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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shows an artist's rendering of Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch during a press briefing on April 15, 2026. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter th…

A scan of the brain of a patient affected by Alzheimer's disease. | BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images For decades, research into Alzheimer’s disease has made painfully little progress.

Law enforcement officers outside the United Nations headquarters ahead of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2026. | Angelina Katsanis/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand t…

A Palestinian man inspects damage to his home after an attack by Jewish settlers in the village of Beit Imrin, north of Nablus in the West Bank.

Editor’s note, September 20, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave.

We are in the midst of a loneliness epidemic: More than half of Americans say they feel isolated, and we’re getting together less and less.

Early voting signs on the doors of the Miami Beach North Shore Branch Public Library in Miami Beach, Florida, on December 7, 2025. | Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 2024, Donald Trump’s victory was powered in large part by mas…

AI will be the death of me.

President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to speak at a Rose Garden dinner at the White House on September 17, 2026. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Tr…

Protesters during a "Stop the AI Race" demonstration calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems outside City Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 17, 2026. | Karl Mondon/AFP via Getty Images This story…

A graffiti mural depicting Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, directors of the documentary NAZA. | Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images At the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, the documentary NAZA received a 25-minute standing…

When we think about the stakes in healthcare, we tend to think of them in terms of life and death, being sick or being healthy.

Even before the latest batch of alarming AI news, a lot of Americans were souring on AI.

Wildfires are rapidly expanding into cities and suburbia, exposing us to toxic smoke now filled with burning plastics and metal. | Hans Gutknecht/Media News Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Wildfires are popularly considered wild — restricted…

David Sacks at is one of President Donald Trump’s most important advisers on AI. | JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images As the heads of leading artificial intelligence companies came together last weekend to warn that runaway AI development could lead to c…

President Donald Trump at a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, on September 16, 2026. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letti…

Millions of people continue to struggle to pay for their insulin and having their long-term health put at risk. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images A decade ago, insulin became the poster child for America’s out-of-control drug prices.

A sign displays the price of diesel fuel at a Shell gas station in San Diego, California. | Zoe Meyers/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of…

AI doesn’t need to go rogue to threaten the power grid — it just needs to hack into the control rooms like this one. | Kristen Norman/Bloomberg via Getty Images Nearly two decades ago, a group of researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory ran a secret e…

Will Kamala Harris run for president in 2028?

Voting booths at a polling location. | CJ Gunther/Getty Images Throughout the Trump era, Democrats have wrung their hands about how they can win over working-class voters.

Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh at a news conference on September 16, 2026. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take

AI risk activists protest near Downing Street in London, England, on on September 16, 2026. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Is AI going to kill us all?

Ed Sheeran (left) and Macklemore perform during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Kevin Winter/Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stori…

Why do I cry when I see a donkey?

The Gates Foundation is betting $1 billion that AI can help make the world a better, more equitable place. | Stefan Jerrevang/TT News Agency On stage at Davos in the Swiss Alps earlier this year, Bill Gates, before an audience of the global do-gooding eli…

If you felt a gust of wind late on Friday, it came from hundreds of immigration lawyers who simultaneously exhaled after the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case known as Genalo v.

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Mail-in ballots are prepared at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 11, 2026. | Allison Joyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most…

A baby beluga at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. | Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Two years ago, Marineland of Canada — a theme park in Niagara Falls that trained beluga whales, dolphins, and other animals to perfo…

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Protesters at a rally to stop AI development in New York City, September 15, 2026. | Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Irreplaceable Education Fund Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI.

President Donald Trump walks by Chief Justice John Roberts in February 2026 at the State of the Union address. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images On Monday evening, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in United States Pos…

Attendees wear "Billionaire Tax Now" shirts during a campaign kickoff event for the California Billionaire Tax Act on February 18, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. | Tim Rue/Bloomberg via Getty Images If there is one thing Democratic politicians can agree

Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention on September 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. | Alex Wong/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump ad…

Demonstrators rally during a protest outside Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco, California, on July 11, 2026. | Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most com…

The weather forecast might still be screaming “summer,” but the calendar betrays the truth: The holidays are going to be here before you know it.

President Donald Trump has spent years making false claims about election fraud, including his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.

Diesel fuel prices in the United States topped $6 a gallon for the first time ever. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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Some families are paying thousands of dollars to keep their kid in a sport that they love. | John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images In the last decade, the cost of youth sports has skyrocketed.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rudy Giuliani arrive ahead of the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan on September 11, 2026. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in…