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Michigan goes to the polls.

President Trump has reignited anti-communist rhetoric as "mini-Mamdanis" continue to challenge the centrist Democrat establishment.

One of the most powerful forces in American politics is about to face a major test of its influence — and it may well come up short. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has for decades spent heavily to ensure that US policy remains strongl…

Cori Bush's latest campaign ad accuses Wesley Bell of jetting off to Israel with AIPAC instead of helping St. Louis recover from a devastating tornado.

Trump’s agenda is jammed in the Senate due to Republican senators he purged or alienated by purge threats. Intraparty strife is also a bad look for the midterms. He only has himself to blame, Ed Kilgore writes.

Section 219, a measure to integrate parts of the Israeli and US militaries, could provide more cover for Israeli crimes.

Next week’s Michigan primary between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is a referendum on AIPAC’s influence within the Democratic Party.

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From Mamdani's NYPD commissioner pick to Hong's Wisconsin debate reversal, candidates are backpedaling on past police-defunding rhetoric.

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President Donald Trump is not, historically, a Camp David guy. The wood-wrapped rooms of the Laurel Lodge are not his happy place. His predecessors have chosen the retreat as an escape from cameras and formality; Trump rarely objects to having his picture taken or an extra chandelier or two.

Spain was invaded yesterday. There is no other way to put it. Close to 50,000 foreigners, mostly men, swarmed into Spanish territory and laughed and jeered as they went. Every generation before ours would have called that an invasion, and we should too. The era of euphemism is over. The left's ho...

Spain has condemned the "selfish, polarising and unlawful" reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.

The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.

Elon Musk's recent interview with The Economist underscored a simple but increasingly uncomfortable truth: In today's political climate, stating the obvious can sound like provocation. The Overton Window, the range of ideas considered acceptable in public debate, has not merely drifted, it has be...

Ninety-five days from the midterm elections, Donald Trump is struggling with Congress over his agenda.

In the summer of 2004, as the Democratic Party hurtled toward its second defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, the Kansas City-born historian and writer Thomas Frank published What's the Matter With Kansas?

Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical adviser shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell

Tony Lyons tells how The Real Anthony Fauci survived a media blackout and censorship to sell 1.4 million copies, and why censorship always backfires.

The head of the National Museum of American History doesn't want to talk about her exhibits.

The struggle over how to make housing more affordable has riven the American left for several years now. The fight roughly divides into two camps. One, known as the YIMBYs (yes in my backyard) or Abundance movement (taken from the best-selling Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson book), argues for the m...

Breaking with Beijing is more affordable than you think.

I've just finished reading Communion, J.D. Vance's book about his conversion to Catholicism. . .and, well, it's a puzzler.

Conservative Christians in the US obsess about the sins of the bedroom while excusing those of the corporate boardroom.

The Pennsylvanian is an outlier in a party where what he calls the warped mutation of democratic socialism is rising.

What's up with Google's next batch of flagships?

A new leak points to a silicon-carbon battery and a redesigned camera island for Samsung's next Ultra model.

Hands-on the Sharge Disk Pro 2, an SSD enclosure that doubles as a USB-C to HDMI dock, one that even works with the Nintendo Switch 2.

The hype for EA FC 27 continues to build with EA Sports dropping a new deep dive trailer for career mode in this year's game.

Concerned parents of the world, unite.

Gaming hardware is more expensive than ever. There’s a few different reasons things are as bad as they are, but regardless of how we got here, there’s no denying it’s an absolutely terrible time to be in the market for a new gaming console or PC. Even worse i…

Canadian man served 18 months because police didn't notice difference in underscores

Tencent's GTA rival Last Sentinel has collapsed after six years in development, with 80 layoffs hitting LightSpeed LA, the studio behind it

Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple’s AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a “Google Pixel Tag.”

"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."

Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth.

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents' sleep.

A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.

Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.

Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.

The term "Milwaukee Shoulder Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.

Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.

Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.

NetBSD, the operating system specifically designed to run on anything from a supercomputer to a toothpick, just released version 11.0. There’s a ton of changes and improvements here, such as a brand new port to RISC-V, which supports a number of the more popular RISC-V SoCs (sadly, not the ...

I have a policy to effectively never link to YouTube videos. I’ll gladly make an exception for this one. Reflection is one of the most powerful concepts in Computer Science. Unfortunately, not every programming language is blessed enough to have it. In the 1980s, one company, Symbolics took...

Tcl, or the “Tool Command Language“, created and released by John Ousterhout in 1990, deserves a place among the greatest products of the human mind. Especially when combined with its better known graphical user interface Toolkit — Tk. In 1997 Ousterhout was awarded the ACM Software S...

Speaking of OpenBSD: Yes, you read that right. Modern development tools in the form of the LLVM compiler infrastructure is well on its way to supporting OpenBSD/sparc64 along with other more conventional architectures. The support is now ready for testing, via a patch set presented by Kirill A. K...

As I mentioned in my OpenBSD 7.8 highlights post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) had stalled. Many diffs appeared on the tech@ mailing list from different contributors, but few were committed into the repository. The main reason was simple: Established OpenBSD developers weren’t interested...

When I had to use Windows 11 for a month because you people paid me to do so, the one seemingly small thing that really ground my gears were Windows 11’s terrible right-click (context) menus. They were full of stuff I didn’t put there, slow to open, and in some places, a modern Window...

We may all have a disdain for Chrome – OSNews users probably use Chrome a lot less than the average public – but that doesn’t mean the browser doesn’t sometimes do interesting things other browsers should copy. Chrome is in the the process of increasing its release cadence...

