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The Anchorage, Alaska, fire department asked local residents not to explode frozen turkeys in boiling grease; a wild turkey smashed through the window of a Montana home and roosted on…

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Safety in Numbers I’ve been in security since 1985, and I recognize many of the industry’s shortcomings described in Jasper Craven’s report [“The Thin Purple Line,” September]. Training leaves a…

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132 hamsters broke free of their cages in the cargo hull of a Portuguese commercial airplane and stormed the cabin, grounding the craft for four days.

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In Tromsø, Norway, fishermen trawling for halibut caught the USS Virginia, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles.

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Residents in Colorado Springs voted on one ballot initiative banning the sale of recreational marijuana and another allowing the sale of recreational marijuana. “Both,” said the city in a statement…

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In Michigan, it was reported that a man living in the woods of the Upper Peninsula captured video of himself being “knocked out cold” by what he claimed was a…

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In Iowa, a North Liberty man was arrested for strangling a woman with the American flag.

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A 10-month-old fire station in Stadtallendorf burned to the ground after flames in the building went undetected because no one had installed a fire alarm.

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“It can wait,” Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson said of reconvening Congress to approve additional disaster funding.

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It was reported that Israel’s prime minister rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas because he worried he’d lose his job, and that Hamas’s leader rejected terms for a ceasefire with…

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During a televised debate for the mayoralty of São Paulo, a candidate who worked as a crime-show host walked across the stage and struck a rival with a steel chair.

In Memoriam: Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024)

Lewis H. Lapham at work in the offices of Harper’s Magazine. Photograph by Matthew Septimus We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who…

Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and Big Tech

Our October issue is now available, and we’ve received numerous requests to explain the appearance of The Atlantic’s logo beneath those of Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple on the cover.…

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Vladimir Putin implored his citizenry to have sex on their lunch breaks to boost Russia’s birthrate.

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An infantile pygmy hippopotamus took Thailand by storm; the English transliteration of her name, Moo Deng, would be “bouncy pig” or “pork patty.”

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It was reported that Vladimir Putin’s secret sons enjoy pretending to be Disney characters.

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In Australia, workers gained the right to ignore their bosses outside of work hours.

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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose 49-day premiership was outlived by a head of iceberg lettuce, alleged that a group of “far-left activists” had “suppress[ed] free speech” after they…

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In England, an “exceptionally wet summer” affected the Cerne Abbas Giant, an ancient chalk figure carved into a hill in Dorset, temporarily reducing the visibility of its famously prominent penis;…

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A police officer in Arizona who recently received an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving was arrested for drunk driving.

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The International Olympic Committee apologized for introducing South Korea’s athletes as being from North Korea.

Lewis H. Lapham
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Mourning our editor emeritus

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After weeks of pressure, President Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic nominee and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.

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Former president Donald Trump was injured in what appeared to be a botched assassination attempt.

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On the Fourth of July, 26-year-old Patrick Bertoletti from Chicago was crowned America’s first new Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion in eight years, after reigning champion Joey Chestnut…

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The Supreme Court decreed that former presidents are entitled to a degree of immunity from prosecution.

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Vladimir Putin took Kim Jong Un for a joyride, courting him with a limousine, a tea set, and an admiral’s dirk; Putin received a pair of North Korean hunting dogs…

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Donald Trump wished a happy Father’s Day to “all, including the radical left degenerates.”

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In protest of the Olympic Games, French activists announced a “defecation flashmob” in the Seine for June 23, when President Macron is scheduled to take a dip.

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Twelve largely politically indifferent New York jurors with interests ranging from live music to the outdoors convicted former President Trump on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence…

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“I’ll explain it to you someday,” Trump said in response to the hypothetical question of how he puts his pants on.

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In Taiwan, MPs brawled after spending more than 10 hours debating legislative reforms; they pulled, shoved, punched, and tackled each other, and one ran off with the bill.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that a parasitic worm found its way into his brain, “ate a portion of it and then died.”

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Pro-Palestine encampments on college campuses spread to 24 countries, and protests reached all seven continents, including a demonstration at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

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A Belgian man was acquitted of drunk driving upon confirmation that he had auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which the human body spontaneously generates alcohol.

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The University of Southern California canceled a speech by its current valedictorian, a biomedical engineer who minored in resistance to genocide, out of concern that she might discuss Palestine.

