Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

Ohio school districts will soon be required to have a religious release time policy, paving the way for an expansion of LifeWise Academy. While supporters praise it, some parents say their kids have b...

A purported coalition for health and wellness signs on with the GOP's deregulation agenda.

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.

The US president wants to cut spending at the National Institutes of Health and Environmental Protection Agency, but it's not clear whether Congress will go along.

If you think the United States is politically divided now, just wait for the AI culture wars.

How's that computer-vision-only approach working out for you, Tesla?

With HotWired, we introduced the world to the internet. Hyperlinks! Verticals! Banner ads! Cookies! Thirty years later, the hangover is real.

Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating ...

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday, after the newspaper’s owner had blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for pre...

A Hawaii man who attended a school where Tim Walz taught was dismayed to see someone using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate.

The Supreme Court rejected a Biden administration request to block a lower court ruling barring emergency abortions that would conflict with Texas state law.

The House speaker declining to say Trump lost the election echoes JD Vance's "damning non-answer" during last week's vice presidential debate.

AT&T, Verizon and Lumen are among the companies breached by Chinese hackers in a sophisticated intrusion by the group dubbed Salt Typhoon, officials say.

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Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer.