In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he’d helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.
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Supreme Court calls Louisiana’s House map an ‘unconstitutional racial gerrymander’
Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday’s decision all but guts the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.
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Senior citizens join the immigration fight to protect caregivers
As the Supreme Court weighs the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for protections for their immigrant caregivers.
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Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home
In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.
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The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad
Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn’t spent it — and the consequences are already being felt.
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Welcome to ‘Anxietyland’ theme park, where the rides are no fun
From the Emotional Roller Coaster to the Worry-go-round, cartoonist Gemma Correll walks us through her brain’s not-so-amusing amusement park in a darkly funny memoir.
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Baby teeth hold clues to the harms of toxic metals for infants — and older kids
By analyzing layers in these teeth, scientists have pinpointed a critical window when baby brains are most vulnerable to toxic metals — and linked that to behavior problems later in life.
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South Korean court sentences ex-President Yoon to 7 years in prison
An appeals court sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to 7 years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
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Spirit Airlines tried to be the Dollar General of the skies. Then the big airlines beat it at its own game
Spirit Airlines helped pioneer ultra-cheap flying and soared. Then legacy airlines copied them, outmaneuvered them with loyalty programs, and the economy turned against their core customers.
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Like soap operas, 75 feet up: How bald eagle nest cams hook online communities
Across the country, some 50 bald eagle nests fitted with cameras broadcast up-close views of raptor family life. Every spring, as eggs hatch and eaglets grow, these cameras rake in millions of views.
