It’s Labor Day, not Union Day. American workers deserve freedom of choice

As summer comes to an end, many Americans are looking forward to the first celebration before fall: Labor Day. A day to recognize the American worker, whose hard work and dedication make our standard of living possible.Yet every year, union bosses exploit this American tradition by stealing the spotlight from workers to argue for more coercive powers from the government. Instead of celebrating the workers they claim to "represent," union officials use this day to bullhorn rhetoric and wield poli...

America’s massive labor crisis started in the classroom, not the workplace

America has nearly 7 million unfilled jobs. Some of those positions remain open because employers can't find workers with the right technical skills. But ask business owners directly and you'll hear something different.Too many candidates can't show up on time; struggle to take initiative or accept constructive criticism. They can’t solve problems without detailed instructions, nor can they handle an ordinary setback without falling apart.Politicians and pundits might blame globalization, automa...

DR BEN CARSON: The woke machine is lying in wait for a political comeback

We all remember how bad it got. Just a few short years ago, it felt like every major institution from corporate America, to media, to universities, to Hollywood, to our own government had decided that half the population was the enemy. Speech was policed, businesses were pressured, and ordinary Americans found themselves locked out of basic services for holding the wrong opinions.A lot of people are now saying that chapter is closed. "Woke 1 was crazy," Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez said recently,...

AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say

Data centers are running into a wall of public anger in the United States over their thirst for water and power.

Dutch elm disease ravaged Canadian cities. Can we help trees protect themselves?

Scientists in the state of Vermont have spent the summer spreading Dutch elm disease to thousands of trees. It's an experiment to see if a new generation of elms might have resistance to a plague that has been decimating elm populations in the U.S. and Canada for decades.

It's back to school season. Here's why there's a push to get rid of cars at dropoff and pickup

As the school year starts, the non-profit environmental association Green Communities Canada is continuing its efforts to implement pilot projects clearing regular student dropoff zones of cars.

Why more than 150 years later, Hamilton's Nine Hour Movement still matters

On May 15, 1872, 1,500 workers marched in Hamilton, demanding the workday be reduced to nine hours, a movement that ultimately failed, but paved the way for laws that protect workers today.

Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack

Reuters reports: Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack. "Purported white-hat hackers" withdrew around 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its Liquid Federation wallet, Liquid Network said in a post on X. "Liquid wallets will be impacted," their post concluded, adding "and we're sorry for any inconvenience." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

9/11 Shaped Their Lives, Even Though They’re Too Young to Remember It.

They have no memory of the buildings missing from the skyline or airports without security lines. But they have strong feelings about how to regard the legacy of the attacks.

Former USCIS official, accomplice charged in alleged $960K citizenship bribery scheme

A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases.The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for ...

LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (Reuters)

Reuters: LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M Indian space tech startup Pixxe

An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more

Amber Alert is issued for girl, 14, and fugitive father after baby found dead

An Amber Alert was issued for a 14-year-old girl. Monterey County authorities who had issued a murder warrant are saying she is also a victim as they investigate her baby's death.

US restricts government travel to Mexican border city over threat concerns

Travel restrictions have been placed on U.S. government employees in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, according to officials.The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico on Saturday issued a warning restricting government activity over an unspecified threat in Nogales, Sonora, in Mexico."Due to threat information, U.S. government activities in, and travel to, Nogales have been restricted to essential movement during daylight hours only," the U.S. Consulate General in Nogales said in a st...

Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected

A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. "Fairground AI Creator TV" is free and supported with ads describing its material as "AI Cinema": "AI-generated" can make it sound as though someone typed a sentence into a machine and came back five minutes later to find a finished movie. Fairground's catalog shows why that description can be too simple. Take Lost Garden: The Awakening of the Lantern Knight. According to its Fairground page, creator Frank Houbre wrote t...

