In San Francisco, stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, and lotion under lock and key.

One of President Joe Biden’s biggest political headaches, the many illegal activities of his son Hunter Biden, was supposed to pass quietly into obscurity July 26 when a federal judge was expected to rubber-stamp a plea agreement between the Department of Justice and the accused.

“I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story,” Joan, a character played by Annie Murphy in one of the episodes in the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, tells her therapist at the beginning of the episode.

The best drink on the menu the day I was there was a refresher called the Southpaw.

There is a reason competitors such as Mastodon and Threads keep failing.

“I was born in a small town,” John Mellencamp sang in 1985. “And I live in a small town.” Actually, according to a recent issue of that small-town staple Architectural Digest, Mellencamp currently resides in Montecito, California, on “six acres of land at a mountainous peak.” It’s not a little pink house. It’s a rambling, white-painted former ranch with Spanish-style decor inspired by Karl Malden’s house in the movie One-Eyed Jacks. Ain’t that America.

A House committee this week took a small step toward AI regulation, although broad calls for a sweeping AI bill have largely been ignored in the House and Senate.

Illinois improperly paid out billions of unemployment tax dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of millions going to people who were either dead or in prison.

What is it with the Left that they want to ban nearly everything that is fun or convenient? Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, and diving boards. And now the health busybodies want to ban certain cigars.