Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

I've been following with interest an argument between John Ganz and Eric Levitz, both of whom are writers I admire, on the role of polling in American politics. (See Ganz, Levitz, Ganz.) I'm on Ganz's side of the argument. I don't begrudge individual candidates who use private polling to help shape at the margin how they compete. But using polling at a systemic level, having a political party that defines and redefines itself in dialogue with public polling (and private donors) is corrosive to the project of electoral democracy.

Democrats’ favorite research firm told Democrats to avoid discussing Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” and focus on tariffs instead.

A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks.

Under the guise of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration has turned to groups like Canary Mission and Betar.

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands

The Duchess of Sussex returns with more effortfully whimsical celebrity get-togethers … and she’s still sprinkling flowers over everything

Southwest Airlines will soon require plus-size travelers to pay for an extra seat in advance if they can't fit within the armrests of one seat.

Google says this isn’t technically “GenAI,” but it is altering videos without warning.

Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed in the strike. Reuters reported that its contractor cameraman Hussam al-Masri was killed, and photographer Hatem Khaled was wounded. Two strikes hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in quick succession, medical officials said. In videos, journalists and rescue workers can be seen rushing to the scene of the first one, before a massive explosion hits an exterior staircase where journalists are often stationed. In all, 20 people were killed, according to Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the Gaza Health Ministry’s records department.

Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Monday it has divested from U.S. construction equipment group Caterpillar as well as five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds.

Marc Maron doubles down on his criticism of Bill Maher, saying the HBO host is desperately trying to stay relevant.

The government's confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins traveled to Texas to announce plans to build a sterile fly facility there as part of efforts to combat the pest.

AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.

A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site. Spectrum News 13, the Orlando Sentinel’s news partner, reported that the DOT repainted the crosswalk on Esther Street at South Orange Avenue after colored paint was used on the crossing on Saturday. Previously, supporters had been using chalk to draw back the rainbow colors, but rain washed that away. A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando Police Department officers surveilled the dozen people who were using chalk on the rainbow crosswalk on Sunday. Advocates said it was an intimidation tactic.

Protesters gathered on Monday at St Leonard’s police station in Edinburgh to support Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) member Moira McFarlane, who was to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing an illegal T-shirt condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, with the words "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action". The charge follows a visit to her home in the middle of the night by plainclothes police officers.

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.

Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.

How many people are willing to dish the dirt on a royal despite that not being “the done thing”? Many, it turns out.