The News One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters. Marc Elias has argued dozens of cases around mail-in balloting and election access across the country and in front of the Supreme Court over the last decade. But he has also ...
Day: October 5, 2026
CEO’s podcast sparks tensions atop The AtlanticCEO’s podcast sparks tensions atop The Atlantic
The Scoop Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson was talking about the media business on Vox’s podcast last month when host Peter Kafka asked him: How was the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, feeling about the growing success of Thompson’s personal podcast? “We make a lot of money on the stuff I do,” ...
AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalismAI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism
The Scoop A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is pledging $10 million by the end of 2027 to fund mainstream and independent coverage of artificial intelligence. The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism plans to announce that it is launching an institutional grantmaking fund, which executive director ...
Alleged flydubai attacker left Australia without finishing engineering course, university saysAlleged flydubai attacker left Australia without finishing engineering course, university says
RMIT confirms co-pilot was a student as Australian authorities examine his time in country between 2015 and 2017 An Australian university has confirmed a flydubai co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack an Israel-bound flight studied at its Melbourne campus, but left before completing his qualification. Disaster was narrowly averted on ...
Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificedSkull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificed
Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found fractures in several ancient skulls. The royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa’ab near Abydos ...
US air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF FairfordUS air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF Fairford
A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been “re-deployed to their home stations” in the US. ...
Brazil election goes to run-off as right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first roundBrazil election goes to run-off as right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round
With neither candidate getting more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October. ...
Watch: How Brazil’s dramatic election unfoldedWatch: How Brazil’s dramatic election unfolded
Millions of Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the country’s presidential elections. ...
Trump unveils ‘Super Intelligence Force’ to oversee AI policyTrump unveils ‘Super Intelligence Force’ to oversee AI policy
The president named his national intelligence chief as the taskforce’s head as worries over AI grow. ...
France closes up to 500 schools Monday over student protestsFrance closes up to 500 schools Monday over student protests
Lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” in some high schools after clashes between riot police and student protesters, France’s education minister says. ...