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December 17, 2025 11:55 PM ET Amid powerful windstorms Wednesday that struck the Magic Valley region in Idaho, a tree collapsed onto two kids younger than 10 years old as they stood at their school bus stop south of Twin Falls, leaving both children injured. According to the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office per KIVI-TV

December 17, 2025 8:44 PM ET We’ve got some history made in Ohio! A trail camera in Cleveland Metroparks captured a fisher — a sleek, weasel-like mammal — marking the first confirmed sighting in Cuyahoga County in more than 100 years, according to park officials. The animal was recorded earlier in 2025, and it’s the

December 17, 2025 6:48 PM ET Federal authorities arrested a former U.S. Marine in Louisiana Friday after investigators say he plotted violence against federal immigration agents and maintained ties to a left-wing extremist network linked to a foiled New Year’s Eve bombing scheme. The FBI arrested Micah James Legnon as he traveled toward New Orleans

I first encountered LetPot as a brand earlier this year while testing its LPH-SE Senior hydroponic growing system for my guide to the best indoor gardening systems. Positioned as alternatives to the long-beloved OG Aerogarden tabletop hydroponic systems, LetPot’s countertop gardens (which are popular enough to have their own subreddit) allow you to grow any

December 17, 2025 5:40 PM ET A woman who survived the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Australia said on Monday that police officers seemed less concerned about stopping the attack than they were about keeping her from fighting back. A father and son of Pakistani descent opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration Sunday

You don’t have to be a fan of musicals to know about the Wicked film franchise—it’s been everywhere since the first film launched last year, and that’s exactly how director Jon. M Chu wanted it. At WIRED’s Big Interview event last week, senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan sat down with Chu to discuss what it

US Customs and Border Protection is quietly doubling down on a surveillance strategy built around human-portable drones, according to federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED. The shift is pushing border enforcement toward a distributed system that can track activity in real time and, critics warn, may extend well beyond the border. New market research conducted

Donald Trump’s appearances on the podcasts of Joe Rogan and Theo Von, among others, were seen by many as a key part of securing his second term in office. But while Trump was speculating about alien life on Mars with Rogan, he had a team of acolytes appearing on dozens, if not hundreds, of much

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, you still have the chance: there’s one final meteor shower to catch this year. Also known as shooting stars, meteors happen when Earth’s orbital path crosses a path of debris left by a comet and that material burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Watching a meteor

Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot