Urban mining transforms Brazil neighborhoods into ghost town
MACEIO, Brazil (AP) — This part of Maceio, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern Alagoas state, used to buzz with the sounds of cars, commerce and children playing. It went silent…
I’m a former pastry cook. Here are 8 ways I’d upgrade a box of cake mix.
Betty Crocker batter Brownie Boxed Mix Taste Test There are some simple ways to upgrade cake mix.Sydney Kramer/Insider I’m a former pastry cook, and I think cake mixes are a…
Gun Pointed At Crowd During Wild Street Takeover In South LA
NextShark Video of China plane carrying 132 passengers shows nosedive before mountain crash Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a rescue operation and investigation into a China Eastern Airlines…
GOP Indiana governor vetoes transgender girls sports ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports. Opponents of the transgender sports bill argued it was a bigoted…
Ted Cruz laments angry supreme court hearings a day after angry airport fracas
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA In Washington on Monday, the Texas senator Ted Cruz complained that supreme court confirmation hearings have become increasingly angry and confrontational. Related: US supreme court justice…
Pro-Kremlin Tabloid Briefly Reports Massive Russian Casualty Number, Citing Putin’s Defense Ministry
A pro-Kremlin tabloid claimed in an article that close to 10,000 Russian soldiers have died during the country’s invasion of Ukraine, citing Russia’s Ministry of Defense, before deleting the information…
The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
Doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly. And it gets even worse when there are delays and backlogs, making it especially hard to reach the Internal Revenue…
‘I don’t think we can afford to move on’ from COVID, surgeon general says
Vivek Murthy Amanda Stronza/Getty Images for SXSW Future waves triggered by new COVID-19 variants are likely, but Americans’ “focus should be on preparation, not on panic,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek…
Iditarod ends as last musher crosses the finish line in Nome
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The last musher has arrived in Nome, ending the 50th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race across Alaska. Musher Apayauq Reitan of Kaktovik, Alaska,…
People’s Convoy Gets Hilariously Trolled by Lone D.C. Bicyclist
ShutDownDC via Twitter The People’s Convoy got a taste of its own medicine on Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C., when a single bicyclist moving at a snail’s pace brought the…