depression soap recipe using bacon grease from his diner that he used to throw away

Basic training in Ukraine is barely covering the basics, commanders say: Ukrainian commanders in the field say they are bracing for most of the new troops under a new conscription law to arrive with poor training.

Why restaurants are so loud, and what science says we can do about it

Opinion How an outrageous smear of U.S. troops wound up in history books: Remarkably, the propaganda has come into academic vogue on both sides of the Pacific.

Biden’s cease-fire plan tightens political squeeze for Netanyahu in Israel: Hostage families are calling for an immediate cease-fire deal, while far-right Israeli politicians are threatening to collapse Netanyahu’s government if it’s accepted.

Reading archive 2024-03-27

Study finds 3 big risk factors for dementia - "Diabetes, air pollution and alcohol consumption could be the biggest risk factors for dementia, a study has found."

Sick of flat tires, he’s picked up 400 pounds of metal bits with his bike: Alex Benigno hits the streets every day collecting loose debris with magnets attached to his ride

What we know about Diddy’s sex trafficking allegations: Before federal agents raided Sean Combs’s homes on Monday, the famed producer had been accused of sex trafficking in several recent lawsuits

Democrat who ran heavily on abortion rights, IVF wins Alabama special election: Marilyn Lands won a decisive victory in a state House district that Donald Trump narrowly won in 2020

The House GOP thought it was moving past internal drama. Then more showed up.: Republicans are once again dealing with the threat of removal for the speaker while critical legislation faces an unclear future

Kari Lake and the Trump movement’s billion-dollar defamation problem

Americans who’ve given up religion often point to anti-LGBTQ+ teachings: The unaffiliated skew younger, and younger Americans are more likely to reject moral condemnations of same-sex relationships

Alexandria, Va., nixes Caps, Wizards arena, killing plan to move teams there

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90: He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest

Reading archive 2024-01-12

Two Iowa counties an hour apart show America’s growing political divide: Rural Decatur County has moved sharply red, while suburban Dallas County has shifted the other direction

Opinion  GOP’s New Year’s resolution: Less legislating, more Hunter Biden porn

Opinion  The media’s worst lapse: Refusing to identify Trump as a cult leader - "The journey to Rust Belt diners became a cliché amid the newfound fascination with aggrieved White working-class Americans. But the theory that such voters were economic casualties of globalization turned out to be false. Surveys and analyses generally found that racial resentment and cultural panic, not economic distress, fueled their affinity for a would-be strongman."

Behind closed doors, Trump eyes second round of corporate tax cuts: Publicly, the Trump campaign is saying its priority is tax relief for working-class families and small businesses

Democratic group plans $140 million voter testimonial onslaught against Donald Trump: The effort will focus on appealing to working class women in the northern swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

‘Okay, it’s done!’ Stranger floors parents, crochets their baby a hat mid-flight.: ‘We were totally shocked, as were the other passengers around us,’ said Kelly Levine

‘Anti-pope.’ ‘Blasphemous.’ Criticism of Francis comes in strident terms.

How the Biden administration helped avoid a coup in Guatemala - "On Sunday, Arévalo is to be sworn in, in what could be a turning point for a nation that’s hemorrhaged migrants to the United States. He’s reaching Inauguration Day in large part because of the determination of Guatemalan citizens fed up with corruption. But U.S. diplomats played a key role, in one of the Biden administration’s most aggressive campaigns to shore up democracy in the hemisphere."

Substack’s woes deepen as tech blog leaves over Nazi content: Journalist Casey Newton’s publication Platformer is cutting ties with the platform

Maryland hails ‘remarkable’ year for young oysters in the Chesapeake Bay

‘God & Country’ film spotlights Christian nationalism’s threat to democracy

Reading archvie 2023-12-29

Learning to sleep like a bear could save your life: Blood clots, bed sores, bone loss — there is a whole host of ailments bears and other hibernating animals appear to avoid. So doctors and veterinarians are probing their deep-sleep ability.

A terminally ill fan hoped to meet Dolly Parton. She surprised him with a call.

Reading archive 2023-12-13

Two boys wore suits to school. Classmates joined for ‘Dapper Wednesdays.’

Teacher teared up reading kids’ wish lists, made sure all were granted: One student wanted slippers for their cold feet, another wanted a snack to stave off hunger, a third wanted a gift for their mom

Leonsis, Youngkin to make joint appearance as arena talks escalate: A Virginia plan to move the Capitals and Wizards to Alexandria could be moving ahead, as D.C. introduced an 11th-hour bid to keep the teams in the city.

