Researchers have worried about the increasing power of AI systems for years, but an explosion of interest has ignited old controversies about exactly how AI will cause chaos.

With "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," the country music singer proved she was a superstar of stage and screen

The vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash.

And the gusher of it is just beginning

Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

Making America a safe space for fraudsters, crooks, and national security threats.

On Bari Weiss and me, and what journalists owe this world.

The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.

No matter what the pro-war crowd tells you.

An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...

The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.

The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

A new documentary explores the booze-soaked and vomit-slicked gathering's radical roots.

The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

This week, Elon Musk introduced a beta version of an artificially intelligent chatbot named “Grok” for some verified users of X, formerly known as Twitter. The Onion sat down for a conversation with t...

Kirk was fatally shot during a campus event on September 10.

Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...

The curious worldview of Pete Hegseth.