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First report of all the world’s plants finds 1 in 5 species facing extinction
Plants pervade almost every part of human life — not only do we eat them and wear them, we use plants for fuel, medicine, building materials, poisons and intoxicants. To limit the world’s plants to those that meet a human need, however, would be doing the leafy kingdom a disservice. In fact, according to a new report from the […]

Today in 10: Pitfalls of Trump’s playboy past, an escalating bathroom fight, Steph Curry’s next honor
Our first playboy president?: Before becoming the presumptive nominee of a major political party, Donald Trump was publicly debating the importance of oral sex with Howard Stern. The billionaire cultivated his image as a Manhattan playboy who had so many women that he barely had time to sleep. That reputation was useful when Trump was […]

‘I screamed in my hotel room’: Meghan Trainor pulls music video after realizing she was photoshopped
Pop musician Meghan Trainor’s 2014 debut hit “All About That Bass” blasted over FM radio like a mission statement for the body positivity movement. “It’s pretty clear I ain’t no size two,” she sang. “But I can shake, shake like I’m supposed to do … Yeah, my mama she told me don’t worry about your size.” The […]

This sweet 7-year-old gave his hair to cancer patients, then life took a devastating turn
Seven-year-old Vinny Desautels learned about cancer for the first time because his mother, Amanda Azevedo, was helping survivors of the disease get ready for a gala. She is a hair stylist who volunteered with a local lymphoma foundation, doing the hair of former cancer patients before they arrived at an annual benefit event. As Azevedo […]

The chemsex scene: An increasingly popular and sometimes lethal public health problem
The young couple’s day wound down like any other ordinary Monday — the men took their dog for an afternoon trip to the vet, followed by dinner and wine in a London flat. But around midnight last January, 18-year-old Miguel Jimenez decided he wanted something a little more exotic. He invited his boyfriend, an up-and-coming lawyer […]

‘Make dating great again’: For singles looking for love and a move to Canada if Trump becomes president
Let’s be real: Dating can be a drag. Seeking a partner can become an emotional slog, and it sure doesn’t get any easier if you’re planning on moving to Canada if Donald Trump is elected president. Luckily, now there’s a dating website that takes this into consideration. It’s called Maple Match, and its tagline promises to […]

‘He’s a criminal predator’: Arkansas judge resigns after allegations that he offered young men reduced sentences in exchange for sexual favors
Once, the judge allegedly asked a man to pose like Michelangelo’s Statue of David in exchange for $300. He allegedly instructed another man to strip naked and bend over, handcuffed, inside an Arkansas courtroom while he snapped photographs, up close. And on multiple occasions, he allegedly sentenced men — often young and poor to illegitimate […]

Budweiser seeks approval to be called “America” this summer
American currency has long held claim to being the only thing found in bars that’s boasts the phrase like “E Pluribus Unum.”  This summer, Budweiser wants to change that by rebranding itself as “America” and peppering its packaging with that very phrase, alongside some others like “”Liberty and Justice for All” and “Indivisible Since 1776.” That’s right. […]

Today in 10: U.S. ramps up fight against ISIS, Clinton and Trump are historically disliked, Snow adjusts to life on ‘Game of Thrones’
Clinton and Trump: One’s disliked, the other historically despised: The 2016 election is likely to pit Hillary Clinton, who is disliked by a majority of voters, against Donald Trump, disliked by a greater majority of voters. Clinton is now viewed as unfavorably as George W. Bush was in his close 2004 reelection bid. Trump is […]

Scientists reconstruct baffling 250-million-year-old aquatic reptile with a strange hammerhead mouth
Not all scientific insights require a $1.1-billion experiment to observe gravity waves, or demand a giant particle collider be buried under Europe. Sometimes all that’s needed are a few bucks worth of modeling clay and toothpicks — and, well, a pair of priceless 250-million-year-old fossils. The fossils in question include an unusual reptilian skull, small […]

‘She can get anything she wants’: Glamorous alleged con woman nabbed after charging $100,000 at Santa Barbara resort
For years, the mystery woman had been living a life of luxury, allegedly all on someone else’s dime. She went under various names, authorities say, Maria Hendricks, Gia Hendricks, Maria Christina Gia, or Maria Hainka. Capitalizing on her good looks, authorities alleged, the “prolific” serial fraudster lured in her victims through dating websites and targeted high rollers through real estate brokers. […]

After the Pacific Ocean swallows villages and five Solomon Islands, a study blames climate change
As the ocean rose, they had to flee. “The sea has started to come inland, it forced us to move up to the hilltop and rebuild our village there away from the sea,” said Sirilo Sutaroti, 94, a leader of the Paurata tribe, to a group of Australian environmental scientists. The scene of this rising sea […]

Harvard wants secretive male clubs to go co-ed. All-female groups are being punished in their wake.
“Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian,” read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of Harvard University’s secretive, all-male “finals clubs.” “Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated … From the Pore’s clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded.” For […]

John Oliver’s new target: The ‘Trump of the East,’ Phillipines presidential front-runner Rodrigo Duterte
“Duterte has seemed like he is trying to test the limits on basic human decency,” Oliver said.

Pennsylvania girl says she was thrown out of her prom for wearing a suit
For American high school students, prom is a rite of passage, an affair full of pomp and hormones and clumsy dancing. The eagerly-awaited event is often dangled in front of mischievous students as a reward for staying out of trouble until the end of the school year. A suspension means no prom, some schools might […]

Cruel joke or mistake? Student in hijab renamed ‘Isis’ in high school yearbook
I guess I’m Isis in the yearbook… pic.twitter.com/hMc0dVu8dM — βΔYΔΠ (@BayanZehlif) May 7, 2016 The yearbook photo showed a young woman in hijab, the speckled headscarf framing her smiling face in front of a sunny schoolyard. Underneath, a caption read: “Isis Phillips, 11th.” For years, Isis has been among the 700 most popular girls’ names […]

A strange sight: Pigeons light up the sky over New York
Artist Duke Riley turned one of New York’s most hated animals into a work of art by attached LED lights to pigeons’ ankles and conducting their flight across the skies over the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Children tied up in Texas back yard had ‘hundreds of injuries and scars,’ police say
The mother of two young children found tied up in a San Antonio back yard last week faces felony child abuse charges in a case authorities have described as “horrific” and “sickening.” Cheryl Reed, 30, was arrested Thursday night and charged with two counts of injury to a child with bodily injury. It’s unclear who […]

Man charged with theft after moving into Indiana home he didn’t actually buy
When the woman found the home for sale online, she told her boyfriend, Gregory Harris, that she liked it, according to court documents. Harris, who had told the woman he was a millionaire, later told her that he would buy it. Harris did take down the “for sale” signs from the Indiana property, authorities think. But […]