In next month’s local elections, the people of Abbey Wood in Greenwich will see the name Austin Powers staring up at them from their ballot paper. Powers is standing as one of Reform UK’s candidates to represent Abbey Wood on the Royal Borough’s council. And if you thought that name was funny enough, just wait until you hear the names of his fellow Reform candidates: Gregory Rodwell and Ruth Handyside. Are we sure they weren’t characters from the Austin Powers films as well? Powers’ name and tha...[More]
The magicians Penn Jillette and Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of “investigative hypnosis” in a death-penalty case in Texas. They argue that the hypnosis used on a witness was suggestive and led to unreliable testimony.[More]
A South Carolina man has been arrested after a vandalism spree that included an opossum being thrown on a porch. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division said Walker Chase Richardson, of Aynor, South Carolina, is facing several charges in connection to a series of mailbox destruction incidents that happened throughout the communities of North Whiteville, Evergreen, and Macedonia.[More]
The head of the International Energy Agency warns that Europe may only have about six weeks of jet fuel left. This shortage could lead to flight cancellations and impact various sectors.[More]
The animal sounds heard over an air traffic control frequency were not from a cat loose on the plane, but human pilots making animal noises. The pilots were quickly scolded after the meowing and barks occurred over an air traffic control frequency at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on April 12.[More]
A popular SantaCon charity fundraiser that floods New York City with thousands of inebriated young people in red and white Santa costumes every holiday season was true to its name: a con, federal authorities say. Organizer Stefan Pildes, 50, of Hewitt, New Jersey, was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on wire fraud charges in Manhattan federal court.[More]
Fairhope Municipal Judge Haymes Snedeker acquitted Renea Gamble Wednesday of all remaining misdemeanor charges stemming from her decision to wear a inflatable 7-foot penis costume at an anti-Trump “No Kings” protest in October 2025. Gamble walked out of the courtroom after three hours of testimony cleared of any wrongdoing, but her attorney said her arrest was traumatizing and she may consider legal recourse.[More]
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being dubbed a liar after he denied making statements about Black children having to be “reparented” in a podcast. Kennedy appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss his department’s budgets.[More]
Allbirds is trading in sneakers for servers, selling its footwear brand as it races to reinvent itself as an AI company in a move that sent its stock soaring 600%. The eco-friendly shoe company announced Wednesday that it is transitioning into an AI business, which it plans to name "NewBird AI."[More]
In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season.[More]
SpaceX acquired 1,279 Cybertrucks in the fourth quarter of 2025, absorbing more than 18% of Tesla ’s entire US volume for the period, according to registration data from S&P Global Mobility reported by Bloomberg on Thursday. Combined purchases by the billionaire’s companies accounted for 1,339 of the 7,071 Cybertrucks registered in the US between October and December — roughly 19% of the total.[More]
A court in the southern Russian city of Saratov has fined a local media outlet for distributing "LGBT propaganda" after it published a review of the Canadian television series Heated Rivalry. The news agency SaratovBusinessConsulting was ordered to pay 500,000 rubles (€5,600).[More]
A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees, according to a new study. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest, the researchers note.[More]
Two pilots have become the talk of the internet after they were heard making animal sounds at each other over an air traffic control frequency. "Meow" and "woof" echoed across the emergency frequency, triggering investigations.[More]
At a women’s empowerment event at Delhi University on 12 April, a student was stopped from sharing the stage with Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya because she was wearing a sleeveless outfit. Nineteen-year-old Saarah Sharma from Daulat Ram College was one of the participants and represented the Department of Women and Child Development during the Mock Youth Parliament.[More]
An exhibition titled “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” has opened at the memorial complex in the village of Katyn in Russia’s Smolensk region, where over 20 thousand Polish nationals were executed by Soviet authorities in 1940. The project was organized by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), headed by Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky.[More]
A Chinese national was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle thousands of ants out of Kenya. The insects are mostly destined for China, the United States and Europe, where they become pets and can be worth around $100 each.[More]
Speaker Mike Johnson offered Pope Leo XIV a theology lesson, correcting the Pope, an Augustinian friar, on Catholic theology. The Pope was walking through the archaeological ruins of Augustine’s cathedral in Hippo, Algeria the same week Johnson offered his lesson.[More]
For one B.C. woman, she learned that her husband was married to multiple other women at the same time as their marriage. In a CTV interview, a woman from B.C. known only as “Sara” said that she met her husband, Jason Washington, at a gym.[More]
Tennessee Republicans tried — and failed — to pass a measure that would ban the use of Pride flags inside government buildings. Tennessee will now recognize June as "Nuclear Family Month," a move some critics claim is less about family and more about diminishing the LGBTQ community during Pride Month.[More]
Donald Trump 's Defence Secretary has adapted lines from Pulp Fiction falsely attributed to the Bible, while giving a sermon at the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth was speaking at a worship service at the government complex when he read the prayer, as first reported by Word&Way .[More]
Bronze Age Pervert is half right. The lack of frenzied penis-worship among women is a huge social problem.[More]
Although scientists never could quite turn lead into gold, they did attempt some noteworthy experiments. Revisionist scholars began arguing that alchemists actually made significant contributions to the development of science.[More]
A new report documents a lethal schism in a chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park, where researchers have been continuously monitoring the group since 1995. The conflict, marked by 'collective attacks' and 'territorial patrols,' has led to infanticide and hardened group identities, suggesting the roots of human social behavior are embedded in our shared evolutionary history.[More]
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