Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)

The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

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ICE Agent Shoots and Wounds Man in New York City (Gift Article)

Federal officials said that they were attempting to take into custody an undocumented Dominican immigrant. Their statement did not indicate what might have prompted the shooting.

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Trump’s Team of Mercenaries

People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.

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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere

The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.

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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)

A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.

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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)

In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.

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Video: Resolved Sexual Assault Cases Drop Under Trump Administration

In the wake of sexual assault allegations at Cornell, Michael C. Bender, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, explains how the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in the Tr...

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What, Exactly, Did Trump Say About Iran Taking Out Los Angeles and San Diego? (Gift Article)

President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.

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Trade deficit hits $105.6 billion, widest since just before Trump tariffs enacted last year

That marked a 13.7% jump from July and was ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for $102 billion.

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Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives

The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…

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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)

James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

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October 2, 2026

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

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