Opinion

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US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns

A third of the country is facing an ‘elevated risk of blackouts’ soon, an industry expert said.

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Trump Promises Action Against Offshore Wind Power Projects on ‘Day One’ of Presidency

The GOP candidate suggested he could block the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project that’s set to feature 157 turbines.

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Minnesota Supreme Court Rules State COVID Emergency Declaration Was Lawful

The state Supreme Court issued a 6–0 ruling on the matter, with one justice recusing himself.

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CDC Identifies Drug-Resistant Infections in US Patients Who Traveled to Mexico for Stem Cell Treatments

Three Americans became infected with mycobacterium abscessus after receiving stem cell treatments in Mexico, according to the CDC.

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Microsoft Investing $3.3 Billion to Build Artificial Intelligence Data Center in Wisconsin

The tech giant has committed to employing up to 2,000 people in permanent roles at its Racine facility.

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Pfizer Pauses Experimental Gene Therapy Trial After Boy’s ‘Sudden’ Death

Pfizer said it is working with regulators and the Data Monitoring Committee to learn more about the boy’s potential cause of death.

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Sacramento Won’t Boot Homeless People From Camp, Mayor Says

City leaders said they’d help residents find alternatives to Camp Resolution, which the district attorney has criticized as hazardous.

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Secret Service Says Fatal Vehicle Crash at White House Poses ‘No Threat’

A vehicle crashed into a gate at the White House complex on Saturday, killing the driver inside....

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Wisconsin Supreme Court to Decide on Mobile Voting Sites’ Legality

Suit contends that using the ‘election van’ as an alternate absentee ballot site violated state law.

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US Presses China, Russia to Declare AI Will Have No Control Over Nuclear Weapons Deployment

A U.S. arms control official said that Washington ‘would never defer a decision on nuclear employment to AI.’

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New US Vehicles Must Have Automatic Emergency Braking by 2029

NHTSA projects that the new standard will save at least 360 lives annually while preventing a minimum of 24,000 injuries every year.

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Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce Porn Age-Verification Law

The law also requires pornography websites to include ‘health warnings’ on their landing page.

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Elon Musk Concludes China Visit as Tesla Passes Data Security Requirements

The Tesla CEO said that his company is ‘willing to deepen cooperation with China to achieve more win-win results.’

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Data Breach at Kaiser Permanente May Have Impacted 13.4 Million Customers, Organization Says

Data shared with third-party vendors potentially includes member names and IP addresses.

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Tufts University Urges Students to End Pro-Palestinian Encampment so Semester Can Start

A ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ protest began on April 7 in the academic quad of Tufts University and has occupied the area since.

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Musk’s X Says Posts of Australia Bishop Stabbing Don’t Promote Violence

SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]