On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.

The president’s new diesel order knocks down the wall between two pools of fuel, but does nothing to refill it.

The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

Problems Upon Problems In Cancer Alley Meta is building a $50 billion hyperscale AI data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, nicknamed “Hyperion.” The company plans to grow it to 5 gigawatts...

How long are we just going to let them lie to us about data centers...

Here are some recent AI data center projects that have stalled or failed to make it through. Plus: what’s working in pushback and more phrases you need to know.

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Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.

Good evening, The United States hasn’t held a public execution since 1936.

The US Department of Health and Human Services launched a program this week to study and capture the breadth of vaccine injuries, reviving a longtime priority for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a...

Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads

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Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson said the quiet part out loud.

The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.

Denver — Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-Wash.) led 29 colleagues in a letter to Dr. Erica Schwartz, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control a...

In the midst of his will-he-or-won’t-he retirement tour, the justice is at great pains to make his view of originalism make a lick of sense.