The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase. By Rob Copeland Stacy Cowley ...

Hackers stole a trove of data from a company used by major Wall Street banks for real-estate loans and mortgages, setting off a scramble to determine what was taken and which banks were affected, ...

As French police, government officials and top executives at the Louvre Museum continue to scratch their heads over how thieves managed to brazenly steal priceless jewelry in broad daylight, a German ...

Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation photos are dated February 2018 and October 2016, respectively. (Photos courtesy of the California Department ...

Authorities in Minneapolis revealed more details about the motive of Annunciation Catholic Church shooter Robin Westman, with the city’s police chief saying that "ultimately the purpose of the shooter ...

News organizations gave too much airtime to the alleged assassin of Mark and Melissa Hortman. In the wake of the shooting at Annunciation Church, the media must do better. As America continues to ...

The shooter had connections to Annunciation Church and School and was fascinated with other mass shootings, said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks to ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

More than 184 million passwords may have been exposed in a massive data breach that experts are calling a “cybercriminal’s dream.” According to a new report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler ...

I remember a couple years ago feeling rather guilty sitting in a theater seat at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago in March of 2023 and watching “The Book of Mormon” on the Wednesday of Holy Week ...

Google says you have 7 days to recover your hacked Gmail account. Update, April 23, 2025: This story, originally published April 21, has been updated with mitigation advice for various hacking ...