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TOP SIGNAL25
Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.
The Atlantic9hpublic-policy9
Researchers have identified Leopardus tilcayo, a previously unknown species of tiny wild cat, in Bolivia’s cloud forests, marking the first formal description of a new living cat species in more than a century.
Fox 5 DC News8hbiology-medicine9
Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant to future damage, revealing a mechanism that could improve healing but may also help cancers return after treatment.
Science Daily Health Medicine11hbiology-medicine9
Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time whether gravity acts on second-generation particles exactly as Einstein’s theory predicts. Any unexpected difference would be a major surprise and could potentially point toward new physics, including a hypothetical fifth force.
Science Daily Space Time12hphysics-cosmology9
Quantum physics may help power living cells. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
Science Alert11hphysics-cosmology9
The president seems driven chiefly by the sense that A.I. is the way to economic growth, and nothing can be allowed to stand in its way.
NYT Home Page5hai-governance8
Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking about for years.
NYT Business9hai-governance8
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
NYT Home Page9hagentic-systems8
There are several instances where the president made an effort to stifle the work of journalists.
NYT Home Page2hpublic-policy8
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
NYT Home Page2hpublic-policy8
The ruling allows migrants to contest deportations to countries other than their place of origin. The case could head to the Supreme Court.
NYT Home Page1hpublic-policy8
Federal law bars those holding federal office from directing spending decisions for a political organization with no contribution limits.
NYT US News8hpublic-policy8
The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act.
NYT US News10hpublic-policy⊕28
The catastrophe set off alarms in a region with thousands of glaciers spanning eight nations. Better monitoring and cooperation between the countries could save lives, experts say.
NYT World News19henvironmental-risk-intel8
Activists have often used the rule to push for changes in companies’ governance and environmental and social policies.
NYT Business6hregulation-antitrust8
A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.
The Atlantic2hancient-history-archaeology⊕28
The election is meant to jump-start flagging support for President Vladimir Putin and the war.
WSJ World News5hpublic-policy8
Joby Aviation said an aircraft equipped with its technology has completed the first fully autonomous flight across the U.S.
WSJ US Business11hagentic-systems8
First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.
The Atlantic4hai-governance8
Why the AI-alarmism conversation feels off
The Atlantic7hai-governance8
Animals that bridge the human world and the wild can be uniquely perilous to human health.
The Atlantic8hbiology-medicine8
A new Caltech device can redirect a beam of light in just 74 femtoseconds using another beam and a nanoscale silicon metasurface. The breakthrough could pave the way for dramatically faster photonic communications, computing, and sensing technologies.
Science Daily Matter Energy12hphysics-cosmology8
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The retrofitted Cessna handled taxiing, takeoffs, bad weather, and landings without a human pilot. The post Autonomous airplane completes first cross-country flight appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Science5hagentic-systems8
Laser scans revealed nearly invisible ship etchings in Cyprus created over 300 years. The post Ancient hidden graffiti discovered in Bronze Age temple appeared first on Popular Science .
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GENERAL25
The bill is named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch advocate of aid for Ukraine.
BBC Top Stories1h⊕28
Princess Diana's brother tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that "we'll forget her soon enough" were "exactly" the words used by the then-Prince of Wales.
BBC Top Stories8h⊕24
Seoul resolves recent speculation over sending military to strait of Hormuz, saying ‘there won’t be deployment that would involve or enter war’ South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has said he will ⁠not deploy the military to the ⁠Middle East in a way ​that could draw the country into conflict, resisting calls from Donald Trump to support his war in Iran. “There won’t be deployment that would involve or enter war. I can tell you that very clearly,” Lee said at a ⁠news conference on Friday. “We won’t deploy military assets in any form to that end.” Continue reading...
Guardian World18h⊕27
President Trump said he struck a deal to give the United States "permanent control over security ... in Greenland," following a push by the president to boost the U.S.' influence over the island — or take it over.
CBS News44m5
The CEO of the world's largest chipmaker told CBS News that tech companies should proceed with artificial intelligence development despite recent warnings from worried industry leaders that there may be a need to pull back.
CBS News46m4
The Tata boardroom battle has intensified over a re-appointment of its chairman and a diktat to go public.
BBC World52m5
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
BBC Top Stories53m5
Increasingly frequent and ferocious attacks on the Ukrainian capital have left many on edge.
BBC World56m6
The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US had struck an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, after threatening for months to take Greenland by force. The US president cast the deal as a personal triumph, claiming in a post on Truth Social that the “very important, historic, and special” agreement “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns”. Continue reading...
Guardian US57m7
After a changeable week, drier and warmer conditions will dominate for some next week, but with little rain for those who need it.