FAVE: Foveated Adaptive Visual Encoding for Efficient Fine-Grained Visual Understanding

arXiv:2609.04392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained visual understanding depends on local detail, yet visual encoders face a trade-off between costly full-image high-resolution processing and

Where Appearance Fails, Geometry Recognizes: A CAD-Free 3D Shape Prior That Complements Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.04381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognizing specific objects onboarded without a labeled training set recurs across manufacturing and service robotics, yet the conventional renderable

FailSAE: Towards Interpretable Failure Prediction for Vision-Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.04276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved strong performance across multimodal tasks by aligning visual and textual representations in

A Systematic Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Consistency Enhancement Methods in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv:2609.04409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual language models often produce inconsistent answers to semantically equivalent questions across languages, motivating methods to improve cro

MedProb: Probing Internal Representations of Vision-Language Models for Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2609.04336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is often assumed to require medical fine-tuning, large models, or complex multi-agent pipelines. We revisit

Evidence Integration in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.04290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite increasing reliance on LLMs that reason with external evidence supplied by tools, retrieval-augmented generation, other agents, and users, how L

SharedSAE: One Feature Dictionary Across Language Models

arXiv:2609.04344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to interpret language model activations, but SAE training and latent labelling are typically repeated for eve

Evaluating Large Language Models for Forced Outage Risk Prediction: Benefits and Comparison to Machine Learning

arXiv:2609.04272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict the risk of weather-related forced outages in the distribution grid in a zero

Quantum-Assisted Memory-Efficient Training for Parameter-Intensive Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2609.04271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) has become an important part of integrated sensing and communications, paving the way for a range of contex

PerfReasoning: How Well Do LLMs Reason on Hardware Performance?

arXiv:2609.04476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Performance modeling is central to hardware design and software optimization, yet constructing these models requires structured reasoning about computat

HarvestBench: Measuring Whether LLM Agents Will Pay to Avoid Killing Animals

arXiv:2609.04444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks for the side effects an agent causes on the way to a goal already exist, but HarvestBench is the first to put a price on avoiding the side ef

Corporate Language Model (CLM): Transforming Tacit and Fragmented Enterprise Knowledge into a Sovereign, Auditable, and Executable Corporate Intelligence Layer

arXiv:2609.04377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI deployments fail not from model inadequacy, but because organizations lack a structured substrate encoding how they decide, negotiate, and

Why Better Models Can Create Riskier Systems: Evidence from LLM Agents in Financial Markets

arXiv:2609.04373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are being deployed at scale in consequential real-world systems, from financial markets to content moderation to hiring. We

A Removal Based Approach to Improve LLM Faithfulness at Test-Time

arXiv:2609.04343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for consequential decisions, making their explanations an important tool for auditing model behavior.

Data-Optimized Contingency Screening: A Machine Learning Approach to Power System Security

arXiv:2609.04300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring the security of the power system is essential for stability and reliability, especially in the event of disruption. Effective classification of

From Matching Models to Recruiting Agents: A Systematized Narrative Review of AI Recruitment Systems, Evaluation, and Governance

arXiv:2609.04286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence in recruitment has shifted the object being automated from profile pairs and ranked lists to multi-stage workflows that retrieve

TV crime show host faces execution over drugs charges in Egypt

Sarah Khalifa was sentenced to death alongside 11 syndicate members after police raids.

Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy

Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. "But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children." Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to those lazy bums over there, disarm you before you can do anything about it, and indoctrinate your ...

Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls NEW YORK/PALO ALTO, Cali

US Military Begins Mandatory Testosterone Testing For Service Members

US Military Begins Mandatory Testosterone Testing For Service Members The U.S. military is expanding routine health checks to include hormone-related testing, with new Pentagon rules requiring testosterone screening for a large portion of the force. The requirements apply to both active-duty personnel and reservists and took effect immediately, according to CBC. The biggest change affects men beginning at age 30. They will now have testosterone levels checked through bloodwork as p...

Barbara Eden, 95, says she’s ‘okay’ after last-minute cancelation of festival appearance

Barbara Eden sparked concern among fans after abruptly dropping out of a Los Angeles film festival due to what was described as a "sudden illness," but the 95-year-old actress later shared a reassuring update on social media.The "I Dream of Jeannie" star was set to be honored during the Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the Landmark Nuart Theatre on Saturday but pulled out shortly before the event was scheduled to begin."We’re sorry to share that, due to a sudden illness, Barbara Eden will no lon...

