A spate of shark attacks off the Northeast coast has swimmers and surfers on edge. What’s behind the biting spree? Here’s everything you need to know: Are shark attacks increasing? The number of people bitten by sharks worldwide has held steady at about 70 or 80 a year over the past decade. But the U.S.…
This week’s question: A Washington, D.C., real estate listing includes neither a house nor property, but a single, crumbling brick wall, which is on sale for $50,000. If this structure were to become a monument to high housing costs, what should it be called? Click here to see the results of last week’s contest: Literary warnings…
For as much as dyspeptic futurists grumble that “they promised us jet-packs” whenever it comes time to measure the utopian predictions of the past century with the decidedly more mundane present, the reality, as author William Gibson famously said, is that “the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Consider the self-driving…
SAN DIEGO — Three U.S. Marines killed in the weekend crash of an Osprey aircraft in Australia were identified Monday. They were Cpl. Spencer R. Collart, 21, of Arlington, Virginia; Capt. Eleanor V. LeBeau, 29, of Belleville, Illinois; and Maj. Tobin J. Lewis, 37, of Jefferson, Colorado, their unit, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin, said in a statement.…
This week’s question: A Scottish university is warning students that Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” contains “graphic fishing scenes.” Name another potentially upsetting work of literature and, in five or fewer words, a fitting trigger warning. Click here to see the results of last week’s contest: Meeting creep Skip advert RESULTS: THE WINNER: “Goldilocks: Graphic…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Minutes after walking his teenage son to the cable car he takes to school Tuesday, Umraiz Khan said, he heard a loud noise followed by the sound of people screaming. Running back down to where he had left Irfan, 14, he said he saw the cable car dangling around 900 feet above the…
1 Judge rules Texas’ abortion ban must allow medical exceptions A Texas judge on Friday ruled that the state’s abortion ban was too restrictive against women with complex pregnancies, issuing a temporary injunction to allow certain medical exemptions for abortions. State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum outlined these medical exemptions as a pregnancy that presents a risk…
This week’s question: “Meeting creep” is locking workers into endless, prolonged video conferences with bosses and colleagues that crowd out actual work. In seven words or fewer, come up with a message for a pop-up screen warning everyone that their remote meeting is taking too long. Click here to see the results of last week’s contest:…
A partial power outage amid the record rain of Hilary at Los Angeles’ White Memorial Hospital led to the evacuations of at least 28 “critical” patients and left nearly 250 patients in the dark, fire officials said. The outage was reported just after 11 p.m. Monday at the hospital’s Specialty Care Center at its Boyle…
After spending decades writing self-help books, starting nonprofits dedicated to building peace, and serving as a self-described “spiritual thought leader,” Marianne Williamson has pivoted to politics. The 71-year-old is a two-time Democratic presidential candidate who first ran in 2020 and has now joined the 2024 race. When she announced her second long-shot bid in March 2023, Williamson…