Congressional taxpayers got a front-row display this week of what happens when lawless profit seekers treat American citizenship like a commodity. Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, the founder of the Miami-based birth-tourism operation Have My Baby in Miami, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions at a House Oversight hearing and was ultimately excused More

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A Beijing startup called Linkerbot has quietly climbed to a multibillion-dollar valuation by solving what even Elon Musk has called the hardest part of humanoid robotics: the hand. The company’s founders, led by Alex Zhou, are racing to mass-produce highly dexterous five-fingered robotic hands that can perform delicate tasks once thought uniquely human. This development More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s snarky proposal to “put a data center at Mar-a-Lago” was captured on video and immediately handed to conservatives as a gift — a perfect example of performative politics over practical policy. Her quip came after President Trump argued communities that resist data centers risk being “backwards and poor,” and AOC’s answer was a More

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has told the judge they are deadlocked after multiple days of deliberations, and the judge ordered them to continue considering the case rather than declare a mistrial. This is a gut-wrenching moment for a community still trying to process the January 2023 deaths of three young children, More

A newly released whistleblower disclosure has raised alarms about the U.S. Postal Service’s hurried rollout of a ballot-management system that could, according to an insider, keep millions of Americans from getting their mail-in ballots this November. The report describes the effort as “risky and haphazard,” and it’s being used by opponents to paint a picture More