A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jars On a hot afternoon in August, I walked out of the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a whale rib, a leopard pelt, a taxidermized weasel and a small piece of fossilized dinosaur poop. It felt like … Read more
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities As the November election approaches with control of the House and Senate on the line, the stakes are high. With so much riding on the outcome, there is no shortage of debate about the message Democrats need to win. Affordability has … Read more
The U.S. has for years been the top weapons supplier in the world. Over the past five years, arms exports have gone to nearly 100 countries. “These weapons are sought after around the world because we have the best weapons,” said War Department Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey. The Trump administration says … Read more
Stalemate between two nations leads to tit-for-tat measures on wide range of imports. Plus: Captain Kirk recalls 60 years of Star Trek Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of US imports have come into effect, escalating a trade fight that … Read more
Canadian retaliatory tariffs on some 700 American products are going into effect as the trade war intensifies. It comes less than two months until the November midterms, with the ongoing war with Iran, tariffs and spiking gas prices on the minds of American voters. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.
From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm When officials in Wyoming conducted a routine test on the water that was being discharged from a massive under-construction Meta datacenter, it was a shock to find it contained a rare and potentially hazardous bacterium. While the … Read more
The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two agents were involved. The truth, a … Read more
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism In January, the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit sent out a memo warning police officers about a new potential “security and counterintelligence” threat: Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The memo directed … Read more
A former member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who lives in Michigan issued a dire warning against extremism in American politics, and ripped far-left, progressive Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as dishonest and “sanctimonious.” “So, I think that it’s up to everyone to not sit on their hands, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, we all … Read more
Voters will choose candidates across full slate of federal, state and local offices over next two days New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to come face-to-face with Rudy Giuliani at the main September 11 memorial service, just days after the former mayor – who led the city at the time of the 2001 terrorist … Read more
