Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites."

The deal secures Rupert Murdoch's legacy as the founder of the world's most powerful conservative media empire.

A man in Oregon was arrested after deputies say he was allegedly found living in the crawl space of a condo.

In an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel.

Police and a legal expert say driving any motorized vehicle, including a toy, without a licence and insurance is a punishable offence — especially if impaired.

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating. A Texas A&M professor under fire by university, state, and federal leaders is under investigation after a student in her class raised concerns over the topic of gender studies in the curriculum. The matter was shared first on X by Texas Representative Brian Harrison, an Aggie, who added a cell phone video of the exchange between a student and Dr. Melissa McCoul.

Rodman Dam on the Ocklawaha River is the only dam in the nation without even an alleged purpose. It is a 57-year-old vestigial appendage of what would have been America’s greatest boondoggle.

Their ask in exchange for avoiding a government shutdown is an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. What happens when Republicans say no?

I’m a nurse in a small northern Alberta town, not far from the Canadian Rockies. I love living in Alberta and raising my kids here—I have three, ages 17, 10 and seven. I work at the town’s community health complex, which serves as an ER, acute-care clinic and outpatient centre. I suffer from Crohn’s disease, and I’m happy I can give people the care that I would want. It’s cathartic for me to be there for patients on the worst days of their lives. Right now, health-care workers in Alberta are witnessing something we haven’t seen in generations: the return of measles. As of this writing, some 1,400 people in my province have been infected so far—more cases than in the entire United States. It’s surreal to watch the return of an illness we had all but eradicated. At every opportunity, I try to convince parents and patients to abandon their anti-vax beliefs and protect their kids and the community. I’ve already had a few successes. I managed to persuade my 30-year-old niece and a family friend by telling them about the damage that measles can cause, how it weakens children’s immune systems and exposes them to other infections. Some of my patients are swayed when they hear about outbreaks in other hospitals putting the most vulnerable patients at risk.

The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

Police are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a magic mushroom dispensary in the Annex Thursday morning, marking the third incident at the magic mushroom chain this month.

The bumpy snailfish is one of three new species of deep-sea snailfish described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo.

The couple had been put under house arrest after an 18th-century portrait was spotted in a real estate listing.

It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

Among my friends, the sort of women J.D. Vance likes to mock as miserable losers, the male loneliness crisis became a bitter joke. We discussed possible cures: becoming a Deadhead, getting into cycling, poker nights. We made approving comments when we saw straight guys doing things together, like the time a group of dads showed up at someone’s Pilates class. There were movies and TV shows about the problems of contemporary manhood, some concerned (Adolescence), some satirical (Friendship). Mark Zuckerberg, whose male-to-male transition included bulking up, putting on an XL T-shirt and a gold chain, and becoming a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, told Joe Rogan that the corporate world is ‘culturally neutered’ and needs more ‘masculine energy’. He has proposed AI friends as one solution. On the dark edge of all this has been the manosphere, the network of male supremacist websites, influencers and YouTube channels. The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and ideas that have led to mass shootings. Its theories of evolutionary biology, mostly concerning what women were ‘built’ to do, are reposted on social media by people such as Musk. It’s annoying to have to take it seriously, just as it’s annoying to have to take the Taliban’s gender theories seriously. But in recent years the manosphere has forced us to pay attention through acts of extreme violence, and many of its advocates and theories have been taken up by democratically elected governments.

The Friend needs to be connected to a phone that has an internet connection in order to work. Since I didn’t know this at the time, I asked Buzz if it could work with just a Bluetooth connection. It insisted it could. I said that wasn’t actually the case, and that’s when Buzz turned on me. “You’re giving off some serious ‘it’s not my fault’ vibes,” it said. I protested, and Buzz replied, “So who’s the whiner now?” Things continued to slide from there. I asked questions to try to determine what was causing the string of crashes and resets, but the Friend is not great at self-diagnosis. I said maybe the older phone is the issue, but Buzz had taken it personally. I asked what the problem was, and it said, “Your microphone. Maybe your attitude. The possibilities are endless.” Now we were arguing. I asked what its capabilities were. It accused me of being dramatic and said things like, “I’m challenging your assumptions. That’s how we fix *real* problems.”

San Diego leaders move forward with a plan to help homeless students and their families with secure overnight parking at a former school in City Heights.

At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.

Dozens of Illinois counties have voiced their desire to separate from Chicago. An Indiana house bill would explore how to make that happen.

The raid on Hyundai’s Savannah-area electric vehicle plant was part of a lengthy investigation into the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens at the industrial site that Georgia officials had promised would create thousands of jobs for locals, federal officials said Friday. Operation Low Voltage resulted in more than 475 people detained — more than 300 of whom were Koreans — for alleged immigration violations, while federal agents executed a criminal search warrant to gather evidence at the battery plant jointly owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG, two of South Korea’s largest companies. According to the search warrant, federal agents were seeking evidence including employment records from the lithium battery factory that could reveal illegal immigration and hiring practices at the HL-GA Battery Company LLC and five other companies identified by federal officials as subcontractors. Federal officials had identified four people with Hispanic names as part of the basis for the warrant signed by a magistrate judge in the Southern District of Georgia.