Russian drone hits Romania, raising new NATO alarm
Romanian officials said a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in Romania on Friday, wounding two people in what The New York Times described as the first known case of a Russian drone damaging a major urban area inside NATO territory. Romanian authorities said the drone crashed into the roof of a housing complex […]
Mike Lindell denied MyPillow was hacked. Its private data is now online
A ransomware group leaked thousands of internal files from MyPillow on Friday, two days after CEO Mike Lindell denied that a hack had taken place. As first reported by Straight Arrow on Tuesday, the ransomware gang Play announced on its dark web blog earlier this week that it had stolen data from Lindell’s company. The […]
How Austin, Texas, brought down housing costs — and how other cities might do the same
Emily Pool had spent nearly a decade in cramped New York apartments when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. As Pool and her partner, Adam Porter, rethought what they wanted next, they began looking for a house in Pool’s hometown of Austin, Texas. That was 2022. By then, the Texas capital had become one of the country’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Senegal’s grave miscarriage of justice in the case of René Capain Bassène
Journalist René Capain Bassène devoted his career to restoring peace to Senegal’s troubled Casamance region. The government accused him of being a rebel who ordered the murder of 14 men and jailed him for life. Now a rebel leader and a U.S. diplomat involved in peace negotiations have refuted the prosecution’s fundamentally flawed theory. The […]
‘Under the shadow of fear’: censorship is Ethiopia’s real election story, journalists say
May 29, 2026—In the countdown to Ethiopia’s general election, journalist Bewket Abebe flew to the northern border town of Humera, in a rare attempt at on-the-ground reporting ahead of the June 1 vote. Bewket, chief editor of The Reporter Magazine, was scheduled to meet the administrator of the contested territory, which is claimed by both […]
Trump says the media isn’t covering one of his biggest accomplishments. We checked.
“This is something that I wish the media would talk about.” “And the press refuses to write about it.” “And the press doesn’t even want to write stories about it.” That was President Donald Trump speaking shortly after starting his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, referring to his TrumpRx and “Most Favored Nations” policies that he […]
Data center data is hard to come by. Erin Brockovich wants to change that
Artificial intelligence is confusing, so confusing that many companies don’t even understand how their AI works, often labeling their systems a “black box.” But another aspect of AI that’s led to confusion is the infrastructure propping it up. For AI to work, it needs data centers to process massive amounts of information. These data centers […]
Delaware has 2.1M corporations. A judge is letting them vote in certain elections
Corporations are people in the eyes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In Delaware, they can vote. A Delaware judge declined to strike a law allowing a company representative to vote on its behalf in local elections. The lawsuit, filed by a civil rights organization, concerned the “one person, one vote” principle and the legality of […]
US oil companies are drilling more. For drivers, gas price relief remains elusive
The U.S. oil industry is expanding production in reaction to prices that are expected to stay high, even if the war with Iran ends soon. But the increased oil drilling is unlikely to lead directly to price relief at the pump. The tally of active rigs is up from a low point of 466 in […]
