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Free Thread: You may not believe me, but ________ is actually very good
Not a prophecy of American collapse; a mirror
Jet Lag: The Game
Is It Dangerous to Let Kids Be Free?
Ain't That a Trip - James Hunter & Van Morrison
Joe Rogan called out - Joseph Welch moment by former 60 Minutes Producer
David Ehrlich's Best 25 Films of 2025
Time to revisit Tom Nook and company
Some of the greatest novels are about how reading ruins lives
Crops and chicks grow together in Murray-Darling study on water sharing
Dr. West used complex algorithms to account for Earth's distorted shape
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Television is 100 years old today
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
The Hidden Engineering of Runways
Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be
AI code and software craft
There is an AI code review bubble
Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
People who know the formula for WD-40
Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus
You have to know how tech companies work
The Adolescence of Technology
Pharos: The Lighthouse at Alexandria
France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch
Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
Qwen3-Max-Thinking
San Francisco Graffiti
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
OpenFlexure Microscope
Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone
Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres
Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex
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The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (Wall Street Journal)
YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic)
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a "felony" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he'll vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth if it reaches the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)
A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
Zoom's shares closed up 11.28% after analysts at Baird estimated that Zoom's 2023 investment in Anthropic could be worth $2B to $4B, depending on dilution (Nate Wolf/Barron's Online)
Zocks, which offers an AI assistant for financial advisers, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Lightspeed and QED Investors, taking its total funding to $65M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert Hart/The Verge)
UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Isometric NYC
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
Clawdbot — Personal AI Assistant
Unrolling the Codex agent loop | OpenAI
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
Homepage | European Alternatives
Bugs Apple Loves
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users | OpenAI
The lost art of XML — mmagueta
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes ::
The Agent Skills Directory
Icon Sets • Iconify
Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like - MacStories
Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation
I use the 'unicorn prompt' with every chatbot — it instantly fixes the worst AI problem
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
A Year of 3D Printing
Bonsplit - Native macOS Tab Bar with Split Panes for SwiftUI
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
some C habits I employ for the modern day | ~yosh
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why – On my Om
Mysite | scripts
https://fs.blog/mental-models/
First, Make Me Care, by Gwern · Gwern.net
Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking? | The Verge
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
GitHub - raine/Lolgato: A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software.
affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner.
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy
Proof of Corn
This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anythin
GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
Letterboxd - davidehrlich: THE BEST FILMS OF 2025
How Browsers Work
Wiper malware targeted Poland energy grid, but failed to knock out electricity - Ars Technica
GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform.
Dockhand — Modern Docker Management
Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University
AddyOsmani.com - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes” | Blog
Oxen.ai
Daring Fireball: Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames
Understanding the fundamentals of CSS Layout | Polypane
Typography on Pencils, 1-5. – Present & Correct
taffer/canadian-alternatives: A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists. - canadian-alternatives - Worktree
VectifyAI/PageIndex: 📄🧠 PageIndex: Document Index for Reasoning-based RAG
MikroTik: First Look and Getting Started
‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
Best Practices for Claude Code
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Thariq on X: "We’re turning Todos into Tasks in Claude Code" / X
Considering Strictly Monotonic Time
Home router recommendations | Lobsters
GitHub - malvarezcastillo/txt2plotter
Page by Margaret Killjoy | @margaret.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths — Smashing Magazine
Some C habits I employ for the modern day | Hacker News
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops | Hacker News
Conductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac
10 Google Search Hacks Everyone Should Know | Lifehacker
Empty Promises: A Deep Dive into Flickr Pro for 2026 | PetaPixel
ICE agent in Maine tells observer he's going in a domestic terrorist database
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes | Hacker News
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blader/humanizer: Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing from text
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived - The New York Times
Home Networking - GIGA Copper Networks
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes | WIRED
Claude's new constitution Anthropic
Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale | Hacker News
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
mifi/lossless-cut: Cross platform GUI tool for lossless trimming / cutting of videos using ffmpeg
Maze Algorithms
Stand With Minnesota
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them. - Ars Technica
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop - The Atlantic
timescale/pg_textsearch: PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
Coi - WebAssembly for the Modern Web
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
The tech monoculture is finally breaking | Hacker News
MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus - The Atlantic
Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw: The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possibl
好奇心周刊第24期: 关于AI编程的一些体会和设想 | 胡涂说
hauleth.dev/e9p at master · tangled
Jan 10, 2026 · Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
The Advanced Claude Code Setup Guide
Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen
Renee Good shooting: Businesses close to protest ICE
Parse, don’t validate
(21) Mike Kelly on X: "I managed to unlock a crazy new hidden feature in Claude Code called Swarms. You're not talking to an AI coder anymore. You're talking to a team lead. The lead doesn't write code - it plans, delegates, and synthesizes. When you appr
Claude's Constitution
The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC
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Things to do in Durham this week (January 26- February 1)
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs
Concealed carry class that doesn't come with a giant dose of right wing nutbaggery?
