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Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms

NPR - Sep 05, 2026 5:10am EDT

Burning Man attendee dies at festival

The man in his mid-50s experienced a medical emergency while attending the festival, it said.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 4:13am EDT

A fake NFL player is charged with scamming women out of more than $1 million. They weren’t his only victims.

Daejon Love and Taylor Jamie Chan were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud in Portland, Oregon.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 4:02am EDT

IIT Madras' CoE Rolls Out Four AI Models for Indian Languages

Deccan Chronicle - Sep 05, 2026 2:50am EDT

This week, Germany stopped putting up with Russia's hybrid war - Germany has been wary of calling out Russian hybrid warfare, but the discovery of two drones in Leipzig last month proved the last straw for Berlin. By - Mark Sappenfield - / 2 min

Christian Science Monitor - Sep 05, 2026 2:36am EDT

Serena and Venus Williams lose in a match tiebreaker in return to U.S. Open doubles

The sisters blew a 5-0 lead in the 10-point tiebreaker and lost 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (10-7) to Hao-Ching Chan and Maya Joint.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 11:17pm EDT

Lindsay Clancy murder case ends in mistrial

The mistrial came after an extraordinary final day in which the defense made a last-ditch appeal to Massachusetts’ top court over a juror it said was blocking a not guilty verdict. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda reports.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 8:31pm EDT

New York City Public Schools banning AI use through middle school this year -- Students in the nation's largest school district return to classrooms next week.

ABC News - Sep 04, 2026 8:00pm EDT

Judge orders Trump officials to disclose who set up the $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

The ruling comes in a lawsuit first filed by a fired Jan. 6 prosecutor and a law professor seeking to block the fund.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 7:53pm EDT

The Lindsay Clancy trial ended in legal fireworks. Did prosecutors light the fuse?

The jury left no choice but to declare a mistrial, but legal experts say prosecutors may have undermined their own case.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 7:35pm EDT

Did OpenAI’s rogue agents form a ‘civilization’? The AI industry can’t agree

Examinations of an AI-powered cyberattack reveal AI systems focused on cheating and covering their traces.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 7:08pm EDT

Judge again blocks Trump’s effort to restrict mail voting as ballots start going out

The move comes as the Trump administration appeals a related order to the Supreme Court.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 6:51pm EDT

Trump downplays Iran ‘military conflict’ as war shows no signs of ending before midterms

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance acknowledged in recent days that they don’t know when the Iran war will end, as Americans sour on the conflict and high gas prices.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 6:09pm EDT

Trump administration rolls out 5 voter fraud prosecutions ahead of midterms

Officials also released footage that shows one of the defendants — a 30-year-old from Mexico — being arrested by Homeland Security Investigations agents.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 5:54pm EDT

Aryna Sabalenka complains about the smell of marijuana during her U.S. Open match

The two-time defending champion complained to the chair umpire that it was bothering her early in her third-round victory over Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 5:36pm EDT

There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’

The Atlantic - Sep 04, 2026 4:24pm EDT

Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street

Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.

CNBC - Sep 04, 2026 4:11pm EDT

Supreme Court backs Republicans in election ad rate dispute

Republicans asked the court to allow party committees to receive the same ad discounts that candidates themselves benefit from.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 4:07pm EDT

It Was Once the Internet’s Favorite Map Website Before Falling Into Obscurity. Then Came Trump’s “Lake America” Debacle.

Downloads have surged for the app after it defied the president’s trolling.

Slate - Sep 04, 2026 3:33pm EDT

Sriharikota: ISRO Roars Back into Action

Deccan Chronicle - Sep 04, 2026 3:26pm EDT

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Register UK - Sep 04, 2026 3:25pm EDT

The view from Telluride: Are film festivals losing their pull?

Three of what are expected to be this coming awards season’s strongest contenders will not premiere at a festival, but smaller films can still build buzz.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 3:11pm EDT

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.

Ars Technica - Sep 04, 2026 1:01pm EDT

Tesla Rolls Out Cybercab Rides—and the Feds Roll Out an Investigation

Gizmodo - Sep 04, 2026 11:54am EDT