1 Oct 2026, 5:09 pm
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.
1 Oct 2026, 5:07 pm
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has faced accusations of antisemitism since his mayoral campaign, was never going to please everyone with his plan to "combat antisemitism." On Tuesday, when he unveiled the city's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, the plan predictably drew criticism. As Josh Appel wrote in UnHerd, Mamdani's plan failed some of his supporters' "anti-Zionism purity test." As Appel noted, the pro-Palestinian influencer Guy Christensen wrote tha…
1 Oct 2026, 5:01 pm
On Monday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County. My amicus brief in Suncor has received a decent amount of attention--but not all of it favorable. Perhaps because I have been critical of much climate regulation and litigation, some were surprised that I believe Boulder County has the better of the preemption arguments here. Michael Buschbacher, Managing Partner of Boyden Gray PLLC, is among those who think I have erred. Inde…
1 Oct 2026, 5:01 pm
A failed execution in Tennessee is raising more questions about the state's capital punishment protocols after Christa Gail Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection Wednesday evening.
1 Oct 2026, 4:58 pm
All the latest news from the 7.45pm BST kick-offsLive scores | Nations League tables | Email MichaelWe are underway in all of the 7.45pm BST kick-offs!Republic of Ireland (3-4-2-1): Kelleher, Scales, O’Shea, Egan, Manning, Coventry, Azaz, Abankwah, Moylan, Idah, Parrott. Continue reading...
1 Oct 2026, 4:54 pm
Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he's away.
1 Oct 2026, 4:50 pm
France's prime minister called an emergency Cabinet meeting Thursday to discuss growing protests across the country by students in recent days.
1 Oct 2026, 4:47 pm
From yesterday's N.Y. appellate division decision in People v. Herrnkind: On November 5, 2001, the defendant and her codefendant, her husband, abused and killed their three-year-old daughter. In 2004, the defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to a determinate term of imprisonment of 25 years, to be followed by 5 years of postrelease supervision…. In 2022, the defendant moved … to vacate her sentence and to be resentenced unde…
1 Oct 2026, 4:45 pm
Questions remain about how a pilot managed to sneak a weapon aboard a plane and stab his fellow pilot before it plunged thousands of feet in mere seconds. The attacker was thwarted, passengers said, and the plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. “We were so scared. We didn’t know what was going to happen,” Aviatar Alevi, a 17-year-old student, told NBC News on Wednesday after he and the rest of the passengers were flown to Tel Aviv. Here is wha…
1 Oct 2026, 4:45 pm
Rick Ross, the Miami rapper who founded Maybach Music Group, surrendered to Miami Beach police on Thursday, 1 October and was booked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on one felony count of battery by strangulation and one misdemeanour count of battery. Related Articles R&B Singer Jacquees Allegedly Punched Officer During DUI Arrest After Being Found Asleep in JeepThird Suspect Arrested in Tasia Fortune Death as Police Say Hanging Scene Was 'Stag…
1 Oct 2026, 4:44 pm
Ynon Kreiz, as David Ellison’s right-hand man at the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, is getting a big pay bump over his pay package as CEO of Mattel. Kreiz, 61, signed an initial five-year employment contract with Paramount. He starts Oct. 5, one day before Paramount is set to close its $111 billion merger with Warner […]…
1 Oct 2026, 4:39 pm
Two weeks after the Jev model took the AI world by storm, Cloudflare has released its own pair of "Clef" decision models that it claims are smarter and faster than Jev, while also being open weight and runnable locally. The Clef family of decision models was announced by Cloudflare on Thursday, and consists of two models: Clef and Clef-flash, a slightly smaller and faster version of the model. For all intents and purposes, they work the same way as TypeSafe’s Jev,…
1 Oct 2026, 4:39 pm
Addressing a showbiz crowd, the mayoral candidate says she’s uniquely positioned to represent the industry.
1 Oct 2026, 4:36 pm
⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm BST kick-off⚽ Live scores | Ballon d’Or power rankings | Email DanielWe’re playing injury time in the two early games, in which it’s Austria Wien 1-0 inter and Køgø 5-1 Servette.Also going on: Continue reading...
