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Beshear endorses Dembo in race for Kentucky's sixth congressional district
Dembo is looking to flip Kentucky’s sixth congressional district from red to blue
Maine’s Primary Ballot Is Crowded With Members of Political Dynasties
Among other candidates with ties to prominent officials, a senator’s son and a Bush scion are running for governor.
Pro-Israel Group Pushes for Haley Stevens in Michigan Senate Race
The main super PAC tied to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee released its first ads backing Ms. Stevens, a moderate congresswoman locked in a tight three-way primary.
Live Results: Nevada midterm primaries
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo will face six Republican challengers in a state primary on Tuesday, while six Democrats will compete for the nomination to reclaim the seat in November.
Democrats Accuse Republicans of Meddling in Maine’s Second Congressional District Primary
A mysterious group has spent $500,000 to elevate a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary race for a key House seat.
House Votes to Advance $70 Billion G.O.P. Immigration Bill
The test vote cleared the way for final passage of Republicans’ megabill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Trump’s term.
Opinion | The Good That Can Come From Platner’s Candidacy
The Senate race in Maine is a chance to do away with inconsistent standards applied according to political bias.
A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random
Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.
Watchdog Group Skeptical of Vows to End Trump Administration’s $1.8 Billion Fund
Two sets of lawyers noted that while senior department officials said the fund would not move forward, they declined to offer assurances that this would hold in the future.
Opinion | Science Should Not Be Subject to Loyalty Tests
The proposed O.M.B. rules would ravage the world’s most productive scientific enterprise.
Social Security retirement trust fund will run dry in 2032 unless Congress acts
Tens of millions of retirees and other Americans could see smaller monthly Social Security checks in six years if lawmakers don’t act to shore up the program’s finances, according to an annual report released Tuesday by Social Security’s trustees.
Artemis III Astronauts to Wear Prada Spacesuits
Prada and Axiom Space unveiled the bodysuit that will go to the moon.
Caught on Camera: Six burglars sought following break-in at Germantown business
Police released surveillance footage after six men were caught on camera after breaking into a business on Germantown Ave. on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
Six Years on, Local Businesses Still Feel Effects of March 2020 Tornado
Asphalt Beach and FLWR Shop return to East Nashville, while High Garden charts new location
Six are elected to the NBA wing of the L.A. Times Sports Hall of Fame
Six people have been elected into the Lakers/Clippers wing of our Los Angeles Times Sports Report Hall of Fame.
From Trump to Messi, Iran to ICE, politics and sport collide at the biggest World Cup in history
The biggest World Cup ever is about to kick off with 48 teams playing 104 matches across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, transforming North America into the center of the soccer world for nearly six weeks.
Democratic Group Kicks Off $50 Million Midterm Blitz in Conservative Strongholds
American Bridge is hoping that Republicans are vulnerable in parts of the country that had been exceedingly tough terrain for Democrats in recent elections.
Will Platner Scandals Dampen Democratic Vote? What to Watch in Tuesday’s Primaries.
Any indication of tepid support for Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, will be seen as a warning sign about his chances against Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent.
Medical Advances Are Keeping a Health Reporter Busy
A conversation with Gina Kolata, who covers breakthroughs in medical science.
Alcohol’s Health Risks Accelerate After One Drink a Day, Study Finds
The alcohol industry has criticized the research, which found that even light drinking increases the risk of premature death.
Trump Previews Fall Strategy With Baseless Claims of California Vote Fraud
The president is using the slow count of mail ballots in California to renew his effort to cast doubt on election outcomes he doesn’t like, despite a lack of evidence of any widespread fraud.
Trump Wants to Call the Shots. But in Iran, He Keeps Hitting His Limits.
President Trump is grappling with his own version of the sort of Middle East crisis that beset his predecessors, and that he promised to avoid.
Videos Show Chinese Businesses Hawking North Korean Labor
On social media, Chinese entrepreneurs are touting cheap labor across the border, as trade between the two countries regains momentum.
We can create the future of science right now
Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.
A judge ruled Brendan Sorsby can play for Texas Tech after gambling on his own teams. It’s the latest college sports stunner
This is how sports betting and athletes have intersected for much of the past six months.
‘The Targeted’: Six characters in search of a plot
A Red Orchid Theatre's world premiere of Hanna Kime's “The Targeted” on the Chopin Theatre Mainstage takes a provocative look at a problematic subculture, but the playwright merely has a
How Banks Are Using the SpaceX IPO to Woo the Super Rich
Wall Street is giving its richest clients velvet rope access to this week’s public listing of SpaceX, reflecting the growing importance of the wealth management business.
