Angela Lipps spent five and a half months in jail after a detective allegedly relied on a false AI match despite evidence she was innocent.

The officers are among at least 100 police department employees accused of abusing their access to license-plate readers, prompting calls for greater oversight.

A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the recruitment provision of Tennessee's "abortion trafficking" law.

A new report reveals that federal regulators rely heavily on personal judgment when making decisions about scheduling and banning drugs.

The immigration system has a confusing and opaque approach to foreigners who have done sex work.

Cops keep carving out tech exceptions to the Fourth Amendment—and courts are giving them their blessing.

Computers, video games, and the internet actually helped "restore childhood" in the 1990s, suggests psychologist Peter Gray in a new book.

Jurors didn't buy Luis Uribe's defense: that he was targeted by 'hustlers' for being an immigration officer.

ALT: J Peterman's Wordy Observation

A North Carolina judge ruled that Signal messages Sinema sent to a married man in the state are enough for a lawsuit against her to proceed.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

A memorial for Gloria Steinem, 1934–2026Gloria Steinem died on September 2 at her home in New York City. She was 92.We are not going to pretend that she was nothing to us. We are not going to pretend ...

I think it's cool that conservatives are trying to make it cool to care about nutrition. But this isn't the government's place.

How Fathers’ Work Hours Shape The Motherhood Penalty; Mapping Out America’s Hodgepodge of a Safety Net For Moms; The Predictability of American Poverty + more.

New Mexico required schools to use an AI system despite concerns about voice recordings, inaccurate scores, and a lack of evidence.

New Mexico required schools to use an AI system despite concerns about voice recordings, inaccurate scores, and a lack of evidence.

It doesn't matter if you're right. If you don't cave, the government might stop at nothing to destroy you.

Dan Patrick's campaign against “filthy” school library books targets sex education, LGBTQ titles, and literary classics.

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What a new study of mealtime screen time does—and does not—say.

We've been talking for a while now about how the rush (much of it driven by politicians' obsession with Jonathan Haidt's mostly debunked book) to ban kids from social media is dangerously stupid. It misdiagnoses the problem and creates a solution that both does not work and makes actual problems worse. Previous reporting has already...

What a new study of mealtime screen time does—and does not—say.

The lieutenant governor said that state legislators would file a bill next session that requires the Texas Education Agency to lower a school’s accountability grade if it has any copies of a …

Playboy asked soldiers and their partners about how the war was impacting their love lives—and the power of desire as a survival mechanism.

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Meta is on trial for fomenting "FOMO," among other things. It sounds silly, but the playbook used here could work against religious groups, fast food, and much more.