Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96. Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and then the United Farm Workers of America, working with Cesar Chavez. From 1965 to 1970, the union organized the historic Delano grape strike, which ended in major gains for farmworkers’ labor rights.
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Last night, hackers stole approximately $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The whole thing reportedly took about 20 minutes. It was the biggest theft in the history of the sector, and also probably the biggest financial heist of all time, topping the $1.
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Many a heavy-handed metaphor has been constructed on the claim that Washington, D.C., is built on a swamp. This hoary cliché is also, for the most part, untrue—but the neighborhood Foggy Bottom, home to the State Department, really is former marshland.
This is perhaps fitting.
The film Josephine opens with one of the most upsetting sequences in any movie this year. In it, the titular 8-year-old girl accidentally witnesses a woman being raped at a park near her home.
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AI hacking swarms are poking holes across the internet at such a rate that some cybersecurity professionals have dubbed this month “Black October.” The AI-cybersecurity professional Alex Stamos argues that it’s time to be proactive rather than reactive, and that might mean rewriting the code for the internet in newer programming languages that could make all of our online systems and personal information safer.
Weak scholarship was once easy to spot at a glance: The signs included bad writing, a lack of relevant citations, and little engagement with previous scholarship, such as a paper that promised a “novel” conceptual framework without acknowledging the many other papers making similar claims. As an associate editor of a bioethics journal, I’d make a quick “desk reject” decision and not send these articles for peer review, which effectively killed any hope of publication.
We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people.
Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights violations.
The former presidential candidate says he’s not running in 2028, but he’s doing everything he can to help Iowa candidates.
We gave up what makes life meaningful in order to do it.
“No one seemed to be concerned about ‘heritage citizens.
A monopoly on mortgages is finally loosening. Homebuyers aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.
What’s alarmist and what’s real about artificial intelligence. Plus, how lawmakers are dealing with a situation they don’t really understand.
Meta makes a deal to keep Zuckerberg happy as Musk eyes a power-consolidating merger.
No regulator has found the drugs safe or effective, but a VA official says as many as 2.1 million ex-service members could find them helpful.
Calley Means’ departure is the latest sign that Kennedy’s supporters are unhappy with how the White House is treating them.
The Treasury Department’s proposed restrictions on U.S. investment in Chinese biopharma collide with Beijing’s new export curbs on cutting edge biotech innovations.
Democrats’ confidence in their health care message is showing up on the airwaves and the debate stage.
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
In a Canberra Playbook Podcast interview Jim Chalmers accused Liberals of wanting Australians to suffer, as their path back to power.
Jim Chalmers warns global pressures mean more domestic pain.
The Louisiana Republican’s comments come as both Democrats and Republicans have been forced to find ways to address the backlash against data centers.
We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi and Pakistani British writer Tariq Ali. They are co-authors of the new book The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle.
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Last Halloween, I answered a knock on the door to find a young trick-or-treater dressed as a toilet. Not just any toilet—Skibidi Toilet, a disembodied head that pops out of a toilet and is a villain of the eponymous YouTube miniseries about an army of such creatures conquering Earth. I was visibly puzzled and asked him a series of questions.
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Children with their faces painted pose in a field of cempasuchil (marigold) flowers during preparations for the Day of the Dead celebration at Rancho San Juan Diego, in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Jalisco, Mexico, on October 24, 2026. On November 2, Mexico will celebrate the Day of the Dead to pay tribute to deceased family members and friends.
Many Democrats have a post-midterm dream that goes something like this: Pete Hegseth, the push-up-loving, beardo-mocking former Fox News host who has led the Pentagon for almost two years with bombast and theatrics, is either fired or hauled before their new majority in the House to face impeachment—which would make him just the third Cabinet secretary in history to face such a sanction.
Unto every season is given a certain kind of book. When the new year beckons a new you, self-help thrives. Breezy beach reads rule the summer. Cookbook recommendations abound in the lead-up to Thanksgiving. Curiously, publishers told me, Easter is big for picture books (which are easy to stick in a basket next to the chocolate bunny). And Halloween is for horror. Time to bust out some Shirley Jackson (or perhaps some Stephen King or Edgar Allan Poe).