If you ever wanted to spend a long weekend in Pittsburgh, now may be the time. Pittsburgh ranks as one of America’s coolest cities in midsummer, with an enviable average July temperature of 73.2 degrees, according to federal weather data. Much of the nation is enduring a dangerous heat wave, breaking records across the Southwest....
President Biden's first student loan forgiveness plan lasted 10 months from its proposal to death by Supreme Court. His next one could take much longer to implement, let alone challenge. The new plan will be subject to a lengthy rulemaking process under the Higher Education Act (HEA), potentially leaving the fate of relief up in...
Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist, believes that he found fragments of alien technology on the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Loeb, who calls himself the alien hunter of Harvard, went to the region searching for bits of a rare meteor, one that formed outside our solar system and reportedly crashed in...
Former President Donald Trump’s rivals are upping the pressure on him to take part in next month’s GOP primary debate, seeking to draw the front-runner onto a crowded stage as they look to put a dent in his polling lead. Trump has repeatedly signaled he is leaning against attending the first debate, scheduled for Aug....
The Biden administration has secured voluntary commitments geared at managing the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) from seven top companies, the White House has announced. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Facebook parent company Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI have made the voluntary commitments, which include a pledge to develop mechanisms of watermarking to help users determine...
House Democrats are blasting Republicans this week with charges of hypocrisy for lionizing a pair of IRS whistleblowers while fighting to defund the agency, at large, over allegations of corruption and bias against conservatives. The Democrats say Republicans have undermined the legitimacy of their own star witnesses through months of attacks on the agency they...
The fallout from a pair of stories published by the student-run news organizations at two of the nation’s premier universities has highlighted the power of the independent student press on their campuses. The Daily Northwestern, which covers Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and the Stanford Daily have both conducted extensive investigations into the conduct of...
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who newly revealed to have traveled to Jeffrey Epstein's island in 2014, has poured thousands in donations into several vulnerable Senate races.