Senators ban themselves from participating in prediction markets
Senators voted unanimously Thursday to ban themselves from participating in prediction markets as Congress tackles the ethics of the novel...
Finding New Horizons and Saving a Disappearing Language
One good book can lead to another. My latest literary journey began when I followed Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s...
Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly
Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever conceived of....
Mexico’s President Faces Perilous Choice After U.S. Indicts Her Ally
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has just been handed a political grenade. U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against...
Attorneys for correspondents’ dinner suspect seek ballistics evidence
Defense attorneys for the man accused of trying to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner said video of the incident...
A major new study found AI outperformed doctors in ER diagnosis — but there’s a catch
When I think of heroic doctors, I think of the physician in the hospital who’s presented with a patient suffering...
U.K. whiskey tariffs eased after Trump met with King Charles III
President Donald Trump posted online Thursday that he would remove tariffs on some whiskey, a move that could ease trade...
Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Could Fuel New Era of Unending Gerrymanders
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the Voting Rights Act has plunged the nation into a...
Trump’s Grip on the Republican Party Faces 3 Big Tests in May
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on April 24, 2026 —Roberto Schmidt—Getty Images...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Promises a Cursed Vacation
In the second episode of “Widow’s Bay,” Tom Loftis, the mayor of the small New England island of the title,...
