More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta...
A Ukrainian drone started a fire at an industrial site in Novy Urengoy on Wednesday, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district just south of the Arctic Circle. Regional governor Dmitry Artyukhov said air defenses repelled the attack and falling debris caused the blaze, and that there were no deaths or injuries. He did not identify the...
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that HB 1 never took effect and has never been the law of the state. Both statements are accurate. Reconciling them is the whole of Missouri’s redistricting fight, and the...
On September 8, Canada begins collecting tariffs of 15, 25 and 50 percent on more than 700 categories of American goods, matching the 50 percent duties Washington imposed on roughly $27.6 billion in Canadian products on August 22. Prime Minister Mark Carney described the American action in the language of armed conflict. “You’re at war...
The Florida Department of Transportation revoked every permit it had issued for automated license plate readers in state highway rights-of-way on Monday, August 31, giving law enforcement agencies 30 days to take the equipment down and warning that the department will remove whatever remains after September 30. The one-page memorandum, signed by FDOT chief operating...
A manhole cover weighs a couple hundred pounds, sits in a public street, and in most American cities is locked to nothing. Lifting one is the entire physical barrier between the sidewalk and the cables running beneath it. People have been lifting them. Groups were filmed climbing into and out of New York sewers on...
Intro On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee and made a single piece of paper evidence enormously consequential. The Court upheld Mississippi’s law counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days afterward. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for a 5-4 majority joined by...
With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information about the electorate than at any point in modern memory and the failures of the past 20 months have come from opposite directions. In August alone, a fabricated poll in the Los Angeles mayoral race...
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has cut Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the New York governor’s race to 10 points, according to the Siena College Research Institute survey released Aug. 12- down from a 20-point gap in the same pollster’s June measurement. The 10-point figure has driven a week of coverage framing the contest as...
Federal agents detained 28 cruise ship crew members at the Port of San Diego in late April 2026 and arrested 23 the following day in what officials have since identified as part of Operation Tidal Wave, a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement push targeting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Of those interviewed, 27 were found...