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In Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party, becoming a “ghost” means running afoul of the state. In this excerpt, a secret agent discovers it doesn’t take much.

The Vari Ergo electric standing desk is compact, easy to assemble, affordable, and gently sloped to fit my natural posture and shape.

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

Despite the many health risks, sexual strangulation has become popular among young people—with some experts blaming adult content for normalizing it.

“I think that's been the most helpful thing,” says the ESPN journalist. “So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children.”

Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations.

The GoPro Max 2 is almost half off at Amazon and other retailers, along with other great action camera deals.

Plus: The Labels Chose Rent, The Doom Is a Prospectus

Health officials in the Hudson Valley region are warning residents to be extra cautious around wild animals after a bat in Sullivan County, NY, tested positive for rabies. Continue reading…

A short-lived generative AI feature in Google Earth that allowed users to create fake satellite imagery shows the lasting effects of unvetted AI tools during a conflict.

We know that the act of measuring changes what is measured. Might it change us measurers, too? 

“The Trump administration plans to send $500 rebate checks to as many as 1 million people who it says were overcharged for their coverage under Obamacare,” Axios reports. “The direct-deposit payment would be sent to people in 30 states before the Nov. 3 midterm election, as Trump touts savings from his tax-cut legislation and prescription […]

“First, at the start of his second term, President Trump promised a DOGE dividend, a pledge to take the money that Elon Musk’s team would cut from the federal budget and send it to the American people,” the New York Times reports. “Then Mr. Trump moved on to a ‘tariff refund,’ a plan to use […]

“Iran is increasingly trying to escalate its conflict with the U.S. as it seeks to break a stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz that is strangling its economy,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “At least three times in the past week, Iranian forces have launched missiles at American warships, including an aircraft carrier, taking direct […]

“Just before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach, President Trump’s social media account roared to life. In what has increasingly become his weekend habit, he unleashed a daylong barrage of posts that put the bully in the modern bully pulpit,” the New York Times reports. “There were images of […]

“The South Korean government is nearing the announcement of a major energy investment project in the U.S. to support America’s artificial-intelligence build-out, a long-awaited development of the trade deal struck between Washington and Seoul last year,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The deal, potentially worth more than $100 billion, envisions South Korea financing the construction […]

“Canada is aggressively courting new trading partners as relations with the United States grow increasingly tense, in a move that could deliver economic consequences for U.S. businesses and consumers,” the Washington Post reports. ”Canada has an ambitious goal to double its exports to countries beyond the U.S. by 2035, a target that has become more […]

“The Trump administration is proposing an overhaul of the 2030 census by eliminating questions about race and ethnicity and restricting how immigrants would be counted when census results are used for allotting congressional seats,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Commerce Department, which oversees the census, proposed not to count most immigrants toward the population […]

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As more people in the United States use I.V.F. to have children, embryos are being stored in fertility clinics across the country. It raises the question: What should happen to those embryos if a couple breaks up? Caroline Kitchener, who covers families for The New York Time...