Fury as Dem senator remains lone lawmaker to spill on Trump’s ‘insane’ post-midterm plan
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned this week that the Trump administration plans to resume its war on Iran after the midterms — an “insane” scheme
Abdul El-Sayed stomps out intraparty feud with one statement days out from midterms
After issuing a brief statement in response to Rep. Haley Stevens’ demand that he apologize for the views he’s expressed—in line with a growing majority
August Lunar Eclipse Rises Over Louisiana
A lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana. The lunar eclipse was visible throughout much of North and South America and part of Europe and
Judge dismisses Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit over Jeffrey Epstein birthday card story
A federal judge in Florida has tossed a revised version of President Tweety McTreason’s $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over a
Luigi Mangione’s team argues double jeopardy bars state murder trial
Lawyers for Luigi Mangione on Friday continued to push for the dismissal of his state court murder and weapons case, arguing that his guilty plea
GM will pay $220m to settle claims it sold drivers’ Smart Driver data
General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data
Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026.
Dutch authorities rescue 38 people adrift in rubber boat
Migrant boats are rarely found in Dutch waters, and authorities are still trying to establish where this one came from.
Trump loses legal battle over Epstein-linked Wall Street Journal case
Judge permanently drops Trump’s $10bn WSJ lawsuit, ruling he failed to prove actual malice in the newspaper’s reporting.
Palestine Action supporters arrested outside US embassy in London
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London to oppose the UK government’s ban on Palestine Action.
Hospital admits full responsibility for 24 failures that led to toddler’s death
Eleanor Aldred-Owen died after surgery because an abnormal scan was not flagged.
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has
AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks
Home to tales inspired by the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” the archive was taken down after “an intrusion,” one of its founders