This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. If it feels like the days are getting longer, it’s because they are. The Earth is decelerating, and for the first time in seven years, the average length of a day became longer in 2023. By March 2025, the length of a day could reach up to 1.63 milliseconds more than 24 hours, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service predicts. One possible cause is climate change, with...

Impossible as it is to believe, Christopher Hitchens, the enfant terrible of Anglo-American politics and letters, would have turned 75 today, almost 13 years since his premature death from esophageal cancer in December 2011. Yet in many ways Hitchens seems more alive than ever. His name routinely crops up in contemporary debates, notwithstanding how different the political landscape looks in the Age of Donald and Elon. In the years since his passing, he has acquired a new generation of fans in the millions. His coinages (“Islamofascism”) have entered the contemporary...

First responders are pictured on the scene after a stolen 18-wheeler crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office on US-290 in Brenham, Texas on Friday, April 12, 2024. A stolen semitrailer truck driven by Clenard Parker, 42, was crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office on Friday, resulting in one death and 13 people injured, per The Associated Press. At approximately 10:30 a.m. CT, the truck collided with the exterior wall of the office, where 14 individuals were present. Among them, three were airlifted to hospitals,...

Ken Kovac faces disorderly conduct and impersonation charges after allegedly creating fake Facebook accounts to impersonate and defame a current deputy chief.

Orland Park police accused Kovac of misusing photos of the deputy chief for the fake accounts and posted comments on village social media accounts and solicited friend requests from village employees and other people.

Kovac served the Orland Park Police Department from 1998 until he retired in 2019 and is employed by another government agency, the village said. He voluntarily surrendered to authorities on April 7.

The claim: Climate change is a 'scam' because Antarctic sea ice covered more area on March 9 than 27 years earlier A March 10 X post (direct link, archive link) shows two National Snow & Ice Data Center maps depicting Antarctic sea ice extent − the area of the sea covered by ice. One is dated March 9, 1997, and the other is labeled with the same date in 2024. "Antarctic sea ice extent is higher today − 3,165,625 km. sq. − than it was 27 years ago − 3,075,000...

Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on May 15, 2023. Google will begin removing links to California news websites from search results for some Californians in response to a bill that would require online ad companies to pay a fee for connecting state residents to news sources. In a blog post on Friday announcing the "short-term test," Jaffer Zaidi, Google's vice president of global news partnership, said the bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act, represents "the wrong approach to supporting journalism" and "would create a...

Are grocery stores that spray mist on fresh produce spraying toxic chemicals? That’s the claim in two social media videos that appear to have been recorded in the same store. "If you are buying organic produce at the grocery store, there is something called (ProduceMaxx) on top of all the produce," a March 31 Instagram video’s narrator said as he stood in the produce section of a Sprouts Farmers Market, part of a grocery store chain specializing in natural and organic foods. The narrator added that ProduceMaxx is "a bunch...