1 Oct 2026, 4:36 pm
Previously: NASA to bump telescope back into space to avoid it falling to Earth. It didn't work. Why: An attempt to save NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve recognition, government and commercial space officials said in a recounting of the mission.
1 Oct 2026, 4:34 pm
On Wednesday, Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq witnessed something remarkable: the final withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from the country. The exodus marked the end of more than two decades of U.S. intervention in Iraq, which began when President George W. Bush sent some 150,000 soldiers into the country to depose Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. Despite Bush's infamously premature declaration of victory in May 2003, tens of thousands of U.S. forces spent the next eigh…
1 Oct 2026, 4:34 pm
Emergency vehicles arrive at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 30, 2026, after Christa Pike's execution was halted. AP Photo/George Walker IVChrista Pike survived an execution attempt in Tennessee on Sept. 30, 2026, after receiving two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal drug. Gov. Bill Lee has temporarily suspended executions in the state. Pike became the first person ever to get full doses of the drugs intended to kill her and to…
1 Oct 2026, 4:33 pm
Clouds will break for some sun today and we're tracking rain for part of the weekend.
1 Oct 2026, 4:33 pm
Warner Bros. TV and Fox Nation are butting heads over the latter’s upcoming series, “The Vow,” hosted by former “Bachelor” host Chris Harrison. In the letter obtained by Variety, sent Sept. 18, WBTV, the studio that produces “The Bachelor,” sent a cease and desist to Fox Nation, claiming the new series appears to be, through […]…
1 Oct 2026, 4:33 pm
Before he ordered US forces to seize Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump asked an AI chatbot what would happen. TIME’s new cover story on the president, published on Thursday, reports that Trump put the question to Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, during a private Oval Office meeting with Musk in December 2025.
1 Oct 2026, 4:32 pm
The court said the issue isn't in the realm of antitrust laws and should be decided by lawmakers. Publishers have seen drops in search traffic because of AI overviews.
1 Oct 2026, 4:32 pm
The world's oceans absorbed a record 23 zettajoules of additional heat in 2025, almost 40 times the energy humanity used that year, according to the 10th Copernicus Ocean State Report. Produced by Mercator Ocean International with contributions from more than 100 scientists, the report was published on 30 September. Related Articles Earth's Glaciers Lost Enough Ice to Fill 560 Million Olympic-Sized Swimming Pools in Three Years, UN WarnsScientists Say the Ozone Laye…
1 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
Defense-focused senators are giving a cool reception to Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s proposal to cut by 20 percent the nation’s admirals and generals. Several lawmakers said they had not seen the rationale for Hegseth’s argument, while others clearly wanted to talk about other things. “No, I certainly want to see his rationale in detail,……
1 Oct 2026, 4:29 pm
The filmmaker taking on Kenya’s colonised tea plantations…
1 Oct 2026, 4:29 pm
“President Donald Trump has new ammunition he can use in his campaign against his perceived opponents at the Federal Reserve, although a watchdog report released Wednesday found no basis for criminal charges stemming from the Fed’s costly headquarters renovations,” CNBC reports. “Combined with separate disputes involving governors Lisa Cook and Michael Barr, Trump’s decision to pin the headquarters spending issues on former Chair Jerome Powell means the pr…
1 Oct 2026, 4:28 pm
“President Trump will join Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman to campaign in upstate New York next week,” the New York Post reports.
1 Oct 2026, 4:27 pm
The new guidance comes after several vehicle stops ended in shootings.
1 Oct 2026, 4:27 pm
Request for Clancy, 36, to be acquitted turned down nearly a month after first trial ended with deadlocked juryThe judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there was not enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children.On Tuesday, Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington tried to persuade Judge William Sullivan that prosecutors had not offered any proof…
1 Oct 2026, 4:26 pm
“Primetime” is a box office overachiever, but the subject of the A24 film calls it a “complete work of fiction.” Lance Oppenheim’s movie centers on “To Catch a Predator,” the popular “Dateline” segment that ran from 2004 to 2007. In the show, an advocacy group with adult decoys posing as children would chat with online […]…
1 Oct 2026, 4:25 pm
The firm managing President Trump’s “$Trump” coin announced it would be hosting an “exclusive” gala for the top 185 holders of the coin, featuring the president as a speaker. “An evening with 3 Legends and President Donald J. Trump — plus a private meet & greet with a legend to be announced,” the description of……
1 Oct 2026, 4:24 pm
The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children.
