2+ week, 6+ day ago   (68+ words) Massachusetts’ top environmental regulator is taking heat after it “missed” records it had been asked to hand over in a records request....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (513+ words) President Donald Trump’s Friday decision to waive tariffs on ground beef imports from Argentina has raised questions about his motivations, as concerns emerge over the quality and safety of the imported product. Trump said that for the next 90 days, the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (260+ words) The Washington Post will be forced to reinstate a columnist fired for a series of distasteful social media posts made following Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Karen Attiah categorized Kirk as a “white [man] who espouse hatred and violence,” in the immediate…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (832+ words) Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether. Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (527+ words) Medicare’s drug price controls could restrict Americans’ ability to access care and potentially drive up costs in the long term, according to analysts. “These results are inevitable consequences of price controls,” Marchese continued. “They never make the underlying costs or…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (337+ words) The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to extract oil and gas near United Nations-designated historic sites, despite pleas from the international organization. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) told the Guardian that it had learned…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (450+ words) In Michigan, three candidates running on a platform of blocking, restricting, or seizing control of artificial intelligence companies swept their Democratic primaries. In Wisconsin, another data center opponent came within just a few thousand votes. Depending on who you ask,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (408+ words) Finn Gomez for The Boston Globe Republicans fear the opposition to artificial intelligence data centers could cost them Ohio’s hotly-contested Senate race, according to a recent leaked memo. Negative views of data centers pose a problem for Republican Sen. Jon…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (608+ words) Rural Texas conservatives are fed up with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over his failure to address concerns surrounding data centers, power lines, pollution, and strain on the electrical grid and water supplies. Shawn Nanny, a Republican county commissioner in West…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (758+ words) Taiwan is proposing a record defense budget for 2027 as the island pours more money into its military amid mounting pressure from China and calls from Washington for Taipei to shoulder more of its own defense burden. China claims Taiwan as…...