Big Tech is in the hot seat, with Mark Zuckerberg forced to testify last week about the dangers of Instagram in a landmark lawsuit brought by a young California woman, known only as KGM, who says growing up on social media ruined her childhood. KGM’s story is terrible: Claims of sextortion, self-harm and suicidal ideation. Outside the … Read more
Shopping will now save the planet. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that the state is taking an uncharacteristically classy approach to tackling one of its most notorious ecological threats — the invasive Burmese python — by literally turning the problem into luxury fashion. The Sunshine State is renewing its efforts to remove the … Read more
Alison Arngrim was 48 years old when she publicly revealed she was sexually abused by a family member starting at age 6. It was 2004 when the actress, who played mean girl Nellie Oleson in “Little House on the Prairie,” first told her story to Larry King. She described how appearing in the hit TV … Read more
If you sea something, say something. Fishermen are being instructed to kill an invasive, predatory fish with the potential to devastate local ecosystems. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is warning folks to be on the lookout for the northern snakehead, a marine animal indigenous to Asia that has been spotted in US waters. As … Read more
Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female underwent surgical sterilization, environmental authorities said. It is part of a larger government effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals that roam … Read more
These carnivores were classic — well before Jurassic. A new archeological study has uncovered further evidence of the apex predators said to have “dominated” the Earth 40 million years ahead of the dinosaurs, “as the biggest and most bloodthirsty meat eater” of that era. A nearly complete skull of the Pampaphoneus biccai, estimated to be … Read more
What attacks nuclear submarines, glows in the dark and looks like “a pencil with teeth”? Give up? It’s a type of shark called a cookiecutter shark, so named because its vampirish teeth can take 2-inch round chunks out of much larger prey. The sharks attracted worldwide attention this week for swamping a (no-longer) inflatable catamaran … Read more
Katarina Strode’s kids were the stars of her social media content. An aspiring lifestyle influencer, the married mother of two began sharing images of her children — a 4-year-daughter and a 3-year-old son — to Instagram and TikTok while they were in utero. After giving birth to her tots, she regularly posted snaps of them … Read more
An explosive new trailer for a docuseries about the Duggar family from “19 Kids and Counting” was released on Thursday and claims to “expose the truth” about a religion that many claim “raises little predators” and “turned every father into a cult leader.” TLC’s now-canceled reality show chronicled the kids’ lives as they were brought … Read more
Cardi B’s got beef — and “if it’s up, then it’s stuck.” After virtually blowing the whistle on “predators” amid controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama, who invited a small boy to suck his tongue, the Grammy winner found herself in the eye of a social media shade storm spurred by critics who eagerly noted her past … Read more