By casting a halo of warm yellow and orange light around the room, this rechargeable sunset lamp can transform any hour into golden hour. It can be a real pick-me-up during the gray, gloomy days of winter when the sun’s rays seem like a distant memory. nyti.ms/4hJbxk1

Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer and international judge who investigates war crimes, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. She led a UN panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.

Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Human Rights Lawyer, Wins

Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.

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When Republicans tried to repeal a law voters passed to ban gerrymandering, Utah’s women spoke up. The state's male politicians have punished them, but the women so far are unbowed. nyti.ms/3UTwX6r

Breaking News: Federal agents may have broken state laws as part of an effort to find noncitizens on voter rolls, a whistle-blower said.

Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Why were so many powerful people in America, a country whose civic culture is steeped in resistance to tyranny, so willing to abase themselves and their institutions?” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They?

The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.

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“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” won the Emmy for outstanding variety series after ending its 11-year-run in May. nyti.ms/4ywmEDM

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com We’re still living in the 1980s, “trapped in the invisible architecture built by a clutch of executives, politicians and conservative advocacy groups (that was later abetted by a generation of business-friendly Democrats),” Jonathan Kaufman writes.

Opinion | The Decade That Ruined Everything

We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.

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Here are our two 50501 Rising Star candidates (Jeromie Whalen for Congress in MA-1 & Patrick Roath for Congress in MA-8) for the State Primary Elections in Massachusetts today! There's also plenty of other races to watch, so make sure to vote!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “With A.I. capabilities advancing at extraordinary speed and behaving in ways we often can’t anticipate, we cannot afford to wait for disaster to tell us which signals mattered,” Jen Easterly writes. “Our failure of imagination has to end here.”

Opinion | We Know the Risks of A.I. We Need to Act.

A.I. could turn one of our country’s worst habits into a national security crisis.

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Three Senate Democrats sent a letter on Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security, asking for more information about the department’s purchase of 10 used jets for $464 million. The New York Times reported earlier this month that the department has barely used its new fleet.

Democratic Senators Ask Homeland Security for Details About Idled Planes

The request follows a New York Times story, which revealed that Homeland Security had spent $464 million on used jets that rarely fly.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “No Lafayette will appear to us today, but the story of his last service to America still offers timely reminders to its citizens,” Ryan Cole writes. “Our rights must be exercised lest they atrophy.”

Opinion | Men Wept. Women Fainted. What Lafayette’s Tour of America Tells Us About Ourselves.

The Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States in 1824. His tour carries key lessons for a country still fighting over how to remember its past.

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From @theathletic.com: There were heartwarming scenes at a one-star hotel high in the French Pyrenees as shivering WorldTour cyclists were saved from an extreme hailstorm. "We simply opened the doors wide so that everyone could take cover."

‘It’s an open bar’: How a one-star hotel sheltered the Vuelta a Espana peloton from extreme hailstorm

There were heartwarming scenes in the Pyrenees on Monday afternoon as shivering WorldTour cyclists were saved from the elements by a hotel

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Because the symptoms of postpartum psychosis wax and wane, mothers can seem to be coping when, in fact, they are drowning,” Michelle Oberman writes. “This on-and-off psychosis also makes it difficult for women who kill their children to qualify for the insanity defense.”

Opinion | Lindsay Clancy Deserves Mercy, Not Life in Prison

It is too hard for women suffering from postpartum mental illness to prove the insanity defense.

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A long-shot candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator in Alaska will be on the ballot in November. That could be a problem for the GOP.

In Headache for Republicans, Second Dan Sullivan Advances in Alaska Senate Race

A long-shot candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator will be on the ballot in November. That could be a problem for the G.O.P.

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Meta reached a landmark settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 states, D.C. and U.S. territories and has to make major changes to its products over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms. nyti.ms/4gwjgkP

Breaking News: The FDA approved a first-of-its-kind pill that could substantially extend the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer.

F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer

In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.

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Powerful software that Ukraine has developed, called Delta, pulls streams of battlefield intelligence into a single platform that helps detect targets. The technology is credited with helping to cut Russian advances to a near standstill.

Ukraine’s Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army

The Delta system pulls together battlefield data to identify targets, creating a miles-wide “kill zone.” The technology is credited with helping to cut Russian advances to a near standstill.

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Bill Gates is loudly warning that A.I. poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that addressing the risks should be “the world’s top priority.” In an interview with The New York Times, Gates said the tech industry was knowingly downplaying those threats. nyti.ms/4qApGnH

Isolated t'storm Friday, Saturday stunner & PM/night rain likely Sunday. All the weekend details in Insights: https://1do.us/weekendinsights

💛 Will Bike 4 Food is September 20 in Hatfield. Routes from 4 to 100 miles for every ability, plus virtual. Raises funds for nutritious food across four Western Mass counties. After Party at the finish. Sign up! #Cycling #HungerAction #WesternMass

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Pedal for a purpose at Will Bike 4 Food on Sunday, September 20, 2026, beginning at the Lions Club Pavilion in Hatfield. Cyclists of…

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In Opinion “Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are branded threats to national health and unity,” our columnist M. Gessen writes. “The Trump administration has fixated on two groups most of all — immigrants and trans people — in just this way.”

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Donald Trump launched a $100,000 monthly subscription service for early access to his posts. trib.al/WhTXnzB

Trump Sued for Truth Social Scheme to Manipulate Markets

Donald Trump launched a $100,000 monthly subscription service for early access to his posts.

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Trump’s corrupt scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First and Fifth amendments to the Constitution. We're taking him to court.

Lawsuit: Early access fee for Trump Truth Social posts unconstitutional

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:New York, Aug. 12, 2026 — President Donald Trump’s scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First ...

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Commentary: Dishonor should be disqualifying in politics. It is not. Scandalous behavior or public corruption should end political careers. They do not. Ohio politicians proved the point last week ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/12/a...

America's sunk so low, dishonor and disgrace don't end political careers. Ohio politicians prove it. • Ohio Capital Journal

Dishonor should be disqualifying in politics. It is not. Scandalous behavior or public corruption should end political careers. They do not. Ohio politicians proved the point last week.

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A Fort Worth activist who cursed out the Republican-majority Tarrant County Commissioners Court over a plan to gut polling sites was arrested in the middle of the night.

GOP-led court orders activist's arrest after profane rebuke of voting curbs

A Fort Worth activist who cursed out the Republican-majority Tarrant County Commissioners Court over a plan to gut polling sites was arrested in the middle of the night.Efrin "EJ" Carrion, a Fort Worth activist and host of the 817 Podcast, was booked into Tarrant County Jail early Wednesday on a cha...

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Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse. The path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, n.pr/3TUn3Rv

"As of mid-May, the administration had detained an estimated 400,000 people since the beginning of the term. Almost 66,000 are being detained right now. In conditions that, beyond putting their lives at risk, are undeniably brutal and cruel." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Editor's Notes: Los Desaparecidos de ICE

Trump's mass deportation campaign will produce more atrocities than the Argentinian military junta did.

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The first frame of the video Carolina Molina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera. Molina’s video from a Virginia encounter has deepened conversations about the aggressiveness of ICE enforcement.

It ‘felt like a Renée Good situation,’ U.S. citizen says after ICE encounter

Video from the Virginia incident, which shows an agent with a gun, has reignited conversations about the aggressiveness of ICE enforcement.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Even if the Department of Justice is done with the Epstein files, the public is not done with justice,” Rachel Louise Snyder writes in a guest essay.

Opinion | I Visited the Evidence of Epstein’s Crimes

We need to hold accountable the web of accomplices who enabled his crimes.

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