A lost story written and signed by legendary San Francisco writer Jack Kerouac has been found among the belongings of an infamous mafia boss who was gunned down in 1985. The two-page story, titled ...

October has lived up to its reputation as the month when crashes occur. Except the crash this time was in bitcoin BTCUSD rather than the stock market. At one point this past Sunday, bitcoin was 15.4% ...

Diane Keaton’s close friend is giving insight into the actress’s health before her death. “I saw her two or three weeks ago, and she was very thin,” Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Carole Bayer ...

Pope Leo XIV wasn't going to let a Chicago Cubs fan troll him in Vatican City. Alberto Pizzoli / Getty Images Even the grandeur of the papacy apparently hasn’t been enough to prevent Pope Leo XIV from ...

Speaker Johnson is yet to swear in Adelita Grijalva, and circled around his reasonings for the long wait in a very awkward interview. Reporter Mike Johnson struggled to keep his composure when pressed ...

Green hydrogen, while expensive, holds promise for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries like steelmaking and transportation due to its clean combustion. Researchers at the City University of Hong ...

“Cal Jenkins was born in the spring of 1920 with one leg shorter than the other.” So begins Buckeye, Patrick Ryan’s ambitious and engrossing debut novel. From that single detail, Ryan spins a story ...

RTA and GITEX recommend Metro, shuttle buses and free parking at select stations Dubai: Heading to GITEX 2025 and planning to find parking close to the exhibition? You may want to reconsider. The ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. On the ...

Jon Stewart has been too rich, too privileged and too coddled with undue praise to have much of a grip on the world outside his bubble. It’s an unfortunate affliction for the host of a news-adjacent ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

Never before have postal workers had fewer defenders in Ottawa You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. First Reading is a Canadian politics ...