Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran tests their tingle tolerance, ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire, is widely regarded as the richest man in history. He was exceptionally wealthy to an extent that historians have struggled to quantify it accurately. Though the ...

Over the past decade, there have been some cars that have missed the mark so badly that they make us wonder how they ever made it to production. The reasons are myriad. Whether due to poor ...

Today, Royston Cave is treasured by locals for the intriguing marks filling its chalk walls, which are thought to have been made in the mid-1300s. These include four depictions of Christian saints ...

The 1970s was a decade of much upheaval for Marvel Comics. Although plenty of great characters and storylines were introduced in that period, such as “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” or Doctor ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country ...

The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency. The announcement came just hours before a federal district court deadline for the Trump administration to restart payments on those grants.

A measles outbreak in West Texas has exceeded 120 cases and resulted in the first US death from the illness in a decade. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the death of a ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

The increase makes 2024 the deadliest year for police violence by a slim margin since Mapping Police Violence began tracking civilian deaths more than a decade ago. There is no national database ...

Acclaimed IDM duo Autechre have announced their first North American tour dates in a decade. See the full list of shows, including some previously announced European dates, below. After kicking off on ...

The majority of cases have occurred among unvaccinated people. An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first death associated with an outbreak in the western part of ...