A Santa Fe jury just sent a shockwave through Silicon Valley. On Sept. 25, 2026, First Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew presided over a landmark verdict finding Meta Platforms liable for nearly 44 million violations of consumer law. The case, brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl…
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants broke through Israel’s border and attacked communities in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Most of those killed were civilians. Yet the years since Oct. 7 have highlighted another phenomenon: celebrities increasingly…
The 340B drug discount program was intended to help low-income and uninsured patients afford medicine, not create lucrative revenue streams for hospital systems in wealthy communities. However, without oversight, that is what it has become. Congress should return the program to its intended purpose…
ABC News Australia’s new documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children, released this week, brought me to an image I couldn’t shake: a young child holding a rifle, smiling proudly. The image was jarring for another reason. I had seen it before. Not in Ukraine. In Gaza. The countries are different, the…
Clément Delangue has more reason than most technology executives to worry about artificial intelligence escaping its developers’ control. This summer, AI agents being tested by OpenAI broke into his company’s systems, accessing servers, credentials, and private data. Yet the 38-year-old CEO of…
Abdul el Sayed’s campaign reset in response to a politically bruising summer appears to be paying dividends as his quest to keep Michigan’s open Senate seat blue comes down the home stretch. The Israel critic and progressive provocateur has made overtures to crucial voting blocs where he lacked…
I have spent much of my life around war. My first combat tour was in Vietnam in 1969-70, where I served as an infantry platoon commander and later a reconnaissance platoon commander. I returned during the 1972 Easter Offensive as an aerial observer and Vietnamese linguist. Later came the evacuation…
Some of Richard Russo’s most memorable novels have depicted hard times in small towns. His 1986 debut, Mohawk, and 2007’s Bridge of Sighs both played out in fictional blue-collar backwaters in upstate New York, places where the leather industry had ground to a halt but citizens struggled on. For…
Since 2016, over 100,000 Canadian lives have been claimed by assisted suicide. The system has created no shortage of tragic tales: a 26-year-old with depression “shopped around” for a doctor to sign off on his death; a disabled man applied for medical assistance in dying because he feared going…
Advocates said they are frustrated and resigned to White House‘s inaction on abortion in the wake of a new report that the Department of Justice is standing down on the issue until after the midterm elections. Sources familiar with discussions between the administration and anti-abortion groups…