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UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has accused wealthy social media owners of making money from “division, conflict, hate and toxicity” as the government weighs new measures aimed at protecting children online.Speaking during LADbible’s ‘Happening Now’ discussion series in London, Lammy said social media platforms had contributed to growing concerns about the wellbeing of young…

Love has inspired poetry, fuelled wars, launched lifelong partnerships and broken countless hearts. It can feel overwhelming, irrational and impossible to explain. Yet some of the most important clues about why humans fall in love did not emerge from studies of couples, philosophers or poets. Instead, they came from a small brown rodent scurrying through…

Somewhere between a botanical garden and a tree walk at the University of British Columbia, there is a cedar-clad timber structure with a green roof, a skylit interior, and a ramp for wheelchair access. It smells like a forest. It looks like a piece of considered architecture. And tucked inside its back wall is something…

The first impression of the Chernobyl landscape is not drama but quiet that feels slightly unfinished, as if something stopped mid-sentence and never returned to complete it. Roads that once carried routine traffic now fade into grass and young trees, and the outlines of buildings in Pripyat sit with a kind of reluctant stillness. In…

Northern California tends to get described in broad strokes, as if it were one long stretch of forests, vineyards and fading Gold Rush echoes. The reality is more uneven. Drive a little, and the character shifts: river towns with quiet main streets, foothill settlements still shaped by old mining routes, and small valleys where life…

Candace Owens says she is intensifying her FOIA fight over a controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner email that allegedly described Erika Kirk as an “emotional asset” shortly after a shooting incident. Owens claimed government departments initially rejected her request as too broad, prompting her team to submit a narrower version with specific names and dates….

In the summer of 1967, a 24-year-old PhD student at the University of Cambridge noticed something unusual hidden within mountains of radio telescope data. The signal appeared as a regular pulse, repeating with astonishing precision and refusing to fit any known astronomical explanation. For months, scientists struggled to understand what they were seeing, even joking…

Looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular is facing heavy backlash after revealing the results of his rhinoplasty online. Before-and-after photos of the surgery quickly went viral, with many fans claiming he “ruined his face” and lost the distinct look that made him famous. Others defended the transformation, arguing the results may still be affected by swelling. The controversy…

What really happened to Reckless Ben’s GoFundMe amid the missing LEGO collection controversy? (Image via Getty) The dispute between YouTuber Reckless Ben and Bricks & Minifigs has turned into one of the biggest online stories in the LEGO community. What began as claims about a missing Star Wars LEGO collection worth around $200,000 has now…

A years-old video featuring YouTuber Jesse Ridgway has resurfaced online following his recent announcement that he and his wife decided to terminate a pregnancy after learning their unborn child had Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome. The video, originally uploaded in 2017 as part of his series The Devil Inside, has attracted renewed attention…