Silver traders: Welcome to your meme-stock moment. After posting the strongest year on record going back to at least 1979, silver prices have continued their rapid climb in January. On Monday, the ...

Johannes Hosflot Klaebo was so amazing in his cross country gold win at the 2026 Winter Olympics, with the Norwegian just booking it up a hill as if he was jogging and didn't have skis on his feet. It ...

Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that ...

What does a penguin have to do with the Crusades, Joan of Arc, President Donald Trump, Alexander the Great, masculinity, Aragorn, Luke Skywalker, and the fight for Western Civilization itself? As of ...

Google is leaning harder into generative AI inside its photo ecosystem with the launch of Me Meme, a new feature rolling out in the U.S. that lets users turn themselves into custom memes directly ...

The crown for the first global meme of 2026 goes to anime studio Mappa for its work on Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, specifically what the internet has dubbed the “Naoya Hair Flip.” In the two-episode ...

On the first Thanksgiving weekend of President Donald Trump’s second term, the Washington Post published a serious scoop about the administration. The Post reported that US military forces, after ...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

Steve Rogers. Thor. The X-Men. All those freaking chairs. Yes, everyone and their mother are apparently returning for Avengers: Doomsday when it opens in 11 months’ time. And since the first of four ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is facing a DOJ investigation over office renovations. Powell's video response sparked a wave of meme-filled jokes online. President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted the ...

2026’s first viral meme has birthed an iconic catchphrase for nonchalance in the new year Luke Chinman is a writer at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in 2024. His work has previously appeared in The ...