The Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain
On a recent afternoon in the minimalist headquarters of the M.I.T. Media Lab, the research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna handed me...
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Seeking investors for Venezuela, Machado backs Trump’s military moves
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is chief executive of MCC Global Enterprises and a CNBC contributor. While President Donald Trump ratchets up the...
Modi’s Coalition Leads Indian State Election Scrutinized Over Voter Rolls
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition appeared on course to a sweeping victory in an election for the local government...
Why Humanitarian Efforts Keep Failing
Food is the difference between life and death. Everyone knows this. But it’s also the difference between stability and instability,...
Alina Habba’s Office Vandalized by Man Who Tried to Enter With a Baseball Bat
The suspect first tried to enter the building in Newark, where the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey’s office is...
Trump Housing Official Invokes Family Legacy, to Some Relatives’ Dismay
When Bill Pulte appeared before the Senate committee considering his nomination to be one of the nation’s top housing regulators,...
The Shutdown Is Over. For Many SNAP Recipients, the Scars Remain.
When a little more than half of her monthly food stamp benefit came through on Tuesday, Deana Pearson headed to...
Plan to kill single-family zoning in Va. suburb survives legal challenge
A Virginia circuit court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the city of Alexandria over its decision to allow...
The U.S. Has Turned its Back on LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
In 1980, Cuban police detained Fidel Armando Toboso-Alfonso without charge, encouraged co-workers to publicly shame him, and warned he faced...
Target is betting that nostalgia, cocoa, and a little AI can turn around a rough year
The first stop on my whimsical tour was a life-sized Alpine gondola.Clark Hodgin for BITarget revamped its stores with nostalgic...
Most Americans say cost is limiting how many kids they have, survey finds
Most Americans think raising children is unaffordable, with finances as the major factor in determining family size, a new report...
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated,...
When federal pay stalled, a furloughed worker organized meals for others
Hours before lunchtime, Simone Randolph stood in Canal Park in Southeast Washington, scribbling delivery details across brown paper shopping bags....
What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles
In 1990, Ken Burns established his reputation with an enormous PBS documentary about a civil war. Thirty-five years later, with...
ChatGPT helped her win the lottery. She gave it all away.
Winning the lottery isn’t what brought Carrie Edwards her 15 minutes of fame. It was giving it all away. Standing...
