National
An 84-year-old woman with moderate-stage Alzheimer’s disease forgot the September 11 attacks during a twenty-fifth-anniversary remembrance at her memory care facility Friday, a lapse that has left the United States, by every available measure, deeply let down.
By Dale R. Kettering · 5 min read · September 13, 2026
National
Four self-described “pro-MANGA” protesters were shot by members of Antifa on Tuesday afternoon during what witnesses described as a routine enforcement action at the annual anime convention. The group had gathered near the main hall in red MANGA caps, holding signs reading WAIFU CULTURE FOREVER and ANIME MAKES A BETTER TOMORROW, when the unit moved in.
By Dale R. Kettering · 7 min read · September 9, 2026
National
A letter arrived Tuesday from Wilmington, hand-addressed, on stationery from a stationer that closed in 1998. In it the subject of last week's interview confers on this newspaper — and, unbidden, on the former president — a permission he himself declines to exercise and has declined to exercise, he wishes us to know, for seventy years. The Standards Desk convened twice. Counsel wrote 'then fine' in the margin. We are printing the letter in full. We are not, and will not, invoke what it grants.
By Dale R. Kettering · 9 min read · September 9, 2026
Investigations
The photograph was published by the academy itself. It shows Elon Musk in a white gi having a black belt tied around his waist while eight members applaud. Seventy-nine days later, in the same room, Mr Musk tied a black belt around the waist of Barack Obama. Ninety days after that, Mr Obama tied one around the waist of Donald Trump, while Dick Cheney and George W. Bush applauded from the back of the mat in the academy's own branded shirts. Every checkable statement these photographs make about time is false.
By Tobias Wrenn · 15 min read · September 8, 2026
National
The man from the 1962 swimming-pool account sat with Reality Daily for two hours and eleven minutes and spoke in immaculate, unhurried, library-built English. He is not angry. He is concerned for the president’s health. He wishes the family well. He would also like two thousand dollars, and he has some remaining business interests he described without being asked.
By Dale R. Kettering · 16 min read · September 4, 2026
National
In a hangar in Bucks County, forty-one minutes into a prepared address on manufacturing that contains no reference to the subject, the former president stated that everyone is gay for pay, that he would be the best at it, and then priced eleven acts in ascending millions without notes.
By Dale R. Kettering · 12 min read · September 4, 2026
World
Prime Minister Mark Carney signed the order on Thursday with the calm expression of a man who had waited years for this exact moment. Effective immediately, the Canadian side of the Detroit River will be known as the Little Hands River.
By Everett J. Coyle · 3 min read · September 2, 2026
Investigations
Call detail records place a four-minute call between Palm Beach County and Kalorama on 423 of 426 consecutive nights, and three former White House switchboard operators say it always closes the same way.
By Priscilla Anne Doggett · 44 min read · August 29, 2026
Investigations
The textile analyst this paper retained compared the pleats and found that the gold hanging in the disputed frame — the one your uncle captioned “Obama’s Muslim prayer curtains” — is not the East Room curtain, and no federal office will produce the invoice for whatever it is.
By Dale R. Kettering · 41 min read · August 26, 2026
Investigations
A strip-mall academy in Winchester tied a blue belt on the reptilian forty-sixth vice president on 14 August, and the sanctioning body has had one question open since 2011: whether a man who went twenty months without a detectable pulse may be entered against men with hearts.
By Dale R. Kettering · 29 min read · August 24, 2026
Investigations
A Pennsylvania county ledger records twenty-three separate captive-wildlife registrations at the same Punxsutawney address since 1886, and the Inner Circle has declined nineteen requests to explain why an elixir of life would need paperwork.
By Priscilla Anne Doggett · 29 min read · July 11, 2026
National
Our data desk asked nineteen offices for one whole number and got nineteen comparisons back, fourteen of which named somebody else, producing a referral graph of 231 nodes that has not terminated and a ledger that does not reconcile.
By Herschel Bove · 18 min read · July 17, 2026