Monumental, Youngkin announce deal to move Caps, Wizards to Virginia: Renderings show a 20,000-seat arena, practice facilities for the Wizards and Capitals, expanded esports facilities, a performing arts venue, “fan plaza” and more

D.C. sold properties for affordable housing. Half are still vacant.: The District launched ‘Vacant to Vibrant’ in 2018, but the city did not enforce deadlines.

Opinion  American progressives should advocate for Palestine. Why aren’t they?

Our kids have too much stuff: The emotional burden of childhood’s material clutter - "To understand how we got here — drowning in all those stuffed animals and Legos — it helps to look as far back as the late 19th century, he says, when the dynamics of an American family began to shift in significant ways. That’s when the line between family and work split: 'Parents were no longer passing their jobs on to the children, so there wasn’t the same bond over learning a trade,' Cross says. 'Instead, you connect across generations through the gifting process. From the early 20th century on, goods became the things that define relationships between family members, and the way of marking success as a family.' For those privileged enough to indulge, buying things became a love language of sorts."

What happens to Capital One Arena if the Wizards, Caps leave? Ask The Post.

Satanism comes to the 2024 Republican primary

D.C.’s longest-operating hotel, infamous and beloved, to close its doors

After cautious criticism by Biden, Netanyahu rallies Israel’s right wing - "'We respect and cherish the President of the United States,' said Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi in a post on X. 'But we live here … There will be no Palestinian state here. We will never go back to Oslo.'" [ed. note: that is a prescription for occupation and apartheid]

What not to say when people are being laid off: Job cuts are hitting a lot of industries, from media to tech to automotive; think carefully before offering words of comfort

Dow Jones hits an all-time high as investors cheer progress on inflation: Wall Street is hopeful that the Fed is done raising interest rates and that the economy can avoid a recession.

Bridget Ziegler, caught in sex scandal, refuses to quit Florida school post

When Republicans cast doubt on Trump’s intent — and ate their words: The GOP has shrugged at the authoritarian turn in Trump’s rhetoric. History suggests they downplay his provocations at their peril.

Supreme Court will decide access to key abortion drug mifepristone

Bowser’s negotiations draw scrutiny as D.C. could lose Capitals, Wizards

U.S. officials were ‘furious’ about leaks exposing Ukraine war concerns

Republicans grill 4th Circuit nominee on Justice Kavanaugh, ‘right to work’

With sports teams primed for move to Va., downtown D.C. frets its future: Residents and businesses fear a loss of civic pride and economic activity if the Wizards and Capitals depart for Virginia.

Reading archive 2022-12-14

A girl asked to keep a unicorn in her yard. Animal control said yes.

Family of man shot by FBI agent at Metro Center demands prosecution

Trial begins for two D.C. police officers charged in fatal moped chase - "After the officers turned off their body cameras and conferred with each other, Sutton gave the driver of the SUV clearance to leave, Baset said. He said they did not notify the department’s major crash unit, as was required. After Hylton-Brown was taken to a hospital, Baset said, the officers did not interview any witnesses to the collision or secure the crash site for evidence collection."

QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter: Among some QAnon devotees, Musk has become a figure of prophecy on par with Donald Trump

Tom Brady pushed crypto to his fans. This lawyer wants him to pay up.: ‘Why shouldn’t they be held responsible?’ says Florida attorney Adam Moskowitz

A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?: The Hook, a beloved Charlottesville weekly, closed a decade ago but its archives lived on — until its 22,000 stories were suddenly taken offline in June. Former staffers have theories about its mystery buyer.

The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly

Antiabortion movement seeks to jail people for 'trafficking’ illegal pills: Six months after their Supreme Court victory, conservatives complain that strict new laws are not being sufficiently enforced

Opinion  Smooth sailing for Metro, for now, as storm clouds gather

Opinion  The great American bailout goes on ... and on - "To repeat: There was a case for protecting most of the Teamsters’ pensions, with modest taxpayer support. But there was no case for using public money to protect every single dollar of them, when the vast majority of taxpayers enjoy no such perks. 

"This obviously happened because of the influence a special interest — organized labor — currently enjoys in Washington. Come to think of it, the 2021 law didn’t make employers chip in to solve the problem they helped create, so it’s a quiet corporate subsidy, too."

To live and die in Tijuana

Reading archive 2022-04-29

Who’s afraid of elemental elemental power? Fear of nuclear energy has made it harder to stand up to dictators and slow down global warming. Is it time for a rebrand? - "'Where I’m at now is, if it’s true that the climate crisis is as big of a problem and as serious and urgent of a threat as folks say it is, then we need to be really ruthless and rigorous in thinking about how we can reduce emissions in the most effective and quick way possible,' she said."

