New York’s shore birds to drones: “Not in our beach yard!”

Taco Bell has opened a new “early retirement community,” making dreams come true (for a weekend, at least) for the “old at heart.”

Police association decries ‘Piglets,’ accidentally boosts movement to ‘Defund The Police’.

Baseball season is here! Let’s go Met… tropolitan London?

Vancouver’s Wreck Beach is a destination for nudists… and the voyeurs who love to spy on them.

If you like to take long walks along the beach, make sure you bring a tow truck.

The town(s) of Baarle is divided—but definitely not in half.

Manhattan’s Upper West Side is not the native habitat of boa constrictors, but one made itself right at home in a ground-level apartment.

A New York couple dredged the depths of a local pond and came up with an approximately 100,000% return on their investment.

Microsoft and OpenAI’s artificial intelligence assistants are having the worst week ever—seemingly every week.

We’re not saying she overreacted… but we’re not not saying it.

A crow who took up residence outside a Nottingham hospital let no one go about their business as usual.

South Korea has the lowest birthrate in the world (and still falling)—in Seoul, where the population is both congregating and aging, reversing a vasectomy will now come with a monetary incentive.

An Italian teenager who built websites for his church is in line to be canonized.

People who have never done the deed can now apply to do it, on television, in a country founded by Puritans. What could go wrong?

On a busy night for law enforcement, one offender was thinking outside the box of mac & cheese.

Outside the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, some unexpected guests popped up (literally): Cannabis plants. Call us! We know exactly what to do!

The dating app seemingly encouraged women to lower their standards in a ham-fisted ad campaign. Mmm… ham.

In Western Vermont, Max the cat just became the first in his (birth) family to earn a college degree.

A former New York City seamstress and her family tracked down a life-sized tribute to her commissioned by her boss, who wasn’t even her dad, so you know she was good.

Can a massage ever really be too relaxing? Turns out, yes.

Thousands of lottery entrants in North Carolina came up winners with a less than popular string of digits. What exactly are they manifesting???

Two cities set up a 24-hour livestream between two points, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect: temporarily closed.

After a California city notified a resident that his fishing boat might be an eyesore, he said “I’ll show you an eyesore,” using the city’s own rules (and flawless trompe-l’oeil technique) to just barely comply. We stan a petty king.

So, do you exist in this non-physical resource-heavy computing void… often?

Spy-cam footage captured dolphins in an underwater cipher, (theoretically) passing around an unconventional bong: A terrified puffer fish secreting a neurotoxin. Hey, let us know how it is!

A small town in Japan has had enough of visitors lining up day after day to take the same photo of Mount Fuji, and decided to block the views. We wish them every success.

A New Mexico couple was found to have a priceless masterpiece hanging in their bedroom for decades. Maybe it was an attempt at performance art?

A Catholic organization programmed an AI priest named “Father Justin” to inform curious visitors about Catholic doctrine. Sounds pretty cool—until you hear his advice.

Major League Baseball concessions are reaching new culinary heights. Sacrifice Bundt cake, anyone?

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise. To help manage the threat, some prefectures are turning to AI monitoring, a flawless solution with zero potential drawbacks.

A centenarian traveler has been repeatedly classified on airplane trips as an infant-in-arms. Her skin must be amazing!

Some Washington state motorists and residents were treated to a private zoo visit from some outlaws wearing stripes: A herd of escaped zebras.

In the Midwest this spring, it’s about to get loud—with a double dose of visiting cicada broods.

A school in Western Australia holds the new world record for… letting students and faculty shoot off confetti guns together, which we grudgingly admit is actually pretty cool.

For Monday’s eclipse, the hot ticket in town (if your town is in the path of totality) might be to zoos and animal parks that want help observing what the animals do.

A police department that photoshopped Lego heads over mugshots of accused citizens has been asked by the toy giant to stop it, lest they step on an errant brick, which would be a real shame… a real shame.

Tourists are flocking to Tulum, Mexico to try to gain insight into life, the universe and everything - by smoking toad venom, of course.

Select U.S. movie theaters will screen all nine Star Wars movies back to back in celebration of Star Wars Day. Go or go not - there is no rain date.

A Swedish count can soon reclaim a meteorite that landed on his property in what may be the world’s dorkiest legal victory.

The Euro 2024 soccer tournament is this summer, and teams are literally gearing up to show their patriotism. Belgium’s away kit is a whimsical nod to cartoon legend Tintin.

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation seized a Buffalo-area man’s twelve-foot, 750-pound pet alligator, which is not a euphemism - and he’s single!

Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old man from Weymouth, Massachusetts, has received a gene-edited kidney from an increasingly likely match: a pig.

New Orleans’ police headquarters has an “infestation” of rats that have consumed some key evidence: confiscated pot. It was unclear whether the rats were natives of NOLA or just in town for Spring Break.