1 Oct 2026, 4:20 pm
ICC and Axa terminate agreement amid mounting US criticism and looming financial restrictions on the court, FT reports.
1 Oct 2026, 4:15 pm
Also: Sentencing in $16M Phishing Case, Charges in $16M Fraud CaseThis week, Bitget lost $387 million, hackers used famous personalities to make malicious extensions look legit, an American was sentenced in a $16 million phishing case, a Vietnamese man was charged for a $16 million scam and an old Magic Eden access left $5.7 million at risk.
1 Oct 2026, 4:15 pm
The most hotly anticipated TV show of the year is here! And a number of the stars – ahem Grant Mitchell – are struggling already …Warning: this article contains spoilers for episode one of The Celebrity Traitors.So – have they managed to capture lightning in a franchised bottle again? The new series of The Celebrity Traitors, more hotly anticipated than Nigella entering the Bake Off tent, is here. Twenty-one contestants of varying levels of fame, but never d…
1 Oct 2026, 4:13 pm
The family of a North Philadelphia woman found dead inside her home is remembering her kindness as her longtime partner faces a murder charge in connection with her death. Maria Pagan was found dead from blunt-force trauma to the head inside her home on West Erie Avenue on Sept. 24. Police said Melvin Rivera, Pagan’s longtime partner, was taken into custody two days later. He is now charged with murder. Police have not publicly released a motive. If you…
1 Oct 2026, 4:11 pm
Reuters: “The Democratic wave may crash hardest in states Trump won by wide margins, though Republicans are also significantly underperforming in Georgia and North Carolina, where Trump won by 2 and 3 percentage points, respectively.” “The volume of unexpectedly competitive states could scramble the final stretch of the campaign cycle as top officials assess where to spend their war chests.” MS NOW: In red states, some of Trump’s former supporters turn on…
1 Oct 2026, 4:10 pm
Ethiopia says it will shut its embassy in Asmara, declares 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata.
1 Oct 2026, 4:10 pm
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly accused the prosecutor of attending a game in Atlanta in an effort to tie him to a Georgia prosecution of President Trump. It’s a remarkable……
1 Oct 2026, 4:09 pm
NA Yesterday, in Global Nurse Force v. Trump, the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision blocking the Trump Administration's $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas (which are used by tech firms, research institutions, and other organizations to hire immigrant workers with various specialized skills). Federal district Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr. ruled that the imposition of the fee violated the Administrative Procedure Act (AP…
1 Oct 2026, 4:09 pm
The Orange Order and members of the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition have arrived at Hillsborough Castle for further talks over the Drumcree parading dispute.
1 Oct 2026, 4:08 pm
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been contacted in the United Kingdom about Man City's financial breaches.
1 Oct 2026, 4:07 pm
Massachusetts Judge William Sullivan has denied Lindsay Clancy's motion for a required finding of not guilty.Sullivan had denied a similar motion when her mistrial was declared on Sept. 4, and denied a renewed attempt Thursday after defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued earlier this week that Plymouth County prosecutors had failed to introduce enough evidence at trial to prove his client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."There was evidence introduced, both physic…
1 Oct 2026, 4:05 pm
More than $237m will be distributed to drivers over firm labeling them independent contractors and not employeesLyft agreed to pay the state of California $272.5m on Thursday to settle claims that it stole drivers’ wages by mislabeling them as independent contractors rather than employees.Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, called the agreement a “landmark win for workers” and said it was the largest settlement involving wage theft claims in the sta…
1 Oct 2026, 4:04 pm
It's Oktoberfest time, and in this week's Art of Aging, we're taking you inside a long-standing German delicatessen in Northeast Philadelphia to meet the family that's been running it for more than 50 years.
