commentary A first-generation Greek-American reckons with fire, migration and the homeland he left behind Published August 5, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in the town of Plomari on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP via Getty Images) The news came the way itContinue Reading
When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Traitor 47 has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t know what to do” due to “bad management.” The Traitor was secondedContinue Reading
DELHI, India — “We did it!” The chant rose over Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, an 18th century stone observatory that has served as India’s designated public square for protests since 1993. Thousands of students crowded beneath the monsoon sky, phones held above their heads with news of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignationContinue Reading
What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, when did he know it and what did he hide from the American people? These were the questions at the center of a three-hour hearing served up last Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Chaired by Kentucky Republican RandContinue Reading
The Western states hold four of the nation’s 18 toss-up races as rated by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report., Read MoreContinue Reading
“Dope-smoking pedophile preacher” Timothy Chaneyfield had sex with an underage boy without telling them he was HIV positive, Florida officials say., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
A new study by researchers from the World Weather Attribution has found that human-induced climate change played a significant role in the wildfires that have gripped France and Spain in the past week. The hot and dry conditions brought about by climate change made the fires twice as likely in France and 20 times asContinue Reading
The same AI agent also tried to contact real people, sending messages and files to get them to run malicious code., The same AI agent also tried to contact real people, sending messages and files to get them to run malicious code., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
MOSCOW (AP) — The director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when the car they were in exploded, news reports said Wednesday. The state Tass and RIA Novosti agencies said that Vladimir Tkachuk was hospitalized in grave condition followingContinue Reading
Rhythmbox 3.5.0 is out and it now lets you sync podcast subscriptions and listening progress across apps. The music player’s first update in over 9 months adds a new podcast plugin that ties into the gpodder.net API so you your subscriptions and play counts can carry over between Rhythmbox andContinue Reading
The memory crisis is getting worse for Apple, which is struggling to get enough memory chips together for its upcoming iPhone 18 Pro series smartphones. That’s according to tech journalist Tim Culpan. As he details it, Apple and its assembly partners are still attempting to secure sufficient quantities of memory, and thoughContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Public health officials are looking into reports of a small potential uptick in neurologic complications of influenza in children — particularly a rapidly progressing and dangerous condition called acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). Adrienne Randolph, MD, MSc, of Boston Children’s Hospital, said she reported aboutContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Cleveland Clinic officials fired back at a conservative organization’s “Woke Alert” attack ad that asked if the large health system was “the wokest hospital in America,” saying the ad’s claims are “riddled with inaccuracies and lies.” The ad, by Consumers’ Research, says clinic officialsContinue Reading