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Supreme Court won’t let Trump use post office to block mailed ballots
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to lift an injunction blocking President Trump's attempt to use the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mailed ballots in this year's election, dealing a significant blow to the administration's effort to impose new mail voting rules.
Florida’s former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ kept migrants in metal cages: DHS inspector general
Some illegal immigrants were kept in small metal cages for up to two hours while being detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," according to a federal inspector general's report on Monday.
Warning of AI doomsday ‘swarm’ sparks push to slam brakes on superhuman technology
A string of new, terrifying warnings from the artificial intelligence community has put Congress, the White House and the A.I. industry on notice: Slow the progress of the rapidly developing technology before a swarm of bots takes over the Internet and "kill all humans."
The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225
The FBI's active-shooter database routinely misses cases where an armed civilian stops an active-shooter attack, according to a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.
New 9/11 museum exhibit ‘In Their Honor’ focuses on grief-driven dedication and action
A multicolored phoenix welcomes visitors to a somber new exhibit in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
America backslides on Sept. 11’s hard lessons about IDs, intel agencies and ports of entry
A quarter-century after 9/11, the consensus around securing IDs is fraying, and the same is true for other security lessons from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Is empathy a virtue or a weakness? Vance, Musk and others say it’s gone too far
Several conservative public figures say misplaced empathy for hardened criminals and Islamist migrants has pushed Western society to the brink of collapse.
Never forget, never agree: Public schools struggle to explain 9/11 on 25th anniversary
None of today's K-12 students was alive during the 9/11 terror attacks 25 years ago -- and schools are stumbling over how to teach why they happened.
Congress’ fight over banning intoxicating hemp beverages goes into overtime
Producers of hemp-derived beverages and similar products got a little breathing room with a one-month delay of a law that threatens to shut down their industry.
NFL continues weeklong spread with Wednesday opener, Thanksgiving Eve game
Pro football is no longer contained to Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays.
Why 30 million American men are single — and why that number keeps growing
A widening gap between married and unmarried men under 40 is changing how Americans look at wedlock, as economic and social changes drive more young people to shun traditional family arrangements.
A legacy built to last: Bricks and gold will leave Trump’s mark on nation’s capital
President Trump is reshaping the White House and the nation's capital at a blistering pace, cementing a physical legacy as he faces his final years in power after dominating U.S. politics for a decade.
‘Blackout warfare’: China, Russia weapons could instantly darken 80% of U.S.
Legislation now before the House and Senate reveals growing worries among defense lawmakers about Chinese and other adversaries' electromagnetic pulse weapons and the vulnerability of U.S. and allied defenses and critical infrastructure to EMP attacks.
Health and Human Services Department agency pushes states to ditch ‘orphan tax’
Alex J. Adams, head of the federal government's Administration for Children and Families, has spent the last year on a mission to get states to stop imposing an "orphan tax" on kids who end up in foster families.
Ohio State to pay $2.1 million settlement for unreported research funding from China
Ohio State University will pay the federal government $2.1 million for failing to report Chinese funding for a climate scientist who was working under Beijing's Thousand Talents foreign expert recruitment program, the Justice Department announced Monday.
A dead teen’s Social Security number stayed active for 24 years and $284,000 in fraud
For 24 years, the man known to the world as Carlos Obregon would scam Social Security, Health and Human Services, the State Department, the Treasury Department and Idaho's Transportation Department, walking away with nearly $284,000 in taxpayers' money.
Fruit pouches, soda and macaroni: Virginia native completes cross-country run for redemption
It took more than 300 fruit pouches, 79 boxes of macaroni and cheese, five pairs of shoes, two high-tech light therapy machines, one MRI and countless lunchtime sodas to get Collin Chartier from Denver to the District, where he ended a 2,000-mile cross-country run on Sunday.
Meta settlement’s age verification requirements spark fears of lost privacy, free speech rights
The landmark settlement state attorneys general secured against Meta will require more robust age verification methods, alarming First Amendment advocates who worry it will intrude on users' privacy and lead to dangerous crackdowns on free speech.
Will TikTok and YouTube match Meta’s new safety rules? Billions for states are riding on it
Children were the victims in a landmark lawsuit filed against tech giant Meta, but state governments will reap the financial benefits from a $17 billion settlement that hinges on cooperation from TikTok and YouTube.
Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America
President Trump on Thursday ordered the Department of the Interior to update maps and databases to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, following through on his threat during a trade spat with Canada.
