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During Cardi B‘s civil trial over claims the rapper physically assaulted a security guard, footage from the court room battle was quickly memeified thanks to Cardi’s viral witness-stand interrogation. Along with her memorable testimony, the Grammy-winning artist was also caught on camera dozing off as the trial was underway. When appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show in an episode aired Monday, Cardi addressed the caught-on-camera clips and fully admitted to catching a few Z’s in the courtroom. “I’m not even going to lie, I was,” said Cardi on the talk show. “I had a long night! I’m in the middle of…

Real Madrid will kick off their 2025-26 Champions League season on Tuesday against Olympique Marseille, as the team coached by Xabi Alonso will see the return of both Jude Bellingham and Eduardo Camavinga to the squad, as the English midfielder is finally back after undergoing surgery this summer. Roberto De Zerbi’s team, on the other hand, will also feature U.S. international Timothy Weah, who will likely make his Champions League debut with the French side, after he joined from Juventus over the summer. Save big on your Paramount+ subscription! For a limited time, Paramount+ annual plans start at $30 for your…

September 16, 20254 min readReaders Respond to the May 2025 IssueLetters to the editors for the May 2025 issue of Scientific AmericanBy Aaron Shattuck Scientific American, May 2025SPEEDY COMETS“Dark Comets,” by Robin George Andrews, describes a group of objects in our solar system with “unexplained” acceleration. That made me wonder: Is it possible that while dark energy appears uniform over galactic scales, it is actually more discrete at smaller scales such as that of the solar system? And if such packets of dark energy were to occur near or on one of these “dark comets,” could they be giving those…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of NGO “Iran Human Rights”, is with us on France24.

As dawn spread over San Antonio on September 9, 2021, almond-colored smoke began to fill the sky above the city’s Far West Side. The plumes were whorling off the top of a 132-foot-tall cell tower that overshadows an office park just north of SeaWorld. At a hotel a mile away, a paramedic snapped a photo of the spectacle and posted it to the r/sanantonio subreddit. “Cell tower on fire around 1604 and Culebra,” he wrote.In typical Reddit fashion, the comments section piled up with corny jokes. “Blazing 5G speeds,” quipped one user.“I hope no one inhales those fumes, the Covid…

For decades, as an activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resisted the scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and necessary to prevent serious disease. Now at the helm of the nation’s health department, he has begun to put his extreme views into practice, ousting veteran scientists and installing allies across the nation’s health agencies to enact major shifts in vaccine policy.Some of Mr. Kennedy’s hires are activists who have worked for years alongside him. Others are scientists who say they broadly support vaccines but publicly criticized Covid shots or mandates during the pandemic. Many of these scientists have begun to question…

Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G will headline Coachella 2026. The music festival announced its full lineup on Monday and will take place in Indio, Calif., April 10-12 and 17-19. Fans can register now for passes that will be available starting Friday, September 19 at 11 a.m. PT. Coachella’s official site notes that “2024/2025 purchasers and/or attendees get early access starting Thursday, September 18 at 11 a.m. PT. To access the loyalty sale, register with the same email used to purchase or register a wristband in 2024 or 2025.” Other featured performers include Devo, Moby, Lykke Li, Teddy Swims,…

President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel conduct a news conference in the White House briefing room in August 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images FBI Director Kash Patel is scheduled to appear before senators Tuesday as he faces growing questions about his ability to lead the nation’s premier law enforcement agency. Patel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was put on the books weeks ago but comes at a delicate time for the director, who is a loyalist of President Trump but has no experience leading…

Marq Vision, an AI-powered anti-counterfeits startup cofounded by a South Korean Harvard Law School graduate, has raised $48 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners, the former India and Southeast Asia arm of Sequoia Capital. Other investors who participated in the Series B round include HongShan Capital Group (HSG), the ex-China arm of Sequoia; Salesforce Ventures; Y Combinator and its partner emeritus Michael Seibel; Altos Ventures; South Korean venture capital firm Atinum Investment and Japan’s Coral Capital, Marq Vision said in a statement on Monday. The Los Angeles-based startup, which also has offices in South Korea, Japan,…