On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...

Jane Doe is the name by which we know the young woman who has come forward to say she was gang raped in a room at the Chi Phi fraternity house while she was a student at Cornell in 2024.

Polygraph+ will use new sensor technologies and AI to vet staff and hunt leakers. Experts say AI-enabled lie detection is “the worst of both worlds.”

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

Protect Democracy and its partners are suing the Department of Homeland Security to challenge the agency’s new election-related conditions on anti-terrorism grants.

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Prime minister will ‘highlight Israel’s achievements’ as he heads towards his toughest re-election challenge When he takes the stage at the UN on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver a familiar message of defiance even as protests and international condemnation leave the Israeli leader in growing isolation. Netanyahu is facing his toughest re-election challenge in a political career spanning decades with three ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, and a growing campaign of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Continue reading...

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While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often concentrated in Black and low-income neighborhoods.

Older Americans have been falling into poverty over the last few years, and many are struggling on Social Security.

Life for rota-nannies can be glamorous and gruelling

In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...

AI in journalism: Live tracker of mistakes and mishaps from the Mississippe Free Press to the New York Times.

Plus, the rise of shopping sites that don’t sell anything.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft made it clear to the singer that he would cancel his tour dates at Gillette Stadium unless Macklemore was dropped from the bill. Other NFL owners were ready to do the same.

President Donald Trump is on a "collision course" with his hand-picked Federal Reserve chairman after the body gave the president a startling rebuke on Wednesday, according to a new report. The Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023 on Wednesday, citing persisten...

A polling error and a few good breaks could be enough

The global AI race is being hit by very localised political and environmental concerns

As the nation gears up for the 2026 midterm elections, we are drawing a line beneath the first phase of the 250 to 250 project.

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And starve the machine while you're at it.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of the dangers of unchecked advancement in AI. But is slowing down enough? Lawmakers demand more, calling for liability laws and a ban on superintelligence.

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(This was originally posted on the 20th anniversary of 9/11) Here are the first three cartoons I drew about the attacks on 9/11 back in 2001