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Car & Driver: “A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study …
The New Republic: “The movies, books, paintings, and songs whose impact extended beyond culture to society as a whole.”
Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote. AP, June 24, 2026. “A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote. …
The Guardian: “… Last year on the Fourth of July, a small group from Dallas-Fort Worth held a night-time noise demonstration, setting off fireworks outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility south of the cities, in solidarity with the detainees. A few protesters broke away and spray-painted graffiti on employees’ cars and …
ScienceDaily – “Beneath our feet lies a vast hidden fungal superhighway that helps sustain much of life on Earth—and scientists have now mapped it for the first time. Researchers estimate that these underground networks stretch an astonishing 110 quadrillion kilometers, move about 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide into soils each year, and play a …
Washington Post – no paywall: The Interior Department’s guidance instructs parks staff not to confirm deaths, the severity of injuries or other details. “…recent internal guidance prohibits park staff or other Interior Department employees from directly notifying the public about the deaths. The department, which oversees the National Park Service, had not issued any statements …
The New York Times – The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly: “Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in a month aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than any other …
MakeuseOf: “On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Fable 5 to much fanfare. It was the first publicly available version of its Mythos-class model, the most capable AI model the company had ever shipped to the general public, and within hours, it was sitting at the top of just about every major benchmark. It beat both …
News on any topic. Trusted sources only. Journalist-built AI with 12,000 vetted sources and real-time fact-checks. NewsGuard today launches NewsGuard AI, the first chatbot designed to provide trustworthy responses by only accessing reliable sources. With NewsGuard AI, you can: Get fast, reliable answers based on reporting from journalists around the world, with prominent links to …
AI Vision by GPTZero [free & fee] – At the current rate, AI-generated content will dominate every major platform within a decade. AI Vision scans the text on your feed as you browse and highlights what’s AI-generated. GPTZero scans millions of posts daily — identifies the ones that went viral and our model caught as …
SciLight: “At a time when public access to reliable climate information can feel increasingly uncertain, more than 80 scientists have stepped forward to help protect it. That is one of the most important details behind today’s launch of the full Climate.us website: the new independent, nonprofit climate information platform has already built a volunteer network …
Washington Post – no paywall: “A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in The analysis used the same methodology that CDC’s interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to be published in the weekly scientific report of the Centers for Disease Control …
