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The Onion's Amicus Brief Is a Great Defense of Parody. It's Also Very Funny.

The satirical news site filed a very real legal document in the Supreme Court

A neon sign spelling out Tokyo shot in Japan by photographer Greg Girard

A New Book Features Otherworldly Photographs of Japan in the 1970s

A young child holding an iPad in a dark bedroom.

Health & Fitness

Is Your Kid “Digitally Resilient”? It’s a Big Deal.

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Chinese Law Enforcement Uncovers Massive Wine Smuggling Operation

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Archaeologists Unearth Hercules Statue From Ancient Philippi

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Turns Out Coffee Is a Useful Ally in Wartime

Revisiting the history of the Civil War, coffee in hand

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Please Stop Destroying the Environment With Gender Reveal Parties

Central Brazil is the latest region to host a party gone wrong

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Robots Are Setting 100 Meter Dash Records Now

Science fiction is now science fact

Two examples of Meta's "Make-a-Video" turns text prompts into short AI-generated clips

Meta Just Introduced Make-A-Video, an AI That Generates Videos From Text

It's basically DALL-E but with video. What could go wrong?

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Ex-NFL player Brett Favre throws a football at the American Family Insurance Championship. His welfare scandal is growing with new information about donations from Favre 4 Hope.

The Brett Favre Welfare Scandal Just Keeps Getting Uglier

An elderly man walking through the countryside. A new study suggests exercising could benefit not just your children, but your grandchildren as well.

Health & Fitness

If You Don’t Exercise, You’re Screwing Over Your Grandchildren

Anthony Bourdain standing in a crowd at a screening looking pensive.

Let’s Leave Anthony Bourdain Alone

A man annoyed at a desk looking at his phone. The FCC seems poised to cut down on spam texting.

The FCC May Finally Do Something About All Those Spam Texts

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Sports Aren't the Only Way Saudi Arabia is Working to Improve Its Image

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Kidnappers Abduct Three Chimpanzees From Animal Sanctuary

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Archaeological Dig Turns Up Evidence of Ancient Opium Use

A screenshot from Heineken's 2017 ad campaign "Open Your World" featuring partisan opposites completing chores and talking to each other

Is This 2017 Heineken Ad the Key to Saving Democracy?

A black and white photo of the 1963 Porsche 901, the prototype of the Porsche 911

Who Designed the Porsche 911? 60 Years Later, It's Still Not Clear.

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman watches the LIV Golf Invitational in Chicago

Greg Norman's Lobbyist Work for Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Labeled "Propaganda"

A screenshot of Spotify's new Audiobooks section, which launched this week

The Problem With Spotify’s New Audiobooks Service

A Tesla rented from Hertz for Uber, part of a new EV initiative to get more electric vehicles running for the rideshare platform

Uber Is Going All-Electric by 2030, And It’s Offering More EV Rides Right Now

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