The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

Our friends Alain and Isabelle treated us to a wonderful afternoon yesterday at their house on the Ile de Ré. A delicious, long lunch followed by a short nap (!), then a walk on the beach and through the village of Le Bois Plage. Perfect weather, perfect company ... elle est belle, la vie!

WASHINGTON — The Republican candidate to be Alabama’s next governor admitted Thursday he actively avoids reading anything — because only his opinion matters to him."No, I read very little," Sen. Tommy...

TLDR: An easy trip, but some surprises awaited in La Rochelle. So, two-and-a-half long travel days. The first was an 11 hour overnight flight to Paris, which was bit delayed, but otherwise perfect. We'd sprung for business class seats, which meant that the food and service were excellent, and that it was possible to sleep...

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

California solar panels tower over canals in Turlock, proving to save water, produce clean energy and improve local water quality.

Bessent spoke with CNBC's "Squawk Box" about AI safety concerns and this week's summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.

Language isn’t necessary for logical reasoning, cognitive neuroscientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute find. Evelina Fedorenko and Hope Kean discovered people can perform well on tasks that require log...

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.

My new static site blog created with Franklin.jl and the Julia Programming Language

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intellig...

The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents.

Leavitt, who is the youngest White House press secretary every, gave birth in May to a girl, her second child.

Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?

I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative agreement...

Steve Witkoff is traveling to Switzerland, a US official said, as Washington and Tehran work to get technical talks back on track after a postponement. Follow for live updates.

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

Suzie and I are back home in Kensington and settling in after a lot of packing (mostly Suzie) and unpacking (same). It's a glorious day here (75 and sunny) and we celebrated our return with a lunch at Barney's on Solano with Suzie's dad Paul, burger and fries while sitting outside. Yesterday we had a...

It’s now D+12 and I continue to do great. No side-effect symptoms at all. We had an appointment at Stanford on Saturday for labs and vitals. Everything was normal except my sodium, so now I&#…

My new static site blog created with Franklin.jl and the Julia Programming Language