1 Oct 2026, 4:03 pm
British Counter Terrorism Policing announced a sixth man was arrested in London on suspicion of planning an attack at the RAF base in Fairford.
1 Oct 2026, 4:03 pm
OpenAI has told more than 100 organisations that its AI models did something on their websites or systems that they should know about. The company disclosed the figure on Wednesday in an update on its review of what its models did online before and around the Hugging Face break-in, and it says the number will grow.
1 Oct 2026, 4:02 pm
Six sources from Syria, the US and Lebanon told Reuters news agency the reported meeting aimed to calm tensions.
1 Oct 2026, 4:02 pm
President Trump on Thursday said “it’s possible” the Iran war could cost him the November midterm elections by risking Republican control of the House, Senate or both. “Well, it’s possible. It should help,” Trump told reporters outside the White House before heading to a campaign rally in the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. “Because Iran will……
1 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Manufacturers looking to include sustainable upholstery, mattresses and vehicle seats in their product lines will soon have an environmentally friendly alternative to the petroleum-based polyurethane (PU) foams currently used for these applications.
1 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Colm Feore, Mustafa Speaks, Bobbi Salvor Menuez and Francesca Xuereb are all elevated when the Billy Bob Thornton series returns.
1 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Hyundai is getting ready to show off its latest Tucson in the US for the first time, and you can watch it happen from home.
1 Oct 2026, 3:58 pm
Jurors were told Thursday that TV writer Eric Weinberg posed as an amateur photographer in order to lure seven women to his Los Feliz home where he sexually assaulted them. Weinberg, 66, was a writer and producer on “Scrubs,” “Californication” and other shows. He has been in jail since 2022 awaiting trial on 23 counts […]…
1 Oct 2026, 3:55 pm
Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his latest cuts to the military’s senior ranks, accusing the Pentagon chief of “playing Russian roulette” with U.S. national security. “This is just unbelievable,” Manner said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “The Lead.” “It’s sophomoric,” he added. Hegseth announced plans to cut 20……
1 Oct 2026, 3:55 pm
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning employers in the state from solely using artificial intelligence to discipline or fire workers.
1 Oct 2026, 3:54 pm
WTA announces ‘major milestone’ in fight for equalityCombined WTA 1000 events to award equal prize moneyAll combined WTA 1000 tournaments will award women equal prize money to the men from 2027, the Women’s Tennis Association has announced, with the Italian Open and other major events joining the rest of the category in offering the same payouts.Billie Jean King has often said that she was moved to form the women’s professional tennis circuit…
1 Oct 2026, 3:54 pm
Captain Smit Machchhar from India is recovering from stab wounds he suffered in a Flydubai flight altercation.
1 Oct 2026, 3:53 pm
The nation's highest court will hear arguments in the coming months in its latest case involving religious rights.
1 Oct 2026, 3:52 pm
Pike’s lawyers have asked for her death sentence to be commuted following the botched execution.
1 Oct 2026, 3:51 pm
TV’s best entertainment show is back – with an unbelievably star-stuffed lineup. But who will be the faithful and who will head straight for the tower?Michael Sheen is the first contestant we meet, the man with the dramatic heft to really sell that he isn’t actually going to spend the next few night sleeping at an Inverness airport hotel.Then Maja Jama, then Joe Lycett, then all the others. Julie admits that she’s easily starstruck, James Blunt comes in dres…
1 Oct 2026, 3:51 pm
Joel Myers, the founder and executive chair of State College-based AccuWeather, joined luminaries who have shaped the media industry with his induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame on Tuesday night in New York City. Considered the father of modern commercial meteorology, Myers was honored for a pioneering career that brought weather forecasting to the masses while leading the way in adapting new technology. He was inducted as part of a 2026 clas…
1 Oct 2026, 3:49 pm
Quick Apps could already bring live data into an app from connectors and content sources: action connectors (services like Jira, Slack, and Google Drive), Spaces documents, web search, and AI inference all run at view time, not build time. The solution introduces live structured data from your data lakes, databases, and other analytics data stores. Your governed Amazon Quick Sight datasets, the SPICE and Direct Query tables that hold your business metrics, couldn’…
1 Oct 2026, 3:47 pm
New York law treats intoxicated victims differently depending on whether they willingly consumed alcohol or drugs.
