Machine learning analysis of 1.8 million headlines shows bias in the media has been getting worse.

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A new study analyzed 1.8 million news headlines from major US news outlets from 2014 to 2022. The findings show that news stories about domestic politics and social issues are becoming more polarized along ideological lines.

So how does the rest of the world see the United States government shutdown? From the outside, do we appear to be a bunch of buffoons too intent on losing face at the expense of productive legislative discussion? Is the shutdown feared as a threat to the world economy or as a precursor to the…

Man calls police when Amazon package arrives on his doorstep

From the “Doh!” archives, an Ohio man recently called the police when a suspicious package arrived on his doorstep. Here’s the clipped article that explains it all.

I thought you said no one was available

In the news, man finds an ingenious way to get the cops to his house – quickly…

How editors miss the alternate meanings behind these true, real-life news headlines is beyond us. But we’re glad they did! Here is a collection of funny, real-life newspaper headlines.

Illustration of a BitTorrent filesharing network

Twenty nine U.S. based BitTorrent tracker and peer-to-peer file sharing sites disappeared in the blink of an eye. Dutch anti-P2P group â€œBREINâ€, with assistance from the MPAA, set their sights on domain names of 29 United States based BitTorrent sites that allegedly make copyrighted material available to citizens of the Netherlands.

Rescue workers climb over and dig through piles of rubble from the destroyed World Trade Center

The USA Patriot Act, or Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (yes, that’s really the title of the Act), was passed in late 2001. The 342 page Act introduced a plethora of legislative changes which significantly increased the surveillance and investigative powers of U.S. law enforcement…