In July, the Guardian reported that the NWSL had quietly allowed its policy on the participation of transgender players, established in 2021, to expire. The scrapped policy used the testosterone levels of transgender players to determine their eligibility to play in the league. In the same article, the Guardian revealed that this lack of an official policy was being eyed by conservative lobbying groups seeking to exclude transgender women from the league entirely. What that story didn’t anticipate, however, was that a player from inside the league would take up the cause. In an Oct. 26 social media post that was republished the next day as an editorial by the New York Post, Angel City benchwarmer Elizabeth Eddy criticized the NWSL’s lack of gender eligibility policy. She suggested the league should adopt standards like requiring players to have ovaries, or to undergo genetic testing. She wrote that players who those policies would exclude should be forced to play in separate divisions and leagues. Eddy, who began her NWSL career in 2015, played a grand total of zero minutes in 2025 and 87 minutes total in the two years prior—the fact that the Post called her an “Angel City FC star” is a level of truth-bending that should cast serious doubt on the integrity of the editorial. Racism, transphobia’s close cousin, is never far behind in situations like this, and the Post gave the game away with the photo it chose to pair with Eddy’s editorial. The article featured a photo of Orlando Pride striker Barbra Banda, a cisgender woman whose status as one of the best players in the world has made her a target for transphobes and racists. She was previously barred from participating in the Africa Cup of Nations for allegedly failing the type of bogus “gender verification” test that Eddy wants implemented in the NWSL. Her agent maintains that she never took such a test.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says the harassment she suffered from a drunk man near the government seat is an assault on all women.

Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

Democrats were projected to score a major victory on Tuesday night by winning a pair of statewide offices in Georgia — the first time in 20 years Democrats have won in a non-federal office in that state.

When plankton find themselves in hot water, organic matters stalls at the surface and disrupts transport of carbon to the deep ocean.

The subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA) is one of the few regions where the deep ocean is in direct contact with the atmosphere, making it a key location for interior ocean ventilation through gas exchange. We use a novel observation-based data product to analyze large-scale patterns of the air-sea flux of oxygen, finding a mean annual flux of 48.1 ± 14.6 Tmol year − 1 from the atmosphere into the ocean integrated over the SPNA ( 45 ° N– 65 ° N). An analysis of a fully-closed oxygen budget from the data-assimilative ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry model suggests that the net uptake is counteracted by oxygen removal through ocean circulation and mixing. Over an annual cycle, a SPNA oxygen uptake of 63.6 ± 13.8 Tmol at densities greater than 26.7 kg m − 3 drives a wintertime oxygen increase in corresponding mode and deep water layers. 87% of this net annual uptake occurs in the density range of subpolar mode water (SPMW), 26.7 kg m − 3 ≤ σ θ < 27.63 kg m − 3 , in the upper branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Our results demonstrate that oxygen is injected during mode water formation throughout the subpolar gyre's cyclonic pathway from the North Atlantic Current toward the Labrador Sea. Along this path, SPMW becomes progressively denser and more oxygenated, and is ultimately transformed into Labrador Sea Water which exports the accumulated oxygen to the global ocean in the lower branch of the AMOC.

Breaking news: Officials are responding to reports of a plane crash near UPS Worldport.

If you just skimmed the press release, you wouldn’t really get the scale of it. On Monday, Vogue.com announced that Teen Vogue would be folded into its parent publication — part of a “transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission.” That’s Condé Nast-ese for “we’re laying off nearly the entire team and stripping the publication for parts.” Nearly all of my former colleagues — including all but one woman of color and the only trans staffer — were let go. The identity and politics sections, which covered reproductive rights, LGBTQ issues, campus organizing, state and national politics, the labor movement, education, and more were folded. The art team was decimated. The editor in chief was pushed out. The Black women editors behind some of the most popular franchises developed for the style and culture sections were laid off. The only issues name-checked as ones that will continue to be covered when Teen Vogue is subsumed into Vogue’s flagship website are “career development” and “cultural leadership.”

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.

Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party.

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and operate in physical spaces. Tech giants Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Nvidia race to build humanoid robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.

A northern Ontario polar habitat benefited from an award-winning pumpkin donated by Jeff Warner of Aidie Creek Gardens, who gave the habitat a 1,400-pound pumpkin.

"Never thought the leopards would eat MY face..."

Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press

IN MARCH 2025, two things happened. The Guardian published “A Machine-Shaped Hand”: a 1,200-word text generated by ChatGPT from the prompt “write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief,” which OpenAI’s founder, Sam Altman, effused was “the first time [he had] been really struck” by AI writing. And my colleagues and I in the School of Humanities at Coventry University (UK) were placed at risk of redundancy as part of a restructure generated by the administrative prompt to do something, anything, to salvage our collapsing finances. An email assured us that the cuts would help deliver a more “sustainable” model of education, which was not the first time we’d been struck by the administration’s idiocy. Other noteworthy instances included the proposal that we stop assigning essays since LLMs rendered good writing skills moot, and the suggestion, in response to staff concerns about spiraling workloads, to outsource lecture-writing to ChatGPT. Coventry’s announcement was but one of 46 in the last year: according to the “UKHE [UK Higher Education] Shrinking” project, 99 UK universities and 40 arts and humanities departments have undergone restructures and redundancies since 2020. The latter have been primarily concentrated in institutions that cater to students from underrepresented backgrounds, where enrollment numbers have fallen sharply since the early 2010s thanks to broader policy changes aimed at turning UKHE into a competitive marketplace, the siphoning of working-class kids into vocational courses, and a political and media discourse that casts arts degrees as a waste of time, particularly for the less wealthy. The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good. As such, it seems noteworthy that efforts to promote generative AI’s creative potential have accelerated in line with program closures, cuts to arts funding, and a more general public skepticism toward the value of arts education. From this perspective, OpenAI’s story, the literary devices it uses to tell it, and the story the company has told about it offer important insights into the shape of the crisis at hand.

Top Trump officials like Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio have all moved into taxpayer-subsidized military homes over the past couple of months.

A GoFundMe has raised over $26,000 for a Wrightsville firefighter who lost his right hand after a man attacked him with a samurai sword.