Lionel Messi rewrites history books at record sixth World Cup
Messi scores three exactly 20 years to the day he made his World Cup debut for Argentina.
Trump administration seeks to halt air pollution lawsuit against Musk’s xAI
US Department of Justice claims NAACP lawsuit threatens ‘national, economic, and energy security’.
Russian drone strikes residential building in Ukraine
A suspected Russian drone attack on a residential building in Ukraine has injured at least seven people.
Scientists discover parrots may actually use names
Parrots may be doing more than just repeating words—they may actually use names. By analyzing hundreds of recordings from pet parrots, researchers found evidence that
Lucy’s hunter revealed: Giant crocodile terrorized early human ancestors
A newly identified crocodile species nicknamed “Lucy’s hunter” prowled Ethiopia’s rivers when Lucy’s species walked the Earth more than 3 million years ago. The giant
NASA seems to be backing away from hunting for life on Mars
Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.
Earth’s first animals barely evolved until sex changed everything
Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities that changed very little over time. When environmental pressures pushed
California’s Gavin Newsom alleges justice department is investigating his wife and ex-staff
A source familiar with the investigations says they had been ongoing for “roughly a year”.
‘Greatest feeling ever’: Cape Verdeans tell BBC of joy at holding Spain to draw
The streets of the capital, Praia, shook with wild celebrations as the small island nation held Spain to a shock 0-0 draw.
A blast from the past: The “interstitium,” the inspiration for that recent awful NYT acupuncture article
I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost a 2018 article that I had written for my other blog (but never published on SBM)
RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she
Does video show Fox News reporter saying reflecting pool’s green algae-infested water is blue?
Workers completed a Trump administration directive to paint the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American flag blue” in early June 2026.
Will Trump administration give Iran $300B in deal to end war? There’s no proof
President Tweety McTreason and Vice President JD Vance have both denied Iran would receive any money directly from the U.S. government.
Mike Mazzei and Gentner Drummond advance to GOP runoff in Oklahoma governor contest
No candidate got a majority of the vote in the primary, NBC News projects, as Republicans compete to succeed term-limited Gov. Kevin Stitt.