BBC Top Stories58m4
It's hard for either party on Capitol Hill to function with a narrow majority. Democratic Party insider Adam Jentleson argues in his new book "Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power" that his party needs to draw from the past to get more congressional seats. Jentleson joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
CBS News1h8
Trump said the agreement will give the US "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland", though specifics haven't been confirmed by Danish officials.
BBC World1h7
State’s department of transportation said freeze does not affect nearly 900 cameras already installed along state rights-of-way At Republican governor Greg Abbott ’s direction, the Texas department of transportation (TxDOT) has stopped issuing permits allowing Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers to be installed along state roads. The pause, confirmed Thursday by an agency spokesperson, does not affect cameras already installed along state rights-of-way, including more than 900 cameras operated by the Texas department of public safety. Continue reading...
Guardian US1h7
New data shows Democrats making inroads with voters in some red states holding Senate elections in November. Zachary Donnini, head of data science at VoteHub, joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
CBS News1h7
A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years after being taken in by a local family.
PBS NewsHour1h8
This week, Democratic representatives introduced a resolution to block the Trump administration's new civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia. The deal paves the way for the U.S. to help Saudi Arabia build a nuclear power program for peaceful purposes. But critics fear it doesn't have sufficient safeguards and could allow Saudi Arabia to pursue nuclear weapons. Nick Schifrin reports.
PBS NewsHour1h6
The Texas flag shares America's red, white and blue. But its politics have run Republican red for thirty years. Shifting demographics have raised and dashed Democrats' hopes before, but this year, a GOP divided by political scandals, rising prices and fights over big tech is restoring Democrats' faith in a potential Senate race upset. Liz Landers reports.
PBS NewsHour1h7
The Defense Department released a sixth batch of UFO files on Friday, more than a month after its fifth drop. These are all of the videos in the latest tranche.
CBS News1h4
President Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, D.C., on Thursday amid mounting concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence. CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent and "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan has more.
CBS News1h8
Americans are optimistic about scientific advances in AI, but concerned that AI may take jobs.
CBS News1h6
As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense blazes.
PBS NewsHour1h7
Will artificial intelligence harm humans? A new CBS News poll shows that most Americans find it likely. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto breaks down the numbers.
CBS News1h6
Edgars Rinkēvičs says drone warfare in Ukraine is moving at ‘lightning speed’ and efforts to prepare for an aerial war could be obsolete by next year Latvia’s president has warned that Europe is not keeping up with developments of drone and aerial warfare in Ukraine and that most countries in Nato could not repulse an attack by Russian missiles if the conflict expands. The remarks came during a Guardian interview in Washington DC in which Edgars Rinkēvičs said that the technological developments in drone warfare in Ukraine are moving at “lightning speed” and that current efforts to prepare for an aerial war could be obsolete by the middle of next year. Continue reading...
Guardian World1h6
Denmark and Greenland plan to sign a US defence pact next week, pending approval from both parliaments.
Al Jazeera1h6
The new law lets the president impose tariffs on the largest purchases of Russian oil and natural gas.
CBS News1h7
SCIENCE HISTORY6
Biology medicine4
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
NYT Home Page2h7
A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is a species scientists had never formally recognized before. The nonvenomous snake may use large rear teeth to catch slippery lizards and reptile eggs.
Science Daily Nature11h7
Contraceptives are kinder than poison.
The Atlantic8h5
As frontotemporal dementia degrades social awareness, loved ones and neuroscientists confront the heartbreaking boundary between a changing mind and the enduring self.
WSJ Social & Health9h4
Physics cosmology1
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and additional expected savings could keep the powerful observatory studying the universe for decades.
Science Daily Space Time12h7
Ancient history archaeology1
Archeology and gaming technology join forces to preserve battlefields of the past. The post Lost WWI trench lives on in immersive VR installation appeared first on Popular Science .
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POLICY ACADEMIA25
Public policy18
For the first time, the Pentagon reported costs incurred by each armed service. The figures are almost certainly on the low side, congressional officials said.
NYT Home Page4h7
The question was raised at a court hearing by a federal judge who has already barred the fund from moving forward.
NYT US News5h7
The abrupt move by Kash Patel, the bureau’s director, came as President Trump was ramping up his attacks on the country.
NYT US News7h7
Organizers of a referendum to repeal an abortion ban in deep-red Idaho are far more focused on how the ban has broadly affected health care in the state.
NYT US News1h7
The deal, which will enhance American military presence on the Arctic island, falls short of the president’s stated takeover ambitions.
WSJ World News19m7
The blockade proves the success of sanctions. If the U.S. keeps its chokehold, Tehran will likely break.
WSJ World News3h7
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
The Atlantic0m7
A bipartisan effort to make data centers pay for their growing demands on the power grid hit a roadblock in the Senate on Thursday.
