Twin Cities Residents Win JFK Profile in Courage Award for Defying Operation Metro Surge Boston, June 2026 — The people of the Twin Cities received the 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on May 31 at the JFK…
AI Will Eliminate 30% of Some Jobs by 2028, Warns Former Google Executive — Here’s What Workers Should Do Now Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer at Google, is sounding the alarm for a generation of workers entering the labor…
Justice Department Abandons Controversial Fund Following White House Pressure The Justice Department has announced it will halt work on a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a move that came just days after President Donald Trump met privately with House Speaker Mike…
Record Losses, Fewer Flames: The Dangerous New Logic of Wildfire Risk Despite burning less land than almost any year since 2002, 2025 became the deadliest and most expensive wildfire season in recorded history — a paradox that scientists say reveals…
Former Attorney General Testifies Before House Oversight Committee, Blames Deputy for Oversight Failures Former Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged “redaction errors” in the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein’s files during a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on…
Nvidia CEO Says Blaming Artificial Intelligence for Job Cuts Is “Too Lazy” — and Probably Dishonest Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, publicly challenged the growing corporate habit of attributing mass layoffs to artificial intelligence, calling the explanation chronologically implausible and…
$3.3 Million Federal Grant to Investigate Whether Virtual Nursing Can Curb a Burnout Crisis Pushing Nurses Out of the Profession A University of North Carolina researcher has secured a $3.3 million federal grant to study whether virtual nursing — now…
Secret Service Kills Armed Man at White House Checkpoint; Shooter Had Prior Mental Health Holds and Pending Warrant Nasire Best, a 21-year-old Maryland man with a documented history of mental health crises and prior encounters at the White House complex,…
New Jersey Senate Panel Advances State Voting Rights Act as Federal Protections Continue to Erode A New Jersey Senate committee approved a landmark state-level voting rights bill Thursday, advancing the John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act for the first time…
Watchdog Group Asks DOJ to Investigate Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Record and Revolving Door Hiring of Senior Officials A conservative watchdog group has asked the Department of Justice to formally investigate Microsoft’s cybersecurity practices and whether a string of former senior federal…