Baseball is the least exciting sport, except when it's the most exciting.

The planet lost a record amount of forests last year, largely because of fires around the world, data shows. Researchers estimated that the world lost the equivalent of 18 soccer fields of forested land every minute.

Vice President JD Vance dropped the College Football Playoff national championship trophy during a White House ceremony honoring the champion Ohio State Buckeyes.

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RIP George Foreman 🙏…one of the best to ever do it….rest easy Champ!

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism.

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Current and former employees at the Social Security Administration, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts from DOGE could do to the agency, which keeps millions of people out of poverty.

The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.

Breaking News: The actress Michelle Trachtenberg, best known for roles in “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died at 39. nyti.ms/3EXH0Q0

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

A 19-year-old West Virginia resident with intellectual disabilities, for example, was not able to start a job at Goodwill on Monday because a nonprofit group that facilitates employment had not received the federal grant money it requested last week.

For the first time in recorded history, downtown San Francisco was issued a tornado warning on Saturday as severe storm conditions swept through the city, prompting local authorities to warn residents of the rare threat.

Human-caused global warming helped make more than three-quarters of Earth’s land become drier in recent decades, according to a new UN report that called the shift a “global, existential peril.”

Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump said that he would impose a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico on his first day in office, a move that would scramble North American supply chains and impose heavy costs on businesses around the continent.

Vaccines do not cause autism.

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