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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (August 6, 2026) — The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, will honor award-winning journalist, bestselling author and longtime television news anchor and correspondent Scott Pelley […]

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There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems.

It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater:

“Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said.

Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also a visible sign of resistance.

“This is consumers collectively coming together to make a visible statement.”...

Both the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday they were investigating what happened when a commercial jet took off just as Marine One left the White House for Andrews Air Force Base with the president aboard for the first leg of a West Coast trip.

How can you wear an XS shirt in one fabric, brand or style -- but an XL in another?

The New England-based plaintiffs sued the Monterey Bay Aquarium for defamation after the aquarium's Seafood Watch conservation program placed American and Canadian lobster on its do-not-eat “red list” in 2022.

The governor signed legislation Wednesday that she and lawmakers say provides the strongest immigrant protections in the country. 

In February 2026, Baystate announced it was ending most of its gender affirming care for minors, other than counseling, saying it could not risk losing millions of dollars in federal reimbursement. Since then, the legal landscape has evolved. But Baystate has not restarted gender affirming care.

The federal government is interested in acquiring 249 parking spots in Boston. Local officials are already lining up against the move.

Jessie Colbert, who works for the statewide maternal mental health advocacy group Mind the Gap Coalition, is lobbying for a bill on Beacon Hill that would change how the criminal legal system treats new moms charged with crimes.

Dust storms pose myriad issues in the U.S.

China cutting imports is one reason there isn't a severe global energy crisis.

When Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen was a child, he visited his sound-engineer father Joe Jorgensen as he worked with jazz pianist and composer Bob James.

As U.S. troop deaths mount in the war with Iran, military families cope with anxiety about their loved ones deployed in the Middle East.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded the cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states.

Abdul El-Sayed will face former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in a race that could determine control of the Senate this November.

Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border are outraged that the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells to pump water from the region's drought-stricken aquifers.

Mine regulations passed in the 1970s had pushed those rates down, but they began rising again in the late 1990s, and now about a third of veteran miners are sick.

Keith Russell talks with Townsend about his career in conservation science and birding.

Paramount's chairman says the problem is really about politics, and whether he's fit to own CNN.

The family evacuated less than half an hour before their home caught fire.