RIP Bull City Solera and Taproom
PSA: you can build a backup mesh communications node from a $10 solar light
The Eno in Snow
Very thankful to a fellow Redditor!
List of corporations supporting 🧊
Happy lil birds
We got wicked lucky
For anyone in need of transportation to shelter for the cold.
Hows the ATT look?
Restaurants open this evening?
Jiu jitsu gym for women/self-defense focus
Dame's is open today, if anyone is looking for good food. 455 S. Driver St. in Durham
Call out MAGA/ ICE supporting businesses so we can stop spending money there!
Safe Roads?
The roads are not safe right now
Recommendation for caterer?
Looking to rehome a cat
How's Roxboro North Of 85 Drivability Wise?
did anyone get mail today?
Property tax appeal hearing
Remember: if you're cold, they're cold. BRING THEM INSIDE!
15-501 is “alright” but definitely heavy icy slush spots in some areas.
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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
A New Way to Flirt: Dazzle Potential Mates With Patterns Invisible to Humans
Sonic Booms and Seismic Waves Can Reveal Where Space Junk Crash-Lands
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
How to Cut an Infinitely Large Pancake into as Many Pieces as Possible
Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’
Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather
A Bite-Size Column About Delight and Wonder in Science
Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds
Thomas Fogarty, 91, Who Helped Revolutionize Vascular Surgery, Dies
William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89
Is Climate Change Weakening the Polar Vortex?
Edith Flanigen, Award-Winning Research Chemist, Dies at 96
Pedro Sanchez, Who Helped Feed the Developing World, Dies at 85
Louis E. Brus, Nobel Laureate Who Illuminated the Nanoworld, Dies at 82
Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science
Increased Scrutiny Leads to an Improved Organ Transplant System
An Antarctic Mission to Recover a Robot’s Data
Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers
RFK Jr. Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked
Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean Energy Loans
Trump Administration Cuts Off Funding for Fetal Tissue Research. Again.
A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
Some Immune Systems Defeat Cancer. Could That Become a Drug?
Rising Global Temperatures May Affect Choices for Winter Olympic Venues
What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.
Scientists Set Up Camp on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica
Democrats Seek Investigation of $3.5 Million Deal by Interior Official’s Husband
Will ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’ Add a Postpartum Psychosis Diagnosis?
Nature
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Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks
Defending endangered trees against climate change and hungry goats
Quantum spinning effect observed in a levitating magnet
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Why do women like me get diagnosed with ADHD late?
Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
What a $1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans
Daily briefing: Why cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s disease
Greenland is important for global research: what’s next for the island’s science?
Guinea-Bissau suspends US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives
Cause of vision loss discovered in overlooked genes
Canny cattle: at least one cow knows how to use tools
‘Bodies like ours aren’t considered in academia’
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
Have environmental microplastics levels been overestimated?
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
NIH ends support for most human fetal-tissue research – dismaying some scientists
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Daily briefing: Largest ever ‘superposition’ pushes quantum boundary
What your breath says about the bacteria in your gut
Editorial Expression of Concern: The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM
Publisher Correction: Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury
Publisher Correction: Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing
The biggest ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
ADHD is on the rise, but why?
Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of
Paranthropus
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions
Extreme barocaloric effect at dissolution
Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot
Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism
Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter cortical interneuron subtypes
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
Identification of an allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits
The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation
Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins
Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten
Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer
Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets
Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy
Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate
Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing
LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome
Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations
Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS
Untangling the connection between dopamine and ADHD
Quantum effect observed for biggest objects yet
Six highlights from ADHD research
More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining
Illuminating how the bird inner retina works without oxygen solves a 350-year-old structural mystery
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’
Is paracetamol in pregnancy a risk factor for ADHD?
