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On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable.

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Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

Donald Trump retained major oil and gas investments as the Iran war has moved energy markets. CNBC analyzed his holdings, trades and estimated gains.

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The major banks are seeing an opportunity for large-scale investment.

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Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.

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The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

Readercon is a “conference on imaginative literature” that takes place in the Boston area each July. From Thursday evening (when everything is free) through Sunday afternoon (for a very reasonable fee if you don’t need a hotel), hundreds of readers, fans, editors, publishers, and writers converged on the Marriot hotel in Burlington, Mass. This was my first full-fledged conference. A couple years ago I attended for one day—limited by a sick cat, and another sick cat kept me home last year.

The bookstores teamed up Utah’s LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce on the giveaways, which they say they won’t stop until the state stops banning books.

Bona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our ...

I will be at Readercon this weekend, Friday through Sunday. I’m not on any panels or giving any readings—this is my first time going to the whole thing and I’m new to this thing. Dipping my toe in as they say. I will be selling books in the Bookshop at the Broad Universe tables (40 and 41). I’m really excited about this and about attending panels and readings.

A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later…