Time is now, Clemson Tigers and Dabo Swinney need to call it quits after historic run

It happened again.It's no secret that I was fairly high on the Clemson Tigers this offseason, at least relative to the nonexistent expectations many pundits had for them this year.I wasn't picking them to make a deep College Football Playoff run or win a national title, but I figured they would compete for an ACC Championship and be a darkhorse Playoff pick.THREE TEAMS RANKED OUTSIDE THE TOP-12 OF THE COACHES POLL WHO WILL MAKE THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFThen the LSU game happened.It seemed lik...

Bronson Reed returns to the ring leaner and meaner and looking like the future of WWE

The question of who is the future of the WWE may have been answered by a surprising source at Sunday Night’s Main Event.Bron Breakker and Oba Femi were initially trying to battle it out for that title. Bronson Reed answered the question for the both of them. Reed returned in his first action since suffering a biceps tear in February. He looked leaner and meaner than ever before.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKReed took out Femi with multiple chair shots and tsunamis from the top rope. ...

Dr. Robert Malone On Well-Being and 'Mental Illness' In Women

Dr. Robert Malone On Well-Being and 'Mental Illness' In Women Authored by Dr. Robert W. Malone via Malone.news, Back in 2020, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 11,000 Americans. Political scientist Zach Goldberg subsequently examined the underlying data and broke the results down by age, sex, race, and political ideology. What he found was rather remarkable. Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% reported that a doctor or other health-care provider ...

Michael Rapaport slams 'clown' Macklemore for anti-Israel performance

Michael Rapaport slammed Macklemore as a "clown" after the rapper brought his pro-Palestinian message to Ed Sheeran’s concert stage.Macklemore, 43, repeatedly called to "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind's Hall" while opening for Sheeran, 35, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey during shows on Friday and Saturday nights.On Saturday, Rapaport, 56, who is Jewish and has become one of Hollywood’s most outspoken pro-Israel voices since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, rippe...

Trick Williams wins US title after Lil Yachty survives Baron Corbin at WWE Sunday Night's Main Event

Trick Williams needed a lot of things to go right at Sunday Night’s Main Event to capture the United States Championship for the second time.First, he needed his manager Lil Yachty to last five minutes in the ring with Baron Corbin for Williams to get another shot at the title. Luckily, Yachty held his own in the ring and was able to get Williams his title opportunity despite being put through a table after the bell.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKWilliams got the match for the United ...

Dramatic video captures floodwaters bursting through glass doors of college students’ home

Video captured the tense moment when several feet-high floodwaters suddenly burst through the glass doors of an off-campus student home, sending a door panel flying across the room as water rushed inside and inundated the lower level.The incident happened Aug. 27 after severe storms brought major flash flooding to Glassboro, New Jersey, as Rowan University students were preparing to move into housing ahead of the September start of the school year.Tommy Scirrotto, a resident, said the flooding c...

US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops

Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in targeting troops. Military officials say that they have disabled trackers on a variety of computers and mobile devices, according to letters released on Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, and following reports that commercially-available tracking data has been used to target troops in the Middle East.... Wy...

A sympathetic defendant and well-crafted strategy dominated Lindsay Clancy trial

NYT analysis: Lindsay Clancy's sympathetic lawyer may have made all the difference.

Iran Threatens South Korean Assets If Seoul Joins Hormuz Mission

Iran Threatens South Korean Assets If Seoul Joins Hormuz Mission Via Middle East Eye Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi has warned that Tehran would consider South Korea an enemy and could strike its economic and military interests across the Persian Gulf if Seoul joins the US-led war on Iran. Speaking on Al Mayadeen’s The Grand Standoff, Marandi said South Korea’s involvement in efforts to secure freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz would expose its interests in the ...

The National | Deadly cargo plane crash in Miami

Sept. 6, 2026 | An Amazon cargo plane barrels off the runway in Miami, smashing into cars and killing at least five people. Torrential rain forces states of emergency in Cape Breton. And, CBC News correspondents look back at their experiences covering the Sept. 11 attacks.

