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A decorated veteran of the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq had his prosthetic limbs repossessed from his home in Mississippi when the VA declined to pay for them.

The Comoro Islands are a microcosm of the global climate crisis to come

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott complained on an Israeli radio show that the world is “in the grip of a climate cult.”

A candidate for Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party cosplayed as a character from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion at the Taiwan Grand Triumph concert.

Hiring a hitman online isn’t just speculative fiction

More than the right word: on telling a genderqueer narrative

While shepherds watched their flocks, the rest of us went to the pictures

A Guatemalan business ferries home-cooked meals across the border

The wife of the Chattooga County, Georgia, commissioner was arrested after pouring soda pop on a reporter’s head before the start of a budget meeting.

“Making fun of the negative interest rates offered by some European banks, Trump sniggered, ‘Give me some of that…I want some of that money.’ In my corner of the hall, around table 121, several merry-faced brokers and accountants applauded.”

A 71-year-old Japanese man was arrested after placing 24,000 customer complaint calls with his cell-phone service provider because he could not get his phone to play radio broadcasts.

Wendell Potter, a former health care executive, reveals the unified corporate effort against Medicare for All—and how those talking points are echoed by candidates and debate moderators

The maverick director who had a wild bunch of ideas about motion

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee

President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan measure that, for the first time, makes certain acts of animal cruelty, such as animal crushing, a federal crime.

Farm to table: the history of food activism in the United States

Police officers in Rome were investigated on allegations of accepting bribes in the form of pasta and gelato.

Beyond a primal scream: the problems with trying to solve the problem of toxic masculinity

An event for the book Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us ended after 20 minutes when the “groyper army,” neo-Nazi supporters who are fans of the president, heckled author Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend off of the stage.

A panel of legal experts, lawmakers, and historians attempt to decode the enigmatic (or just unsatisfying) investigation, and discuss impeachment

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph

Vladimir Putin announced his intention to replace Wikipedia with a digital version of the Great Russian Encyclopedia to ensure the dissemination of “reliable information.”

“In her quest for her party’s nomination, has Warren concluded a non-aggression pact with Hillary Clinton?”

Untangling the Brexit question with a panel of activists and leftists from around the United Kingdom

Alaska representative Don Young headbutted a camera in response to a reporter’s question about election meddling.

The not-so-good ol’ days: considering the WASP supremacy

An inventor in Australia denied preying on desperate farmers who would pay as much as $50,000 for him to deliver 100 millimeters of rain; he claims his service, whose methods he won’t reveal lest they be stolen by competitors, includes a bridge in the space-time continuum and the application of small, strategic amounts of energy to guide the butterfly effect.