Planting Magic at Disney World
Alumna Neva Grace Brescia, who majored in agroecology and sustainable food systems, has spent the last six months sowing a bit of wonder as a plant science intern at Walt Disney World.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Nevada’s state primary
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo will face six Republican challengers in a state primary on Tuesday, while state Attorney General Aaron Ford, Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill and four others will compete for the Democratic nomination to reclaim the seat in November
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Nevada’s state primary
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo will face six Republican challengers in a state primary on Tuesday, while state Attorney General Aaron Ford, Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill and four others will compete for the Democratic nomination to reclaim the seat in November.
Gaining Insights into Navigating a Doctoral Program
Six PhD students received support from CRA-WP and Northwestern Computer Science to attend the community-building conference in March.
Resuming War Is a Short-Term Political Boon for Netanyahu, but Grim Choices Await
If President Trump forces Israel to stand down against Iran, analysts say, it could leave Israel hindered from responding forcefully to attacks by Hezbollah.
The American Family Is at a Breaking Point. Our Politics Have Finally Noticed.
Society has treated parenting as a private endeavor. But what if raising children is also a public good?
One event, 5 disciplines: combat sports kicks off in Brasilia
All the action of a FISU World University Championship multiplied by five: this is what to expect over the next six days in Brasilia, where ju-jitsu, karate, muaythai, wrestling and wushu student-athletes will meet. The FISU World University Championship 2026 season will leave Gothenburg, Sweden, on 7 June to pop up on the 8 June […]
Rangers' Jacob deGrom: Blanks Guardians across six innings
Rangers' Jacob deGrom: Blanks Guardians across six innings
Six Flags Great Adventure's summer additions show the park is investing beyond rides
Six Flags Great Adventure's new summer lineup has A Great Day Parade, Boardwalk Nights, DC Heroes & Villains Fest, and more.
How Six Flags’ Expanded Membership Model At Six Flags Entertainment (FUN) Has Changed Its Investment Story
In recent weeks, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation expanded its flexible Membership program to six additional parks, introducing year-round, multi-park access with regional tiered options and low monthly payments to strengthen guest loyalty and recurring revenue. This shift toward a subscription-style model is material because it increases revenue predictability, deepens customer engagement, and may reshape how investors assess the resilience of Six Flags’ business. We’ll now examine how...
$1.2 Million Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative Makes Awards to Early‑Career Scientists at UC Davis
The University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce new awards totaling $1.2 million from the Bridge Funding Initiative supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. This investment will provide critical resources to six high‑impact basic science projects during a period when early‑stage research often faces significant funding uncertainty.
Opinion | The Biggest Day in Sports History
Sixty years ago, the rival NFL and AFL announced a merger.
Moran named Chicago's chief technology officer
Kevin Moran, a City Hall veteran, has been promoted to chief technology officer.Mr. Moran replaces John Tolva, a former IBMer who left City Hall last fall and joined engineering and consulting firm PositivEnergy Practice.Mr. Moran has worked for the city's Department of Innovation and Technology for six years, most recently as director of IT. He previously worked for General Growth Properties, a Chicago-based real estate investment firm.
Trump Says He Never Promised No New Wars, Defends Compensation Fund
In a lengthy interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president again vowed that gas prices would go down when the war in Iran ends.
Hegseth Criticizes Europe Over Migration ‘Invasion’ in D-Day Speech
The remarks from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reflect many of the Trump administration’s previous assertions on immigrants in Europe, which overlap with the language of European far-right political parties.
Trump Looms Over Pivotal Republican Senate Runoff in Georgia
The president has not yet endorsed Representative Mike Collins or Derek Dooley, a former football coach, in the race to challenge the Democratic senator, Jon Ossoff.
Trump Says Iran Has Made a ‘Big’ Nuclear Promise. It Isn’t New.
President Trump’s boasts of securing a commitment from Iranian leaders not to develop a nuclear weapon have puzzled nuclear experts who note that Tehran has made that pledge for more than 50 years.
RFK Jr. Appears Disengaged on Many Health Department Matters Beyond Vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.
Christine Hunsicker, CaaStle CEO, Confessed to Fraud. The Board Let Her Stay in Charge.
The final months of the fashion tech start-up CaaStle included fake audits, stock buybacks and a damage control strategy led by the chief executive who defrauded it.