It’s that time of the week again, I guess. The year is 2026, and I’m still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu’s All apps list for an app I don’t remember installing. This time, it’s Microsoft again, and the product is OneDrive Photos, which appears to be yet another photo viewe...

Ubuntu Touch, the mobile Linux operating system originally started by, you guessed it, Ubuntu, but now managed by UBports, released versions 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4. The latter is a maintenance release with some bug fixes and minor changes, while the former is a bigger release with quite a few im...

I’ve been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment! I just spent three weeks investigating how well that’s currently supported on Linux & Wayland. Let me tell you what I found! The results are s...

Dave Farquhar published an article today about Windows NT 3.1’s place in the market when it was originally released, and while the article is interesting and a fun read, it does mention this: Microsoft took its nascent code that it intended to form the base of OS/2 3.0, renamed it Windows ...

This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments. ↫ Simon de Vlieger Linux distributions – g...

Let’s do another article about weird code in video games. The original 1992 Comanche release is extremely picky about memory managers. The game refuses to work with EMM emulators and crashes when EMM386 is active. The game may also hang or reboot the system when HIMEM.SYS is not loaded (the...

Haiku has a Firefox port, but due to Mozilla’s trademark policies, it’s actually called Iceweasel. After some back-and-forth with Mozilla, the browser maker has no given Haiku permission to officially use the Firefox name for the port. But don’t worry, Iceweasel isn’t going anywhere. ...

Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27. Maintaining the port is a significant burden. ↫ JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal The...

A staggering $1,200 discount is available exclusively to AppleInsider readers, delivering the lowest price on record for the M5 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro config.Grab an exclusive $1,200 discount on Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro - Image credit: AppleThe exclusive $1,200 discount* brings the cost of App...

Apple captured 49% of global smartphone revenue in the second quarter despite accounting for only 23% of shipments, showing how much more money the iPhone generates per device than competing smartphones.iPhone 17 ProThe company's iPhone revenue climbed 22% year over year in the second quarter, th...

A Canadian artist dropped her iPhone 17 Pro from a plane at 3,600 feet, then found it sitting face-up and virtually untouched in a canola field. Here's why this is more common than you'd think.iPhone 17 Pro survives 3,600-foot fall from a planeHeather Cline, a mixed-media artist from Saskatchewan...

Apple has spent 12 years strengthening Beats without folding it into AirPods, preserving a separate brand that can reach Android users, compete at lower prices, and sell products that wouldn't fit under Apple's own name. Here's what it looks like inside the Beats lab.Beats headphonesThe strategy ...

Despite raising its Apple price target just days before earnings, investment bank Goldman Sachs has recalibrated its forecasts and while still mostly positive, has now pulled the target back down to $360.Analysts believe Apple will do well in the Q3 results. That possibly premature rise before th...

Apple's base model iPhone 18 is probably not going to arrive until spring 2027, but the rumor mill already has a lot to say about the device. Here's what you need to know.The iPhone 18 is set to debut in the spring of 2027.September marks the arrival of new-and-improved iPhone models, from the st...

Morgan Stanley has pared its Apple price target from $364 to $360 after slowing Services growth and higher memory costs weakened its earnings outlook, despite strong demand for the company's products.John Ternus and Tim CookThe investment bank kept its Overweight rating on Apple, but analyst Erik...

The writing is on the wall, so CodeWeavers is removing its reliance on Rosetta 2. A very early test version of Apple Silicon-native Crossover is now available for testing.CrossOver is finally ready for Apple SiliconCross-platform app compatibility tool CrossOver was designed to work on Intel Macs...

A top seller that's priced at a 30-day low, Amazon's M4 Pro Mac mini deal is both on sale and available to ship in 1-2 days.Apple's M4 Pro Mac mini is available at Amazon a month before Apple itself.With increased demand for headless machines to run AI agents, Apple's M4 Pro Mac mini has been sol...

Following price hikes across the rest of Apple's product lineup, one analyst believes that the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro could be hit with a massive $300 increase, a bump that might not be out of the question considering other recent price changes.The iPhone 18 Pro might be a hard sell for Apple.App...

The Apple Upgrade program has been revealed, so it's time to discuss what leasing your Apple products actually means. Plus, your hosts discuss Apple's plan to combat the chip shortage on the AppleInsider Podcast.Apple Glasses face a privacy problemApple Upgrade is no longer a rumor and the detail...

Securities firm Rosenblatt is still bearish on Apple's future, seeing short term supply problems as well as difficulties matching the iPhone 17 range's success. Just the same, it has raised its price target to a still-underwater $300.iPhone 17 Pro was such a hit that Apple may have difficulty mat...

Before iCloud became the backbone of the Apple ecosystem, it spent more than a decade evolving through three distinct services: iTools, .Mac, and MobileMe.iTools, as part of Mac OS 9 | Image Credit: Matt J FullerIf you've got an iPhone, you've got an iCloud account. Sure, you might only have the ...

While price increases didn't worry the investors at JP Morgan, ongoing supply chain constraints will have a short-term impact, and thus their new price target is $340.Apple's record-breaking quarter wasn't enough to keep investors from worryingIt's been a bumpy few months for Apple thanks to RAM ...

Long outages catch people off guard, but a few smart tools make it easier to stay charged, informed, and reachable while you wait for the power to return.Maintaining a tech emergency kit is crucialYou know how it goes — power outages are becoming more frequent and lasting longer. These days, our ...