More than two dozen lawmakers on ​Tuesday asked the Federal ‌Aviation Administration to pause the use of a ​new AI tool ​in the Washington area to ⁠assist air traffic ​controllers, citing safety concerns.

Polls continue to suggest that a Democrat could win a statewide race in Texas for the first time in a generation.

Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

A clinical and forensic psychologist breaking down President Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Tennessee flagged a moment he called “a really wild thing to watch”: Trump told the crowd he could say the ...

A progressive political newsletter argued this weekend that the press is close to breaking a long-standing taboo and saying out loud that President Donald Trump may have dementia.In a piece headlined “The taboo against naming Trump’s dementia is fading,” John Stoehr, who writes The Editorial Board n...

With politicians flailing, it’s worth trying an approach that has worked in Europe, argues Glenn Hubbard

A discussion on the roots of the far-right’s success, its plans for power and what President Trump has to do with it all.

As Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) faces an unexpectedly tight reelection fight, a new Kansas City Star report on his past work as an OB-GYN drew outrage Sunday, with one critic decrying his “truly shockin...

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Until there is more clarity on basic questions, neither developers nor policymakers can credibly establish a quantitative AI risk assessment.

If the coming midterm election does result in a blue wave, Donald Trump will be faced with the fact of his diminishment. The rest of us will be faced with the wreckage.

Amazon is in talks to acquire artificial ​intelligence startup Decart in a deal ‌that could be valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar ​with the matter.

A right-wing influencer is claiming that Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico was treated at an Ohio mental health facility, not home with the flu. The claim rests on a recorded phone call with an unnamed employee, and the Talarico campaign calls it a lie. The call also raises questions ab...

President Donald Trump's new White House press secretary appears to have tried to scrub parts of her online past before taking the role.Katie Zacharia, named to the post Friday, has a "sordid online h...

Stephen Miller says Americans owe their amazing energy prices to Donald Trump. Critics saw it differently.Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared Saturday on Fox News’ “My V...

Whom does he call "low IQ" the most?

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

Control of Congress after the 2026 midterm elections would give Democrats power to subpoena documents and testimony

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted to ensure ‘people are able to watch it;’ a firing squad is planned

Republicans are counting on President Donald Trump to turn out their voters at a Friday rally in Democratic-leaning Syracuse, N.Y., while hoping he doesn’t do the same for Democrats, according to MS NOW.The visit breaks from a string of rallies in deep-red states. The evening event at the Oncenter d...

The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s deployment of immigration agents. Know of an incident? Please be in touch.

On September 20, 2026, Ukraine launched another large-scale drone attack on the Moscow region. One drone hit a high-rise apartment building in Kotelniki, southeast of Moscow. Another had struck the…

Likely voters prefer Jackson on several key issues, but they favor Collins’s ability to steer federal dollars to the state.

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is hitting back at Democrats who criticized Republicans’ treatment of former special counsel Jack Smith – but he glossed over the embarrassing goof that set off the dispute.In a letter to top committee Democrat Dick Durbin (D-IL), obtained exclusively by ...

Much of the nation’s stormwater drainage systems are old and undersized, designed for a climate that no longer exists.

A longtime associate of an embattled swing state Republican – whose online posts form the backbone of the congressman’s attack ads – has a history of racist, sexist and anti-Muslim activity on social media, according to a new report.Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) is facing his toughest re-election ch...

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

A close adviser to President Donald Trump shared new details Wednesday on Republicans’ sentiment heading into the midterms, telling Zeteo bluntly: “It’s looking bad.”“F--- a duck,” the adviser said, summing up what Zeteo described as “the mood coming from so, so, so many national and state Republica...

The Green party's move to equate Zionism with racism ignores the complexity of the term

Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.

Democrats have an opportunity to pick up Senate seats and take control of Congress in the 2026 midterms, as Donald Trump's polling hamstrings the GOP.

With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.

It is a damning moment for a political party with pretensions to power

David Robinson, who wrote OpenAI’s safety protocols, resigned last week over safety concerns.

Diplomats are discussing emergency teams, EU funding and crisis communications, while some capitals warn Brussels risks duplicating NATO.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the U.S. Air Force can keep destroying munitions on a beach in Guam, a practice it began in 1982.

Chapter 22 (pp. 176–179) from The Reconstruction Papers.

Nine U.S. service members wounded in the Iran war have gone on the record about the military medical care they received, which they say left them fighting for treatment on their own, according to the ...

WASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his o...

About 5,500 years ago, several dozen hunter-gatherers died near Lake Baikal. DNA from the bacterium that causes plague survived in their teeth. Science journalist Ilya Kabanov, who runs the Telegram…