At least 5 dead after Amazon cargo plane barrels off Miami runway and smashes into cars: authorities

Australia wants to allow users to opt out of social media algorithms

Social media firms face criticism over their use of allegedly addictive algorithms.

Nick Shirley Sues California Over 'Stop Nick Shirley Act'

Nick Shirley Sues California Over 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' Independent investigative journalist Nick Shirley spent the better part of a year investigating alleged fraud at nonprofits accused of diverting taxpayer funds meant for immigrant services. California responded by passing a law that makes it harder to look at those nonprofits at all. Now he is suing to have that law thrown out.  Shirley filed a federal lawsuit against the state of California on September 4, arguing that As...

Is it safe to buy a refurbished iPhone from Walmart?

Walmart provides lower-cost refurbished phones than buying from Apple directly, but you also have to navigate through more sellers and terms.

Two Fatal NYPD Shootings in One Week. What Happens Next?

Two police shootings last week underscored the challenge police officers face in confronting emotionally disturbed people who are violent or threatening violence.

Rome ramps up security around Colosseum with new ‘red zone’ targeting criminals

Rome has declared a "red zone" around the Colosseum after predatory crime, drug dealing and a violent confrontation involving roughly 50 people turned one of the world’s most famous tourist destinations into a security flashpoint.The "enhanced-control zone" covers the Colosseum, Imperial Forums and Colle Oppio and allows authorities to remove certain people whose violent, threatening or persistently disruptive behavior creates a public safety risk, according to a six-page order issued by Rome Pr...

MLB tells umpire Doug Eddings he made a mistake in demanding Cardinals pitcher straighten his hat

It's not often you see Major League Baseball criticize umpires or an individual umpire, as the league office prefers to downplay any mistakes or poor calls. But what veteran umpire Doug Eddings did on Friday during the Colorado Rockies-St. Louis Cardinals game apparently warranted such unusual treatment.Eddings inserted himself into the game, apparently believing that fans buy tickets to see umpires, when Cardinals rookie reliever Hancel Rincon entered the game to make his major league debut. Ri...

Socialism 2026 speaker slams diet industry for policing 'Black fat flesh,' calls it 'body fascism'

An activist at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago slammed the "diet industry" for policing "Black fat flesh," characterizing modern health standards and weight management as forms of "body fascism".During a session on "Health Fascism" on Saturday, author Da’Shaun L. Harrison said that the policing of "Black fat flesh" is foundational to broader "entire systems of governance." "Black fatness is made meaningful through suffering, through surveillance, and through control and the policing of ...

When are portable Apple CarPlay screens actually worth it?

Many recent vehicles had CarPlay and Android Auto built in, but if yours doesn't, you can add a portable one to your dash.

California Police Seize 2,400 Stolen Catalytic Converters Worth $4.3 Million

California Police Seize 2,400 Stolen Catalytic Converters Worth $4.3 Million A three-month investigation into widespread catalytic converter thefts in Southern California culminated Thursday with five arrests and the recovery of an enormous cache of allegedly stolen auto parts, according to KTLA. Law enforcement agencies executed several search warrants across Los Angeles and Orange counties, uncovering roughly 2,400 catalytic converters with an estimated value of $4.3 million. Ima...

Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions

A new study published Friday in AGU Advances "depicts the most advanced picture yet of how a rare but massive solar storm could affect some US industries and electric systems more than others," reports CNN. "During a 250-year solar storm, the East Coast would have widespread potential for grid failure." Researchers modeled what a Carrington Event a 1-in-150-year geomagnetic storm or even rarer could mean for the modern day. They estimate the US economy would lose about $1.5 billion to $2 bil...

Kansas State Wildcats' mascot forced to complete absurd amount of push-ups during 71-3 victory

If you were one of the lucky ones to see your college football team score more than 70 points this weekend - and judging by the offenses we saw on Saturday, that likely isn't many of you - then you're probably feeling pretty good right now.Everyone loves watching the scoreboard light up and the ball get marched up and down the field (as long as it's your team doing the scoreboard lighting and ball marching).One guy - or anthropomorphic cat - who isn't feeling too great about all that scoring is ...

