September 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM EDT
SCOTUS Smacks Down MAGA Map of Missouri

SCOTUS Smacks Down MAGA Map of Missouri The long and strange saga of Missouri's redistricting battle is over. On Friday evening, the Supreme Court released a final opinion""with no noted dissents""that disallows Missouri Republicans' ultra-gerrymandered congressional map ahead of November's midterm elections.

September 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM EDT
Tim Tebow "Pausing" Christian Seminar Promotion After Our Investigation

Tim Tebow "Pausing" Christian Seminar Promotion After Our Investigation Update, September 25: In an emailed response (PDF) to Tebow's announcement that he planned to pause his relationship with Life Surge, the company's CEO, Jeremy Nosek, wrote that Life Surge "strongly disagrees with the characterization of our company presented in recent reporting. We will not apologize for who we are, what we believe, or the work we do." He added, "Tim has made the decision to pause his relationship with Life Surge while his team reviews the allegations and gathers additional facts. We respect that this is his decision to make. Our respect for Tim has not changed."

September 25, 2026 at 4:16 PM EDT
You're Paying For Donald Trump's New Ad

You're Paying For Donald Trump's New Ad Since Wednesday, the federal government has been airing a taxpayer-funded political advertisement on channels like Fox News promoting the virtues of President Donald Trump, as Republicans ramp up advertising in the lead-up to November's midterm elections.

September 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM EDT
El Niño's Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by February

El Niño's Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by February This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

September 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM EDT
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to use a controversial government program in its aggressive search for alleged voter fraud, increasing the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as noncitizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls.

September 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM EDT
Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire""In the Philippines

Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire""In the Philippines In a move that upended the international conversation about AI, earlier this month, a researcher at the AI company Anthropic named Jacob Coxon resigned and took to X to sound the alarm about what he saw as a dangerous trajectory. "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," he wrote. "This is not a marketing stunt." A few days later, Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, published an essay on his personal website about what he sees as the urgent need to slow down the pace of AI development. "I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence," he wrote. "Not just investing in risk prevention but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up." That same week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told ABC's The View that he had asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his podcast, "'OK, what are the odds that AI destroys humanity?' And he looked at me and said, '10-20 percent.' And I'm like, 'holy crap.'"

September 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM EDT
How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI

How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI We've been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off World War III. Or AI agents will unleash widespread cyberattacks and take over the internet. Given too much autonomy, the machines will run amok. They may seek to deceive their creators""wait, that's already happened. Suppose they conclude, like Agent Smith in The Matrix, that "human beings"are a plague, and we are the cure." Or perhaps the chatbots help bad humans unleash a literal plague""a biological weapon.

September 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM EDT
The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It's Unionizing.

The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It's Unionizing. By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit""all 7,000 of them""as people kept coming up to congratulate them. When members had already packed up, people were still on the convention floor, talking and trading the pins.

September 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM EDT
Netanyahu's UN Speech Was a Full-On Defense of Israeli Settlements

Netanyahu's UN Speech Was a Full-On Defense of Israeli Settlements Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on the defensive when he took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. His country is facing growing condemnation from all sides: In September, 11 European countries and Canada announced a joint plan to sanction Israel's West Bank settlements, and in 62 percent of Americans report a negative opinion of his government in a recent Pew poll; Netanyahu himself faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for war crimes including genocide. Protesters blocked streets outside hours before Netanyahu took the podium, and within the UN chamber, half of Netanyahu's audience walked out before his speech even began.

September 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM EDT
Trump's FDA Pick Refuses to Say IUDs Don't Cause Abortions

Trump's FDA Pick Refuses to Say IUDs Don't Cause Abortions This article has been republished fromAutonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductiverights and justice. Follow Autonomy News on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and LinkedIn.

September 24, 2026 at 2:11 PM EDT
Thousands Rally Against Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover

Thousands Rally Against Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover President Trump's mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler: If he can't have the toys he wants, he'll try to break them and make sure no one else can have them, either.

September 24, 2026 at 1:03 PM EDT
How Russia Is Attacking the Midterms with a Mother Jones Deepfake

How Russia Is Attacking the Midterms with a Mother Jones Deepfake A few days ago, an X user called ром?degreesн""which is Russian for the name "Roman"""posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the Democratic National Committee paid a whopping $259 million to Mark Thompson, the head of CNN, so the cable news network would promote "gender transition among children." The video""falsely branded with a Mother Jones logo""noted that CNN had aired "8,970 reports, programs, and shows that in one way or another promote gender transition among minors" and that the basis for this story were personal emails from Thompson pilfered by Anonymous, the hacker collective. The video featured Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, hailing this "great gift from Anonymous, which exposes the moral decay of the Democrats and the Democratic media that collaborate with them." The video ended with the card that appears at the end of most Mother Jones videos: "Read more at MotherJones.com."