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Bloodied House GOP sharpens knives for its own leaders: ‘We got our butts handed to us’
Some members of the Republican Party House caucus are looking at “outsiders” to take over the leadership after the midterm election flipped at least 30 seats to the Democrats, according to Fox News. According to Politico, some of the Republicans who survived are now out for blood. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) summed up the mood…
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Cute faces like Muse Charm are a Trojan horse for exploitative AI tech
Meta has rolled out its new AI assistant, the Muse Charm. The marketing feels deliberately disarming. Charm is a keychain-size gadget that looks like something you’d find in a child’s bedroom, a distant cousin of Furby or a Pixar character. It’s soft and approachable. Nothing about its appearance suggests the power of the technology behind…
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The biggest blue wave in 50 years, explained in 7 charts
It’s going to take some time to fully comprehend what just happened in the midterm elections. Last Tuesday brought a blue wave of historic proportions, with Democrats winning large majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as winning several new governorships. But now that the dust is settling from the…
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Trump ally Viktor Orbán’s brother hauled into custody in human trafficking probe
Hungarian police on Monday took the younger brother of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, one of President Donald Trump’s closest European allies, into custody in a human trafficking and influence peddling investigation, The Associated Press reported. Áron Orbán, 49, was among four people detained. Police said they made arrests and searched homes at four locations…
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NYC Council demands top universities testify about fraternity sex assaults in wake of Cornell scandal
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is calling for the presidents of 10 top colleges and universities to testify about their handling of campus sexual assaults in the wake of the “Cornell 7” fraternity gang rape scandal. Menin sent out letters Tuesday to leaders of local higher ed institutions — including New York University, Columbia University,…
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The Democratic Wins No Election Forecaster Expected
—Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images, William Hale Irwin—AP, Aaron Schwartz—Getty Images A pediatrician, a former professor, and a minister with a shoestring campaign are among the Democrats headed to Congress after defeating Republican candidates few expected to lose. A TIME analysis of 10 pre-election forecasts found more than a dozen House races that Democrats won that…
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Louis Rossmann Wants More People to Care About the Right to Repair
I love my old iPhone 14, but I’m starting to face the facts: It’s going to die. The battery is about to go; apps take longer to load than they used to. Some of it I can fix. I can go to the Genius Bar and swap the battery. Maybe I could even do it…
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What Making a Film About Iran Taught Me About Power
Young Iranian women walk together along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 23, 2026. —Morteza Nikoubazl-Nur Photo-Getty Images More than a decade ago, in Tehran, Tahereh Noori, a 35-year-old housewife, and her two teenage daughters killed her husband. They buried his body beneath the living room floor, under the coffee table. Tahereh had…
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The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
In early fall, I felt my anxiety rising from its usual baseline. Was it September’s back-to-school energy? The looming midterm elections? Nope, I realized with annoyance: It was AI—again. Only this time, instead of its purveyors warning of massive job displacement, they were foretelling mass extinction. Who needs jobs when we’re all dead? Curiosity soon…
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Conservatives roll eyes at MAGA posts: ‘Someone forgot to email me the talking points’
Conservative accounts spent roughly half a day posting the same list of demands for Republican state lawmakers, eliciting jokes from the right and a pointed note about what the list left out. Activist Scott Presler and accounts including DataRepublican, Blend America, Sassafrass84 and JP Chamberlain each urged every GOP legislature to act immediately. They then…