How can people use the internet in authoritarian countries like China, Russia and Iran without revealing their identity? Are there workarounds besides VPNs and proxy servers?...
François Picard is pleased to welcome independent journalist Laura Jadid sharing a piercing exposé of systemic dysfunction, ethical erosion, and authoritarianism blossoming in the US. In an era marked...
Barbara Ford, 83, works in the medical field. Laura Thompson for BI This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barbara Ford, an 83-year-old registered nurse and patient advocate for a healt...
US President Donald Trump told Iranian protesters on Tuesday that “help is on its way” as he weighed options to punish Tehran for its brutal crackdown. As the threat of military action looms, analysts...
Donald Trump's second presidential term has seen a rapid rise in the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But who are these people, and where is the US government finding them?...
The sun was already beginning to set as Portlanders in weatherproof jackets and fleeces lined up around Revolution Hall. It wasn't yet 5PM on a Wednesday but the crowd was gathering well before the to...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...
As President Zelensky says today that peace talks are progressing and that a U.S. security guarantee is “100 percent there,” awaiting only formal approval from President Trump, there has so far been n...
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/are-we-all-plagiarists-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744968 Points: 28 # Comments: 11...
ICE officers have made over 2,500 arrests in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images The AFL-CIO has endorsed a Minnesota economic blackout on January 23 in response t...
Community donations at Smitten Kitten (left and right), and BabyBel Mozzarella the cat (middle), are supporting Minnesotans. Mikayla Stanek (Smitten Kitten); Vanessa Beardsley (Catzen) January is typi...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality. (Image credit: Stephen F. Somerstein)...
Article URL: https://lpeproject.org/blog/immigration-agencies-are-openly-defying-federal-courts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695986 Points: 43 # Comments: 1...
America's hospitals are dropping their labor and delivery services. skaman306/Getty Images 60% of rural counties offered no labor and delivery services in 2023, a new report found. Many pregnant patie...
Article URL: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669404 Points: 60 # Comments: 13...
Iranians in exile are being targeted by the regime's secret services, which is believed to be responsible for thousands of deaths since the start of the mass protests in Iran....
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
Democrats are threatening a government shutdown after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti was a 37-year-old US citizen and intensive care nurse. DW has the latest....
Democrats are threatening a government shutdown after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti was a 37-year-old US citizen and intensive care nurse. DW has the latest....