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Early this year, a delegation of officials from the City of Laredo traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with federal representatives about the Trump administration’s plans to completely wall off the Texans’ border community from the Rio Grande. The Laredoans returned using language that dismayed opponents of the president’s beloved border barrier. When City Manager […]

The post In Laredo’s Last Stand Against Trump’s Border Wall, Are City Leaders Making a Deal with the Devil? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Many animals are famous for their extravagant courtship dances. Consider the male Costa's hummingbird, who hovers in front of potential mates with his violet mantle feathers outstretched in the shape of a baby octopus. Or the male greater sage-grouse, who pops his colorful a...

David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times and the author of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West (Crown, 2024), discusses the details of an agreement between the United States and Iran to end the war in Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 

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The federal government has issued new work requirement rules for some people on Medicaid, which will go into effect in January, 2027. Ginny Shubert, co-founder of Housing Works, talks about how the new rules will affect New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.

Photo: US Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz takes questions from reporters during a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

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S. Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, talks about the themes coming up in the primary campaigns in Queens, where the issues in many of the races are representative of the citywide political conversation right now. 

Photo: Queens, New York. October 26, 2020. People lining up for early voting in Astoria. (Credit: Massimo Giachetti)

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Katie Thornton, host of The Divided Dial, a Peabody Award-winning series on WNYC's On the Media and a freelance print and audio journalist, talks about Esperanto, its history as a language invented to bring people together across borders, and who is speaking it today. "Love ...

Most AI coding tools work well inside a single repository. But few of them can operate across hundreds of services

The post How Block manages its fleet of AI coding agents from Slack appeared first on The New Stack.

Copy to a new draft Chainguard is expanding its push to secure the fast‑growing world of AI coding agents with

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Vertical video makes Olivia Miles look good. Horizontal video makes her look better. Her gift shines in context, on the unadorned and unsoundtracked platform that is the next day's full-game replay. What the Minnesota Lynx rookie does best as starting point guard of the WNBA...

LOS ANGELES — Just off the ninth green at Riviera Country Club, during the first day of this year’s U.S. Women’s Open, a familiar face popped up in the gallery: Owen Wilson.

But as fans milled about this congested space where multiple greens, tee boxes, and the path to the practice range converge, few seemed to notice. “Love your work,” one fan told the star of The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander, and the golf-centric series Stick; Wilson graciously thanked the man. But that was about it. Most everyone had their eyes on someone else.

They were there for Nelly Korda.

Nobody told me that becoming a fan of the Chicago White Sox meant that I would have to suffer humiliating losses! Wait. Actually, everybody told me that. But I didn't listen. I arrived at Yankee Stadium for the first game of the White Sox series full of optimism. Even if th...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector's Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com.

This week, Chris answers a question about how to help your child get good at things.

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For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka. In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages again,...

As we’ve reported previously, AI-generated journalism provokes distrust from readers, with audiences favoring a human touch. That might seem obvious, but a lot of questions lie buried in that broad statement. First, with so many ways to use AI, what does “AI-generated” mean, and how do audiences respond to different types and levels of AI...

Last year, there were 1 billion commits on GitHub. This year, Kyle Daigle expects that number to exceed 14 billion, a two-component explosion caused by more humans—and their agents—issuing pull requests. In March alone, 17 million pull requests on GitHub were created by agen...

Last year, there were 1 billion commits on GitHub. This year, Kyle Daigle expects that number to exceed 14 billion, a two-component explosion caused by more humans—and their agents—issuing pull requests. In March alone, 17 million pull requests on GitHub were created by agent...

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present). “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.”

Thanks to Jim Krenz for the kind words in this blog post. I never prompt for app ratings or reviews, but I do love seeing posts like this. I’m always encouraged to keep going. Micro.blog is the best today that it has ever been.

Details still coming out about the Fable shutdown… It’s more nuanced than I was expecting. From the Washington Post:

Senior officials began to consider using export controls to claw back the technology after the company did not identify the new recipients for days.

When Anthropic finally turned over the names, the administration discovered that one recipient was a South Korean telecommunications company the administration suspected of having ties to China, the officials said.

Anthropic quickly revoked the firm’s access to Mythos…

Seems in large part a breakdown in communication.