A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia
ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants
The rich stopped buying yachts the year time went on sale
Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes
An eye-popping discovery: early vertebrates had four eyes rather than two
Why ADHD goes undiagnosed in girls
AI and nuclear energy feature strongly in agenda-setting technologies for 2026
Hand stencils in Indonesian cave are world’s oldest known artworks
AAAS: Science: Table of Contents
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Narratives of conflict in a warming Arctic
Mitigating clean energy’s dirty costs
Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
Multiparameter estimation with an array of entangled atomic sensors
Platelet-derived integrin- and tetraspanin-enriched tethers exacerbate severe inflammation
Myelin is repaired by constitutive differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitors
Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development
A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia
143–million-year seawater osmium isotopic record: Trends, rhythms, and dynamics of volcanism and tectonics
Observation of the Einstein–de Haas effect in a Bose–Einstein condensate
Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data
Observation of one-dimensional, charged domain walls in ferroelectric ZrO2
Couple-close: Unified approach to semisaturated cyclic scaffolds
Pan-family pollen signals control an interspecific stigma barrier across Brassicaceae species
Progressive eastward rupture of the Main Marmara fault toward Istanbul
A second planetesimal collision in the Fomalhaut system
The price of prestige
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Tracking space debris from sonic booms
Meeting the need for myelin
Tethered platelets in severe infection
Uncovering the secrets of syphilis
Regulate worker heat exposure in global trade
Safeguarding tailings dams at the climate brink
Mexican genome trove could guide medical decisions
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students
Hidden industry ties pervade social media research
As Greenland loses ice, global sea levels will rise—and its own will fall
AI has helped scientists—but may have hurt science
Damage assessment
Pressure on the pipeline
Talking back
Repairing trust in science requires a more inclusive understanding of innovation
States pioneer a new frontier in US science funding
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
In Science Journals
Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report “Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances”
NYT > Top Stories
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White House Distances Trump From Initial Response to Minnesota Killing
Our Photographer Describes the Scene After the Pretti Shooting
Killings in Minneapolis Invert Usual Dynamic Over Policing the Police
Alex Pretti Shooting Poses a Question for the Right: Who’s a Conservative?
Winter Storm Debilitates the South, Encasing Cities in Ice and Snow
Scenes From the Winter Storm
How Does Climate Change Affect Winter Storms?
Winter Storm Linked to at Least 22 Deaths in the US
What to Expect for a Cold NYC Commute: Trains, Buses and Rail
No Snow Day? In New York City Parks, It Felt Like One.
After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
Trump Briefed on Intelligence Saying Iran’s Government Is Weaker
As U.S. Warships Get Closer, Iran Ramps Up Threats to Retaliate
Home Sourdough Bakers Are Turning Their Hobbies Into Full-Time Jobs
NATO Chief Says Europe Is ‘Dreaming’ if It Thinks It Can Defend Itself Without U.S.
On Venezuela and Greenland, Many Trump Fans Give Him the Benefit of the Doubt
The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
Democrats Embrace a Shutdown Fight They Wanted to Avoid
Trump Says He Will Raise Tariffs on South Korea to 25%
Court Affirms Ruling That Alina Habba Served Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
Trump Administration Takes Another Stake in Rare Earth Sector
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
These Liberals Listen to Right-Wing Podcasts to Leave Their Media Comfort Zone
A Year After DC Plane Crash, Concerns About Airport’s Safety Continue
F.A.A. Rolls Out Agency Overhaul for Improving Air Safety
Chinese Pandas Leave Japanese Zoo
The War in Minnesota Is for Our Phones
‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe’: Three Columnists on the Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
Trump Changes Course in Minnesota
Private Jet Crashes at Maine Airport, Killing 6
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
Thomas Fogarty, 91, Who Helped Revolutionize Vascular Surgery, Dies
Canada’s Marineland Whales Could Find New Homes in U.S.
The Atlantic
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job
What the Administration Is Signaling to Federal Agents After Minnesota
ICE Is Failing the Legitimacy Test
The Worst Thing About the Black Dahlia Case
How to Have a ‘Don’t-Know Mind’
Photos: Snow and Ice Blanket the U.S.
Colleges Are Stuck Between Bad Options for Fighting Hateful Ideas
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
What I Saw in Mashhad
Trump’s Head-Scratching Turn Toward China
Welcome to the American Winter
Believe Your Eyes
Time Comes for Colin Jost—And for All of Us
Another Death in Minneapolis
Forbearance
The Logical End Point of Trump Saying He Could Shoot Somebody on Fifth Avenue
Yes, It’s Fascism
Tom Stoppard’s Secret—And Mine
International Law Is Holding Democracies Back
‘It’s a Really Scary Time’
Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call
Pete Hegseth Should Stay Out of Minneapolis
The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push
Trump’s Rift With American Allies
The Art of Finding Joy in Everyday Life
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he spoke by phone with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D),...
DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis
After Alex Pretti's killing, a battle of narratives
The Minnesota state Capitol will start its legislative session Feb. 17 with a new weapons screening...
