Detroit police didn’t issue warning about gang initiation trend victimizing women
While there have been reports of stabbings in Detroit in August 2026, a police spokesperson told Snopes the claims weren’t true.
World leaders are paying tribute to Dolly Parton. Is North Korea’s Kim Jong Un one of them?
A known spoof account paired a real photo of Kim with a misleading caption.
Coroner says baby with measles in Pennsylvania died of a ruptured spleen
After the Pennsylvania Health Department announced that an infant’s death was associated with measles, the coroner involved has said he does not consider measles to
Did Trump demand changes to Canada’s French language rules for trade deal? What we know
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. officials provided different explanations for the trade deal’s collapse.
The GOP’s underlying midterm problem: From the Politics Desk
In today’s edition, Jonathan Allen breaks down the greatest obstacle facing the Republican Party in the midterms.
Beware of alleged Target ad featuring costume that drew backlash for blackface, minstrel imagery
The costume was real, but a purported ad featuring a character wearing it was an AI creation.
Does salmonella come from salmon?
More people have become ill in an outbreak of salmonella food poising.
What Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Means
Our reporter Cecilia Kang explains Meta’s settlement of a lawsuit claiming that the company’s social media platforms had harmed teenage users.
California Lawmakers Pass Plug-In Solar Bill
Legislatures in nearly a dozen states have voted to legalize use of the technology, which can help homeowners reduce their rising electricity costs.
Tiny tremors can’t always warn when fracking will trigger a bigger quake
A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt fluid injection.
Landslides pose the largest risks to those who can least afford them
Appalachia is a hotspot of landslides, but many there can’t afford to move away or mitigate the danger, a new study finds. Wealthy urban residents
Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in the US
Tweety McTreason has said he will rename Lake Ontario as Lake America in the US following the escalating trade war with Canada.
Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware
Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may
AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy
After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf