Month: May 2026

Venezuela’s oil exports reached their highest level since 2018, a surge that could have major downstream geopolitical consequences. Crude production in Venezuela — which holds the world’s largest oil reserves — has surged since the US captured former President Nicolás Maduro and replaced him with a leader who agreed to ...

Children living in specially designed two-story homes in Tanzania had lower rates of malaria, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infections compared with those in traditional mud-and-thatch houses, a three-year trial found. The children in the homes were also taller for their age than those in traditional houses, the study published in ...

Nature has retracted a paper that claimed AI had a positive impact on student learning.  The original paper, titled “The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis,” was originally published in May of last year by Jin Wang and Wenxiang Fan ...

A new, bipartisan bill introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world—including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in “AI literacy,” something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools. The Literacy in Future ...

This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation.  Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda. In an email to presenters selected ...

Mayor Burkhard Jung said a suspect was detained and the motive was unclear. ...

Trump’s war in Iran, gas prices and corruption dominate messaging as special election nears to fill Senate seat It’s tough to beat the prices at Golden Dawn, an Italian restaurant that first opened its doors in 1932 on the north side of Youngstown, Ohio, and where a hamburger and fries ...

A host of stars have gone down with injuries this postseason. For as long as the league resists change, its players will pay the price Should we just cancel the rest of the NBA playoffs and declare injuries the winner? They’ve already dominated this postseason far more than one team ...

Yes, Trump might carry them to victory in the midterms. But he can’t carry them much longer – especially not in the 2028 elections All told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have the ...

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to ...