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Coup de Chance, Woody Allen’s 50th film, made its U.S. premiere; its title translates to “stroke of luck,” and a total of 13 theaters elected to show the flick.

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“It mostly felt like a brief speed bump,” said a Pennsylvania man who was receiving a vasectomy when a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey and the New York City metropolitan…

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Dairy cows have tested positive for bird flu for the first time.

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Lawyers for Donald Trump indicated that the former president was too cash poor to post his $454 million bond, and that none of the 30 would-be lenders he approached for…

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In Haiti, Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he would step down once a transitional council was in place, and an ex-police officer and current gangster known as Barbecue threatened politicians…

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A 62-year-old German man who was administered 217 COVID-19 vaccines reported no side effects and no cases of the virus; researchers found that the 217th shot had further boosted the…

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President Biden said the U.S. would begin airdropping food and supplies to Gazans, but twice confused Gaza with Ukraine during his announcement.

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An unidentified flying object observed traversing the skies of Salt Lake City, Utah, turned out to be a balloon; a joint military command issued a fighter jet to intercept it.

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Nearly one-fifth of Americans believe in a conspiracy theory involving the strategic government use of Taylor Swift to increase Biden’s reelection chances.

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Nikki Haley lost Nevada’s Republican primary to the “None of These Candidates” ballot option.

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In Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old self-published author of dystopian science fiction who recently sued the United States over his student-loan debt used a machete to behead his father, who had been…

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The president of the Philippines used a taxpayer-funded helicopter to fly to a Coldplay concert.

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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution stipulating investigation into human rights abuses before additional U.S. aid is disbursed to Israel; the measure was rejected.

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Tunnels were discovered beneath a Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn; a rabbi called the group of men who had dug the illegal structures and later clashed with police “rogue, and, frankly,…

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An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing after a door-size section of the plane blew off 10 minutes after takeoff.

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An Amazon warehouse in New York asked its employees if they were facing financial hardship during the holiday season and encouraged them to write to the company’s mascot, an orange…

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The House passed an $886 billion defense bill, which set a new record for military spending and included measures that the House Armed Services Committee said would “end wokeness in…

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In Rainier, Washington, a candidate for city council did not cast a ballot in his own election and then lost by one vote.

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A government official in Paraguay resigned after he signed a “memorandum of understanding” with a fictional country.

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A far-right politician who was once banned from visiting the United Kingdom owing to the extremity of his his anti-Islam views won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the…

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Donald Trump’s campaign said that those who compare his rhetoric to that of fascist dictators would be “crushed.”

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Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators brawled outside Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance.

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Several people who attended ApeFest in Hong Kong were diagnosed with welder’s eye.

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Scientists studied the ways in which sperm defy Newton’s laws of motion.

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Several Amish people were reported shunned after the U.S. government’s Wireless Emergency Alert test revealed that they had phones.

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A Chucky doll was handcuffed and arrested in Colombia after a man used it to intimidate robbery victims.

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An Australian tested local regulations by naming her son Methamphetamine Rules. “He’s a very chill child,” the mother said. “So not anything like a meth user.”

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Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was ejected from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice after vaping, using her phone to record the show, and stroking her companion’s crotch.

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A New Jersey business owner was arrested for using a drone to dye people’s swimming pools green.

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A San Francisco official was forced to resign after he offered a tour during which participants could “get close and personal to the doom and squalor” of the city.

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Scientists announced that neurotic people probably shouldn’t colonize Mars.

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An AI-written Microsoft Travel article recommended an Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot.

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A man crashed a stolen garbage truck into a hot tub store on the Dolly Parton Parkway in Tennessee.

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“We have to jump on this trend,” an El Salvador funeral home owner said of his new pink, Barbie-themed coffins.

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President Joe Biden’s dog was reported to have bitten seven people in a four-month span.

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Authorities in Berlin searching for a lioness found a brood of “startled piglets.”

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Officials attempted to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter who has been accosting local surfers and stealing their boards.

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A poll was reported to have found that over 40 percent of Americans do not know what July Fourth commemorates.

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“We think that it’s just, air goes through your nostrils and you move. No, there’s a science to breathing.”

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It was reported that a Harvard researcher who studied dishonesty had been accused of fabricating data.

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A Belgian psychologist found that most adults suffer from “end-of-history illusion.”

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An employee of an organ donation nonprofit who had filed a workplace complaint was reported to have found three severed heads on his desk.

