Opinion
The Waiting Room Is Part of the Service
The time before an appointment is already part of an institution's work. Honest updates and small choices matter more than a better sofa, and should expose, not conceal, broken systems.
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Democrats Win House and Senate Control in the 2026 Midterms
AP has called both chambers for Democrats. The final seat totals are still taking shape, and the result sets up divided government when the new Congress takes office.
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US Politics
How to Read Election Night
More than 54 million Americans have already voted. Here is when polls close, which races will say the most, and why the full picture may not arrive on Tuesday.
Opinion
I Think We Should Bring Back Being Particular
Not expensive taste. Not a personal brand. Just the small, stubborn preferences that make somebody unmistakably themselves.
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US Politics
Democrats Win House and Senate Control in the 2026 Midterms
AP has called both chambers for Democrats. The final seat totals are still taking shape, and the result sets up divided government when the new Congress takes office.
US Politics
How to Read Election Night
More than 54 million Americans have already voted. Here is when polls close, which races will say the most, and why the full picture may not arrive on Tuesday.
US Politics
The Quiet Surrender: How Republicans Stopped Fighting for the House
Five senior Republicans tell POLITICO the House has all but slipped away. With less than three weeks to go, the party is triaging, and the money is moving to the lifeboats.
US Politics
Thousands Ask, Few Are Heard. How a Case Reaches the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court chooses most of the cases it decides. Here is how a petition becomes an argued case, from the 90-day deadline to the June opinion.
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Culture, Identity & Society
61 Somali Grandmothers Sang Their Lullabies So the Language Won’t Be Lost
A Minnesota educator recorded 61 Somali grandmothers singing lullabies and poems, a project meant to help children who are losing the language reconnect with the elders who still speak it.
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Global Politics & Human Rights
The Price of Staying: Britain's Proposed Earned Settlement Rules
The near-automatic five-year path to living in Britain forever would end under the government's proposals. More than half a million people already in the UK would wait longer, and some refugees could wait thirty years.
Global Politics & Human Rights
A Year After Tanzania’s Election Crackdown, No One Has Answered for 518 Deaths
Amnesty International says not one official has been investigated for the deaths that followed Tanzania’s October 2025 election. The inquiry report recording 518 dead has never been made public.
Global Politics & Human Rights
Spain Begins Three Days of Mourning After High-Speed Trains Collide Near Urda, Killing 69
A Renfe high-speed train struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda in Spain's deadliest rail crash since 2013. Leaked audio has raised questions about why one train was cleared down a track where another had stalled.
Global Politics & Human Rights
Lula wins a fourth term in Brazil, completing a comeback his challenger refuses to accept
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 51.79% of Sunday's runoff vote after losing the first round - a first since Brazil's return to democracy. Flávio Bolsonaro says he will seek to annul the result.
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Tech
Musk's xAI Moves to Buy Out a Mississippi Neighborhood - if Residents Promise Not to Sue
Real estate agents working for Elon Musk's AI company are going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, offering to buy homes near its data center and gas-turbine power plant - on the condition that sellers give up their claims in a lawsuit over the noise.
TECHNOLOGY
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Opening the AI Boom's Books for the First Time
The Claude maker's S-1 shows about $16.3 billion in half-year revenue against an $80.7 billion loss - and a governance structure built to keep control with its founders and a safety trust. A Nasdaq debut under the symbol ANT could come before Thanksgiving.
TECHNOLOGY
Four Companies Just Signed CHIPS Research Deals. The U.S. Government Gets a Stake in Each.
The Commerce Department signed letters of intent for up to $389 million in semiconductor R&D funding aimed at power electronics for the grid, data centers and fusion energy - and will take a minority equity stake in every recipient.
TECHNOLOGY
Can a Newsletter Signup Protect Your Video History? The Supreme Court Has Heard the Question
A newsletter signup may seem far removed from the old video store. But a Supreme Court case argued on Wednesday, October 14, asks whether that signup can establish the relationship that makes a person's video-viewing history protected by federal law. The dispute is about who counts as a consumer, and how a law written for videotapes operates on websites that mix text, video and advertising.
