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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks in an interview last summer with the Russia-1 TV channel. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in …

Read moreRevealed: Leaked document shows how Russia plans to take over Belarus

White supremacy activists picketing at a march in Forsyth County, Ga., Jan. 17, 1987. (Steve Deal/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) CUMMING, Ga. — Driving through present-day Forsyth County is like navigating an American landscape haunted by its history. Centuries-old churches and storied cemeteries carry remnants of past lives, of a Black community vanquished by racial terror. …

Read moreA lynching scarred this Georgia county. Is it willing to confront its dark past?

Theresa Dunlap, who is serving a life without parole sentence for first-degree murder, has stage 4 cancer and wants to be released after 46 years in prison. Seated in the chair, she is pictured in a 2019 photo with her daughter-in-law, Takeyla Dunlap, 46, of West Bloomfield, who was visiting her in prison. For eight days …

Read moreMichigan inmate dying of cancer begs Gov. Whitmer for freedom after 46 years

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Capitol Hill last August. (Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) There’s no shortage of Democratic senators in danger of losing their seats in 2024. Joe Manchin in ruby-red West Virginia. Jon Tester in solidly Republican Montana. Sherrod Brown in ever-more-conservative Ohio. And their colleagues in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Michigan — four of the purplest …

Read moreWhy Kyrsten Sinema is in deep trouble

People don’t buy into conspiracy theories because of ignorance or social isolation. They do it because of a more prevalent personality quirk: overconfidence.Getty Images; iStock; Alyssa Powell/Insider When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as …

Read moreScience has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images In July 1838, as he considered the prospect of marriage, Charles Darwin, took a sheet of paper and made a list of pros and cons. Pros included the possibility of children, companionship (marriage was “better than a dog”), and having someone to take care of the house. …

Read moreDon’t Blame the Egyptians for This Ancient Greek Kink

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of Americans have had COVID at least once, with the new immune-evasive XBB.1.5 subvariant driving up the numbers of new cases and reinfections. Even the lucky few who still haven’t gotten the novel coronavirus may have actually had it before; in many cases, “never COVIDers” (or “Novids,” …

Read moreThese 11 People Still Haven't Had COVID. We Asked Them To Share Their Secrets.

In heroic mode, Kim Jong-un rides a white horse to climb Mount Paektu near the border with China – KCNA via KNS A distinct puncture hole on a fleshy right forearm, seen just inside the sleeve of a boxy Mao suit. This tiny mark, when first spotted on Kim Jong-un in May 2020, caused an …

Read moreKim Jong-un’s midlife crisis: ‘He’s crying after drinking a lot’

Residents of the Bajo Lempa meet weekly at a retreat center to discuss the mass arrests.Fred Ramos for Insider Gang violence has made El Salvador one of the world’s most violent places not at war. The crackdown by its “Bitcoin president” created a new layer of misery. SISIGUAYO, EL SALVADOR — On the morning that …

Read moreThe 'world's coolest dictator' rounded up 60,000 people in a crackdown on MS-13. A shrimp farming community is fighting back.

Russian soldiers stand near a Topol-M ICBM while participating in a rehearsal for the nation’s Victory Day parade outside Moscow.ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images Putin has repeatedly made nuclear threats since he launched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The use of a nuclear weapon is “directly tied to Russia’s fate on the battlefield,” one expert told …

Read morePutin's nuclear threats are stirring fears of a nightmare scenario. Here's what's in his arsenal and what could happen if he orders the unthinkable.