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A purification ceremony took place at St. Peter’s Basilica after a naked man stood at the main altar to protest the war in Ukraine.

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It was reported that octopuses may have nightmares.

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Physicists investigated the ideal storage conditions for gummy candy.

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An Australian woman who became stranded in the woods was able to survive for five days on wine and candy.

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After workers at an eating disorder helpline unionized, they were replaced by a chatbot.

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Documents labeled “Official sensitive” were found in a pub toilet on what one pubgoer described as “quite a lively night” in Barrow-in-Furness, England.

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It was reported that after a DoorDash driver was in a car accident and rushed to the hospital, the company asked his wife if she would complete his delivery.

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ChatGPT passed an undergraduate quantum physics exam and immediately emailed the dean to ask for a better grade.

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Scientists announced that human memory of shapes is unreliable after one and a half seconds.

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Amsterdam launched a new campaign aimed at urging young British men looking for a “messy night” to “stay away” from the capital in an attempt to cut down on nuisance…

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In Israel, an opposition lawmaker compared members of the governing coalition to Minions from the Despicable Me films.

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The volume of uncollected trash in Paris reached 10,000 tons.

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An analysis of paintings conducted by Indian urologists was reported to have shown that the average depicted penis size has increased over the past seven centuries.

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The Danish government proposed abolishing the “Great Prayer Day” in an attempt to boost funds for defense spending.

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The superintendent of a Pennsylvania middle school suspended classes and shut down the After School Satan Club after receiving a threatening voicemail.

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Vanderbilt University apologized for sending an email in response to a mass shooting at Michigan State University that was written using ChatGPT.

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Missouri’s state house voted against prohibiting children from open-carrying firearms unless under adult supervision. 

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The Italian Supreme Court ruled that children don’t have to see their grandparents if they don’t want to.

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A Pennsylvania man was charged for threatening to eat a sheriff.

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A school cafeteria worker in Louisiana was arrested for selling baked goods laced with marijuana.

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A Tennessee representative claimed there are UFOs in the Bible.

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A study found that people who perceive themselves as attractive are less likely to wear a mask.

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Local authorities in Scarborough, England, canceled their planned end-of-year fireworks display so as not to distress a walrus that had taken up residence in town.

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The DEA announced that it had seized enough fentanyl to kill every American.

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Argentina beat France to win the World Cup, marking the third win by the South American team and the first time in history that no British fans were arrested during…

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An Energy Department official was accused of stealing luggage from an airport for the second time.

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Russians were banned from a re-creation of the Battle of Austerlitz.

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It was reported that a woman is suing Kraft Heinz for $5 million because her Velveeta Shells and Cheese took longer than three and a half minutes to make.

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The vice president of Brazil explained that Jair Bolsonaro has been absent from the public eye because a skin infection prevented him from wearing pants.

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Pennsylvania’s longest-serving state representative, Anthony DeLuca, was posthumously reelected.

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It was revealed that scientists increasingly don’t understand how artificial intelligence works.

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Iranian state media announced that “the world’s dirtiest man” had died at age 94, several months after taking his first bath in decades.

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Guido Crosetto, who was hospitalized during a 2013 election campaign after smoking 150 cigarettes in a single day, became Italy’s defense minister.

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A German man was detained after biting a police dog.

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A British court ruled that giant marshmallows are an ingredient rather than a snack and are thus not subject to value-added tax.

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A Swiss court ordered Lidl to immediately destroy its stock of foil-wrapped chocolate rabbits.

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The British pound reached an all-time low valuation against the U.S. dollar following the burial of Queen Elizabeth II, who was laid to rest at an estimated cost of $2.6…

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An armed man wearing a rainbow clown wig who was arrested in a Pennsylvania Dairy Queen was reported to have told police that he was “working to restore Trump to…

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Authorities in Syria seized hummus bowls made out of amphetamine.

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A Saudi court sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for using social media.

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Scientists announced the creation of wind turbine blades that could be recycled into gummy bears.

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A Missouri pastor apologized for calling his flock “poor, broke, busted, and disgusted” for not buying him a Movado watch.

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OnlyFans, a subscription pornography website, attempted to defeat its competition by bribing Meta employees to place rival porn stars on a terrorist watchlist.

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French authorities remain uncertain of how to assist a beluga whale in the Seine.

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President Emmanuel Macron decried Russia as an “imperial colonial power” while on a tour of West African countries that were formerly French colonies.

