2+ week, 1+ day ago   (280+ words) President Donald Trump said he is creating a U.S. Space Academy to join the nation’s other military service academies — but this one is focused on training officers who will be involved in the nation’s space missions. Trump made the announcement Friday…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (344+ words) In 1906, 4-month-old Maytie Raker was the first person to be buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery. At the time she was laid to rest without a grave maker, but this month officials memorialized Raker by commissioning a permanent marker at…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (463+ words) Even before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sets out new US moves to pressure Iran’s economy, things are looking increasing grim for Tehran; President Donald Trump is clearly winning and mainly needs to hold firm as the enemy tries to wriggle…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (122+ words) MAGA gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds of Florida sparked an internet firestorm on Sunday after he made a wild claim about the ongoing measles outbreak. Donalds joined CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (151+ words) Teachers and educators were fuming on Sunday after President Donald Trump’s education chief fumbled a question about classroom technology during a CNN interview. Linda McMahon, who founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince, told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday’s…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (700+ words) To what extent are Musk’s views built into how X’s algorithm works? A study led by Germain Gauthier from Italy’s Bocconi University took almost 5,000 U.S.-based X users and assigned them to read either X’s algorithmic or chronological feeds…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (340+ words) The AI industry is reaping what it sows, as far as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned. Abbott said the sharp criticism Americans are lobbing at AI data centers is well-earned during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (254+ words) I tally the dead. I tally today’s dead. I seek a tally of the dead or seek yesterday’s dead. I try to count them, the dead. Reports tell me there are, today, more dead. I announce the dead—the house…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1364+ words) From a secure, windowless room in northern Phoenix, technicians control the Colorado River water that sustains America’s largest desert metropolis. The vast canal system the team oversees has for four decades conveyed an increasingly scarce commodity across 330 miles of rugged…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (217+ words) “At this school, your teacher is your God.” I’ve heard multiple teachers say that it is acceptable — even necessary — to beat up (figuratively, I presume) on their students. A celebrated violin teacher once told me that she did not consider…...