Racist Bombing Kills Four Little Girls at Birmingham Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Shocks a Nation On the morning of September 15, 1963, a Sunday school class at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was preparing for worship when a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan detonated…
Florida Driver Database Hacked — Here’s What Was Exposed and What to Do Now
A Single Password Opened the Door Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, following claims by the ShinyHunters extortion gang that it compromised the system and stole more than 200,000 records. The breach…
Oil at $100, Surging Yields, and a Looming Fed Hike Rattle Wall Street — But Two Stocks Stand Out
A Brutal Week for Stocks as Multiple Pressures Converge Wall Street just endured one of its most punishing stretches in years, and the pressure isn’t letting up. Despite Friday’s bounce, the stock market had a tough week amid $100 oil prices and surging Treasury yields….
Ancient Hidden Landmass Confirms Gondwana Was a True Supercontinent That Sparked Life
New research confirms that Gondwana was indeed a true supercontinent, settling a long-standing scientific debate. Researchers made the determination after discovering buried remnants of the ancient landmass. Beyond resolving questions about its classification, the findings suggest Gondwana played a significant role in sparking the conditions that helped life on Earth begin and flourish.
Utah’s Rocky Slopes Are Hiding Nearly a Billion Tons of Frozen Water
A Frozen Secret Hiding in Plain Sight Hikers have been trudging past it for generations — a lumpy, unremarkable pile of boulders tucked into a basin below Mount Timpanogos in Utah. Nobody suspected they were walking over one of the American West’s most significant hidden…
After 8 Years and 6 Billion Miles, Two Spacecraft Are Finally at Mercury
A Journey Like No Other The BepiColombo Mercury mission entered its long-awaited arrival phase after an eight-year journey that began in October 2018. On September 3, 2026, a critical milestone was reached: the arrival phase began with the separation of the Mercury Transfer Module from…
Gloria Steinem, Voice of a Generation and Champion of Women’s Rights, Dies at 92
A Life Lived in Service of Equality Gloria Steinem, the organizer and activist who, perhaps more than anyone else, helped sustain the women’s movement through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st — through battles over reproductive rights, economic equality, and…
A Woman Just Walking Home in Times Square Never Made It Back
A Deadly Attack in Broad Daylight A woman carrying two knives stabbed two people “in the heart” of busy Times Square in about 20 seconds on Monday afternoon, killing one, before police shot and killed her after a tense four-minute standoff. The attack on August…
Millions of Women May Be Misdiagnosed With UTIs They Don’t Actually Have
A Diagnosis That Keeps Cycling Back — With No Real Answer Every day in her Los Angeles urology practice, Dr. Maria Uloko sees the same patient: a woman diagnosed with recurrent urinary tract infections, who has taken repeated rounds of antibiotics and is confused about…
Big Oil Is Cashing In on the Iran War While Its Gulf Assets Burn
Record Profits, Rising Danger Six months into the war on Iran, the largest US oil companies have posted their biggest profits since 2022 — selling less oil at far higher prices. It sounds like a paradox, but it’s the defining story of the global energy…
