Crime
On April 22, 2020, 20-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén went to work at Fort Hood, Texas. Then she disappeared. Her car keys, barracks-room key, identification card and wallet were reportedly left behind near the armory where she had been working. Her family immediately suspected something
Crime
December 2, 2020, a deer hunter moving through a remote wooded section of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, came across something that would eventually expose a far darker story than an isolated double homicide. Two men were dead. One was Master Sgt. William “Billy” Lavigne III, a 37-year-old active-
Hollywood
In 1971, Hollywood received a message it could not comfortably ignore. A fiercely independent filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles had made a movie outside the studio system about a Black man who attacks racist police officers, survives a massive manhunt, escapes across the Mexican border, and—most shockingly for American
Movies
A grieving mother discovers something monstrous inside her family. A Puritan household collapses under religious paranoia. A relationship disintegrates during a sunlit pagan festival. A group of young filmmakers arrive at a remote farmhouse to make pornography and end up in a bloodbath. These sound like premises from completely different
Movies
On August 10, 1977, New York moviegoers encountered one of the strangest and most unsettling performances of Jodie Foster’s early career. She was only a teenager, but in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Foster plays Rynn Jacobs, a fiercely intelligent 13-year-old living in an
Social Media
For anyone who remembers choosing a profile song, obsessing over a Top 8 friends list and turning a personal page into a chaotic explosion of colors, GIFs and questionable HTML, one of the strangest technology stories of 2026 sounds almost impossible: Myspace may be coming back. And this time, its
Science
Across thousands of years of human history, people built monuments whose scale still inspires disbelief. They moved stones weighing tens of tons. They carved enormous figures into desert landscapes. They raised stepped temples above some of the world's earliest cities. They recorded visions of luminous beings, flying divine
Personalities
Happy 60th birthday to Halle Berry. Born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry reaches a major milestone on August 14, 2026 after more than three decades spent building one of Hollywood's most varied and historically significant careers. She has been a beauty-pageant contestant, television performer,
Entertainment
Happy birthday to Mila Kunis, who turns 43 today, August 14, 2026. Born Milena Markovna Kunis on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kunis has built one of Hollywood's most unusually versatile careers. For one generation, she will probably always be
Nature
For nearly a century, two enormous concrete barriers interrupted Washington State’s Elwha River. The Elwha Dam, completed in 1913, and the Glines Canyon Dam, completed in 1927, generated hydroelectric power that supported the economic development of the Olympic Peninsula. Neither, however, provided effective passage for the salmon and steelhead
Hollywood
One hundred species. Thirty countries. Five continents. And an initial $200 million commitment aimed not merely at slowing wildlife decline, but at helping some of the planet’s most endangered animals and plants actually recover. The Phoenix Species Project, announced on August 4, 2026, is being led by Leonardo DiCaprio’
History
At 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, an American B-29 bomber released a plutonium atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan. The weapon was code-named “Fat Man.” It exploded approximately 500 meters above the city with a force equivalent to roughly 20–21 kilotons of TNT. In seconds,