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Trump’s Venezuela Deal Helps His Rich Friends—And That’s It
The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65 billion barrels worth of oil fields and a significant share of the country’s product…
7h ago
Get Ready For OpenAI’s ‘The Social Network’ Movie Moment
“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for Artificial. “And we get to be the ones to shepherd people…
8h ago
A Teachers Union and Microsoft Just Made An AI Safety Deal. But Compliance Remains an Open Question.
On Wednesday morning, in a Manhattan press room containing about 50 reporters and union members, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the US announced an agreement with Microsoft that, among other t…
8h ago
Memphis Has Spent a Year Under Federal Occupation. ICE Would Rather You Didn’t Notice.
A massive immigration operation is happening in Memphis. It’s been underway for just under a year now—hundreds of arrests, streets filled with officers. But most people I talk with have never heard of…
9h ago
“We’re the Outliers Here”: UK-Led Sanctions on Israeli Settlements Isolate the US
On September 8, the British government banned the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Eleven other nations—Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway,…
10h ago
The Impossible Struggle to Demine Gaza
When an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped an explosive that didn’t immediately detonate, Walaa thought her family was safe. The 30-year-old mother of five and her family were sheltering in Gaza City af…
10h ago
A MAGA Activist Flooded Georgia With Voter Challenges. Now He Works for the State Election Board.
Sporting a pumpkin-orange button-down and aggressively furrowed eyebrows, Jason Frazier approached the lectern at a Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Board meeting in March 2023. He was a regular at…
11h ago
Trump’s Mysterious $45,000 Cash Gift to Natalie Harp
The national gossip over Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s most devoted aide and “human printer,” has now reached the natural stage to which most stories closely associated with the president lan…
12h ago
Data Centers Now Facing Backlash Over Contaminated Wastewater
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When officials in Wyoming conducted a routine test on the water that was being dis…
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The Revolutionary Roots That Inspired Tupac Shakur
Last month, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur. The verdict came 30 years after Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas that…
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