September 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT
The Education of Min Jin Lee

The Education of Min Jin Lee The first hint that I needn't be so anxious to interview Min Jin Lee came as the bestselling author descended the creaky stairs of her five-story Harlem townhouse and pronounced my name. Not in the way my brain has articulated it for decades, smoothed over by an anglicized version that made it easy for teachers to call out from an attendance roll. Which is to say, Lee, on a Friday afternoon in August, pronounced my name the way the people who brought me into this world had intended.

September 28, 2026 at 7:51 PM EDT
Trump Aims to Open Nearly All National Forest Trails to Dirt Bikes and ATVs

Trump Aims to Open Nearly All National Forest Trails to Dirt Bikes and ATVs This story, originally published by Grist in collaboration with Montana Free Press/Mountain Journal as part of the Report for America Local News Initiative, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

September 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM EDT
Nvidia Thinks It Can Stop Rogue AI""Without All That Government Oversight

Nvidia Thinks It Can Stop Rogue AI""Without All That Government Oversight On Monday, Nvidia, the multinational tech company""which has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in significant part thanks to its role in developing chips for AI processing and model training""announced the launch of a new safety platform that will monitor and contain AI agents, amid recent reports of "rogue AI" incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking fiasco.

September 28, 2026 at 3:39 PM EDT
A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI

A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI For the last year, the FBI's co-No. 2 has been an anti-abortion hardliner oddly preoccupied with the earning potential of aborted fetuses. Back when Andrew Bailey was still the attorney general of Missouri, he tried to thwart a pro-abortion rights constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot by arguing that "aborting unborn Missourians will have a deleterious impact on the [state's] future tax base." Later, in a lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone, Bailey and other attorneys general claimed that telehealth access to abortion pills is "depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers," potentially leading to a "diminishment of political representation" and "loss of federal funds."

September 28, 2026 at 2:25 PM EDT
The Mysterious Millions Powering a Nevada Republican's Bid for Congress

The Mysterious Millions Powering a Nevada Republican's Bid for Congress On March 31, David Flippo, the Republican nominee for Congress in northern Nevada, loaned his campaign $600,000, according to federal records. In doing so, he massively increased his topline fundraising numbers for a quarter""the last before Nevada's primary elections""in which he brought in less than $20,000 from outside supporters. Within weeks, Flippo's campaign repaid him $12,000 of the money he had lent. Two days later, Nevada public records show he was listed as a debtor to a company that specializes in financing home improvement projects. The agreement was collateralized by "FLOORING" at the Flippos' Las Vegas home.

September 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM EDT
Prosecutors Are Revisiting Allegations of Gang Rape at Cornell

Prosecutors Are Revisiting Allegations of Gang Rape at Cornell After a week of intensifying public pressure and reporting from Cornell's independent daily newspaper, prosecutors in New York have reopened a criminal investigation into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a former student at the campus's Chi Phi fraternity house.

September 28, 2026 at 1:48 PM EDT
Meet Kristan Hawkins, the "Charlie Kirk of Abortion"

Meet Kristan Hawkins, the "Charlie Kirk of Abortion" This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, which looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the Dobbs era""and at how hardliners are doubling down on their efforts to ban abortion nationwide.

September 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM EDT
Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism

Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL games.

September 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM EDT
Kristan Hawkins Helped Kill Roe. Now She's Fighting to Control the Movement She Created.

Kristan Hawkins Helped Kill Roe. Now She's Fighting to Control the Movement She Created. This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, that looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the Dobbs era""and at how hardliners are doubling down on their efforts to ban abortion nationwide.

September 27, 2026 at 1:53 PM EDT
Rest Assured: AI Companies Say They're Investigating Tens of Thousands of Rogue Bot Incidents

Rest Assured: AI Companies Say They're Investigating Tens of Thousands of Rogue Bot Incidents OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails, behavior that the startups facilitate for internal safety testing.

September 27, 2026 at 12:47 PM EDT
Irish Soccer Fans Call for Boycotting Matches With Israel

Irish Soccer Fans Call for Boycotting Matches With Israel On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game due to Israel's violent conduct in Gaza, which a UN report found to be a genocide.

September 27, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Germany Is Building a Digital Noah's Ark for US Climate Data

Germany Is Building a Digital Noah's Ark for US Climate Data This story was originally published byYale E360andis reproduced here as part of theClimate Deskcollaboration.