At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

The Pentagon just doubled the number of media “rotating out” from 4 to 8 to “make room for other outlets.” OUT- NYT, WAPO, NBC, CNN POLITICO, THE HILL, THE WAR ZONE, NPR IN: NY Post, Washington Examiner, TV, OAN, Newsmax, HuffPo, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, Breitbart

Officials said about 350 passengers were onboard when a fire broke out on a train at Crum Lynne Station in Ridley Park.

Federal law enforcement agents are planning to carry out a “large scale” immigration enforcement action in the Los Angeles area before the end of February, according to an internal government document reviewed by The Times.

Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José.

9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.

The order is being challenged in court as illegal and unconstitutional.

Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries quietly met with more than 150 Silicon Valley-based donors last week in California — an early step in Democrats’ efforts to repair relationships with a once-deep blue constituency. The meet-and-greet, in tony Los Altos Hills, came at a precarious moment for Democrats in the tech world, which has lurched rightward in the second Donald Trump era. The world’s wealthiest tech mogul is upending Washington, and Democratic leaders are facing criticism from their own base for their halting response. Jeffries, meanwhile, was on the West Coast seemingly trying to avoid the next Elon Musk. “There is a significant fear that these tech folks, who have been with us for a long time, will say, ‘fuck it, we’re going with the other guys,’” said Alex Hoffman, a Democratic donor adviser who works with donors across the country but did not attend the event. “These donors are also pissed, watching former and current colleagues have unlimited, unchecked power, and getting richer off of this and they’re not.”

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who’s overseeing a “digital assets” committee, is set to hold a luxury weekend donor retreat with a crypto kingpin.

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States. One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians who treat cattle have been unknowingly infected by the bird flu virus. Another report documents cases in which people carrying the virus might have infected their pet cats.

It showed the tool helping a cheesemonger in Wisconsin write a product description by informing him Gouda accounts for "50 to 60 percent of global cheese consumption". However, a blogger pointed out on X that the stat was "unequivocally false" as the Dutch cheese was nowhere near that popular. Replying to him, Google executive Jerry Dischler, insisted this was not a "hallucination" - where AI systems invent untrue information - blaming the websites Gemini had scraped the information from instead. "Gemini is grounded in the Web - and users can always check the results and references," he wrote. "In this case, multiple sites across the web include the 50-60% stat." The ad has now been re-edited to remove the error.

The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.

Marineland has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga whale after a long battle with several different medical conditions, making it the 18th such whale to die at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction since 2019. Ontario's Animal Welfare Services team received confirmation of a beluga's death on Thursday, a Ministry of the Solicitor General spokesperson said. Eos was born in 2017 to a first-time mother and needed help from the pod to raise her, Marineland said in a post on social media. The young whale's medical concerns began in 2021, the park said. "Eos was diagnosed with renal concerns at a young age, which were monitored closely with progression tracked over the years," Marineland said.

“Lorne has lost his f***ing mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head,” writer Tim Robinson said at the height of the uproar.

The strike is part of a “Week of Action” running through Valentine's Day in Philadelphia to show the value of immigrants.

I know there’s a lot of news and it’s very difficult to parse it all, but today I’m going to provide a rough and necessarily oversimplified interpretation of the present moment that relies on stylized facts.” I think we can all agree the key difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the alignment of a reactionary fraction of Silicon Valley tech oligarchs with Trump, or rather, the transformation of a significant part of tech capital from an ostensibly progressive, liberal section of capital into a reactionary one.

The Grammy winner for best new artist gets respect and true appreciation for her creativity and gumption but is far too green and uninformed to be the agent of change she aspires to be today.