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A member of the Russian parliament claimed that blood tests on Ukrainian prisoners of war proved that they were super-soldiers created in American biolabs

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The general manager of a café in Australia fired an employee who, she said, “didn’t add any smiley faces” to a text message.

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A pregnant woman in Texas was fined for driving alone in an HOV lane after police refused to count her fetus as a person.

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A drone dropped a bag of candy near a group of children in Minnesota.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that a goat had set off a trip wire, injuring several Russian soldiers.

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A couple used a stroller with a baby in it to steal over $3,000 worth of ammunition from a Cabela’s in El Paso.

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A Missouri court ruled that Geico must pay $5.2 million to a woman who contracted an STI while having sex in a car insured by the company.

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Following public outcry over an event in Dallas, a Texas state representative announced legislation that would ban children from attending “drag shows and other inappropriate displays.”

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Following a campaign led by eighth graders, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., who was condemned but not executed for witchcraft, became the last victim of the Salem witch hunt to be pardoned.

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At the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, the former president spoke about the war in Ukraine at an event focused on “free, fair, and secure elections.”[1] After…

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A six-hour police standoff in Duluth, Minnesota, ended when officers realized that the suspect had left before their arrival.

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A Georgia man was found guilty of aggravated assault after he shot another man during a game of Uno.

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The former head of the Oklahoma Republican Party called for the execution of Anthony Fauci by firing squad.

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A black cat with abnormally large eyes and paws became the temporary mayor of Hell, Michigan.

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A man was charged with aggravated assault for beating his roommate in an argument over what mosquitoes look like.

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In Oregon, the trial of Nancy Crampton Brophy, a woman charged with murdering her husband after self-publishing an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband,” began.

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A Russian soldier who replaced a plate in his body armor with a stolen MacBook was killed in Irpin, Ukraine.

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Two former soldiers in Germany who claimed that a fortune-teller had instructed them to interfere in the conflict in Yemen were charged with attempting to form a terrorist organization.

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A group of researchers released a study identifying the Dark Empath personality type.

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A new study suggested that half of all Americans alive in 2015 suffered brain damage from exposure to leaded gasoline.

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In Texas, a screening of The Batman was paused when a live bat entered the theater.

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“It’s a communist country, so [Putin] can’t feed his people, so they need more farmland,” said the Republican senator Tommy Tuberville.

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A Maine Department of Transportation helmet was found buried in seaweed on a Norwegian fjord.

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An 80-year-old nun in Los Angeles who stole approximately $835,000 from her school to fund her gambling habit was sentenced to a year in federal prison.

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A new study found that words are required to think about numbers.

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Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, argued before politicians at the Council of Europe that his plan to hold World Cups every two years could prevent African migrants from meeting…

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A Czech folk singer who intentionally contracted COVID in the hopes of acquiring a “recovery pass” to the local sauna died.

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The Taliban dismissed nearly 3,000 members who were “giving a bad name to the Islamic Emirate.”

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A court in Spain ruled that animals are sentient beings and thus eligible for considerations like joint custody after their owners’ divorce.

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A New Year’s Day polar bear plunge in Boise, Idaho, was canceled due to severely icy conditions.

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Tesla announced that it would no longer allow motorists to play video games on their car’s touchscreen while driving.

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New York City’s mayor-elect, Eric Adams, who has said that he will move to close Rikers Island by 2027, announced that he would resume solitary confinement for detainees there, a…

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“You firebug little bastard, you’re not going to keep us down,” said a Fox News host after the media company’s New York Christmas tree was set ablaze.

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No arrests were made in connection to a 200-child brawl at a trampoline park in Tampa, Florida.

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“Believe me, the English will not have a magic Christmas,” said Jean Michel Fournier, a French fisherman who helped form a blockade at the port of Calais to prevent trade…

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A school district in Missouri announced that it will be hiring its own high school students as cooks, maintenance workers, and childcare providers to compensate for staffing shortages.

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Agencies reported a critical shortage of people trained to play Santa Claus over the holidays this year.

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Taliban officials instructed taxi drivers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province to refuse rides to gunmen unaffiliated with their organization.

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Buckingham Palace said that Queen Elizabeth would not attend the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where local residents have complained of a growing rat infestation.

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A medical school in Japan discovered that it had mixed up plumbing and, for the past 30 years, had been serving toilet water for “drinking, washing hands, and gargl[ing].”

