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Somewhere deep within the untamed expanses of the northern Colorado wilderness, an ordinary animal is undergoing a frightful metamorphosis. By the light of the full moon, hard, pointed protrusions like devil horns sprout from behind the soft fur of its ears. Around its large eyes come black slithering masses that twist and writhe like Cthulhu’s tentacles. Under its mouth extend two dark, …

LAS VEGAS — If at one time it was thought mosquitoes couldn’t survive in desert climates, this city is a case study in how wrong that is. Mosquitoes typically prefer more tropical, humid conditions, but these biting machines have exploded in number throughout the Las Vegas Valley in recent years because of a host of changes. A mix of urban …

Gen Z’s fascination with luxury watches has been one of the more surprising consumer trends of the last few years. But a steep tariff hike on Switzerland could threaten its market: American youth. Gen Z—alongside younger millennials—have embraced luxury timepieces as status symbols, posting them on TikTok and Instagram and helping reshape an industry long dominated by older collectors. A …

Car buyers rev up U.S. retail sales in effort to beat tariff price hikes. Economy is still growing.  MarketWatch Retail sales rise 0.5% in July, missing forecasts but marking second straight monthly gain after spring slide  Yahoo Finance US retail sales rise in July; softening job market poses risk to spending  Reuters US Retail Sales Climb in Broad Advance After Upward Revision  Bloomberg.com Retail …

All photos courtesy of Conan Gray. Five years ago, a then 18-year-old Olivia Rodrigo texted Conan Gray to ask him out for a “COVID walk,” only to be ghosted. It took a dinner with Dan Nigro, who produced both of their debuts albums simultaneously, to set the record straight: Gray had mistaken Rodrigo for a different Olivia, the one who …

A group of rabbits in Colorado with grotesque, hornlike growths may seem straight out of a low-budget horror film, but scientists say there is no reason to be spooked – the furry creatures merely have a relatively common virus. The cottontails recently spotted in Fort Collins are infected with the mostly harmless Shope papillomavirus, which causes wart-like growths that protrude …

As people turn to chatbots for increasingly important and intimate advice, some interactions playing out in public are causing alarm over just how much artificial intelligence can warp a user’s sense of reality. One woman’s saga about falling for her psychiatrist, which she documented in dozens of videos on TikTok, has generated concerns from viewers who say she relied on …

A GOP divide is growing over Trump’s redistricting play  Politico The fight is on. How redistricting could unfold in 8 entangled states  NPR Focus groups: Trump redistricting push could backfire with swing voters  Axios The midterm map fight favors the GOP — and could help them stay in power  The Washington Post The GOP’s redistricting dissenters  Politico Source link

People in northern Colorado have been reporting sightings of wild rabbits with black horns and tentacles on their faces. The rabbits appeared to have “black quills or black toothpicks” and “a scabbiesh-looking growth over their face,” some Fort Collins residents told local outlet, 9News. Others have dubbed them “Frankenstein rabbits.” These dark growths are most likely caused by a virus …

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing to publish the findings. “Some journals did not even want to send it for review because they didn’t want to call attention to these issues in science, especially in the U.S. right now with the …