From breaking the filibuster record to a staffer being arrested, it was a busy April Fools’ Day on Capitol Hill.

From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day is celebrated with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes.

Our White Lotus pre-IPO offering was, of course, our 2025 April Fool's prank. We received hundreds of thousands of visits to WhiteLotusIPO.com and thousands of messages to our email inbox. This includes many, many people who forwarded the "opportunity" to friends and family with us cc'd. (Will you ever forgive us?)

On April 1, 2025, internet users shared a rumor that investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway bought Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk's electric car company, for $1 trillion.

Here’s the history of April Fools’ Day and which restaurants are running April Fools' Day price cuts instead of pranks today, Tuesday, April 1.

A bit of wishful thinking tricked some Pensacola residents on April Fools' Day when a local photography account "announced" the opening of a new Trader Joe's location. The AI-generated post by "Pensacola Vibes,

Jimmy Donaldson, 26, who is known professionally as MrBeast, holds the record for the most subscribers on YouTube—381 million as of press time. In January 2022, Forbes ranked Donaldson as the highest-earning content creator. His estimated annual income was $54 million, drawn mostly from ads on his YouTube videos.

Rice prices in Japan are no laughing matter, as food vendor Hokka Hokka Tei found on Tuesday when an April Fools’ prank went awry.