Group of fans kicked out of Portland Thorns NWSL match over pro-women apparel labeled 'transphobic'

A group of eight people was confronted at their seats and ejected from a Portland Thorns match at Providence Park after stadium security flagged their pro-women apparel.Footage obtained by OutKick shows Amy E. Sousa attempting to speak with a venue staff member for about a minute as the group sat in their assigned seats for the NWSL match against the Washington Spirit.Attendees were wearing gear from XX-XY Athletics alongside shirts bearing slogans such as "Save Women's Sports," "Girls just wann...

The pros and cons of using wireless Android Auto

Wireless Android Auto delivers on the promise of making your life easier most of the time, but ditching the cable can come with a number of tradeoffs.

The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak

In recent months, we've seen the Trump administration grasp at every straw it can to appeal to youth who, by and large, think its figurehead is a spray-tanned monster concerned only with his own self-enrichment by any means necessary. Paying off TikTokers is one thing, but as an inveterate gamer, I've been simultaneously fascinated and appalled by the ways in which the White House has co-opted my beloved hobby as a vehicle for propaganda. Read the rest The post The White House built five Trump-...

Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy

Simon Foy / Financial Times: Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy Graduate

10 Smart Gadgets That Could Instantly Upgrade Your Backyard

Smart outdoor tech is changing how people use their backyards, and this handful of clever upgrades can make your space more useful and enjoyable.

Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial

During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.

Why Tasers sometimes fail to stop suspects and what weight has to do with it

Multiple Taser deployments failed to stop Pamela Cisneros, 49, during a roughly four-minute standoff in Times Square last Monday, after she allegedly stabbed two people. The attack left a 32-year-old woman dead and a 68-year-old man wounded."As multiple officers discharged Tasers, which proved to be ineffective, the subject continued to advance toward our officers with the knives," Jessica Tisch, New York City police commissioner, said in a news conference that evening. When the Tasers failed to...

"Hurry Up And Die": Michigan Democrat Joins Other Radicals In Scrubbing Past Social Media Statements

"Hurry Up And Die": Michigan Democrat Joins Other Radicals In Scrubbing Past Social Media Statements Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, A certain pattern is emerging on the far left. Political figures spend years currying the favor of other extremists with outrageous commentary, proudly proclaiming their commitment to eliminating the Senate, opening the border, and other measures. Then, they delete all of the comments and declare themselves mainstream. The idea is ...

How to use your MacBook's built-in backup tool instead of paying for cloud storage

If you're searching for a backup option and don't need to access your files from the cloud, you won't need to look beyond what Apple's macOS has to offer.

Is there alien debris on the moon? Some scientists plan to find out

New York Times: Tiny particles of alien tech may be within our reach, researchers say.

China secretly supplied Russia with parts for killer kamikaze drones

The components were allegedly disguised with a customs code for nylon and polyester.

OpenAI to set misalignment disclosure rules after agents took over a wiki

OpenAI Group PBC acknowledged Saturday that it did not publicly disclose an episode in which its artificial intelligence agents wrote to outside websites and said it will publish a framework in the co

Common problems with Apple Wallet and how to fix them

Apple Wallet and Apple Pay are great, but only if they're working properly. There are some basic troubleshooting steps when payments won't go through.

5 Dead As Amazon-Branded Cargo Jet Overshoots Miami Runway, Plows Into Tesla Cybercab Lot

5 Dead As Amazon-Branded Cargo Jet Overshoots Miami Runway, Plows Into Tesla Cybercab Lot An Amazon-branded Boeing 767 cargo jet overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, leaving five people dead and five others injured. Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 said the Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft, operated as 21 Air Flight 7598, was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico, shortly before 2 p.m. when it overran Runway 30, struck several vehicles, and came to r...

MLB legend Alex Rodriguez reveals the foods he keeps in his kitchen fridge

Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Alex Rodriguez, better known as A-Rod, hasn’t swung a bat professionally in a decade, and he revealed he eats a lot less than he did when he was a full-time athlete."During my 25-year career, I ate a lot more," the legendary MLB slugger, three-time MVP and World Series champion told Men’s Health in a video showing what he keeps in the refrigerator and pantry of his Los Angeles, Calif., home."I used to eat six times a day a lot of steak, a lot of potatoes, a l...

