6 best fast food restaurants for eating vegan on your long weekend roadtrip

Traveling while vegan? Here’s where you can grab a snack sans animal products this Memorial Day holiday.

Avoiding junk food while on a road trip is hard. Eating vegan on a road trip is even harder. Most chains don’t cater to vegan diets. And even worse, some fast food restaurants that claimed to have vegan items ended up not actually being vegan (sneaky animal oils!). With other chains recently discontinuing their fake-meat options, a handful of dried fruit might be sustaining more than...

U.N. Court Orders Israel to Halt Rafah Offensive

The International Court of Justice ruling deepens Israel’s international isolation, but the court has no enforcement powers.

"Growing Up We Always Ate This": People Are Sharing Seemingly Unlikely Food Combinations That Might Just Blow Your Mind, And Several Are Genius

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A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

Where New Yorkers Start Being Polite and Stop Getting Real

The Portal, a video art installation connecting the city with Dublin, is open again, now with safeguards. But does changing the rules change the artwork?

Three Missionaries in Haiti Killed in Gang Attack

The latest assault by Haitian gangs left three people, including two American missionaries and a local pastor dead in Port-au-Prince.

McDonald’s Is Bigger Than Ever: How ‘Super Size Me’ Lost the Culture War

“Super Size Me” helped lead a backlash against McDonald’s. Twenty years on, the industry is bigger than ever.

Morgan Spurlock, Documentarian Known for ‘Super Size Me,’ Dies at 53

His 2004 film followed Mr. Spurlock as he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. It was nominated for an Oscar, but it later came in for criticism.

Elon Musk is Criticizing Biden On X More Ahead of 2024 Election

The billionaire owner of X has increasingly been using his social media platform to criticize President Biden for his health and immigration policies, according to a New York Times analysis.

Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

What's The Biggest Secret You Wish You Didn't Know About Your Sibling?

Even your siblings might have a few skeletons in the closet.

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Some people with legacy Google Workspace accounts are getting extra storage for free

Who doesn’t love free? | Illustration: The Verge

Giving people something for free and then slowly pushing them toward a paid subscription is a tech tale as old as time. But a group of people with decade-old G Suite (now Google Workspace) accounts have managed a rare victory: keeping their free accounts for, well, free. And because of a recent change, some are even getting extra storage at no cost — but it’s unclear what will happen next.

When Google rebranded G Suite as...

Tesla wants net-zero emissions, but its pollution grew in 2023

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Tesla’s greenhouse gas emissions grew by nearly 10 million metric tons of CO2 last year, according to the company’s latest impact report, which provides the most revealing look yet of how the company is thinking about climate-related risks and its own carbon footprint.

In 2023, Tesla was responsible for more than 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions compared to just under 42 million metric tons the year prior, a roughly 20...

Top 5 pro wrestling matches to watch this weekend

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It’s a busy holiday weekend, and both WWE and AEW are running major events.

It’s a busy weekend in the United States, what with Memorial Day coming up and all that, but it’s an even busier weekend in the world of professional wrestling. Indeed, both major promotions, WWE and AEW, will be running pay-per-view events (or what WWE now calls premium live events).

WWE will be in Saudi Arabia for its King & Queen of the Ring show in Jeddah on Sat., May 25...

Zverev thought brother joking about Nadal draw

Germany's Alexander Zverev thought his brother was joking when he informed him he was playing 14-time champion, yet unseeded, Rafael Nadal in the opening round of the French Open.

Sources: Fundora, Spence agree to October fight

Sebastian Fundora and Errol Spence Jr. have agreed to a deal for a WBC junior middleweight title fight in October in Dallas, sources told ESPN.

Rangers' Rempe awed by greats calling for him

Rangers rookie Matt Rempe is in awe of greats like Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky calling for New York to put him in the lineup.

Cavs on Bickerstaff firing: Need a 'new approach'

J.B. Bickerstaff didn't do anything wrong to deserve being fired. The Cavaliers just feel like they reached their limit with him.

The AI-powered HP OmniBook X laptop is available to pre-order — here's where to get one

TL;DR: As of May 24, the new AI-powered HP OmniBook X laptop is available to pre-order at both HP direct and Best Buy. The laptop starts at $1,149.99, and increases from there depending on which configuration you choose.

Where to pre-order the HP OmniBook X laptop HP HP OmniBook X laptop ...

Apple explains why deleted photos were being restored on some iPhones

A nightmare scenario seemingly came true last week when a number of iPhone users took to Reddit to share horror stories about old long-deleted photos – including sensitive pics like nudes – had suddenly reappeared on their device.

Apple confirmed the issue, rolling out a fix to the reappearing deleted photo bug in the iOS 15.5.1 update that came out earlier this week.

Now, Apple is sharing more information about what happened.

Why your deleted iPhone photos mysteriously returned

In a...