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Technology

They Knew. They Said Nothing. Now Seven Families Are Suing OpenAI.

OpenAI's safety team flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter as a "credible and specific threat" eight months before he killed eight people. Nobody called the police. Now seven families are suing.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 29, 2026

Science

After 40 Years of Failure, an HIV Vaccine Just Did Something Nothing Else Could

A vaccine strategy tested in macaques produced antibodies that neutralized more than 49% of diverse HIV strains — matching a feat the field has chased for decades but never achieved through vaccination.

Carl Sage April 29, 2026

Politics

The Supreme Court Kept the Voting Rights Act. Then It Hollowed It Out.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act opened the ballot box to Black Americans, the Supreme Court has found a way to preserve the law in name while draining it of force. Nearly 70 congressional districts could be affected.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Technology

Millions of Children Were on Facebook and Instagram. Meta Couldn't Be Bothered to Stop Them.

The European Commission has concluded what any child with a fake birthday already knew: Meta's age verification for Facebook and Instagram is a text box and nothing else. The fine could reach $12 billion.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 29, 2026

Environment

The Green Energy Boom Is Poisoning the Mekong

Toxic runoff from rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is draining into the Mekong, threatening 70 million livelihoods — all to feed global demand for EVs, wind turbines, and weapons systems.

Rae Carlsen April 29, 2026

World

Stabbed in Golders Green: Antisemitic Violence Returns to London's Jewish Heart

London police declared the Golders Green stabbing a terrorist incident. It is the violent culmination of weeks of arson attacks on Jewish institutions across north London, some claimed by a group with suspected links to Iran.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Politics

Yoon Gets Seven Years for Blocking His Own Arrest

Yoon Suk Yeol used his own presidential security forces to prevent his lawful arrest. On Wednesday, an appeals court made that decision worth seven years in prison — on top of a life sentence for insurrection.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Business

The Fed's Next Chapter: New Chair, Same Impossible Math

The man poised to lead the world's most powerful central bank wants to cut interest rates. Oil above $100 and inflation at 3.3 percent have other plans.

Maynard Keys April 29, 2026

Technology

Musk Built OpenAI. He Left. Now He Says It Was Stolen.

Musk poured $38 million into a nonprofit called OpenAI, then walked away when he couldn't control it. Now he's in federal court, calling the company's $852 billion success 'charity theft' and demanding it be undone.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 29, 2026

Environment

Tropical Deforestation Slowed in 2025. Eleven Football Fields a Minute Is Still the Rate.

The world lost a Denmark-sized expanse of tropical rainforest in 2025. That was the good news — and a potential El Niño could undo even that.

Rae Carlsen April 29, 2026

World

Food, Fuel, Medicine: Hormuz Blocks What Millions Need Most

$130,000 of vital medicine for 20,000 people sits stuck in a Dubai warehouse. Aid agencies are demanding a humanitarian corridor through the strait of Hormuz — because the war's deadliest consequences may be thousands of miles from the fighting.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

World

'You'd Be Speaking French': Charles Brings Charm and Coded Warnings to Washington

At a White House state dinner, King Charles reminded Donald Trump that without the British, Americans would be speaking French. The joke was the easy part — everything else was encoded diplomacy aimed at a president dismantling the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Von Clause April 29, 2026