The Portland City Council last week could not agree on yet another basic procedural question: what items should and should not go on the consent agenda before the council. The most recent procedural ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after declaring the Pentagon had “absolute and complete authority” to bomb a suspected Venezuelan drug vessel, but then offering no legal basis to back up ...

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith is facing backlash and mockery on social media after she appeared to not understand a question from the media about the department's ...

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith faces social media mockery after appearing confused by reporter’s question about chain of command following Trump’s federalization of department.

It was the leg cross heard ’round the world. In 1992, Paul Verhoeven’s erotic thriller Basic Instinct cemented its place in pop culture history with one scene—nay, one flash—where, during an ...

There’s been a deluge of science fiction and fantasy books about life after calamities, including climate-change-fueled disasters and weirder catastrophes. And like most great works of postapocalyptic ...

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