SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences with racial violence can be taboo and, in some cases, forbidden.As a child, Larry McClellon’s mother told him not to ask too many questi... More »
Third-party candidates have played a big role in deciding key presidential battleground states in the last few years — meaning which (and how many) candidates will actually be on the ballot state by state could matter a lot in a close election.That reality has... More »
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. Welcome back to The Algorithm! This week we're going to talk about OpenAI’s impressive new reasoning model, called o1. I want to illustrate why it’s suc... More »
On 29 July 2024, in a story that has now become seared into the British psyche, Axel Rudakubana murdered three children at a Taylor Swift dance class in the Merseyside town of Southport. All three were under 10 years old.Hours later, faux news accounts and f... More »
Restricting the volume of high-emitting vehicles roaming city streets carries many benefits, from clearing the air to quieting the urban din and beyond. Recognition of this simple fact has led to the proliferation of clean air zones, designated regions within ... More »
The White House has called Elon Musk "irresponsible" after he posted on social media that "no one is even trying" to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.The billionaire posted the comment on his X social media platform, followed by a thinking emoji. But he ... More »
Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: “How could a morning piece of toast or a plate of dinner pasta be such a world-altering culprit?” This, like many ideas ... More »
Social media company Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—announced Monday that it will ban RT and other Russian state media from its apps worldwide, days after the State Department announced sanctions against Kremlin-coordinated news o... More »
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. The rapper-turned music mogul was arrested by officers at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan, New York, on Monday. The arrest of Combs, 54, came after 10 months of facing civil... More »
Giorgia Auteri is still haunted by what she saw in an abandoned mine in 2014. As a graduate student studying how bats hibernate, she had frequently climbed into mines and caves to observe thousands of sleeping bats hanging from the walls.But when she walked in... More »
A light wind kicks up sparkling wavelets while lobster boats weave among granite islets, with ospreys and a bald eagle soaring overhead.Cheyenne Adams ignores those surroundings, motoring along slowly on a 21-foot boat. She stares intently at a video screen th... More »