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How Online Shopping Lost Touch With Reality
Consumers might think they have more control than ever, but they’re really just fumbling in the dark.
America Forgot About IBM Watson. Is ChatGPT Next?
The AI conquered Jeopardy before it was sanded down into business tools. The same trajectory is playing out again.
Why Pope Francis Isn’t With the West on Ukraine
His unusual stance on the war shows just how fast his Church is changing.
What Authors Know About the Power of Words
Our means of communication are changing rapidly: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
Greenpeace USA Wins Free Speech Battle Against Canadian Logging Giant’s $100M SLAPP Lawsuit
A judge in California has dismissed a seven-year $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA that threatened the group’s existence. Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products sued Greenpeace in the United States and Canada for defamation after the group exposed the company’s irresponsible practices, part of a pattern of corporations attempting to use the burdens of the legal process to intimidate, exhaust and censor activists.
William Barr Torches Former Boss Donald Trump: ‘Horror Show’
Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera asked the ex-attorney general about Trump’s fitness for the White House.
William Barr Torches Former Boss Donald Trump: ‘Horror Show’
Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera asked the former Trump attorney general about Trump’s fitness for the White House.
Former GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Fined Over Gun At Airport
Cawthorn pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after his loaded gun was found last year in his carry-on luggage at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Biden Knocks ‘Honest’ Kevin McCarthy For What He ‘Sold Away’ To Become Speaker
The president is set to meet with the GOP House speaker and other congressional leaders at the White House to discuss raising the debt ceiling.
Ron DeSantis May Be Plotting To Topple Another Democratic Prosecutor In Florida
State Attorney Monique Worrell says the Republican governor is building a baseless case to remove her from office.
At Least 8 Fake Electors Have Immunity In Georgia Election Probe
Sixteen fake electors met in December, 2020, and signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the presidential election.
CDC head resigns, blindsiding many health officials
Rochelle Walensky acknowledged the agency did not meet expectations during the pandemic and launched a reorganization.
The job crunch hits the White House as Biden searches for a new pandemic czar
“They approached everyone.
Freedom to Learn: Nat’l Day of Action Targets Ron DeSantis, “Anti-Woke Cabal” over Book Bans & More
This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools.
In E. Jean Carroll’s “Heroic” Rape Trial Against Trump, His Team Calls No Witnesses. Will He Testify?
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Thursday in the rape, battery and defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll without calling a single witness. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. Carroll was able to file the case against Trump decades later because New York opened a one-year window on the statute of limitations for adult survivors of sexual assault.
Guilty: Four Proud Boys Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection
Four members of the far-right Proud Boys organization, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted Thursday of seditious conspiracy for trying to keep Donald Trump in office by force after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. The men could face decades in prison for their actions. A fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but convicted on other charges. We look at the Proud Boys, their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S.
DeSantis courts evangelicals with strict abortion law; opponents counterpunch in his backyard
A multi-million-dollar initiative would roll back one of DeSantis’ signature policies by allowing abortion until a fetus is viable at about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
For Black Americans, the pandemic spike in fentanyl deaths was decades in the making
A new CDC report shows that more Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021 and at far higher rates than whites or Hispanics.
A new portrait of American teenagers in crisis
The CDC’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey offers a troubling window into high school students’ physical, emotional and mental health
Lawyers suggest a way around abortion pill restrictions but doctors may be afraid to try it
Doctors can prescribe abortion pills off-label if courts impose restrictions.
Lawmakers line up behind plan to save Medicare
Health economists fear their cost projections are too rosy.
Health care access for trans youth is crumbling — and not just in red states
The impact of gender-affirming care bans — inflamed by the rhetoric on the right about “child grooming” — is rippling beyond Republican-controlled states.
American Voters’ Achilles’ Heel
Comedic timing is no measure of fitness to lead, but humor has become a nonnegotiable trait for presidential contenders.
Bing Is a Trap
Tech companies say AI will expand the possibilities of searching the internet. So far, the opposite seems to be true.
Tucker Carlson Was Wrong About the Media
The ousted Fox News host misrepresented the tenor of discussion.
The Goopification of AI
A new generation of chatbots is poised to become the next frontier of self-help—and could reveal the truth behind Americans’ obsession with lifestyle gurus.