Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used[...]
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Watch: Doctors Warn Politics Is Undermining Actual Vaccine Science
Pediatricians didn’t sign up to be content creators. But when parents started walking into exam rooms rattled by something they saw online—about vaccines, about Tylenol, about autism—some doctors decided to meet them where the confusion started. Now they’re on social media, debunking[...]
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Bill to improve highway-rail crossing safety moves out of U.S. House committee
There are more than 200,000 places in America where roads cross railroad tracks at grade—no overpass, no tunnel, just pavement meeting rail. Last year, 263 people died at those crossings, including 117 pedestrians. A bill that just cleared a House committee would[...]
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Trump keeps investing millions of government money in one essential industry (and it’s not AI chips)
If you run a company, you know who owns a piece of it. Your investors, your co-founders, maybe some early employees. But what about the federal government? A New York Times analysis finds the Trump administration has quietly poured more than $10[...]
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How Trump’s ‘crony capitalism’ has shaken up U.S. business
In the America most business leaders grew up in, you competed on products, prices, and ideas. The government set the rules; the market picked the winners. But something has shifted. This year, CEOs have lined up at Mar-a-Lago with gold plaques and[...]
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Is Social Media the New Big Tobacco?
For years, parents have trusted reassurances that social media companies were learning alongside them—setting guardrails, studying risks, trying to do better. This lawsuit challenges that narrative head-on. Court filings allege that major platforms knew their products were addictive for children, harmful to[...]
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Shaw: A huge step backwards
In the early 1990s, North Dakota was the only state in the country without a single measles case. Today, it has the highest measles rate in the nation. That’s the backdrop for the latest blow: a federal panel, stacked with appointees from[...]
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America Is Better Than ‘Shoot First, Ask Questions Later’
magine walking out of a grocery store into flashing police lights. Two suspects are kneeling with their hands up, visibly unarmed. Someone nearby says a drug sale may have taken place. Yet, despite the lack of threat, an officer suddenly shoots and[...]
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Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach
Border enforcement is becoming quieter, lighter, and more mobile. Federal records show U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding its use of small, human-portable drones designed to be launched quickly by frontline agents and feed live intelligence directly into operations. The shift[...]
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Rethinking What We Choose to Measure in Schools
Sitting in a recent district administrator meeting, I found myself excited about a new student data platform my district is rolling out. This new tool, called by a catchy acronym and presented on a flashy dashboard, would collect a variety of information[...]
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Trapped in Uber’s Maze
If you’ve ever signed up for a service in seconds and then struggled to cancel it, this lawsuit may sound familiar. A coalition of 21 states, Washington, D.C., and the Federal Trade Commission is accusing Uber of steering users into unwanted paid[...]
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Man who lived in Fargo for 19 years to be deported after guilty plea to federal charges
At first glance, the charges against Jose Cadena-Velazquez seemed straightforward. In court, the story proved far more complicated. The Fargo man, who has lived and worked in the community for nearly two decades, now faces deportation after pleading guilty to federal charges[...]
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Trump signs order to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, but it’s still illegal
The federal government is taking a rare step toward loosening decades of strict marijuana policy. President Trump has signed an order directing the reclassification of marijuana, a move that could expand medical research, reshape the cannabis industry, and ease access to banking[...]
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US House passes bill to remove gray wolf from Endangered Species Act list
The U.S. House on Thursday passed, 211-204, a bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside Alaska. The bill, sponsored by Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert, would direct the Interior secretary to reissue a 2020 rule removing ESA protections[...]
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Goodbye to the Age of the Book
Reading hasn’t disappeared, but its place in American life is quietly shifting. Long, demanding books are giving way to snippets, screens, audio, and video—and with that shift comes a deeper question about how we think, argue, and learn. What once required patience[...]
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New federal water regulations draw North Dakota, industry praise; environmental groups concerned
A long-running fight over who controls the nation’s wetlands is resurfacing in North Dakota. At a public listening session in Bismarck, state officials and industry groups backed a Trump administration proposal that would sharply limit federal authority under the Clean Water Act.[...]