Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesizing firm. On Wednesday, the company announced that it signed a new deal with the famed ...

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In his latest posting spree on social media, President Donald Trump uploaded several images depicting himself blowing up several spacecraft and walking beside a muscular alien in handcuffs. The posts ...

As tensions with Iran continued to escalate and stalled nuclear negotiations showed little sign of progress, US President Donald Trump launched a posting spree on Truth Social, flooding the platform ...

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Spaceships. That’s all I’m asking for. Just one actual stinking spaceship. I’d also take an actual alien body—I’ve been told that the government has some of them as well. Instead, the first “alien ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When President Trump promised, in a social-media post in February, “to begin the process of identifying and ...