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“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” a Texas teacher asked an administrator who said that educators should consider “other perspectives” in lessons about the Shoah.

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A school in Belgium alerted parents that their children had been playing games they had seen on Squid Game and beating up the losers as a way to approximate killings…

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It was announced that pieces of a bridge on which A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie the Pooh books, played with his son will go up for auction at…

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A U.S. federal judge ordered Facebook to release records of all posts promoting violence against the Rohingya ethnic group that the company had previously declined to share because of privacy…

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The pope expressed confusion as to why some cardinals were refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington denied responsibility for siccing six zebras on residents of the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

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Major General Christopher Donahue was the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, marking an end to the United States’ longest war, the cost of which lawmakers on the Senate Finance…

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Harvard University’s new chaplain is an atheist.

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Sri Lanka’s president demoted the country’s health minister, who advocated for sorcery as a treatment for COVID-19.

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Dozens of articles written by the co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes were taken down after an investigation revealed that he had serially plagiarized BuzzFeed.

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Three people were injured when an iceberg collapsed at Tennessee’s Titanic Museum Attraction.

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The Thai government banned frightening news.

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Researchers developed a test that can detect a type of brain tumor in urine.

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“We just call it the variant,” said the CEO of Delta Air Lines, speaking of the Delta strain of the coronavirus.

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A Saharan dust plume reached Texas.

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China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the CCP with a mass wedding, a trivia contest, and a speech in which President Xi warned foreign governments that those who interfere in…

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The Tangled Web As a journalist who has spent seven years reporting on war and conflict in the field, I have often butted heads with Washington-based analysts and editors who…

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At least 5,000 birds disappeared during a British pigeon race.

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It was reported that a West Virginia congressman used campaign funds for 53 purchases at Chick-fil-A.

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A White House press corps flight to the G7 summit was delayed because one of the plane’s engines was filled with cicadas.

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“Partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy,” said Senator Joe Manchin, announcing that he would vote against his own party’s election reform bill.

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Senate Democrats killed a Republican-sponsored bill that forbade the creation of “certain human-animal chimeras.”

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More than 100 people lined up outside of an abandoned Bay Area gas station for the chance to sniff a corpse flower in bloom.

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Engineers in San Francisco were attempting to silence a loud hum emitted by the Golden Gate Bridge that could be heard 10 miles away.

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After a church warden with the keys to a polling location overslept, residents of Oxford, England, cast votes for local elections in the trunk of a car.

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Corn prices hit a seven-year high amid fears of scarcity, and, citing increased consumer interest in vitamins, Nestlé purchased Nature’s Bounty.

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Reflecting on his time in the White House, Donald Trump told fellow Palm Beach Billionaire’s Row resident Sean Hannity that what he misses the most is “helping people.”

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A Czech man turned over to authorities a T-34 tank and a SD-100 tank destroyer as part of a nationwide weapon-amnesty program.

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A town in Missouri said that it will consult state law to determine how to fill positions on its board of trustees after an election in which not a single…

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In Ohio, a 57-year-old manufacturing plant employee was arrested after she texted her sister that a man who had been fired the day before had returned with a gun, which…

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After triggering two fire alarms, an illegally installed communal popcorn machine was removed from the North Dakota State Capitol.

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The Kremlin announced that the identity of the COVID-19 vaccine administered to Vladimir Putin would remain a secret.

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It was reported that President Biden’s dogs will be temporarily relocated to Delaware after one of them, Major, bit a Secret Service agent.

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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil told his constituents to stop “fussing and whining” about the pandemic.

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An elementary school student with COVID-like symptoms was placed in isolation inside a storage closet because of spacing limitations.

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In Memoriam We at Harper’s Magazine are deeply saddened by the loss of our former contributing editor Barry Lopez (1945–2020), who died on Christmas Day. Over the course of four…

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The Miss India 2020 runner-up rode to a victory rally at her alma mater in her father’s auto rickshaw.

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“There’s no question—none—that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” said the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, several minutes after voting to acquit…

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Absolute Proof, a three-hour documentary about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, aired on One America News Network with a disclaimer that it was “opinion only.”

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A man in Derbent, Russia, was arrested for cooking barbecue over an eternal flame memorializing soldiers who died in World War II.

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Melania Trump asked members of her staff to write thank-you notes “in her voice” to the rest of the White House staff.

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Donald Trump became the first American president to be impeached for a second time.

