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  ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifti...

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  Trump reportedly to form health funding board that could veto ‘woke’ initiatives Donald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda. The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration official...

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  USPS Tries Rejecting Entire County’s Ballot Over Spacing Issue Leon County, Florida’s mail ballot envelope design placed the words “return service requested” 0.236 inches away from its election office’s return address, when it was supposed to be a quarter-inch, leading the USPS to reject it on September 2, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The county’s supervisor of elections, Mark Earley, called it “ridiculous.” After Earley’s office filed an appeal, the envelope design was eventually accept...

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  Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease The number of young people living with debilitating and incurable bowel conditions worldwide is growing, but researchers now hope a one-of-a-kind microscope will help them understand such diseases and find new treatments. According to the British Society of Gastroenterology, more than half a million people in the UK are living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative...

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  Trump Lunges at Female Reporter Asking About Those Supposed $5K Checks President Trump got in the face of ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asked him a question about the rationale behind his national midterm voter bribe. “Mr. President, on the checks: The U.S. is still $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?” she asked Thursday night. …

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  Buckle Up, Whiskey Pete. Your Worst Nightmare Is Coming For You. November’s midterm elections are right around the corner, and Republicans are slated to have their asses handed to them in both branches of Congress as the Democratic Party maintains a significant lead over the GOP. Now, Democrats are making it perfectly clear that Pentagon Pete will be one of the first in their sights if/when they regain power. New York Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan told POLITICO in no uncertain terms: “Hegseth an...

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  Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announces retirement On Tuesday, the longtime secretary of the Smithsonian Institution announced his retirement at the end of the year. The move follows repeated clashes with the Trump administration over the direction of the institution, which encompasses numerous museums, research centers, libraries, and the National Zoo. Lonnie G. Bunch III is the fourteenth secretary in 173 years of the institution, but also the first Black man and fir...

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  Trump’s latest 'manic' binge evidence of 'neurological decline': psychologist On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.” Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to...

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  'Plan B': There may be a workaround to Trump's mail-in voting restrictions From struggling against rising oil prices to reportedly being out of touch with the news cycle, President Donald Trump has his midterm election work cut out for him. To improve his chances of winning regardless of voters’ wishes, Trump has tried to restrict mail-in voting. Now a new report reveals that Democrats in at least one state have plans to counter Trump’s attempted meddling. “New Mexico officials ar...

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  Jamie Raskin Warns That Trump Is Trying To Steal The Midterms Right Now Because of how Trump reacted and tried to overturn the 2020 election that he lost after the fact, some Americans have made the assumption that the president will approach the 2026 midterm election the same way. 2026 isn’t 2020, and Trump has learned a great deal about how to misuse his power to try to rig an election over the last five-plus years. This time, the president is trying to preemptively rig the election in his...

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  Panicked GOP insiders beg Trump family to realize 'they’re rich enough' already Inside sources in the GOP are seriously peeved that President Donald Trump and his family can’t stop concentrating on enriching themselves long enough to get Republicans through the November midterms. Trump and Republicans are at risk in the upcoming midterm elections, due in no small part to regret from his own supporters, and even many Republicans who continue supporting him feel as if they are “walking...

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  GOP Personality Complains DSA Members Think They're Like Jesus Reince Priebus was complaining on Fox about Democratic Socialists and said that they were the wrong kind of radicals: Sorry, he doesn’t get the credit he deserves, but you know, the most offensive thing that’s going on now with these guys and and and Nixon in Florida and El Sayed, you know, they’re they’re they’re trying to equate themselves to Jesus. They’re calling themselves radicals, you know, Jesus was a radical. I’m a r...

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  Jeffries says Dems who saved GOP’s agenda deserve ‘serious response’ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team announced they are eyeing punishment for two House Democrats who bucked their party Tuesday. Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Jared Golden of Maine broke with leadership to advance a key procedural vote that revived Republicans’ legislative agenda. The incredibly rare crossing of party lines incensed many House Democrats and top leaders who were the...

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  States Sue Over Move to End to Federal Funds for Transgender Youth for Transition Care Twenty-one states led by Democrats sued on Wednesday to block a Department of Health and Human Services plan to bar federal payments from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for gender-transition medication and surgery to transgender adolescents. The new rule, announced last month, is set to go into effect in October. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, argues that the n...

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  Republicans Exposed For Threatening To Defund The Police The Republican Party, since the rise of Trump, has consistently been in favor of defunding the police. Trump’s defunding of the police has involved slashing federal grants to local law enforcement. Trump’s budgets have consistently called for lower police funding. On Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said that Trump is defunding the police in her state by refusing to release counterterrorism funds: “Let me translate that in real si...

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  Hakeem Jeffries blasts Republicans over ‘unfettered’ data center growth House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Republicans Monday for being “pro-data center without any restraints,” making his strongest rebuke yet of the tech industry’s massive infrastructure buildout as it becomes a key issue in midterm campaigns. “Donald Trump and Republicans are divorced from reality,” Jeffries said at a Capitol Hill news conference. “They think that the affordability crisis is a hoax. Donald Trump...

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  James Clyburn says supporting Clarence Thomas for supreme court ‘was mistake’ The senior Democratic congressman James Clyburn said his decision to support Clarence Thomas for a US supreme court seat “was a mistake” and called for the expansion of the nation’s highest legal panel to 13 justices. Clyburn, of South Carolina, spoke up for Thomas at his fiery 1991 confirmation hearings, calling him “a personal and professional friend” who would use their shared experiences lifting minorities and a...

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  Trump’s political miscalculation reveals he lost his 'superhuman ability' President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with Canada has not only split his own Republican Party, it has revealed that he has lost what one writer described as a “superhuman ability” — much to his political detriment. “Throughout his political career, Trump’s signature skill has been to drive the conversation where he wanted it to go. He declares victory when things have not been won,” wrote Slate’s Ben Jacobs...

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  Democrats to Force Senate Vote on Israel’s Human Rights Practices Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, on Thursday plans to introduce a resolution that would order the Trump administration to provide Congress with a detailed accounting of Israel’s human rights practices in the West Bank, laying the groundwork to force a vote on the matter in coming weeks. The measure, the latest bid by Democrats in Congress to challenge the policies and actions of Israel’s government, invokes a pro...

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  Jamie Raskin Rips The Mask Off MAGA While Campaigning For Abdul El-Sayed In Michigan The question of what the government should do is the most fundamental in any society. What should government do is the fundamental question that political discourse in the United States revolves around. Donald Trump’s second administration has brought an equally important question to the forefront. Who should government work for? According to the Founders and more than two centuries of history, the govern...

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  RFK Jr. Resignation Calls Grow as Two People Die From Measles Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year, and 2,777 total cases nationally—a 35-year high. These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades. “RFK Jr.’s lies and consp...

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  Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue' The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by “going rogue” on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate. MS NOW’s Hayes Brown wrote on Monday that Director Russell Vought has made a unilateral decision to control whether funds are actually sent out for projects that Congress approved. The constitutional core is Article I’s Appropriations Clause: “No Money shall b...

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  >What’s the equivalent of this cardio for our ailing brains? A good candidate is reading. Making sense of written text exercises our minds in important ways. We develop what the cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf calls “deep reading processes” that rewire and retrain neuronal regions in ways that increase the complexity and nuance of what we’re able to understand. “Deep reading is our species’ bridge to insight and novel thought,” she writes. Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day...