Trump administration threatens to block funds to Minnesota over trans athletes
Karoline Leavitt: Homan will be main point of contact in MN
Minnesota National Guard members were seen by local television station WCCO giving coffee and doughnuts to...
Sen. Susan Collins: ‘Reforms’ could be added to DHS funding bill
DOJ accuses Minnesota officials of using Pretti case to air ‘some political dispute’
See photos and video of the massive winter storm’s impacts across the South and East Coast
State lawyers accuse feds of ‘serious irregularities’ in Pretti death probe
Republican senators call for transparency in shooting investigation
A Justice Department lawyer reassured a federal judge Monday that evidence collected from the shooting of...
The Minneapolis City Council changed its calendar “in response to ongoing community needs resulting from the...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said in a Monday interview with Texas radio host Mark Davis...
Video: Leavitt blames Democrats for Alex Pretti’s death
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee, called for the heads of...
A hearing is now underway in St. Paul, Minnesota, in which state and local authorities are...
Minnesota AG says he’s worried evidence in Pretti shooting won’t be preserved
Six presumed dead in private jet crash at Maine airport during winter storm
Schumer: Dems won’t vote to avoid shutdown unless ICE makes changes
Border Patrol agents involved in Pretti shooting were wearing body cameras, official says
Trump still supports gun rights after Pretti shooting, Leavitt says
Walz urges Trump to end federal surge in Minnesota in new op-ed
Pretti autopsy could take months, and report won’t be public
Border Patrol sidesteps questions about Pretti shooting; police chief criticizes agents
Trump still has ‘utmost confidence’ in Noem, White House says
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that Alex Pretti’s shooting remains under active investigation...
Minnesota AG calls for end to enforcement surge after court hearing
Sen. Ted Cruz urges administration to shift its ‘tone’ on Minneapolis
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Moderate, vulnerable Democrats condemn DHS and Noem
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez concluded today’s hearing without an immediate ruling on whether she will...
In response to Judge Katherine Menendez’s questions, Justice Department lawyer Brantley Mayers was unable to say...
Video: Alex Pretti gives veteran he treated in ICU final salute in 2024
U.S. District Judge Katherine M. Menendez kicked off her questioning of the Trump administration’s lawyers by...
Trump says Walz asked to work together in ‘good’ phone call
As she grilled lawyers for the state of Minnesota, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez expressed continued...
Maine asks public to report federal agents’ ‘excessive’ behavior
Deputy attorney general denies federal investigators are destroying evidence
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez said that while “it goes without saying that we are in...
Minnesota decries ‘unlawful and unchecked invasion,’ asks judge to restrain it
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, who is overseeing this morning’s court hearing on Minnesota’s request to...
GOP candidate drops out of governor’s race, citing own party’s ‘retribution’ on Minnesota
Key court hearing underway on Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota
Trump says border czar is headed to Minnesota
Walz calls on Trump to pull immigration officers out of Minneapolis
Map: Minneapolis shootings involving federal immigration personnel
Shootings in Minneapolis underscore how Kristi Noem has transformed DHS
More Americans say Alex Pretti shooting was not justified, poll finds
Man with dementia forgot he’s been married 39 years. He proposed again.
Border Patrol chief: Investigation needed to determine if Pretti brandished gun
State and federal attorneys set to clash in Monday court hearings
What else to know
Video: Federal officials divided over Minneapolis shooting
Minn. AG calls Trump administration version of shooting ‘flat-out insane’
The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association asked to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss challenges...
To afford having a baby, many teachers are quitting to find better benefits
Minnesota shooting scrambles America’s gun debate
Jewelry heist suspect’s deportation left victims ‘in disbelief,’ lawyer says
DOJ, FBI on sidelines in Minnesota shooting probe; state vows investigation
Federal agent secured gun from Pretti before fatal shooting, videos show
ICE surge creates new headache for Maine’s Susan Collins
More Americans say Alex Pretti shooting was not justified, poll finds
Minn. attorney general calls administration version of shooting ‘flat-out insane’
Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
Fatal shooting in Minneapolis renews protests; video raises questions about DHS account
Border Patrol’s role during protests has come under increasing scrutiny
Trump hosts ‘Melania’ screening as Minnesota shooting fallout roils nation
Former president Bill Clinton, in a statement on the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, said...
President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Minnesota’s leaders to cooperate with his administration. His demands...
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce released a letter Sunday signed by more than 60 CEOs of...
Trump reserves judgment on actions of Border Patrol in fatal shooting
Minnesota shooting scrambles America’s gun debate
Republicans aren’t planning to split up government funding bill
More Republican senators call for investigation of shooting
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