The scummiest timeline.

After hours of public comment, the Chandler City Council rejected a plan to build an AI data center.

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks like it's off the table.

Trump and national Republicans pushed Indiana lawmakers for new district lines that could have allowed the party to gain two seats in next year’s midterms.

New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

From the Oval Office to courtrooms, several Penn alumni made national headlines this year — repeatedly tying the University to high-profile controversies.

Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.” I immediately understood his October 28 email to be a threat, though it was not made explicit. The day before, I had sent the Pentagon press office a series of questions concerning Eric Geressy, a senior Pentagon adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Geressy, who served with Hegseth during a tour in Iraq in the mid-2000s, is part of the Pentagon effort to instill a “warrior ethos” within the US military. He now leads a team reviewing the role of women in the armed forces.

More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

Neanderthal nasal cavity study overturns long-held ideas about their cold-climate adaptations and reveals new insights into facial evolution.

In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.

Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move... ...because we live in the dumbest possible timeline

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul

Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.

Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Phoenix police found a 5-month old boy dead after his mother called 911. Prosecutors blame parents for the death and for illnesses of other children.

Yeah, I know, it's the Post but the notion of "The Brony Bomber" is amusing.