Nationals' Brad Lord: Slams door for six-out save
Nationals' Brad Lord: Slams door for six-out save
Dodgers on Deck: Sunday, June 7 vs. Angels
The Dodgers finish off their shortest homestand of the year with their third and final game of the weekend against the Angels at Dodger Stadium. Emmet Sheehan closes out his two-start week by starting in the series finale, after lasting at least six innings in three of his last four starts. José Soriano starts for […]
Senators Warn of Intelligence Gaps if Surveillance Program Expires
Two senior Republicans urged the Trump administration to prepare for the possible expiration of a contentious intelligence-gathering authority.
Royals 3, Twins 2: Blowing it Scott-Style
Close and late situations are not the friend of the 2026 Minnesota Twins. After a leadoff homer made it 1-0 Royals, Joe Ryan settled down for six innings of one-run ball, as Royal righty Luinder Avila matched him with five two-hit frames, walking three and allowing one run in a bases-loaded, no-out situation that the […]
Southwest eyes deeper revamp; MAX 7 service seen in 2027
Southwest Airlines expects Boeing's long-delayed 737 MAX 7 to enter revenue service in 2027, about six months after the aircraft is certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson told Reuters on Saturday.
LocaL student wins first place at Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair for her nature, bird-inspired research project
Captivated by a small lemon-lime songbird perched outside The Rhoades Middle School, sixth-grader Adhara Sethee was eager to focus on the species for an upcoming research project, seeking research data from the Encinitas-based Nature…
Troy player 'Jabe Ruth' proves college sports can be saved with the most patriotic home run you'll ever see
Troy Trojans catcher Jabe Boroff, dubbed "Jabe Ruth," hit six home runs in the NCAA tournament as Troy nears its first College World Series trip.
The Bidens Return With New Book and South Dakota Speech Targeting Trump
The re-emergence of the former first family has been fraught for some Democrats who just want to move on.
NFL landing spots for Brendan Sorsby after appeal falls short
A look at six teams that could have interest in Brendan Sorsby if he enters the NFL Supplemental Draft.
Sorry, I’m Not Available. Talk to the A.I. Me.
The hot new productivity hack for C.E.O.s and Harvard professors? A.I. twins that answer questions and attend meetings.
Opinion | Graham Platner and the Rise of the ‘Dirtbag’ Democrat
And what the Maine candidate reveals about politics today.
Opinion | Want to Change Your Life? Become a Dad.
The benefits of fatherhood are deep and long lasting.
Screwworm Flies Add to Cattle Ranchers’ Woes
Some Texans fear “the nightmares and the horrors” of a potential screwworm outbreak. Elsewhere, not enough grass to feed cattle sends them to market earlier.
Six Home Runs Powers Washington Nationals over Arizona, 14-1
The Washington Nationals tied their season high with six home runs in a 14-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks
Laboring Under Delhi’s Harsh Heat, Workers Must Choose Health or Wages
Severe heat waves have been hitting India since April, forcing many of the country’s essential workers to make tough decisions.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Season Pass 2 Announced, Includes Six New DLC Packs
Who's up next?
Jays Crushed By Orioles
Orioles A Lot Blue. Jays A little. That was less than fun. Everything that mattered happened in the bottom of the fifth and the top of the sixth. The Jays scored two in the top of the fifth. With two out George Springer reached on catcher interference, yet again. They are going to name catcher […]
Trump Greets Farmers in Wisconsin, but Says He Could Be Home Watching TV
President Trump was in Wisconsin to reassure farmers who have been stung by his tariff policies and rising fuel prices from the war in Iran.
Amid Mounting Democratic Concern, Platner Says His Past Is Being ‘Weaponized’
The presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Maine said the state would have his back in the face of accusations he has denied
Trump Says Bill Pulte, His New Intelligence Director, Should Slash Staff
The president suggested that employees who worked for previous Democratic presidents were among those who should be fired.
Arts and entertainment this week
A listing of arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Arts and entertainment throughout the region
A listing of arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Brayan Bello Optioned: Boston Makes Bullpen Addition in Trade
After today’s disastrous outing, followed by some post-game comments that didn’t land well, Red Sox starter Brayan Bello has been optioned and sent down to Triple-A Worcester. Bello’s horrible run over the last couple of months came to a close on Thursday, giving up six runs in the first inning against the Baltimore Orioles. In …
Graham Platner Controversy Deepens Democratic Unease Before Maine Senate Primary
The party’s politicians, officials and strategists wrestled with how to respond to new reporting about Graham Platner, with worries rising about his vulnerabilities in a general election.
Where rookie Lewis Bond’s skillset fits in Houston’s offense
Texans sixth round receiver is carving out a role for himself in a crowded room.
Chuck Schumer Privately Backs Haley Stevens in Michigan Democratic Senate Primary
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, has remained officially neutral on the race, but in conservations with donors, he has been clear about which candidate he supports.
