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Florida officials continue to implore residents to evacuate as Hurricane Milton nears landfall Wednesday, with Gov. Ron DeSantis saying on Tuesday that “time is running out” for residents to protect themselves from the deadly storm. “You have time today. Time is running out,” DeSantis said Tuesday, as NBC News reports. …

More than a dozen states and Washington, D.C. filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, arguing the video sharing app is addictive to teens and harming their mental health for profit. The lawsuits, which were filed in state courts, allege that TikTok violated consumer protection laws. The lawsuits claim that TikTok …

On Aug. 20, 1989, 19-year-old Lyle Menendez made a frantic call to Beverly Hills police. “Somebody shot my parents,” he screamed into the receiver. When police responded to the residence, they found a grisly scene: entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife Mary Louise “Kitty” shot dead by multiple shotgun …

Florida is bracing as Hurricane Milton is set to reach landfall in the state by Wednesday evening, but as the storm continues its approach, an astronaut captured a devastatingly astonishing time-lapse of the hurricane live from the window of a spacecraft on Tuesday. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is currently …

There has been no shortage of gut-wrenching photographs from communities in the southeast devastated by Hurricane Helene, which caused extreme flooding and killed at least 215 people—pictures of houses destroyed, families trapped on rooftops, wreckage from mudslides and roads washed out by torrential rains. But rather than focus on the …

This past weekend, the spotted beagle Snoopy, star of the Peanuts comics and cartoons, found himself at the center of a political whirlwind. But that’s what happens when someone leverages the popularity of fictional dog to endorse a candidate for president. Though creator Charles M. Schulz died in 2000 —publishing …

Food, water, clothing: these are just a few of the essentials that most people think of when considering necessities for an emergency. But for the millions of Americans across the southeast hit with catastrophic infrastructure damage from Hurricane Helene, the biggest challenges they might face in the coming months revolve …

As a middle schooler in 1999 in suburban New Jersey, there wasn’t a massive punk rock scene reaching us 10 year olds. Turn on the radio, and the number one hit was “Mambo No. 5.” You had to go looking for a band like Dead Kennedys. That September though, Tony …

Hurricane Helene, which first made landfall as a Category 4 in Florida on Sept. 26, has since carved out a 500-mile path of destruction. The hurricane swept through Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee uprooting homes, collapsing critical infrastructure, and knocking out power and phone service. So far, the …

It’s difficult to describe the effect Pokémon had on children in the late 1990s to someone who wasn’t there. Today, Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise ever, so ingrained in global culture that it’s ever-present. When it rolled out in the west 25 years ago, however, it did so into …