When it comes to statistics, we usually expect to be informed about what happens "on average." But sometimes the key information lies in deviations from that mean: how likely is heavy rain, and how ...

The investigation comes after reports that fans are allegedly being misled about the locations of the seats they were purchasing. FILE - General view of the MetLife stadium during the Club World Cup ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using funds to secretly pay leaders of violent extremist groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors, acting ...

Ted Danson's early romance with Mary Steenburgen included a high-stakes moment at the White House. Danson, 78, recalled an intense one-on-one with then-President Bill Clinton that centered around the ...

Update 4/19/26: Added additional information from Vercel that was disclosed after publishing. Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have ...

A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further "transform" its approach by drastically ...

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) details emerging risks to democratic participation on ...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance ...

Instacart shoppers may be paying very different prices for the exact same groceries — even when they live in the same neighborhood. A new Consumer Reports investigation found that the company has been ...

Throughout 2025, a meme about Republican U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson circulated online purporting that the politician once said he was "abstinence partners" with his son. Speaker of the ...

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...