Ukrainian attacks bring war home to Russia, fraying civilian nerves

Cracks emerge in Russian elite as tycoons start to bemoan invasion: Oligarchs and financial officials are alarmed over the economic toll it’s taking and feel powerless to influence Putin

Inside the Republican drift away from supporting the NATO alliance: The isolationist posture of some Republicans is in line with the ‘America First’ ethos of Trump, the GOP’s de facto leader who has long railed against NATO - "'We now are really seeing the true impact of deep, deep political polarization, where it is better to harm the other side than do what’s right for the country,' said Heather Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund. “This deep domestic polarization has now crept into foreign and security policy. There has always been strong bipartisan support for NATO, but everything now has become polarized and can be weaponized against the other side, even if it supports U.S. national security interests.'"

Disney’s special tax district pushes back against law that would dissolve it: Reedy Creek is pushing back after a clash with DeSantis over LGBTQ rights - "One possibility is that Reedy Creek will transfer its governing powers — and financial obligations — to the two cities within its 40-square-mile jurisdiction, which are functionally run by Disney. When the special district was created after Walt Disney set his sights on building an entertainment empire in Florida, the company also included two incorporated cities. Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista have fewer than 60 residents between them — and they all work for Disney or retired from the company — but their city boundaries cover most of the theme park’s 25,000 acres and almost all of its attractions, with the exception of the Wide World of Sports."

A reactor in Idaho could change the future of nuclear energy — if it survives Trump’s budget - "That’s because federal research has often catalyzed new energy technology — think fracking. Private companies margins are too thin to conduct massive research programs. Venture capital is scarce because the return on investment is lengthy. Meanwhile, rival firms outside the United States are often state-subsidized or -owned." [ed. note: from 2017]

A Greek family saved them from Nazis. Now, they found how to thank them.: ‘Without them, my family wouldn’t have survived the war,’ said Josephine Velelli Becker, who lives in Maryland

Opinion: Republicans have only themselves to blame for Madison Cawthorn

Reading archive 2022-02-07

Heritage Foundation, former powerhouse of GOP policy, adjusts in face of new competition from Trump allies: ‘People do not walk around in fear of the Heritage Foundation the way they did 10 years ago,’ one conservative expert said

A stranger bought this Broadway star a ticket years ago when he couldn’t afford it. They just reunited.: Claybourne Elder wrote in an Instagram post: ‘If you know this guy — let me know. I would love to thank him.’

China’s Peng Shuai says there was ‘misunderstanding’ over her allegations, announces retirement: In carefully managed interview with French media, she denied accusing a former senior Chinese official of sexual assault

Crossing guard was hit by a car as she shoved a student out of the way: ‘You got to protect that child.’: Cpl. Annette Goodyear says she’s ready to go back to work tomorrow

Mom who starved baby to death and threw body into dumpster pleads guilty by reason of insanity: Kiearra Tolson, 24, suffers from schizophrenia and was deemed “not criminally responsible” in the 2020 death. - "She attributed what Tolson did to her halting her schizophrenia medicine."

Biden vows to stop Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine

Reading archive 2021-06-30

Cheat Day With Christopher Meloni: A lunch date with the man behind the behind.

Two women chatted in a bathroom. They soon realized they were each a match for the other’s husband, who needed a kidney.

He found a 2.2-carat diamond in an Arkansas park. Then he proposed to his girlfriend.

MIT professor goes viral for putting a crib in his lab to help a new mother

A gay couple faced vulgar harassment. A neighbor helped find the suspect with a handwriting sample.

America’s Pot Labs Have A THC Problem

‘Right-Wing Death Squad’: Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say

Opinion: Republicans have a new strategy: Blue Lies Matter - "How, then, to explain the latest 'legislative scorecard' from the National Association of Police Officers, a group claiming to represent a quarter-million officers who endorsed President Donald Trump’s reelection? 

"McCarthy, Stefanik and Banks all scored 57 percent, and some of the back-benchers piling on Tuesday — Reps. Ken Buck (Colo.), Jody Hice (Ga.), Mo Brooks (Ala.) — scored a paltry 43 percent on NAPO’s pro-police scorecard. 

"And the Squad? Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) all scored 86 percent. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) scored 71 percent. Where it really counts, all four members of the Squad are more pro-police than their Republican critics.

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"The reason is simple. Democrats, at least at the federal level, have been the ones funding the police. The 2019-2021 scorecard is based on votes on health care, pensions, covid-19 relief, bulletproof vests, victim compensation and policing reform. There’s not yet a scorecard of votes in the new Congress, but police groups favored the American Rescue Plan covid-relief legislation, which Republicans uniformly opposed, and President Biden wants to pump $300 million more into the COPS community policing program, which Republicans have long opposed.

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"Democrats ought to be saying, as Biden aide Cedric Richmond did on 'Fox News Sunday,' 'Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police, but the truth is, they defunded the police.' Unlike GOP leadership, the numbers don’t lie."

