AUGUST 29, 2020
Protesters greet each other while holding George Floyd posters at the Lincoln Memorial Friday.
Just past dawn Friday, more than a half-century after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial’s marble steps and offered his vision for a fair and righteous America, thousands of protesters descended on the nation’s capital at the end of...
AUGUST 29, 2020
The actor Chadwick Boseman in 2018. - Valerie Macon/AFP — Getty Images
Chadwick Boseman, the actor who found fame as the star of the groundbreaking film “Black Panther” and who also portrayed pioneering Black figures such as Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, died on Friday. He was 43.
A statement posted on Mr. Boseman’s Instagram account said...
AUGUST 28, 2020
A pig with a Neuralink implant.
Elon Musk's brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, conducted a live demo of its technology on Friday, showing a coin-sized device without wires.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO brought along three pigs, who had varying levels of interest in cooperating. Eventually, the audience was shown real-time neural signals from one of the pigs, which...
AUGUST 28, 2020
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Immigration and Border Security during a campaign rally in Yuma, AZ. - Doug Mills/NY Times
Listen, liberals. If you don’t think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook.
Since the 2016 election, I’ve been obsessively tracking how partisan political content is performing on Facebook, the...
AUGUST 28, 2020
Mark Zuckerber during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing in July 29. - Mandel Ngan/Bloomberg
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday that the company erred by not taking down an event listing for a militia group that encouraged armed civilians to defend the streets of Kenosha, Wisc., from civil unrest before the fatal shooting...
AUGUST 28, 2020
A cloud of smoke and dust rises in the sky after the so-called Tsar Bomba was detonated in a test over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. - Reuters/ROSATOM
MOSCOW - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago.
The hydrogen bomb,...
AUGUST 27, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 14: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen as she presents the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inaugural Woman of Leadership Award to Agnes Gund at The Library of Congress on February 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been selected as this...
AUGUST 27, 2020
President Donald Trump's wife and children spoke the first three nights of the Republican National Convention — and his niece showed up for the grand finale.
Mary Trump, who wrote a devastating best-selling tell-all book about the president and his family, joined an MSNBC panel for the final night of the convention, where she mocked its portrayal of...
AUGUST 27, 2020
Supporters celebrate as they watch from a parking lot outside Chase Center in Wilmington Del., as former Vice President Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020. - Alex Wong/Getty Images
After testing every staff member, reporter and individual near the former vice president for two days in a row and...
AUGUST 27, 2020
You're in the middle of your squat reps - weight in hand - and just like that, a charley horse causes your calf muscle to go rogue. When this type of muscle spasm or cramp hits, there is no mistaking what's going down. The pain doesn't usually last longer than a few minutes, but it's often instant,...
