Businesses near Yosemite National Park have seen a decrease in bookings for the summer.Marji Lang/LightRocket via Getty Images
Uncertainty fueled by DOGE-led cuts appears to be hitting summe… [+10151 cread more
DOGE cuts are screwing up summer travel plans already
Cocaine being dropped at sea for UK drug gangs to collect
Angus Crawford and Tony Smith
South American drug gangs are dropping cocaine in the sea around the UK to be picked up by smaller boats and brought to shore, Border Force has warned.
Tens of million… [read more]
‘Hitting a fly with a sledgehammer’: DOGE access to some Social Security data blocked
The Department of Government Efficiency approach’s to identifying fraud at the Social Security Administration “is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer,” a federal judge said Thursday, bloc… [read more]
A judge blocked DOGE from accessing the Social Security records of millions of Americans in a blistering ruling
A judge blocked DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration records after labor groups sued.Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
A judge blocked the White House DOGE offic… [+2079 chread more
Judge extends deadline for deportation flight details as DOJ continues to resist
WASHINGTON, D.C. A federal judge gave the Trump administration another day to respond to his demand for detailed information about weekend flights that deported planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang … [read more]
Yonaguni is a serene Japanese island featured in a Bad Bunny song — and at the front of a US-China war. See photos.
A Japanese flag waves inside the fence of the Japan Self-Defense Forces base on Yonaguni.Ayaka McGill/AP
A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs of China-Taiwan… [+10218 cread more
Don’t Miss The Most Imaginative City-Building Game In Years
There are so many degrees of scope when it comes to the city building format. The genre, that first flourished in the early 90s with SimCity 2000 has consistently delivered intricate excellence, with… [read more]
Subsea fibre cables can ‘listen out’ for sabotage
Chris Baraniuk
Subsea cables are critical to the operation of the internet
The diver had found the fibre optic cable lying on the seabed of the North Sea. He swam closer, until it was near enough t… [read more]
The Truth Behind Thailand’s Full Moon Party in The White Lotus
When The White Lotuscharacters Chelsea, Chloe, Saxon, and Lochlan decamped to the Thai island of Koh Phangan for a Full Moon Party in the fifth episode of Season 3, they were following in the footste… [read more]
Watch: Fisherman reunites with brother after 95 days lost at sea
A fisherman from Peru has been reunited with his family after spending 95 days lost at sea.
Maximo Napa left the seaside town of Marcona on 7 December, intending to be at sea for two weeks.
But, … [read more]