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In a caucus call, Nevada representative Steven Horsford told his colleagues he thought the unrest in the U.S. Capitol was “an inside job,” implying a tactical alliance between the Capitol…

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Indiana’s LaGrange County repealed a law banning large-scale, multiday gatherings like Woodstock.

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In the Philippines, soldiers and cabinet ministers received an unapproved COVID-19 vaccine in the name of national security.

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Vice President Mike Pence and President-elect Joe Biden were vaccinated against COVID-19 in separate televised events.

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Russian police launched an investigation into the break-in of a nuclear “doomsday” plane.

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New Los Angeles COVID-19 restrictions prohibited nonessential walking but not the playing of golf or pickleball.

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Following a public outcry, the decision to close a coronavirus-testing site at a major transit hub in Los Angeles in order to shoot scenes for the remake of 1999’s She’s…

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A Maryland-based supermarket chain apologized for printing a full-page Thanksgiving advertisement that read “Hosting? Plan a super spread.”

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis drafted legislation that would allow armed citizens to shoot and kill anyone they suspect of looting.

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In Vermont, Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe received more write-in votes for president than Hillary Clinton.

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After removing 130,000 bot-generated votes, Nickelodeon announced that Joe Biden had won its Kids Pick the President mock election.

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In Rochester, New York, Susan B. Anthony’s gravestone was outfitted with a plastic shield in order to prevent damage from “I Voted” stickers.

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Election officials in Sacramento County, California, pleaded with voters to stop disinfecting their mail-in ballots.

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A much-publicized open letter endorsing herd immunity as a response to COVID-19 was found to have been signed by a number of homeopaths and fictitious medical professionals, including Dr. Johnny…

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“My mom coughing all around the house after trump tested positive,” wrote Kellyanne Conway’s 15-year-old daughter in a TikTok post.

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Ron DeSantis announced plans to legislatively guarantee college students’ right to party.

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The athleisure manufacturer Lululemon, which is valued at $45 billion, promoted a “resist capitalism” yoga workshop with programs on the relationship between violent colonialism and consumerism.

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Despite its surge in cases, South Dakota has begun using federal COVID-19 relief funds for a multimillion-dollar tourism campaign.

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Facebook said that it would halt all new political ads in the week before Election Day—but that it would not take down existing ads—in order to stop the spread of…

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The College Republicans United, a student group at Arizona State University, began raising funds for Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense, saying that he “does not deserve to have his entire life destroyed.”

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A team of special agents, members of the Coast Guard, and federal postal inspectors arrested former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

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“These ballots are all going to be lost. They’re going to be gone,” said President Trump, who requested a mail-in ballot for himself.“Absentee voting is great.”

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Police officers in Kansas were summoned to defuse a rod of dynamite that turned out to be a beef stick.

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British courts will not disclose evidence about two members of the “Beatles,” a cell of the Islamic State, to the Justice Department.

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It was reported that the police department in King City, California, had required all its officers to use handgun-mounted cameras.

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The Pentagon banned Confederate flags in a memo that neither included the word “ban” nor the word “Confederate.”

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Seattle’s police department said that at least 50 percent of its BIPOC police officers would be fired if the city followed through with efforts to defund it.

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It was revealed that a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish school board in Louisiana had been shopping online during a meeting about renaming Lee High School, which was…

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The video game Fortnite removed police cars from its new season

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The Washington Redskins officially recognized Juneteenth.

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A Fairchild Swearingen C-26 flew in support of the Phoenix Police Department.

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In Austria, plans were announced to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station.

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After being arrested by the police in Minneapolis, George Floyd, an unarmed, 46-year-old black man, was killed by a white officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight…

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Saturn, an alligator who, according to legend, once belonged to Adolf Hitler, died in a Russian zoo.

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Donald Trump announced the development of a “super-duper missile.”

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The U.S. Space Force debuted its first recruitment video, featuring the slogan “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”

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A funeral home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was offering drive-through viewings.

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A “Reopen Wisconsin” protest in downtown Madison inadvertently shut down businesses that were still open.

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Last month was the first March since 2002 without a school shooting in the United States.

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“I think, if I may, it’s cool to work. Your neighbor, your brother-in-law, you know, the guy down the street, working has become cool again,” said White House economic adviser…

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The government of Malaysia instructed women not to be sarcastic with their husbands during the lockdown.

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A technical officer at the World Health Organization warned that consuming alcohol was an “unhelpful coping strategy” for cabin fever.