1 Oct 2026, 3:47 pm
The viral brand's latest limited-edition mockneck is part of its ongoing partnership with Pink Aid.
1 Oct 2026, 3:47 pm
“Vice President JD Vance laid into a protester, calling him a ‘Democrat plant’ and a ‘clown’ as he was heckled multiple times during a speech in Florida,” Mediaite reports. Said Vance: “Ladies and gentlemen, that guy was nothing more, as we know this is not a representative voter from the state of Florida, that guy is a Democrat plant. He wants to raise your taxes and release illegal aliens on the streets of Florida.” He added: “Well, we kicked him…
1 Oct 2026, 3:45 pm
Attacks on Palestinians in the area are growing at unprecedented levels.
1 Oct 2026, 3:45 pm
The 25-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, marking the sixth arrest in connection with Sunday's incident near the airbase.
1 Oct 2026, 3:44 pm
The seventh episode of “Lanterns” reached 7 million viewers in the U.S. in its first three days of availability. That total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on HBO’s cable channel plus streams on HBO Max. The DC Universe series has shown strong viewership thus far, averaging above 12 million viewers […]…
1 Oct 2026, 3:44 pm
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said Thursday the central bank will wait to evaluate incoming economic data before deciding whether to hike interest rates again. “As we look ahead, my view is that any future adjustments in policy should be determined by carefully examining trends in the data, the evolving outlook, and the balance……
1 Oct 2026, 3:43 pm
We are going to share this again and again and again, because he is the man who, in a few words, has cut through the bonkers-ness of the early release system.He said: "I'm 50. I've been in and out of jail all my life. I've got 360 convictions. I've got an addiction to stealing. This didn't help me."I'm gonna have to go. I don't know, I'm gonna go stealing again. I'm gonna go back and say help me this time."So he is going to go back to stealing. Isn't that completely…
1 Oct 2026, 3:42 pm
A D.C. judge ended the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute an Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
1 Oct 2026, 3:42 pm
President Donald Trump will campaign for Texas and Oklahoma candidates Thursday, hoping to boost their prospects in states seen as solidly Republican.
1 Oct 2026, 3:42 pm
“Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) received a cease-and-desist letter Wednesday from attorneys representing Rebecca Cooke, his Democratic challenger for Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, over the use of AI deepfake videos against his opponent,” the Washington Sun reports.
1 Oct 2026, 3:41 pm
A post on X purports to show additional group-chat exchanges linked to the civil case over allegations concerning Cornell University's Chi Phi fraternity, including a message in which one participant appears to say that a woman 'had fallen asleep'. The post also purports to include explicit imagery, which has not been reproduced here. Related Articles Cornell Police Flagged 'Alcoholic Drinking Games' and Unregistered Frat Event Before 2022 Sexual Assault AllegationN…
1 Oct 2026, 3:41 pm
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday he served OpenAI with a subpoena as part of a probe into cybersecurity incidents involving the ChatGPT maker. Bonta previously opened an investigation into the company after its AI agents hacked into the tech startup Hugging Face. But he said the recent subpoena was part of a……
1 Oct 2026, 3:40 pm
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.
1 Oct 2026, 3:40 pm
The New York Times has shared new details about a 2024 accusation of gang sexual assault at Cornell University; they appear to strengthen District Attorney Matthew Van Houten's argument that there was not a compelling legal basis to bring charges against seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity. But try telling that to the social media mob, which is going to absurd lengths to identify and destroy the seven men, who now face a lawsuit from the alleged victim, known…
1 Oct 2026, 3:38 pm
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
1 Oct 2026, 3:37 pm
The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.28%, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the average rate was 6.34%.
1 Oct 2026, 3:37 pm
“The Republican-led Congress has left Washington until after the midterm election, abandoning efforts to address voters’ angst over affordability even as President Donald Trump’s economic approval hits new lows,” Bloomberg reports. “After some fits and starts, GOP lawmakers failed to act on record diesel prices they acknowledge are crushing farmers and truckers. They ignored Trump’s call to shrink credit card swipe fees and a bipartisan plan to cap insul…
1 Oct 2026, 3:36 pm
The Philadelphia City Institute Library and WHYY present American Masters – American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, a portrait of the pioneering playwright and filmmaker.
