Brad Reed Common Dreams Two of President Donald Trump’s signature policies—the illegal war with Iran and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—are putting pressure on food banks thr…

The exoplanet LHS 1140b may have a temperature that could allow for liquid water on its surface. Just possibly, it could support the existence of life.

The psychology of hate helps explain how threats, poliitcal rhetoric and historical narratives can transform a displomatic dispute into lasting hostility.

Half a century of corporate influence set the stage for Trump's attacks on higher education, a new study argues.

Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

Tu-95 plane crashed during training flight in uninhabited area of Amur region, Defence Ministry says.

All government departments and agencies must conduct an immediate stocktake of their legacy systems, under the government order.

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

China has already implemented many rules governing the use of artificial intelligence.

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon will appear before the federal parliamentary committee on Artificial Intelligence’s hearing next week.

Now is the time to incentivize and continue innovation of cleaner, new technologies.

Tom Cruise’s latest film is a crude parable about an unrepentant oil executive.

In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today.

AI giant launches 'dots' to rival Meta's Muse and Google's Gemini Spark.

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

The people building the AI machine know what it consumes: other people’s work. In this episode of Dangerous Ideas, Lee Camp digs into internal Microsoft documents describing a “doom loop” in which …

Five weeks out from the midterm elections, the Senate map is both clearer and murkier than ever.

This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments...

‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...

The 20-year-old is back.

The Supreme Court associate justice had previously refused to step away from a case involving fossil fuel companies.

“Accuracy of the content provided by the [AI] is a concern,” read an internal assessment of Alpha School’s lessons.

“There’s nothing Trump won’t sacrifice on the altar of fealty to Big Oil and auto polluters,” said one critic.

“This is not a conspiracy theory,” the House speaker added.

Following the appearance of a second television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump and paid for by government funds, Public Citizen filed a complaint with the FCC, FTC, individual broadca...

FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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In a letter Tuesday to Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin, two top Democratic senators said that the money is coming from Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill.'

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Many improved their performance through building upgrades and energy-efficiency measures like lighting upgrades, envelope work, installing heat pumps or implementing energy management systems, a city ...

Shortages of skilled labor and equipment, as well as local opposition, are threatening even high-profile projects backed by big tech companies. Developers are responding by embracing flexibility and a...

Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.

I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…

The record rainfall has been blamed on a combination of climate change and El Niño, which has created a prolonged high pressure front in the Pacific

Nurses have been the most trusted profession in the U.S. for 24 years running, and with good reason: We care about you, we fight for you, and we don’t lie. We can’t say the same about those who att…

A trio of Senate Democrats is warning the Trump administration against interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential elections, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Hill.  Sen…

A federal court has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold some counterterrorism funding from states that do not adopt election reforms favored by the administration. Earlier this y…

The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…

Republican lawmakers are pushing back on President Trump’s decision to cancel nearly $1 billion in federal funding, setting up a new clash between the White House and members of Trump’s own p…

More and more, states are proving grounds for responsible, forward-thinking energy policy — even when the federal government pulls back.

A new nickel, rounded transactions and the formal death of the penny. They could all happen soon.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) late Monday blocked an attempt from Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to prohibit President Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center. The bill Merkley attempted to pass under unani…

President Trump said Monday that Canada is “one of the worst countries in the entire world” in the wake of heightened tensions between Washington and its historically friendly northern neighbor. “T…