Bear encounters on the Appalachian Trail have soared by 75 per cent — and the annual survey says hikers themselves are part of the problem
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s latest annual review documented 42 bear reports from hikers in 2025, a 75 percent increase from the 24 encounters recorded the previous year. This rise reflects broader pressures on the trail, where expanding black…
The congressman who jogged the Mississippi: Washington representative runs 2,300 miles from source to sea and finds a country divided along the banks
Representative Greg Nance of Washington completed a 2,300-mile run along the Mississippi River from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. The journey, finished in late October 2025, offered him direct contact with communities…
DeSantis launches radical plan to abolish property taxes in Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed a sweeping change to Florida’s tax system by advancing a constitutional amendment that would significantly raise homestead exemptions and set a path toward eliminating property taxes on primary residences. The…
Why Costco’s petrol is so cheap: the surprising economics behind the warehouse giant’s fuel strategy
Costco’s petrol prices reliably sit below those of virtually every competitor within driving distance — often by 20 cents or more per gallon. The reasons have nothing to do with inferior fuel. They have everything to do with a business model built…
Romania’s rewilded forests are drawing a new breed of traveller: bison, brown bears, and lynx are back — and so are the people who want to find them
Romania’s Southern Carpathians have quietly become one of Europe’s most compelling wildlife destinations. After decades of logging, overhunting, and state-imposed neglect, the region is now home to the continent’s largest concentrations…
Ken Paxton topples John Cornyn in Texas: the first Republican senator from the Lone Star State ever to lose his own party’s nomination is defeated by a Trump-backed hardliner in a landslide
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on May 26, securing the nomination in a decisive victory. The outcome marks the first time a sitting Republican senator from Texas has…
The ‘SaaSpocalypse’ that wasn’t: software stocks just posted their best month since 2001, as Wall Street quietly admits it may have panicked too soon about AI killing SaaS
When the term “SaaSpocalypse” swept trading desks in early February 2026 — coined across the 48 hours it took AI fears to erase roughly $285 billion in software stock value — Wall Street’s verdict on enterprise software sounded close to…
The $3 trillion reckoning: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are about to go public simultaneously, and analysts are asking whether the market can handle it
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have each taken major steps toward public listings in 2026, setting the stage for one of the largest clusters of high-valuation debuts in market history. With combined valuations approaching or exceeding $3 trillion at…
Buried under 16,000 pounds of rock: how nine rescue agencies moved a mountain to save a climber pinned by a boulder on Mt Hood
On the morning of May 24, 2026, a male climber on Oregon’s Mount Hood stepped off a trail near Silcox Hut to let other climbers pass — and was swept beneath a 16,000-pound boulder when loose rock gave way beneath his feet. What followed was a…
Two passengers survive 300ft plunge off Malibu cliff in Tesla Model 3
A Tesla Model 3 plunged approximately 300 feet off a cliff along Mulholland Highway in Malibu early Friday morning, May 29, 2026, sending both occupants to a local trauma center — but alive. The crash triggered a multi-agency rescue operation that…
