16+ hour, 55+ min ago   (434+ words) A beloved California dog surfing competition was thrown off course Sunday when rough conditions forced judges to abruptly scrap the final round over fears the waves had become too dangerous for the pups. Nearly 100 dogs splashed into the surf at…...

19+ hour, 27+ min ago   (94+ words) The Great American Drought continues. Top-ranked Alexander Zverev defeated Ben Shelton to win the U.S. Open men’s final on Sunday, extending the American men’s Grand Slam dry spell to 23 years. Germany’s Zverev took the first two sets, 6-3, 7-6, but with the crowd…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (611+ words) Back-to-back hotter-than-expected inflation readings may disappoint the majority of US central bankers who had been counting on price pressures easing on their own, setting the table for an interest-rate hike at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week and potentially more…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (705+ words) Mississippi police said Saturday they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing. Loved ones also painted a…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (886+ words) Three years to the day before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to kill herself, another nurse slaughtered her own three kids in an eerily similar case in Ireland. Diedre Morley, a 44-year-old pediatric nurse in Dublin, smothered…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (620+ words) The heads of AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI are demanding other industry frontrunners join them to “slow the pace” of advancements before rogue swarms take over the internet. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a chilling essay on Saturday urging AI…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (439+ words) President Trump called on the Smithsonian Friday to erect a 30-foot-tall George Washington statue outside the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, in place of the “strange modernist” sculpture that currently welcomes visitors. The sculpture switch is one…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (288+ words) Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday asserted that Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) “married her brother” as part of an alleged fraudulent immigration scheme — and could face deportation. Mullin made the comment to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, as he…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (758+ words) A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was put to death Thursday, becoming the state’s 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was pronounced…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (564+ words) A California couple’s surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child, who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the…...