This is an adapted excerpt from the new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. “Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim,” Peter Thiel said, adding, “you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or …

A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …

A recent executive order has sparked widespread concern about the availability of medications treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition that affects more than 22 million Americans. Titled “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission,” the executive order has Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy …

Prior to Elon Musk’s takeover of X (formerly Twitter), the app was a wildly popular social media site known for throwing everything from the latest breaking news to the newest memes all on the same constantly refreshing timeline. Now, it’s an ad- and bot-ridden playground for far-right posters —and nothing …

Drake is back on top of the charts. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, the rapper’s collaborative album with fellow Canadian PartyNext Door, has debuted atop Billboard’s 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking Drake’s 14th Number One album. The record opened with 287.04 million first-week streams, along with …

Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter whose music was later championed by artists like Jeff Tweedy and Nick Cave, leading to a late-career resurgence, has died at the age of 81. Dead Oceans — the record label that released Fay’s three most albums, which arrived decades after inactivity — confirmed …

The Trump administration is ordering immigration agents to find and deport thousands of undocumented immigrant children who came to the U.S. without their parents, Reuters reported, citing an internal government memo. The memo, titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” stated that children would be deported if they have …

Chicago Cubs starter Cody Poteet knew exactly what pitch he wanted to uncork to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy: a fastball down and away. But as the ball left his hand — in the first inning of the first game of spring training Feb. 20 in Arizona — it …

Sen. Susan Collins is “very concerned” about how the Trump administration’s mass firings in the federal government will affect her home state. “I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. …

Amid the Vatican’s statement that Pope Francis remains hospitalized in critical condition with respiratory issues, the pontiff returned to social media Sunday to thank the world for its support. Following Saturday’s news that Pope Francis had an “asthmatic respiratory crisis” that required a blood transfusion, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said …