1 Oct 2026, 3:36 pm
The floodwaters from the weekend nor’easter have receded at the Jersey Shore, but authorities are warning residents and business owners about another potential danger: fires involving electrical equipment exposed to flooding. The Ocean County Fire Marshal’s Office said it has investigated about eight fires during and since the nor’easter. Floodwater coming into contact with electrical equipment may have contributed to the fires igniting, officials said. All…
1 Oct 2026, 3:35 pm
Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike is hospitalized in critical condition a day after two botched lethal injection attempts in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, Pike's attorneys said Thursday."Christa is alive right now," Randy Spivey, one of her lawyers, told reporters in a news briefing delivered over Zoom Thursday afternoon. "We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment."Due to limited information and health…
1 Oct 2026, 3:34 pm
Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her in what Tennessee’s governor called a “deeply disturbing” outcome. Pike, who was sentenced to death in a 1995 murder, was taken to a hospital Wednesday night after she received a double dose of the drug Tennessee uses to execute prisoners but survived. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis…
1 Oct 2026, 3:33 pm
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is alive and receiving treatment after she was given two lethal injection doses during a failed execution at a Nashville prison, her attorneys confirmed Thursday.
1 Oct 2026, 3:32 pm
Donald Trump has said he is confident Cornell University will 'do what's right' over an alleged gang rape at one of its fraternity houses. He spoke days after a New York prosecutor reopened the case and said he would present it to a grand jury. Related Articles NAU Fraternity Leader Gets Two Months in Jail After Pledge Dies With Blood Alcohol Level Five Times Legal LimitCornell 7 Case Sparks Backlash After Man Asks Why Woman Drank 10 Shots: 'Men Shouldn't Be Trusted…
1 Oct 2026, 3:32 pm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic over the potential dangers their models pose to consumers. The probe, confirmed by an FTC spokesperson, follows months of warnings about the growing cybersecurity and safety risks associated with AI models. OpenAI and Anthropic in recent months revealed multiple incidents……
1 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm
A majority, 65%, of U.S. adults now blame Trump's policies for persistently high costs more than factors outside of his control, signaling growing weariness over his aggressive use of tariffs and continued unhappiness with the war with Iran.
1 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm
My 2013 book, Unprecedented, offered this vignette about how Chief Justice Roberts fled the United States to a safe refuge after the decided NFIB v. Sebelius. The day after the Court's term concluded, he left the country to teach at a summer program for law students in Malta, organized in part by the South Texas College of Law, where I teach. Before he departed, Roberts joked that he was retreating to an "impregnable island fortress." Students found Roberts was in v…
1 Oct 2026, 3:29 pm
Have a question about Philly’s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from you! Ask us a question or send us a story idea you think we should cover. Philadelphia City Council is expected to consider legislation that would bar landlords from charging tenants what they consider “junk fees” — required payments that fall outside of the monthly rent. At a news conference Thursday, renters and elected officials railed again…
1 Oct 2026, 3:29 pm
A fifth person in Pennsylvania has died with measles as the state experiences its worst outbreak of the disease in more than three decades. Pennsylvania had reported 943 measles cases as of Friday, with 40% of those cases in Lancaster County, the epicenter of the state’s outbreak. As cases surge, health workers in Montgomery County are bringing the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to community vaccine clinics. The county has previously offered COVID-19…
1 Oct 2026, 3:28 pm
“Staring down his lowest approval numbers at any point in office, President Donald Trump is hitting the road for the next month, he says, in hopes of boosting Republican turnout in the midterm elections,” the Washington Post reports. Said Trump: “They like to say, ‘Oh, nobody wants him.’ Well, everybody that has me wins.” New York Times: Trump plays defense in midterm tour across Republican strongholds.
1 Oct 2026, 3:27 pm
In all, there are roughly two dozen state student loan lenders that offer broad-based assistance to help students fill education funding gaps.