Jim Manzon

A partial eclipse by day, a six-planet dawn, and a moonless Perseid peak make 12 August a rare US skywatching day. Here's what to see, when to look, and the gravity hoax to ignore.

Aug 07, 2026

Senate Republicans voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department, but Trump has kept his distance, and analysts doubt a prosecution will stick.

Aug 07, 2026

From 25 August, American Airlines elite flyers in coach lose free business-class upgrades on nine premium routes and will be bumped only to premium economy instead.

Aug 07, 2026

Malik Chandler posed as his 11-year-old daughter on TikTok to lure and shoot her alleged rapist. He now sits on a $100,000 bond, higher than the accused predator's.

Aug 05, 2026

Crews are dismantling a newly installed granite presidential seal on Trump's White House helipad after he demanded it sit level with the horizon, forcing a costly redo before Xi's visit.

Aug 05, 2026

Missouri voters rejected Amendment 5, killing a plan to phase out state income tax and expand sales taxes, in a defeat that warns other US states eyeing the same swap.

Aug 05, 2026

The Dow topped 54,000 and the S&P 500 hit a record as tech rebounded, but the recovery in US retirement accounts now leans on a narrow set of AI stocks.

Aug 05, 2026

A senior FBI agent admitted stealing nearly $1 million in crypto from wallets he was investigating, then asked ChatGPT how to leave the US and settle in Europe, court records show.

Aug 04, 2026

Telegram briefly disappeared from Apple's App Store worldwide on Monday, then confirmed it had been restored. Neither Telegram nor Apple has explained the outage.

Aug 04, 2026

Spectrum TV and internet went down across the US with reports topping 5,000 on Downdetector. Here's the outage status and how to claim a bill credit for the disruption.

Aug 04, 2026

National Night Out returns on 4 August 2026 with free block parties in over 17,000 US communities, as new ICE-police cooperation deals test community trust.

Aug 04, 2026

Donald Trump won his Bedminster club championship with a 70 and boasted about his 'talent' as critics spotlight the $100 million-plus taxpayer cost of his golf.

Aug 03, 2026

Viral clips claim Trump confessed to rigging the 2024 US election. Fact-checkers traced each one and found no admission and no credible evidence of tampering. Here's what the videos really show.

Aug 03, 2026

Silver Alerts are multiplying as the US ages and more people with dementia wander, but the response is a state-by-state patchwork, with Michigan only just signing its own system into law.

Aug 03, 2026

The 2027 Social Security COLA estimate keeps swinging between 3.6% and 3.8%, and energy prices driven by the US-Iran war are the reason. Here is what retirees can expect before October.

Aug 03, 2026

Google Earth's new Nano Banana AI tool lets anyone paste fake buildings or disasters onto real satellite maps worldwide, and researchers warn it threatens how we verify news.

Jul 31, 2026

A US State Department map made with OpenAI tools mislabelled every African country at the AIDS 2026 summit, and a former official blamed Trump's deep staffing cuts.

Jul 31, 2026

FIFA's plan to sell a 20% World Cup stake to a fund tied to Joshua Kushner has triggered a UEFA boycott vote, US lawmaker anger, and a Concacaf rejection.

Jul 31, 2026

Carpenter Technology's new CEO Brian Malloy died three weeks into the job, pulling retired chief Tony Thene back to steady a US maker of aerospace, defence and medical alloys.

Jul 31, 2026

US customs revenue turned negative in June as tariff refunds topped collections, but the billions are going back to importers, not the consumers who paid higher prices.

Jul 30, 2026

OpenAI is giving 100,000 scientists free access to its top AI models, but analysts warn the offer locks a generation of researchers onto one company's closed system.

Jul 30, 2026

FBI procurement documents reveal a push for predictive AI to flag Americans as threats before they act, as the terror watch list's focus shifts toward domestic dissent under Trump.

Jul 30, 2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens 31 July with US chains pushing premium and Dolby screens, driving a family of four's night out past $108 before concessions.

Jul 30, 2026

Washington is ending a subsidy that held down Medicare drug premiums. Officials say costs will barely move, but most of the 25 million enrollees face higher 2027 bills.

Jul 29, 2026

A new USCIS rule lets officers refer more than 444,000 asylum seekers to immigration court without an interview, fast-tracking deportations and sparking legal challenges.

Jul 29, 2026

Ruby Rippey breaks 20 years of silence in a Vanity Fair essay on her Gavin Newsom affair, revealing Kamala Harris advised her to stay quiet as both eye 2028.

Jul 29, 2026

American Airlines was grounded nationwide again on Tuesday after an IT outage, the latest in a run of tech failures experts say now hit US flyers with grim regularity.

Jul 29, 2026

Newly released audio captures Joe Biden telling his ghostwriter that his notes 'may be classified,' reviving the debate over why he was never charged while others are.

Jul 28, 2026

Sen. Rand Paul released 1,141 pages of Anthony Fauci's private COVID diaries days before Wednesday's Senate hearing, exposing early scientific doubts about the virus's natural origin.

Jul 28, 2026