A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.

In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.

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An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.

A reading group for AI skeptics It's exactly what it sounds like!

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the qu...

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

The 'independent' oversight board Paramount says will protect CNN from its owner's political interference will be utterly toothless.

Apocalyptic fears about AI in the future distract us from its present-day harms — just as its promoters hope

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation before one of the AI models went rogue during a test — in what’s since been dubbed the “Hugging Face incident” — but the ag…

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Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.

Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.

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Autumn Daniels went to an emergency room during a migraine attack in April. Hospital staffers checked her vital signs, then Daniels spent four hours in the waiting room before her sister took her to another hospital. She still got a bill for $410.

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

For decades America has enjoyed hegemony over the Middle East. That is about to end

Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Amer...

Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling