Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But this current administration has been far more opportunistic than most, doing constitutional recon in areas of unsettled law right up until a court rules that it can't. (In some cases, it continues to do these things despite having lost in court.) While...

A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.

Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.

An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

Silicon Valley is pulling the plug. The Kremlin is locking the doors. Inside the race to cut Russia off from the global internet — and what comes after.

The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The title of the post is"What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works," and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27, 2026, twelve new zero-day vulnerabilities (meaning unknown to the maintainers at time of disclosure) were announced. Our AI system is responsible for the original discovery of all twelve, each found and responsibly disclosed to the OpenSSL team during the fall and winter of 2025.

The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

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Over the years, we've written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We've corrected politicians who lie about it. We've debunked myths spread by mainstream media outlets that should know better. We've explained, re-explained, and then explained again why gutting this law would be catastrophic for online speech…

Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We’ve corrected politicians who lie about it. We’ve debunked myths spread by mainstream media outlets that should know better. We’ve explained, re-explained, and then explained again why gutting this law […]

In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Representatives had the gall to ask her questions ...

My old corner of The Washington Post raised some of the best journalists in the business.

An Abu Dhabi royal seems to have gotten what he paid for, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.