california Bay Area organization offers free birthday parties to homeless kids, cake and all Rusty Blazenhoff

History Jayne Mansfield: Viral Warrior Matt Maranian

neo-nazis Police decline to arrest the leader of a Neo-Nazi terrorist network because he's 13 years old Thom Dunn

Science When NASA quarantined the astronauts David Pescovitz

coronavirus Toddler, 4 more injured at coronavirus party shooting in Philadelphia Xeni Jardin

politics Trump met with Brazil official who has coronavirus Xeni Jardin

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

education Christian school expels student over rainbow birthday cake Rob Beschizza

education Kentucky's Whitefield Academy expels student for wearing a rainbow shirt in a Facebook photo Cory Doctorow

Jesus Merry Christmas, someone stole Jesus's foreskin Thom Dunn

tories The UK's Conservative Party recently put up a new statue of known anti-Semite Nancy Astor Thom Dunn

crime Nigeria: 47 men plead 'not gay' to avoid prison Xeni Jardin

bad ideas Amazon no longer selling child's T-shirt that says "Daddy's Little Slut" Mark Frauenfelder

parties Strangers celebrate birthday of girl with autism after friends fail to show Rob Beschizza

eu Relatives and cronies of Cambodia's dictator have bought "golden passports" from Cyprus and exfiltrated millions Cory Doctorow

music Remembering Johnny Cash on the day he died Xeni Jardin

security Facebook must also pay SEC $100 million over misuse of user data Xeni Jardin

security A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson’s body missing, and Prince Harry’s clash with Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan