Why is Waco, Texas, fighting to suppress multiple videos of the shootout that killed nine bikers at the Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17? Why are some attorneys in the case now prohibited from talking to the press? And why haven’t Waco officials revea ...

It was presumed that season two of Daredevil would begin filming in July thanks to various reports from fan blogs, and now thanks to set photos, we have confirmation that season two has, in fact, begun production.

Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger, so it’s opening the option to sign up for its chat app without an account on its social network. Users can sign up with just a first name, last name, and phone number, starting today ...

The state senator who led the charge to eliminate the use of red light cameras in Ohio says a federal bribery investigation adds a “whole new dimension to the claim it’s all about the money.” Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, speaking to repo ...

I was a Scientologist for eight years. Although I identified as one I didn’t really understand what actually being a Scientologist fully entailed until after a couple of years of being heavily indoctrinated. The reality of Scientology is deceptively ...

In ESPN The Magazine's eSports issue, FiveThirtyEight's Ben Casselman breaks down the expansive eSports industry -- from total participants to top earners.

You've heard of Kerouac, Warhol, and de Kooning. But you’ve probably never heard of Fred W. McDarrah, even though he’s part of the reason you’ve heard of Kerouac, Warhol, and de Kooning. The Village Voice photographer hung out with New York’s ar ...

They want to replace politicians with engineers and our modern financial system with one backed by the laws of science. They dream of a world without scarcity, where the miracles of technology can easily meet the needs of everyone in the nation. No, ...

It’s time to stop using “best.” The most succinct of e-mail signoffs, it seems harmless enough, appropriate for anyone with whom you might communicate. Best is safe, inoffensive. It’s also become completely and unnecessarily ubiquitous. That developm ...

Some people at a party in Pennsylvania got an unpleasant surprise from the sky. There were about 40 guests swimming and playing horseshoes in the yard at a Sweet 16 birthday gathering. Out of nowhere, human waste began to rain down on the party. “We ...

Jessica Cooke, a 21-year-old from Ogdensburg, New York, recently graduated from SUNY Canton with a degree in law enforcement leadership and had already applied for a job as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent when she was surprised by an ...

A man who claimed he was kept as a slave by a doctor and his wife for 24 yearssaid his passport was hidden from him for more than 10 years. Ofonime Sunday Inuk had left his native Nigeria in 1989 when he was about 14 years old, a jury at Harrow crown ...

The United States has only 5 % of the world’s population, but 25 % of its prisoners. The biggest contributing factor to our booming prison population? Drugs, drugs, and more drugs.

Americans like to talk about themselves, so when we talk about Bitcoin we usually focus on ways the technology can make life better for American consumers. But an in-depth piece in the New York Times illustrates why the currency could have a brighter ...

One thing is certain about Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba in September: He is going to be welcomed with open arms. “He will receive the warmest hospitality of the Cuban people,” the island’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, said on Wednesday. ...

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be as good as pills at stopping people relapsing after recovering from major bouts of depression, according to a study. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was developed from mindfulness techniques, whic ...

One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent position, and the party w ...

Japan’s population has shrunk for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, the government said. More than one in four people are now 65 or older. The population dropped by 0.17%, or 215,000 people, to 127,083,000 as of ...

Enthusiastic Apple fans were eager to place their order for Cupertino's new wearable on Friday. Some 957,000 people in the U.S. pre-ordered an Apple Watch on Friday, according to new data from digital commerce researcher Slice Intelligence. Appl ...