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A DNA test upended my family. Do I side with my grandmother " or her secret child?
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (324+ words) 23and Me, Ancestry DNA, and other tests come with a hidden cost to families. Here's advice on how to handle it....
Why Trump is investigating E. Jean Carroll
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (23+ words) Why Trump's DOJ is investigating a woman who accused him of assault....
MAGA's civil war over immigration is over. Silicon Valley lost.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1372+ words) Trump is threatening to exile hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants. The Trump administration announced last Friday that US visa holders who want a green card must first return to their home countries and apply from there, "except in extraordinary…...
The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (489+ words) A religious fight is brewing in the Lone Star state....
Two ways Trump's Cuba standoff could end
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (934+ words) Cuba could be ready to cut a deal " but it's not clear the Trump administration is interested....
Trump's new plan to quash leaks
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (357+ words) The Trump administration want federal employees to sign NDAs. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration wants federal employees to sign broad new non-disclosure agreements. The second Trump administration has previously implemented NDAs " and in some cases, polygraph tests " at…...
A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (1096+ words) Justice Barrett wants Trump to be able to fire everyone in the federal government. Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led "government efficiency" project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump's first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of…...
Trump does not look desperate to end the war in Iran | Vox
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (579+ words) Despite everything, the president is holding out for more before he ends the war. There's an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might…...
I asked a billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn't go well.
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1238+ words) The contradiction at the core of big-money environmental giving. After I pressed Kaplan about the impact of his mining work, he said we could talk more about it another time. But when I reached out a week later to set…...
Your boss thinks AI makes you faster. Do you?
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (957+ words) If you've ever used an online patient portal to message your doctor in the middle of the night, you won't be surprised to learn that responding to those messages takes an increasingly big bite out of clinicians' workdays. So in…...