These are the faces of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, now jailed or exiled.

Reading archive 2021-06-09

'Sorry you had to see that' -- How baserunning has become an embarrassing problem in Major League Baseball - "Our players today, for all their talent and greatness, are confused far too often on the bases. In spring training 2019, Yankees manager Aaron Boone, during infield drills, instructed his players that when the Yankees are in the field, if there's an infield fly rule, his fielders should consider intentionally letting the ball drop because it might totally confuse the runners on the other team. They might not know what to do, and they might run themselves into another out.

"A couple of weeks later, on Opening Day against the Orioles, the Yankees had runners on first and second with one out when Gary Sanchez hit a towering popup -- infield fly rule, batter is out automatically -- that Orioles catcher Jesus Sucre dropped. Luke Voit, the runner on second, got confused and took off for third -- even though he didn't have to go anywhere. He was tagged out in a rundown for a double play."

A mom was charged for posing as her middle school daughter in class. She says she ‘proved’ security flaws.

A doctor falsely told lawmakers vaccines magnetize people: ‘They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks.’

Save your skin: How you shower matters more than when, dermatologists say

As home prices soar in unlikely places, the most vulnerable residents pay the price: New York City transplants are bringing a housing boom — and growing inequality — deep into the Hudson Valley

D.C., Md. hospitals will require employees to get vaccinated against covid-19

On 'Sour,' Olivia Rodrigo Is A Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings

A bakery lost a client when it made rainbow Pride cookies. So others bought every item in the shop.

Reading archive 2021-03-13

The bizarre tale of the world's last lost tourist, who thought Maine was San Francisco

Reading archive 2021-02-11

For decades Donald Trump bullied Palm Beach to get his way. Now he’s determined to make it his home.

Dozens of former GOP officials reportedly met last week to discuss mounting a new anti-Trump party

Capitol rioters searched for Nancy Pelosi in a way that should make every woman’s skin crawl

The ‘garbage guy’ walks 12 miles a day around D.C. picking up trash: ‘I’ll pick up pretty much anything.’

At Least 9 Far-Right Insurrectionists Have A History Of Violence Against Women: A HuffPost investigation found that multiple men arrested for the U.S. Capitol insurrection have restraining orders against them over domestic violence accusations. Others have faced charges and served prison time for sexual assault. - "Reffitt admitted to police that he put his wife into a chokehold and pulled her to the ground. When the cop asked how long he had choked his wife, Reffitt responded that 'he had trouble remembering but he said not long because he loves her,' according to the police report. 

"Nicole Reffitt confirmed to HuffPost that the physical altercation did happen, although she couldn’t recall specific details. 'Guy has a very high respect for women. He has two daughters. He’s a gentleman when it comes to opening doors. We’re from the South so, you know, he wouldn’t walk through a door before a lady,' she said."

Now out of office, Trump may have to face tax questions: However his impeachment trial ends, Trump faces an IRS decision on a massive refund and may no longer be able to conceal his tax returns

Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories - "In Study 1 (n = 137), the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered. In Study 2 (n = 102), the more participants believed that Osama Bin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive."

Among Latino immigrants, false vaccine claims are spreading as fast as the virus

Reading archive 2020-04-15

As humans stay indoors, wild animals take back what was once theirs

Reading archive 2020-02-13

Valentine’s Day was humiliating for me as a child. I tell my students about it every year.

Jim Jordan accused of ‘begging’ former Ohio State wrestler not to support reports of sexual abuse

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly takes issue with Trump for ousting Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, among other things

Rush Limbaugh: “Mr. Man Donald Trump” will “have fun” with Pete Buttigieg because he kisses his husband [ed. note: Limbaugh pronounces the name "booty-judge"]

Trump allies take aim at Buttigieg’s sexuality, a possible sign of things to come

Reading archive 2019-11-13

Leaked Stephen Miller emails shows Trump’s point man on immigration promoted white nationalism, SPLC reports

A rogue cat who ‘will not be contained’ keeps trying to free his shelter comrades

The GOP theory that Ukraine ‘set up’ Trump

AP Exclusive: FBI eyes how Pennsylvania approved pipeline

The GOP attacked Ilhan Omar for calling Stephen Miller a ‘white nationalist.’ She says his leaked emails prove her right.

Why Doesn't Georgetown Have A Metro Station? It Goes Beyond NIMBYism

Reading archive 2019-10-10

Two business associates of Trump’s personal attorney Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance charges

A spice company spent more money on impeachment ads on Facebook than anyone not named Trump

Turkey, Iran, gold, Giuliani and Trump: A guide to the case of Reza Zarrab