Pistol-packing man knocks over fairgoers forcing his way toward Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton, police say

An armed man forced his way through a crowd toward Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, knocking over multiple fairgoers before troopers stopped him at the Canfield Fair, authorities said.Troopers assigned to the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s executive protection unit intercepted Patrick M. Havas, 38, during the Sept. 6 incident, according to a statement provided by the Ohio Department of Public Safety to Fox News Digital."Havas knocked multiple fairgoers over while trying to get towards Dr. Ac...

Amy Acton campaign says armed individual lunged at Ohio governor candidate, injuring multiple people

An armed individual lunged at Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and injured multiple people Sunday in a burst of violence at the Canfield Fair, her campaign said."While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people," Acton campaign communications director Addie Bullock said in a statement."Dr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured," Bullock added. "Th...

Andrew Garfield faces backlash after telling billionaires to be 'scared' of his new movie

Andrew Garfield took heat on X after calling out "billionaires" while discussing his new movie, "The Uprising," Thursday at a Los Angeles film screening.In a video uploaded by film review website, The Movie Report, Garfield and director Paul Greengrass answered questions about the historical action drama that depicts England's 1381 Peasants' Revolt. The story takes place in the aftermath of the Black Death, when heavy taxes imposed by King Richard II's court to fund the Hundred Years' War push i...

The Slate Truck is great, but this one problem may stop a lot of folks from buying it

Slate's build-a-truck model aims to keep costs low by only including features you'll use. But it won't be popular outside the U.S.

Magnitude 3.2 earthquake strikes along prominent SoCal urban fault line

The epicenter of the 3.2 earthquake near Compton sits directly over the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, one of Southern California's most prominent urban fault lines.

Team USA basketball survives scare against Italy in FIBA Women's World Cup, secures quarterfinal berth

Team USA got all it could handle from Italy in Sunday's FIBA Women's World Cup game.The Stars and Stripes jumped out to a 19-8 lead by the end of the first quarter and held on to win by a score of 55-52, though the contest wasn't without its fair share of lead changes and controversies.Italy led by three midway through the fourth quarter and even had a chance to tie the game on the final shot where an Italian player looked like she may have been fouled.CAITLIN CLARK NOT IN TEAM USA'S STARTING 5 ...

Trump Admin Weighs Child Care Subsidies For Stay-At-Home Parents

Trump Admin Weighs Child Care Subsidies For Stay-At-Home Parents The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would allow some married couples with a stay-at-home parent to receive federal child care subsidies, an initiative reportedly championed by Vice President JD Vance, according to the New York Times.  The proposal would use the existing Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which has traditionally helped lower-income parents pay for child care while they work, attend sc...

Has National Championship picture in college football already changed after a stunning first week?

Week one of the 2026 college football season isn't fully in the books, and already the playoff and National Championship picture has already been turned upside down. And the balance of power within the two top conferences might have shifted, unexpectedly, after some shocking performances, both good and bad.While the Indiana Hoosiers are defending national champions, finished off a 16-0 season, and brought in another impressive transfer portal class under Curt Cignetti, most have expected that th...

Trailblazing Indigenous actor and director Georgina Lightning dead at 63

Indigenous filmmaker and actor Georgina Lightning has died at the age of 63. Her daughter, Crystle Lightning, announced the news online late Saturday night, just before 11 p.m., though no details about the cause of death were shared.

Iran threatens greater force if US launches more attacks

Iran's top negotiator threatens harsher retaliation after US attacks.

Hasan Piker brushes off Dems who see him as a liability, names his '28 choice

Hasan Piker hears the growing chorus of Democrats condemning him for incendiary statements, and he has a message for the party: "My job is not to make the Democratic Party look good."The far-left Twitch streamer has boosted socialist candidates even as he created headaches for the broader Democratic Party in a midterm election cycle where it hopes to make major gains. The 35-year-old Piker whose polarizing stances range from defending communist Chinese dictator Mao Zedong to comparing Zionism to...

Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.

Astronomers have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light years away, demonstrating a powerful new way to map the Universe.

