How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the state’s fire dynamics.

4 Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps

Apple’s platform for maps and directions, the perpetual runner-up to Google Maps, has improved markedly over the past few years. Here are the ways it currently bests its rival.

Seth Meyers recaps the tech billionaire VIP-ness of Trumps inauguration

Like fellow late night hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers recapped Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, especially pausing for a moment to stare directly into the lineup of tech billionaires in attendance.

Meyers showed an image of the Silicon Valley heavyweights on the guest list — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet Inc and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos. Meyers then pointed out the fact that cold...

This "Anti-bloating" Trend Is All Over Social Media, But Does It Actually Work?

People claim that the trend has helped with their bloat and menstrual cramps.

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Gold Sneakers and Too-Tight Suits: The Menswear Guy Weighs In on Inauguration Weekend

Menswear influencer Derek Guy is unimpressed by what tech barons and the MAGA rank and file wore this weekend. “To be frank,” he says, “many conservatives are often behind on fashion trends.”

Your daily NFL trivia game, Tuesday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game. We’ve made an adjustment to showing the games. We’ve linked back to previous days rather than embedding them so as to create a single day experience.

Game instructions are at the bottom if you’re new to the game! Feel free to share your results in the comments and feedback in the Google Form.

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If You Have Any Of These 33 Travel Products, You’re Going To Get So Many Admiring Looks At The Airport And On The Plane

Prepare for everyone to "oooh" and "ahhhhh" and your magical expanding carry-on suitcase.

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This Houston suburb is swapping out driveways for shared front lawns

A new Texas development is designed to foster community—and is using the centuries-old planning concept of the mews to do it.

The suburbs of Houston haven’t traditionally been viewed as a haven for progressive urbanism and car-free real estate development. But a local development company believes its new master-planned community, and its focus on shared lawns between homes, will give families a more socially oriented option. 

Forget shapewear. Spanx just created sculpting jeans

Spanx is adjusting to a post-shapewear world with normal clothes that are embedded with compression technology.

In 2000, when Sara Blakely founded Spanx, she revolutionized the apparel world by creating a modern version of the corset. For years, the company helped generations of women create a smooth, sculpted look with shapewear made from high-tech fabrics. And Blakely became the youngest female self-made billionaire.

But the world has changed over the past quarter century. The size...

‘I won the Pulitzer Prize and I’m busking on a corner’: 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning

Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform.

Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed how the paper—owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who will be attending Donald Trump’s second inauguration—rejected her cartoon of Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times...

How this oddly shaped couch became the ‘it’ sofa of the music industry, 50 years after it was designed

Famous fans like Frank Ocean and Travis Scott put Pierre Paulin’s Dune sofa back on the map. But its rise to furniture fame really happened behind the scenes.

While it’s technically a sofa, the Dune by the late French designer Pierre Paulin is, like its name suggests, more of a landscape. First off, it’s enormous. Composed of modular sections, it’s often configured in an ensemble that’s over 10 feet wide and deep but can theoretically become infinitely larger, with backrests that...

Thomas Sondergard Brings Nordic Music and Hygge to Minnesota Orchestra

With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces).

2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap

In exchange, the Biden administration released an Afghan man convicted on narcotics charges in 2008.

Border Patrol Agent Is Killed in Vermont Shootin

Officials said the agent was shot on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.

Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say

Axel Rudakubana, who killed three young girls in the Southport attack, appeared to have no particular ideology but was obsessed by death and genocide, investigators said.

Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt

To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare

While the wages of success in the region will be enormous, the consequences of failure will be utterly hellish.

Han Kang Talks About Her Jeju Book, ‘We Do Not Part”

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said.

India’s Economy Slows Down Just When It Was Supposed to Speed Up

Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee are sinking, and most consumers earn too little to buoy them, stymieing India’s drive to become a developed economy.

The Voices in His Head Would Not Stop. Then a Boy Was Stabbed to Death.

Waldo Mejia’s psyche had been showing cracks, a longtime friend said. Now he is charged with killing 14-year-old Caleb Rijos at random.