12+ min ago  (1211+ words) When the College Republicans of America appointed a student with ties to white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes as its political director, social media praise rolled in from university chapters. "We are @Kai Schwemmer," posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin…...

57+ min ago  (530+ words) Every time someone I know retires, my stomach drops. It feels as if retirement could be contagious. I'm a 62-year-old woman living in Florida, a retirement haven, and I find it jarring when people assume that my working days are…...

49+ min ago  (1322+ words) AI companies are beginning to entertain the possibility that they could cease to exist. This notion was, until recently, more theoretical: A couple of years ago, an ex-Open AI employee named Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote a lengthy memo speculating that the…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (190+ words) How well do you know your neighbors? Could you ask them for a favor? The internet and its promise of limitless connectivity has led many people to overlook those kinds of connections, which used to be far more common. But…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (788+ words) Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani keeps evoking the legacy of his predecessor Fiorello La Guardia, who guided the city through the Great Depression and is widely considered the greatest mayor in the city's history. Mamdani's latest gushing portrayal of the long-dead former…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1373+ words) The fallout from two months of war in Iran is shuttering textile mills in India and Bangladesh, grounding airplanes in Ireland, Poland and Germany, and prompting energy rationing in Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand. The only country, it seems, that…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago  (490+ words) DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together for a few months, and we're great together. We have a mutual friend who is married and, in the past, showed interest in my boyfriend. She has asked him not to…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (384+ words) Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said STEM is "overdone," and people need to look at the humanities instead. In an interview on the "Possible" podcast, released on Wednesday, Hastings said that in the age of AI, emotional things such as entertainment,…...

8+ hour, 39+ min ago  (485+ words) The labor union backing a proposal to place a new tax on California billionaires says it has collected enough signatures to place the measure on the state's November ballot. Supporters have collected more than 1. 5 million signatures on petitions that call…...

4+ hour, 24+ min ago  (336+ words) If you have any doubt that antisemitism is a persistent problem in California and the U. S. as a whole, you need only consult the voter information guide for the upcoming primary election. That's where Don J. Grundmann, an independent candidate for governor,…...