America Just Got Its First-Ever National Strike Fund And Workers Are Fired Up About It
For the first time in American history, workers across the country will have a centralized national fund to support them when they organize and strike. Union Now, a new nonprofit launched by Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson, held its official kickoff rally in Manhattan on April 12 to enthusiastic crowds — and began […]
Jeopardy Contestant Is On A Historic Winning Streak
A 33-year-old law student and former bureaucrat from New Jersey named Jamie Ding has become one of the most exciting things happening on American television right now, racking up 28 consecutive wins on Jeopardy and earning over $730,000 in the process while steadily climbing toward one of the most storied records in game show history. […]
A Soccer Club For Bereaved Dads Started With Two People And Has Just Won A National Award
When two bereaved fathers first showed up to kick a soccer ball around in Blackburn, England, the idea was simple: give men who had lost a child a place to come together through sport, something uncomplicated and human, where grief did not have to be explained or performed. That modest beginning has since grown into […]
A Humanoid Robot Just Beat The Human World Record For The Half Marathon
On April 19th in Beijing, thousands of human runners competed in a half-marathon alongside more than 100 humanoid robots, and for the first time in history, a robot won. The champion was a self-navigating android called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, which completed the 13.1-mile course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating […]
Happy National Arbor Day! The 154-Year-Old Holiday That Asks You To Plant Just One Tree
April 24 is National Arbor Day, one of the oldest and most quietly powerful environmental holidays in the world, and a perfect opportunity to do something genuinely good for the planet in about 20 minutes. The holiday was born in Nebraska in 1872, when journalist and tree enthusiast J. Sterling Morton convinced the state to […]
Replacing Opioids With A Cannabis Compound That Has No High And No Addiction
Scientists are closing in on something the medical world has been searching for for decades: a way to treat chronic pain as effectively as opioids, without the addiction, overdose risk, or mind-altering effects that make opioids so dangerous. Two separate research teams have recently made significant progress toward that goal using compounds derived from the […]
The Worlds Oldest Doctor Ever Worked Until He Was 103 And Guinness Made It Official
Dr. Howard Tucker, a neurologist from Cleveland, Ohio, who became the oldest practicing doctor in recorded history and spent more than seven decades caring for patients and training future physicians, passed away on December 22, 2025, at the age of 103, and Guinness World Records has now honored his life with the formal title of […]
A Michigan Man Won The Lottery And Then Won It Again A Year Later
A 47-year-old man from Muskegon County, Michigan, has won a $1 million lottery prize, which would be a remarkable story on its own, except that it is actually his second major lottery win in just over a year. The man, who chose to stay anonymous, had already won roughly $367,000 playing the Fantasy 5 game […]
YouTube Is Turning 21, Here Are The Record-Breaking Moments That Defined A Generation
Happy birthday to the website that changed everything. YouTube turns 21 this week, and it’s almost impossible to overstate what the platform — launched on February 14, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen — has meant to global culture. It began with the most humble of origins: the very first video ever […]
The National Zoo’s Baby Elephant Made Her Public Debut On Earth Day
Today is a very big day at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where a two-month-old Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai is making her public debut for the first time since her birth, and the staff who have cared for her around the clock since February say she is already showing exactly the […]