These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?

In today’s issue: Democrats are feeling increasingly bullish about their prospects for the midterm elections with less than six months remaining before voters head to the polls. History is on their side, as the party out of power has typically gained seats in Congress in most midterms. But they’re starting to show signs of a chance to flip control of both...

Some of the people building AI have started acting like it might be dangerous.

EXCLUSIVE — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has achieved a remarkable feat under President Donald Trump, locking down tens of billions of dollars in funding for the largest-ever expansion of border security, while it simultaneously brought the number of illegal immigrant arrests at the southern border to 55-year lows for more than a year. The Trump […]

A photo of law enforcement detaining the White House Correspondent’s dinner shooting suspect in Washington, DC, on the night of April 25, 2026. | US President Trump via Truth Social/Anadolu via Getty Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, is unusual among attempted assassins — in his normalcy.  His political grievances, laid out in a manifesto and social media posts, are not dissimilar from those of an ordinary Democrat. He believed that Pre