Meta to Pay Up to $17 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
Meta on Wednesday reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes…
14 Newborns Die in Hospital Fire in Pakistan’s Capital
Fourteen newborn babies died on Wednesday in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, after a fire broke out in a nursery of the city’s largest hospital, according to officials. It was the deadliest…
Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is loudly warning that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that urgently addressing the risks should be…
U.S. ‘Economic D-Day’ Targets More Than Just Iranian Oil
Frustrated on the military front by its war with Iran, the United States has announced an “Economic D-Day,” threatening to punish any country or entity that does business with Tehran…
E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
The Trump administration is moving to make it harder for communities to weigh in on proposed data centers, even as a backlash against the behemoth projects grows across the country.…
Major Study Finds at Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE
Since the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. was first scientifically linked to football about 20 years ago, and as hundreds of former professional football players have been diagnosed with…
Laptop Fire on American Airlines Flight Injures at Least One Passenger
A laptop computer caught fire on Friday aboard an American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth, injuring at least one passenger, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The flight…
The Price of Bread
Katrin is away this week; I’ll be your host. We’re going to start the week by looking at the trouble in the world’s breadbaskets. One of the most ominous facets…
A Murder Trial in Massachusetts
In the hours before the courthouse in Plymouth, Mass., opens, hundreds of women clad in pink have been massing outside. They’ve come to support Lindsay Clancy, the mother on trial…
Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland
On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 1,700…