Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

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The Onion, which has been trying to take control of Infowars for more than a year, launched its inaugural parody with a fake ...

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Maymo the Dog gets ambushed by a surprise alien prank and has to figure out what he's going to do about it.

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

Thousands of Brazilians received emergency alerts in the middle of the night warning of an "alien attack." Users received a flurry of push notifications mimicking government emergency alerts. It was ...

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Imagine being in bed, sound asleep, when your country's emergency alert system suddenly goes off on your phone. Scary stuff.

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A hack on Brazil's Civil Defense system blasted fake alien invasion alerts to seven cities, exposing the same WEA flaw the ...