When a teapot became Hitler: The bizarre billboard controversy that took over the internet

When a teapot became Hitler: The bizarre billboard controversy that took over the internet |

In 2013 California, J.C. Penney’s Michael Graves-designed Bells and Whistles kettle billboard sparked Hitler comparisons/ Image: X In late May 2013, a roadside billboard in Culver City, California, advertising a stainless-steel tea kettle for US retailer J.C. Penney unexpectedly became the centre of an online storm. The advert, positioned beside the busy 405 Freeway, featured…

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The unsettling truth behind Google’s most-searched person of the year (2025)

The unsettling truth behind Google’s most-searched person of the year (2025) |

Searches for D4vd skyrocketed after September as worldwide curiosity intensified. Every December brings a new season of year-in-review roundups, Spotify Wrapped, YouTube recaps, and Google’s vast portrait of what the world wanted to understand. In 2025, those rankings included the usual mix of celebrities, politicians and headline makers. Kendrick Lamar, Pope Leo XIV, Jimmy Kimmel…

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Triple homicide: 15-year-old Texas boy kills ex-girlfriend’s younger siblings and mother

Triple homicide: 15-year-old Texas boy kills ex-girlfriend’s younger siblings and mother | World News

A 15-year-old Texas boy has been arrested after allegedly carrying out a targeted triple homicide that left his ex-girlfriend’s mother, 13-year-old sister and 9-year-old brother dead inside their Odessa apartment. Police described the attack as a “cowardly act of violence” that has devastated the family and shocked the community.According to Odessa Police, the teen had…

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US travel ban hits top talent: Iranian biologist with more than 200 citations forced to abandon Harvard postdoc

US travel ban hits top talent: Iranian biologist with more than 200 citations forced to abandon Harvard postdoc | World News

For nearly a year, Delaram Pouyabahar planned her next academic step around a postdoctoral position at Harvard University. Interviews, fellowship applications, visa paperwork and a consular interview in Toronto were all completed. Then, in early June 2025, a new US travel ban quietly brought those plans to a halt.The policy, announced on June 4, expanded…

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‘Xavier is my son’: Elon Musk attacks Gavin Newsom for calling his child a daughter

‘Xavier is my son’: Elon Musk attacks Gavin Newsom for calling his child a daughter | World News

Elon Musk has sharply criticised California Governor Gavin Newsom after the governor’s press office referred to Musk’s transgender child as a daughter. Responding on X, Musk wrote, “I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier,” before claiming that his child has a “tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on…

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Did a smart fridge ad for Apple TV+’s Pluribus drive a UK woman to psychosis? What we know

Did a smart fridge ad for Apple TV+’s Pluribus drive a UK woman to psychosis? What we know |

A Pluribus advert appeared on a smart fridge, sparking a viral hospitalisation claim/ Reddit ~image Over the past week, a claim has circulated widely online suggesting that a smart fridge advertisement triggered a psychotic episode in a UK woman, leading to her hospitalisation. The story spread rapidly across Reddit, X, and tabloid news sites, prompting…

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Is ‘The Buzzer’ signalling war? Russia’s ‘Doomsday Radio’ activity sparks global alarm

Is ‘The Buzzer’ signalling war? Russia’s ‘Doomsday Radio’ activity sparks global alarm |

UVB-76 transmitted clustered coded signals in December as NATO–Russia tensions intensified In the second week of December, a Cold War–era Russian shortwave radio station broke from its usual pattern. Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of…

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Man says it’s ‘extremely possible’ his father was behind America’s only unsolved plane hijacking

Man says it’s ‘extremely possible’ his father was behind America’s only unsolved plane hijacking |

Artist rendering depicts D.B. Cooper hijacker who parachuted away after ransom, vanished. / FBI On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 in Portland, Oregon. He paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle, wore a business suit, and carried a briefcase. Forty-two minutes…

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