Lawmakers introduced at least 39 bills and resolutions explicitly targeting "sharia law" in 2025 and 2026. The bills’s sponsors we contacted couldn't point to any case of Islamic law being imposed on U.S. citizens

I've started a new role at the Washington Post!! I'll be working as a computational journalist, helping out with big data challenges and contributing data reporting to the national desk. Many thanks to Meghan and the whole Post data team for the warm welcome

Meghan Hoyer@meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So so excited to welcome the very talented @chrishacker.me to @wpdatateam.bsky.social!! Chris is our team's newest hire, joining us as a computational journalist embedded on the national desk. 🙌

An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last yr.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

A year after @thetrace.org and I co-published our investigation into the resale of used police guns, departments across the country are stopping the practice or reconsidering their policies https://www.cbsnews.com/news/law-enforcement-agencies-stop-reselling-guns-crimes/

Almost 3 years after we published video of a transgender man being beaten by a sheriff's deputy in a 7-Eleven parking lot, the deputy has pleaded guilty to a federal felony. FWIW... this is after the sheriff's department reviewed the case and found the force was... all within policy.