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When life gives you off-camera White House press briefings, make your Supreme Court sketch artist draw them. 

June is LGBTQ Pride month, and cities all over the world are celebrating their true colors with fabulous marches and parades. However, many people forget that Pride’s inception is directly associated with political unrest and violence against LGBTQ people. The history of Pride is riddled with tension and activism. Read more...

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes is a TV show that isn't out yet. It has a parallel universe in the form of a video game called OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes, which also isn't out yet. The two are being created contemporaneously — the show by Cartoon Network and the game by Capybara Games — and both mediums are bleeding into each other in interesting ways. 

The Oregon Zoo knows you need a video of a polar bear having a blast with a boomer ball, so they pulled through just in time for the weekend.

Nora, the polar bear, became a resident of the Oregon Zoo last September and will be taking her definitely-bearable antics to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City come this fall.

Hopefully she'll finally catch the ball by then. Read more...

Just when you think every lewd thing imaginable has already been done to a fidget spinner, a new, naughtier invention comes along.

If you're bored during your commute and have nothing to read, have no fear!

They might not be perfect, but they're winners.

In 2017, it's a common refrain. For example: It's how Donald Trump supporters justify supporting Donald Trump. And it's also how Travis Kalanick supporters still justify supporting Travis Kalanick.

Let's be clear: Kalanick is, in form and function, nothing like Trump. Kalanick is a legitimately successful entrepreneur who created a massive company out of thin air. Kalanick's also got plenty of faults, but he hasn't been accused of a... Читать дальше...

A gorilla named Zola at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas was caught dancing in a pool. The video shows this behind-the-scenes fun is heartwarmingly cute. Read more...

Like most things Shonda Rhimes creates, her idea for a "town hall" to support sexual assault survivors knocks it out of the park.

During Donald Trump's first few months in office he's unexpectedly inspired a great deal of bathroom-related discussion, ranging from urine-themed jokes to trademarked Trump toilet paper.

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Less than 24 hours since his foreboding question to a Glastonbury crowd, Johnny Depp has issued an apology.

In true Lannister fashion, Peter Dinklage is keeping it in the HBO family with his latest project. 

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Amazon's Alexa is the personal secretary that can make us feel as powerful as Sabrina the Teenage Witch. But it's not always feasible to constantly be on your phone to stay connected when you leave the house. Thankfully, these are worries of the past with OnVocal's new headphones, which allow you to give Alexa commands (plus a lot more) from wherever you are, right from your ear. 

Google will no longer scan your emails to steer the ads it shows you—a longstanding controversial practice that you may not have even been aware the company was doing.

In Conan O'Brien's latest segment of Clueless Gamer, the host welcomes special guest Will Arnett to battle in Nintendo's bizarre new fighting game called ARMS. The two of them should definitely stick to their day (and late night) jobs.

Welcome to our weekly series "Cry of the Week," in which we highlight whichever moment made us ugly cry on our couches in the past seven days. 

When technology is used to make art, sometimes it produces beautiful results. And other times things get a little ... strange.

An unusually wide-reaching and long-lasting heat wave has gripped at least six states for an entire week, breaking or tying dozens of hot weather records. Temperatures were so high that certain aircraft couldn't fly out of airports including Phoenix and Palm Springs, offering a preview of what may happen to transportation networks as the climate continues to warm due to human-caused climate change. 

Some people were puzzled when IBM bought The Weather Company — including weather.com and several meteorological data firms — in 2015. However, since then, the company known for its Watson AI platform has been finding new applications for the weather data it is vacuuming up on a daily basis. 

Drought in a developing country can mean many things: a lack of water, a lack of food and nutrition, and a lack of economic growth that puts even more pressure on impoverished communities relying on farming for their livelihoods. 

Old school communication meets new school communication.

Ryan Burchett found a message in a bottle last weekend on Little St. Simons in Georgia. The buoyant letter was 36 years ago and thanks to social media he was able to connect with the original sender.

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Douglas Stephens sent the bottle afloat off the Atlantic coast of Florida back on June 10, 1981. The letter included his name... Читать дальше...