Fox 5 DC News1h7
The pro-government push comes as Iran faces economic woes in the U.S. blockade and an anniversary of the 2022 protests.
WSJ World News7h6
Antisemitism is best combatted through strength, tradition and boundary enforcement.
WSJ Lifestyle9h6
New York and Pittsburgh hospitals agreed to financial penalties and made legal commitments after Trump administration pressure.
WSJ US News1h6
President blames coverage for the latest move to restrict media access to his administration.
WSJ Social & Politics1h6
The desire to resist the president continues to create some strange bedfellows.
The Atlantic1h6
The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.
NYT Home Page1h5
The officials will be subject to restrictions while in New York for next week’s U.N. General Assembly, according to the State Department.
NYT World News9h5
Airport expansions in places like Venice, Barcelona and the Spanish island of Mallorca can undermine local efforts to restrain overtourism, and can even enable more tourists to come.
NYT Business14h5
A sixth batch of declassified UFO files were released by the Pentagon Friday, the latest such release in the Trump administration's new wave of public disclosure of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Fox 5 DC News7h⊕25
The president cited reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.” It was unclear how such a ban would be enforced or defended in court.
NYT Politics55m4
Gov data modernization1
The report, commissioned by Trump ally Michelle Bowman, blamed bank-supervision staff in the Biden era.
WSJ Markets6h7
Regulation antitrust6
Michigan voters oppose Trump’s trade war with Canada, which is helping the radical Democrat.
WSJ World News2h6
California and 11 other states sued in July to block the $81 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
WSJ US Business1h6
A group representing carmakers and dealers warned against any deal that might allow the sale or manufacture of Chinese cars in the U.S.
WSJ US Business4h6
Bastion, a stablecoin partner for Sony and other corporations, received a conditional approval from OCC to be a trust bank.
WSJ Markets3h6
The court, in a case involving the Art Institute of Chicago, said New York investigators should not have used a penal law that they have cited in more than 100 seizure cases.
NYT Arts5h5
The plant, in Brampton, Ontario, has been idle since 2024, and Stelantis is in advanced talks to sell that factory to a Canadian armored-car maker.
WSJ World News4h5
MARKETS FINANCE23
Macro monetary5
The Federal Reserve is trying to catch up with the leap in bond rates as the Middle East conflict unnerves world markets.
NYT Business7h7
Inflation and a pullback in government assistance have resulted in more people having trouble paying their bills, a nonprofit found in its annual report.
NYT Business10h7
Retail sales rebounded in August, helped by online sales, as consumers shrugged off recently rising inflation.
WSJ US Business13h6
A bond selloff pushed the 2-year Treasury yield to 4.741%, its highest level since July 2024.
WSJ Markets3h5
The yen swung sharply as investors assessed Japan’s monetary-policy path after the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to the highest level since 1995.
WSJ Social & Economy14h4
Equities earnings14
The implosion of a series of investment funds that held billions of dollars heaped fresh stress on Turkey’s troubled economy.
WSJ World News7h7
The ‘Acquired’ podcast ran the numbers to see how home improvement became much larger than anyone could have imagined.
WSJ US Business6h6
U.S. stocks ended mixed as inflation and Middle East war trepidation offset optimism about the artificial-intelligence boom.
WSJ Markets2h5
The stock led the continent-wide Stoxx 600 index after the fashion retailer’s profit jumped 64.5% on year, beating consensus estimates by about 8%.
WSJ US Business11h4
The company expects revenues to take a hit through early 2028 as a Middle East franchise partner closes stores due to the Iran war.
WSJ US Business15h4
The group reported roughly $11.5 billion of impairment charges linked to its stake in Porsche, fierce Chinese competition and its restructuring efforts.
WSJ US Business6h4
The legendary investor, whose son Howard succeeds him as chairman, will remain on the board and become chairman emeritus.
WSJ US Business8h4
The Dow Industrials fell for a third-straight week, while the Nasdaq composite eked out a small gain.
WSJ Markets2h4
Plus, Coinbase shares soar and Bank of Japan’s rate hike sends yen sinking
WSJ Markets3h4
Rising bond yields dampened stock indexes, which were mostly in the red.
WSJ Markets5h4
The U.K.-based company didn’t say how many shares it would offer, or at what price, but intends to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NSCL.
WSJ Markets3h4
Stocks linked to the build-out in artificial intelligence continued to rally premarket. Intel rose 2.3%, Sandisk and Micron Technology rose 1.6% and 1.1% respectively.
WSJ Markets13h4
The approval for its generic version of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster drug advances its efforts to build a portfolio of GLP-1 medicines.
WSJ Social & Health18h4
Commodities energy2
Gas prices shot up 25 cents a gallon overnight in some parts of the U.S. this week, and experts say they could go up even more in coming weeks.
