John Wayne: 8 claims we’ve fact-checked
The actor was known for his roles in Westerns as well as his controversial views about race.
‘Ashamed’: Cornell students gather to voice anger over alleged gang rape
Students tell the BBC that the tension on campus has become palpable since allegations from 2024 resurfaced.
Japan’s first mayor to take maternity leave lands on TIME100 Next list
Shoko Kawata’s maternity leave drew mixed reactions in Japan, a country struggling to lift birth rates.
Making politics ‘fun, trendy, sexy’: How Gen Z could shape Kenya’s next election
A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.
Spain and China are cosying up – to the anger of many in the EU
Amid global tumult, the two countries’ alliance is not the only unlikely pairing.
Trump’s ‘inexplicable’ charm offensive toward his own enemies leaves GOP reeling
President Tweety McTreason’s recent warmth toward two of his party’s favorite villains — Chinese President Xi Jinping and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani —
‘Cowardly’ MAGA candidate derided after ‘pathetic’ campaign move: ‘Embarrassing’
Arizona Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin sparked ridicule Friday morning after becoming the latest GOP candidate to distance himself from President Tweety McTreason, whose approval
How Meta stumbled onto a winning AI strategy
We’re on the brink of a revolution in how people use AI. Today, people mostly use non-agentic, non-personalized, non-proactive AI tools via PC browsers and
US FTC will investigate Anthropic and OpenAI
The US Federal Trade Commission has warned leading AI players that they will to have tighten up their acts. The agency will soon send formal
The ancestors of today’s Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
Archaeologists have been arguing for more than a century about whether people first entered the American continents before, during or after the coldest peak of
‘A kind of Rosetta Stone’: AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon
An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us
‘It’s a portrait of their actual ancestor’: Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has recorded over 4,000 deaths
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths as authorities struggle to contain the virus
A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”