September 2026
In ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me,’ a family seeks healing under the LAX flight path
LOS ANGELES | Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández, who grew up nearby, the incident sparked a coming-of-age story that grapples with the contradictions of life under the LAX […]
Denver opens its first college student residence for those facing homelessness
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. DENVER | During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell had had enough. It was winter, and she was cold. She was bouncing to and from family members’ houses and sometimes could only afford one meal a week. Harrell came to school overwhelmed and crying. […]
Exclusive: Board of Peace quietly met with UNRWA, ex-agency chief says
JERUSALEM | As the U.S.-created Board of Peace pushes ahead with plans to rebuild Gaza, it has said there’s no place for the U.N. body that for decades has provided support to displaced Palestinians. But the agency’s last chief says that behind the scenes, board members and others have been more open to working with […]
Pope Leo XIV affirms need for media to cover public figures when asked about Trump ban
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE | Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House and affirmed the importance of journalists covering public figures. Leo spoke to reporters Friday on his way to France for a four-day visit. […]
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Read more REEL NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in Friday’s NewsMinute video Read more Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios Read more 40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late
REEL NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in Friday’s NewsMinute video
Read more Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios Read more 40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late Read more California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios
In a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence’s rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance, coordinating there with one another. Could a swarm of AI agents take over the entire internet? It’s a possibility that could be only six to […]
40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late
NEW YORK | The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. Election officials said the plan is both inadequate and belated after the administration gutted the […]
California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
SAN FRANCISCO | A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election on statewide congressional […]
Trump administration turns to Supreme Court as third-country deportations are thrown into question
WASHINGTON | A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday. The administration said the ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came Wednesday […]