Costco Shuts Down Its Hidden Discount Marketplace With No Warning to Members
A Beloved Perk Disappears Overnight Millions of Costco members woke up this week to find one of the warehouse giant’s most beloved hidden perks had quietly vanished. Costco Next, an online marketplace that members often regarded as one of the retailer’s most coveted hidden perks,…
Housing Authority Director Used Public Funds to Renovate His Personal Bathroom
A Bathroom Upgrade Funded by the Public The former director of the Watertown Housing Authority agreed to return funds he stole and used to renovate his bathroom, after being charged with one count of wire fraud. The case reads like a cautionary tale about unchecked…
Brooklyn Man Sues NYPD for $100 Million After Brutal Mistaken-Identity Arrest
Wrong Place, Wrong Man On April 14, 2026, Timothy Brown entered a liquor store in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, to buy wine after finishing his shift as a security guard. What happened next would upend his life entirely. Moments later, two detectives from the Brooklyn North…
Pro-Deportation Commentator Milo Yiannopoulos Deported From the United States
Caught by the System He Championed Few stories carry the kind of stark, unsparing irony of this one. Milo Yiannopoulos — the British far-right provocateur who spent years loudly demanding the mass removal of people living in the United States without legal status — has…
Two Major Crime Stories Rattle the Nation as Courts Deliver New Twists
FLDS Cult Leader Piles Up Prison Time A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was given another 24 years in prison on August 25 on separate state convictions for child abuse — specifically for hauling young girls…
Popular Safety App Citizen Goes Global With Bold Push Into Mexico
From American Streets to Mexican Cities Citizen, the leading public safety app in the U.S., has announced its expansion across three major cities in Mexico: Mexico City, Tijuana, and Guadalajara. For millions of people living in some of North America’s most complex urban environments, that…
Convicted Genocide War Criminal Ratko Mladic Dies in UN Prison at 84
The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Is Gone, But His Crimes Will Never Be Forgotten Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general who spent his final years serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, died on Thursday, August 27, at a United…
New Pill Doubles Survival Time for Late-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Patients
A Breakthrough Decades in the Making For most of the past half-century, a diagnosis of late-stage pancreatic cancer has been, in the words of one patient, a death sentence. That reality shifted on Wednesday, August 26, when the FDA granted expedited approval to a pill…
Philadelphia’s Chucky Mask Suspect Caught in Las Vegas After Multi-State Manhunt
A City Terrorized, a Suspect on the Run On the morning of August 12, Zymire Hughes allegedly accosted multiple people in Philadelphia’s Center City area while wearing a “baby doll style Halloween mask” during a more than 30-minute rampage. The mask resembles the killer doll…
Solar Flare Sends Plasma Cloud Toward Earth, Sparking Northern Lights Alert This Week
A Restless Sun Fires Off a Powerful Eruption A strong M6.9 solar flare erupted from Active Region 4513 near the center of the visible solar disk at 10:02 UTC on August 25, 2026, causing an R2 — Moderate radio blackout. The eruption wasn’t a one-off…
