Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giant
A small investment made at the right moment has the power to launch ordinary people to millionaire status. All it...
Aged, sooty and manhandled, two famous Lincoln portraits get gentle makeovers
Heather Smith stood before the tattered portrait of Abraham Lincoln holding a fine-tipped sable brush and a small plastic palette...
Instagram promised to remove harassing Meta glasses videos. I keep finding them.
Meta said it would remove harassing videos filmed with its AI glasses, but its content moderation so far has been...
Incendiary comic Lenny Bruce inspired generations. During his brief life, L.A vice cops hounded him.
The comedian was on the witness stand, trying to explain himself. Night after night, under constant threat of arrest from...
Cartel-aiding Nevada man faces 70 years in prison for buying ‘military-style’ firearms: DOJ
A Nevada man pleaded guilty on Friday to purchasing high-powered firearms and ammunition to sell to drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico, money laundering...
He’s Awkward. He’s Sticky. He’s the Best Superhero.
14 years after the first “Avengers” movie hit theaters, superheroes have become a bore. Their supernatural strength, their predictable near-indestructibility,...
Pet goose honks to alert family of barn fire, saving their animals
Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked...
Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon
Nuclear holocaust isn’t a scenario to be taken lightly. In the unlikely event that nuclear war ever breaks out, it’s...
A Civil Debate About the Civil War
To the Editor: Re “Don’t Call It the ‘Civil War,’” by Anthony Conwright (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 2): The American...
These landscapers are mowing the extra mile — and changing lives
Three years ago, Sean Stockman mowed a lawn in Detroit and it changed his life. Stockman, 44, was two decades...
