The Benz Velocipede, the world's first production car, set a world speed record when it was first introduced in 1894.

It too moved about 12 mph, which is faster than a human.

Israeli army investigates soldier seen striking Jesus statue in Lebanon IDF says sledgehammer image circulating online is authentic and is being viewed with ‘great severity’

Oh, okay.

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I spent 15 minutes staring at this painting last week. I counted 101 sunflowers. It's stunning.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin excels at exposing injustice. His overseas arrest deserves the same scrutiny. The American journalist has been detained in Kuwait nearly seven weeks. Before he was arrested under a law designed to curb media freedom, he shared publicly available videos and images related to the...

“I’m sure he knew of the dangers involved. But no one expected this.”

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Okay, imma give this a shot

In final moments before truce, Israeli strike kills Lebanese man's family Hassan Abu Khalil's family miraculously survived six weeks of war in southern Lebanon, but tragedy struck ‌in the final minutes before a ceasefire came into force. An Israeli strike late on Thursday k...

Hassan Abu Khalil's family miraculously survived six weeks of war in southern Lebanon, but tragedy struck ‌in the final minutes before a ceasefire came into force. An Israeli strike late on Thursday killed 13 of his relatives, leaving him the sole survivor.

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Amazon Prime timing its commercials to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour's original breaks is an epic self own.

For context, the navy captain was 47 at the time.

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In 2019, an NYC pulmonologist I interviewed for a Univision 41 local TV news segment showed me medical pictures of vapers who had worse lung damage than chain smokers.

"Honestly, it would be better off if they just smoked cigarettes," he told me when the camera stopped rolling.

A jaw-dropping amount of detail about the insane surveillance at Madison Square Garden in NYC.

So creepy.

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

Breaking: Kinahan cartel leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai. It follows a Bellingcat investigation last month that traced him to an MMA event in Dubai - providing the first proof that the cartel's leadership was still in hiding in the UAE. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The 2nd and 3rd generation of Cuban refugees tends to be more open minded and understands that the lesson here is about the threat of authoritarianism.

That helps explain why older South Florida Cubans are hard right while their sons, daughters and grandkids are not.

I grew up hearing survivors' stories. My friend's uncle showed me the scars of torture he endured.

Another friend's dad was jailed knee-deep in human excrement for weeks. He's had serious health issues ever since.

The exile community's hatred for Democrats runs deep.

However...

65 years ago today, brave Cuban exiles trained by CIA tried to take back their island from Fidel's communist regime.

The US screwed up the op & left them hanging. They were jailed & tortured.

Cubans in Miami felt betrayed by JFK. They became hardline GOP.

Americans don't tend to understand this.

New records show the Chicago Police Department closed its internal investigation into a gun stolen out of one of their offices without charging anyone, disciplining any officers, or interviewing many who were there when it went missing.
Read our investigation here: https://bit.ly/4cGAxqP

There is, in fact, a poem for this.

Quite the 🧵

Politics News Site NOTUS to Become ‘The Star’

The relaunch is in June. Can't wait to get my new business cards. Yeah, I'm old school like that.

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@notus.com has changed its name.

I'm now the justice reporter at The Star.

I love that.

Mr. Met? The dude who reps Queens, the most diverse corner of our planet?

No, search, I am most assuredly not looking for a song called "Cold Hard Birch."

The book Inside UPA is a visual tour of one of the greatest animation studios of all time. With its author's permission, we've shared the whole thing online for free.

Our latest issue dives into the book and UPA's place in animation history: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

Lunar based weapons?

It took us a week to go from "look at how fragile our planet is" to "let's realize the plot to the 90s mech game Earthsiege."

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor issues unusual apology over 'hurtful' remarks about colleague Brett Kavanaugh The liberal Supreme Court justice had criticized her conservative colleague while she was talking about an opinion he wrote last year in an immigration case.

Okay fine, but can we talk about Kavanaugh stops now?

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She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

CPJ, partners file emergency motion to Israeli Supreme Court seeking independent media access to Gaza - Committee to Protect Journalists On Monday, April 13, 2026, the Committee to Protect Journalists, together with its amicus partners the Foreign Press Association in Israel, the Union of Journalists in Israel (UJI) and Reporters Witho...

Journalists’ associations file an emergency motion to the Israeli Supreme Court asking the justices to expedite a decision on allowing the international media to enter Gaza. cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

ICE arrested Cheshire student while trying to rearrest his father, court records show When ICE arrested a Cheshire student, it was attempting to rearrest his father instead, court records show.

EXCLUSIVE: When ICE arrested a Connecticut high school student last week, it was trying to rearrest his father — a former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who spent three months in ICE custody last year.

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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.