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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, the archduke Karl von Habsburg of Austria, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar of Iran, basketball star Kevin Durant, reality-television host Andy Cohen, actor Idris Elba, Bon Jovi…

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Oklahoma governor Mike Stitt posted a photo of himself at a crowded Oklahoma City food hall captioned “It’s packed tonight!”; Stitt later deleted the tweet and declared a state of…

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Senator Ted Cruz self-quarantined; a professional Mr. Bean impersonator stuck in Wuhan made pro-Chinese propaganda; the Taliban declined to participate in International Women’s Day celebrations 

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Democratic megadonor Bernard Schwartz told Chuck Schumer to pick a candidate; Trump claimed that coronavirus would disappear because of warmer weather; thieves in England left behind a duck at a store they had robbed

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Donald Trump pardoned Michael R. Milken, the “junk bond king”; Greece attempted to get the Elgin Marbles back as part of an EU trade deal with the United Kingdom; an Iraqi man complaining on live television about the country’s health services died on air

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American passengers who were evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship later tested positive for COVID-19; Trump complained about Roger Stone’s recommended sentencing; three quarters of Malta’s traffic police were arrested for suspected fraud

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Donald Trump was impeached but not removed from office; the novel coronavirus death toll in China rose above nine hundred; a hunting convention auctioned off a trip to shoot Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska with “accomplished conservationist” Donald Trump Jr.

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Alan Dershowitz testified on behalf of Donald Trump; the United Kingdom left the European Union; the Iowa Democratic caucuses remained undecided in part because of an app programming error

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Disneyland Shanghai announced it would close temporarily in response to an outbreak of coronavirus; a 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit southern Puerto Rico; a New Hampshire man killed a coyote with his bare hands after it attacked his two-year-old son

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Donald Trump complained about dishwashers; Washington, D.C., was declared the bedbug capital of the United States; the Duma blamed Russia’s warm winter on an American “climate weapon”

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The Iranian military admitted it shot down a passenger plane; a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Puerto Rico; 10,000 feral camels were shot in Australia

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The Labour Party suffered its largest electoral defeat since 1935; the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment; a professional golfer was arrested in a prostitution sting called Operation Santa’s Naughty List

As the World Burns

If it seems as though the world’s on fire, that’s because it is. Wildfires are starting earlier in the dry season and burning for longer. As of October 2017, European…

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Unfit for trial: a discussion of Alisa Roth’s book Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Radio Hustle

Listen to the broadcast version of “American Hustle,” Alexandra Starr’s story, for the April 2015 issue of Harper’s Magazine, about how elite youth basketball exploits African athletes.

The Art of Outrage

We defend Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish its cartoons—and our right to critique them.

“The End of Retirement” on MSNBC

Watch Jessica Bruder on MSNBC’s The Cycle

Garry Winogrand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A retrospective exhibition from June 27 to September 21 in New York City

Andrew Cockburn on Democracy Now

Andrew Cockburn discusses the origins and possible fate of Nouri al-Maliki’s prime ministership

The Harper’s Magazine Android App Is Here

Introducing the Harper’s Android app

Scott Horton Talks About the Guantánamo “Suicides” on Democracy Now

Scott Horton discusses a document omitted from a report on three deaths at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in 2006

Dottie’s Charms, by Jill Sobule

The new album from singer-songerwriter Jill Sobule

Dan Halpern’s “Citizen Walmart” (2012)

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

Matthew Power (1974–2014)

Remembering a contributor and friend

Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (1964)

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Yearly Review

The Syrian civil war, Edward Snowden, and the road to Hell-Ville

Did a Top Taliban Leader Fake His Own Death?

Harper’s Magazine Reporter Concludes that Taliban Intelligence Chief Qari Ahmadullah Is Still Alive

Breyten Breytenbach’s “Mandela’s Smile” (2008)

Notes on South Africa’s failed revolution

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The countries and companies responsible for climate change, nuclear options in Congress and Iran, and the extinction of Darwin's frog

Steve Mumford and Lawrence Douglas at Postmasters Gallery in New York City

Join us Saturday, October 26, at 6:30 p.m.

Alice Munro’s “Train” (2012)

Our warmest congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 

Can the European Union Hold?

Can the European Union survive — and should it? 

Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics” (2008)

Hell hath no limits

Mary McCarthy in Salinger

“J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit” makes an appearance in a new documentary

Jim Webb on Why Congress Must Be Consulted on Foreign Policy

From the June 2013 issue

Pages from William T. Vollmann’s FBI File

“The FBI operative in New Haven who wrote my forensic profile possessed some talent with words and turned his phrases with apparent pleasure.”

Willam T. Vollmann Was Suspected of Being the Unabomber

The author obtains his FBI file and discovers a case largely based on literary criticism

Nicholson Baker Argues that Algebra II Shouldn’t Be a Required Course

“Life’s prerequisites are courtesy and kindness, the times tables, fractions, percentages, ratios, reading, writing, some history — the rest is gravy, really.”

Rebecca Solnit’s “Detroit Arcadia” (2007)

On the possibility of a new Detroit

Sleeping with Harper’s Magazine: An Event at McNally Jackson in Manhattan

Please join us on Wednesday, July 31, at 7 p.m.

Writers Go in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep

We asked some of our favorite writers how they were sleeping. Their responses ranged from the personal, to the scientific, to the historical.

Blood Spore: The Pollock Murder Cassette

A 1981 recording of a police officer and a burglar discussing the robbery and murder of a pioneering mycologist

McKenzie Funk Searches Iceland for the Man who Tried to Sell Glaciers

“There was no country more in the thrall of commercial banking and paper wealth. . . . All this helped explain why no one in Iceland seemed worried about building an economy on water, not when the last one had been built on air.”

Robert Littell’s “What the Young Man Should Know” (1933)

Advice for parents about raising their sons

Introducing the July 2013 Issue of Harper’s Magazine

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme, a magic-mushroom murder, and more

“The Old Dictionary,” by Lydia Davis, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize

Our congratulations to Lydia Davis

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi’s “Byzantium” (2012)

Their ears were uncircumcised

Surprisingly Germane

Tracing the Holocaust-Symbol Theory of The Shining

Wil S. Hylton’s “Broken Heartland” (2012)

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

Harper’s Photo Essay Wins Overseas Press Club Award

Congratulations to Samuel James, winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award

Ted Conover Goes Undercover as a USDA Meat Inspector

A synopsis of our May 2013 cover feature

Harper’s Magazine on the Iraq War (2002–2013)

Tracing our coverage of the war, from Lewis H. Lapham to Andrew J. Bacevich

Susan Wides at Kim Foster Gallery in NYC

The exhibition Susan Wides: All the Worlds, which includes photography that accompanied "Some Assembly Required" (Harper's Magazine, February 2012), opens tonight at Kim Foster Gallery.

New Puzzles Page on Harpers.org

Puzzlers are invited to visit harpers.org/puzzles

Soda-Water: What it is, and how it is made (August 1872)

When soda was a wonder, not a basic human right

T. C. Boyle’s “My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain” (2010)

A classic short story about the desperate acts and philosophical consolations of a middle-aged man who has become romantically obsessed with one of his neighbors.

Samuel James at the Half King in New York City

Please join photographer Samuel James and Harper’s Magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson on Tuesday, February 12, for a discussion of James’s work.

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

A core piece in the canon of criticism on criticism

Richard Ross Exhibition in New York

The photography of Richard Ross, who won a National Magazine Award for his work in Harper???s, is exhibiting at the Feldman Gallery until February 16

New York Readers: Joshua Cohen, Rivka Galchen, and Heidi Julavits at McNally Jackson

Join us at McNally Jackson on Tuesday, January 15, at 7:00 p.m.

Mining the Soviet Experience in Afghanistan

The Soviet Union assesses its Afghan campaign

Yearly Review

2012 in three paragraphs

Larry L. King (1929–2012)

R.I.P. Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine contributor from 1965 to 1971

Captain Wilfrid Ewart’s “Two Christmas Mornings of the Great War” (1920)

Accounts of the legendary frontline ceasefires on Christmas Day between British and German soldiers

The Settlers of Catan’s Greenhouse Rules

“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”

William Styron on the Literary Appreciations of Farmers’ Daughters, 1972

“These rich farm bastards . . . support fat institutions of learning like the University of Iowa, which should be able to pay a decent fee for writers to come…

Controversy

On the matter of conscious v. conscience in Prince's "I Would Die 4 U"

Bob Shacochis’s “Written in the Big Wind” (1991)

Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes

On Victoria Collier’s “How to Rig an Election”

Our November cover feature is now available to all readers. You can find and share it here.