Social Security's trust fund that pays retiree and survivor benefits is expected to begin running low on moneyearlier than previously expected, leading to questions from Americans who rely on the benefits for their living expenses. Without con...
Moltbook, a new website where AI programs can socialize with one another, has been gaining in popularity in recent days. Real people aren't allowed to post on the platform, but humans can scroll through Moltbook as observers. More than 1.6 million ...
It's only two weeks into 2026, but social media users are already feeling nostalgic and throwing it back to 2016 in a flurry of trending posts. The "2026 is the new 2016" trend has many, including celebrities like John Legend and Reese Wit...
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Donald Trump is the first US president to be indicted in criminal proceedings, which also happened as he is seeking the Republican nomination in 2024 The specific charge is not known, but the grand jury investigation centered on a $130,0...
Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The governor said he signed the two sweeping measures to protect young people in the st...
A yoga company in Toronto, Canada, has come up with an inventive way to allow people to return to group practice. LMNTS Studio has set up a series of bubbles in its outdoor pop-up studio for a few weeks. Canada has reported some 100,000 cas...
At least 11 states are reporting increases in new COVID-19 cases, including Arkansas, which is apparently going through a second peak....
The death rates in Philadelphia and St Louis during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic demonstrate the importance of social distancing (Credit: National Academy of Sciences USA 2007) Countries around the world are implementing measu...
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Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phon...
Denver has voted to decriminalise the use of magic mushrooms - the first US city to do so. The motion was put to a public vote on Tuesday, and passed with a slim majority of 50.6%. Although using or possessing the mushrooms will still techn...
Google+, the search giant's failed social network, will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday morning. Launched in 2011 and competing with Facebook and Twitter, it was Google's fourth attempt at a social network. But the platform failed to win...
China's online community has fallen hard for a loyal elderly dog, who waits patiently outside a station every day for his owner to come home from work. The popular Pear Video website shared a video of Xiongxiong - Little Bear - in ...
Christmashas always been a time for festive frocks, triumphant touches and holly-jolly accessories, but the social media craze this holiday season is crazy Christmas hair in all shapes and forms. From Christmas tree hair tall enough to make Ci...
A Bosnian Croat war criminal has died after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague. Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital, with the UN court announcing that the courtroom was now "a crime scene". On hearing that hi...
The US Air Force has said it is investigating its apparent failure to enter information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley's criminal history into the national database. Ex-airman Kelly was court-martialled for domestic violence in 2012...
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