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
In this month’s picks, fatal fungi and killer calamari. Plus, lots of zombies (and a few podcasters).
Will Apple Launch New Hardware at WWDC Next Week?
Apple has several hardware releases in the pipeline, but will we see any of them unveiled at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference? WWDC is primarily a software event where new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS take center stage, but it's not unusual for Apple to introduce new hardware during the developer conference. Take WWDC 2017, for example, where Apple first unveiled the original HomePod over six months ahead of its launch.
2026 NBA draft profile: Philadelphia 76ers prospect Christian Anderson
Here is a look at potential Philadelphia 76ers prospect Christian Anderson out of Texas Tech.
Senate blocks extending surveillance program following backlash over intel pick
Six Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in opposing the measure, which would have set up a final vote next week
Official: Napoli make Alisson Santos’ move permanent
Napoli confirm Alisson Santos has completed a permanent transfer to the Stadio Maradona after an initial six-month loan spell from Sporting CP.Brazilian winger Alisson Santos has completed a permanent...
Africa CDC and WHO launch joint continental Ebola response plan
The six-month plan, covering June to November 2026, aims to raise US$ 518 million to support African countries together with partners to prepare for, rapidly detect and respond to the outbreak.
Backed by Trump, Opposed by Putin, and Fighting for His Political Life
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia is seeking re-election as his country weighs questions of war and peace, of autocracy and democracy, and of subjugation and independence.
Is it possible to die of grief? Science confirms that intense bereavement raises the risk of death
Prolonged sadness after the loss of a loved one nearly doubles the likelihood of death within 10 years, although the risk is higher in the first six months
Chelsea consider €30m deal for Juventus defender Cambiaso
Chelsea are considering a move to sign Andrea Cambiaso from Juventus after the Italian side missed out on Champions League qualification.Juventus are planning sales this summer after a sixth-place fin...
House passes Ukraine security aid bill over objections of GOP leaders
The legislation only reached the floor after six Republicans broke ranks to force a vote.
In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes
Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.
Trump’s Fraud Claims in California Could Undermine Confidence in November Result
The president is claiming without evidence that the lengthy counting process in California, which could help determine control of Congress, means Democrats are stealing the election.
US Small Business Hiring Plans Drop to Lowest Since May 2020
The share of US small businesses saying they’re planning new hires or are having trouble filling jobs fell in May to a six-year low, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.
Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior
The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine could be charming, women said in interviews, but some found his actions intimidating and disturbing.
Jan. 6 Rioter Is Hired to Work in Sensitive Pentagon Office
It was not clear who hired Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to various offenses at the Capitol and was later pardoned by President Trump.
Bears downplayed Chicago talks as Arlington Heights push advanced
Records obtained by Crain's show six conversations between City Hall and team attorneys as Springfield lawmakers weighed legislation sought by the Bears.
Senate Voting on Motion to Bar Trump From Creating Compensation Fund
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, introduced the motion. A handful of Republicans have indicated that they would support such a measure, which needs just 50 votes to pass.
Casper Politics in the Park series launches June 10 with US House candidates
CASPER, Wyo. — Six Republican candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives will answer voter questions at the Washington Park bandshell on
Inside SpaceX’s Rockets-to-Riches I.P.O. Plan
The latest prospectus by Elon Musk’s company underscores its confidence in its planned market debut. But skeptics see reasons for concern.
Chicago Cubs news template
Jameson Taillon had an “L” attached to his name Tuesday despite a fine six-strikeout performance.
Opinion | Melinda French Gates: America Needs a Menopause Revolution
Too many women walk out of their doctors’ office with no diagnosis, no treatment and no plan.
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees
When you turn A.I. agents loose on your finances, email and customers, what could possibly go wrong?
Urban Light Pollution Might Be Worsening Allergies
Light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer and stronger, according to new research.
Google Photos on Android finally gets this handy feature months after iPhone
Google Photos on Android is finally getting the saved "Stickers" album in the "Collections" tab six months after it rolled out on iOS.
Shohei Ohtani Dominates After Dodgers ‘Empty the Tank’ vs. D-Backs
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has been an amazing pitcher during his starts every sixth game, and Wednesday was no different vs. the Diamondbacks.
ArtBeat: Spotlight on the local arts events and entertainment
Here’s a closer look at what you can expect from the area’s events: June 4– June 10: The weekly preview of arts and culture events in the Greater Knoxville area is included in the Arts & Cultural Alliance. Summer Movie Magic: The Tennessee Theatre’s family-favorite Summer Movie Magic Series returns with three dates and six […]