Colt Emerson was supposed to play in Tacoma on Sunday afternoon in front of a few thousand minor league fans at Cheney Stadium. Instead he packed a bag, made the drive north up Interstate 5, called his parents from the car and walked into T-Mobile Park as the youngest player to m
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player on Sunday May 17, 2026, winning back-to-back MVP awards in one of the most dominant voting performances the award has produced in years. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard received 83 of 100 first-place votes
Austin, Texas woke up Sunday morning to a city that was still under threat from a shooting spree that had started the afternoon before. A man walking his dog at 8:47 AM was shot in the back, the 10th or 11th incident in a series that had begun Saturday at 3:45 PM and that police
Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 examined how the prosecutors lied to secure the trial before a biased judge and an uninformed jury
The Old Switcheroo The case of United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz was the first federal forced-labor conspiracy conviction that relied entirely on psychological coercion, with no physical restraint and no spoken threats. In fact, it rested entirely on a conspiracy-only charge.
Brendan Fraser is coming home. The Academy Award-winning actor was announced Friday May 15, 2026 as the honorary starter for the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500, the man who will stand atop the flag stand and wave the green flag to send 33 cars roaring into Turn 1 at the sp
Residents of Battleview Drive in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta woke up one morning in the past two weeks to find up to 50 empty Waymo robotaxis entering their dead-end street between 6 and 7 AM. No passengers. No drivers. Just a parade of driverless Jaguar I-PACE SUVs roll
Five Below launched its biggest toy event of the year today, Saturday May 16, 2026, when toy manufacturer RMS USA dropped the Golden Ticket Dumpling series exclusively at Five Below stores nationwide. Every container is a mystery. Every customer gets one per day. And somewhere in
Bank of America has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it charged customers multiple out-of-network fees during a single ATM balance inquiry at 7-Eleven stores, and if you had a Bank of America account and used one of those ATMs between May 2018
Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini began streaming on Netflix on Friday May 15, 2026, a fictionalized account of the case that gripped the country when a California mother disappeared while jogging in November 2016, turned up 22 days later chained and branded on a highway medi
Straus Family Creamery, the Northern California organic dairy producer, voluntarily recalled select flavors of its Organic Super Premium Ice Cream on Wednesday May 14, 2026 after discovering the potential presence of metal foreign material in a limited number of production runs.
John Travolta walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday May 15, 2026 wearing a white beret, glasses and a beard and moustache so perfectly manicured that fans online said it looked like someone had drawn it on his face. Visible weight loss completed a transforma
