The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things

The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

For years now, we've been repeatedly pointing out that the "social media is destroying kids" narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of shaky, often contradictory research. We've noted that the actual data is far more nuanced than the moral panic suggests, and that policy responses built on that panic might end up…

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

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The writers of a City Journal story alleging a connection between Minnesota fraud and al-Shabab say they stand by their story.

More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.

President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse

AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.

The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

The phrases engraved on the bullets found by law enforcement during the investigation into the shooting of Charlie Kirk come from a video game called Helldivers2

Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.

Believing community to be the key to ending chronic homelessness, the Sacred Settlement model uses religious land use law to overcome opposition.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

High school sports associations want to mold better students and citizens through sport, but are coaches well equipped to deliver on that front?

How the Financial Times created a misleading meme and contributed to the firehose of nonsense on screen panic

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.