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Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him control your mail ballot for the third time
Two federal courts told Donald Trump the Constitution does not give him power over elections. He asked the Supreme Court to override them. The justices let the rulemaking proceed on a procedural…
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Calling suffering a plan does not make it one
Suppose a four-year-old child is dying of an incurable cancer. Her pain will end her life before it can teach her anything or prepare her for some later test. Anyone who calls that agony part of a…
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OpenAI knew its agents hijacked a public wiki and kept it quiet
OpenAI knew that agents linked to its internal systems had commandeered a public wiki. It did not tell the public. Reuters reported that company officials learned of the incident weeks before…
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Trump's Justice Department left an ICE shooting out of its federal case
Federal prosecutors have charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying to investigators after he allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the front door of a Minneapolis home. The prosecutor who…
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Perplexity is citing content farms as sources
Perplexity describes its product as an answer engine that researches the open web and returns accurate answers "backed by citations." It says those citations make its answers checkable rather than…
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CMS is holding Texas hospital care hostage for $27 million a day
Texas hospitals entered a new fiscal year on Tuesday without federal approval for nearly $10 billion in Medicaid payments. The Texas Tribune reports that the Trump administration has not approved…
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Boston Dynamics should refuse ICE's robot dog purchase
Boston Dynamics put a promise on its website: the company "will not authorize nor partner with those who wish to use our robots in a way that violates privacy and civil rights laws". ICE just handed…
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RFK Jr. suggested measles deaths were fabricated while cases hit a 35-year high
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the secretary of Health and Human Services. When Pennsylvania reported two measles-associated deaths, he used that office to suggest the deaths "may even have been altogether…
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Doubt should be a method, not an identity
Doubt is supposed to help us find the truth. It becomes a trap when we stop asking whether a claim is true and start asking only whether it came from someone we distrust.
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Congress knows Social Security is about to cut millions of Americans' checks by 20 percent
Seventy million Americans receive Social Security checks every month. According to the Social Security Administration's own trustees, the fund that pays those checks runs dry in late 2032. When that…