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Why Did Britney Spears Have to Confirm She’s Not Being Held Hostage?

#FreeBritney, explained.

Facebook Expects Government Fine for Data Breaches to Be 100 Times Larger Than Previous High for a Tech Company

Is the U.S. government finally getting serious about regulating its tech companies?

Avengers: Endgame Is Like Samuel Beckett in Space!

Marvel’s latest knows what you love most is the scenes in which superheroes chat about life and shawarma.

One Reason So Many Democrats Are Running for President: They Don’t Think Joe Biden Can Win

Are they right?

Stephen Moore Might Be a Slimebag, but Let’s Not Forget That His Economic Ideas Are Terrible Too

“You could say it has advantages over the gold standard, but it has the same sort of nuttiness.”

Trump’s DHS Pardon Promise Is As Serious As Anything in the Mueller Report

The president has no authority to induce underlings to break the law with the promise of a preemptive pardon.

The Angle: What Would Daenerys Targaryen Think About the Citizenship Question?

Really makes you think.

Do You Want to Buy a Murder Bird?

Be cass-o-wary.

You Can’t Watch Avengers: Endgame Yet, But Here Are Some Endgames You Can Watch

What else are you gonna do?

Trump Hauls Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to the Oval Office, Wants to Know Why He Doesn’t Have More Twitter Followers

The president suggests Twitter try using "flying water tankers" to help solve the problem. Or any problem really.