WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to a senior administration official. Griner is now in the custody of U.S. officials, President Joe Biden announced, and is on a plane heading back to the U.S. Her wife Cherelle was photographed
San Francisco officials are investigating a complaint that Twitter violated the city’s building code by converting part of its headquarters into bedrooms for its employees. The complaint was sparked by a Forbes report that employees had returned to work on Monday to the unexpected sight. One source told the outlet that the beds are presumed
Everyone loves a mystery, but it seems this unusual object likely isn’t buried treasure. An unknown structure approximately 24 metres long has been revealed from under the sand at Daytona Beach Shores in Volusia County, Fla. — and folks are already speculating as to what it may be.The object, which is reportedly made from wood
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations. Neuralink Corp. is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people
A passenger who fell from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico late last month says he has no recollection of how he ended up in the water. James Michael Grimes, 28, said he spent a harrowing 15 to 20 hours treading water before he was rescued the day before American Thanksgiving.Grimes spoke with
Wanted: A “somewhat bloodthirsty” individual with a “killer instinct” and a “swashbuckling attitude.” Nope. It’s not casting call for a murderous and revengeful pirate. Rather, it’s an opening for someone to take on New York City’s ridiculously out-of-control rat infestation.Brown rats have been a blight on the Big Apple for more than a century, despite