Fox 5 DC News12h7
U.S. natural gas futures settled higher, ending the week with moderate gains as warm summer weather extended well into September.
WSJ Markets3h4
Derivatives tail risk1
The Tunica-Biloxi of Louisiana plan to release a platform that uses infrastructure by Kalshi, the industry leader. Other tribes have taken aim at the company.
NYT Business11h5
Unsorted1
Find insight on Hyperliquid’s HYPE token, euro covered bonds, home sales and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.
WSJ Markets3h4
AI ML8
Ai governance4
The prospect of artificial intelligence tools being used to do significant harm presents the companies and their leaders with a legal challenge.
NYT Business7h7
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to develop recommendations on safety measures, including requiring companies to build a “kill switch,” amid mounting concerns.
NYT Technology6h⊕47
Suddenly the technology is sapping people’s concentration in a new way, one that abstaining from AI won’t fix.
The Atlantic8h7
President Trump had little interest in artificial intelligence until a fateful meeting in Las Vegas two years ago. Now, Mr. Trump sees A.I. as the defining technology of our age. Our White House correspondent Jonathan Swan tracks Trump’s journey to A.I. evangelist.
NYT Home Page7h5
Applied ml2
‘If we insisted that every politician write his own piece, we’d either get terrible pieces or none at all,’ said an op-ed editor at the New York Times.
WSJ US Business6h7
The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region’s three major airports next week.
NYT Home Page3h4
Frontier labs2
EXCLUSIVE: The company is seeking to raise capital in a funding round that could value it at around $4 billion, according to sources.
WSJ US Business10h7
The tech reporter Cade Metz joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Daily” to explain the A.I. subculture that some critics are calling a cult.
NYT Artificial Intelligence3h6
STRATEGY BUSINESS5
Startup methodology2
The challenges facing the industry might be better managed in obedience to public shareholders.
WSJ US Business3h7
The startup, which had a valuation of $5.2 billion last November, expects a stock-market debut in the next 12 months, Chief Financial Officer Jason Lee said.
WSJ US Business5h5
Branding positioning1
Starbucks will pay Florida $1 million and will not use race-and sex-based goals, quotas and preferences in employment practices companywide under a sweeping settlement ending the state's civil rights lawsuit against the coffee giant.
Fox 5 DC News13h7
Marketing funnels2
People on medications for weight loss are buying less food, shrinking their portion sizes and purchasing smaller clothes. Businesses are trying to adjust.
NYT Business8h6
Heather Kaminetsky is driving the luxury retailer’s comeback by repairing relationships with top shoppers—one email and dinner at a time.
WSJ US Business8h5
CULTURE LIFE3
Health performance2
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Science Alert4h7
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Science Alert2h6
Cooking cuisine1
A history of the it-restaurant destroyed on 9/11 conjured many memories of special occasions.
WSJ Lifestyle5h4
INCERTA ENVIRONMENTAL1
Plus, jet-powered drone warfare, credit cards for AI agents, and a GLP-1 drugmaker taps Claude to develop new medicines.
WSJ US News8henvironmental-risk-intel5
FILM MEDIA1
The studio Laika combined 3-D printing, motorized wings, nearly 12,000 glued feathers and years of animation to create the General.
NYT Arts14hauteur-cinema4
MISC10
Dog behavior experts offered a variety of explanations for why Nash the golden retriever wagged his tail and carried a toy near a man who broke into his owner’s home.
NYT US News2h7
The aviation agency deemed the mammoth arch safe for air travel if it includes a constant flame and other safety measures to help make it visible to planes.
NYT US News4h6
A survey of 72,000 residents found that most wanted to stop falling back and springing forward every year. The region will now follow others that have abandoned the practice.
NYT World News9h5
She understood teenagers before pop culture knew what to do with them, depicting them in cartoons as romantics, snobs, dreamers and social climbers.
NYT Arts4h4
The uber-rich are rankling the not-quite-rich-enough with their constant flights to the summer enclave.
WSJ Lifestyle14h4
Overpaying taxes through the year can bring an unwanted refund, but underpaying them could bring penalties.
WSJ Personal Finance14h4
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29. The post The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Science4h⊕24
Getting one of the first iPhones required serious commitment. People were sleeping on sidewalks in 2007 to get in early. The post Buying an iPhone is easy now, but people were sleeping on sidewalks for the first model appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Science10h4
Otter McOtterface is not an option. The post Help name the Bronx River’s first otter in 100 years appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Science10h4
The roadside mishap isn’t even the craziest thing to happen to hockey’s ultimate prize. The post In 1924, the Montreal Canadiens left the Stanley Cup on the side of the road appeared first on Popular Science .
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