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A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...
OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn,...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four years, Angie Mummaw...
Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spent months in ICE detention, has filed a federal lawsuit against what he alleges is a “public-private...
A group of 26 current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit Monday evening accusing the tech company of using AI software to target employees with...
Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, wants DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to cancel a nearly billion dollar...
William Lawrence, the 36-year-old Sunrise Movement co-founder running a progressive congressional campaign in Michigan, has positioned himself as an...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The plan to bury carbon under...
On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting, this time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine...
On Sunday, after four weeks of absence from Congress caused by a medical emergency—which led to extensive speculation about his health—Sen. Mitch...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has...
In March 2022, Pete Hegseth, then a Fox News analyst and host, spoke at a dinner put on by the Israel Heritage Foundation, a conservative Jewish group...
When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that...
Within moments of the early Sunday morning announcement that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had died, there was much obvious commentary about his...
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s El Niño is shaping up to...
As someone who watches too much soccer and knows Erling Haaland as perhaps the world’s most formidable striker playing today, seeing friends and...
The New York Times said that at least four of its journalists received subpoenas on Friday from the Justice Department following their report on...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a few weeks each...
Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the...
On Monday, Ulises Peña López, represented by Disability Law United and Pangea Legal Services, sued the US government and private prison contractors...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Life has colonized every corner...
Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after...
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and a three-decade Houston...
Eduardo Zayas-Bazán was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and joined about 1,400 other Cuban exiles, who were known as...
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Energy efficiency standards can...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US would continue strikes on Iran for a second night, and—if it had to—seize much of the...
When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a circle until he’s bored and moves on to the next thing. He...
Moments after scoring Belgium’s fourth goal against the hapless US Men’s National Soccer Team, Romelu Lukaku ran to the corner flag and joined his...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In brief remarks to...
When Lucy found out she was pregnant in the summer of 2025, she might have been delighted. Instead, the news added to the uncertainty she’d been...
Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration....
A woman who dated Graham Platner said he sexually assaulted her, allegations that followed the stories of several other women who reported abuse at...
During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project....
The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company...
Eucalyptus trees have been scattered across California since the 1850s, when they were brought over by Australians flocking to the Gold Rush. The...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump has blamed...
“The more I read, the more embarrassed I am for everyone involved.” Secondhand humiliation was the looming theme of a group chat on July 3, as...
As the US men’s national soccer team prepares to face off against Belgium on Monday night, the question isn’t whether their aggressive and quick...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past two years, more than a...
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sylvie Andrews and her...
In the leadup to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems “divisive,” from DEI to critical race theory....
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As New York City braces for an extreme...
Back in March, I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel. Before the summer of...
When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of America’s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil...
On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast on that theme. I recommend it....
On New Year’s Eve, fireworks bloomed behind the Washington Monument. Along the side of the 550-foot structure, a birthday candle was projected,...
In the four months since the US and Israel initiated their ongoing joint military campaign against Iran, the Trump administration’s negotiations...
“Loitering is not permitted in this area,” an audio recording sternly warns, as uniformed National Guard troops patrol Washington’s iconic,...
If you want to understand U.S. politics, take the train. The Trump administration’s federal budget request for the next fiscal year includes steep...
The Trump administration’s July 4th fireworks show will likely produce unhealthy levels of pollution at the National Mall and the surrounding...