Author: Reporter

Democratic state parties announced on September 14 that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they’re calling the “New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up. Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting. And legal scholars are distributing white papers advising judges what they should do if the government tries to seize ballots. The unprecedented efforts are in response to Donald Trump’s equally unprecedented moves to interfere in this year’s midterm elections, which include attempts to...

For nearly four decades, Canada built its economy around closer integration with the United States. Donald Trump has twisted that dependence into leverage, imposing tariffs, threatening Canada’s sovereignty, and openly seeking to pull Canadian industrial production south. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved on. Rather than return to trade talks or wait for the next U.S. president to restore the old relationship, he is urgently building a future in which Canada is less dependent on America. In September, Carney embraced the prospect of Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member, not as a step toward full membership,...

Waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the massive logistics center outside Moscow overnight. The next morning, it was still ablaze, dark smoke rising into the sky from what was one of Russia’s largest retail warehouses. Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before starting to prepare for another attack. A small group of soldiers quickly assembled in a sunflower field in southern Ukraine, gathering around 20 small plane-like drones laden with explosives, before launching them toward Russia. The launch by the Ukrainian 413th “Raid” Unmanned Systems Regiment on Sunday morning was observed by...

A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed on September 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions. At the center of the case is the question of whether public agreement over the pace of AI development amounted to coordination among competitors rather than independent decisions...

Sister Mayela wears her black veil and habit as she walks to work near where another Catholic nun was violently attacked in Jerusalem’s Old City, but she’s now accompanied by a Jewish volunteer for protection. Many Christians in Israel, who make up less than 2% of the country’s population, are worried visible signs of their faith will draw harassment, which has increased as multiple conflicts grip the region. “I’m scared after the sister was beat up,” said Sister Mayela, a Mexican nun who’s lived in Jerusalem on and off for more than two decades. “Before, one could live with...