Happy Friday, all — I’m calling today a holiday, a day off, a free day; after all, while the Leader of the Free World is obsessively occupied redrawing the map of Dorian and the American South, We the People might as well enjoy just living life, right? MORE
If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there. From Bloomberg over Labor Day weekend: Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to MORE
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson offered an unorthodox suggestion Wednesday for dealing with Hurricane Dorian: using “the power of the mind” to will the storm elsewhere. Dorian has largely spared Florida the worst of its MORE
On Tuesday, the White House released a nearly two-minute video titled “The Summer of Winning” that documented a series of alleged — you guessed it! — wins for President Donald Trump and his administration over MORE
There has been a massive, unexpected development at the US Open: The “Big 3” in the men’s singles draw is down to one. An ailing No. 3 Roger Federer was stunned by Grigor Dimitrov, with the unseeded MORE
Cilla Carden, a vegan massage therapist from Girrawheen—a suburb of the Western Australian city of Perth, believed that her neighbors were using a barbecue as a new front in a long-running war between neighbors. “They’ve MORE
DOONBEG, Ireland (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence’s staff is defending his decision to stay at one of President Donald Trump’s properties while in Ireland amid criticism by Democrats that he’s enriching Trump at taxpayers’ MORE
As the USC Trojans walked through the peristyle entrance of the newly remodeled Coliseum on Saturday, they followed Clay Helton down the concrete steps toward the field, passing six oversized USC jerseys displayed on each MORE
Argentine director Lucrezia Martel, who is chairing the festival’s jury, said she did not want to “congratulate” the director and that his participation in the festival made her “uncomfortable”. J’Accuse (An Officer and a Spy) stars MORE
Former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski became emotional Tuesday morning when describing his decision to retire from the NFL in March. “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. I was MORE
A four year battle between the city of Fort Collins and the forces of Comcast and CenturyLink ended in a win for the consumers. Said one headline in 2017 after the vote: “ “Sorry, Comcast: MORE
Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 3 major storm and is still gathering strength as it moves toward Florida, where it could make landfall as soon as late Monday as a Category 4 hurricane. All MORE
If you were to walk at night along the waterfront in West Palm Beach, Florida, you might hear something strange: A playlist of annoyingly catchy children’s songs — including “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos” — blared on loop all MORE
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Next month marks one year since an upset, though collected, Christine Blasey Ford recalled one of the most horrible nights of her life before the world—and one year since Brett Kavanaugh, angry and pursed, denied MORE
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A US city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, MORE
Champion Soccer Player Carli Lloyd thinks it’s “insane” that video of her making a 55-yard field goal during a visit with the Philadelphia Eagles went viral last week, but she’s confident a woman could be MORE
Health officials in Michigan have issued a warning to residents as they investigate three possible human cases of a deadly mosquito-borne illness.The disease, known as Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE), causes brain inflammation, which can MORE
Facing an avalanche of criticism over the fires raging across the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil pledged that his government would take a “zero tolerance” approach to environmental crimes MORE
A new invasive species of tumbleweed that can grow up to six feet in height is taking over parts of California—and scientists are warning it could spread even further as climate change makes its growing MORE
The G7’s pledge of $20m (£16m) to douse the fires in the Amazon has been dismissed as “chump change” by environmental campaigners, as concerns grow about political cooperation on deforestation and other climate issues. The MORE
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state’s opioid epidemic MORE
Humana Pharmacy has deployed an artificial intelligence system in its call centers that gives the human employees gentle nudges to be more empathetic with customers. . . . The algorithm, built by the AI development MORE
The White House and a network of Conservatives have allied to identify and discredit news organizations deemed hostile to Trump. They plan to do this by publicizing damaging information about certain journalists. The group has MORE
The Wall Street Journal gave President Donald Trump a stiff word-lashing Friday for ratcheting up his no-win trade war with China. “The trouble with trade wars, like shooting wars, is that once they start you MORE
Hundreds of bicyclists have been caught with their pants down — and their shirts and underwear off, too. The cyclists gathered in a Philadelphia park on Saturday to disrobe before saddling up and setting off MORE