Ex-CNN Propagandist Don Lemon Mulls Presidential Run

Ex-CNN Propagandist Don Lemon Mulls Presidential Run Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The Democratic Party has long attracted peculiarly strange individuals who have been floated as potential presidential candidates, including convicted felon Michael Avenatti, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden, Jerry Springer and anti-Trump filmmaker Michael Moore. Add former CNN anchor Don Lemon to that list. Lemon, now a YouTuber whom CNN fired amid allegations of misogyny, to...

Own 1TB of cloud storage for less with a coupon that expires tomorrow

TL;DR: Koofr is a privacy-first cloud storage platform, and you can get a 1TB plan at one of its best-ever prices with code KOOFR: $129.97 (MSRP $810). Most cloud storage plans want your money every single month. Google One's 2TB plan runs $9.99/month, and that meter never stops.  Read the rest The post Own 1TB of cloud storage for less with a coupon that expires tomorrow appeared first on Boing Boing.

Stray bullet from nearby lounge fight kills Frito-Lay worker inside Sam's Club

A deadly argument outside a Nashville lounge sent a bullet tearing through the metal wall of a nearby Sam’s Club, killing an innocent Frito-Lay worker as he counted products in the chip aisle, police said.The victim, identified as 55-year-old Paris Carlock of Murfreesboro, was conducting an early-morning product inventory near the middle of the store shortly after 4 a.m. when the bullet struck him in the head.Sam’s Club staff rushed to Carlock’s aid before he was transported to a local hospital,...

Cody Rhodes says 'that addiction and sickness' to win WWE title again is more on Randy Orton's end

Cody Rhodes’ relationship with Randy Orton has been fraught with tension since the "Legend Killer" returned to "Friday Night SmackDown" to reignite his feud with the "American Nightmare."The two had come to blows numerous times before SmackDown GM Nick Aldis said the two couldn’t lay a finger on each other before their match at Sunday Night’s Main Event in Atlanta and if they did, they would have been barred from competing for a WWE championship.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKIn their...

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

How a booming coastal escape learned to coexist with the ocean’s top predator

As great white sharks increasingly frequent the waters off one popular seaside destination, tourists are flocking there, too but they’re experiencing the hot spot in a different way.Cape Cod is a renowned seaside destination in southeastern Massachusetts that has long drawn summer vacationers with its picturesque beaches, historic coastal towns and lighthouses. In recent years, though, it has also become increasingly known for its seasonal population of great white sharks.Far from deterring visi...

TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode'

TiVo is notifying customers about changes to "one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features," reports the blog Cord Cutter News: Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a single button press on the remote will no longer be available. The company is instead preparing to test a new paid add-on called Premium Auto Commercial Skip. SkipMode has been a core part of the TiVo experience for years. After a supported...

Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours

AI research agents can propose far more experiments than they can afford to run. Meta FAIR, Oxford and UCL introduce AI Research Preference Models frozen LLM judges that rank 15 unexecuted candidate

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace Author: Jakub Pachocki, Chief

DAVID MARCUS: Congress set to protect AM radio and American discourse

In 2026, the WFMD radio station in Frederick, Maryland, is celebrating its 90th year on the AM airwaves, and thanks to a bipartisan bill set for a vote in Congress this week, every new car sold in America will have an AM antenna to pick up its signal.The AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act already has more than 300 co-sponsors in the House, 60 in the Senate, and has been pitched mainly as a measure to ensure that emergency messages the ones that start with the shrill whistle can be sent out to cars t...

Manitoba family searches for answers nearly 2 years after daughter died following dental procedure

The parents of a 23-year-old woman who died after she went to have her wisdom teeth removed at a southern Manitoba dental clinic say they've been left "shattered" and searching for answers nearly two years after their daughter's death.

Cross Country Checkup: How are you dealing with AI in the classroom?

A new school year is starting. Whether you are a parent, student or teacher -- how is AI affecting you?

Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans

Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to overturn rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, which upheld AR-15 bans in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, respectivel...

How To Send High-Quality Images And Videos From Android To iPhone

It can be tough to preserve the quality of your images when sending them from Android to iPhone, but these tried-and-true methods keep them crystal clear.